Ill be playing a 20 minute "hits only" all audio version of the Bruce Springsteen Born to Run Glockenspiel Addendum @ Ooga Booga in L.A. (today) Dec 12th, Friday @ 8pm.....also going on at Ooga Booga is the opening for Art Since the Summer of 69's show "Secondary Market"....
Ooga Booga
8pm
943 N Broadway #203
L.A. (above Wonder Bakery)
I have two things coming up in November. One is an art show at Team Gallery in Manhattan called Adult Contemporary (trailer & embed code above). It runs from Nov 14th - December 20th 2008...AND the other thing is a PERFORMANCE at the New Museum of Contemporary Art called Continuous Partial Awareness (as part of Rhizome's New Silent Series) on November 14th @ 830pm. They are unrelated but the dates lined up,.....so the reception for my show is the 14th from 6-8pm, and then the performance is just down the road at the New Museum at 830pm. The performance is kinda about not being able to concentrate on anything anymore, and the show is about how to make things by using technology as a "non-expert" (aka dirtstyle). I pretty pumped about it all, definitely some new styles, and it should all be exciting. I hope to see u all at one / both. So to recap:
NEW MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART CONTINUOUS PARTIAL AWARENESS UPDATE: SOLD OUT
a NEW premiere performance...part of Rhizome's New Silent Series Nov 14th @ 830 PM
235 Bowery, New York, NY
additional info and txt by me here and note: make sure to get tickets early because my last show filled up quick...its 8$
TEAM GALLERY ADULT CONTEMPORARY
an art show Nov 14 - Dec20th, reception Nov14, 6-8pm.
83 Grand Street
additional info and official press release here
Hey, 2 things to look out for, I have a collaboration with Dexter Sinister in the current issue of Frieze magazine (seen here in a low-rez recursive JPEG format...it is actually readable if you get the magazine), ... and yes, this is actually a very very small reprint of my essay "On C" which I did for my FVU book, a couple thousand short films about Glenn Gould which is available here and at Dexter Sinister. Also I have a portrait collaboration with the fashion house Maison Martin Margiela in the latest Dazed and Confused magazine so keep your eyes out for that.
Harvestworks.org is celebrating their 30th Anniversary! For those who don't know, Harvestworks is a SOHO based non-profit who's mission is to support the creation and presentation of art works achieved through the use of new and evolving technologies...So basically, if you wanna create an artwork using computers but have no idea how to go about this, you can go to them, and they will help you. Its a great place, ... I am on their Board of Advisors (and also spent many happy years working there). They are throwing a 3oth year benefit party, with great performances and art, an OPEN BAR!, as well as a special print series I made (using a cadliner pen plotter). So check it out, it will be a great party and buying a ticket will help support a great place! CLICK HERE for more info and to get tickets.
NOW,THEN AND FOREVER AFTER
HARVESTWORKS 30TH ANNIVERSARY BENEFIT PARTY
Thursday October 16th 2008 8 pm
Galapagos Art Space, 16 Main Street, DUMBO, BROOKLYN
http://www.harvestworks.org/2008benefit/
$30 at the Door
OPEN Wine and Beer Bar 8 - 11 pm
Emcee: Ned Sublette
Performing Artists:
Glomag and Chika
Pamela Z
Fair Use Trio interprets LIQUID SKY
Dialed In: Benton-C Bainbridge and Bobby Previte
NOTEKILLERS with Special Guest Shelley Hirsch
Val-Inc
Special 30th Anniversary Video Montage featuring works by:
Charlie Ahearn, Jo Andres, Ericka Beckman, Rene Beekman, Zoe Beloff, Caterina Borelli, Bill Buchen, Phyllis Bulkin-Lehrer, Josely Carvalho, Shu Lea Cheang, Abigail Child, Jem Cohen, Justine Cooper, Blondell Cummings, Peter d'Agostino, Toni Dove, Michael Dwass, Angie Eng, Tirtza Even, Joshua Fried, Shalom Gorewitz, Alexander Hahn, Rohesia Hamilton, Dick Higgins, Kathy High, Ken Jacobs, Amy Jenkins, EBN: Brian Kane, Joshua Pearson, Gardner Post, George Lewis / Marina Rosenfeld, Laura Parnes, R.I.P. Hayman, Jonathon Rosen, Pamela Z
Curated by Kathy Brew and Clara Jo
Light sculptures by Derek Franz
Auction & Raffle:
iPhone, Max/MSP/Jitter Software Package, LEMUR Multi-Touch Controller, Max/MSP Class & Individual Training, 2 STEIM Crackle Boxes, iCube-X Starter Pack, and many other items!
Event Committee:
Toni Dove - Board Member, Harvestworks Stephanie Palmer - Chair, 2008 Benefit Committee Carol Parkinson - Executive Director, Harvestworks Amanda Remus - Vice-Chair, 2008 Benefit Committee Ken Shipp - Art & Design, 2008 Benefit Committee
Benefit Committee:
Robert Ashley, Ted Berger, Kathy Brew, Rashida Bumbray, Constance DeJong, Mimi Johnson, Jack Lindahl, Christian Marclay, Rashaad Newsome.
Friends Circle: Nancy and Joe Walker, Jeff McGovern, Stephen Kramarsky
Because Frieze is doing a youtube project this year, they have asked me what my top 10 youtube videos are....check that here, or I have also embedded them below....enjoy!!....these are of course my top 10 youtube videos to be permanently embedded in a non maintained web-page, but for a running list of temp selections, I also have (happily along with prolly everyone else on the internet) been running my own "youtube" favorites page.
If you are around London next week for the Frieze Art Fair, stop by as I am doing a "Frieze Project" which is a commissioned project special for the fair....... 4 this I hid a golden ticket inside one of hundreds of chocolate bars which were sent to all the galleries who were unsuccessful in their application to this year's fair. This happened a couple of months ago, and Studio di Giovanna Simonetta was the finder of the golden ticket thus they get a booth at the fair to do whatever they like. So stop by to check it out......Info here.
A few completely random things. If you are in Paris, check out Pierre Bismuth's show titled "Occupancy by More Than 6'682'685'387 Persons is Dangerous and Unlawful - Part One" at Cosmic Gallery. I have collaborated on a work (for every work in the show Pierre has collaborated with a different person). Also, I made a small photo edition 4 Monopole magazine - "Im sick and tired of being sick and tired", 2008......seen above, and one more thing, I wrote a book review .... :)
FYI: I have a new(ish) work/thing called Beat the Champ showing in a show called Reset/Replay in Austin at Art House (if you are close you should see this show, ...... one of my fav artists Michael Smith is showing for the first time in 20 years his arcade game Mike Builds a Shelter) and also, in a few days you can catch Untitled Translation Exercise in "Close Encounters: Facing the Future" at the American University Museum, Washington DC.......
If your in Oslo come here me play the Bruce Springsteen Born to Run Glockenspiel Addendum here at 1400 on Sunday. Time doesn't permit it be the 43 minute epic I did at Light Industry last month, ....so expect just the hits!!! Sonja Henies vei 31, 1311 Hovikodden....photo: Damien Crisp
2 things FYI: A recent essay I wrote called "On C" is published in the new issue of Dot Dot Dot (#16) so check it. It's about Jpegs. Also, Ill be featured in a screening at the MOMA on Thursday called "Looking at Music: Art and Music in Popular Culture", I'm showing a video that features Jimi Hendrix's Woodstock performance put through some autotune called "Apple Garage Band Auto-tune Demonstration". It sounds like exactly what you think it would sound like ..... 6pm @ MoMA Titus Theater 2 - 11 West 53 St, New York NY
$10
@ Light Industry
Tuesday, August 5, 2008 at 8pm
55 33rd Street (between 2nd and 3rd Avenue....aka Sunset Park), 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11232
Hey, FYI, I will be playing for the first time the COMPLETE Bruce Springsteen Born to Run Glockenspiel Addendum in Brooklyn next week....below is a little bit I wrote about what I am doing.........
"In 2006, on a whim, I decided to go uptown to Sam Ash music store, buy a Glockenspiel and record glockenspiel parts for the songs on Bruce Springsteen's Born to Run record that did not already feature that instrument. Most everything I have ever made has been ignited from a similar semi-destructive whim. A certain idea, most often against my better judgment, mixes with my slight OCD, and I can't stop thinking about it until it is completed. Some people count their steps on the way to work...I do this. This project took a few weeks (the glockenspiel turned out a little more difficult to play then it would seem) and eventually ended up as a 12inch vinyl sold off of my website. This release featured just my Glockenspiel playing and a lot of silence in between. The intent was that people were supposed to play my record and the original at the same time. Once I sold out of these I released a FREE mix CD. This featured my Glockenspiel tracks mixed back into Bruce's original. To most people, this second version sounds just like Springsteen. This free CD has been distributed over the past year or so, at galleries, performances, and to friends. Since it is tagged by computers automatically, it has circulated as Springsteen. My thoughts on this version were based on the fact that my own artwork for years had floated around the Internet uncredited, in fact I kinda encourage it, so why not just start it off this way? Cut out the middle man, even if the middle man is myself. Since this gesture is kinda an end game for p2p and art, at light industry I will be doing the opposite..........a live performance. You will get me, playing Glockenspiel live, a real experience, with a live instrument. One night only. Also as an added bonus, after years of fooling around playing only small bits of this composition because I was too lazy to practice the hard parts (i hate practicing an instrument), this will be THE FIRST TIME EVER I HAVE ACTUALLY PLAYED THE WHOLE THING. Mistakes and all! 42 minutes!!! Plus there will be an all new video accompaniment. One could even call it a premiere. A real sensation so to speak. You will see the gesture at its source, before it gets vacuumed up into p2p networks, and its provenance is erased .......... Ill also bring some of those mix CD's 2 give away. So there will be a live performance and a FREE CD, one a pastiche of the other, or both pastiches of whatever, but to be honest at this point I cant see any other way to go. And what role does Bruce play in all of this? Well, nothing to be honest. It was just a whim afterall."
Nick Hallett has curated an event called Half of the People Are Stoned and the Other Half Are Waiting for the Next Election* for Light Industry, and I have a collaboration with Jonah Peretti showing in it, .....for those who remember, kerryocks.net................
Light Industry
July 1st, 8pm
55 33rd Street (between 2nd and 3rd Avenue), 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11232 .....
