Contest: Help Me Replace This Image!
I’ve had this collage image on the front page of the Public Collectors website forever and I’m tired of it. I’d like to replace it with a new graphic that draws from various images from all over the website (including the Public Collectors Flickr collections). Ideally your creation should be about 650 pixels wide and 500 pixels high - or something larger that would still look good when reduced to this size). Your graphic can be a photocollage that grabs material from the website, or you can do something new like a drawn illustration. Basically, I’m looking for something that captures the spirit of Public Collectors. Use your imagination! Entries are due by January 31, 2012.
Email your submission to: marc@publiccollectors.org
Be sure to include your name and postal mailing address. I will pick a winner at the beginning of February, 2012. Everyone who submits an entry will get a Public Collectors booklet and some ephemera. The winner will have their graphic used on the front page (I’ll credit you) and will get a much bigger package of Public Collectors booklets, as well as other printed materials from projects I have worked on. Trust me - it will be a nice haul of stuff!
I hope you’ll participate. Reblog widely!
Today whilst downtown I happened upon what I initially thought was a bit of street art randomly placed on the street, a lone piece of plywood with some really great faces painted on it. I snapped the pic below and went back around the block for another look and realized it was part of an…
“Doin’ Cell Time” - a column by Thomas E. Skolimowski scanned from The Messenger, Summer 1972.
The Messenger was a quarterly periodical published by and for the men of the South Dakota State Penitentiary, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, with the permission of the warden. “The purpose of this magazine is to give the inmates an opportunity for self expression, to provide them a medium of discussion of public problems, to foster better understanding between inmates and the general public, and to be constructively informative.” Click here to download a 75.2 mb PDF of this entire issue of The Messenger.
This is one of the best internet hack art projects I’ve ever seen. Cooked up by FATLab, the Free Art and Technology Lab in NYC. With their browser-based mashery, you can upload a simple script to your own (or other’s…) website for the lulziest internet occupation you’ve ever seen. (Bonus points because it’ll probably crash your browser). There’s even a little free trick so that you don’t really need to even do that. Just point your browser to fffff.at/occupy/<insertWebPageHere>. Here’s a full list of the artists that designed moving gifs for this exhibit, curated by Evan Roth (Parsons, Eyebeam Fellow, Fi5e, Internet Famo and FFFFFatLab.)
- Aram Bartholl
- Brad Downey
- Constant Dullaart
- Olia Lialina & Dragan Espenschied
- Mark Jenkins
- La Quadrature Du Net
- Jonah Peretti & Chelsea Peretti
- Ryder Ripps
- Rafael Rozendaal
- Telecomix
- Charlie Todd
- UBERMORGE
Here’s some fun pages to try or try your own. Be aware this is a bandwidth hog. Go slow and close the windows first:
This is an overdue post about the exhibit “here.” at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. Based around the query “What is the role of ‘place’ in art?” the exhibition presents the work of artists (and collectives) that have saturated their practice within 6 semi-distinct regions: Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Phoenix, Raleigh-Durham, Detroit and Kansas City. Based on the premise that these areas are maligned from the main NYC-LA art markets, ‘here.’ presents complex works that deny the falsehood that regionalism breeds provincialism. Rather than attempt to make an overall statement beyond this, the works of the individual artists and collectives are cleanly presented along with additional helpful didactic text accompaniment.
Artists:
Lewis Colburn, Jennifer Levonian, Megawords,Tim Portlock
Michael Krueger, Erika Nelson, Aaron Storck, Whoop Dee Doo
Bunk News, Paul Coors, Terence Hammonds, Katie Parker and Guy Michael Davis
Liz Cohen, Scott Hocking, Chido Johnson, Abigail Newbold
Elsewhere Collaborative, Harrison Haynes, Stacy Lynn Waddell, Glenda Wharton
Sue Chenoweth, Postcommodity, Aaron Rothman, Gregory Sale
Curators:
- Julien Robson, Curator of Contemporary Art, PAFA
- Christopher Cook, Director and Curator, Salina Art Center, Salina, Kansas
- Mark Harris, Director of the School of Art at the University of Cincinnati
- Rebecca Hart, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art, Detroit Institute of Arts
- Claire Schneider, Independent Curator based in Scottsdale, Arizona
- Teka Selman, Assistant Director of the MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts at Duke University
Below are just a few photos from the exhibit and opening day events. I encourage you to visit in person if you are in the Philadelphia area. The exhibition closes December 31.
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thanks!
Found this photo on the web. It’s a view of the Terrace Annual, a London outdoor art exhibit that leaves the work in situ outdoors to decay over time. “Exposed to the elements the works have shifted, faded, broken,rotted, remained and in some cases, disappeared.” That’s my quilt/install piece hanging on the top. Still looking good!
We decided to approach the label-writing for these boards in a participatory way. We blatantly borrowed the brilliant technique the San Diego Museum of Natural History used to write labels based on visitors’ questions. We put up the following label along with a pedestal with post-its and pencils:
We’re writing a description* for these surfboards and we need your help.
What do the surfboards make you think about?
What do you want to know?
Understanding what you think helps us think about how we display our collections.
Museum 2.0: Balancing Engagement: Adventures in Participatory Exhibit Labels
I’ve spent many hours over the years trying to work out the best way to create kickass engaging art exhibits and events. Creating exhibition labels is a glamour-less part of this, and it’s as important as creating a massive participatory installation or performance. I find the (Sante Fe) Museum of Art and History’s usage of participatory post-it notes to be simple and right-on, a great way to sample the interests of their visitors and respond to questions. As a curator, I like to provide direct, easy to understand text that provides good background information on the artwork or artist. As a visitor of art spaces, I like to ignore labels for pieces that don’t hold my interest but to also have the option to read text labels for more information about pieces that pique my curiosity. What do you think about labels? I’m interested in hearing from both “museum people” as well as anyone else that enjoys looking at art. -Lee
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Photos from Day 1 of Rogue Print. We had about 150-200 participants in the temporary DIY print shop.
I curated Rogue Print at the Art Gallery of California State University, Northridge. We will continue with a rogue printshop Saturday October 8, 11am-4pm and then a screening of documentary shorts and an artist Q and A with Craig Stecyk Monday at 7PM.
From my press release:
CSUN presents ROGUE PRINT, a solo exhibition by pioneering street artist, photographer and printmaker Craig Stecyk. Throughout his career Stecyk has pursued these media through a combination of guerilla street installation and gallery exhibitions. Recently featured in LA MOCA exhibiton Art In The Streets, Stecyk’s work at CSUN will feature a new installation as well as a participatory campus event.
An alumnus of CSUN’s graduate printmaking department, the artist will collaborate with printmaking and photography students and the wider community for a renegade street art printshop event and gallery exhibition on October 7 and 8. The exhibition includes posters the artist places in public environments as well as video documenting his history and process. Stecyk will work with printmaking students and other visitors to print hundreds of posters to be inserted around campus during a whirlwind weekend event. Photo department students and other participants will document the printshop, installation around campus, and collection of works, and return to the printshop where some of these prints will be exhibited.
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