The Power Plant, Toronto
Show name —> Adaptation: Between Species
19 June – 12 September, 2010
Opening Reception: Friday 18 June, 8-11 PM

ps – Also, of course you can see this video online, here, or here…..

“Music for Stereos”

A premiere performance / composition (prolly more of a performance…. actually) / ??? @ The Art Institute of Chicago Museum. Im excited about this one…..I won’t go into too many details, but topics covered:  ipods, digital re-verb, San Francisco, vector curves,  Don Henley and the Black Eyed Peas. Hope to see you all there!!!!!!! ps – Also Ill have a work in a show which opens on the 11th at Artic called Sound and Vision,……:)

I’ve got stuff in a few places at the moment. Check out the group show A BAS LENINE, OU LA VIERGE A L’ECURIE, at Christine Koenig Gallery curated by Pierre Bismuth (pictured above). You can get FREE Bruce Springsteen Born To Run Glockenspiel Addendum Cd’s in the massive Creative Capital group show Resurrectine at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts. Also, last but not least, I have a collaboration with Hanne Mugaas in 1984 at the Austrian Cultural Forum in NYC.

FYi: I fixed  / updated the script for my site “What a Misunderstanding!“. In case u r not familiar with the site, (I havnt posted it yet here in the news feed) last year I wrote a small script which pulls the current New Yorker “caption this cartoon” cartoon, posts it to a new blog, and automatically captions it with the phrase “What a Misunderstansing!”. All this happens automatically every Monday at 1pm EST (unless of course the New Yorker is on a double issue). Anyway, the script broke for a while, so the site was down for a bit, but its all a go now. The source code for this is here.

This project had come out of a conversation / an earlier piece I did for Dexter Sinister’s great series of newspapers for PERFORMA. You can see my “Catroon This Caption” (aka a blank cartoon with the caption “What a Misunderstanding!”) in this PDF. ps – Also prolly of more interest is since putting this site up, I have seen a few similar things. There is this site here (which is better and from 06!), and also the Daily Show did a similar “bit” as well……

Im pleased to announce that as part of New Jerseyy’s participation in the No Soul for Sale at the Tate Modern, I’ve given their website a temporary “make over”. It’s live only for 4 days, through the 16th. Update 5/26: There is an archive of the project located here.

MOCA Miami
Saturday, April 24 / 2 pm
ART TALK
Free with museum admission
RSVP: 305.893.6211 or rsvp@mocanomi.org
Part of Dr. Sanford L. and Dolores Ziff Art Talk Series.

Ill be doing an artist talk this Saturday in Miami. Not sure yet what it will be. I tend not to like to plan these things too much………. I figure I have spent so much time making the stuff Im gonna talk about, actually planning a lecture would just kinda be a drop in the bucket. None the less, I like this format very much, so Im looking forward, and I hope 2 see u all there…….

Pictured above: My Studio 2010

ps – As part of my show The Sharper Image, I changed the font of MOCA Miami’s website to Comic Sans. Check it here. It’s “live” till May 9th. The official details are: http://www.mocanomi.org/, 2010. Modified Museum Website. Unlimited Edition.

UPDATE: Screenshot archives of the project are now located here.

So, this Saturday April 3rd @ 2pm at the Museum of Contemporary Art Miami as part of my show The Sharper Image, there will be a screening I put together titled “Selected Single Channel Work”. This is a 50 minute long video program / new video (ish) consisting of videos I made, videos from my extensive personal VHS archive, some of my ultimate fav net vids, as well as random audio bits, pictures, and other assorted junk I had lying around on my hard-drive. All this has all been edited together into one massive and confusing video screening. This is an ongoing project – the first time I did this with my work was @ EAI back in 2006. Since alot of time has passed since then, only a few minutes of that original screening remain in this new one. This series has never been distributed, so like past versions, this will only screen once(!)….aka if u r near Miami - THIS EVENT IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED BY ME(!!!!)

This is just a reminder my show Creative Pursuits (pics) at the University of Michigan Museum of Art is closing on April 11th. So if u r near, check it out bfr it comes down. Details here.

FYI: Pics from my show “The Sharper Image” at the Museum of Contemporary Art Miami r here. Its up now, so if you are near Miami, check it out……….

My essay from a few years back about Jpeg compression “On C” has been included in an online show called Noise Not Noise put together by Vancouver’s “The Western Front”. Check out the online portion of the show here, and my essay here. If you are in Vancouver there are a bunch of events as part of this show, so check it out.

Ever since posting pictures of my show at UMMA in Jan, I’ve gotten a ton of questions about the strange looking sculptures. So, I’m pleased to present a video of another in the series above. They are my new “kinetic sculptures” made from Dancing Stands modified to spin at slightly different speeds. More info and Perma link here.

If you are in Miami, please come check out my show, “The Sharper Image” @ The Museum of Contemporary Art Miami. Im showing a ton of new and old stuff. In fact, it’s the most of my stuff ever assembled in one place at one time, ……….think tons of Photoshop gradients, cats, dancing stands, bowling games, Guns n Roses vidz, a lonely invader, fake structural films, drawings, scans, etc, etc. The opening is tonight from 6-9pm. Also of note, …. running concurrently to my show, is a show by one of my fav artists Ceal Floyer called “Auto Focus”.

The Sharper Image
March 11 – May 9, 2010
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, NORTH MIAMI
Joan Lehman Building
770 NE 125th Street,
North Miami, Florida 33161
T +1 305 893 6211

The Guggenheim has a show up right now called “Contemplating The Void” where they have solicited proposals from 200(ish) different artists / designers / etc, etc, etc as to what they would do in the spiral if they had a chance. Check the web version of the show here. I submitted a proposal. My proposal wasn’t so much to to do something in the spiral, but more to research a bit about its renovation. My submitted text read:

I would like to work with the contractors involved in the renovation to produce a publication detailing the issues they found with the original building (cracks, shifting, etc, etc) and technologies used to address these in the renovation.

Usually when I’m asked to do site specific proposals like this I always over think it and end up with something stupid. Anyway, much to my surprise, I would actually like to realize this idea one day ¹ Over at http://www.forconstructionpros.com/ there is an interesting article which deals with a bit of the things I would like to explore more. For example apparently, “the renovation team set out to map every visible crack in the museum wall.” Awesome, Id love to see that spreadsheet! ps – My crude imagined rendering is above.

As long as we are talking about youtube, recently I was included in the youtube grid show 3 Hours in 1 Second along with some other great people. Check the show out here, and my contribution here.