Workers playing the factory

Deron writes: On the outsider performance art front: I just found out about this Christmas tradition that happens every year not too far from my parents'. Pretty much every christmas eve since 1925, a wirecloth factory has allowed their steam whistle to be used for an elaborate performance of Christmas carols. The boiler is stoked and people inside the factory pull levers to change the pitch of the whistle. The whole thing is absurd and amazing and creepy all at the same time.

Looking for Democracy contest deadline Jan 8 2010

DEADLINE jan 8> Looking for Democracy.
residents must live in IllinoisLooking for Democracy: How to Make It, How to Sustain It 2nd Annual Film & Video Contest

In this historical moment abuzz with potential, many are grappling with the possibilities for change. As we face economic crisis and calls for racial, environmental, and human justice, how are we creating and sustaining democracy? Do you have an idea for a provocative remix that challenges the concept of ownership or a thought-provoking public service announcement that describes what it means to be green in your ‘hood? Where do you see democracy in your life, where you work, go to school, or in your community? Now is your chance to be radically creative and show the world what democracy, making it and sustaining it, means to you!

Submit a short film to our Looking for Democracy: How to Make It, How to Sustain It 2nd Annual Film Contest. Any genre is fair game: documentary, narrative, experimental, remix, music video, public service announcement, etc.

Performing Neuromancer:

"CASE" by Brody Condon
Performance and installation based on the classic cyberpunk novel “Neuromancer” by William Gibson.
A performance and installation based on the classic cyberpunk novel “Neuromancer” by William Gibson. The event is a deadpan reading of the novel by mostly non professional actors in a casual, dress rehearsal like atmosphere. Combining the 1980’s dystopian techno-fetishism of Gibson with early 20th century abstraction, faux “virtual reality” scenes will unfold via moving Bauhaus inspired sculptural props accompanied by the Gamelan ensemble Dharma Swara. More

Lost in Light

where Deron found the beautiful old video. Here is the link to the place. and their last post.

sonic outlaws- negativeland

Sonic Outlaws clip. By Craig Baldwin circa 1995.

Vickie Bennett

Television Delivers People

by Richard Serra/Charlotta Schoolman. Television delivers people (1973)

Dara Birnbaum's Wonder Woman

Randomness

In case anybody's interested...
Here are links to websites I'm using for my random shot projects:

random.org
topographic maps
coordinate mapper

I would also like to involve other people nationally/globally through geocaching.

If anybody has ideas, or if you want to go with me on a shoot, let me know :D

All Together Now

The people in charge of All Together Now are:

Nick Yeck-Stauffer 618.201.0079

and

Meagan Oestry moestry@gmail.com

(sorry, i only know Nick's number and Meagan's e-mail)

The dates are Nov. 18th-20th

Here is the linky to the Facebook page.

They are looking for performances, projections, installations, music, poets, conceptual work, et cetera. They have a lot of stuff lined up already, so contact them ASAP if you're interested.

making and taking Walks as art form

Francis ALYS, Nick BROWN, Situationists, and others. What do we learn from a walk? How can that be translated into aesthetics? Media? How can it be shared?

fictional Identity: Lynn HERSHMAN

Lynn HERSHMAN constructed an alternate personality as an ongoing project. "ROBERTA BREITMORE was, for 9 years a private performance of a simulated person. In an era or alternatives, she became an objectified alternative personality. Roberta's first live action was to place an ad in a local newspaper advertising for a roommate. People who answered the ad became participants in her adventure . As she became part of their reality, they became part of her fiction."

Minerva Cuevas

Cuevas produces a number of products that she sells and gives away through a fake corporation she created called La Mejor Vida Corp. (The Better Life).

FLUXUS PORTAL

FLUXUS PORTALto the internet. A site that archives a great deal of material about fluxus movement from then to now. Including audio introduction to fluxus.

Emily JACIR

Crossing Surda (a record of going to and from work), video installation, 2003 by EMILY JACIR

Breakfast today

breakfast today by Mika Bierman and Antje Poppinga

Yoko Ono

Flies project

Adrian Piper: Food for the Spirit

Adrian Piper photographing herself while reading Kant.

Do it Instructions project

artists and navigation
A manual of instruction pieces composed by various artists.

Excavating Everyday

old syllabus . This is a syllabus with a bunch of references for reading about the everyday, ordinary, banal.

Century of the Self

Documentary about the role of psychoanalysis, marketing, and public relations in the united states. From the same director as "the power of nightmares"

Busy Work

Busywork
9:17 a.m.: Monday morning at Cretin/Croak Management. Peel and eat an orange as slowly as possible. Time is a syrup and I Am the Fly. It's the beginning of the month, the time when my beloved co-worker Steve enters dividends onto "The System" and completes other mysterious prep work for the month ahead. This takes about four days. The rest of us, who balance rich folks' accounts each month, can't do anything until the preliminaries are taken care of. My pet peeve (one among many) is that we are supposed to look busy during this time period, or else suffer the fate of a dreaded "down-time" assignment, such as revamping the filing system or cleaning the coffee machine. In kindergarten, this used to be called "busywork," and was designed to fill any remaining time at the end of the day. Busywork means easy, repetitive tasks that don't require any thought. My normal duties (I call them "Administrivia") are a microstep up from busywork, and I dreaded the idea of doing something even more boring. ... more.... from PROCESSED WORLD

language of tactical media

by Joanne richardson

Bu Hua "Savage Growth" animation

an allegorical animation about development, nationalism, competition...

13 ways of looking at a blackbird

"If perceptions truly had no content whatsoever
they would be blank moments in consciousness and would leave no trace in memory. At one
level, formal configurations function as ontological propositions. Merely by shaping energy one
models the real; every grasping or shaping is a rhetorical persuasion for a view of reality." (from #11, Formal Perceptions)

Lewis Hine

Sir Francis Galton

Composite "jewish type" circa 1880s.
Physiognomy and Phrenology- composited portraits.
Dalton was a cousin of Darwin and a mathematician, statistician and anthropologist. Developed way to classify fingerprints, terms "nature v. nurture" and "eugenics" he was interested in the question of what was inheritable.

Plus an artist project.

Artist Keith Deitrich CIRCA 2004

Edweard Muybridge

http://paulrobert.acadnet.ca/archive/fall2008/drwf/images/narrative/muybridge02.jpg

Visible Proofs: Forensic Views of the Body

An exhibition by the National Institutes of Health

Bertillon's portrait studio

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/visibleproofs/media/detailed/ii_c_304.jpg

The Photographic INdex

Photography used for the identification, tracking, Bertillon: Filing systems



http://www.nlm.nih.gov/visibleproofs/media/detailed/ii_c_304.jpg

http://students.washington.edu/karamck/images/sekula/sekula_1.jpg




A SHORT VISUAL HISTORY OF THE USE OF PHOTOGRAPHY FOR IDENTIFICATION AND CLASSIFICATION PURPOSES
VISIBLE FORENSICS

Jean Painleve Film: The Sea Horse

Kehinde Wiley

Portraits by Kehinde Wiley. More about his work HERE