IUOMA Poll-4

Facebook Mortality

"Facebook Mortality Or The Death of Poetry"- visual poem by Litsa Spathi

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Shanked it!

The Triumph of Capitalism

this way please [fluxus remix]

ProfILE_mUSEUM - the spain collection

PROXY GALLERY (now showing: the spain collection): Select and assemble your own custom art exhibition with catalogue! Ultra hi-res art files, suitable for printing, are delivered in one custom pdf/ebook. Thousands of enlarged (custom, patented algorithms) and enhanced photographs (now, likely several hundred thousands, soon over a million,) mostly low-res cellphone, web-cam, and low-end digital camera self-portraits (self-packaging), culled from dating/social websites -- as you might expect, there is some explicit content (more than is permitted here unfortunately: you really should see them all, but it probably makes little difference) -- fascinating and occasionally disturbing. I've decided to also add a set of painting-filters -- this was good, as it enabled a 'recovery' of many more worthwhile images, and also clouded any possible erogenous/irregular corporate claims, but the project now extends beyond my life-span. I could easily make small paintings from these images but who support that activity? Let's see: commissioned portrait paintings, I'm thinking 12" square encaustic on panels, from your choice of subject are available for $15,000US. It's interesting to find the balance/inertia point between the look of photo and painting, and it speaks to the current social/heroic condition! Often it makes faces look squinty so it's necessary to 'bring-back' facial aspects. The display images on this site are but quick approximations of the larger art files which simply don't scale -- kinda like paint on canvas. Another advantage of the painting filters is that they drastically reduce the file sizes and make it well-nigh impossible for someone to covertly res-up these display images for printing. It's quite incredible to realize that many of these pictures were only 3-4K or so when I started to work on them. You may realize that this is not the first time I've collected anonymous found-public imagery: notably dumpster-diving (bicycling with backpack at midnight,) at photofinishers' in the 70's. And of course, there's the "Insatiable Abstraction Engine" -- collections from newsgroups. [http://bbrace.net/insatiable-abstraction.html] But come to think it, nearly all my work involves repeated multiples or collections of imagery. My new friends. Whenever possible I retained any color casts, cropping and lighting. The portraits are actually very considered, sometimes selections made/altered merely to obscure the identity that they wished to presumably portray initially. Sunglasses are a popular ruse, as are close-ups of cleavage, butts, tattoos, feet and groins. (Curiously, I've yet to see a picture of hands... ok, now I have: some intricate fingernails and the love/hate finger-tats.) Many feature-obilerating camera-flash-portraits in the bathroom mirror. Many of course, occur in and around motorized vehicles. Only one (so far) in a grocery store. And some, but surprisingly few, are filched from somewhere online, but this must be a risky choice in the event of an 'actual encounter.' How much introductory information/description do you want to put out there to begin with? There are some very creative, even artful, solutions to this dilemma. Various select groups of portraits are included in each PDF 500-page ebook/catalogue for $250 (sorry about the price but it was a hellish amount of work and I guarantee you won't be disappointed or YMB), and can be ordered directly. The images contain sufficient resolution to print them out on letter-size/A4 paper (or coffee-mugs, keychains, magnets, photo-stamps, cards, calendars, tea-towels...), for an instant exhibition. Use my verified Paypal account to have the DVD delivered at no charge: [bbrace@eskimo.com; http://bbrace.laughingsquid.net/buy-into.html] Or, even better, assemble your own catalogue/exhibition at the Proxy Gallery storefront [http://cart.iabrace.com/]. Art files are only $1 each. My new friends. Having been recently kicked-off Facebook (there was an anonymous report of a depicted nipple!), and losing 5,000 appreciative friends - it was the perfect place to host a social-media profile-portrait-collection, I've decided to also open an online storefront where individual high-res files will sell for only $1/each. [http://cart.iabrace.com] How hypocritical to object to profile pictures that were on FB to begin with; but it's fun to now position coloured boxes and bars over n•pples, c•nts and c•cks. How idiotic is that? The prints of course required different custom algorithms and some masterful retouching -- they look great! Technically given the incredibly diverse range of imagery it was difficult to make them all equally legible; despite a variety of intricate processing directives, the scripts would inevitably crash or be unable to render a decent image. These were handled individually as were the painting-filters. If I receive a reasonable number of orders, I'll offer additional states of the union or countries... but California had to be the place to begin. Sure to be a collectors' (socio-anthropologists') item! An amazing and compelling, collective portrait! The interspersed military/gangster imagery (or maybe something else), also introduces a new spin on the hopes for this already tenuous social-media culture. I've had to organize/sub-divide these in some fashion, so by state/country seems to be the prevailing approach. And given how often workers are compelled to move around, there's more of a local difference in cultural self-perception, body language, and social-sexual proclivity than you might expect. The classification boundaries are increasingly porous. Recently I set-up a "Caribbean" collection that will end-up being especially massive due to the many sub-nations, each of which wouldn't hold many entries. But you might wonder if any protrayed desire isn't really just vengenance from being infected by various disease/ vectors: I have it and so will you. It really is a perhaps overlooked (overly-present), socially significant era when a massive proportion of the population is able to individually exorcise their self-imagery instead of being routinely dependent on existing systematized systems of portraiture and presentation -- which is not to say that it's entirely free from stylistic-cultural-corporate constraints and codification (and why, for now at least, I left the imagery in a nearly random arrangement), but the individual, probably for the first time ever, is seen freely negotiating a shifting porous skein of varied reception... well, something like that...

TARANTINO & others DADAIST INVASION on Turners Fall, MA

M. Adrian Montagano & Christine Tarantino
Video stills from October 8th DADAIST INVASION on Turners Falls...
http://fluxusa.blogspot.com/2010/10/dadaist-invasion-on-turners-falls-video.html

This way, please

Fluxus performance night at Belknap Mill October 29th

from Melissa McCarthy
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I am curating "A Book About Death @ Belknap Mill" here in Laconia NH. On Friday October 29th I am planning an evening of Fluxus Performance, and wondered if any of you who are in the northeast would be interested or available to join me (it's a Friday night at 7pm) for that. I'd also invite you to submit scores for that performance, whether or not you are able to perform.

You can reply to me (artplay68@yahoo.com) or call (phone # below)

Thanks!
Melissa

Melissa McCarthy
http://www.bonafideart.com
603-455-8008
...because art is cheaper than therapy

No Joke

"No Joke" visual Luxus poem by Litsa Spathi

MAIL ART CALL KAUNAS BIENNIAL

A CALL FOR MAIL ART WORKS : TEXTILE 11 / KAUNAS BIENNIAL , LITHUANIA

“ GEORGE MACIUNAS AND BEYOND : FLUXUS NEVER STOPS “

In conjunction with the Kaunas Biennial, I have been asked to curate an exhibition relating to the history and current activities of FLUXUS artists and affiliates. As part of the exhibition, I am putting out a call for work to the mail art community. As the Biennial is Fiber / Textile oriented, keep this in mind when you are creating work to send … The concept for the show is as broad as you can make it. Postcards, Artist stamps, Visual Poetry, Zine Work, Stickers, Anything ……

The show’s title “GEORGE MACIUNAS AND BEYOND : FLUXUS NEVER STOPS” relates in part to an homage of George in his hometown, Kaunas, and a celebration of his “local hero” status, as well as an exposure of continuity in the FLUXUS community . Pease send works no larger than A4 paper size, and include your Name and contact info on back. Documentation to all .

DEADLINE FOR SENDING WORKS IS JUNE 31ST, 2011
SHIP TO :
KAUNAS BIENNIAL / FLUXUS
c/o Keith A. Buchholz / curator
3449 Hartford
St. Louis, Mo. 63118
U.S.A.

After Fluxus follows LUXUS

"After Fluxus follows LUXUS - Flux is over--->it is time for LUXUS" by Litsa Spathi

H.R Fricker - Exhibition

Exhibition at the Bickelmuseum August - September 2010. Videofragments of the room and works by Karl Bickel and Hans-Ruedi Fricker. Documented by Ruud Janssen and Litsa Spathi. The room at the Bickelmuseum was constructed with 9 square rooms in which each selections of works. The works couldn't be seen outside the boxes. The exhibition was a beautiful surprise. Outside the boxes there were some selections of Hans-Ruedi's famous shields. Also a reading table with quite unique books from the world of artistamps.

Library humor

Push_Pull

Please Note

Ben Vautier : Fluxus is alive & well

I HOPE YOU DON'T RECEIVE THIS LETTER TWICE

HELLO EVERYBODY
It is more then a year
That I have sent out a Fluxus newsletter Why?
I think it is that:
I had nothing to say
Why repeat myself
Goggle is there to give all the information we need In fact Fluxus never stops I receive emails from everywhere and every body Thank you Fluxus anti ego super egos Anti prima Dona New prima donnas TWO IMPORTANT FLUXUS EVENTS LODZ AND MOSCOU
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Wherever you go, don't leave your bike

For all your visual Poetry...

Kiss of life given in Greece

Φιλί ζωής στην παραπαίουσα αγορά αυτοκινήτου

Should you walk downstairs?

For Allan Revich

Fluxus Finding for Allan Revich. Found in Zürich, Switzerland.

demonstrates

palms

Mail art call/E.ART

Cultural Association 

“ E.ART “

                 ARTI VARIE

Civitanova Marche - (MC) / Italy

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INTERNATIONAL  

INITIATIVE

MAIL ART 

Global garden: “The green in the contemporary world”.

 It is I turn over to 80 European and International countries.

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Is it true that the realism is no longer fashionable? It is also true that the realism has nothing to 

do with  the imitation of the reality, if it becomes a personal re-interpretation of what anyone can 

see, but it is necessary to protect the value of the natural patrimony that the man does not stop 

to violate.

The garden reveals its own personality, art and nature has belong to humankind since ever and 

they are our own roots, the most intimate nature of each of us.

Garden have been, throughout the centuries, a pride of civilizations, almost a kind of visit card, 

where political intrigues and timeless love stories intertwined.

In the common imagination, when we talk about gardens, our mind leads us to a place with 

abundant and rich vegetation given by the fertile and joyful earth.

The global garden, at the end, leads us to camouflage the environmental impact in a superficial 

way while we are facing the climatic change. The green embraces the earth, it has been protecting 

us, producing food and giving us shelter.

We must know, comprehend and respect the role of gardens in the human history in order to keep 

the green that protects us.

        Tiziana Todi

("Victoria" Gallery - Roma)

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>  NO RETURN  -  NO FEES  -  NO JURY  -  NO SELECTION <

>> (deadline: 31-decembre -2010)  

> To insert kindly on the frontal side of the envelope <

>It regards the realization of an envelope (or more envelopes) 

 -the dimensions cm. 24 x 18 

 -technique-free                                                                                  

 -paint- on the facade of the envelope.                                                 

   (the surface to be painted on)                                                        

      

>Finished the artistic job, one joins:                                                

 -Sender : ............................................................................................                                                                 

 -Adressee-where it is sent: Cultural Association "E.ART"..........

 -the stamp and the postal cancellation.  / Thanks         

                              

                                      

>>> For example you see the site: www.eartcultura.org 

>We kindly ask you to write us inside the envelope:

 -your  e-mail address,   -your personal data, 

 -eventually your biography and artistic informations.

                                       

>The realized envelope (art of the mail: the sport and the art) 

   are sent with regular mail. 

   (the artists generally insert the realized envelope complete 

   of addresses, of the cancellation-postal stamp/within an other envelope 

   and she is sent for having the certainty that arrives to the destination.)

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The realized envelopes will be conserved as patrimony of Association “E.ART” 

and successively  second the several manifestations in course will be exposed 

in Galleries of Art and Museums, of  Rome, Bologna, France etc.

In order to disseminate this type of artistic current and to introduce the authors.

The event will start on april, 10th 2011 in the art gallery of the Association “E.ART” 

in Civitanova Marche (MC), Italy. The inauguration will be at h6:00pm and the event 

will continue until may, 29nd 2011.

The event will be organized by Association “E.ART” in collaboration with the “Victoria 

Gallery” 

of Rome, with the “SpazioArte” Circle of the Aquila, with the magazine 

“Abruzzo AZ 60”,

“Mailartmeeting Archives” - c/o Anna Boschi of Bologna, 

Anna Raccuja 

of Perugia, journalist-advertising G.U.S. Directive Council She prints Roman, Founding 

Associate U.G.E.F. - Rome and journalist Vittorio De Seriis, Civitanova Marche (MC).

We wish to Thank a lot everyone that will participate.

Eufrasia Cordone

(President of Association "E.ART")

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Send the works to :

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Cultural Association "E.ART"

Via Castelfidardo, 72

62012 - Civitanova Marche 

(MC) - Italy

Telefone: +39 / 0733-817194 

Cellular:   +39 / 393-5134305

http://www.eartcultura.org

e.art_cultura@libero.it

eufrasia.c@tin.it

 

Opened:

from the Wednesday to Sunday

from the 17,30 to the 20.30

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