Events

Hi again,

This Friday night - tomorrow - we’ll be turning our attention inward to focus on the Plausible Artworlds initiative, as part of the Summer Studio art school organized by artist Anthony Campuzano at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia.

http://www.icaphila.org/events/summerstudio.php#j23
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Are you curious about teaching and or facilitating some Public School classes? Please come to the meeting this Wednesday!

Hi Again,

This Tuesday is the next event in a year-long series of weekly conversations and exhibits in 2010 shedding light on examples of Plausible Artworlds.

We’ll be talking with Chris Kennedy, Brett Bloom and Scott Rigby, about the history and future of Groups & Spaces.

To access the new beta site (soon to be launched update of groupsandspaces.net) go to:
http://groupsandspaces.artiscycle.net/drupal/home Read more »

Hi Again,

This Tuesday is yet another event in a year-long series of weekly conversations and exhibits in 2010 shedding light on examples of Plausible Artworlds.

This week we’ll be talking with Orgacom, a group located between Istanbul & Amsterdam.

Orgacom (a combination of the words ‘ORGAnization’ and ‘COMmunication’) aims to develop and introduce new roles for art within businesses and non-profit-organizations. Read more »

Hi Everyone,

This Tuesday is another event in a year-long series of weekly conversations and exhibits in 2010 shedding light on examples of Plausible Artworlds.

We’ll be talking with Barbara Steveni, co-founder of the legendary APG, or Artist Placement Group (later renamed O + I, for Organization + Imagination), an important precursor for many later “organizational art” practices, who are not always fully aware of the scope of APG’s proposal to rethink artist’s place in our lifeworlds, while at the same time maintaining art’s fundamental autonomy. Read more »

Hi Everyone,

This Tuesday is another event in a year-long series of weekly conversations and exhibits in 2010 focusing on examples of Plausible Artworlds. Read more »

Hi everyone,

This Tuesday is an event in a year-long series of weekly conversations and exhibits in 2010 focusing on examples of Plausible Artworlds.

This week Alan Moore will join us in person to talk about the research project and exhibition House Magic: Bureau of Foreign Correspondence, which will be opening at Basekamp the same night. Read more »

Hi everyone,

This Tuesday is the first evening in a year-long series of weekly conversations and exhibits in 2010 focusing on examples of Plausible Artworlds, culminating in an online and printed publication in 2011. Let’s get started!

This week we’ll be talking with folks from The Public School and AAAARG.ORG. This is a rare opportunity to get people who have been involved in organizing, theorizing, participating in (or newly interested in) these projects to convene online for a couple hours in a public and open setting. Read more »

Hi everyone,

This week we’ll be also talking with Patrick Lichty about his collaborative performance work in and out of virtual space.

From www.secondfront.org: Read more »

Hi everyone,

This week we’ll be talking with Jorge Rojas about his work that connects online worlds and people in real space.

Jorge Rojas: My space(s) and Low Lives

My Space project:
http://www.jorgerojasart.com/ (Works > Projects)

Low Lives project:
http://labotanica.org/blog/?page_id=782 Read more »

Hello Everybody!

This week we are pleased to chat with Elysa Lozano who will be talking about Autonomous Organization and related projects, including the Socialist Colony project. Read more »

Hi everyone,
This week we’ll be talking with Stephan Hausmeister about x-marks-the-spot and “Break on Through to the Other Side…” in Berlin next month, organied by artbetween and the China Art Criticism Network (CACN).

Snippet from Stephan about x-marks Read more »

Hi everyone,
This week we’ll be talking with Beka & Jason from Not An Alternative about what they’ve been up to lately, including their recent Homeless Tent City Installation in NYC. It will be informal but fun (we opted away from the power point presentation they gave @ Conflux, for a more fluid conversation). Read more »

Hi everyone,

We’ll be talking with Joseph del Pesco, about his upcoming curatorial project at SFMoMA, The Pickpocket Almanack.

About The Pickpocket Almanack
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Hi everyone,

Tonight we’re having a brainstorming session for Thank Tank 2009: Centennial Lay State of Our Union.

Here’s a little more info: Read more »

Chat with Genesis Project (http://www.culturepush.org/?q=node/283) director, Arturo Vidich, and the four artists involved in the month-long residency. The discussion will surround issues and ideas that come up during real-time skype commentary on live performance and video showings of work generated during the residency.

DUET
Meghan Flanigan and Fergus Byrne will perform a drawing duet that traverses wall and floor in an exploration of mark making through full-bodied movement.

VIDEO Read more »

Hi everyone,

Tomorrow we’ll be talking with Adam Trowbridge and Jessica Westbrook, co-founders of SEED, and an artist couple, with an 8 year old son, living and working in Tennessee.

Here’s a little more info Read more »

Hi everyone,

Tomorrow we’ll be talking with a few folks from ‘The Philadelphia Institute for Advanced Study’.

Here’s a link to their almost believable website:
http://www.pifas.net/

+ checkout this video intro: Read more »

Thank you to all of those that have participated in the Vagabondism class.
Our last meeting will entail a further look at available online resources, general evaluation of meetings and course material, and a brainstorming session on conceivable future travel projects connected to the course. And please join us at 6pm EST for the weekly potluck chat before class.

Potluck + Vagabondism Class:
Potluck 6-8pm EST
Class 9-11pm EST

Information regarding the class can be seen at Read more »

Potluck + Vagabondism Class:
Potluck 6-?pm EST
Class 9-11pm EST

The first part of the meeting June 16th will involve an in depth interview with current traveler, Hellen. Hellen is currently on the move in Europe and has been mobile since January 10th 2009. She will join us remotely on Skype from England . During the second part of the meeting we will discuss the text “Home Free Home: A History of Two Open-Door California Communes”. For more information including a link to download the class reader please go to Read more »

Potluck + Vagabondism Class:
Potluck 6-7:30pm EST
Optional film 7:30pm “Wild Boys of the Road”
Class 9-10pm EST

During the potluck Tuesday we will entertain a handful of questions related to transience, discuss conceivable travel projects and vagabonding’s relationship to alternative economies and art making.

For our class meeting this Tuesday we will discuss Riding The Rails, depression era youth on the move. Both the introduction, and accompanying text are available at Read more »

Hi everyone,

This week we’ll be talking with George Scheer from Elsewhere Artist Collaborative in Greensboro, North Carolina:
http://www.elsewhereelsewhere.org

For more info, read the personal message from George, below… Read more »

Hi everyone,

Quick note about tonight’s potluck - a few people want to have a friendly chat about informal communication and self-organized networks. We’ll start by talking about an event that happened last Friday: “Cold Call Friendly Phone Night”. The idea is we can open the discussion up to other examples of this sort of thing, and any ideas about the implications of extending or connecting these otherwise separate events.

Brief description of last Friday’s event below: Read more »