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IN_TENTION: Emerging Contemporary Performance Art Practices

by admin on October 19th, 2006

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Steven Lam

IN_TENTION :: October 25-November 4, 2006 :: Tyler Gallery, Elkins Park, PA :: OPENING Thursday, October 26 2006, 7-9 pm.

This exhibition explores emerging contemporary performance art practices, and is curated by the student group Produce. The project will include work by five artists from across the country. A two-week exhibition will present ongoing performances by David Howe (GA) and Steven Lam (NY), and there will be three one-night performances by artists Quentin Davis (PA), Benjamin Kinsley (OH) and Nelson Loskamp (NY). In addition, a panel discussion will be led by philosopher, critic and artist Tom Zummer, and a workshop for students will be offered by Benjamin Kinsley from the Poke Orchestra.”

Steven Lam’s project (in the Main gallery) will consist of an alternating suite of videos and a pirate radio transmission. Pulling from cybernetics/systems theory, apparatus theory, post-modern dance, and historical video art, the project is dialectical in nature; it re-uses discarded clips from an earlier library splicing them with new footage.

For the past few years, Lam has been interested in video as a medium that recodes, archives, and transmits. A new suite of videos will be introduced periodically within the duration of the exhibition. A perpetually evolving archive, the exhibition, ironic and deadpan, will be an experiment for me to toy with “distributional media.” Additionally, Lam will transmit an audio project on a local AM radio band of me reading the entirety of Friedrich Kittler’s “Gramophone, Film, Typewriter.” This will be broadcasted and accessible 24 hours a day during the exhibition. The AM band will be announced shortly.


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from networked_performance

by jo


reBlogged

by Radoya

on Oct 18, 2006, 12:30AM

GPS System to Raise the Confidence in the Ability to Travel

by admin on October 11th, 2006

GPS systems has been used for several years by blinds and visually impaired people to raise their confidence in the ability to travel. Some coin it as “one of the most significant changes to a blind person’s mobility“. GPS complements existing aids. It could never replace a guide dog or white cane. Indeed, GPS can’t help getting around construction or the two-by-four sticking off the back of a truck. However, it fills in the blanks for a blind traveler on what they can find in an unfamiliar town. An example is Humanware’s Trekker. Input is done with an integrated tactile keyboard. Directions are given by a synthetic voice. Audio output was a design challenge, because blind people use their hearing to pick up subtle environmental sounds, and they also use high frequencies to detect surfaces (echolocation). A video of the Trekker is available here.

Update: Technology review has an article on Georgia Tech’s System for Wearable Audio Navigation (SWAN). (via Anthony Townsend)

Relation to my thesis: It seems that a navigation system, more than delivering directions, provide confidence to their users (not exclusively blind people) in unfamiliar environments. Humans use “echolocation” to detect their environment.

Design Weekly Events

by admin on October 11th, 2006


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Sara Eichner at the Sears Peyton Gallery

Art & Design Events…

  • The Modern Show
    • Highlights of the 20th Century in art and design
    • October 13th though 15th ($15.00)
    • Preview party Oct. 12th, 6-9pm to benefit the Art Deco Society of New York
    • 69th Regiment Armory in Gramercy Park, (Lexington Ave. at 26th St.) 212/255-0020
  • Dumbofest
    • 10th annual art under the bridge festival–open studios, dance performances, panels, art sales, video installations, and parties galore
    • October 14th and 15th
    • 30 blocks of Dumbo Brooklyn
  • The Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI)
    at Municipal Arts Society

    • Celebrate the opening of CLUI’s new satellite location on the Hudson in Troy, New York, and new publication, Overlook: Exploring the Internal Fringes of America.
    • October 12th, 6:30-8pm
    • The Urban Center, 457 Madison Avenue at 51st Street, rsvp@mas.org, or 212.935.2075 for reservations
  • Ear to the Earth
    • Week-long festival of environmental sound and image with installations, panels, and concerts.
    • October 6th through 14th
    • 3LD Gallery / Art Center, 80 Greenwich Street @ Rector
  • Anatomy of a Brownstone III: Inside and Outside

    • Explore the process of renovating and restoring a
      brownstone–working with an architect, obtaining Landmarks Permits, locating furnishings that blend old and new, and undoing a previous owner’s mistakes.
    • October 28th, 1-5pm at the Atrium Amphitheater, 300 Jay Street (at Tillary) ($35), 718.552.1173 or BSmith@CityTech.cuny.edu.
  • Alternative Landscape Components: A New Land Art

    • A radical new direction in Dennis Oppenheim’s work, involving highly artificial, manmade landscapes of trees, hedges and flowers that clash with and comment on the natural landscape.
    • September 14th through November 8th
    • The Arsenal, 5th Ave. and 64th St., AND large scale outdoor installations at Thomas Paine Park/Foley Square, 212.360.8163

To watch: urban traffic patterns

by admin on October 11th, 2006


Fascinating. (via Pruned) From the introduction:
This “Global South Mobility” section of the New Mobility Agenda video collection provides a collection of private views of both the problems (most of which based on the results of the imported car-based, “old mobility” model from the North) and the Global South’s search for new and often original and surprising solutions.

Graffiti Research Lab’s video of Maker Faire

by Mark Frauenfelder on May 3rd, 2006

Mark Frauenfelder:

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Grafiti Research Lab, inventors of the fantabulous LED Throwie, made a wonderful short video of their happening at Maker Faire.
Link (thanks, Huong!)