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CALL TO ARTISTS

CALL TO ARTISTS:

Nina Caporale:

Call to Artists
The following exhibition is open to artists of all mediums. Artist-artist collaborations are encouraged.

Confirmed dates of exhibition begin April 15 - April 26, 2008. The first venue is Ohio University Gallery under the title: Word of Mouth. Additional venues and events are being sought, and artists are invited to participate in these as well.

Though some actions are rendered illegal without licensure by the state - such as the practice of law or medicine - creative ‘practice’ is not regulated by government but by convention. This exhibition seeks to present a range of artistic practice, including responsible and irresponsible practices, on the premise that revealing/sharing these will enable us to examine the kinds of creative behavior we (artists) model in community.

This will be an exhibition of documentation primarily, as we intend to emphasize artistic practice over products. Artists interested in exhibition should prepare documentation of practice, of work, or of theoretical work. ‘Practice’ should be understood as artistic practice, studio practice, or methodology, and works that are currently in-progress. ‘Work’ may include conventional pieces like sculptural objects, paintings, prints, photographs, ceramics, etc., and less conventional pieces of experimental, installation, performance, interdisciplinary, and electronic media. ‘Theoretical work’ may include artistic conceptions, works that could be conceived but may never be realized, or works that have been proposed but not executed. Submitted documentation will be included in the exhibition program. Select artists may be invited to include executed/executable works.

Please direct all questions to Nina Caporale at nina@aesthetic.ohio.edu

//Deadline for Submission
February 1, 2008

//Submission Materials:
• Artist’s statement in 200-900 words. Describe your position as an artist (or collaborative), your practice, and your response/reaction to the premise of the show. All remarks appreciated.
• Curriculum Vitae(s).
• Contact Information. Mailing address, phone number, email, URL, etc..

for documentation of completed work:
• Title, Date, Media.
• Abstract describing the work in 50-500 words.
• Documentation of your work. Photographs, drawings, draftings, prints, video files, audio files, CD-ROMs, and DVD-ROMs are preferred.

for documentation of practice and theoretical work:
• Abstract in 200-500 words. Please use present tense, NOT future tense.
• Visualization of your work. Photographs, drawings, draftings, prints, video files, audio files, CD-ROMs, and DVD-ROMs are preferred.

and for all:
• Instructions or requests regarding presentation, including any materials or equipment not provided by you, the sender, that may be needed.
• Non-returnable CD-ROM or DVD-ROM backup/archive of all materials described above.**

**It is both acceptable and appreciated if you choose to provide the above materials solely via CD-ROM or DVD-ROM to be printed by the gallery, as appropriate. We ask that filetypes be compatible with MacOS 10.0.1 and newer. Digital images should be a minimum resolution of 300 dpi in dimensions of 2400 x 2400 pixels, or 8 x 8 inches. Supported filetypes include, but are not limited to: (text) Rich Text Format, Microsoft Word Document, PDF, (images) TIFF, Photoshop, Large Document Format, Jpeg, (audio) .m4a, .mp3, .aif, .mov, midi, (video) .mov, .dv, .m4v, and .flv.
Contact Nina Caporale with questions regarding filetypes or the software support available in our Lab for works in electronic media. (For example, we are familiar with MaxMSP/Jitter, Poser, Strata 3D, Maya, Flash, SecondLife, and more.)

//Shipping
All shipping is the responsibility of the artist.
Failure to provide return postage will be understood as consent for transfer of ownership to the project or for destruction of these materials after closing the exhibition. All materials from the exhibition are eligible for inclusion in the permanent collection of the Kennedy Museum of Art.

Send all materials to the following:

Attn: Nina Caporale
Aesthetic Technologies Lab
Ohio University, 235 Putnam Hall
Athens Ohio 45701

nina@aesthetic.ohio.edu
513.307.7303 mobile
740.593.0695 office

//Copyright Notice
By submitting materials to this exhibition, you are granting copyright permissions to the project for use in promotional materials and catalogue documentation. You are also granting copyright permissions to Nina Caporale as artist and curator of this exhibition for use in documentation of her own artistic practice.

>> (pdf and richtext versions of this announcement are available.)

(Via Rhizome.org Opportunities.)

The skeleton photographs of Patrick Gries

Some of the most amazing things I've taken pictures of are bones. I've been taking pictures and collecting bones since the mid-60s. I just picked up some vertabrae in a wooded area I visit up the coast about two weeks ago.

The skeleton photographs of Patrick Gries:

"photographs"

(Via Guardian Unlimited Art.)

Glexis Novoa's 'Ziggurat'

Novoa's use of graphite on rough travertine stone tiles creates a very strange world. It is both futuristic and ancient. It's not a place I'm sure I'd like to live but, it has traces of our reality that can give us chills right down to the marrow of our bones.

Art Pick | Glexis Novoa's 'Ziggurat':

"Glexis Novoa is one of the most complex artists in a generation that came of age in Cuba in the 1980s. He broke established socialist codes and produced outstanding conceptual work in Miami during the last decade. In Ziggurat, Novoas intricate show at the Bernice Steinbaum Gallery in Wynwood, Novoa continues to explore the psychological impact of displacement, drawing on architecture, time and, in his own words, the horizons that I leave behind and those which I approach. His new work, graphite..."

(Via MiamiHerald.com: Visual Arts.)

Balancing Work and Life: Finding Time for Fitness

I used to compete on bicycles taking in close to 250 miles per week training and racing. That's what amateur cyclists are doing, not professionals. Today, back to making art, maintaining this web site, teaching fulltime, I have little time for fitness and, when I look at my body in the mirror... gawd, I don't like what I see.

Balancing Work and Life: Finding Time for Fitness:

"Many frazzled entrepreneurs swap fitness for long hours at work. Here's how to carve out time."

(Via wall street journal entreprenurs.)

Event details changed: South Florida Artist Entrepreneurs Meetup

Event details changed: South Florida Artist Entrepreneurs Meetup:

"The organizer has updated this event. For more details, see the full listing: http://entrepreneur.meetup.com/1349/calendar/6221776/

When: Saturday, November 17, 2007 at 12:00 PM

Where: FAU Fort Lauderdale Campus
111 E. Las Olas Blvd. Rm HE 918
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301
954-270-7404

Event fee: USD5.00 per person

RSVP limit: 25 'Yes' and 'Maybe' RSVPs

If the changes affect your plans to attend, please take a moment to update your RSVP. (You can RSVP 'No' or 'Maybe' as well as 'Yes'.)

You can always get in touch with me through the 'Contact Organizer' feature on the Meetup.com website: http://entrepreneur.meetup.com/1349/suggestion/
"

(Via entrepreneur-1349 Meetup Mailing List.)

…a daily basis

I’ve been working towards posting something on a daily basis. But, I've been so busy this entire year sometimes I just get behind.

Today was my two Meetups, Artist Entrepreneurs and Miami Web Dev & How To. By the end of the day, I’m exhausted, especially after getting in bed at 4:30 am and up early to run some errands before my art meetup started at noon. One visitor was the director of small business development from FAU. He said my starting my entreprenur meetup was smart and bold and, showed leadership of the kind he had hoped to see come out of the summer training and workshop we did June of this year. Of course, it helps that Broward Cultural Division has given support and encouragement.

I’m feeling stronger about my decision to do so and move forward with a few other collaborative projects. Tonight I need some rest because I wasn’t able to email the people that I need to. I saw three people Saturday night the Girls' Club gallery opening that greeted me then, whispered that they hadn’t received an email from me yet. “Oh my gawd, I’m so sorry!” was my excuse but, I have been super busy lately. I even got several phone calls during my meetings today and I rarely get any phone calls.

I don’t even want to post my list of things-to-do, it will just be depressing but, the good thing is that I have a list and know how to tackle it, even if done slowly.

Wynwood Gallery Walk

We already know this but...

Wynwood Gallery Walk:

"Thanks to the gentrification of central Miami and the wacky ingenuity of local artists, the monthly Wynwood Gallery Walk has become a colorful addition to the otherwise formulaic local party scene. On the second Saturday of every month, those looking for stimulation in a place other than their pants ..."

(Via Miami New Times.)

Future Design District museum?

Rendering: Dacra’s proposed contemporary art museum

"A museum project is stirring debate in the Miami Design District. Miami Beach-based Dacra Development is on the verge of erecting a 42,000-square-foot, six-story contemporary art museum at 140 N.E. 39th St., despite complaints by residents of the nearby Buena Vista East Historic Neighborhood Association.

Neighbors are concerned about Dacra’s 100-foot height proposal and the fact that the city of Miami did not notify the homeowners association of the developer’s plan."

Via: Miami Sun Post

Isn't this something that's been on the horizon? Maybe we've been so overwhelmed with all the building over the past few years that this just went forgotten. In spite of our being in a hurricane zone, our art scene is creating just as big a stir.

Student snags maths prize

So many artist claim the hate math. Get over it. Math may not be your strength but, it certainly has some fascinating and challenging concepts.

A twenty-year-old university student has answered a challenge by one of the world's most well-known mathematicians.

Alex Smith, a undergraduate electrical engineering student at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom, has proven that a primitive type of computer known as a 2,3 Turing machine can solve every computational problem there is. Proving the "universality" of the 2,3 Turing machine was the subject of a US$25,000 challenge from entrepreneur and mathematician Stephen Wolfram.

Wolfram, founder and chief executive of Wolfram Research in Champaign, Illinois, issued the challenge this May to satisfy his own curiosity about how complexity emerges from simple systems.

via: Nature News

Manuel Alvarez Bravo

Manuel Alvarez Bravo lived to 100 yrs. old. I remember his photographs as being of the more inspirational images, rich tonalities and profound subjects. Don't you wish you could travel to L.A. this weekend?

PICKS: Manuel Alvarez Bravo:

"09.15.07-10.31.07 Rose Gallery, L.A., CA, review written by Micol Hebron
As Susan Sontag noted in On Photography, a photograph has multiple functions: to create beauty, to possess, to document, to mask, to reveal. The forty gelatin silver and platinum palladium prints by Manuel Alvarez Bravo in this exhibition, shot predominantly in Mexico in the 1930s, catalog delicately decisive moments: an anamorphic congregation of snails on a white background; a twist of braided hair juxtaposed with a zigzagging wrought-iron fence; a mathematical grid of peanut halves. Most of the prints here are previously unseen (or unpublished—a well-made catalogue accompanies the exhibition), and each confirms the rigor of Bravo’s photographic eye and the force of an inner vision that is inexplicable and compelling. His images are poetic and transgressive, tranquil and unsettling. Bravo shares a formalism with his fellow modernists (Edward Weston, Alfred Stieglitz), social concerns with revolutionary peers (Tina Modotti), and a penchant for Surrealist fragmentation and disorientation (André Breton, Luis Buñuel). His images frame repetition and patterns in a way that converts the quotidian into an event, and in their technical and aesthetic virtuosity reconfirm his position in the modernist-photography firmament. It’s invigorating to spend time with art that is dedicated to skill and vision and unfettered by postmodern critiques that can be creatively debilitating. Likewise, though many modernist photographers are now neatly canonized—and therefore tamed—Bravo’s images communicate with immediacy across the decades."

(Via artforum.com.)