Reading list I made for the “Art of Curating” talk I’m giving to Jordan Tate’s “Internet Art” class at University of Cincinnati tomorrow:

Texts

“Why Browsing Is So Important for Content Discovery” by Laura Larsell http://mashable.com/2011/09/06/browsing-content-discovery/

“Five Problems with Showing Internet Art” by Kyle Chayka http://hyperallergic.com/27111/problems-showing-internet-art/

“Can Digital Art Make Money?” by Kyle Chayka http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/38508/can-digital-art-make-money/

Experimental Exhibition Models        

BCC by PMgalerie  http://b—c—c.com/

Oggetto Soggetto by Barriobajero http://www.barriobajero.info/oggetto/index.html

Q/R ART by Krystal South http://www.krystalsouth.com/qr/

Speed Show by Aram Bartholl http://speedshow.net/

Street Show by Michael Manning http://streetshow.org/ and 0-Day Art by Nullsleep and No Carrier http://www.0dayart.net/

BYOB by Rafael Rozendaal http://www.byobworldwide.com/

Public Interfacial Gestural Salon by Constant Dullaart http://constantdullaart.com/curatorial/public-interfacial-gesture-salomn/

Online art galleries/exhibition spaces

JstChillin http://jstchillin.org/schedule/

Fach & Asendorf http://fa-g.org/

Barmecidal Projects http://www.barmecidalprojects.com/

BOCA Gallery http://www.bocagallery.com/

Parallelograms http://www.parallelograms.info/

Bubblebyte http://bubblebyte.org/

ANI GIF http://ani-gif.com/about/

Art Micro Patronage http://artmicropatronage.org/exhibitions

Getting the message out online

Body by Body’s Mediafire download PR for upcoming show at Important Projects http://www.importantprojects.net/index.php?/future/body-by-body/

Preteen Gallery’s Twitter page http://twitter.com/#!/preteengallery

PBS Off Book interview: “Hacking Art & Culture with FAT Lab” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b0rlJvO1BQ

Digital works for sale

GIF Market by Fach & Asendorf http://gifmarket.net/

Video Catalog by Petra Cortright http://petracortright.com/videocatalog/

Website Sales Contract by Rafael Rozendaal http://www.newrafael.com/art-website-sales-contract/

319 Scholes is pleased to present the premiere of WALLPAPERS, an immersive, 3,000 sq ft installation designed by new media artists, Nicolas Sassoon and Sara Ludy.  Throughout the past year, these two artists have explored the concept of domestic space as a definition of identity and representation through online collaborations and projects.  WALLPAPERS will mark the artists’ physical debut of these ideas, with an installation that spans the walls of 319 Scholes.  

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MIRROR MIRROR www.myspace.com/mirrormirr​ornyc
NULLSLEEP www.nullsleep.com
LAUREL HALO www.laurelhalo.com

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Artist Bios:

Nicolas Sassoon is a Vancouver-based artist and member of the online art collective Computers Club. Nicolas publishes a lot of his work online through the format of animated gifs and collaborates with architects, artists, electronic music producers and fashion designers. His work has been exhibited in various international venues and events such as the Miami Art Fair, the Tokyo Art Fair, Today Art Museum in Beijing, The Charles H.Scott Gallery in Vancouver, TINBOX Contemporary Art Gallery in Bordeaux, the Berlin Fashion Week, and MU Eindhoven. The work of Nicolas Sassoon revolves around the relationship between computer technology and the representations of landscape, architecture and domestic environment. 

Link: http://youmakemesohappy.bl​ogspot.com/


Sara Ludy holds a BFA in New Media from School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has been widely exhibited in the US and internationally. Recent exhibitions include: Action! International Film Club - Dazed Live Festival, London and a video screening/exhibition, and via Rhizome at the Armory Show in New York. She is a member of Tremblexy, an experimental audio/video collaboration with Austin Meredith that creates immersive, sensory experiences through the use of collage, electronic manipulation, repetition and projections. As a VJ, she has collaborated with many of the most interesting musicians as Daedelus, Damian Lazarus, Etienne de Crecy, Hercules + Love Affair, James Zabiela, LA Riots, Moby, Mr. Oizo, Timo Maas, Vitalic, Wolfganag Gartner and many more.

Link: http://www.saraludy.com/

lolumadclub:

AN ART SHOW

critic:
what was the main goal of your art featured in your very first solo show?

artist:
blatant irony in the face of keen deceptions aimed at creating a contextual relationship among the internet art world - that was what my show was about

artist:
this piece is a…

Robert Lorayn is an artist cohabitating between two deserts; the Internet and Phoenix, Arizona. Robert’s work includes essays, computer drawings, flash animations and a series of videos which, in particular, have really piqued my interest.  I came across Robert’s site last fall when he made an epic post on COMPUTERS CLUB with a collection of black & white drawings [DRIFTS, 2010]. Since then, I’ve been paying attention to the hands/signs in his drawings and in videos he’s posted of himself on Facebook. The videos are incredible; they depict Robert rhythmically throwing rapid-fire signs; the most articulate hand motions I’ve ever seen. I messaged Robert to find out more about these videos, to see how they relate to his artistic practice. Check out our conversation below and then head over to http://www.robertlorayn.computersclub.org to see + read more!

Do you speak sign language or are you just an amazing hand dancer?

Haha. Sadly, I only know very few words in sign language and just the letters to my name. I’m just a hand dancer. How did this come up?

I’m not sure, your videos come into my mind pretty much every day and I always wondered.

Well, that’s very nice of you to say. Did you know they are gang signs? I’m not sure if I ever stated that plainly.

I assumed. All of them verifiably or do you make some up too?

Almost all of them are verifiable, a few of them are inside jokes using gang alphabet. Although now that I think about it, I’m pretty sure some of the videos I’ve uploaded are just nonsense.

Is it all improv or are your moves choreographed?

The ones with no music are thought about.  The rest are improv.

Do you consider what you’re doing dance, or plain throwin’ up signs?

When I improv, it’s dance.  Sometimes I like to get a certain feeling across and that’s when I usually think of it as signing.

Why gang signs?

I could talk a lot about why, I like building why’s. For me the gang signs are really interesting movements that have a real specific purpose outside the internet. When I use it in private and to record for the internet I like playing with that feeling, which is (in my opinion) agressive and assertive, but entirely safe (since it’s on the internet) and solitary.

How’d you learn all these gang signs?

YouTube and surprisingly (to me), just fiddling around with my hands.  I’ve apparently come across gang signs (after the fact) that I thought were more original.  In any case, it’s one of my favorite hobbies, so I appreciate the interest.