Anthony Goicolea Fleeing 2005 acrylic, ink, graphite and collage on Mylar 85" x 75" installation view

From the Aesthetics of Failure photo pool (Flickr)


Kontent JPG is up, link up the top, powered by Flickr. Photo galleries/photo pools. Expect much. In time.

As a follow up to my US Debt post - here's Baudrillard's Global Debt And Parallel Universe essay.

Powerful, inexpensive tools for creating and editing audio and video are increasingly in the hands of everyday people. Sometimes that means opportunities for entirely new creations; often, it means opportunities to play with existing cultural artifacts, making them new all over again. Remixes can be better than the originals. It will be interesting to see how successful Reznor's experiment turns out to be.

(Via Metafilter)

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more meta!!!!!! ;))))))))))) a.l.

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As all the instruments were standardized in 1983 the sound effectively goes no further than Italo Disco. There will never be any new and exciting sounds, only updated versions of old sounds. New sounds would only break the compatibility with all the existing MIDI files. Software vendors can't change the "trumpet" to a "Neptune's kinda honkashizzle" because, on the web, you can find all kinds of MIDI files that use the trumpet in many different ways. In this case the only solution is the lowest common denominator. The trumpet sound must fit into James Brown's "Sex Machine" in the same way it fits into "Ride of the Valkyries" by Richard Wagner. It does this by not really fitting into either. At least that's equality.

The result is that most of the time MIDI files give the impression of somebody playing hit music on an electronic organ in the privacy of their own home. In reality this happens at village weddings or the annual gathering of a rabbit breeder's association.

via NYTimes:
Arts, Briefly (April 13, 2005)
Compiled by LAWRENCE VAN GELDER

Secret Service at Art Show
Secret Service agents visited a new exhibition of politically infused art at Columbia College in Chicago, where they asked for the artists' names and phone numbers and photographed some works, The Chicago Sun-Times reported yesterday. The show, "Axis of Evil, the Secret History of Sin," running through May at the college's Glass Curtain Gallery, presents works by 47 artists from 11 countries showing political and religious leaders on fake postage stamps. "Patriot Act" is a series of mock 37-cent stamps depicting President Bush with a gun pointed at his head. "Citizen John Ashcroft" assembles the face of the former attorney general from images of naked bodies at Abu Ghraib, the prison in Iraq. The Sun-Times reported that a Secret Service spokesman, Brandon Bridgeforth, said he could not discuss specifics of the visit, which took place last week shortly before the show opened. "We're just looking into it," he said. In a telephone interview yesterday, Micki Leventhal, the director of media relations for the college, said: "We are an arts school, and we are committed to academic freedom, artistic expression, freedom of speech. We are committed to that. We stand by that. We stand by this show. Art is meant to challenge and to make people question, and I think this show succeeds admirably in that."

via NYTimes:
April 12, 2005
Art Exhibit Featuring Bush Stamp Probed
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 10:24 p.m. ET

CHICAGO (AP) -- The Secret Service sent agents to investigate a college art gallery exhibit of mock postage stamps, one depicting President Bush with a gun pointed at his head.

The exhibit, called "Axis of Evil: The Secret History of Sin,'' opened last week at Columbia College in Chicago. It features stamps designed by 47 artists addressing issues such as the Roman Catholic sex abuse scandal, racism and the war in Iraq.

None of the artists is tied to the college.

Secret Service spokesman Tom Mazur would not say Tuesday whether the inquiry had been completed or whom the Secret Service had interviewed, but he said no artwork had been confiscated.

The investigation began after authorities received a call from a Chicago resident.

"We need to ensure, as best we can, that this is nothing more than artwork with a political statement,'' Mazur said.

Two federal agents arrived at the exhibit's opening night Thursday, took photos of some of the works and asked for the artists' contact information, said CarolAnn Brown, the gallery's director.

Brown said the agents were most interested in Chicago artist Al Brandtner's work titled "Patriot Act,'' which depicted a sheet of mock 37-cent red, white and blue stamps showing a revolver pointed at Bush's head.

Brandtner did not return a call to his design studio Tuesday.

The exhibit's curator, Michael Hernandez de Luna, said the inquiry ``frightens'' him.

"It starts questioning all rights, not only my rights or the artists' rights in this room, but questioning the rights of any artist who creates -- any writer, any visual artist, any performance artist. It seems like we're being watched,'' he said.

Last spring, Secret Service agents in Washington state questioned a high school student about anti-war drawings he did for an art class, one of which depicted Bush's head on a stick.

More info + images:

Tuesday, March 08, 2005
Laziness and other evils at Nexus (roberta fallon and libby rosof's artblog)

Secret History of Sin Samples

Exhibition catalogue

Secret Service visits art show at Columbia
BY NATASHA KORECKI Federal Courts Reporter
Chicago Sunday Times, April 12, 2005(via FreshPaint)

Secret Service visits ‘Secret History of Sin’
Stamp art exhibit asks, ‘What is evil?’ while feds ask for info
By Jamie Murnane & K. Anderson, The Chronicle

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The new issue of SHIFT (101) is up, featuring a cover design by Bob Sanderson.