Group Members: Lara Star Martini, G.H. Hovagimyan, Lee Wells, Daniel Blochwitz, Thomas Hutchison, Nsumi Group, Joao Salema, Ursula Endlicher, Chris Kasper, Chris Borkowski, Raphaele Shirley, Hans Steiner, Jason Wee, Leesa Abahuni, Nicole Abahuni, James Andrews, Edita Zulic.

Meetings: at THE THING’s office space in the PS1 clock-tower building every third week.

Statement: Artists Meeting is a nascent collaborative arts group, composed of new media and socially based artists, curators, and critics. Our work involves a long-term experiment to re-structure creative production through an artist centered funding and valuating mechanism, which we are currently developing. We view this work as a “hack” into the art market via socially rooted and programmatic channels.

Art Worlds, much like Artists Meeting, represent amalgams of disparate views, perspectives and feelings about art. This panoply of fact, opinion, words and emotions involve not only objects of art, but also how we interact, create, and learn about ourselves as patterns in the process. From raw clay, clean slates, and blank media, our views, thoughts, and even market forces shape what we make as much as what we make shapes us.