Wolfgang Staehle (center, left) and Richard Barbrook (center, right) prepare to arm wrestle for the title of Supreme Net Visionary.

More pictures from Imaginary Futures here

TONIGHT!
The Thing at Postmasters and
the Institute for Distributed Creativity present:

Imaginary Futures
Dr. Richard Barbrook
Hypermedia Research Institute
University of Westminster, London (UK)

6:30 pm
459 West 19th Street
New York City

BILLOWY DROWSE

by Margarida Garcia and Barry Weisblat

Five minutes of improvisation combining an electronic double bass and a modified Casio-SK1 synthesizer. As a duo, Margarida and Barry have developed a spontaneous language and a dynamic range that is all their own. She journeys with the bass and electronic pick-up with her fingers, bow, sticks, stones and anything else she finds fit, while he experiments with electro-magnetic devices, homemade circuits, and modifications to existing electronic instruments. The textures that emerge from their performance peel back the layers of air, knot them together, and then let them simply hang.

GH interviews artist Kevin Clarke about his collaboration with Mikey Flowers, Dust to DNA:

On the morning of September 11, 2001, florist and volunteer EMT Mikey Flowers grabbed his digital camera and ran the few blocks from his store toward the World Trade Center. He aided the injured after the first plane hit, and then fled for his life when the south tower collapsed, capturing as many moments of the stupefying chaotic scene as humanly achievable. These images are the foundation for Flowers and artist Kevin Clarke's collaborative project, Dust to DNA, presented by Sara Tecchia Roma-New York in this one time venue.

Art Dirt Redux podcast with Kevin Clarke

Experimental music presents a curious model for thinking about political art. Political sloganeering and symbolic gestures must be immediately rejected as they exist in the realms of representation that this art form attempts to bypass.

MASSIVE ART AUCTION WILL SUPPORT INDICTED ARTIST STEVEN KURTZ AS BIOTERRORISM CHARGE THREAT RETURNS
More benefits and donations needed

An April 17 benefit auction at Paula Cooper Gallery in NYC has
attracted donations from some of the biggest names in the
contemporary art world, including Hans Haacke, Richard Serra, Cindy
Sherman, Martha Rosler, Sol LeWitt, Ruben Ortiz Torres, Kiki Smith,
Lorna Simpson, Chris Burden, and many others. (See details at bottom
or at http://www.caedefensefund.org/auction/PaulaCooperGallery.html.)

What's going to happen as we start to run out of cheap gas to guzzle? James Howard Kunstler sees a bleak future ahead.

Making Things Public: Atmospheres of Democracy

A show curated by Bruno Latour & Peter Weibel
ZKM Center for Art and Media

It turns out that the oldest meaning of the English and German word for 'thing' concerns an assembly brought together to discuss disputed matters of concern. Hence the focus on the slogan FROM REALPOLITIK TO DINGPOLITIK, a neologism invented for the show. This major shift is reflected in the aesthetic of the show, in the ways in which the over one hundred installations and works of art are presented, and in the general physical and virtual architecture. What we are trying to do is compare modernist with non-modern attitudes to objects. In effect, we are moving FROM OBJECTS TO THINGS.

Jasper Johns did an episode of The Simpsons and Andy Warhol did commercials for Japanese electronics so why shouldn't Joseph Beuys sing pop songs?

Here's why.

Discuss with MTAA

Radiodays is a temporary radio station. Realizing a 'listening exhibition' rethinks ways of art presentation. By using an auditive format, artistic works are presented successively within a space rather than simultaneously: they appear, disappear and reoccur. The choice of using the medium radio at the same time attempts to give a voice to an actual concern towards the auditorial found in many works by visual artists.

An alternative: Radio Patapoe