Orchard Gallery closed its doors on Sunday, May 25, after three years of operation. Don't cry for its demise; the ending was planned from the beginning, was a pre-condition of its founding.

There was a modest brunch of coffee, donuts, bialys and pickles (all purchased from local merchants) and a viewing of the last day of its last show, Spring Wound, a series of video collaborations between filmmaker Jeff Preiss and several of Orchard's founding artists and sympathetic fellow travelers: Andrea Fraser, Nicolás Guagnini, Moyra Davey, Anthony McCall, Josiah McElheny.

Media Matters: Friedrich Kittler and Technoculture
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/symposia/14733.htm

Friday 27 June 2008, 18.30–21.00
Saturday 28 June 2008, 10.30–17.45
Saturday 28 June 2008, 19.00–20.45

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viral symphony
The viral symphOny 4th movement has been web published here:
http://www.heyokamagazine.com/HEYOKA.13.VIRAL.4.htm

Many artists have created games to satisfy their aesthetic and political longings, Duchamp a prime example. Then there is the singular case of Öyvind Fahlström (1928-1976), painter, installation artist, poet, critic, creator of happenings, co-conspirator with Robert Rauschenberg and Billy Kluver. Within a very varied body of work, he produced several world political paintings with movable magnetic elements in the early 1970s, modeled after the famous Monopoly game board, dealing with the Vietnam War and with the global realpolitik of emerging nations in the Third World.