Neoliberalism As Water Balloon from Tim McCaskell on Vimeo.

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RANDOM NUMBER IN PUBLIC SPACES
BRIGHT NIGHTS

Participating artists: Burak Arikan, Motomichi Nakamura, Marius Watz, Lee Wells
Curator: Christina Vassallo

An evening of projections on the Manhattan Bridge Anchorage in DUMBO, Brooklyn presented by Random Number through the NYCDOT Urban Art Program.

The Internet as Playground and Factory//Prelude - Tiziana Terranova from Trebor Scholz on Vimeo.

James Kalm climbs to the top of the pile of tires in this “reinvention” of Allan Kaprow’s Yard at the debut exhibition of Hauser & Wirth New York. William Pope.L adds his own narrative text using a Barack Obama imitator, and flashing lights in this restaging. Upstairs we tour an in depth collection of posters, prints and documentation tracing the historic arc of this “Happening” which was originally created in this very location in 1961.

Mehdi Belhaj Kacem
L'esprit du nihilisme: Une ontologique de l'Histoire
Paris: Fayard, 2009

The story is often told of Marx that he was the product of a specific
tripartite European formation: British political economy, German
idealism, and French socialism. The Europe of today is different: in
Germany we have media theory, in Italy we have political theory, and

As part of the NY Art Book Fair at P.S. 1, Deep Dish TV is screening a 30 minute film (excerpted above) on the G20 protests in Pittsburgh last week, during which the local police staged an exercise in civil suppression, gassing students on the University of Pittsburgh campus, attacking journalists and deploying acoustic weapons.

screenings:
Thursday, October 1, 2009 at 7:00pm
Saturday, October 3, 2009 at 7:00pm
and throughout the three day fair

location:
P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center
Room J109

Here are two short extracts from the Viral Venture project (2009) for demonstration purposes.

Viral Venture is a digital art projection (and/or ongoing installation) by the artist Joseph Nechvatal with a musical score by the composer Rhys Chatham.

The Viral Venture projection consists of Nechvatal's most recent artificial-life computer virus attacking his digital images. It acts in real time as modeled on the biological viral mode as programmed by Stephane Sikora in C++.

Rhys Chatham's score consists of his 2005 composition for 400 electric guitars, entitled A Crimson Grail, commissioned by Nuit Blanche. It was performed and recorded at the Sacré-Coeur Basilica in Paris. The score is looped so that the projection can run for an indefinite length of time without disruption.

James Kalm partakes in the press preview for this icon of American Modernism. Over twenty years in the making, this exhibition surveys the lesser known but perhaps more profound side of O’Keeffe’s work, her abstraction. Beginning with her discovery and eventual relationship with Alfred Stieglitz in 1916, O’Keeffe was thrust to the stratosphere of the New York art scene. She was at the forefront of pursuing a type of organic abstraction that Stieglitz championed as America’s contribution to Modernism. Examples of O’Keeffe’s paintings covering nearly fifty years of development are on view. Includes brief statements by Director Adam D. Weinberg and the curatorial team lead by Barbara Haskell, Barbara Buhler Lynes and Sasha Nicholas.