update
In regards to the upcoming "Automatic Update" exhibition at the MoMA NY, there seems to be a great deal of question about a number of issues. These are; the re-writing of history,the relevance of net-based art, the perception of popular culture, and the role of the New Media movement/ Genre in the contemporary scene. What seems to be a key dialectic about the state of New Media as force in contemporary art derives from two poles; one from the MoMA colophon about the Automatic Update show; The dot-com era infused media art with a heady energy. Hackers,programmers, and tinkerer-revisionists from North America, Europe, and Asia developed a vision of art drawn from the technology of recent decades. Robotic pets, PDAs, and the virtual worlds on the Internet provoked artists to make works with user-activated components and lo-res, game-boy screens. Now that "new media" excitement has waned, an exhibition that illuminates the period is timely. Automatic Update is the first reassessment of its kind, reflecting the artists ambivalence to art, revealed through the ludicrous, comical, and absurd use of the latest technologies. [1]

Show-in-a-box 1994

Príamo Lozada died June 13th at 7:30 pm during the preparation of the Mexican Pavillion in Venice. Apparantly he accidentally fell out of a 3rd story window of the building and later died in a hospital in Mestre near Venice.

Lozada was the visionary curator of the Laboratorio Arte Alameda in Mexico City.

The Summer of Love show at the Whitney Museum is great fun. It’s full of experiences – walk-in and peer-in rooms and boxes, kinetic sculptures, video and film, album and underground newspaper covers, photos of celebs and jes folks, and even some painting and sculpture. Coming from the Tate Liverpool, the show’s strategy is to represent visual culture rather than high art. That’s cool. You can almost hear the music and taste the drugs…

“We wanted to provide a viewpoint or rather a grammar for people to understand and compare different structures.” — Bernd Becher
The Artist and Photographer Bernd Becher died last week in Germany.
Bernd and Hilla Bechers current show at Sonnabend Gallery New York is still on view.

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The MeatSpace Gallery is pleased to present "Long Island City Sundial," an exhibition of drawings by Heidi Neilson which envision Long Island City's prominent Citibank tower as a gigantic sundial.

The opening reception for the exhibit is on June 21, the summer solstice, from 6 to 9 pm at the MeatSpace Gallery, 46-01 5th Street, in Long Island City, New York, between Vernon Boulevard and the East River. Directions and a map are available at http://meatspacegallery.com/directions.htm