New Work by André Feliciano, Everett Kane, Nuno Henrique
October 25-December 1, 2012
Opening Reception Wednesday October 24, 6-8pm
Curated by Claudia Calirman

Location One is proud to present a new group exhibition consisting of handmade artworks constructed to evoke emotional response. The pieces on view draw on a nostalgic past to propose a better future. The show features work by André Feliciano, Everett Kane, and Nuno Henrique. These artists explore how art can use feelings and emotions to reassert itself in a world saturated by technological processes.

The exhibition will be on view at Location One from October 25 to December 1. The opening reception will take place on Wednesday, October 24, from 6-8pm.

André Feliciano considers himself an art gardener. His utopian view of the world can be better understood by his concept of “Floraissance Art,” which mixes the words “flora” and “renaissance” and calls for a postmodern return to arcadia. Feliciano uses words like sprouting, cultivating, and gardening in his artistic practice. His colorful, artificial garden made out of resin-based flowers and dirt is majestically beautiful and leads us to an inner state of calm and contentment. Why not extend these feelings to our present condition so that we can start building a better future?

Feliciano, born in 1984, in São Paulo (Brazil), has exhibited at Photoville (New York, 2012), Bonni Benrubi Gallery (New York, 2011), and the Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo (2010), among other venues. His work has been featured in the New York Times online, Time magazine’s photography blog, and the blog of the International Center of Photography. He is part of the upcoming exhibition Festival of Art and Gastronomy at the Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo (November 2012). More information can be found at his blog, blog.natureza.art.br.

Everett Kane’s drawings, photographs and digital paintings are the work of a highly skilled draftsman interested in a range of expressionistic emotions. Kane’s constant and incessant artistic production (there are over 25,000 pages of drawings in his apartment) is posted daily on Facebook. According to Kane, “the work exists in the gaps between something technical and something emotive, something schematic and something finished.” He sees the creation of his images as performative acts. His largely biographical lonely figures and inner abstract landscapes reveal an artist whose work flows freely and fully at its own fast pace with all of its contradictions. When grouped together, his art looks like clusters of small exhibitions enclosed in themselves.

Kane, born in 1971, is based in New York City. He graduated from Princeton University and the Art Center College of Design. He teaches fine art, digital media, 3-D animation, and drawing at Pratt Institute, the School of Visual Arts, and the New School.

Nuno Henrique’s work is based on accounts of botanical species, the result of his contact with the indigenous forest on his native island, Madeira, in Portugal. The forest only survives in the most inaccessible parts of the island, today occupying a very small part of the territory. His work is an indexical trace of this absence, although it is less about the species therein and more about exploring the field of botany, which is infinitely connected to all aspects of life. He approaches the extinction of the land and its species, largely the result of neo-colonial practices, with emotion and nostalgia. His large paper cast drawing is based on a technique developed by archaeologists in the 19th century. On view at Location One is The tree from which canoes are made, a monument that refers to the North American tulip tree, used by Native Americans to build dugout canoes from the bark.

Born in 1982, Madeira Island (Portugal), Nuno Henrique studied sculpture at FBAUP (Faculty of Fine Arts), University of Porto, and attended the Individual Project study program at Ar.Co (Lisbon). He has participated in a number of exhibitions, including Linha de Partida (Madeira, 2009), Forty Paper Casts (Módulo Art Gallery, Lisbon, 2010), “The old Dragon Tree that existed in Ponta do Garajau fell down into the sea during heavy rains from southeast, occurred during the autumnal equinox of 1982″, Porta 33, Madeira, 2010, and As Saudades da Terra (Módulo Art Gallery, Lisbon, 2012). He has been awarded grants from Porta 33 (Funchal, 2009 and 2010), the National Cultural Centre (CNC, Lisbon, 2011), and Fundacion Botin (Santander, 2012) and is currently a resident at Location One with a grant from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the Luso-American Foundation.

Location One Performance Program Public Workshop Fall/Winter 2011

We invite you to join us: Monthly workshops, presided over by Jovana Stokic, Location One’s curator of Performance Art, invite guest artists, critics and curators to work with the community of artists-in-residence at Location One. They provide a lively interaction and often suggest projects or collaborations that might be explored for presentation at the gallery. This month the topic addressed will be The Role of Photography: multifold relations between photography and ephemeral actions; the guest will be Mitra Abbaspour.

Mitra Abbaspour is an Associate Curator in the Department of Photography at The Museum of Modern Art. At MoMA, she leads a curatorial research initiative centered on the Thomas Walther Collection, which explores the formation of photographic modernism between the World Wars. Additionally, Mitra is and a PhD candidate in the Department of Art History at The Graduate Center, CUNY, preparing to defend her dissertation, a study of photograph archives dedicated to Armenian, Kurdish, and pan-Arab practices. She has authored numerous articles on contemporary photographers from Tracey Moffatt to Shirana Shahbazi. Recently, her focused study of a photograph of General Andranik “A Hero and a Homeland for Armenians in America: Photography’s Role in the Diaspora,” appeared in the International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. Mitra served as part of a curatorial team for the exhibition Re-Orientations: Islamic Art and the West in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, which was culled from the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She has also taught in the art history departments of Hunter College, Brooklyn College, and the University of California, Riverside.

Location One Performance Program Public Workshop
Fall/Winter 2011
Tuesday, October 4, 2011 at 6:30 pm
Conversation with Sandra Skurvida and resident artists

We invite you to join us:

Monthly workshops, presided over by Jovana Stokic, Location One’s curator of Performance Art, invite guest artists, critics and curators to work with the community of artists-in-residence at Location One. They provide a lively interaction and often suggest projects or collaborations that might be explored for presentation at the gallery. This month the topic addressed will be Collecting, Curating and Conserving; the guest curator will be Sandra Skurvida.

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Sandra Skurvida is an independent curator and scholar based in New York City. Her research interests include performance art, transmedia, and politically engaged art practices. She received her PhD from Stony Brook University in 2006; and taught at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College; Parsons The New School University; FIT-SUNY; School of Visual Arts; and Museum of Modern Art, among other institutions. Her curatorial projects are catalyzed by social situations and interdisciplinary approaches: OtherIS (2011-ongoing) is a curatorial platform and online database of video art focused on the US-sanctioned countries; Avant-Guide to NYC (apexart, 2009) addressed the absence of historical referents in the public space and their discursive afterlife; Custom Car Commandos (Art in General, 2009) dealt with visual reflections of the crisis in the auto industry; Soap Box Event by Pia Lindman (Federal Hall National Memorial, 2008) practiced performative aspects of free speech; several public art projects in New York City (Art Container, 2002; Waste Management by Alex Villar, 2005) highlighted specific aspects of the public space; and the Third Annual Exhibition of Soros Center for Contemporary Art in Vilnius, Lithuania (1995) was produced in the post-Cold War conditions at the emergence of global networks.

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]]> http://www.location1.org/performance-program/feed/ 0 http://www.location1.org/yes-but/ http://www.location1.org/yes-but/#comments Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:13:42 +0000 heather http://www.location1.org/yes-but/ An exhibition of keynote works by Vik Muniz and new works from Alexandra Mota de Aguiar, Mattias Ericsson, Wojtek Doroszuk, and Zhou Tao

An exhibition of keynote works by Vik Muniz and new works from Alexandra Mota de Aguiar, Mattias Ericsson, Wojtek Doroszuk, and Zhou Tao

Curated by Claudia Calirman

OPENING RECEPTION:

Wednesday, January 13, 2010 6–8 PM

DATES: January 14 – March 6, 2010

HOURS: Tuesday-Saturday 12–6 PM

Yes, But… explores works that dwell in the borderline between real and fictional, process-based and result-oriented, temporal and permanent, literal and metaphorical, orderly and undisciplined. Within the fabric of these works lies an array of artistic choices that emphasize contradictions and ambiguities, playing games upon the viewer at every turn.

Yes, But… features works by Vik Muniz (b. Brazil; works in New York) together with artists currently in residence at Location One: Alexandra Mota de Aguiar (b. Portugal), Wojtek Doroszuk (b. Poland), Mattias Ericsson (b. Sweden) and Zhou Tao (b. China).

Vik Muniz uses photography to create images from non-traditional materials. In series such as Pictures of Junk, he re-creates works by Great Masters, undermining the grandiose mythological aspect implied in the historical tableaux with his use of everyday discarded materials. His work usually involves strategies of appropriation–he sets out to create a copy of a copy, which, during the process of transformation, becomes a work by Vik Muniz. It is not only the artist’s materials that have a temporal quality to them; it is also the performative aspect of his works that call to mind issues of time and impermanence.

Working outside Rio de Janeiro in a space the size of a basketball court, the artist collaborates with residents from nearby favelas to remake a series of canonical images, directing his crew from a scaffold high above and then capturing the image through a large-format camera; the resulting works incorporate intriguing discrepancies of scale. In his process, what starts as a permanent object (usually a reproduction of a canonical work of art) becomes an impermanent installation made out of detritus, only to be turned again into a permanent work of art (a conventional gelatin-silver print). Repulsive or tasteful, visual or tactile—all these are choices are games played out in Muniz’s illusionist tableaux, leaving the viewer amused and complacent in being fooled and deceived.

Mattias Ericsson

In the installation September 2001 – March 2009, Mattias Ericsson’s hundreds of black-and-white photographs, which he carefully arranges into a formal grid, are all part of his ongoing work. Many of the images refer to the artist himself, his wife and child; others focus on the idyllic Swedish landscape in which Ericsson was born and still lives with his family. For this work, Ericsson chose images from his archive of thousands of photographs, then meticulously classified, sorted, and displayed them, trying to create order out of chaos.

In Mattias Ericsson’s video 1630 Photographs, the mundane also interferes in the supposedly grand narrative of the past seven years of the artist’s life. He recorded his voice for the video, creating a methodic narrative about the technical process of developing the film, making contact sheets and selecting photographs—a strikingly impersonal accompaniment to the intimate photos. There exists a tension between the work’s visuals and its narrative; the artist’s monotone voice is juxtaposed with his personal images, creating a disjunction between oral description and visual field. While the passage of time is registered in these intimate photographs (self-portraits, daily domestic interiors, family, friends, relatives, even time and aging…) his droning voice-over in a mantra-like rhythm renders these personal images from a distant place, as if subject and object were in reality two different beings, disconnected from each other.

Zhou Tao
Zhou Tao plays with notions of chance and everyday life subverting our understanding of the urban environment. In videos such as Obstacle, Power Here, Mutual Exercise, and East 6th Street to Location One he explores ordinary activities in public spaces.

In Obstacle, Zhou takes a stroll on a Sunday morning in the streets of his native Chinese city of Guangzhou, letting chance lead the way as he interacts with the many different elements that he encounters. Whether swimming in a public pool, scaling an electric pole, or simply just walking on the streets, there is always an element of civil disobedience involved in his actions. In Power Here, he turns on a fan, a loudspeaker, and a floor lamp using the city’s public electricity energy, exposing the lack of surveillance by official authorities. In Mutual Exercise, a collaboration with a friend, they walk the streets of Guangzhou, exploring new situations and creating connections out of randomness, as they encounter obstacles in their way. In East 6th Street to Location One, a collaborative work completed during the artist’s residency at Location One in New York, Zhou and a friend rely upon each other’s bodies to complete the trajectory from his home in the East Village to his studio in Soho.

Wojtek Doroszuk

In his humorous videos, Wojtek Doroszuk sarcastically comments on societal behavior. As an acute observer of social relations, his work deals with elements still considered taboo in society, such as transgender operations, the theatricality of death, and the exploitation of illegal workers. Weighty themes are rendered in a casual way, with Doroszuk acting like a passer-by, or a mere spectator blandly observing the situations around him, as if he could be left unaffected by the huge impact of these major transformative experiences. Special Features–which are the artist’s commentaries on some of his original projects–shows three different situations: Polish citizens collecting raspberries in a farm in Norway, a Turkish transgender man telling the story of changing his gender identity, and Polish employees working for a Turkish boss in Germany. In each of these narratives, there is an element of surprise–something that was expected to happen but somehow gets contradicted or denied. A great dream goes sour, a bad rumor gets buffered.

In Dissection Theatre, a woman lies in a morgue table being dressed and beautified for her burial. The careless and mundane attitute of the workers attending her corpse, contrasts with the sacredness of the situation. This mechanical act is indeed the funereal image of her last deadly appearance.

Alexandra Mota de Aguiar
Alexandra Mota de Aguiar works mainly with drawing remaining close to the expressive mechanisms explored among others by Phillip Guston and Francis Bacon. Using oil pastel, charcoal, graphite, and gouache, she approaches the creative process culminates in a wide range of hybrid organic forms. Part anthropomorphic and part just abstract marks in space, her figures carry strong gestural traces generating ambiguous narratives. These organic enigmatic forms occasionally even suggest erotic actions. Completely immersed in the process of image-making, Aguiar creates works that are in-between abstraction and figuration, alternately whimsical and poetic—and often humorous.

Yes, But… is a kaleidoscopic portrait of a group of international artists working in dramatically different practices but somehow all expressing the contradictions of contemporary daily life–its fragmented experiences, the desire to transgress the norm, the disappointment with stratified rules—and, ultimately, the bewilderment with the possibility of transformation.

After all, Yes, life is short, But…not necessarily small.

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QUIETLY

Curated by Stephan Stoyanov
Luxe Gallery
53 Stanton Street
New York, NY 10002
212 582-4425
January 7 – February 15, 2009
Opening Reception: January 7, 2009, 7-9 pm

Luxe Gallery is proud to present Quietly, a group exhibition with the following artists:
Phil Argent, Amanda Church, Claire Corey, Geka Heinke, Rita MacDonald, Paul Henry Ramirez, Stefan Saffer

Quietly is a group exhibition presenting seven contemporary international artists whose eclectic practices reflect the dynamic visual perspective of the computer age. From digital painting, hybrid painting, non-painting, and beyond, this exhibition is an experimental exercise in synthesizing the myriad possibilities and challenges that arise from the dissolution of boundaries within the traditional medium of abstract painting. Using vastly layered patterns, morphed imagery, billboard signage, graffiti, and contemporary design these artists offer the opportunity to visually and mentally travel within complex virtual worlds.

For more information, please contact Stephan Stoyanov (stephan@luxegallery.net) or Megan Skidmore (galleryluxe@gmail.com).

Attached Image: Phil Argent, Untitled (Vacant Angle), 2007, 28″ x 42″ Acrylic on Canvas
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Stephan Stoyanov
Luxe Gallery
53 Stanton Street
New York
NY 10002

t. 212 582 4425
www.luxegallery.net

Go to to gallery webpage >>

A satirist from Berlin. . .
. . . a metaverse scholar from Tokyo. . .
. . . and an artist from New York. . .
. . . create joint work – without meeting in person

Can three complete strangers – from different continents, cultures and creative disciplines – collaborate from afar to create a forceful artistic statement about a political event?
Obamabot Vs. McCainbot in Metaverse

They can. They have. Location One presents “Mission Accomplished,” a virtual-residency collaboration of Hidenori Watanave, Susanne Berkenheger, and Andy Deck. Their work, prepared without ever meeting face-to-face, uses Google Earth, Second Life, wikis and blog technologies – not to mention old-fashioned hand-printed Agitprop posters – to address the forthcoming U.S. Presidential election.

“Mission Accomplished” will be on view at Location One’s project gallery, September 10 to November 15, 2008. The opening is 6 to 8 p.m. September 10. Virtual audiences will be able to view and participate in the work at http://location1.org/missionaccomplished.

“The tools of tele-collaboration have become incredible rich and powerful in the ten years of our existence,” said Location One executive director Claire Montgomery. “We were founded on the themes of collaboration, technological experimentation and social consciousness. When we found that three talents this interesting were willing to take on the elections together, how could we resist? You have to see what they did.”

Susanne Berkenheger (Berlin) is an author and journalist, who writes for “SPAM”, the satirical section of German magazine Der Spiegel. She has been involved in projects in Second Life and “Chat Theatre”.
http://spiegel.de/spam
http://www.berkenheger.de/index_english.html

Hidenori Watanave (Tokyo) is Associate Professor at Tokyo Metropolitan University, and is researching 3Di (Second Life) and 3DGIS (Google Earth). He is interested in collaborative work in the realms of Architecture and Environmental Design in tele-existence and the metaverse.
http://mapping.jp/archi/cat18/
http://mapping.jp/index_en.html

Andy Deck (NYC) is an artist specializing in Internet media. His work addresses the politics and aesthetics of collaboration, interactivity, software, and independent media. Deck combines code, text, sound, and image, demonstrating new patterns of participation and control that distinguish online presence and representation from previous artistic practices.
http://andydeck.com
http://artcontext.org

The three artists all speak English, and all are fluent in Internet media. They were given no restrictions other than not meeting in person, and no directions other than the topic of the forthcoming Presidential election. Heather Wagner, director of online exhibitions, coordinated the project for Location One.
Mission Accomplished?
“The works in this virtual residency demonstrate ways in which presence and participation can be abstract and conceptual. From different points of view, they represent how Internet media and tele-presence have expanded the scope of the 2008 U.S. presidential election to global proportions.” – Andy Deck

OPENING RECEPTION: Thursday, September 10, 2008 6–8PM
(open to the public)

EXHIBITION DATES: September 10–November 15, 2008
HOURS: Tuesday-Saturday 12–6PM

About Location One:
Location One (http://location1.org) is a not-for-profit art center devoted to fostering new forms of creative expression and cultural exchange, and expanding the capabilities of our artists. We invite artists from different countries, working in a variety of mediums, to experiment with diverse means of expression/technology and engage with audiences through exhibitions and public programs.

Benji Okuda instructing a life drawing class, an adult night school group at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Heart Mountain, Wyoming. Image courtesy of the National Archives, Records of the War Relocation Authority, 1941-1947.

June 16, 2008

New Museum

Night School: Public Seminar 6

Space within space within space /
Things to do while you’re alive /
Keywords School
Hu Fang, Zhang Wei & Xu Tan
June 19th – 21st, 2008

235 Bowery
New York, NY 10002
212.219.1222

http://www.newmuseum.org

Night School is an artist’s project by Anton Vidokle in the form of a temporary school. A yearlong program of monthly seminars and workshops, Night School draws upon a group of local and international artists, writers, and theorists to conceptualize and conduct the program.

Thursday June 19th, 7:30PM
Space within space within space

Vitamin Creative Space functions as an alternative working model specifically geared to the contemporary Chinese context. In order to operate independently from institutionalized funding, it is active both as an “independent” art space and as a “commercial” gallery. Vitamin Creative Space is actively challenging preconceptions by merging these two models, which traditionally are opposed strategies for supporting and presenting contemporary art, and is developing new Chinese contributions through research into both: the artistic practice and institutional organization within the new global context.

The seminar will look at the recent practice of Vitamin to explore how it is not merely a physical space, but is an attempt to create a new model for development and distribution of artist’s new thinking on creativity.

Friday, June 20th, 7:30 PM
Things to do while you’re alive

Accompanied by a slide show of Hu Fang’s recent pictorial collection of adverts, signs, photos from the realm of public media, Hu Fang and Zhang Wei will spontaneously generate a narration of a “life journey” and spatial transformations, outlining global surroundings we are living in and how there can be a possibility of the space for the artistic view of life: a view which proposes an alternative way of transforming reality.

Saturday, June 21st, 3 PM
Keywords School

The “Searching for Keywords” project was initialled from a series of interviews of active people in the Chinese society or people in the active Chinese area. By analyzing the content of these conversations, artist Xu Tan identified certain “keywords,” terms which shed light on values and motivations of contemporary Chinese society. “Keywords” measure the pulse of the current social climate and present an insight into the collective social consciousness of China. “Keywords” looks at connections between the individual speakers, words and the mental tendencies of the society.

In this seminar, Zhang Wei and Hu Fang will invite Xu Tan to discuss his Keywords project and introduce the idea of opening a “Keywords School,” as well as his conceptual approach, method and the larger social landscape made visible by the Keywords – a landscape of “collective consciousness” which actually frames our daily process.

Zhang Wei is director and co-founder of Vitamin Creative Space http://www.vitamincreativespace.com established in 2002, an independent art initiative exploring an alternative working mode, specifically geared to the contemporary Chinese context. Lives and works in Guangzhou and Beijing.She graduated with a MA in Creative Curating at Goldsmiths University in London, and has organized numerous exhibitions internationally. She has contributed to numerous exhibition catalogues and international magazines including Parkett, and curated(co-curated) and organized the show inside and outside Vitamin Creative Space include “Sprout from White Nights”(Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, 2008), “Through Popular Expression” at the Singapore Biennial (2006),ect. Zhang Wei is particularly interested in the exploration of the unique contribution from Chinese context within the international contemporary scenes, through which people can be inspired to find the new entry into life.

Hu Fang is an author and co-founder of Vitamin Creative Space. Lives and works in Guangzhou and Beijing.As a novelist and writer, Hu has published a series of novels including Shopping Utopia, Sense Training: Theory and Practise, and A Spectator. His recent publication is a collection of fictional essays called New Arcades (Survival Club, Sensation Fair, and Shansui.) His writing has appeared in Chinese and international art/culture magazines since 1996. His curatorial practices are widely engaged in different situations within Chinese and international contexts, he is coordinating editor of documenta 12 magazines, link curator of Singapore Biennial 2006 and a “player” of Lyon Biennial 2007, as well as the member of the curatorial team of Yokohama Triennale 2008.

Xu Tan was born in Wuhan, Hubei Province in 1957 and currently lives in Shanghai and Guangzhou. In the early 1990s he joined the “Big Tail Elephant Group” in Guangzhou with Lin Yinlin, Chen Shaoxiong and Liang Juhui. The aim of this group is to develop critical strategies for negotiating the rapidly changing economic and cultural life in China. His work has been shown around the world including the P.S.1, Biennale di Venezia, Berlin Biennial, Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art in Brisbane, Australia, Guangzhou Triennial, Taipei Biennial, De Appel in Amsterdam. Recent solo shows were held at the DAAD Gallery in Berlin, at the Vitamin Creative Space in Guangzhou, at BizArt is Shanghai.

All events are free with Museum admission but tickets are required. Tickets can be reserved online or at the Museum one week before the seminar’s start; a limited number of tickets will be available one hour before each event’s start. Tickets are limited, distributed on a first-come-first-serve basis, and must be collected prior to the event’s start time. Unclaimed tickets will be released promptly at the event’s start time. Please check individual events below for tickets and more information.

For tickets see http://www.newmuseum.org/events

Night School is part of the Museum as Hub, which is made possible by the Third Millennium Foundation.

With additional generous support from the Metlife Foundation

Additional support is provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and the New York State Council on the Arts.

Endowment support is provided by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Skadden, Arps Education Programs Fund and the William Randolph Hearst Endowed Fund for Education Programs at the New Museum.

Generous support also provided by the Charlotte and Bill Ford Artist Talks Fund.

Location One Virtual Residency Project

Mission Accomplished, September 10, 2008
The Virtual Residency Project’s first exhibition will open on September 10, with 3 collaborative works by Susanne Berkenheger, Andy Deck, and Hidenori Watanave. What started as an odd experiment in artist residencies results in our first Virtual Residency Project exhibition. more >>

Thank you to all the applicants, we had a wonderful range of submissions and have selected the three Virtual “Residents” for 2008. They will collaborate on a project to be shown at Location One in November 2008. Viewers will be able to watch the progress of this collaboration on a special blog: Virtual Residency Blog

2008 Virtual Residents

Susanne Berkenheger (Berlin)
Author and journalist, writer for “SPAM”, the satirical section of German magazine Der Spiegel. http://spiegel.de/spam. Susanne Berkenheger has been involved in projects in Second Life and “Chat Theatre”.
www.berkenheger.de/index_english.html
www.movement-for-account-corpses.de
www.thebubblebath.de
www.worldwatchers.de

Hidenori Watanave (Tokyo)
Hidenori Watanave is Associate professor at Tokyo Metropolitan University, and is researching 3Di (ex:Second Life) and 3DGIS (ex:Google Earth). He is interested in collaborative work in the realms of Architecture and Environmental design in tele-existence and the metaverse.
http://mapping.jp/archi/cat18/
http://mapping.jp/index_en.html

Andy Deck (NYC)
Andy Deck is an artist specializing in Internet media. His work addresses the politics and aesthetics of collaboration, interactivity, software, and independent media. Deck combines code, text, sound, and image, demonstrating new patterns of participation and control that distinguish online presence and representation from previous artistic practices.
http://andydeck.com
http://artcontext.net/

Call for Participation
Submissions Deadline: May 15, 2008
Dates of Residency: June 1-November 4, 2008

Invitation
Location One presents its first ever “Virtual Residency Project” in the form of a call to artists and other creative individuals with the express purpose of fostering collaboration and creativity across geographical expanses and areas of expertise around the topic of the 2008 US Presidential Election. The goal of this residency is to find 3 participants who are not necessarily physically proximate but who are willing to collaborate with other artists, engineers, scientists, writers, musicians, poets, and activists to develop a project using such non-F2F (face to face) interfaces such as webcams, email, chat, video, blogs, Second Life, MIDI, skype, walkie-talkie, snail mail, radio or POTS (plain old telephone service), tin cans on string, or any other means of collaboration to develop a project that will be presented at Location One in the fall of 2008, in advance of the US Presidential election.

Though we will consider international residents, the theme of this inaugural residency is the 2008 Presidential Election and the buildup around this pivotal political event. The theme can be interpreted as broadly or as literally as the participants would like, the project will be developed collaboratively by the 3 individuals chosen for this residency project.

Location One will provide an area on its website where the project can develop publically through blogging, video, audio or other means.

Acceptable forms of Submission:
Please send CV, url or any materials to virtualresidency@location1.org by midnight May 15, 2008. Please include a few lines describing why you are interested in a collaborative virtual residency.

What kind of work should it be?
The project will be developed wholly by the participants. Location One can provide curatorial and technical assistance, but the final work will be created “offsite” or online. Online performance, remote music jam, streaming video, blogs, flash animations, radio transmissions, podcasts, Second Life theatre, iChat panel discussions, remote-controlled MIDI robot kittens acting out the debates are all examples of acceptable forms that the project may take. We are leaving the parameters intentionally broad in the hopes that it will elicit deeply creative responses to this topic.

AON ÁIT ANSEO/ANYWHERE HERE
work that can be made anywhere as long as it’s here

Dingle/An Daingean, October 29th- November 2nd, 2007

Three invited artists, Sarah Browne, Ben Geoghegan and Katie Holten whose practice reflect ‘interlocalism’ will gather for this inaugural event in Dingle/An Daingean to discuss, debate and test their practice.

Initiated by artist Andrew Duggan, The Courthouse Studios Project in collaboration with Visual Artists Ireland will facilitate the inaugural visual art gathering in Dingle/An Daingean, Kerry, Ireland.

Interviewee #2. “I think nowadays that all artists are international. We all communicate, because of technology – internationally. But maybe a new situation is called for; and maybe what is needed is to look at how an artist is inter-local, in that the local is what becomes important.”
- from The Interview 2006, http://www.location1.org/andrew-duggan/

AON ÁIT ANSEO/ANYWHERE HERE will look at how visual artists transfer methods and practices from place to place (anywhere) yet pay attention to the micro (here).

An added bonus is the involvement of local artists Caoimhghín Ó Fraithile and Darryl O’ Curnain. The mix of ‘international’, ‘local’ and ‘interlocal’ artists is sure to resonate and strike a chord with those interested in current artists practice and globalization.

The gathering will be informal, timetables flexible. Images, texts etc will appear on a internet site and a chaired discussion will be available as a podcast.

This is the first installment of AON ÁIT ANSEO/ANYWHERE HERE. It is anticipated that this gathering will become an annual event.

The Courthouse Studio Project is supported by the Kerry County Council.

For further information contact:

Andrew Duggan
The Courthouse Studios Project
Dingle/An Daingean
Kerry

http://www.andrewduggan.org

Visual Artists Ireland
37 North Great George’s St
Dublin 1
Ireland
T. +353(0)1 8722296
F. +353(0)1 8722364
W. www.visualartists.ie

…and we’re back!
The 1493.456 × 1023rd dorkbot-nyc meeting will take place on Wednesday, September 5th, 2007, at 7pm at Location One in SoHo. Please bring snacks to share. It’s a special pre-Conflux Festival preview!

Members of the Conflux 2007 curatorial team will introduce this year’s Conflux, highlighting several key projects and covering the schedule of events.

Featuring the sun-kissed and downy:

	Christian Croft & Kate Hartman: Energy Harvesting Dérive The Energy Harvesting Dérive combines new modes of pedestrian movement with alternative energy research goals. The project hacks the recently popular Heelys roller sneaker to transform it into a platform for generating electricity from human motion. Electricity harvested from rolling powers electronics on the shoes that deliver random directions for pedestrians to follow. http://xncroft.com/projects/energyshoes.html
	Mouna Andraos: Sustainable practices in electronic art and design A few case studies and lots of questions. I will present a series of electronic objects/projects i have recently been working on, from electronic crafts to alternative power sources. http://www.missmoun.com http://www.electroniccrafts.org
	Michael J. Dory: Concrete Crickets Graffiti is one of the most powerful and most personal displays in the urban experience, and can be used to make statements, tag territory, spread messages — urban markup language in practice. However, the output is nearly always visual in nature, making this experience one-dimensional. Furthermore, rarely does the work have a brain of its own, and is usually incapable of reacting to anybody observing it. Concrete Crickets was created to address this deficit, creating small devices that will be aware of passers-by as well as other units of their kind. Each unit consists of a sound generator, amp, speaker and sensory system, and is housed in camouflage appropriate to the streets of the city — soda cans, cigarette packs, and the like. http://www.confluxfestival.org/conflux2007/concrete-crickets-2

SELECTED PAST EXHIBITIONS:

Na Yingyu: Our Homeland! Gone Just Like That

7 March – 6 May 2012
Curated by Jay Brown
Shot in the highland villages of the Jade Dragon Naxi Autonomous
Prefecture of Lijiang, Yunnan, China in 2006 and 2007, this composite of video, sound,
and still images chronicles the encounters of the Manchurian video artist Na Yingyu among the Naxi
people in the sandy pines at the foothills of the Himalaya. This area of the world hosts a richness
of land, family, music, ritual and the natural beauty that someone in the video describes as
“home”. The massive new video installation, consisting of of 59 video “chapters” is arranged as
constellations in a starry night sky.

Project Gallery Events / Exhibitions>>

One And Many

11 January – 15 February 2012
Location One is proud to present One and Many, a group show featuring works by Monica Baptista, Jacob Dahl Jürgensen, Atsushi Kaga, Agnieszka Kurant, David Molander, and Hiraku Suzuki. These artists engage a variety of mediums, from digital film and photography to the traditional art of sewing, transforming one piece into many as they channel possible meta-narratives in their work.

Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen: Afghan Hound

29 October – 23 December 2011
Through photographs. sculpture, video, song, costume and performance, Cuenca explores the fragile structure of political hegemony and patriarchal domination. Her premise: When sexuality is repressed, new constructions of gender develop.The title refers both to the long-haired dog breed (the artist uses hair in extreme exaggeration throughout the work) and to Afghanistan (the male-dominated culture from which her characters are drawn).

Sounds Good

15 June – 29 July 2011
Curated by Claudia Calirman
Sounds Good, features visual responses to a collaborative sound piece by artists John Aslanidis, Katy Dove, Phoebe Hui, Sophie Hunter, Miler Lagos, John O’Connell, Gonzalo Puch, and Zane Saunders. The pieces relate to movement, rhythm, vibration, energy, and the expanding visual field.

John O’Connell: Like a Shark in the Grass

14 April – 27 May 2011

The gallery space is transformed with floor-to-ceiling cardboard tubes, a large hand-painted mural, a series of drawings, and a huge papier-mâché structure, creating the sense of a forest that the viewer is invited to explore. This imaginary landscape—in which bizarre and unfamiliar narratives seem to unfold before the viewer’s eyes—is loosely inspired by an earlier drawing by O’Connell, Like a Shark in the Grass (2009), which depicts a ghostly white shark uncannily drifting inside a forest.

Davide Balliano: Giving My Back To The Night I Heard You Lying To A Giant
First Giant

10 February – 19 March 2011

In the exhibition “Giving My Back to the Night I Heard You Lying to a Giant (First Giant)” Davide Balliano uses the myth of Ulysses blinding the Cyclops Polyphemus as a starting point for his representation of the five phases of sleep which he calls the “ancestral fight against the obscure void that blinds us every night”.

Sharon Stone in Abuja
Co-Curated by Zina Saro-Wiwa and James Lindon

5 November 2010 – 22 January 2011

Location One is proud to present SHARON STONE IN ABUJA an exhibition conceived by Zina Saro-Wiwa, British-Nigerian film-maker and founder of AfricaLab, an organisation dedicated to re-imagining Africa. Includes work by Saro-Wiwa, Pieter Hugo, Wangechi Mutu, Mickalene Thomas, and Andrew Esiebo.

Rachel, Peter, Caitlin, John
A Project by Lucy Skaer

16 September – 16 October, 2010
Experimental new work from acclaimed Turner Prize finalist.
Location One is proud to present important new work in 16mm film and sculpture from Lucy Skaer, the young Scottish artist shortlisted for the 2009 Turner Prize and recently featured at the Venice Biennale and the Berlin Biennial
Artist Talk: Friday, Sept 24, 2010, 7pm
with Chrissie Iles, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator, Whitney Museum

Adel Abidin: I’m Sorry

20 May – 31 July 2010
The piece that gives the exhibition its title-a light box including a sound installation- comes from his experience as an Iraqi traveling in the U.S. In one of his trips, Abidin encountered people from diverse social backgrounds. Yet, surprisingly, every time he mentioned his nationality, the answer was invariably the same: I’m Sorry. Of course, this reply comes as a double entendre: Are people sorry for themselves, for feeling guilty for the infringements imposed by the U.S. on Iraq during the war, or are they sorry for the artist’s fate of being born in such place? The shift of position between audience and self is constantly present in his work.

Joan Jonas:

Drawing/Performance/Video

20 March – 8 May 2010
Drawing is an underlying practice and ongoing concern that Jonas has pursued
throughout her life. All of Jonas’s performance drawings retain a working relationship to her individual video and installation projects. For Jonas, drawings can be lasting and autonomous objects or they may be ephemeral and destroyed during a performance.

Yes, But…

14 Jan – 6 Mar 2010
Yes, But…explores works that dwell in the borderline between real and fictional, process-based and result-oriented, temporal and permanent, literal and metaphorical, orderly and undisciplined. Within the fabric of these works lies an array of artistic choices that emphasize contradictions and ambiguities, playing games upon the viewer at every turn.

Richard Bell: I Am Not Sorry

8 Oct – 25 Nov 2009

Brisbane-based Richard Bell is one of Australia’s most talked-about artists. Bell’s works address–and protest–the commodification of indigeneity in the western art market. They draw attention to frustrations and grievances brought about through the European colonization of Australia. His paintings play with the practice of appropriation, often mining the Pop Art styles of Roy Lichtenstein and Jasper Johns, the paint drips of Jackson Pollock, or the dot matrix style of Aboriginal painter Emily Kngwarreye while including texts that complicate the way we think about racism and race politics.

Virtual Residency 2.0: Levels of Undo

9 Sept – 30 Oct 2009
Location One Virtual Residency Project 2.0: “Levels of Undo” Four artists from 4 different cities, who have never met–and were forbidden to do so during the three months of their “residency”–collaborate on a topic that they had no say in developing. Is this ethical? Are the parameters unnecessarily rigid? Were they able to produce anything worthwhile under such oddly stringent rules?

Conrad Shawcross: Control

20 May – 1 Aug 2009

Extended! 9-26 Sept 2009

Shawcross is known for his multi-media, kinetic sculptures and mysterious structures that are imbued with an appearance of scientific rationality yet beneath the surface are also haunted by the search for the unobtainable and inexpressible. In this new work the artist continues the series of investigations that started with Slow Arc Inside a Cube (2008), which was initially inspired by the late British chemist Dorothy Hodgkin, who said deciphering the structure of pig insulin ‘was like trying to work out the structure of a tree from seeing only its shadow’.

Nicolas Grospierre & Kaeko Mizukoshi: Safe and Hymn.

28 Apr – 9 May 2009
Location One is pleased to present the first of its summer 2009 International Residency Program Exhibitions featuring the work of two outstanding emerging artists, Nicolas Grospierre (Poland) and Kaeko Mizukoshi (Japan). Artist Grospierre will present a photographic installation exploring the intricacies of NYC bank vaults, well timed in light of the global financial crisis. Artist Mizukoshi presents a video installation ste at a Los Angeles bus stop and focused on the dialog between a man, who rants indecipherably, and an awaiting passenger who responds with unrelated religious exclamations.

Laurie Anderson: From the Air: Two Installations

5 March – 2 May 2009
Fostered by the experimental art scene of downtown New York in the early 1970s, Laurie Anderson created her earliest performances in Soho, where Location One is based. In addition to continuing her acclaimed performance work, she has gone on to broaden her artistic practice to include music, video, digital art, and sculpture. Her Location One installation features a duet of video and sound.Location One will organize its inaugural Benefit Gala in celebration of its 10th Anniversary on Thursday, March 5, 2009. Honoring Laurie Anderson and her contributions to the downtown New York art world and beyond, the gala will feature a preview of the exhibition and a special performance that the artist will reveal.

Nayland Blake: Behavior

2 Dec 2008 – 14 Feb 2009
With a surprising dearth of bunnies, Nayland Blake’s: Behavior, a 25-year survey of the renowned artist’s work, will feature some thirty pieces from every aspect of Blake’s career as a painter, sculptor, illustrator, performer, and gorgeinstallation artist. They include the iconic Magic (1991), Heavenly Bunny Suit (1994), a restraint piece, Jim (2000), as well as a generous selection of works never before exhibited in NYC. Nayland Blake: Behavior will be accompanied by a magiccatalogue, as well as by a series of artist-curated performance nights, one of which will include a re-staging of Blake’s “Gorge” (1998).

Catalog availiable.

Jane Philbrick: PULL

10 Sept – 8 Nov 2008PULL confronts an America seemingly crippled by fear and uncertainty. Developed in collaboration with 18 engineers from Honeywell’s Fire Systems Group, PULL urges viewers to realize their hidden desire to sound the alarm, here in the form of an historic fire call box situated in the center of the gallery space. Once triggered, the work blossomsinto a flourish of lights, words and deafening sirens–a wake up call. Philbrick utilizes 502 fire alarms, strobes, smoke detectors, siren horns, control panels–and one customized vintage fire pull station to sound the alarm and remind us to question our notions of security and it’s sources.

Virtual Residency Project: Mission Accomplished

10 Sept – 8 Nov 2008
Can three complete strangers – from different continents, cultures and creative disciplines – collaborate from afar to create a forceful artistic statement about a political event? They can, they have! Their work, prepared without ever meeting face-to-face, uses Google Earth, Second Life, wikis and blog technologies – not to mention old-fashioned hand-printed Agitprop posters – to address the forthcoming U.S. Presidential election. The three artists all speak English, and all are fluent in Internet media. They were given no restrictions other than not meeting in person, and no directions other than the topic of the forthcoming Presidential election. Heather Wagner, director of online exhibitions, coordinated the project for Location One.Mission Accomplished?The chosen three:  Susanne Berkenheger (Berlin), Andy Deck(NYC), and Hidenori Watanave (Tokyo)

Jean Shin: And We Move

19 Jun – 26 Jul 2008
Conceived as a site-specific installation, And we move continues Jean Shin’s investigation into the nature of music and its production. The installation utilizes the display of clothing, a video projection on fabric, unwound audio tape, embroidery, and compositional scores on prints, to explore how music is visualized and expressed through movement of the body, and how sound can be imprinted onto a surface.

Aoife Collins: Wet Eye

24 Apr – 14 Jun 2008Aoife’s interdisciplinary practice is shaped by recurrent themes of permutation, multiplicity, cultural paraphernalia and mass identification. She utilizes collage, found object and the reinterpretation of prefabricated forms to communicate new ideas and the mutability of image over context.

Nina Sobell: Internal Message Search

18 – 26 Apr 2008Nina Sobell pioneered the use of video, computers, and interactivity in art, as well as performance on the Web. Since 1969, when she first used video to document participants’ undirected interactions with her sculptures, she investigates the extent to which video enables her to manipulate the relation between time and space, and to create a vortex for human experience, in which the mediated event coincides with public experience, memory, and relationships.

Tracey Moffatt: Social Edit

26 Feb – 19 Apr 2008
Curated by Eric C. Shiner
Moffatt’s narrative films offer the viewer a penetrative gaze into the realities and implicit fantasies that subjugation based on race and gender churns out. In her dual role as cultural critic and maker of art, Moffatt combines hard-edged life experiences with the technologies of video and photography to seam together pastiche-like vignettes that open a window onto the lives of her characters, whether that be an Australian aborigine or an African-American woman.

Xu Tan: Searching for Keywords

28 Nov 2007 – 9 Feb 2008
Xu Tan’s work deals with the hidden motivations and intentions of individuals through a high-tech analysis of their vocabulary. “Searching with Keywords” is the New York leg of an ongoing project which the artist launched in 2005. The project will be unfolding simultaneously in Beijing, China, in Sittard, Holland, and in New York, through a website created specifically for this happening. Gallery audiences in New York will be invited to interact with the keywords, which are presented by means of four video projections and four computer stations equipped with laptops, video cameras, and Internet connections. The goal is to have gallery visitors pronounce the keywords as illustrated in drawings and video clips, to ask questions of the artist thorough an on-line forum and message board, and to leave comments. Their reactions and input will be immediately transmitted through the website to the other venues where the installation is present.

Lida Abdul: What We Saw Upon Awakening

4 Oct – 17 Nov 2007
Location One presents the first New York exhibition by Afghan artist Lida Abdul whose work is rooted in the devastation of war and in a sublimation of healing. In her videos, Afghani ruins appear as images from a dreamscape-both real and surreal-steeped in forgotten histories and mystery.

Nora Ligorano and Marshall Reese: Crater New York: A Lunar Drawing Contest

6 – 26 Sept 2007
On September 26th, Location One was proud to give away three deeds to land on the moon. All you had to do to enter the contest and vie for a chance to own extra-planetary property was show up, draw an image of a moon model that had been installed in the gallery, and then hope the judges liked it! Next stop, NASA – to purchase a de-comissioned space shuttle of course!

IRP Exhibition: Summer 2007

June 2 – July 28, 2007
Location One presents the second IRP group show of the 2006-2007 season, featuring new work developed by our resident artists. The exhibition represents a diverse range of artistic approaches and many are works in progress.Featuring:Jeanette Doyle (Ireland), Cliff Evans (USA), Krist Gruijthuijsen (The Netherlands), Ruey-Hsiaan Hsu (Taiwan, Miguel Palma (Portugal), Bundith Phunsombatlert (Thailand), Jani Ruscica (Finland), and Eric Van Hove (Belgium).

Martha Rosler: Virtual Minefield

13 Apr – 25 May 2007
Location One is pleased to present Virtual Minefield, an installation by Martha Rosler which features two elements: a burlesque of a minefield, as a reminder of current combat zones and as a metaphor of the world political situation, and a mockup of a “phrasealator”, a two-way speech-to-speech device developed by the Defense Department to provide a mechanical translation of set phrases in situations where personnel are unable to speak the local language.

Jeanette Doyle: StarLine Tours

13 Apr – 25 May 2007Location One is proud to present new work by the recipient of the 2006-07 Irish Fellowship award. Ms. Doyle’s practice is primarily concerned with picture making, specifically painting and its relationship to lens-based technologies. The artist manipulates the various media she employs in order to generate very particular effects, questioning the notion of representation and creating a metaphor of what we think we are seeing versus what we actually see or what is given to be seen.

IRP Exhibition: Winter 2007

13 Feb – 31 Mar 2007
Location One presents the first of two exhibitions showcasing new work developed by eight artists participating in the 2006-2007 International Residency Program. Featured works, some of which are exhibited as work-in-progress, represent a diverse range of artistic approaches.Featuring:Natalie Berwernitz & Marek Goldowski (Germany), Teresa Henriques (Portugal), Agnieszka Kalinowska (Poland), Nina Katchadourian (U.S.A.), Rie Kawakami (Japan), Alessandro Nassiri (Italy), Kaori Tazoe (Japan), and Virginie Yassef (France).

Lisa and Nicole Abahuni: In the Sky

21 Nov 2006 – 27 Jan 2007
In the Sky was a multimedia installation, commissioned by Location One, and developed into an exploration into the sharing of the senses and the interconnectedness between perception and sensation as experienced through visual, aural, and physical realms by populating the gallery with strands of metallic beads, a six-channel audio component and a video installation depicting repetitious images that speak to the weaving and unweaving of time and memory.

Artbots: The Robot Talent Show

10-12 Nov 2006
Curated by Douglas Irving Repetto.ArtBots was an international art exhibition for robotic art and art-making robots. Featuring artists Jason Van Anden, Brett Doar, Yoav Bergner and LoVid, Bob Huott & Eric Singer, Mark Esper, Ranjit Bhatnagar, James Powderly and Jonah Brucker-Cohen.

Cliff Evans: The Road to Mount Weather

14 Sep – 4 Nov 2006
Curated by Pieranna Cavalchini, curator of contemporary art, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
A grand, three-channel moving image installation/projection (15 minute loop) by Cliff Evans. “Mount Weather” is a personal artifice assembled from ideas and images found across the socio-environment of the Internet. Its form is reminiscent of historic epics as represented in cinema and in grand panoramic paintings, while also mimicking the ubiquitous technology used for website banner advertisements.Catalog is available.Sponsored by Location One and the Peter Norton Family Foundation.

Lukasz Skapski: Video and Photographic Works

11 Apr – 20 May 2006
Debut solo show in New York of Polish artist whose work concerns cultural and political issues common to many national groups: the emotional ambivalence of women and nursing mothers, people’s views of the environment in which they live, the legacy of Communist practices in farming communities, as well as the practice and tradition of film itself. In all his work, the artist demonstrates an uncanny ability for capturing people’s circumstances on film and video. Installation sponsored by Location One and the Trust for Mutual Understanding.

Carlos Amorales and Javier Viver: Manimal and The Audience

8 Mar – 1 Apr 2006Mexican artist Carlos Amorales and former artist-in-residence Javier Viver and exhibit video works “Manimal” and “The Audience.” “Manimal” (2005, 6 mins.) is a black and white video animation about the transformation of animal emotions into human rationality. “The Audience” (2005, video and theater chairs, 4.5 minutes) is a three-channel video installation based on El Grand Teatro del Mundo. Sponsored by Location One. Javier Viver’s installation was supported in part by Consulate General of Spain in New York.

Collaborative Exhibition: Slowscan Soundwave (III) and The Telaesthetic Finger

11 Oct – 26 Nov 2005Curated by Heather Wagner”Slowscan Soundwave (III)” was an immense, interactive sound sculpture by artist and dorkbot instigator Douglas Repetto, consisting of enormous strips of sound-sensitive transparent mylar strewn from the ceiling, motors, and custom electronics. “The Telæsthetic Finger”, a selection of works by Kevin Centanni, Atsushi Nishijima and Heather Wagner, function as acoustic crab traps, devices that are cast out and reeled back in, filled with booty…or not. Sponsored by Location One.

Creative Atelier: Open Stitch

7 Sep – 1 Oct 2005
Co-Curated by Claire Montgomery and Sebastien Sanz de Santamaria15 artists spent seven days at Location One working intensely and in restricted conditions to produce wearable creations with only the tools and materials provided to them. A cross between art and fashion, the project temporarily removed the gallery from the appointed function of “showing” and moved it to the world of artistic production, raising questions about the circumstances, both physical and mental, of the creative process. Participating artists: Ayah Bdeir, Jessie Cohan, Barry Doss, Stefany Anne Golberg, George Hudacko, Selma Karaca, Ryan Kennedy, Miranti Kisdarjono, Katherine Moriwaki, David Quinn, Chris Sanders, Davina Semo, and Wikiwikicorp, a collective that includes Jean Barberis, Aya Kakeda and Sebastien Sanz de Santamaria.Commissioned by Location One.

Chris Csikszentmihalyi: Skin & Control

22 Sep 2004 – 26 Feb 2005
Rising out of the gallery floor and disappearing into the walls, two large-scale installations by MIT artist Chris Csikszentmihalyi explores two central technologies of our late industrial society: the airplane and the control panel, rehearsing our dependence on complex technologies and the vulnerability they engender. “Skin” was an aluminum cylinder, the fuselage of a Boeing 737 that emerges from the gallery floor, stopped in the act of flying. “Control” was composed of panels, roughly modeled on those used in Chernobyl, that wend their way through the gallery.Catalogue is available.Commissioned by Location One.

Victoria Vesna: Nano Mandala

15 Dec 2004 – 29 Jan 2005
An installation by media artist Victoria Vesna, with nanoscience pioneer James Gimzewski. It consisted of a video projected onto a disk of sand, 8 feet in diameter. Visitors could touch the sand as images were projected in evolving scale from the molecular structure of a single grain of sand to the recognizable image of the complete mandala, and then back again. This coming together of art, science and technology is a modern interpretation of an ancient tradition that consecrates the planet and its inhabitants to bring about purification and healing. The sand mandala seen in this installation was created by Tibetan Buddhist monks from the Gaden Lhopa Khangtsen Monastery in India. Sound artist Anne Niemetz developed the soundscape derived from sounds recorded during the creative process of making the sand mandala.

Group Exhibition: Creative Intelligence

20 – 27 May 2004
New work from the MIT Visual Arts Program featuring work by Carrie Bodle, Ross Cisneros, Clementine Cummer, Lukasz Lysakowski, and Hiroharu Mori.

Muntadas: On Translation: On View

30 Mar – 15 May 2004
On View, a new work from the On Translation Series, conceived and shot in Japan, post-produced in New York at Location One, is about viewing, looking… waiting… as contemporary rituals. “On Translation”, a series of work begun in Helsinki in 1995, groups a set of thirty works reflecting on the concept of translation and interpretation from a perspective that encompasses cultural, linguistic, political and economic issues produced and presented in different contexts and mediums.

Claude Closky: Television

12 Sep – 30 Dec 2003
Curated by Nathalie Anglès
The first US solo installation by French artist Claude Closky. Television focused on the production of signs and systems that articulate the world in a society driven by consumerism. Television was a caricatured reflection of the web and television networks that questioned their rapid and continuous growth, regardless of the information they broadcast. Sponsored by Location One. This exhibition was made possible through the generous additional support of Étant donnés, The French-American Fund for Contemporary Art; Cultural Services of the French Embassy (US); and DICREAM-CNC, Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, France.

Gozo Yoshimasu: Poetic Spectrum: Images, Objects and Words of Gozo Yoshimasu

3-23 Sep 2003
The New York debut exhibition and special performance reading by renowned Japanese poet Gozo Yoshimasu, recent recipient of the Purple Ribbon Award from the Japanese Government for his significant cultural contributions. “Poetic Spectrum” presented Yoshimasu’s photographs and copperplate calligraphies for the first time to a New York audience, and brought the legendary poet to New York to perform after a ten-year absence. Sponsored by Location One with generous support from The Japan Foundation.

Saoirse Higgins & Simon Schiessl: Mechanism No. 1: War & The Doom_Machine

9 Jul – 2 Aug 2003
Two new interactive works by Saoirse Higgins and Simon Schiessl addressing our concerns and fears in the world as we embrace technology and its powers, both good and bad. “Mechanism No. 1″ is an interactive video projection examining the critical moments leading to war. “The Doom_Machine” takes a daily measure of how close we are to a possible end to the world via related sites on the Internet and a doom voting website.Sponsored by Location One.

Group Exhibition: Signal to Noise

10 Sep – 19 Oct 2002
Curated by Heather Wagner A group exhibition featuring works that explored the relationship of sound and light waves. Not merely illustrations of audio-visual synaesthesia, several of the pieces act literally as transducers, that is, devices that convert input energy of one form into output energy of another. Work exhibited by Atsushi Nishijima, Erwin Redl, Laurie Spiegel, and Heather Wagner.Sponsored by Location One.

Xu Tan: Qing Hua Porcelain (Blue & White)

29 May – 29 Jun 2002
Xu Tan’s debut solo exhibition in New York City. “Qing Hua Porcelain (Blue & White)” was a new video/sound installation in which Xu Tan explored the differences in American and Chinese cultural interpretations of what is “real” and what is “fake”. Although each culture distinguishes and classifies “real” from “fake”, neither clearly defines these terms.Commissioned by Location One.

François Bucher: White Balance (to think is to forget differences)

10 Jan-2 Mar 2002
“White Balance (to think is to forget differences)” by Columbian artist François Bucher, is a meditation after 9-11 and an effort to uncover the geographies of power, the frontiers of privilege. It revisits this problem from different angles, creating short circuits of meaning which are hosted by improbable audiovisual matches. Media and internet footage is intermixed with images shot in downtown Manhattan before and after the September 11th attacks.Underwritten by Location One.Additional funding was provided by The New York City Media Arts Grant of The Jerome Foundation.

Keith Sonnier: O2 = O3; Fractured Oxygen = Ozone

20 Sep – 28 Nov 2001
Exhibition by internationally celebrated artist Keith Sonnier comprised of six pieces that resulted from Sonnier’s investigations into the work of Nikola Tesla during the period 1990-1997.The Tesla series “captures” raw electricity in its most spectacular form by stringing copper wires and causing the current to flow and spark between them.Sponsored by Location One.

Inagural Exhibition: Life After the Squirrel

9 Sep-8 Oct 2000
Location One’s first exhibition featured many European and American artists including Janet Cardiff, Mason Cooley, Filipe Miguel, Aernout Mik, John Neff, Vincent Pruden, relax (Marie-Antoinette Chiarenza, Daniel Hauser, Daniel Croptier), Pipilotti Rist, Ugo Rondinone, Greg Simsic, Kirsten Stoltman, Tony Tasset and Pia Wergius. Sponsored by Location One with additional generous support by The Mondriaan Foundation.

Location One is happy to host exciting talks by renowned experts from many disciplines who reflect upon artistic and cultural themes that permeate our contemporary cultural landscape. Past speakers have included Martha Rosler, Chris Csikszentmihalyi, and Marcia Vetrocq. For a full list of our past Open House Wednesday talks, click here >>

We’ll reopen Open House Wednesday season with dorkbot NYC, starting Wednesday, September 3, at 7pm.

Open House Wednesdays

September 19, 2007: IMHO with Ligorano/Reese
Artists Nora Ligorano and Marshall Reese will discuss their current exhibition: Crater New York, A Lunar Drawing Contest as well as past and future artworks. 7pm, free admission.

September 5, 2007: dorkbot NYC
“People doing strange things with electricity” Members of the Conflux 2007 curatorial team will introduce this year’s Conflux, highlighting several key projects and covering the schedule of events.
Presenting: Christian Croft & Kate Hartman: Energy Harvesting Dérive

Mouna Andraos: Sustainable practices in electronic art and design

Michael J. Dory: Concrete Crickets

Recent Open House Wednesday events have included:

June 20, 2007 International Residents’ Exhibition 2006-2007 – CURATOR/ARTIST TALK more…

May 30 2007 *IMHO* with Heather Wagner in conversation with artist Tianna Kennedy more…

May 23 2007 Amanda McDonald Crowley, Executive Director of EYEBEAM more…

May 16 2007
SLART(TM) Art in Second Life: a presentation by Richard Minsky. more…

Location One is pleased to announce the opening of the installation StarLine Tours by resident artist Jeanette Doyle, on April 12th from 6 to 8 pm. The installation consists of video, audio (approximately 1h40mins.) and digital prints on watercolor paper, and will be on view in the Project Gallery through Friday May 25th.

Jeanette Doyle’s practice is primarily concerned with picture making. She is particularly interested in painting and its relationship to lens-based technologies. Her work is driven by conceptual concerns but is deeply engaged with the processes and mechanics of making, especially the production of images. Her works express a desire to crystalise complexity for a moment in an image which, on closer inspection, allows the fiction of coherence to dissolve. Disjunction between the image and text is a hint of this. This disjunction between word and image is a feature of the ‘StarLine Tours’ exhibition at Location One.

The video element was shot on a commercial celebrity-home tour through Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Bel Air and Rodeo Drive. The visual footage represents what is visible through the left-hand window of the tour-bus, often simply bushes, pavements, other vehicles and pedestrians but occasionally also the homes referenced in the soundtrack.

The soundtrack is provided by the bus-driver’s commentary as he describes the palatial homes, the ‘stars’ who live in them and other matters relating to property values and the career trajectories of the inhabitants. However the image of what is described although tantalizingly close is, in the main, denied to the viewer.

The accompanying digital prints are screens grabs from the video, some have had water applied to render them as watercolors, others project the gloss of the cinematic image. These prints are exhibited in a space where the same soundtrack as the video work is audible, further raising questions about the nature of representation, the relationship between different media and the choices made by an artist in the selection of particular images.

The artist manipulates the various media she employs in order to generate very particular effects, questioning the notion of representation and creating a metaphor of what we think we are seeing versus what we actually see or what is given to be seen.

Jeanette Doyle earned critical acclaim with her first post-graduate exhibition, winning the Overall Prize at ev+a ‘95, curated by Maria de Corral. Since then, her practice has concerned itself, often playfully, with the interrogation of a number of different disciplines and stances. Her work has been exhibited widely both in Ireland and abroad; including Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris; Museum of Modern Art, Croatia; Brisbane Institute of Modern Art; Australian Centre for Contemporary Art; the ICA and Studio Voltaire, London; Dublin City Gallery, the Hugh Lane and the Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork. Doyle has also held solo exhibitions at the Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art, Helsinki; Limerick City Gallery of Art; City Arts Centre, Dublin; Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast and Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin. In 2003 and 2005 she showed at Eurojet Futures at the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin.

In 2006, Jeanette received a First Class MA in Visual Arts Practices at the Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology (IADT). The work produced during this period was shown at an exhibition entitled ‘and then I place my face against the glass’ at Broadstone Gallery, Dublin; with a concurrent show ‘Portrayals’, at AXIS, Ballymun, a Breaking Ground 2 commission. In the past years she has been concentrating her practice on the painted image and its relationship to a variety of both lens based and digital technologies.

Upcoming shows include “SURGE”, 798 Art Festival, Beijing – which will then travel to Duolong Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai and Xiangning Art Museum in Shenzhen (Hong Kong), curated by The Artist’s Network, New York. Doyle will also exhibit at ‘EDGE’ Kochi Museum, Japan later this year.

Jeanette Doyle is the recipient of 2006/2007 Irish Fellowship at Location One.
This is supported by the Arts Council of Ireland and The Irish American Cultural Institute.

Further information about Jeanette Doyle’s practice is available at: www.jeanettedoyle.com

Location One presents the first of two exhibitions showcasing new work developed during their residencies by eight artists participating in the 2006-2007 International Residency Program. Featured works, some of which are exhibited as work-in-progress, represent a diverse range of artistic approaches:

Natalie Bewernitz & Marek Goldowski (Germany) – Unveiled Presence (secret sounds 2)
Natalie and Marek’s intermedial video and sound installations are a theoretical and practical attempt to map the possibilities and limits of depicting identity, individual personality and existence in its physical, spiritual and psychological dimensions. Mapping out these characteristics is achieved in the form of interactive and multi-channel installations that deal with the perception of space and sound, and are realized with computer-based self-generating sound creation in real time.

The conceptual premise for Natalie and Marek’s new work is Marcel Duchamp’s ready-made Bruit Secret (New York, 1916). The work contains an object in its center, and Duchamp never knew what it was. It only reveals its presene by shaking the work. With this in mind, Natalie and Marek have recorded secret sounds of the City, which constitute the backbone of this installation.

Bewernitz & Goldowski’s residency at Location One is supported by Schloss Balmoral, Stiftung Rheinland Pfalz für Kultur, and has received additional support from Staatskanzlei Nordrhein-Westfalen, and the Consulate General of Germany, New York

Teresa Henriques (Portugal) – Drawing in Space

Grasping the concept of “Perception” is the focus of Teresa’s body of work. Drawing, geometry, philosophy and optical phenomena are the parameters of her investigations. For this new work Teresa used the open-source animation software, Blender, which she acquired during her residency at Location One. The resulting 3D line drawing/object evolves out of the artist’s extensive research into drawing by women artists in the 20th and 21st centuries. As one walks around the work, two different view points reveal themselves to the spectatpr. This drawing in space becomes a sculpture in the space of the gallery, which in turn becomes an extension of the medium.

Henriques’ residency at Location One is supported by Gulbenkian Foundation and Luso American Foundation for Development.

Agnieszka Kalinowska (Poland) – Doormen

A film and photographic project realized by Agnieszka Kalinowska during her residency, the work features six doormen of different gender, age and faith who come together to narrate personal emotions and observations. Their conversation also touches on politics, ecology and women’s rights. Privy to the hidden worlds of elite Manhattanites, doormen are usually perceived as an invisible people from a different social class. By empowering them with speech, Kalinowska points to reevaluating one of New York’s more conventional practices. The slide presentation here at Location One constitutes a prologue to the film of the same title. Photographs of these “heroes” in their every day outfits alternate with portraits of their uniformed selves.

Kalinowska’s residency at Location One is supported by the Trust for Mutual Understanding and Ministry of Culture, Poland – Program Operacyjny “Promocja Polskiej Kultury Za Granica”, and the a-i-r Laboratory at the Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle

Nina Katchadourian (U.S.A.) – Zoo (2001-ongoing; a work in progress)

For the past five years Katchadourian has been videotaping extensively in zoos around the world for this project, gathering footage of animals with the goal of rendering them somewhat unplaceable, thus working against the common goal of zoos to project animals as approachable, understandable, and ultimately “like us.” She is also trying to work with the sound in a way that builds an aggregated audio environment, where sound from one monitor will sometimes match, invade, or even dominate, the image of another. The piece shown at Location One is a work-in-progress that reflects the first phase of the project developed during her residency.

Katchadourian’s residency at Location One is supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

Rie Kawakami (Japan) – Untitled

Of her work Kawakami says that it lies “in revealing the expression of mystery in life and its cycles. I am interested in the unique and aesthetic phenomenon that can be drawn from the nature of materials, both in physical and theoretical terms. My artistic practice is based on the attempt to develop new forms of life in sculpture, installation and interactive work.”

Trained in the tradition of iron and steel welding, this is Rie’s first animation piece. Combining images of Japanese Sumi ink and the Fude brush, the work is modulated by expressions of rhythm and the passage of time. A sense of intense concentration permeates the work as one witnesses the tension between the brush and ink leading to the appearance of the Sumi drawing.

Kawakami’s residency at Location One is supported by the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japan.

Alessandro Nassiri (Italy) – My private demonstration (a project for 10-20 people, their minds and some T-shirts)

“A demonstration is the display of the common opinion of a group of people. The opinion is demonstrated to be significant by gathering a crowd associated with that opinion. Demonstrations can be used to show a viewpoint (either positive or negative) regarding an issue…” (from wikipedia.org)

For the art video project My Private Demonstration, the artist asked some people to create a small and quick demonstration, to decide on the issue and to take part in it. A sentence was chosen to represent the issue, then transferred onto white T-shirts in red letters (one letter for each T-shirt). Participants came together on December 16th, and went out on the streets to demonstrate: their t-shirts read “coming soon.”

Nassiri’s residency at Location One is supported by Associazione Artegiovane, Fondi Anima, and Comune di Milano.

Kaori Tazoe (Japan)

This new work addresses Kaori’s long term interest in the investigation of the boundaries between reality and fiction and the pursuit of identifying what she calls a “special place,” where these boundaries meet. Surveillance cameras, works on paper and leathercrafted pieces are combined in an attempt to reach this place.

From 1995 to 2002, Kaori collaborated with artist/fashion designer Junko Ito in “Suit,” a series of conceptual art projects exploring the relationship between the individual and the collective mind, and the ways that the act of wearing a uniform affects both the individual and the group. In 2001, she co-founded Scratch Tile Art Space, one of the first alternative art spaces in Yokohama.

Tazoe’s residency at Location One is supported by the Asian Cultural Council.

Virginie Yassef (France) – Les Eparpillés / The Scattered

Virginie’s multi-faceted body of work reveals the poetry of everyday life and emphasizes the subtle gap between perception and reality. Strangeness and the supernatural surfaces when one least expects it. This sculpture continues in the same vein and belongs to a new series of objects referred to by the artist as Les Eparpilles. According to Virginie, these objects have regular shapes, are made of metallic scales, weigh several tons, and are loaded with supraconductive magnets. In appearance they are small metallic spheres, or dirty snowballs whose diameters measure one kilometer. The piece presented at Location One is made in aluminum foil, is attached to its base by a magnet, and produces cold air.

Yassef’s residency at Location One is supported by CulturesFrance and Ville de Paris.

The 28098th dorkbot-nyc meeting took place on Wednesday, February 7th, 2007, at 7pm.

It featured the fragrant and marvellous:

	free103point9: Transmission Arts Two of tonight’s presenters, 31 Down and Tianna Kennedy, are free103point9 “transmission artists”. Tom Roe and Galen Joseph-Hunter will give us a quick intro to free103point9: free103point9 is a non-profit arts organization focused on establishing and cultivating Transmission Arts. This genre includes experimental practices in radio art, video art, light sculpture, and installation and performance utilizing the electromagnetic spectrum. With locations in Upstate and Brooklyn, New York, free103point9 activities support and promote artists exploring transmission frequencies for creative expression. free103point9 programs include public performances and exhibitions, an experimental music series, an online radio station and distribution label, an education initiative, and an artist residency program and study center. http://www.free103point9.org
	31 Down: Pay-Phone Theater represented by Mirit Tal and Shannon Sindelar 31 Down is a theater company that uses radio and network technologies as the backbone for their storytelling in performances and installations. 31 Down has provided a TRIXBOX server (based on Asterisk) for free103point9: transmission arts. Transmission Artists with free103point9 now have access to an open source PBX for use in their artwork. Mirit Tal and Shannon Sindelar, of 31 Down, will introduce the use of this server in their upcoming theater projects, including the subway pay-phone mystery installation, Canal Street Station, opening this March. http://www.31down.org
	Brad Borevitz: The State of the Union Lamenting the triumph of iconicity over rhetoricity in political speech, Brad Borevitz created the State of the Union project to consider if evidence for this assertion exists in the language of the the yearly address which stands as a controlled sample over the course of U.S. history. The website provides searchable access to the corpus of all the State of the Union addresses from 1790 to 2007, and uses visualization software which allows a user to explore how specific words gain and lose prominence over time. State of the Union focuses on the relationship between individual addresses as compared to the entire collection of addresses, highlighting what is different about each document. From this information, users are invited to try and understand the connection between politics and language — between the state we are in, and the language which names it and calls it into being. http://www.onetwothree.net/
	Tianna Kennedy Tianna’s artistic endeavors are collaborative explorations of human/information interaction with an emphasis on the transmission of affect. Though her work often takes shape via sound recording, web-streaming, and radio technologies, her focus inevitably returns to the people involved in the process(es). For her presentation at dorkbot, Tianna will talk about the paradoxical role of nostalgia in the avant-garde of sound technology. Along the way she’ll touch on edison’s gramophone, Sir Oliver Lodge’s Etheric experiments, and her collaborator, Tarikh Korula’s own recent archaeoacoustic stylus, which is supposed to retrieve latent ambient historical sound trapped in objects at the moment of their production. http://www.free103point9.org/artist.php?artistID=10

Here’s a printable flyer for the meeting. Thanks, Joel.

Some images from the meeting! More images from Roberto.

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St. Patrick’s Day NY 2006-07

Jeanette Doyle earned critical acclaim with her first post-graduate
exhibition, winning the Overall Prize at ev+a ‘95, curated by Maria de
Corral. Since then, her practice has concerned itself, often playfully, with
the interrogation of a number of different disciplines and stances. Her work
has been exhibited widely both in Ireland and abroad; including Ecole
Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris; Museum of Modern Art, Croatia;
Brisbane Institute of Modern Art; Australian Centre for Contemporary Art; the
ICA and Studio Voltaire, London; Dublin City Gallery, the Hugh Lane and the
Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork. Doyle has also held solo exhibitions at
the Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art, Helsinki; Limerick City Gallery of
Art; City Arts Centre, Dublin; Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast and Temple Bar
Gallery, Dublin. In 2003 and 2005 she showed at Eurojet Futures at the Royal
Hibernian Academy, Dublin.

In 2006, Jeanette received a First Class MA in Visual Arts Practices at the
Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology (IADT). The work
produced during this period was shown at an exhibition entitled ‘and then I
place my face against the glass’ at Broadstone Gallery, Dublin; with a
concurrent show ‘Portrayals’, at AXIS, Ballymun, a Breaking Ground 2
commission. In the past years she has been concentrating her practice on the
painted image and its relationship to a variety of both lens based and
digital technologies.

Upcoming shows include “SURGE”, 798 Art Festival, Beijing – which will then
travel to Duolong Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai and Xiangning Art Museum in
Shenzhen (Hong Kong), curated by The Artist’s Network, New York. Doyle will
also exhibit at ‘EDGE’ Kochi Museum, Japan later this year.

Jeanette Doyle is the recipient of 2006/2007 Irish Fellowship at Location
One. This is supported by the Arts Council of Ireland and The Irish American
Cultural Institute.

Further information about Jeanette Doyle’s practice is available at: www.jeanettedoyle.com

Location One is pleased to present the first solo exhibition in the U.S. by Polish artist Lukasz Skapski. The exhibition opens on Tuesday April 11th and will run through Saturday May 20th. On Wednesday April 19th at 7pm the artist will participate in a gallery talk (see video) about the exhibition with Nathalie Anglès, Location One’s Director of the International Residency Program.

Skapski’s recent photographic and video work concerns cultural and political issues common to many national groups: the emotional ambivalence of women and nursing mothers, people’s views of the environment in which they live, the legacy of Communist practices in farming communities, as well as the practice and tradition of film itself. In all his work, the artist demonstrates an uncanny ability for capturing people’s circumstances on film and video. He listens; he seizes detail and human interaction; he brings out the absurd and the humorous in the situations that he records.

There are powerful emotions and surprising candor at work here, sometimes leavened by a humor that is at once accessible and distinctly Polish. Examining social customs and rituals reveals underlying attitudes inherent in the social fabric. Critical awareness is, as always, the linchpin of a free and healthy society.

Ten video works will be presented in this show, including some very short half- minute and one-minute videos with titles like The Wind, Brightness, Cold, which the artist describes as “funny and a bit taoistic tautological.”

A longer piece entitled Clash shows a series of interviews with women about the experience of pregnancy and maternity. In contrast with traditional social views, many of them reveal that they hate the experience.

Skapski is particularly interested in Polish society as it emerges from its difficult recent past. In the series Machines he uses both color photography and video to show home-made tractors put together by farmers who improvised as mechanics to fulfill the needs of their small private farms. These unusual and spectacular “monsters” illustrate the human capacity to pragmatically resist totalitarian oppression, and the accompanying video further underlines the pride and dignity of the human spirit.

Other videos include Cracow Guide in which the inhabitants of this famous medieval town comment about living in the standardized housing blocks that cover 90% of the city’s area. Explosions, is a baroque-minimalist film consisting of found footage from Hollywood films, while The Film is “a film about telling films, or rather, a film which is being told during the film.”

The show will also include several videos by the Azorro Group, an artist collaborative of which Skapski is a founding member, whose work centers on the paradoxes of the institutional circuit of art. They ask: what is contemporary art like? Where are artists and curators located? The questions are intentionally naïve and the sequences often amusing and absurd.

This exhibition is made possible, in part, by funds from the Trust for Mutual Understanding.

	k.cain and b.crabtree: almost certifiedalmost certified (grade A noise for non-discerning consumers) is a mechanical sound installation and informative publication. a distributed network of precarious egg-tapping robots. each unit, individually amplified, features a select unconventional egg. calculated sequences emerge, conducted by beautifully rendered software on a resurrected mainframe (a sweet mac LC3). “we seek and impart knowledge, addressing alarming practices and trends in the egg industry. by promoting social consciousness we can live better through decentralization.” http://nnnnnnnn.org/ac
	Chris Korda: Whorld open-source live video softwareWhorld is a free, open-source Windows program that offers a unique approach to creating live digital art. Whorld generates real-time animation, but unlike most visualizers, it’s designed for performing, and includes MIDI support and other features more commonly found in clip-based VJ programs. Whorld animates sacred geometry, and distorts it according to parameters that can be adjusted manually, or automated via programmable oscillators. The result is a mesmerizing, psychedelic composition of continuously transforming shapes. I’ll explain and demonstrate Whorld’s parameters, effects and capabilities, from basic patch editing to advanced stuff like auto-crossfading between patches and patch hybridization. You’ll learn how to make art out of geometry and oscillators, without consuming anything except a bit of electricity. Can tools encourage shared vision and community instead of detachment and alienation? Could Whorld rekindle popular interest in aesthetics, and contribute to a much-needed reconciliation between art and science? We’ll see.http://whorld.org
	the botmatrix: HeddatronFor the past year and a half The Botmatrix collaborated with The Les Freres Corbusier theater company on their latest play Heddatron: An adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s classic play Hedda Gabler complete with 5 robots. We will discuss our experiences collaborating, designing and building 5 robots for the three week theatrical run. Time permitting we will also discuss some of our other projects/events such as the annual Robot Parade! Expect lots of bot goodness. http://htron.botmatrix.com

Some images from the meeting:Handel Low’s imagesRoberto Tobar’s images

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by Victoria Vesna with nanoscience pioneer James Gimzewski

December 16th, 2004 – January 29th 2005

Opening: Wednesday, December 15, 2004, 6-8 pm
Exhibition: December 16, 2004 through January 29, 2005

To salute World Peace in this Holiday Season, Location One presents an installation by media artist Victoria Vesna, in collaboration with nanoscience pioneer James Gimzewski.

The installation consists of a video projected onto a disk of sand, 8 feet in diameter. Visitors can touch the sand as images are projected in evolving scale from the molecularstructure of a single grain of sand—achieved my means of a scanning tunneling microscope (STM)—to the recognizable image of the complete mandala, and then back again. This coming together of art, science and technology is a modern interpretation of an ancient tradition that consecrates the planet and its inhabitants to bring about purification and healing.

The sand mandala of Chakrasamvara seen in this installation was created by Tibetan Buddhist monks from the Gaden Lhopa Khangtsen Monastery in India, in conjunction with the “Circle of Bliss” exhibition on Nepalese and Tibetan Buddhist Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. This particular sand mandala had never before been made in the United States.

To complement the video, sound artist Anne Niemetz has developed a meditative soundscape derived from sounds recorded during the creative process of making the sand mandala.

Of the installation the artist says: “Inspired by watching the nanoscientist at work, purposefully arranging atoms just as the monk laboriously creates sand images grain by grain, this work brings together the Eastern and Western minds through their shared process centered on patience. Both cultures use these bottom-up building practices to create a complex picture of the world from extremely different perspectives.”

With generous support from the David W. Bermant Foundation.

October 22, 2002

Admission: Regular $5, Students $2, Members Free.

Location One is pleased to announce the second talk of our series Performance Contemporary: a conversation with Paul Kaiser conducted by Bonnie Marranca. PAUL KAISER is a digital artist whose work has been exhibited in performance spaces such as Lincoln Center and Barbicon and in museums and galleries, such as the Whitney, Pompidou Center and Eyebeam. His work began in experimental film and audiotape; he also studied the storytelling practices of the Tarahumara and Navajo Indians. Kaiser spent ten years in Washington D.C. teaching students with severe learning disabilities. He began developing computer programs that allowed these children to build multimedia depictions of their own minds. In 1994, Kaiser relocated to New York and founded Riverbed, a multimedia studio, in order to create cultural and art-oriented interactive projects. Kaiser created the virtual dances Hand-Drawn Spaces and BIPED, with Merce Cunningham and Shelley Eshkar, and Ghostcatching, with Bill T. Jones. Kaiser’s piece Trace (2001), a multimedia narrative installation with audio design by Bell Labs scientist Nicholas Tsingos, was seen at the Brooklyn Academy of Music as part of the Arts in Multimedia program. His most recent public art work, Pedestrian, a project produced by the Art Production Fund and Eyebeam, was installed at three Manhattan sites including Rockefeller Center, The Studio Museum in Harlem, and Eyebeam in Chelsea. He has received many awards, including ComputerWorld/Smithsonian Award in 1991, a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1996, and a Bessie award in 2000.

BONNIE MARRANCA is co-founder and editor of PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art. A theatre critic residing in New York City, she has written two volumes of essays, Ecologies of Theatre, and Theatrewritings, which won the George Jean Nathan Award in Dramatic Criticism, and has edited several books, including Conversations on Art and Performance, Plays for the End of the Century, and Interculturalism and Performance. Bonnie Marranca is a Guggenheim Fellow and Fulbright scholar and is currently teaching at Princeton University. She is Director of Special Performance Projects at Location One.

Future PerformanceContemporary events:
The Wooster Group-A Dictionary of Ideas: Tuesday, November 19, 7 PM.
Dialogue with Richard Maxwell: Tuesday, December 17, 7 PM