FLAT 12
A one-night-only exhibition at Floor Length and Tux
FLAT 12 will feature new work from Cole Pierce, Angela Lopez, and Stephen Nyktas, alongside resident FLAT artists Catie Olson and EC Brown.
COLE PIERCE will create a floor of enamel-encoated floppy disks.
Cole Pierce is a Chicago-based artist who makes paintings, video installations, and audio multiples. He received an MFA in Art Theory & Practice from Northwestern University, his recent exhibition at Hinge Gallery was favorably reviewed in Modern Painters magazine, and currently has work in Born Digital at CAM Raleigh.
http://colepierce.com/
ANGELA LOPEZ will present a stop-animation video alongside watercolor/collages depicting the fluid relationships between humans and other species.
Angela Lopez studied painting at the Kansas City art institute. Her paintings use the exploration of alternating power struggles between humans and nature as a way to express gloomy ominous and desperate emotions. Her artwork has been featured in exhibitions at H&R Block ArtSpace, The Dolphin Gallery, in Kansas City MO, as well as Buenos Aires Argentina at Proyecto’ ace Studios and the Beasley gallery in Arizona. She premiered her first solo show, “On the Upside,” at the Urban Culture Project Space in 2009. In 2010 she curated her second exhibition “Community+Loneliness” at the Paragraph Gallery with Urban Culture Project in Kansas City Mo. Angela lives and works in her hometown of Chicago.
http://lopezangela.com/home.html
STEPHEN NYKTAS will create an installation consisting of found radios from different eras.
Steve Nyktas (MFA, Northwestern University, 2007) is a Chicago-based artist whose work is preoccupied by opportunities to better understand the normal world by seeing places that were never meant to be seen and to look at things as they are not meant to be; to observe a version of the everyday which exists just beneath consciousness. His work has been exhibited at Dorsky Gallery (New York, NY), Gallery Four (Baltimore, MD), Rowland Contemporary Gallery (Chicago, IL), The 22nd International Festival Sarajevo (Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina), and he is a member of the Danny Think Tank artist collective.
http://stephennyktas.com/
CATIE OLSON will present a hand-cranked automaton of a Band-Aid punching a pillow.
Catie Olson is an artist and filmmaker who organizes the Spiderbug short-film series (http://www.spiderbug.org). She is ½ of Floor Length and Tux.
http://catieolson.com
EC BROWN will present paintings of wooden capsules containing imaginary film stills with choice male actors of the 60s-70′s as terse mallard-carvers.
EC Brown is a painter and exhibition organizer who co-directed the COMA exhibition space from 2006-2008 (http://www.occidentalmuseum.org), and organizes the ASCII exhibition series (http://www.archeospiritist.com). He is ½ of Floor Length and Tux.
http://www.ecbrown.org
About the FLAT series:
Catie Olson and EC Brown have conducted Floor Length and Tux exhibitions from their home since February 2009. These single-evening events are the result of an extended relationship with small selections of artists.
ASCII 3
A single-evening exposition and offering of audio multiples
Thursday, April 5
8:30 pm – 10:30 pm
Back room of The California Clipper
1002 N. California Ave.
Free
Participating:
Jon Bollo, Stephanie Burke, EC Brown, Chris Hefner, Andrea Jablonski, George Larson, Bruce Neal, Catie Olson, Cole Pierce, Christopher Smith, Ralph Syverson, Brian Wadford.
ASCII (Archeospiritist Study and Consortion Initiative, Illinois) is an event where participants are entrusted to uphold the following 3 core specifications:
1. An edition of artifacts shall be created, to be distributed freely.
2. Editions must involve recorded audio.
3. Attire shall always be elegant.
In addition, participants are entreated to observe a prompt (in lieu of an articulated curatorial theme) from Caroline Picard, which is a writing inspired by Marion Laval-Jeantet’s “May the Horse Live in Me” (http://www.archeospiritist.com/docs/carolinePicard__ascii3-Prompt.pdf) as well as her video selection (http://youtu.be/yx_E4DUWXbE).
Furthermore, recommended specifications are made available to the participants, as well as participant-sourced specification extensions. Information at http://www.archeospiritist.com.
Event guests are not subject to specifications nor sanctions, but elegant apparel is always enjoyed by all.
About ASCII:
ASCII is a specification platform designed to elevate our personal, mundane rituals of audio data trafficking to a dedicated craft and an etiquette.
Photos from ASCII 1: http://www.archeospiritist.com/archives/1.php
Photos from ASCII 2: http://www.archeospiritist.com/archives/2.php
My 1.11.12 NUMBERS.FM show is now available to stream or download.
Born Digital on view January 28 through April 30, 2012
Showcasing a growing body of contemporary art that is visitor dependent and without the use of specific interfaces like keyboards or touch screens—aspects of this exhibition are movement-driven, empowering visitors to exercise their creativity and act on their curiosity. Born Digital features the work of 12 national and international pioneers of digital and new media art. Most of the featured artworks in the exhibition employ computer vision technologies, more commonly known as interactive video. The combined use of digital video cameras and custom computer software allows each artwork to “see,” and respond to, bodies, colors and/or motion in the space of the museum. Don’t miss this museum premiere!
Born Digital contributors include: Advanced Media Lab, Jacob Ciocci, R. Luke DuBois, Channel TWo, Brent Green, Ajay Kurian, LoVid, Cole Pierce, Dennis Rosenfeld, Daniel Rozin, Scenocosme, and Karolina Sobecka
Join us for an opening preview celebration
Sweets, savories, and drinks
Friday, January 27, 2012
Members Opening 7–9 p.m.
RSVP at members@camraleigh.org
Wear your rocket-high heels or fastest track shoes
Live DJ — Born Digital Exhibiting artist Cole Pierce
Pierce and Shackleford have known each other for a time, having been a part of an artists’ collective in years past. Although stylistically their artworks seem on opposite ends of the spectrum, the works juxtaposed made for an engaging exhibit.
When I spoke to Pierce about these works, he told me that his intention was to keep the triangle patterns as straight and as perfect as possible but as he created these works, it become about idiosyncrasies in the shape – letting imperfections happen. The paintings started as black and white paintings, but Pierce added a new perspective with color as the series went on. The paintings displayed at Hinge have gradients of color, with the patterned triangles fading from light cream to white in one painting and blue to darkest blue in the other.
Shackleford’s pieces in the exhibit are prints that utilize the relationship of gesture and found images, with the series titled Sweet Bones and Clean Secrets. Shackleford told me his process included dumpster diving for inspiration, using found objects to emote a nostalgic vibe. Tiny photographs of nature landscapes were painted, drawn, and marked upon, then blown up to become plexi-glassed prints.
Shackelford spoke of his processes and intention as concerning directed ambiguity- pushing an image into flat space and speaking to the relationship of what framing is about. The result was on full display in the works at Hinge, with pieces of nature prints paired with broken glass, cinderblocks, and neon paints. The consistency of color influences comes from within the prints, as Shackleford emphasized the importance of the presentation by painting the walls so as to create a full installation.
I was lucky enough to have to opportunity to speak to both artists during the opening, and them being friends made the discussion all the more enjoyable. They each were very different in their approach to art and speaking about their art, but the variance between the artworks held balance within the Hinge Gallery.
- Amanda Mead
[“Gray Gardens,” Robert Carmer Hill house, Lily Pond Lane, East Hampton, New York. (LOC) (by The Library of Congress)
Roxane Hopper
“Watching the eclipse through a tube. Kinda like a drum buddy. #ringoffire”
Badalamenti explains how he wrote the Twin Peaks Love Theme on an old Fender Rhodes sitting alongside David Lynch
Here is the video that Nicolas Jaar sampled in his mix, thanks to mono.blog for digging it up.
“He had different categories of songs - blues, ballads, and brutal. When he gave us the lyrics sheets, it would say “brutal” on top just for our information.” -Jessica Denison
-Vice
It’s raining in New York, and I’m listening to this:
Nicolas Jaar — Essential Mix (05-19-2012)
“At long last.”
01. Nicolas Jaar & Maceo Plex - Gravy Train (Nicolas Jaar Remix) [Get Physical Music]
02. Nicolas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise [Clown & Sunset]
03. Laxx & Farkas - Creature
04. Nicolas Jaar - Don’t Break My Love [Clown & Sunset]
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05. Angelo Badalamenti - Conversation On Twin Peaks [Warner Bros]
06. The Brothers Four - Greenfields [Columbia]
07. Jay-Z - My First Song (Acapella) [Roc-A- Fella]
08. Jonny Greenwood - There Will Be Blood [NONESUCH]
09. Los Ángeles Negros - Tu Y Tu Mirar… Yo Y Mi Cancion [Harmless]
10. LaShun Pace - It’s Me Oh Lord (Acapella Praise) [Shanachie]
11. Jonny Greenwood - Open Spaces [NONESUCH]
12. Pearson Sound - Footloose [Pearson Sound]
13. The Electric Prunes - Holy Are You (There Is No God Edit) [Reprise]
14. Aphex Twin - Ziggomatic 17 [WARP]
15. Keith Jarrett - Tokyo, November 14 (Encore) [ECM Records]
16. My Girl And Me - Always Back To You (feat. Lorraine) [Unknown]
17. Vera November - Last Night Together (You’re Coming Back Edit) [Rough Trade]
18. Nikita Quasim - L’amour L’après Midi [Clown and Sunset]
19. Nikita Quasim - The Way I Felt Today [Clown and Sunset]
20. Feist - Caught A Long Wind [Polydor]
21. Shigeru Umebayashi - Yumeji’s Theme (In The Mood For Love) [In The Mood For Love OST, Higher Octave OmTown]
22. *NSYNC - It Makes Me Ill (Edit) [JIVE]
23. Unknown - Unknown
24. Charles Mingus - Myself When I’m Real [IMPULSE]
25. Bill Callahan - America! [DRAG CITY]
26. The Field - The Little Heart Beats So Fast [Kompakt]
27. Sneaky Sound System - Always By Your Side (Nicolas Jaar Remix) [Modular]
28. Just Friends - Avalanche [Unknown]
29. Pavla + Noura - Don’t Owe Me A Thing [The Prism, Clown and Sunset]
30. Acid Pauli - La Voz Tan Tierna [Clown and Sunset]
31. Igor Wakhevitch - Taddy’s Dream: Ramallah’s Road [Pathé Marconi EMI]
32. Nikita Quasim - Derridu [Unknown]
33. Beyoncé Knowles - 1+1 [Columbia]
34. Anouar Brahem - Vague / E La Nave Va [ECM]
35. Rio Grande - Let’s Groove (Tonight Edit) [Unknown]
36. Gonzales - Manifesto [Sunnyside]
37. The Grass Roots - Let’s Live For Today (Learn To Live Edit) [Dunhill]
38. Marvin Gaye - Inner City Blues (Sk Edit) [TAMLA]
39. Man Friday - Real Love (The Paradise Garage Mix) (feat. Larry Levan) [Nite Grooves]
40. DJ Slugo - What That Do [Subterranean Playhouse]
41. Ricardo Villalobos - What You Say Is More Than I Can Say [Playhouse]
42. Untitled - Untitled [Unknown]
43. Nicolas Jaar - The Student [Wolf & Lamb]
http://www.facebook.com/Everybody.the.DJ
The Listening Machine, created by Daniel Jones, Peter Gregson and Britten Sinfoni, is an automated system that generates a continuous piece of music based on the activity of 500 Twitter users around the United Kingdom. Their conversations, thoughts and feelings are translated into musical patterns in real time.
(via @nookajones)
Optogenesis (Étude Op. 3, No.1 of 4)
Music: Tim Hecker - Currents of Electrostasy
(by sougwen)
Diamond Ring (Deele flip)
Matthew David
Jewelry
data.anatomy
Ryoji Ikeda
the digitized installation is a ten minute visual exploration of the entire data set belonging to the latest model of honda’s civic automobile.
Circuit diagram for a metronome, from Science Fun Experiments in Electronics by Hanna Höck (Logix-Kosmos, 1973)
Great improv session with Passerby on March 7th, 2012.
Instrumentation:
TAL - Grendel Drone Commander, Juno 60, Korg Lambda, bottle cap contact mic, Vocals, Line-6, Cathedral, Live hardware processing
Passerby - Various electro-acoustic instruments, Vocals, 4093 Quad Oscillator, CB transceiver, Live hardware processing
Production/mastering by grey ghost