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June 21, 2008
Garden of Memory tonight in Oakland
This is one of our favorite sound art events to attend every year. It's well worth the trek if you don't live in Oakland. Thought I'd let someone else provide the accolades this round. Here's a nice write up from Jason Victor Serinusm of the East Bay Express.
Critics Choice: GARDEN OF MEMORYThe most extraordinary concert of the season, the Garden of Memory columbarium walk-through in the historic, Julia Morgan-designed Chapel of the Chimes, returns this weekend. The annual summer solstice celebration, whose fame has spread to Europe and the Far East, will scatter no less than forty local and international cutting-edge musicians and ensembles throughout the extraordinary facility. With acoustics to die for, and multiple, equally intriguing performances vying for attention, the more than 2,000 attendees expected this year are sure to find their consciousness and imagination expand. Arrive early to find decent parking and hear the most popular performers.
~ by Jason Victor Serinusm
via East Bay Express
Price: $12, students/seniors $8, under 12 $5, under 5 free
Time & Date: Sat., June 21, 5-9 p.m.
Chapel of the Chimes
4499 Piedmont Ave.
Oakland CA 94611
Oakland: Piedmont Ave./Montclair
510-654-0123
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June 19, 2008
Juxtapoz exhibit at Laguna Museum opens June 22nd
This is worth a road trip south! 150 amazing artists including past exhibiting A.D. artists: Dalek, Emek, Shepard Fairey, AJ Fosik, Sylvia Ji, Saber and Andrew Schoultz! The list is long and impressive, and some choices a bit curious which creates even more anticipation as to how it's all going to come together. For the full artists' list, visit the Laguna Art Museum website here.
from the press release: In the Land of Retinal Delights: The Juxtapoz Factor is an exhibition that presents the work of approximately one hundred and fifty artists and posits that there has been a huge, but unacknowledged, art movement taking place in this country for the last forty years. Since 1994, this ground swelling of lowbrow, surrealistic, pop, figurative, and narrative work has coalesced and found a voice in the pages of Juxtapoz magazine published in San Francisco. This "rag" has become the most widely read art magazine in the U.S. It is an influencing force on the aspiring artists of generation Y and the millenials, who are now enrolling in art schools in numbers never before seen.
Juxtapoz magazine was founded by Los Angeles artist Robert Williams. The :Juxtapoz aesthetic or lowbrow art" is almost always figurative and is inspired by movies, TV, advertising, black-velvet painting, psychedelic posters, pulp porn, sci-fi and horror, carnival art, comics books and all things lower and middle class. The magazine has and does provide a voice and validation for a brand of artist, like Williams, who has not been accepted traditionally by the typical art-world infrastructure of collector, curator, and critic. However, since its founding, it has been the inspiration for the creation of its own infrastructure supported by Juxtapozian art galleries (in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, and New York), collectors, critical attention, and museum exhibitions at adventurous institutions. Since the mid 1990s, with its growing success, Juxtapoz has been a major contributor to the acceptance of painting again as a valid practice for artists, countering forty years of art school canon, which focused on the conceptual practice of context, collectivization, and dematerialization of the art object.
For the last decade the art establishment (collector, curator, critic) has argued that the idea, or construct, of an art movement is outmoded. This exhibition explores the idea of the "Juxtapoz Factor."Is it an organized movement operating under a singular manifesto? Or is it a wave of talented overlooked artists who decided to reach out to the public and create their own canon?
Laguna Art Museum
307 Cliff Dr., Laguna Beach, CA 92651
Summer Hours: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday: 11:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.; Thursday: 11:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday: 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
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June 14, 2008
Sylvia Ji opening at Whitewalls in SF tonight!
Sylvia Ji has a solo exhibit opening tonight at Whitewalls in SF. We're big fans of her work. If you can't make it out to the opening tonight, drop by the gallery before July 5th when it comes down.
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 14th, 2008 from 7-11 p.m.
On View through July 5th, 2008
White Walls
835 Larkin Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
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This Culture of Background Noise
We've been trying to encourage Because of Ghosts (Australia) to visit the U.S. for a few years now. Their next major release "This Culture of Background Noise" comes out in September. Maybe if enough of us yanks buy it, they'll head this way!
Here's another one for you...
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June 11, 2008
More from Gretel Prinn as we had hoped...
A few weeks after the first song, "Patch a Signal," by Gretel Prinn surfaced, we've noticed a significant increase in the number of results we get from a Google search in our latest quest to learn more about about this emerging talent. Gretel Prinn is the result of an ongoing sound experiment masterminded by songstress and programmer, Annabel Linquist. There's more to download available here.
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June 09, 2008
Playing the Building by David Byrne in NY
Creative Time presents Playing the Building, a 9,000-square-foot, interactive, site-specific installation by renowned artist David Byrne. The artist transforms the interior of the landmark Battery Maritime Building in Lower Manhattan into a massive sound sculpture that all visitors are invited to sit and “play.” The project consists of a retrofitted antique organ, placed in the center of the building's cavernous second-floor gallery, that controls a series of devices attached to its structural features—metal beams, plumbing, electrical conduits, and heating and water pipes. These machines vibrate, strike, and blow across the building’s elements, triggering unique harmonics and producing finely tuned sounds.
There's a great interview by Anne Pasternak, curator of Playing the Building, with artist David Byrne about the ideas behind this installation, and his other work. Read it here...
Playing the Building
an installation by David Byrne
May 31–Aug 10, 2008
CREATIVETIME
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June 05, 2008
Paul D. Miller, aka DJ Spooky at A.D. Friday, June 6th, 7pm
"For the maverick rhythm scientist Paul D. Miller, sound is liquid; it spills over and slips under categories, firewalls, case law, and legal codes to find us and move us. In the same way, his important collection of sound thinkers and sound ideas calls us to remove the fake 'security' imposed on us by capital and state, and, more crucially, to reimagine freedom and reclaim our creativity." --Jeff Chang, author of Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
Come meet Paul D. Miller, aka DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid at Anno Domini, First Frdiay June 6th at 7pm as he discusses his new book Sound Unbound. Free and open to the public.
Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid is a conceptual artist, writer, and musician living and working in New York City. His artwork has appeared in the Whitney Biennial, the Venice Biennale for Architecture, the Andy Warhol Museum, and many other venues. His written work has appeared in such publications as the Village Voice and Artforum. He is an editor of the magazine 21c and the author of Rhythm Science (MIT Press, 2004).
Anno Domini, 366 South First Street, San Jose
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