Triphop's Universe: May 2008

Emergence Redux

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I was a bit hasty in posting about the show. Here are all the information that you need to know. We are showing pass/ detect.

NEW YORK – On Saturday, May 31, 2008 Governors Island's will officially open for the season, in tandem with FIGMENT's project, "EMERGENCE". The exhibition will include 25 artists groups and collaborative projects. The focus is on the history and significance of Governors Island and revealed through participatory art.

Artists and art collectives who make Emergence possible include: Anne Arden McDonald, artcodex, Asha Ganpat, Avant Car Guard (South Africa), Chris Jordan, Casper Electronics, Christian Nerf/Barend de Wet/Douglas Gimberg (South Africa), Damon Hamm, Dana Salisbury, Erik Fabian, Eugenia Yu, Friendly Falcons & Their Friend the Snake, G-77, Jason Van Anden & Nate Hawks, John Krill (South Africa), John Walter, Michael Alan, Monica Muller, Peripheral Media Projects, Pornj Diamond Cell, Sarah Phillips, Saviour Scraps, Tara Parsons, Tim & Martin Dockery, Triangle Project (Denmark, Istanbul), and Urban Homesteading Project.

The EMERGENCE Curatorial Committee: Johan Kritzinger, Joyce Manalo, Elke Dehner and Audrey Boguchwal. If you have any questions, please e-mail media relations contact, Rosemary Siciliano at romanidomani@mac.com.

EMERGENCE: Creative Pioneers in Uncharted Territory
Exhibition Dates: May 31- July 26, 2008
Viewing hours: Saturday & Sundays ONLY 11:00 AM-05:00 PM
Online Catalogue: emergenceshow.blogspot.com

OPENING DAY: Saturday, May 31 at 11:00 AM-06:00 PM
Press Event at 2:00 PM with all welcome to artist reception 12:30 PM - 4:00 PM. Light refreshments will be available.

Opening Day Performance Schedule:
11:00 AM – “The Hive”, Peripheral Media Projects
11:30 AM – “Forage”, Dana Salisbury
12:00 PM – “Porch Songs: Into the Shade”, Saviour Scraps
12:30 PM – “No Rules”, Erik Fabian
01:00 PM – “Casper Electronics”, Peter Edwards
02:00 PM – Participatory Art Panel, Emergence Curatorial Team
03:00 PM – “The 10 Penny Hi-Top”, Friendly Falcons (FF)
04:00 PM – “Summer Homestead”, Urban Homesteading Project (UHP)
04:30 PM – Jazz Performance, Mercury Landing

Additional Performances:
6/15 – Dana Salisbury, UHP
6/22 – Dana Salisbury, UHP, Triangle Project
6/29 – Dana Salisbury, Saviour Scraps, Erik Fabian, FF, UHP, Michael Alan
7/05 – Saviour Scraps, UHP
7/26 – Saviour Scraps, Erik Fabian, FF, UHP, Triangle Project

PARTICIPATE by contributing materials to the following artists groups and join them in the artmaking process:
Bring old tshirts, linens, dresses, and underutilized fabric to Saviour Scraps, "Old Porch Songs: Into the Shade"
Bring any size recyclable bottles to Urban Homesteading Project, "Summer Homestead"
FERRY LOCATION AND TIMES

The Governors Island Ferry departs from the Battery Maritime Building at 10 South Street, in Lower Manhattan. This is the old green building from 1908 that is immediately to the left of the Staten Island Ferry building on the East Side of Lower Manhattan.

The easiest way to get to the Battery Maritime Building via public transportation is by the #1 train to South Ferry Station, the 4/5 trains to Bowling Green Station, or the W/R trains to Whitehall Street Station.

*Please check mta.info for subway service changes AND weekend schedules.

Ferry leaves Manhattan every half hour, 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM on Saturdays, and on the hour,10:00 AM - 6:00 PM on Sundays. For detailed ferry schedules, please see www.govisland.com/Visit_the_Island/directions.asp.

Ladytron at The Music Box @ The Fonda

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I was way up front. And probably too close to the speakers. I think I am now deaf in one ear. But it was quite worth it since not only did I see a great performance by Ladytron, but I was finally able to experience Datarock live after missing them for so many times. Too bad I had to rely on my lo-fi camera phone for the pictures.

Emergence

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We have a show opening today in New York. If you're going to be there this month, please go check us out. I will be heading out there late-June to represent Finishing School during a performance that we will be a part of.

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Ladytron "Ghosts"

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So I'm heading out to The Music Box at The Fonda tonight with some friends to see Ladytron perform. It's perfect timing since their new album, Velocifero, is coming out June 3rd. This is the first single, "Ghosts," off of the album.

Google Doodle

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Ever wonder who creates those artwork on the Google logo you see from time to time? Here's a video of Chief Google Doodler Dennis Hwang doing a doodle in time lapse.

Wii-habilitation

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The Nintendo Wii console has been a popular item since its release in November of 2006. So much so that it's still difficult to get a hold of today. The nice thing about the Wii is how it has brought back old style social gaming that was prevalent in the early history of video game.

But what is unexpected is the wide demographic range that the console has been attracting. We have all heard about how senior centers around the country have been featuring the Wii front and center as entertainment for its residents. Then there are the recent news that health care centers have been utilizing the Wii console in the rehabilitation of their patients.

Now comes this: the philanthropic group The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has given out a $2 million research grant, to be administered by the University of California Santa Barbara's Health Games Research Center, to study the effect that interactive gaming has on health.

"We're trying to find positive ways to use video games," Debra Lieberman, director of the Health Games Research Center, said during a press conference Thursday. "A 'good' game, which help people learn methods of self-improvement, could displace more time-wasting games out there."

Wii-habilitation, health games get $2 million study grant

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Sannah Kvist

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Sannah Kvist is a freelance photographer based in Stockholm. You can find her website here.

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Honda FCX Clarity

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Game Design: Patapon

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I have always thought that gamers have always been too caught up with the graphics inside video games. With better hardware technologies, game designers tend to push the look of the games to near photorealism. But in recent years, there have been designers who looked into simpler visuals. Patapon is one such game.

Released on the Playstation Portable, the simple gameplay reminds me of the game Locoroco. You simple press the correct sequences of buttons on the PSP. The buttons sequences correlate with the drum rhythms on the soundtrack.

I am more of a casual gamer, so I like games where I can pick up in short spurts to play whenever I have the time. Patapon is that kind of a game for me. And I think more and more we will see these types of game with these types of graphic on the market. They make a lot more sense on the smaller portable platforms where you can't necessary see every single details that have been modeled inside the game.

Packaging Design: WE8

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I really don't want it to start looking like this blog has become a place for free advertisement for the Coca-Cola Company. But a couple of days after I posted my last one on the Beijing Olympics bottle design, I received a note from Phil Mooney, the archivist for the Coca-Cola Company, pointing me to his blog.

Apprarently, Coke is doing a bit more with the Beijing Olympics than I've realized. WE8, or "West meets East," is the new campaign where they have contacted eight artists and design firms from China to create eight different designs for the Coke bottle. Each of the eight designs is then paired with eight musical compositions from eight musicians from the West. The results can be seen on their website.

The bottle will be available in eight different areas around the world:

The eight bottles follow different themes. One themed WE8 bottle will be available in these areas: Australia (the bottle called "Happiness"), Belgium ("Peace on Earth"), Brazil ("Global Harmony"), China ("Healthy World"), France ("Individual Perseverance"), Great Britain ("Uplifting Moments"), Greece ("Human Collaboration") and New Zealand ("Active Optimism").

In the U.S., the bottles will be available at selected Simon Malls around the country, as well as on the Coca-Cola Store.

Packaging Design: Coca-Cola Classic

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I think Coke has been doing some interesting things lately, especially the recent Coke Bubbles ads by the motion graphic house Brand New School. This current design done in conjunction with Beijing Olympics is not that bad. However, I still yearn for the early days of my youth in Thailand drinking Coke from those glass bottles.

Casey Hanrahan and Chris Avitabile @ Fringe Exhibitions

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Naotaka Hiro @ THE BOX

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Green Porno

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The Sheep Market

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Spiritual Guide

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The Vortex

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What Is A Friend?

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Ironic

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I Suck When I'm Bored

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I'll Give You A Run For Your Money

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Kern

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kern1
(kûrn)

also kerne n.

1. A medieval Scottish or Irish foot soldier.
2. A loutish person.

[Middle English kerne, from Middle Irish ceithern, ceithernn, band of soldiers, from Old Irish.]

kern2 (kûrn) Printing.
n.

The portion of a typeface that projects beyond the body or shank of a character.

tr.v., kerned, kern·ing, kerns.

1. To provide (type) with a kern.
2. To adjust space between (characters) in typeset text.

[French carne, corner, from Old North French, from Latin cardō, cardin-, hinge.]

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CAPTCHA Painting

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There's a woman from Tampa who is selling these paintings on Etsy. I was kind of wondering when people would start using them as source material. I mean, we have seen paintings based on MySpace photos, etc.

You have all seen these around. They stand for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart." They are often used for websites that require registrations, or a bit of extra security to find out that the users are exactly who they say they are (i.e. human). If you post comments on your friends' MySpace profiles, you run into them all the time.

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Noah Lyon

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I love these Retard Riot buttons by Noah Lyon. On sale now.

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Waltz With Bashir

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"Waltz with Bashir" can probably be considered as the first animated documentary. From the director Ari Folman, the movie had its premiere at Cannes just a couple of days ago. The premise of the movie began when Ari met up with a friend in a bar. The friend told him about the recurring nightmare he's been having in which he's chased by 26 vicious dogs. The two men concluded that the dream may have a connection to the Israeli Army mission they were involved in during the first Lebonon War. Ari seemed to have not been able to remember anything during that period of his life anymore, to his surprise. He then decided to meet and interview old friends around the world in order to paint a complete picture of that time. And, ultimately, about himself.

Spock

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Flickr Is The New Museum

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IMPROVISED EXPLOSIVE DATA!

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BCAM

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I finally had the chance to visit BCAM this weekend. In fact I did a MOCA/ LACMA day with a friend on Sunday, so I had the chance to really compare the two institutions. It's bit strange to me for a museum with a new contemporary art wing to not have their own contemporary art collection. Walking through BCAM I was definitely impressed by the work being exhibited. However my first thought was "Wow! Eli Broad has a really nice collection." And I don't think anyone who walked through BCAM can disagree with me. My friend and I even agreed that walking through the galleries in BCAM was akin to walking through an art history book. I liked the fact that the museum allocated one room to an individual artist. Whatever your opinion of Jeff Koons you may have, but you have to agree that seeing all the work together in a single gallery really made an impact.

The question, of course, is how long can BCAM only exists simply from exhibiting a borrowed collection. I think that if LACMA is serious about being an institution that showcases and supports contemporary art, they have to really start amassing work. It's too bad that Eli Broad decided not to give his collection to LACMA. But since we all know that will not happen in the foreseeable future, it behooves LACMA to begin acquisitions of contemporary work.

In terms of the statement that BCAM the building itself makes: I must say I do like Renzo Piano's design. Would a Rem Koolhaas building in Los Angeles had been a bigger statement? Most likely. But Piano's design is perfect for contemplating the work exhibited within. But the one problem I still see with the LACMA campus as a whole is that it's still a mishmash of style from building to building. And BCAM now definitely stands out from the main campus proper.

I do have my hopes for LACMA. I do look forward to incredible exhibitions in the new wing. I think it's always a good thing for a city when it has multiple institutions supporting the contemporary art scene.

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