HANNE'S ART AND CULTURE BLOG

CORY ARCANGEL, NILS BECH, ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG AND EXPERIMENTS IN ART AND TECHNOLOGY (E.A.T.)

2008-08-14T15:18:29Z

I have curated a day of events as part of Hovikodden Live at Henie Onstad Art Center outside Oslo, Norway. More info here.

LOOKING AT MUSIC AT MoMA

2008-08-14T15:12:54Z

I have organized a screening program together with Barbara London for her exhibition Looking at Music, on view at MoMA right now. For more info on what's screening, check my website. There will be more coming during September and October, including Matt Wolf's documentary about Arthur Russell, and a documentary about the Black Mountain School of Art, as well as a screening of Andy Warhol and The Velvet Underground.

ANDY WARHOL PAINTS DEBBIE HARRY ON AN AMIGA

2008-07-13T10:47:58Z

TIGER ART

2008-06-04T03:26:38Z

Tiger Woods is my new favorite artist.

You can buy his art on ebay: here.

ARTHUR RUSSELL DOCUMENTARY

2008-05-20T04:23:25Z

Matt Wolf has directed a beautiful film about Arthur Russell. It premiered last week at the Kitchen, but l know that there will be more screenings coming up in New York, so you should check for updates on the official website.

MINGUS THE DAY BEFORE BEING EVICTED FROM HIS NEW YORK APARTMENT

2008-05-15T17:54:45Z

CURTAINS WITHOUT WINDOWS

2008-05-10T23:12:09Z

Read the great little story here.

"GALLERY SHOW NO.1"

2008-04-03T01:41:38Z

New exhibition at Galerie Art Since the Summer of 69. Check out the details here. Artwork by Lina Viste Groenli.

RIHANNA AND DJ

2008-03-23T21:25:35Z

DARK FAIR, Swiss Institute, NY

2008-03-17T01:04:57Z

I'm participating in the Dark Fair at Swiss Institute in NY, with the gallery project Art Since the Summer of '69!! Also look out for Willy Wonka Inc., and Karma International, coming atcha from Europe!! Artists of Art Since the Summer of '69 to be announced soon. SWISS INSTITUTE / CONTEMPORARY ART 495 BROADWAY / 3RD FLOOR NEW YORK / NY 10012 TEL 212.925.2035 WWW.SWISSINSTITUTE.NET SI DARK FAIR Presented by the Milwaukee International art fair Opening Friday, MAR 28, 2008 6 - 12AM Press preview Friday, MAR 28, 2008 2 - 4 PM For Immediate Release This coming March 28-29, 2008, the organizers of the Milwaukee International art fair will bring a unique and first time 2-day event to the Swiss Institute in New York: DARK FAIR! This subversive and experimental miniature art fair will take place without the use of natural or electric light. An international selection of galleries and artists will display work custom to these conditions, using candlelight, flashlights, oil lamps, work that glows in the dark, light sculpture, battery powered film and video, and unplugged performances. In this cavernous underworld of exchange, visitors will experience art in completely new ways: featuring shadowy bar booths, dimly lit VIP chill-out zones, peddle-powered film projectors and gramophone DJ's. The Swiss Collective Klat will bring the Dark Fair to SI’s booth 1303 at the Armory Show. In addition to custom booths there will be space available for individual artist projects, screenings, and performances including an indoor sculpture garden. Dark Fair participants include: Aire de Paris, Paris Angstrom Gallery, Dallas/Los Angeles B'LING, New York Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin Marianne Boesky, New York Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York CANADA, New York China Art Objects, Los Angeles Club Nutz/General Store, Milwaukee Zach Feuer, New York James Fuentes, New York Golden Age, Chicago Green Gallery, Milwaukee Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco/NYC INOVA, Milwaukee KS Art, New York Karma International, Zurich Leo Koenig inc, New York Maureen Paley, London Galerie Micky Schubert, Berlin Ooga Booga, Los Angeles Other Gallery, Winnipeg Art Since the Summer of 69, Stravanger/Berlin PictureBox, Brooklyn Espacio Provisional, Havana/Miami The Suburban, Oak Park White Columns, New York Willy Wonka, Oslo Hiromi Yoshii, Tokyo Also featuring: Performances: Harrell Fletcher / Clara Jo Wordless Chorus: Brian Belott/Larissa Velez (thanks to Grey Ghost Press) Pinball Arcade: Ara Peterson Photo Booth: Ports Bishop Night Court glow-in-the-dark basketball: Sara Clendening Gramophone DJay: Spencer Sweeney Fashion show: Benjamin Cho / Erin Wasson / United Bamboo Indoor Sculpture Garden featuring: Christian Holstad Pentti Monkkonen Lucas deGiulio Joseph Grigley Mamiko Otsu For more information please contact jet@swissinstitute.net or eborowy@gmail.com Dark Fair hours are FRI, MAR 28 : 6PM – 12 AM & SAT, MAR 29 12PM – 9PM.

Eye Lights

2008-03-03T23:28:17Z

Animal photographs often involve eye lights. Here is a selection from the Internet: This is the reason: Animals have a reflective layer in the back of their eyes behind the retina called the tapetum. This layer enhances their night vision. The colour of the tapetum gives you blue, green, yellow, or white eye effect. With animals, the effect can have place even when the ambient light is sufficient to prevent it in humans.

RUN DMC ON READING RAINBOW

2008-01-25T13:36:25Z

Shnuffel: Kuschel Song

2008-01-25T11:03:38Z

The top ring tone in Austria at the moment: Kuschel Song.

CONTINUING EDUCATION FOR DEAD ADULTS

2008-01-07T00:40:57Z

A MUST-SEE!!! Continuing Education for Dead Adults presents three multi-media performances that riff off youth pop culture and its long-term consequences. East Coast collective Paper Rad premieres new videos, including Problem Solvers (20 min, 2008) and a short entitled crank dat spongebob batman dropdead robocop (3 min, 2008) which, in the group's words, is a "3-minute terror-ride through the online world of youtube show-offs." New York artist Ben Coonley presents a new performance entitled Kindred Spirits is the Working Title, (15 min, 2008) and Providence-based experimental band Wizardzz (featuring members of Lightning Bolt) will perform in front of a mesmeric animated tapestry. Organized by Lauren Cornell. Tickets available via New Museum's website. Friday, Jan. 11, 7:00 PM the New Museum, New York, NY $8 general public, $6 Members (Rhizome and New Museum)

VIDEO EXHIBITION AND EVENTS

2008-01-04T05:50:40Z

I curated a new project! More info on my website. MEDIUM COOL ART IN GENERAL'S 10th ANNUAL VIDEO MARATHON January 10-12, 2008 Sixth Floor Galleries Art in General 79 Walker Street New York NY 10013 tel. 212 219 0473 www.artingeneral.org info@artingeneral.org Organized by Hanne Mugaas Art in General's 10th Video Marathon explores the current state of video art, situated in-between institutionalized 'Video Art' and the work emerging from the flow and dynamism of the Internet. Taking the title of Haskell Wexler's film of 1969, which suggested a critique of Marshall McLuhan's distinction between 'hot' and 'cold' media, Medium Cool suggests that video is an idea rather than a technology – as an umbrella term for a particular set of practices, it promises democracy while at the same time threatening to reduce images to information. Through screenings, lectures, and a dedicated website, the Marathon looks at a range of video practices, including early experiments within the media itself, while dealing with issues of video distribution and copyright, the making of (art) history and legacy through moving images, and the general impact of technology on contemporary culture. In keeping with this tenth anniversary of the Video Marathon, the screening Transitional Objects, curated by Thomas Beard, looks back on the past decade of electronic art as a way of thinking about a medium that has remained in flux—politically, aesthetically, and technologically—since its inception, while Artist Looking at the Camera, curated by Hanne Mugaas and Fabienne Stephan, includes the work of artists who use the medium to explore the creation and distribution of facts and history. The Marathon opens on Thursday 10th January with a lecture by Ed Halter, and ends on Saturday 12th with Art Since 1960 (According to the Internet) an event by Hanne Mugaas and Cory Arcangel, and Flipped Chips, an event curated by the artist collaborative LoVid. ONGOING IN THE GALLERIES Thursday January 10, 6.00- 9.00, - Friday & Saturday, January 11 & 12, 12.00- 6.00pm Artist Looking at the Camera, curated by Hanne Mugaas and Fabienne Stephan These screenings profile the work of artists who use the tools of re-enactment, appropriation and moving image manipulation to question how history is produced and how facts are modified and reinforced through distribution. From issues of social documentation and media distribution to copyright and the impact of technology upon culture, the artists question the status of moving images in collective memory and imagined future. Artists include Bad Beuys Entertainment, Lene Berg, Ida Ekblad, Haris Epaminonda, Sascha Hahn, Nate Harrison, Annika Larsson, Lars Laumann, Guthrie Lonergan, Anders Nordby, Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, and Stephen Sutcliffe. Transitional Objects, curated by Thomas Beard The screening Transitional Objects looks back on the past decade of electronic art as a way of thinking about a medium that has remained in flux—politically, aesthetically, and technologically—since its inception. Whether the subject is dime store psychics or the return of the repressed, new loves or old regimes, all works raise the question: where is video going? Artists include Bobby Abate, William E. Jones, Eileen Maxson, Jennifer Montgomery, Michael Robinson, and Jennet Thomas. EVENTS Thursday January 10, 6.30-8.00pm Regarding Jeff's People, lecture by Ed Halter This lecture by writer and curator Ed Halter takes its starting point from the work of Washington, DC-based Jeff Krulik, maker of the legendary video Heavy Metal Parking Lot. In his talk, Halter addresses the utopian hopes and mundane realities of public access television, the question of fandom and subjectivity, underground VHS bootlegging as proto-file-sharing, criticism of art and comedy, and the challenge of defining the term "artist", and in particular, "video artist". Saturday 12 January, 6.00pm-7.00pm Art Since 1960 (According to the Internet), project by Hanne Mugaas and Cory Arcangel, performed by Cory Arcangel For this event, Mugaas and Arcangel have sorted and collected videos from the Internet in order to discern where art and art history on the web is currently situated. Looking at how art production and art history are changed by the growing use of the Internet as a platform and resource, their project explores how search algorithms and the whims of users upset the usual control systems that govern how art is categorized—with sometimes surprising results. Mugaas and Arcangel's findings culminate in a video screening presented with a live directors' commentary. Saturday January 12, 7.00-8.00pm Flipped Chips, event by Lovid Flipped Chips includes videos by artists who custom-make their own hardware video instruments. Dan Sandin, Nam June Paik, Steina and Woody Vasulka, Matthew Schlanger, Steve Beck, Jim Wiseman, and Bill Etra represent a generation of pioneers who explored video and moving image synthesis during an era of idealism and utopian views of communication, where video and television were regarded as the ultimate new medium of cultural and social change. In this event, their work will be shown along with a new generation who approach technology with personal and global nostalgia, or as a reaction to the dominance of technology and media in mainstream culture, including Billy Roisz (NTSC), noteNdo, Jon Satrom, Paul Slocum, Karl Klomp, Cory Arcangel and LoVid. WEB SITE A website with an online exhibition and material relating to the project will be available from January 10 at: www.hanne-mugaas.com/videomarathon -------------------- For additional information on the exhibition and events, please visit http://www.hanne-mugaas.com/my_work/a/ --------------------