Inside the Artists Studio with James Chimpton is a radio program/robotic chimp developed at Eyebeam by Jeff Crouse and Steve Lambert (with Alexander Reben) for Neighborhood Public Radio‘s “___ American Life” at the 2008 Whitney Biennial.
I’ll be giving a short, and hopefully funny, talk as part of Gelf Magazine’s Non-Motivational Speaker series. From Gelf’s site:
Culture jammers and pranksters will be this month’s topic. Featured speakers are Alan Abel, perhaps the most infamous prankster in American prank history, subject of the recent award-winning documentary, Abel Raises Cain, and “founder” of mock citizens’ groups The Society for the Indecency to Naked Animals and Citizens Against Breastfeeding; Steve Lambert, guerrilla artist, founder of The Anti-Advertising Agency, and Senior Fellow at cutting-edge arts organization Eyebeam NYC; and Ron English, patriarch of the agit-pop art movement, corporate branding subversive, and subject of the documentary “POPaganda: The Art and Crimes of Ron English.”
The event will start at 8 pm at the Happy Ending Lounge, and is free.
Event Details:
Happy Ending Lounge (official site, CitySearch, MySpace)
302 Broome St.
(between Forsyth and Eldridge)
212-334-9676
J/M/Z/F to Delancey
B/D to Grand Street
Look for the hot-pink awning with the words “Health Club” on it.
Doors open at 7:30.
Readings start at 8 sharp.
FREE!
I’ll have some drawings with Glowlab at the upcoming Bridge Art Fair along with new works by artists including Tom Brauer, Jason Cantoro, Beka Goedde, Cathelijn van Goor, Alice Jarry, Heather L. Johnson, David Kesting, Roberto Mollá, Marisa Olson, Mark Price and Sal Randolph.
Glowlab will be located in Booth # 6B, near the 11th Avenue entrance. (more…)
In January 2008 the Co-op Bar distributed 2 more mini-grants from the profits generated during the Eyebeam Source Code exhibition. The jury consisted of past Co-op Bar grant winners Amy Balkin and Amanda Eicher along with the Collective Foundation‘s Joseph Del Pesco and Scott Oliver.
– Marisa Jahn – nominated by Bottle Owner Stephanie Rothenberg
– Lucas Murgida – nominated by Bottle Owner Sara Dierck
The two grants were for $500 each. The current total of grant money generated from the Co-op Bar is over $1700, not including profits paid to bottle owners.
Packard Jennings and I produced these 24×18 prints of the Z-Line from the “Wish You Were Here: Postcard’s From Our Awesome Future” posters. Our goal was to do a print that was affordable for most anyone who wanted one. If these prove popular, we’ll turn the profits into a run of another poster design from the series.
The Z-Line
Steve Lambert & Packard Jennings
24in x18in
printed to high-gloss 100 lb. paper
open edition
$20 + shipping (contact me if you’d like to order more than one)
Ronald’s Crisis will show at the Rotterdam VHS Festival on March 14th 2008. It’s an honor to be welcomed back after showing “The Best Use of an Art Magazine” at the festival a couple years ago.
Rotterdam VHS Festival
Het Wilde Weten
Robert Fruinstraat 35
3021 XB Rotterdam
I published a how to on instructables that shows how I created the drawings for “Wish You Were Here: Postcards From Our Awesome Future” with Packard Jennings and “PeopleProducts123” with Amanda Eicher. The process is a blending of analog and digital techniques that result in, what I call, a combination of a comic book style and “how to evacuate the airplane.”
The process takes you through the steps of finding a photo, creating a pencil sketch, ink drawing, converting to vectors, and coloring – all using free and open source tools where possible.
This process was developed and documented while at the Eyebeam OpenLab (with some tips from Packard Jennings).
My collaboration with Packard Jennings for the San Francisco Public Arts Commission is featured in issue 469 of the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association‘s Urbanist Magazine.
$30
ink on paper
4 in x 6 in
“$30” sells for $30. There is also an edition of 10 archival pigment prints. The prints are the same size and as near an exact reproduction as possible. The prints are priced progressively, starting at $15 and moving up to $25 as the edition is depleted. I will maintain contact with all buyers and track the resale value of each piece.
$30 price list – the edition is sold.
“Caught on Tape”, a video series featuring the Anti-Advertising Agency’s & GRL’s project “Light Criticism,” will be shown at the the official launch for The Australian Network for Art and Technology’s (ANAT) magazine, “Filter.” It will be shown both indoors with sound and outdoors on the side of the Artspace, an art gallery situated in the middle of the Adelaide Festival Centre plaza. This particular issue of Filter is on the theme of ‘street art and technology’, and is guest edited by Caught on Tape artist, James Dodd.
The Adelaide Festival is an international arts event that has been going since 1960. The Festival will run from February 29- March 16, 2008 See: http://www.adelaidefestival.com.au for more information
