ArtistsMeeting Art Machine @ PULSE, Miami

ArtistsMeeting Art Machine(SM) premiers at PULSE Miami 2009, December 3-6.

PULSE Contemporary Art Fair
The Ice Palace
1400 North Miami Avenue
Miami, FL 33136
Thurs Dec 3 through Sun Dec 6

The ArtistsMeeting Art Machine(SM) is a hacked together custom fine art dispensing device inspired by self-service kiosks, Japanese automats, slot machines, ATM’s, juke boxes, shopping malls and carnival games. The AM Art Machine(SM) creates a fun and accessible means for the public to engage with original 21st century avant-garde artwork and acquire it at recession level pricing. Artist Meeting is able to do this through intentionally undervaluing its products, cutting out the middleman and automating the process of valuation, choice and the art of the sale. AM Art Machine(SM) creates a subtle critique on capitalism and the art world. The Art Machine(SM) changes the art buying experience for the viewer. It is an art market hack.

The Art Machine(SM) will dispense an assortment of custom made objects and drawings via a $20 token operated system of mechanical and digital modules embedded in a 10 x 8 foot transparent plastic wall. The Art Machine(SM) process will randomly alternate between a drawing module and object module dispensing various AM art objects such as AM t-shirts and underwear, DIY intervention kits, AM ‘Zines, photo books, digital prints, and other small artworks and ephemera the member artists have created for this project including over 300 feet of collaborative mixed media drawing.

ArtistsMeeting is an international, semi-anonymous arts collective based in New York City. Begun in 2006, as a research project and experiment in the creative process and collaboration, Artists Meeting has participated in the Conflux and Dumbo Arts Festivals, Dokfest in Kassel Germany, Static 3 in Hereford,UK, and exhibited at Postmasters Gallery in New York. Artists Meeting members have exhibited their work in many major museums around the world including; MoMA, The Whitney Museum, Jeu Du Paume, SF MoMA, Musée D’Art Contemporain de Marseille, The Walker Art Center, Musée D’art Contemporain de Lyon, PS1, The State Hermitage Museum and MCA Chicago.

Artist Meeting Art Machine(SM) will be located across from the PULSE VIP lounge. For further information email artmeet(AT)nujus.net or phone 1-646-496-7048.

ARTISTS MEETING - ART MACHINE(SM)

WWW.ARTISTSMEETING.ORG

Diskurs Festival: 25th Anniversary Publication

Published by Diskurs Festival (just released), J. Manzewski and D. Franz (ed.)

SHIFTER15:Will

Dear Friends, we are pleased to announce the release of Shifter 15, which can be downloaded at www.shifter-magazine.com. Please join us for the release of the print edition on Dec. 15 at Ludlow 38.

Editors: Sreshta Rit Premnath, Abhishek Hazra

Avi Alpert, Diana Artus, Lindsay Benedict, Daniel Blochwitz, Brandstifter, Steven Brower, Jon Cotner & Andy Fitch, Mark Cunningham, Chris Curreri, Thom Donovan, Nathan Haenlein, Nina Höchtl, John Houck, Devin Kenny, Richard Kostelanetz & Nick Eve, Matt McAlpin, Jean-Marc Superville Sovak, and Julie Tolentino Wood

RELEASE ON
DEC 15, 6-8 pm at Ludlow 38

(download PDF version here)

Ludlow 38
European Kunsthalle Cologne / Goethe Institut New York
38 Ludlow Street
Between Grand and Hester
New York 10002
Tel. +1 212 228 6848
www.ludlow38.org
info@ludlow38.org

‘Indeed, the truth was not hit by him who shot at it with the word of the “will to existence”: that will does not exist… Only where there is life is there also will: not will to life – thus I teach you – but will to power.’

Friedrich Nietzche, “Thus Spake Zarathustra”

When Will shot Joan he did not mean to. He wanted to shoot the apple balanced on her head. The cactus wine may have put the gun in his hand. The spirit may have provided the reckless confidence. And in the spirit of its will he pointed his gun and squeezed the trigger. It may have been at the moment he squeezed the trigger, or perhaps a split second before, that the world had already begun to rip. Space and time had torn the future into an infinite set of possibilities. The set could be divided into two subsets: He would miss Joan / He would not. But the will of the spirit produced a second pair of possibilities that would not matter in the least – He would hit the apple/ He would not.

If Will was not himself when he constituted this new reality, one without Joan, then who was responsible? Who’s will acted upon reality? His finger’s? The gun’s? The wine’s? Yet, we must not confuse will with intention – maybe this assumption of a causality itself is a mistake. What is known is that it happened.

If will is a potentiality – a vector that opens possibility and cleaves reality – does it precede choice? Are personal wills constituted by hegemonic ideologies (producing pre-inscribed realities), or rather is an individual’s will that space of agency which allows for an opening and aggregates with other individual wills to produce the transformation of the social?

There is a story about a revolutionary who was tortured to reveal the location of a comrade. He lied and gave his interrogators the wrong coordinates. But, when his interrogators arrived there, they found his friend.

Is reality willed into existence?

Installation Shot from "Moolah"

Photo: Arts Guild New Jersey (P. Collura / L. Cappiello)

ArtistsMeeting

ArtistsMeeting (AM), the art collective I am founding member of, has been quite active in recent weeks. And although I haven't contributed my regular share of time and energy, I am still proud to report that AM has hosted our signature YouTube-Triptych Party in the UK and at the recent DokFest in Kassel (Germany). We have also been invited to PULSE Art Fair in Miami, this December, to contribute what AM calls an art machine.

"Moolah" in New Jersey

MOOLAH – An art exhibit about money…

Nov 13 – Dec 11, 2009

Reception: Nov 15 (Sun.), 1-4 PM

The Arts Guild of New Jersey

1670 Irving Street

Rahway, New Jersey 07065

T: 732-381-7511

Featured Artists: Daniel Blochwitz, Jean Brasile, Ben Colebrook, Joy Drury Cox, Mark DeSantos, Lisa Ficarelli-Halpern, Ben Colebrook, Anne Schiffer, John Kirchner, Marc DosSantos, Tracie Fricasso, Lisa Ficarelli-Halpern, Max Infield, John Kirchner, Steve Lambert, Alex Lockwood, Ann Schiffer, MyYoung Sohn, Adrienne Heath-Stiefel, Kelly Vetter, Hanna Von Goeler, Bill Westheimer, Tammy Wofsey

These days, in one of the most dire economic climates of our lifetimes, one thing on the minds of many people is money – we all have some, many want more, we use it everyday. Probably by the time most of us were three years old we saw, handled and/or spent money. In the United States, one of the richest countries on earth, it is often a topic of discussion and the focus of thousands in their careers – Wall Street, the corporate structure, the major banks, mortgage companies and lenders.

Since just about everyone on the planet has a knowledge of and experience with money, we began to wonder just what artists might have to say on this subject.

MOOLAH brings together artists who have created original artworks on the subject by either creating images based on currency or coin of this and other countries, or by altering or manipulating actual paper currency or coins or including images of actual currency in their work. To broaden our approach we also include work about barter, trade, sales and other transactions or processes which involve our subject.

This exhibit is sponsored by Merck & Co., Inc. and is handicapped accessible.

Gallery Hours are Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 1-4 PM. The exhibit can also be viewed during our regular office hours: 9AM-12 & 1PM-4PM, Monday through Friday. Parking is available behind our building on the Seminary Avenue side.

www.rahwayartsguild.org