On the streets of New York ...

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This is what my very first camera looked like

I got a camera just like this for my first day at school. I was seven. It was in my "Zuckertüte", a colorful cardboard cone typically filled to the rim with candy and toys.

Another Image from "Critical Distance"

Unheimisch

I'm currently editing the second draft for my preface for "Critical Distance" (expanded edition). I have a hard time to decide what to keep in and what to leave out. I'm trying to create references and associations with the images of the book, and in particular with the cover image. Below is the beginning of the text. If anyone is interested in reading the full draft, please let me know. I would appreciate any feedback and proofreading.

When I was searching for a term to describe my rather ambiguous relationship to a geographically, culturally and emotionally defined home, I came across the Dutch word unheimisch. Unheimisch makes me think of “uprooted” or “not at home”, but the Dutch adapted this word from my native language, mistakenly combining unheimlich (“eerie”) and heimisch (“native”, “domestic”, “[at] home”) to describe something as “uncanny”. And even though unheimisch would be such a beautiful and befitting word, it does not exist within the German vocabulary. It is a word that migrated from one language to another without ever having been at home in the former. [...]

You can't make this stuff up ...

At the YouTube Party ...

More pictures here: AM website.

Another ArtistsMeeting YouTube Party

Triptych Party ll: A-List Cannibal Cage-match
In collaboration with You3b.com

May 16th, 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. (ONE NITE ONLY)

Postmasters Gallery , 459 West 19th Street, New York City, NY 10011

Today anyone can be a star. The famous, the infamous and the everyday Vlog webstars are here today and possibly gone tomorrow. Andy’s 15 minutes of fame now barely last 30 seconds and the YouTube phenomena creates instant fame to be quickly replaced by the next lunchtime sensation or overnight international viral hit by a 5 year old kid from Nebraska named Fred.

Through a process of performative appropriation and the over-sized projection of three simultaneous video streams on the gallery wall, Artists Meeting spins YouTube videos into triptychs using the unique features of You3b.com and the process of “digital wandering” or “drifting” through the parallel universe of public online video. While formally simple, the effect of presenting videos normally consumed privately by individuals in this public setting creates an uncanny, unsettling and sometimes hilarious effect on the viewers through the looping sequences, overlapping sounds and beautifully awkward combinations of artworks created by amateur and professional video makers.

Artists Meeting is a New York based artists collective whose members come from a range of eclectic backgrounds. Since its official start in 2006, the collective has participated in the Conflux Art Festival in New York, the Dumbo Arts Festival in Brooklyn and a number of YouTube based Performance events at Postmasters Gallery and Monkeytown. http://www.artistsmeeting.org

You3b is a tool that allows users to make triptychs out of YouTube videos. An Eyebeam project conceived by Jeff Crouse, produced by Jeff Crouse and Andrew Mahon and designed and coded by Andrew Mahon. http://www.you3b.com.

Complimentary drinks will be served. Feel free to BYBO.
Press inquiries please contact: Edita Zulic: editaz@gmail.comThis e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it , Lee Wells: lee@leewells.orgThis e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
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Artists Meeting – Leesa and Nicole Abahuni, James Andrews, Daniel Blochwitz, Chris Borkowski, Bethany Fancher, Eliza Fernbach, G.H. Hovagimyan, Thomas Hutchison, Jaime Jackson, Jerome Joy, Olga Lysenko, Lara Star Martini, Christina McPhee, Alan Moore, Mayuko Nakatsuka, Maria Joao Salema, Raphaele Shirley, Lee Wells, Edita Zulic

Max Dorner and my images on German TV (ZDF)

On April 29th, Max Dorner was on the morning program "Volle Kanne" at the German tv station ZDF to promote his book "Lame Duck in New York". They talked about multiple sclerosis, his challenging trip to New York, and the city's pragmatic approaches to difference. They also mentioned my images and talked about Max' favorite photo in particular. Nice.

Recent photo ... timely "public" discussion

Max Dorner and my Images on German TV

The German TV station ZDF (Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen) will have Max Dorner on the program "Volle Kanne" as their so-called 8-minute guest. As part of this, they will include some of my photographs of Max in New York from last summer.

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009 at 9:05-10am: "Volle Kanne", ZDF