Natalie Moore and Marcin Ramocki at artMovingProjects

artMovingProjects
166 N.12th St, between Bedford and Berry Sts., Williamsburg (917-301-6680, 917-301-0306).
Subway: L to Bedford Avenue Thurday -Sunday, 1pm - 6pm www.artmovingprojects.com artmovingprojects.blogspot.com
info@artmovingprojects.com
Opening 7-9 Saturday, October 20 – November 18th


Natalie Moore

Mirage: Morning Before the Fact

A merciful mirage makes the living possible. The sun stoops low over everything wished for in a flash. Reverie alone assists the staggering mind. Here, at last (the map appears to disappear), are the artist’s intentions intact: that shimmer, that presence, as destructive as it is sublime. The clearest way to the universe is through wilderness. How to show the way for those who would climb through a hole in the sky?

In a sculptural landscape the artist figures herself as a traveler searching for a lost memory. In transitory time universal ideas and local reflections connect to macro and micro levels of conception. The forms are fleeting – moving in and out of solidity. Can a holistic view be regained? Can perception be trusted?


When the sun sets and after the sunsets and before it is night, the sky has light but there is no actual sun. The light is very soft and there is something magic about it. It limits with a magic look, a softening beauty and fragility. Open-ended and interrupted experience: the wind blowing, bird rustling, and sunshine flowing into trees.

Evening reports back as forms travel towards their disappearance. Place and replace with light and shadow, rich with past needs of representation or significance. The flawed nature of perfection is a landscape. Antelope Canyon, Bodø, Cappadocia, and the Sahara are the alien lands where great mountains and majestic deserts dwarf humans to insignificance. Such landscapes are neither an empty vista awaiting human settlement nor a jewel-like scene resisting human intrusion.
Like a mirage these objects seem to reconfigure themselves, the active mystery of uncertain vision. The work emits its aura without muscular statement or grand scale. The largest fire proceeds through aeons of emptiness in textures, tones, shapes, and edges, superimposes, and washes. The largest fire proceeds.
Melanie Neilson Junceau

Project Space: new doors by John Giglio

Marcin Ramocki

blogger skins

“blogger skins” is a project based on time-specific capturing of image Google searches.
The community most sensitive to this new phenomenon, and par excellence conceptually most related, is the world of pro-bloggers. For this project I chose five art bloggers: Tom Moody (tommoody.us), Paddy Johnson (artfagcity.com), Régine Debatty (we-make-money-not-art.com), James Wagner (jameswagner.com) and Joy Garnett (newsgrist.typepad.com) and performed specific image searches on their names. The thumbnails of first 100 images were imported (in the order of appearance) into an HTML editor and compiled into an image map, reflecting the original Google layout and popularity of search items.

John Giglio
New Project Space Location rear Door and Installation by John Giglio.
In keeping with the Front Doors designed by Giglio in 2004 the rear door expands aMP's new media ambitions.

Galapagos Abstract Horror Sunday 7.30

BubblyFish aka Haeyoung Kim
Ken Butler Abstract Horror at Galapagos


Program Abstract Horror

7.30-7.45 Matt Freedman and Tim Spelios (performance)
In this collaboration these multi-talented artists riff off each other, Matt drawing cartoons as Tim drums. Satire meets absurdity in this off-beat combination.

7.50-8.05 Ken Butler (performance)
Ken Butler’s Voices of Anxious Objects The artist-musician performs mesmerizing world textures and driving melodic gypsy grooves with passion and purpose on an amazing arsenal of amplified hybrid string instruments made from household objects and tools. Duchampian Dada meets Hybrid Hindu Hendrix as function and form collide in an environment ofhyperactive hardware. Perhaps he will drag out some of the more “dangerous” instruments for this show. Guns, swords, axes, and knives may sing for their supper.

8.10-8.17 Oliver Michaels “Marching to the Sun” quicktime movie A ridiculous video sculpture that spits and spews various mundane objects, so questioning perpetual energy and common sense.

8.20-8.8.23 Richard Kern (“Lulu in the woods”1 minute. A short video of a beautiful young woman (lulu) moving around in nature in her underwear. Innocence mixes with anticipation of some action.

8.25-8.30 Marcin Ramocki “Serenity” dvd “Serenity* is a short and funny video depicting a group of people discussing the artistic merits of the
sci-fi feature "Serenity”

8.32-8.33 Jillian Mcdonald “Zombie Animation” A motley crew of zombies – images downloaded from www documentation of flash mob “zombie-walks” - lumber through post-industrial cityscapes long gentrified and now rezoned for condo living.

8.34-8.40 Linda Post ( Mortal Storm) dvd Mortal Storm appropriates the opening footage of a Hollywood film of
the same title from 1940. A god-like voice booms over storm clouds,
lamenting human the weakness to resort to violence. The scene is
repeated, locking us in a loop of the dilemma.

8.41-8.46 William Stone “Savage Ferox” dvd
In 2005 Stone traveled 150 miles up a jungle river in Guyana South America with Mark Dion and Bob Braine. Shark the guide tells a story of the only movie that he had ever seen on a big screen as a few bottles of rum were consumed around the jungle campfire. It was an Italian movie called Savage Ferox (sometimes called Let them Die Slowly) that was banned in Italy because it was rumored that real human corpses were used.

8.50-9.05 Tom Moody (performance) For this performance Moody will play a selection of his tunes accompanied by looping animated GIFs from his website.

9.10- Bubbly Fish (performance) Playing with a gameboy Haeyoung Kim creates penetrating 8-bit music .

Galapagos http://www.galapagosartspace.com/newmedia.html

John Giglio rear folding door(installation)

Photo credit: Greg Vore
John Giglio Kickin ass
The New Project Space puts up fight.

Review on Rhizome

Political Timing

Condensation, distillation, and repetition are just some of temporal strategies that the 11 artists in the small but striking show of video work Digital Political Time Lapse at the Brooklyn campus of Long Island University employ to represent the last few years in global media history. Understandably, the United States’ war in Iraq as well as the paranoid catastrophe of recent homefront politics looms large for many of them. Inside the fishtank-like gallery in the lobby of the university’s Kumble Theater, William Stone’s 2004 work ‘Plural Nounsss’ edits one of George Bush’s State of the Union address down to a series of elemental words, such as “benefits,” “terrorism,” and “firefighters,” while Adam Simon presents a ‘Video Portrait’ from 2002 of photographer Moyra Davey softly decrying the post-September 11th directive to go shopping in the name of safety, and Aunrico Gatson presents a single-channel video slpit into a three-monitor, machine gun-paced slideshow of war images culled from the Internet. But in addition to time-based ruminations on war and security, several works, such as Jillian Mcdonald’s animation derived from Webcam footage of the 2006 bloom of a “corpse flower” at Brooklyn’s own botanic gardens, veer into the many different Web-enabled images that have found their way into the political melange. Among them are several that insert the personal into the news-driven mix. Marcin Ramocki, for example, creates pixilated portraits, using the composition tool of an ancient Macintosh sound-editing application, that create a spazz-core cacophony when played. The exhibition comes full circle when, on a table opposite the entrance, a surveillance camera and attached monitor capture video of visitors, who can then rewind from their own real-time moment all the way back to the exhibition opening to watch others encounter themselves on screen.

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Jillian Mcdonald at Moti Hasson

Jillian Mcdonald - Waking the Dead
Moti Hasson Gallery
531 W 25th Street
New York, NY
Oct 11 - Nov 10, '07
opening Oct 11, 6-8pm

Review Ken Butler Drawing and Driving

Ken with Martha Wilson
http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/30/37/30_37slotcars.html
Travis Steward The Brooklyn Paper

Ken Butler "Drawing and Driving" Drawings @ artMovingProjects

"Adirondack lmp 900 race car body" pencil on paper 18x24” Ken Butler 2004
"Race Car Piano"(slow car) pencil on paper 18x24” Ken Butler 2004
"Bicycle Keyboard" pencil on paper 18x24” Ken Butler 2003 (Detail)
"Modern Piano" pencil on paper 18x24” Ken Butler 2005
"Musical Chairs Roto-Picker" pencil on paper 18x24” Ken Butler 2005
"Lazy Susan 2-person k-board" pencil on paper 18x24" Ken Butler 2004

Mike's World & Transactions at the Blanton in Austin, TX

The Blanton Museum in Austin TX currently has the terrific show, Mike's World, the first major retrospective of the work of Michael Smith & Josh White (and other collaborators).


Also at the Blanton check out Transactions, an exhibition focusing on artists who have adopted a radical approach to artistic production and distribution. Artists: Conrad Bakker, Daniel Bozhkov, Eugenio Dittborn, Christine Hill, Emily Jacir, Ben Kinmont, Cildo Meireles, Seth Price, Zoë Sheehan Saldaña.

Catalogs of both shows are available through the museum store. Call (512) 475-6406 or e-mail aklossner[at]mail[dot]utexas[dot]edu for more information.

Political Digital Time Lapse at LIU

http://www.brooklyn.liu.edu/location/directions.html
Long Island University
Gallery hours are M-F 9-6 - weekends
contact : 718-488-1198 Nancy Grove
Nancy.grove @liu.edu

Digital Political Time Lapse

September 3-28 2007
Opening 7.00-9.00 P.M.
Thursday, September 20th 2007

Perry Bard, Rico Gatson, Perry Hoberman, Jillian Mcdonald,
Tom Moody, Marcin Ramocki, Zoë Sheehan Saldaña, Paul Slocum, Adam Simon, William Stone, and Momoyo Torimitsu

Curated by Aron Namenwirth

In many different approaches these artists address
our current political and physical environment.

Perry Bard
“Logic” DVD 2006
Philosopher Nick Pappas expounds on Aristotle’s definition of a syllogism using the
Department of Homeland Security as inspiration. Footage of Homeland Security at work in NY subways and airports mix with pure color while the syllogism dissolves into babble.
http://perrybard.net/

Aunrico Gatson
“Media Center” 2003 is a single channel video shown on three
monitors. It is a meditation on the atrocities of the War in Iraq through
the use of images lifted off the internet. The soundtrack is a Tibetan
Buddhist chant that expresses both chaos and order.
http://www.feldmangallery.com/pages/artistsrffa/artgat01.html

Perry Hoberman
“Condemned to Repeat“
Http//www.perryhoberman.com/

Jillian Mcdonald
Horror Cycle: The Bloom of the Triffid
video • 2006
animation • 2006
The Bloom of the Triffid is a one and a half minute animation loop. In August 2006 one of the world’s most rare and remarkable plants, a corpse flower, bloomed in Brooklyn’s Botanical Garden. Visitors came in droves, attracted to the flower's monstrousness. Notably, in Victorian times, ladies were not permitted to view such a bloom due to it’s phallic visual reference. A webcam was trained on the bloom which released a gruesome stench. Throughout the week-long bloom, I tracked the webcam, fanatically downloading images. The title and soundtrack reference "The Day of the Triffids", a novel written by John Wyndham in 1951 and made into a cult film in 1962. Triffids are fictional plants that are capable of various animal behaviors including attacking and killing humans.
http://www.jillianmcdonald.net/media.html

Tom Moody
"Guitar Solo" DVD 2005
comments from blog
omg, what the hell IS that? that's amazing. - paul (guest) 2-17-2005
11:47 am I like it! - sally mckay 2-17-2005 11:59 am that's totally
great. - mbs (guest) 2-17-2005 12:35 pm nice notes! - atomicelroy (guest)
2-18-2005 6:14 pm Hunter S. Thompson blew his brains out yesterday. Did
this mpeg play a part? - pmsummer (guest) 2-21-2005 7:30 pm
http://www.tommoody.us/

Marcin Ramocki
“Torcito Projects”
“Torcito Portraits” are digital animations based on re-purposing an old Macintosh musical software Virtual Drummer.
http://www.ramocki.net/

Zoë Sheehan Saldaña
"Homegrown Allure" DVD 2007
Young tobacco plants open, close, and gently sway
in styrofoam cells. Fifteen hours become eighteen
seconds, only to become eternity. Excerpted from
a timelapse animation created during a month-long
exhibition at artMovingProjects in the spring of
2007.
http://www.zoesheehan.com/

Adam Simon
Video Portrait DVD 2002
Moyra Davey talks about “afgani boys playing with gameboys” – “we have to shop to save ourselves” – “we lay waste our powers in getting and spending” -
http://www.adamsimonart.com/

Paul Slocum with Chad Hopper
"Hats"
"A big chunk of Slocum's screen space is taken up with a banal jpeg of
baseball hats on an armchair; the rest is a confused multiplicity of
windows opening and closing as well as overlapping and interrupting a guy
confessing on YouTube his unfaithfulness to his girlfriend." Tom Moody
http://www.qotile.net/blog/wp/

William Stone
“Pural Nounsss” DVD 2004
This video first shown at artMoving in 2004 shows President George Bush talking on National television. The Cuts make him seem more himself.
http://www.williamsstone.net/flics/pluralnouns.html

Momoyo Torimitsu
(Part of) Horizon DVD 2004
This video is part of an installation in which a hundred toy businessmen crawl around in a model world with oil fields.
courtesy of :The Swiss Institute and Deitch Projects

Ken Butler Driving and Drawing artMovingProjects

Emilio Perez www.galerielelong.com/
Ward Shelly www.wardshelley.com/

artMovingProjects
166 N.12th St, between Bedford and Berry Sts., Williamsburg (917-301-6680, 917-301-0306).
Subway: L to Bedford Ave.Thu-Sun, 1pm - 6pm www.artmovingprojects.com artmovingprojects.blogspot.com
info@artmovingprojects.com

Ken Butler

Perry Hoberman project space artMovingProjects

Ken Butler's simulator Oliver Michaels Class B License Passed at artMovingProjects

Ken Butler installation

Becky Kolsrud test driving Ken Butler's simulator

natalie moore in group show opening september 12th

Strand is a show of artists who work in a similar vein. A shared affinity for the hard within the soft and the potency of material is explored. There is a poetic strength to the work which refers to both the physical environment and to a broader sense of social connectivity. The fact that all the work is in some way contingent upon its environment speaks to a desire not simply to transcend a mutual dependency, but to embrace it. Pieces hang from the ceiling, are embedded in the wall, piled upon the floor, wrapped around structure, or woven into armature. Strand, in this fashion, transcends the simple meaning of fiber, thread or linear form to evoke a sense both of connectedness and isolation.

Featured artists:

Rico Gatson
Orly Genger
Heather Hart
Jac Lernier
Natalie Moore
Ellie Murphy

NYCAMS 44 west 28th street, 7th floor
opening reception: September 12th, 6-8pm

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