We have a few questions about your response to our 'Curated' invitation.
We are giving a standard format to
all of the participant's
(art historians/curators) selections.
The participants are to select and
send 2 or 3 art images/texts, along
with a brief explanatory essay,
to BaseKamp.
The essay (1 paragraph to 1 page) should
explain the participants'
reasons/intentions behind their selections.
Our idea here is to give the viewers
some insight into the kind of
connections and/or meanings (new or
historical) that a variety of art
curators/historians make -- but also
to give the participants themselves
a platform to follow through on and
exhibit connections that they
otherwise maynot have the opportunity
for (limited time slots, budgets,
access to works, venues, etc.).
We plan to digitally format each participant's
art image/text selections
into a standard 8.5" x 11" size, and
present them together. Each set of
2-3 selections will be numbered, and
the corresponding numbered
explanatory essays will be displayed
seperately. The audience can either
guess at the participants connections
(and make their own) if they choose
to view the selections first, or they
can satisfy their curiosity by viewing
the participants' selections (and
imagine their own), if they choose to read
the explanatory essay(s) first. Either
way, seperating the essays from the
selections requires that viewers have
more interaction with the contents
of the exhibition. It requires that
they give the show more
than just a once-over, but it also
delays an immediate Q&A gratification,
making it more possible for viewers
to come up with other readings
while still lending insight into the
individual perspectives of a number
of art historians/ curators from a
variety of backgrounds.
These are our reasons for our intended format.
So our questions to you are:
1. How does what you sent us (below) work within what
we are asking?
The text you sent us is interesting.
Is one of your selections the website
that you are writing about? If so,
what other art images/texts are you
planning to present with it? also
(if so), do you want us to print the
website link i big letters on an 8.5x11
page or do you want another
image or something to represent the
site?
If one of your selections is not the
website, what exactly is it/are they?
2. Can you give us some brief background information about
yourself?
We know next to nothing about you,
except what we see via FLUXlist
postings.
Since you have responded to our call
for art historians/curators, we are
assuming that you fit the description.
We are listing you as {Brad Brace}/
Independant Curator for the time
being, but this is an assumption on
our part. You may be teach art history
at a university somewhere, we dont
know. Please let us know whether you
are a curator or an art historian,
and if there are any institutions you wish
to be affiliated with or not.
Please get back to us as soon as you can, as the opening
of the show is
next Friday, June 09.
Sincerely,
Justin Matherly,
Leigh Stevens,
David Dempewolf,
and Scott Rigby.
BaseKamp
215.592.7288
723 Chestnut St
second floor
Phila, PA 19106
www.basekamp.com
{Brad Brace} Wrote:
Subject: Re: FLUXLIST: FLUXLIST/ 'Curated'/ confirmation
requested by May
26/ BaseKamp Invitation for June 09 2000
Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 20:43:15 -0700 (PDT)
From: { brad brace } <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: scott rigby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> > > > Synopsis: The 12hr-ISBN-JPEG Project began December
30, 1994. A
`round-the-clock posting of sequenced hypermodern imagery
from Brad Brace.
The hypermodern minimizes the familiar, the known, the
recognizable; it
suspends identity, relations and history. This discourse,
far from
determining the locus in which it speaks, is avoiding
the ground on which
it could find support. It is trying to operate a decentering
that leaves
no privilege to any center.
The 12-hour ISBN JPEG Project
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began December 30, 1994
Pointless Hypermodern Imagery... posted/mailed
every 12 hours... a
spectral, trajective alignment for the 00`s! A continuum
of minimalist
masks in the face of catastrophe; conjuring up transformative
metaphors
for the everyday... A poetic reversibility of exclusive
events...
A post-rhetorical,
continuous, apparently random sequence of
imagery... genuine gritty, greyscale... corruptable,
compact,
collectable and compelling convergence. The voluptuousness
of the grey
imminence: the art of making the other disappear. Continual
visual impact;
an optical drumming, sculpted in duration, on the endless
present of the
Net.
An extension of the printed ISBN-Book (0-9690745)
series... critically
unassimilable... imagery is gradually acquired, selected
and re-sequenced
over time... ineluctable, vertiginous connections.
The 12hr dialtone...
[ see ftp.netcom.com/pub/bb/bbrace/books ]
KEYWORDS: >> Disconnected, disjunctive, distended, de-centered,
de-composed, ambiguous, augmented, ambilavent,
homogeneous, reckless...
>> Multi-faceted, oblique, obsessive, obscure, obdurate...
>> Promulgated, personal, permeable, prolonged, polymorphous,
provocative,
poetic, plural, perverse, potent, prophetic,
pathological, pointless...
>> Emergent, evolving, eccentric, eclectic, egregious,
exciting,
entertaining, evasive, entropic, erotic,
entrancing, enduring,
expansive...
Every 12 hours,
another!... view them, re-post `em, save `em,
trade `em, print `em, even publish them...
Here`s how:
~ Set www-links to -> http://www.teleport.com/~bbrace/12hr.html
-> http://bbrace.laughingsquid.net/12hr.html
Look for the 12-hr-icon. Heavy traffic may require
you to specify files
more than once! Anarchie, Fetch, CuteFTP, TurboGopher...
Or -> ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/bb/bbrace/bbrace.html
~ Download from -> ftp.pacifier.com /pub/users/bbrace
Download from -> ftp.netcom.com /pub/bb/bbrace
Download from -> ftp.teleport.com
/users/bbrace
Download from -> ftp.rdrop.com
/pub/users/bbrace
Download from -> ftp.eskimo.com /u/b/bbrace
* Remember to set tenex or binary. Get 12hr.jpeg
~ E-mail -> If you only have access to email, then you
can use FTPmail to
do essentially the same thing. Send a message
with a body of 'help' to the
server address nearest you:
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~ Mirror-sites requested! Archives too!
The latest new jpeg will always be named, 12hr.jpeg
Average size of images is only 45K.
*
Perl program to mirror ftp-sites/sub-directories:
src.doc.ic.ac.uk:/packages/mirror
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~ Postings to usenet newsgroups:
alt.12hr
alt.binaries.pictures.12hr
alt.binaries.pictures.misc
alt.binaries.pictures.fine-art.misc
* * Ask your system's news-administrator to carry these
groups!
(There are also usenet image browsers: TIFNY,
PluckIt, Picture Agent,
PictureView, Extractor97, NewsRover,
Binary News Assistant, EasyNews)
~ This interminable, relentless sequence of imagery began
in earnest on
December 30, 1994. The basic structure of the project
has been over
twenty-four years in the making. While the specific sequence
of
photographs has been presently orchestrated for more
than 12 years` worth
of 12-hour postings, I will undoubtedly be tempted to
tweak the ongoing
publication with additional new interjected imagery.
Each 12-hour posting
is like the turning of a page; providing ample time for
reflection,
interruption, and assimilation.
~ The sites listed above also contain information on other
cultural
projects and sources.
~ A very low-volume, moderated mailing list for announcements
and
occasional commentary related to this project has been
established. Send
e-mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /subscribe 12hr-isbn-jpeg
--
This project has not received government art-subsidies.
Some opportunities
still exist for financially assisting the publication
of editions of large
(33x46") prints; perhaps (Iris giclees) inkjet duotones
on newsprint!
Other supporters receive rare copies of the first three
web-offset printed
ISBN-Books.
--
ISBN is International Standard Book Number. JPEG and
GIF are types of
image files. Get the text-file, 'pictures-faq' to learn
how to view or
translate these images. [ftp ftp.netcom.com/pub/bb/bbrace]
--
(c) Credit appreciated. No copyright 1994,1995,1996,1997,1998,1999,2000
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