FLUXLIST: group....art (frum hereonout called Fluxstamps)
Hi Owen: Good idea, perhaps I am being too laissez faire about the size, due to the wonders of photoshop, but, you are right, specifics are important as certainly I wouldn't want to distort an image when resizing. Ultimately, the standard size of the stamp should be: Square: Image size, 1.075 x 1.075 in/ 27.31 x 27.31 mm Vertical: Image size, 1.41 in. high x .84 in. wide/35.81 x 21.34 mm Horizontal: Image size, .84 in. high, 1.41 in. wide/ 21.34 x 35.81 mm The format for the sheet of stamps, once they are gridded together, would be a row of the squares, a row of the verticals, a row of the horizontals, whatever, depending on what I get. Due to internet isp breakdowns where all my messages are floating in cyberspace from Saturday, a great trip to San Francisco to do museums and drink martinis and eat oysters Sunday, and the fact that my birfday is today, I'm in a bit of a spin. However, I will repost my original message, edited, and perhaps made more clearly clear, later on, on fluxstamp idea and requirements. My plan right now is to have stamp images sent to me at my email address at 100 res. in the above sizes or something lareger comparable that can be resized by me in a .jpg format. when I have a few together, I will post them to Fluxlist in a low res. .gif format which should save bandwidth, and yet everyone can see what's goin' on. In the alternative, you can mail images to me and I can scan them in - just let me know they're coming. P.K. Harris 137 Sixth Street Pacific Grove, California, 93950 When we get enough fluxstamps, we go to press!!! vrom, PK Owen Smith wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED],.Internet writes: > > >Whoever wishes to participate would create an art stamp - be it > >photography, graphics, whatever, and can email it to me in the > >form of a .jpg image insert, in a smallish size at 100 > >resolution. Doesn't have to be the size of a stamp - I can take > >care of resizing. > > Sounds great count me in - would it be appropriate to suggest a > standard size (75cm x75cm) or at least format vertical oriented > rectangle?? > > Owen
FLUXLIST: Fwd: [noise] No Music Festival
>http://www3.sympatico.ca/rorytate/nmf2k/ > >Forest City Gallery and the Nihilist Spasm Band present: > > The No Music Festival > > March 30, March 31 & April 1, 2000 > at Aeolian Hall and Forest City Gallery >795 Dundas Street, London, Ontario > >FCG and NSB are pleased to announce the 2000 edition of Canada's >premiere "noise" music event to be held in London, Ontario on three days >from Thursday March 30 to Saturday April 1. The Nihilist Spasm Band act >as hosts of honor to a remarkable slate of Canadian experimental >musicians plus an international line up of "friends," from Switzerland, >Japan, and the United States, all visiting Canada expressly to >participate in the third No Music Festival. This important and unique >event is presented by Forest City Gallery, a pioneering artist run >centre founded by NSB members Murray Favro and the late Greg Curnoe, >among others. > >The No Music Festival was launched in 1998 with a remarkable level of >personal and aritstic chemistry. Widespread critical receptivity to its >recorded performances, released in a 6 CD "No Music Box," quickly spread >the festival's reputation, now regarded among the most innovative and >enjoyable experimental music events in the world. These accelerated >fortunes follow the eminence and mystique of the NSB, a highly original >"anti music" group which lapsed into relative obscurity after the >sensation of its 1965 formation, until being rediscovered by a new >audience within the past five years. > >No Music is conducted in five parts over three nights. The first concert >will be held Thursday at 8 PM in Aeolian Hall - a triple bill. Opening >is a brilliant, unheralded free-jazz saxophonist Eric Stach, making a >prodigal return to his longtime home of London after a four-year >absence. Stach sprang from the same mid 60s scene at the York Hotel as >did the Spasm Band. He performs here in duet with another powerful >London musician, cellist Doug Innis. The second act, the Black Auks, >which heralds from St. John's, Nfld., also bears comparison to the NSB. >It gathers every Monday night to play go for broke music as captured on >its recent CD, No Second Takes. The first night >closes with an unclassifiable event, the world premiere of Gary >Hill/Paulina >Wallenberg-Olsson/John Boyle. Seattle based artist Hill, a 1998 >MacArthur Fellow, is towering figure in the field of sound. He brings >Wallenberg-Olsson, an astonishing Bjork-like Scandinavian vocalist, and >is joined by Boyle, the last remaining kazooist with the NSB, one of >famously creative mind. This promises to be unforgettable! > >Friday's Aeolian concert, a quadruple bill, also begins at 8 PM. Lee >Ranaldo/Paul Dutton, another world premiere, opens. Ranaldo is best >known as a guitarist, singer, and composer with the New York quartet, >Sonic Youth, which just released it's Goodbye 20th Century tribute to >the musical avant-garde. Dutton, an inimical "mouth" artist from >Toronto, has been a member of two of Canada's most storied vanguard >formations, the Four Horsemen (in the 70s and 80s) and, currently, CCMC. >They are followed by one of the most exciting emerging groups in Canada, >Undo, a Montreal duo comprised of Christof Migone and Alexandre >St.-Onge. Undo generates low level sounds from simple electronic >consoles and from mini-microphones which they swish in their mouths. >This is quiet noise. The third act on this busy night presents the North >American debut of the enigmatic Osaka artist Aube. Otherwise known as >Akifumi Nakajima, Aube's long list of recordings magnify sub-auditory >sounds (of breath, blood, or electric flow) into a tidal waves of > noise. Finally, the legendary Voice Crack, from St. Gallen, >Switzerland, make a rare Canadian appearance. The duo of Andy Guhl and >Norbert Moslang play "cracked everyday electronics," thewhir and grumble >of discarded consumer appliances. > > The Saturday Aeolian Hall concert, also beginning at 8 PM, opens with >Unclean Wiener, from Vancouver. A riotous act of noise-cabaret, this >trio features Petra Erstenuk (vocals), Shawn Bristow (bass), and Galen >Curnoe (drums) performing amidst a bevy of sight gags, costumes, and >teetering props. Curnoe is a second-generation noisician, after his >father Greg of the NSB. Another theatrical noise act follows, Mne-mic >(Mayuko Hino and Ranko Onishi, female artists from Tokyo), in its North >American debut following the 1999 release the Gulf Stream CD. Mne-mic >employ electronic effects and foghorn vocals to synthesize such >disparate modes as Butoh dance, performance art and cartoonish Japanese >erotica. In the final set, the Nihilist Spasm Band incorporates a number >of >surprise guests into an expanded festival line-up. The NSB promises >several new songs in a state-of-the-millenium address, Nihilist Party >style. The NSB is: John Boyle (kazoo, drums), John Clement (guitar, >drum
FLUXLIST: Re: Happy Birthday Johannes (Gutenberg)
Just received a mailer from Heike-K. Hoenig, the curator of this massive 600th anniversary of Johannes Gutenberg's birthday in the city of Mainz, Germany. The announcement is under the patronage of BENJAMIN PATTERSON, a Fluxite and he signed the whole thing with an UMBRELLA. I cannot believe it. Due to this occasion a special pavilion has been built on the Rhine River embankment in Mainz. Exhibitions (8 altogether) will be held there throughout the entire year, dealing with the modern results of Gutenberg's invention, the movable lead type. The 5th exhibition (24 June - 13 July 2000) opens on 23 June 200 at 8 p.m. and will have the following theme: Happy Birthday Johannes. They are inviting artists worldwide to participate in a mail art project. The idea is to receive your mailed work, which will be displayed in the pavilion and then summarized in a catalog. The normal postcard format should not be exceeded. Print, photography, etc. will be what you wish. Your project may also be broadened through other media, for example acoustics. The theme of this mail-art should be in reference to Gutenberg's birthday! There will be no fees paid for these projects. However, after the end of this exhibition, all projects will be mailed back to the participants through a random procedure. This means, each participant will receive the project of another artist (or maybe your own?). Additionally, each participant will receive a copy of the catalog. You work should be postmarked not later than 30 April 2000 (the deadline). Please do not forget your return address on the mail art. Spread the word--this is a vast project that should be a joy to behold! Send to Heike-K. Hoenig, Projektburo Gutenberg Pavillon, Seppel-Gluckert-Passage 10, 55116 Mainz, Germany. Also see website: www.gutenbergpavillon.de and enjoy! At the opening on 7 January 2000, some of the participants were Ben Patterson, Mimmo Rotella, Ludger Maria Kochinke, Klaus Benz, Jurgen Hill, Roland Siegrist, Reinhart Morscher, Christian Kohl, Mirella Fortunato, and Klaus Chmielewski. Performances were "Rite of Laceration" and "Phonetic Poems" by Mimmo Rotella and Strassenrand. Judith A. Hoffberg tel.: (310)399-1146 Umbrella/Umbrella Editions fax: (310)399-5070 P.O. Box 3640 Santa Monica CA 90408 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://colophon.com/journal http://www.geocities.com/books2eat/ Let a smile be your umbrella!
FLUXLIST: Re: Carolee Schneemann
The Department of Art and Art Professions, New York University / School of Education is pleased to present C A R O L E E S C H N E E M A N N : D I S R U P T I V E C O N S C I O U S N E S S Thursday, March 9th, 6:30 PM Einstein Auditorium, 34 Stuyvesant Street (at 9th Street and 3rd Avenue) Schneemann is a multidisciplinary artist who transformed the definition of art through her exploration of the body, sexuality, and gender. Using examples of her own work, Schneemann will discuss resistance and radicalization in contemporary art practice as affected by commodification and self-censorship. Schneemann has exhibited at the Whitney Museum of Art; Centre Georges Pompidou; and the New Museum of Contemporary Art. She has also taught at many institutions and has published widely, including Cezanne, She Was a Great Painter (1976) and More Than Meat Joy: Performance Works and Selected Writings (1979). The event is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact Kim Milhoan at 212.998.5799 or respond to this email. Judith A. Hoffberg tel.: (310)399-1146 Umbrella/Umbrella Editions fax: (310)399-5070 P.O. Box 3640 Santa Monica CA 90408 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://colophon.com/journal http://www.geocities.com/books2eat/ Let a smile be your umbrella!
Re: FLUXLIST: originale
> For those of you still wondering about the fluxlistbox - I am still > struggling with the CD (as well as a few other last kinks on some of > the inclusions) and if I do not get things straightened out soon I will > send out the boxes and then follow with the CD, but I still hope to get > them done and sent out as one unit. More to follow as soon as I have One ! The longer it lasts, the greater the surprise ;-) Heiko
Re: FLUXLIST: passion for fashion
[EMAIL PROTECTED],.Internet writes: >I was thinking maybe you guys could buzz around some ideas for me to get >my gears going. Anything goes. >I'llbe displaying them by wearing them with my friends although my prof >keeps insisting on somesort of gallery thing. Well I'll focus but >galleries... >pllph! >any ideas reactions are welcome, focus! Sherry - there actually was some Fluxus clothes (and George had a thing for crossdressing) the two that always stand out in my mind were the Fluxus underwear (male and female, by Bob Watts) that had photographic images of the upper and lower torsos printed on T-shirts and underwear. Owen
Re: FLUXLIST: group.....art?
[EMAIL PROTECTED],.Internet writes: >Whoever wishes to participate would create an art stamp - be it >photography, graphics, whatever, and can email it to me in the >form of a .jpg image insert, in a smallish size at 100 >resolution. Doesn't have to be the size of a stamp - I can take >care of resizing. Sounds great count me in - would it be appropriate to suggest a standard size (75cm x75cm) or at least format vertical oriented rectangle?? Owen
Re: FLUXLIST: joe jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED],.Internet writes: >hello, >any information is helpful, but primarily a discography of his released >music >(lps, cassettes, cds). if possible i would like information on the >label to >inquire on attainability of these recordings. also, names of articles >or >books that provide information on his methods. >thank you.. There are a few thing on Joe (he is included in many/most of the anthologies on Fluxus) but one of the better sources is the Book "Joe Jones Music Machines from the Sixties until Now," Rene Block, Berlin: DAAD, 1990 ISBN #3-89357-018-7. Also you might check his obit in the NYTimes, I remember that it was fairly good. Owen
FLUXLIST: Archiving -- Rod's questions
Quick answers to Rod's questions: The issue is not whether scolars are interested now. The issue is whether you orgnize an archive with the intention that it (eventually) will be a rich, well structured archive of documents giving broad and deep insight. Many historically significant archives go unused at first. Some remain unused long after they move into a museum or university. The point is that they are orgnized so that scholars (and others) are able to use them when the interest arise. It isn't the current interest of users that determines an archive. It inolves something like the three criteria I suggested and the degree to which the archive meets those criteria. The reason -- in a sense of your personal motive -- is irrelevant, as long as it meets the criteria. The issue of funding is also irrelevant. The question you ask on organizing principles is a matter that archivists and librarians often debate. The only consensus is that all documents be preserved, and that if they are reorgnized, records preserve the original structure to permit earlier states to be reconstructed. Regarding your question on Jean Brown, an archivist collector is not a collector of archives. It is a collector who is also an archivist. Ken Friedman --
Re: FLUXLIST: originale
Just back for New York and trying to catch up on email - There were several performances of this work, but I am sure that you are thinking of the 1964 performance in New York which was picketed by several people associated with Fluxus Flynt, Maciunas, Vautier (and performed by several others Higgins, Paik, etc). The best source of information on this (and all the related aspects, factors and fall out) is the work By Hannah Higgins. I believe that she does cover some of the aspect of this in her essay in the Fluxus Reader, even though her best essay (most complete) is an essay that she gave at CAA in 1993/4 and I do not think that it has been subsequently published in this form - although Ken might know better because he and Peter Frank chaired the session. For those of you still wondering about the fluxlistbox - I am still struggling with the CD (as well as a few other last kinks on some of the inclusions) and if I do not get things straightened out soon I will send out the boxes and then follow with the CD, but I still hope to get them done and sent out as one unit. More to follow as soon as I have more information. Owen
