AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

In a dynamic change to the format of the traditional SIGGRAPH Art Gallery, this year's art program will represent innovative, juried and curated installations. I was lucky enough to be invited to serve on this Jury by its Chair, Lina Yamaguchi (see below), and am quite excited to see this exhibition in August in L.A. ... this experience with Lina and the other Jurors was a great one and I believe this exhibition will be quite a 'marker' (alongside Vibeke Sorensen's Jury in 2007) for all the experimental arts.
J.Dill
http://interdisciplinaryartinstitute.com
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Slow Art:
In Slow Art, new media artists re-imagine speed through the paradigm of slowness.

Vol. 5, Issue 2 of The Poetry Victims is now online @

http://thepoetryvictimsvol5.blogspot.com/

Guest artist ... Carol Radsprecher
Guest poet ... Taylor Graham

Check it out!

Jeff

I'm speakin of hell...every fuckin weekend I dwell
On this redundant life cycle that repeated itself
No different from the last, but the beat of it spells
Imprisonment from nine to five, it keeps me in jail
A humble mind is crumblin, to flakes and ash I'm stumblin
While takin cash to pump it in, to gas's taxation
A nation's addiction, to be burnin oil...my jubilation
Reached its boiling point, as my sermon coils in truth - my patience
Left the hospital, impatiently as my premonition
Strapped itself to when my vision's, windshield was clean...
As I windmill through dreams, fantasies of who I used to be
A life liver drop out, reminiscin on who I used to see
A copout of mine, was that I had no time to write a rhyme
Thoughts grew insecure, so now I hide this idle life of mine.

I've been trying to upload an image for three days now - can't get anything but a little red x. I've changed the size to weblog size, changed to .gif from .jpg and now I can't even get a preview of it. Argh...

I'm supposed to be upstairs doing "stuff" - - - all I want to do is work on some art. Summers are tough - kids around all the time, breaks concentration. I admire artists who can get work done while their children are home. Those who will peacefully sit with Mom or Dad, creating their own art. Is this a myth? Mine always have questions, want to go somewhere, etc.

Of course, that's family life. I LOVE family life, but sometimes I get in my art "zone" and I want to build walls around me. So I don't even start art because I don't want to wall off my family that way...

Check it oot: http://www.nedpr.org/2008/write-on

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• A conversation with Enrique Kalil about producing his NedPR episode Enrikaydio (Check it out at http://www.nedpr.org/2008/enrikaydio)
• Nedcaster talks about the work of writing and shares his writings at www.mypencilpours.com
• Writings from Nedcaster, Lacy Telles, Jaime Becktel and Molly Benson
• Morning Becomes Epileptic w/Ned Hardcore and music from Ben Floren and Friends (Check out more at www.myspace.com/guestroomsessions)
• Ernest Hemingway’s Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
• Artwork created by Jaime Becktel

LISTEN AND SHARE YOUR OWN WORK!!!

Create on...

Nedcaster

Hi all; I'm new here and looking forward to connecting. I'm pretty isolated, which is good for getting work done, but sometimes it just sucks the life out of me. This should prove a good antidote. I'm on a low right now after a complete manic spring, which was excellent for creativity but awful for sleep. The fam. suffered.

I'm getting us ready for a trip to Seattle/Bellingham/Lummi Island to visit former Peace Corps (dh's) friends. I'll be taking along the sketchbook; maybe there'll be something worth posting. Friends have been traveling around the world this summer and have brought me all sorts of wonderful ephemera, too, for my collages and assemblages. Now I'll have "stuff" from the NW, too.

I ponder bout life and bein somber wit no options
Of exonerating me, from this haunted state of livin in
The discipline of discontent, my vision starts but never ends
Freedom's not a regiment...I follow in life.
So my negligence to speak my voice leaves me deaf wit every noise
I'm reachin for the stars while the stars reach for other boys.
It's not my time, It's not my time,

Part 2 coming up...

Beata Szechy
Costume Textile Project
exhibition at
Ferencvarosi Gallery
IX. Mester u. 5. Budapest, Hungary
Opening remarks by Wehner Tibor

THREADS: Beata Szechy's Exhibition, Ferencvarosi Gallery, Budapest

The videos, installation pieces and traditional technique prints compose this exhibition. The installation is a continuation of Beata Szechy's earlier works and subject matter. Szechy started her artistic career almost thirty years ago. The early period of her works included concepts of legacy, symbolism and avant-garde combinations of visual elements. Traditions and subject matter, the unusual, and realism float together while simultaneously breaking apart from each other. In this way, Szechy has created a special style and meaning in her work.

AIR, International Artists Residencies - Exhibit, Hungary
(works in a variety of media)

Vizivarosi Gallery, 1027 Budapest II. Kapas utca 55

June 26- July 19, 2008
Opening remarks: Dr. Katalin Geller - art historian
and
Mark Tauber, Cultural Attashe - US Embassy, Budapest
Curator: Beata Szechy - HMC

NEW: Call for artists - A.I.R. International Artists Residencies- BUDAPEST, Hungary

We are proud to announce that our residency/seminar program due to it's success has been expanded.

The Hungarian Multicultural Center (HMC) is currently accepting applications for the Budapest -International Artist/Writer Residencies. The HMC invites interested visual artists, musicians, film makers and writers to submit application for its residencies program.

1. Deadline (must be received) August 1, 2008
for September - October AIR
2. Deadline (must be received) September 15, 2008
for November AIR
3. Deadline (must be received) October 15, 2008
for December - January AIR

Residencies Dates
1. Wednesday, September 24 - Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Seminarium on September 26th