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Keith Wong
Brilliant.
Welcome Rose Collins!
Gorgeous!
THIS IS A NOT-ME
Beautiful writing!
Michael Manente Wins Best in Show Honors
I love this work
DOMENICA VAVALA
Lovely image.
Bernadette Trench-Thiedeman
Awesome.
David Manley
Divine.
James Parrett
Love the multi colour.
Wallace & Gromit and friends: The magic of Aardman
Always a classic.
Installations at White Night Melbourne
It would be great if they installed one of these permanently in the Melbourne CBD somewhere!
Understanding your Digital SLR Camera and Photography Short Course
This looks really good. Hope it continues in 2018.
Jaz Harold
Sweet
Ocean Imaginaries
Love this.
Claire Anna Watson - 'Neoplasm'
I love this work.
Linking practice thread
If you’d like to practice creating hyperlinks using ‘textile’ – the markdown format on our website, feel free to do so in this thread!
the text you want to display needs to be surrounded in double quotation marks like this “hello world”
You then follow that immediately (no space) with a colon
“hello world”:
You then follow that immediately with the URL you want to link to, starting with http://
Op Art
Looks great!
Fetish
Sounds fun Max!
'DUMBSH*T VIDEO ART', curated by Stefan Popescu
This looks really, really good.
On the Body Reception
Very strange. Love it.
Katya Petetskaya: The Spills
Beautiful! Reminds me of Lara Merrett’s work.
Debut Xii
Who is the first work by?
Telling Many Stories: Plurality of Expression
Gorgeous, love that Scott Forsyth work.
Andy Warhol and Ai Weiwei
Folks, the Art.Base’s review is here.
Natasha Frisch
Natasha, check this out http://www.lubomirov-angus-hughes.com/Zachari-Logan-1
Damon Clarke
Surreal and amazing.
Janice Gobey
Gorgeous.
From Spaces Past
Hi, what were the actual dates that this show was on?
PolArt 2015 presents Polish Connections
Have you seen the work of Alicia Grecka? Another Polish artist in Melbourne. She has shown at the NGV previously.
Swan Street Artists Group exhibition
Lots of Facebook likes!
An elephant in the room
Lovely
PUBLIC Platform
This looks great.
JOSEPH SIDDIQI
Reminds me of this Cybil Curtis work.
https://art.base.co/product/2168-pink-and-grey-cylinders
“Spirit in the Sky” Featuring Fine Art Photographer Jana Cruder
Great photos and awesome concept!
Barbie on a spiritual journey of self-determinism.
ARTIST ROOMS: Dan Flavin – Tate St Ives
Hi Neha, feel free to make an organisation profile for the Indian Art Ideas website, it’s free.
Anj Smith
Creepy
Liquid Architecture
That picture is mental.
Susan Wald - Theatre Paintings & Monoprints
These are great Susan, very dark!
Monika Feuerstein solo exhibition
I love the shower point of view.
SKY LAB:
This looks awesome, is the Dan Armstrong piece a video projection?
Place and Space
Fascinating, some great work.
Konstantin Dimopoulos
Great works. How much is the second piece?
NATIONAL CALL OUT FOR SITUATE ARTS LAB ALONGSIDE MONA FOMA 2016
The Drone Opera would be a good candidate
LISA NOLAN - A YEAR AT DONMOOCHIN
This is lovely, how much is it?
Janet Tavener - 'Memento'
These are amazing.
On the Edge of Becoming
Beautiful
Romuald Hazoumè
looks awesome.
Gorgeous Jewellery
Love these flower-rings by Luke Maninov
https://art.base.co/event/6915-luke-maninov-in-this-unfolding
How to format text using Textile & practice thread
Ok we’ve found an issue with the links, if you use curly double quotation marks the links won’t work. It has to be the straight double quotation marks. The specific keys you need to use will vary depending on your keyboard and operating system.
How to format text using Textile & practice thread
“sometext”:http://alexsanson.com
How to format text using Textile & practice thread
"sometext"“http://alexsanson.com/
Call out to Artists, Curators, Writers, Water Savers, Enviro Harvesters and Save the Planet Geeks!
Love the sound of this project Jasmine.
Sculpture Park
Lovely.
Mettle - NMIT Graduate Jewellery Exhibition
Those two pieces look great!
Website Updates
Organisation profiles now allow you to add social network links.
We strongly recommend you add your Facebook and Twitter links, as we have plans to use these in the announcements we make on our Twitter and Facebook pages.
At the moment they just generate links on your Organisation Profile’s ‘Contact’ page, like this:
https://www.artabase.net/gallery/968-the-museum-of-modern-art-moma/contact
Website Updates
Hi Y’all
We’ve got Google Maps showing on the Organisation Profiles now, if you have an Organisation Profile, you need to edit your contact details to add your map co-ordinates.
Then your profile page will look like this:
https://www.artabase.net/gallery/4837-m-contemporary/contact
Do People want this on the Person Profile as well?
Float - Nomad
This looks awesome. Does it mean people can’t use the space?
DANIEL G
Lovely.
Alyssa di Edwardo
Love your work Alyssa.
Cathryn McEwen
Great stuff Cathryn, you can really feel the water.
Beer artwork at RMIT Grad Show
Does anyone know the name of the artist who made a homebrew beer for the RMIT Grad art show last year?
Same piece tweeted here
Email Newsletter archives
We’ll paste links to the email newsletter here so that people can see the historic emails sent out, they aren’t easy to access otherwise.
How to add Artist Opportunities on Artabase
Opportunities Closing Soon can now be seen quickly on the front page of the website.
Call for artists: Artist Residency Program in Budapest, 2015
Hi Beata, you should list this as an “Event” and choose “Opportunity” as the Event Type.
How to format text using Textile & practice thread
Here’s how to create a link:
<pre>
I searched Google
</pre>
will look like:
I searched Google
How to format text using Textile & practice thread
I’m testing how to show you the code shortcuts here:
There are two ways to create bold text
<pre>
I am <b>very</b> serious.
I am very serious.
</pre>
How to format text using Textile & practice thread
At the moment our website uses ‘Textile’ to format text.
The full reference is here http://redcloth.org/hobix.com/textile/
In summary, you can use Textile to add headings, italics, links, bold text etc.
Feel free to use this thread to ask questions and to practice your formatting.
Organisation Profiles on Artabase
News stories will now display on your org profile if you link them (edit the News Story to link it to your org profile).
Organisation Profiles on Artabase
We now allow users to make a profile for different types of Art Organisations, not just Art Galleries.
The list currently allows
- Gallery
- Organisation
- Festival
- Collective
- Business
- Service Provider
Let us know if you want other organisation types.
If you think an existing organisation profile should be changed to a different org type, let us know either in this thread or by commenting on the organisation profile directly.
Best, Artabase
How to add Artist Opportunities on Artabase
If you’d like to create an “Opportunity” listing on Artabase, it’s best to list this as an Event.
When you are logged in, and you access the “My Events” page from the left hand menu ‘Listings > Events’ link,
You can then click on the “Create Event” button in the upper right of the page.
On the form for creating a new Event, change the drop down menu to select “Opportunity” as the Event type.
This will ensure that your opportunity can be seen along with our other opportunities, when users select the “events” link at the top of the page, and then choose “opportunities” from the search menu.
Stuart Elliott
Love this.
Reflections: tales from within the crystal
This looks incredible
Jacinda Bayne
Beautiful work!
Paula M Cordeiro
Hi Paula, your work looks lovely.
Bob Booth
Amazing self portrait Bob.
Precious Metals
Some pretty intersting stuff on the cocksucker bruise tumbler
David Curelea
Love the self portrait with half black & white and half colour!
Maess
Beautiful work Maess!
The Other Side
Love these!
Rod Moss: Whitegate - Where Life and Art Meet
I love your work Rod. Great topics, great lighting and colours.
Markus Kahre
Was it at Crescendo at ACCA?
tchmo
I love your work tchmo
Seabastion Toast
Looks a bit like your stuff
http://www.artabase.net/exhibition/5469-alex-van-gelder-meat-portraits
Sam Grigorian
Veh cool
Coastlines
I love the boat painting.
Scribd for media releases
Is anyone else using Scribd for media releases?
The Australia Council is
http://www.scribd.com/auscouncilarts
It’s a better format than sending out PDFs for online marketing, because the text can be copied and pasted. PDFs don’t always work with copy and paste, they often have a lot of excess line breaks.
Art Verona Italy
ART VERONA, October 10. 2013 – October 14. 2013
Marcus Jansen at ART VERONA
Represented by
Maria Bianca Rizzi & Matthias Ritter Gallery, Milan, Italy.
Marcus Jansen, has become a household name not just in Florida State or in the United States, perhaps easily marked by his cover appearance on the Alumni National publication “New American Paintings No. 94” in 2011 with his work “Creeping Obstacles in Kansas.” A 135×88″ sweeping size canvas that sold the same year to his biggest private collector in Naples who owns the largest Jansen collection of any private collector in the world.
According to long time art dealer Glenn Lorchi. “It has been my opinion that”New American Paintings" has been especially stingy when selecting Florida artists in the past. The publication is a juried collection of regional artist work. They split the country into four regions and publish four different select collections. Marcus is the first artist from Florida on the cover that I can remember." said Lorchi. Jansen’s work then was selected by no other than Dan Cameron, (Founder of the largest American Biennial, the US Biennial inc. and currently the Chief Curator at the Orange County Museum of Art in California).
This year Jansen was already recently the winner of the "Aesthetica Art Prize 2013, United Kingdom, the “Dave Bown Projects” Award 2012 in the United States and the “Art Laguna Art Prize” 2013 in March that took place in Venice Italy with Jansen being the only American painter selected among an International panel of jurors that included: Lina Lazaar, (Great Britain, Expert in International Contemporary Art for Sotheby’s), Sabine Schasch, (Switzerland, Director and Curator of Kunsthaus Basel), Adam Budak,(United States, Curator of Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden of Washington) and many other high profile jurors from across the globe. The International selection that consisted of Painters, Photographers, Sculptors and Installation artists were presented at the Arsenale-Venice, Tese di san Cristoforo, Venice Italy early 2013.
Art Verona was conceived of, and initiated by, Danilo Vignati, the president of Fullsteam s.r.l., a company specialised in art events, and Massimo Simonetti who for twenty-five years had been a well-known gallery owner. The first edition took place between 13 and 16 October 2005 and immediately aroused great interest. It was a totally unexpected event and at once caught the attention of the art world because of its insistence on high quality and of its decision to invite only Italian galleries with the highest profile. Year after year, innovation after innovation, it has grown both in quality and in its success among critics and the public. And now, in part because of its particular approach, it is considered one of the few important Italian events that absolutely cannot be missed.
Jansen’s Museum collections include The PERMM Museum of Contemporary Art, The New Britain Museum of American Art, The Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA), The Housatonic Museum of Art, CT, The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and the Smithsonian Institution. He is also one of the ABSOLUT VODKA artist’s along side names like Damien Hirst, Andy Warhol and Keith Haring. Jansen’s work has appeared in News media such as the The Boston Globe, the New York Times, Art News, Art in America and Vanity Fair Italy. His work will be at the International Auction house Phillips de Pury Moscow and Geneva in 2014.
www.artverona.it/
Art Verona Italy
Marcus Jansen at ART VERONA, Italy
Documentary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBACKX7qkCs
ART VERONA, October 10. 2013 – October 14. 2013
Marcus Jansen was the cover artist for the Alumni publication “New American Paintings No. 94” in 2011 with his work “Creeping Obstacles in Kansas.” A 135×88″ sweeping size canvas that sold the same year to his biggest private collector in Naples who owns the largest Jansen collection of any private collector in the world.
According to long time Florida art dealer Glenn Lorchi. “It has been my opinion that”New American Paintings" has been especially stingy when selecting Florida artists in the past. The publication is a juried collection of regional artist work. They split the country into four regions and publish four different select collections. Marcus is the first artist from Florida on the cover that I can remember." said Lorchi. Jansen’s work then was selected by Dan Cameron, (Founder of the largest American Biennial, the US Biennial inc. and currently the Chief Curator at the Orange County Museum of Art in California).
This year Jansen was already selected the winner of the "Aesthetica Art Prize 2013, United Kingdom, the “Dave Bown Projects” Award 2012 in the United States and the “Art Laguna Art Prize” 2013 in March that took place in Venice Italy with Jansen being the only American painter selected among an International panel of jurors that included: Lina Lazaar, (Great Britain, Expert in International Contemporary Art for Sotheby’s), Sabine Schasch, (Switzerland, Director and Curator of Kunsthaus Basel), Adam Budak,(United States, Curator of Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden of Washington) and many other high profile jurors from across the globe. The International selection that consisted of Painters, Photographers, Sculptors and Installation artists were presented at the Arsenale-Venice, Tese di san Cristoforo, Venice Italy early 2013.
Art Verona was conceived of, and initiated by, Danilo Vignati, the president of Fullsteam s.r.l., a company specialised in art events, and Massimo Simonetti who for twenty-five years had been a well-known gallery owner. The first edition took place between 13 and 16 October 2005 and immediately aroused great interest. It was a totally unexpected event and at once caught the attention of the art world because of its insistence on high quality and of its decision to invite only Italian galleries with the highest profile. Year after year, innovation after innovation, it has grown both in quality and in its success among critics and the public. And now, in part because of its particular approach, it is considered one of the few important Italian events that absolutely cannot be missed.
Jansen will be showing at ART VERONA with a formal introduction to an Italian audience in preparation for his planned solo Museum show in Italy in 2014. He will be represented by Galleria Maria Bianca Rizzi & Matthias Ritter. Pad 11 – Stand G18
Jansen’s Museum collections include The PERMM Museum of Contemporary Art, The New Britain Museum of American Art, The Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA), The Housatonic Museum of Art, CT, The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and the Smithsonian Institution. He is also one of the ABSOLUT VODKA artist’s along side names like Damien Hirst, Andy Warhol and Keith Haring. Jansen’s work has appeared in News media such as the The Boston Globe, the New York Times, Art News, Art in America and Vanity Fair Italy. His work will be at the International Auction house Phillips de Pury Moscow and Geneva in 2014.
The Art Verona takes place October 10. 2013 – October 14. 2013. Please contact Terry Tincher for free VIP tickets prior to event: terryunitaspace@gmail.com or visit Jansen’s Headquarters www.unitaspace.com.
ART VERONA: www.artverona.it/
Maria Bianca Rizzi & Matthias Ritter: www.galleriabiancamariarizzi.com/
Artist: www.marcusjansen.com
Marguerite Duras' The Lover
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The Little Black Gallery
Cute gallery! What did the building used to be?
Also as an FYI, you can use formatting to make a link
http://www.thelittleblackgallery.com/shows/alistair-taylor-young-holiday
4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art
Don’t know what was going on there
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4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art
With the link working this time
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4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art
New 4A Edition by Owen Leong.
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Paper Art
Fantastic blog on artworks made with Paper.
Includes some coverage of Natasha Frisch’s awesome work
LACDA 2012 INTERNATIONAL JURIED COMPETITION
Extended to September 27th!
Julia Silvester
Beautiful
Sam Mertens
Great work Sam.
CALL FOR ENTRIES $600 art prize
Hiya SJS Gallery
send your artist opps to au@lists.artabase.net to get in the email list.
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Rose Holdaway
Beautiful Rose!
Swamp by Lucy Selleck
This show is great, check it out if you’re in Fitzroy in the next couple of weeks.
Len Breen
Interesting stuff Len.
Artabase on Pinterest
Great page on Pinterest showing popular content from Artabase, see if your work is there
Music Videos
Fantastic new video by Kirin J Callinan over at MessAndNoise
Bordeaux Hyatt: Faux Pas
Hi Jessica
Donna has found her new home on my wall. Absolutely love it, thanks so much for the great piece.
The Exchange Program 1
This looks really beautiful.
m. Leaf-tierney
rad
simon PERICICH
hot
Pedro Paricio
excellent
Reyneke
gorgeous
Plamen Yordanov
love the double mobius strip
Anna Glynn
pretty
Rhys Burnie
Love that Pine Gap spider picture. Would have loved to buy it myself.
Ash Keating
Let us know when your new website’s ready Ash.
Lionel Bawden
Hearts
Janet Cumbrae-Stewart
Classical
Pantea Rahmani
very dramatic
Amanda Marburg
hearts
Roe Ethridge
beautiful
Newspaper Fiction: The New York Journalism of Djuna Barnes, 1913-1919
Would love to read some of these pieces, does anyone know where they are available?
Speliotis photo / video
Hey Speliotis
You can make links using the markdown formatting below the comment box.
Rachel Kneebone: Regarding Rodin
These are awesome.
Konstantin Datz
awesome
Sophia Szilagyi
This is really pretty.
Nancy Mauro-Flude
We changed the url, thanks for the update
Jessica Honey
Great work Jessica
melissa vogley woods
awesome
Steele Thyagarajan
I love this photo.
Ken Smith
Beautiful
Bernhard Hopfengärtner
Awesome
Krista McRae
Great stuff.
Tanya Chaly
Disturbing, but fantastic.
Melissa Reidy
Thanks so much for letting me buy that picture Melissa, it’s fantastic, I love it.
David Manley
Nice
Chris Budgeon
Really like this photo.
Elaine Campaner
Cool
The Elements Art Exhibition is Now Online & Ready to View
Hi John
it’s worth making a link: then people are more likely to click on it. Read instructions by clicking on ‘Electric Jellyfish’ under the comment box.
Frank Hurley
Gorgeous
100
I’m TOTALLY in love with that first print
Where The Water Talks
Absolutely love these wors Jacinda. Especially Talking Water Place
Magda Cebokli
Intense!
Jacinda Bayne
This is great Jacinda. Love the extreme use of colour, really captures the effect of the changing sunlight on the landscape.
Pressing Matters: Melbourne Printmaking
That second one is by Jazmina Cininas, I love her stuff! This is a gorgeous piece.
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer Recorders
Definitely one of the best artists working today.
Ikko Taniuchi
Send a message to Until Never gallery, they should be able to pass it on.
Benjamin GILBERT
This is fantastic.
Mildura Palimpsest #8
I love that dried salt work
Artwork made out of $20,000
Interesting piece in The Age about Denis Beaubois’s conceptual artwork about the valuation of art:
THE Australian dollar was last night fetching 87.5¢ … against the Australian dollar.
The artwork Currency, 2011 sold for $17,500 (plus buyers commission and GST of $3850) when it went under the hammer at Deutscher and Hackett in South Yarra last night.
That was a slightly disappointing result for a work with an estimated range of $15,000 to $25,000, and a genuine bargain for a work with a face value of $20,000.
The work, by artist Denis Beaubois, consists of 200 new $100 notes, stacked and bound in two piles, and accompanied by a list of the notes’ serial numbers.
According to the catalogue, the work ‘’raises fascinating questions’’ about the way contemporary art is valued.
The materials used by Beaubois have intrinsic value, but only if the work itself is broken up and destroyed. Intact, its value was unknown until 7.04pm last night when, under the watchful gaze of two security officers, it was auctioned to a packed house.
Beaubois funded the work with a $20,000 grant from the Australia Council. He told The Age last month he stood to make no profit from the project. ’’I’m not getting paid a cent,‘’ he said. ’’If it’s sold, the money I make will be used to finance part two of the project, which is a series of performance/video works on the division of labour, and capitalism.’’
In the end, after paying his vendor commission of 10 to 15 per cent plus GST, Beaubois is likely to have made a paper loss of about $5000. Though technically that would be a polymer loss.
He has described the subject matter of Currency as ‘’the tension between the economic value of the material against the cultural value of the art object’‘. That tension would be ’’explored through the process of the financial transaction’’ – by selling the work at auction.
Stories of Song and Dance: Performance and the Burrinja Collection
The masks look amazing!
Arts Spring Clean
Interesting idea!
viscerality
Absolutely beautiful work Emma! How much are you selling them for?
Antone Bruinsma
That’s beautiful Antone!
Kerry Strauss
Looks amazing!
Tanya Chaly
Awesome.
Nature Art Exhibition Now Online and Ready to View
Hey John
You can also edit the text in the link: like this
I like the wolf.
Mark Dober: After the Rain
Looove these works.
Mediums vs Media
Yeah, language is amorphous, that’s for sure.
HUNTER GATHERER
awesome. New style that totally marries the pointellism of traditional Australian Indingenous art with the lines of Impressionism, within the dark, expressionist outlines of contemporary graphic-novel and stencil-street artworks. And through all that, a beautiful, new, and relevant capturing of the light, heat, and outback experience of life in 21th century (time-wise) but still 20th century (culturall) Australian experience.
xx
Into the Dark
I’m really looking forward to seeing this. Didn’t make the opening as I thought it might be too packed to enjoy the work. Next week!
Rena Littleson
Can we buy your graphic novels online?
Benjamin V Walsh
This is cool.
John Pusateri
Beautiful!
Rafaela Pandolfini
Great shots.
Paul-Felix Montewz
Very interesting project Paul-Felix. Even if you don’t make it it’s great as a conceptual artwork.
Creating a Website For Art HOW?
Wah! Don’t get tremory, we’ve had enough of that in Japan.
Ok, if you’re looking to make a website, I recommend starting simple with something like BlogSpot where you can get a site up for free, and just begin by getting familiar with the administration pages when you’ve logged in.
Once you’re confident with using a CMS (Content Management System) then you might want to look at a managed website hosting package like MR Site, where you just pay a low monthly fee, and you can buy a domain if you want as well, and sit it on top of their website software.
The choice between .com or .org really depends on your motivation. Personally, I think they’re all moot which is why I always advocate .net
You must admit, your first paragraphs didn’t make much sense.
Cine Blatz 1: Jeff Keen’s Delirious Pop-Trash Films
How sad Jackie!
I wonder if the curator from Otherfilm can shed some light on this.
Emily Portmann
HOTT
Adam Holbrook
Beautiful.
Creating a Website For Art HOW?
Impressive for its complete lack of semantic continuity. BrainFuck.
Oh, it's an eerie frost
Pretty!
Lee Bontecou: All Freedom in Every Sense
Absolutely in love with Lee Bontecou
bsg $10,000 Picture This 2010 Prize & Exhibition
Less entries this year?
Glenn Walls
love the disco baseball bats
Christophe Stibio
Fantastic contrast and depth of field.
Therese Howard
I love miniatures!
Chris Parkinson
Very cool. Street art from East Timor.
Ian Aleksander Adams
Great photos on your website Ian.
Brian Leverton
I love this image, it’s so detailed.
Helen Clarke
I adore your work Helen.
DYNAMIC DRAWING CLASSES, FITZROY
Are you looking for life models?
… not that I’m volunteering! But I know some people who would be interested.
David Russ
You’re website’s nice David.
Pierre Ravelle-Chapuis
Very cool Pierre!
Website Updates
Also you may not have realised, but you actually have a bit of a user profile. You can see that now when logged in as well. Magic! Click on your email in the header.
Website Updates
Ok, for the first time in a long time we’ve got a little bit of time to start making fixes around here, yay! So, to begin with a couple of things which were annoying me massively; if you are logged in, and you have an artist or gallery profile, how do you find it easily?
good question! it was a pain.
Anyway it’s a bit easier now, it’s the ‘Artist Profile’ or ‘Gallery Profile’ link in the header.
Feel free to add your complaints here, stuff which is being sooked about the most will be fixed quicker.
Joanna Wolthuizen
I really like this painting Joanna
Kari Henriksen - Being at Bundanon
This is gorgeous. As good as Monet!
Helen Lehmann
I really love this piece too!
Paper, Scissors, Paint
Love it!
Jud Wimhurst
Awesome!
tony gorsevski
Great shot of Alphaville.
Carlos Scaranci
Can we see the animation online?
Sally Blenheim
Thought you might like this, James Turrell light artist
http://designyearbook.blogspot.com/2010/01/bridgets-bardo-by-james-turrell.html
caroline ierodiaconou
How large is that painting caroline?
It’s really full on! very detailed, nice work.
Street Art
I love this!
Canadian artist Sean Martindale created this interesting outdoor installation located in Grange Park, Toronto. In 24hrs, Sean used 21,633 feet of salvaged nylon string to write the word “FREE” between two parallel chain link fences. Sean explains “The word FREE refers to the public aspect of my projects, where I create work experienced primarily by accidental audiences.I outlined the word FREE by tying strings within and through the properties of the barrier / constraining structure of the chainlink fence.” This installation is a beautiful inspirational surprise in an unexpected place.
http://www.buzz-beast.com/2009/12/free-by-sean-martindale.html
Fin
Love it.
Commenting on Artists, Galleries and Exhibitions
We’ve changed the website a bit so that comments on a profile only display if you are logged in.
However, they are still visible in the discussion board if you are logged out.
The purpose of this was to make the profiles and exhibition listings a little more professional looking to casual visitors.
Insiders get more info.
What do you think?
Kristin McIver
Hi Kristin
Just wanted to say I loved “Life Less Ordinary” when it was on High st. Went past it at night all the time, it was one of my favourite installations ever!
Just noticed it on your portfolio http://kristin-mciver.artabase.net/index.php?/project/lifeless/
James Cochran
Awesome picture James.
2 studios available footscray, melb
General thread for studios here http://artabase.net/discussion/chat/159-artist-studios-for-rent-in-melbourne
Artist Studios for rent in Melbourne
Brunswick Street Gallery has studios for rent
STUDIOS FOR RENT
BSG is opening a second Fitzroy space on the cnr of Johnston and
Brunswick Sts above the 7-Eleven. This will primarily be used as
artist studios starting at $50 a week. We are seeking to establish
a community of artists working in a variety of mediums who are looking
for a bright, centrally-located space to do their work. 24 hour
access. Lockable spaces available or open plan. All with window
overlooking Brunswick or Johnston Sts. Contact Tessa on 0450 147 588 for further information.
Cheap!
Artist Portfolios
Perfect composition in that first landscape shot John!
Sokazo Philippe
Amazing colours.
Jemila MacEwan
Beautiful Jemila!
First Interactive Music Video?
Does anyone know what the first interactive music video was?
I am putting forth the suggestion it was LABRAT by Anita Fontaine and Luke Illet. Would like to hear other suggestions if you can think of any.
LABRAT 1999. http://anitafontaine.com/index/index.php?/project/labrat/
Design after Nature
That looks amazing, what process did they use for the picture?
Slight Inclusions
Is this sewn on to the paper?
re:render
This looks really beautiful!
Something Else
These pics are really cool! Why is it the final group show? Are they all solo shows from now on?
Life drawing classes in Melbourne
Ink and Lead – Life Drawing
Wed 4 Nov. 7-9.30 at BSG.
Attention all artists, creative types and Mr Squiggles! We are launching our second venue, in FITZROY! Models Miss Nic & Jasper Jewel pose for all you artistic types and scribblers. Includes performances! Hosted by Cherry Darling M.C. Vesper White Bring a sketch pad, bring pencils. Supplies for sale on night and online. Buy tickets online http://www.inkandlead.com.au Venue details http://inkandlead.com.au/venue.html
Gems
Has anyone else noticed the GEM fad happening?
I’m all for this, I love gems.
Gemma Smith was showing some giant gems at Gertrude last week, Youri Gagarine had a giant gem in his stomach (didn’t you know)
and I saw some Gems in a work Brody Condon did in Amsterdam last year (real life RPG).
I fully endorse the giant gems. Feel like I’m living in a sci-fi fantasy.
MARCOS DAVIDSON
This will be a classic!
Favourite local artists
I love this light artist, solar powered light emitting fabric, nice!
Return
I really like this work.
EXTRATERRITORIALITY SATORUTANAKA
That skull is great!
Christian Art
I’m not a christian, but I imagine those who are will like the new James Tissot images up on this exhibition:
Sand animation and ephemeral art
For sure! Animated animation.
Repeat Repeat
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Totally loved the little Sticks with Video rainbows and stuff happening inside them from that projected video…
Who did this piece? Is there any video online?
Vito Manfredi
That’s disgusting. I love it.
CCP - Melbourne
CCP is now open on Sundays from 1–5pm!
Image Galleries
Here’s an awesome one of images by James Ensor http://artabase.net/exhibition/1772-james-ensor
Modified
hilarious.
Luke Hallam
I really like this drawing, if it is a drawing. So much detail! Epic lighting and contrast.
Life drawing classes in Melbourne
I think the Old Bar in Fitzroy is running life drawing classes upstairs.
Life drawing classes in Melbourne
Good idea!
Leah Heiss
Awesome.
Children of the Meek
This picture is creepy.
2 studios available footscray, melb
Did you get many applicants?
Emerging Artist
Not my favourite, altho some of the figures are quite nice.
The interface is very difficult to navigate.
Attention Artists!
Cheers!
Sharon Feder
Love that piece Sharon. Those clouds look so physical and epic.
Ronald Coles Investment Gallery (Archived listing)
Nicholas Forrest has a good summary of the recent allegations made against this gallery.
cheap art supplies and suggestions
So I presume you save money by not having a physical shop, is that the deal?
On average how much cheaper is it than retail?
Life drawing classes in Melbourne
I’m trying to find some cheap lifedrawing in Melbourne.
Brunswick st Gallery have a couple of regular classes, does anyone know of any others?
LIFE DRAWING
Thursdays 6-8pm. $12/$15. Untutored. Model, Easels, Boards supplied. Bring your own paper and drawing materials. Relaxed friendly atmosphere. Bar open at the break. No bookings required.
DYNAMIC LIFE DRAWING
Tuesdays 6.30-8.30pm. Saturdays 10-12noon. Dynamic Life Drawing. Free up, discover your creative identity and find your power through drawing. Everyone’s experience of the world is different, unique and valuable and translates into intimate narratives. Classes include model, music, drawing dialogues and reviews. Assistance and strategies developed and given both from the floor and on a one on one basis. $18 per class – includes music, lighting, model and facilitation. More details on 0421 101 220 or dynamicdrawing.com.au
Technical stuff for other webby people
If you’re using Thunderbird as your email client, and want to compose some nicely formatted html emails, I strongly recommend this plugin.
It lets you edit the html in the compose window, completely helpful.
http://nic-nac-project.de/~kaosmos/edithtml-en.html
Might sound obvious but it took me a while to find it, and the file hosted on mozilla itself is out of date. The developer’s page has a newer version.
Videoz
Quite an interesting video about the architectural redevelopment of the Museum of Modern Art in NY…
only a few minutes long. Explains some of the challenges they faced very well.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/05/01/nyregion/20080501_COLUMBUS.html
The Rise and Fall
How was it? I dropped by but I was a bit early, the gallery wasn’t open yet.
Favourite local artists
I love some of this stuff by Sam Webber
LUPA/art
Bob Knob providing us with a power point presentation of how he got and then lost his name. PPT as an artistic media! Gold, as was the baptism, naming theme of last night’s performances.
Videoz
Haven’t watched these but Vernissage TV has 1,000 videos of art exhibition openings, interviews etc. Sounds great
Here’s we make money not art’s interview
http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2009/02/-vernissage-tv-is.php
GFC vs The Art Market
GFC (the global financial crisis in expert fields) has impacted the glass art market.
This video report explores how “Glass makers on the Italian island of Murano, prized through the centuries for their unique skills, face the global financial crisis”.
EXTRATERRITORIALITY SATORUTANAKA
Sounds fun!
New Art Economy
Cory Doctorow on Macropayments
http://www.locusmag.com/Features/2008/09/cory-doctorow-macropayments.html
You can also follow Creative Commons Australia
http://twitter.com/ccAustralia
Twitter is a good into to RSS-type updates for people who aren’t familiar with RSS yet.
Confidence in art market dives 81% since last May
Confidence in art market dives
January 24, 2009
CONFIDENCE levels in the contemporary art market have fallen 81 per cent since last May and may take between three and five years to recover, according to a survey by the research company ArtTactic.
ArtTactic’s Western Art Market Confidence Indicator dropped to 10.5 from 56, the lowest level reached since the survey was first conducted in May 2005, the London-based company said.
“Confidence has hit rock-bottom, but prices will fall further,” said Anders Petterson, the founder of ArtTactic.
“There’s negativity in the market that’s saying we need to get to the bottom and start again from scratch.”
The latest biennial survey of 145 US and European collectors, auction-house specialists, dealers and art advisers was taken from November 20 to December 10. It followed contemporary-art auctions in New York by Sotheby’s and Christie’s International, which raised $US125.1 million ($192.1 million) and $US113.6 million respectively with fees, below their presale lower estimates.
Almost a third of lots failed to sell at both houses. The equivalent sales in 2007 made $US315.9 million and $US325 million.
When asked how far auction prices would fall from their highs of last May, 47 per cent of respondents said they expected a drop of 30 to 50 per cent. More than half thought it would take more than three years for the market to recover. Of those, more than 50 per cent said the market may take more than five years to pick up.
http://business.smh.com.au/business/confidence-in-art-market-dives-20090123-7op3.html
Videoz
… You should really watch that video, its awesome!
Here’s an older piece by Geronimo Collective, I admit to having used many of the same final cut pro effects
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=evG3xJzc5eE&feature=channel_page
Videoz
So wrong! Like every good night out should be.
Videoz
So much great video,
Cornel’s new music video, muppetry by Gus Kemp http://quamusic.com/circles
Van Thanh Rudd
Freaking awesome.
Matthew Quick
Spiral stairway to heaven. Ha, awesome.
new psychadelia
everytime i need a flashback i’ll come back to this thread.
Videoz
?Recollecting Adams? is a 25-part web-based animation series that will
conclude in December 2009. A new episode will launch every two weeks.
The people of Adams, Massachusetts are gifted storytellers. People in
Adams really know its history and love sharing it. They weave their
personal family stories into a rich history of immigration, the mills, the
Church and more, across several generations. ?Recollecting Adams? is a
2008 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc., (aka Ether-Ore)
for its Turbulence web site.
You need Flash 9 to view these animations.
http://transition.turbulence.org/Works/recollecting
Midsumma Festival, Melbourne
Celebrating its 21st birthday this year is Midsumma, Melbourne’s annual
arts and cultural festival that, within a safe and healthy environment,
celebrates the pride and diversity of Victoria’s lesbian, gay and allied
communities.
The vast array of performing arts, visual arts and music comprises a
Carnival and T Dance at the Alexandra Gardens, Queer City – The City of
Melbourne’s Queer Visual Arts exhibition series, Yarra Arts – The City of
Yarra’s Queer Visual Arts exhibition and Pink Shorts, Midsumma’s queer
short play competition at the RMIT Kaleide Theatre from 3 Feb to 7
February.
Midsumma is now recruiting volunteers to assist in all aspects of the 2009 Festival, whether it’s front of house for one of our premier events or assisting with Carnival. There is also the opportunity to gain great
experience in Visual Arts and Theatre production from set-up to promotion.
Whatever your interests and skills, we want you to join us in making
Midsumma’s Queer Coming of Age the very best it can be!
http://www.midsumma.org.au/newsflash/midsumma-2009-festival-dates-2.html
new psychadelia
this stuff is awesome!
arnaud loumeau
2 studios available footscray, melb
Find anyone?
Good front pages
The heading on the Triple J hottest 100 is awesome
Trigger: Game Art
The Golden Shower ‘Video Computer System’ animation is available on Vimeo at
http://www.vimeo.com/2334258
Aovana Timmerman
This piece looks amazing. Great colours.
patrick egarter
awesome pointellism
Favourite local artists
Justin Cooper’s Rad http://justincooper.blogspot.com/
Boxer Design Video Christmas Card
I think I’m getting over food being thrown at people’s heads in slow motion.
Good argument for using Vimeo over Youtube tho, there’s a lot of detail in there.
Good front pages
This is a bit cute (insert fancy logo here)
Papercraft
There’s some very nice papercraft creations on Toxel
Victoria Park Gallery
This gallery looks like it has closed down.
Optical Illusions out in the street
That bike rack’s great.
New podcast for YMC
Some more nice fashion for this thread. Alexi Freeman of Melbourne, Australia
Trontastic!
Fake User Profiles
Sitepoint article discussing free speech vs defamation in the web 2.0 world
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/fake-social-networking-profiles/
Frank Richter
I really like LTI-cubus in 3 Dimensionen
Precincts
Last night in Richmond, (Victoria, Australia), three of the Albert st Galleries all had their openings on at the same time, which is a brilliant idea, I wish more galleries did it. Albert st is a new precinct I think!
Anyway I’ve got to say that Mark Kimber’s work in Edgeland was incredible, especially the prints in the front room which created fantasy landscapes by sampling together what appeared to be old magazine images. The print-dots were of different scales and blended in together to create a surreal texture. I don’t know if this was real or staged, but it looked incredible in close detail.
My other personal favourite was Craig Cole’s “I don’t want to grow up” at Shifted Gallery. Giant, over-sized cassette tape, Walkman and ear-bud headphones. I’m a sucker for pop art, this was overt pop indulgence. Failsafe!
Check out the pic here, the cassette is about 1.5 metres wide in real life.
How can I upload some of my work photos?
Thanks for the image explanation tho. I was being lazy there.
How can I upload some of my work photos?
Ah, Socks… finally challenged by markup.
Combatting art fraud
Pretty interesting article about some of the difficulties in combatting art fraud produced by Australian Aboriginal artists. Looks at some of the cultural differences which increase the difficulty.
http://www.artspeak.com.au/fake%20aboriginal%20art.htm
Does anyone know anything about the identiart system that is apparently being used to help authenticate Aboriginal artworks?
Gallery Espace presents Within The Walls
I really like this piece.
Videoz
Not Quite Art – documentary by Marcus Westbury screening on the ABC. The second series explores how technology is affecting the production, distribution and definition of what art and culture is. Great stuff!
ABC let you watch the videos online as they are screened (Tuesday evenings, GMT+10)
Good Art RSS Feeds
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (The Government-owned TV Channel in Australia) has a good arts blog called ‘Articulate’.
http://blogs.abc.net.au/articulate/
It’s an art and culture blog, where this morning I learned this interesting fact:
“I was still surprised to hear reports that stadium rockers Aerosmith have made more money from a videogame featuring the band members than from any of their albums.”
Artabase Blog - Call for Submissions
Well, before you can discuss whether people like art or not I guess you’ve got to define what art is, which I’m not going to attempt : )
We’ve actually had a tonne of responses through email which has been great. There are some awesome ideas in there, a really broad range of responses. Kate (the editor) is busy sorting through everything, with the hope that the blog will be launched early next month.
That’s great that you’ve tried to start conversations on here. Keep going, I’m sure you’ll prod someone’s node at some stage.
Artist Resale Rights, your thoughts
Yeah there was an article on the ABC yesterday about the Australian Commercial Gallery Association’s thoughts on this, which are mixed. They are concerned it will cause an unnecessary administrative burdon, which it has done in the UK.
More here
Seeking Residency Opportunities!
Hi Dori,
Do you know where you want to do a residency?
The Email lists mention a few.
Here’s one in New Jersey, America
Here’s one for Bundanon Australia
They all have different application criteria, so you kind of have to figure out the best way to apply depending on the actual residency itself.
Image software
Is anyone renting Adobe software? They’ve got a new purchase arrangement now where instead of paying thousands upfront you pay around a hundred a month for the Creative Suite.
The recommended retail price of each means that the upfront cost for the whole package is about the same as renting the software for 24 months.
Perhaps that’s a good deal if you are likely to upgrade your Adobe software every 24 months, but the software is so good now that many organisations won’t really need to.
I’m just interested to see who thinks that renting the software is a good option. I think I’d prefer to pay the full cost upfront and have access to the suite forever.
48 Hour Film Competition Melbourne
Lots of awards! How many people are you expecting to participate?
Heidi Yardley
I love this picture Heidi.
Remix My Lit
as a link: http://www.remixmylit.com
Salacious title!
I haven’t read either of these authors. Damien’s Luck in the Greater west looks pretty good.
“Luck in the Greater West is a dissection of the lives of a diverse range of people living in twenty-first century Western Sydney.” More on wikipedia…
Good Art RSS Feeds
Duck’s Breath
We make money not art has a great article on the the Museum of Jurassic Technology today.
http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2008/08/the-museum-of-jurassic-technol.php
Videoz
Art for Arts Sake
Champagne, anyone? In the refined elegance of a Sydney auction house, dealers, collectors and art aficionados contentedly celebrate the sale of a Picasso portrait for $5.75 million, an Australian record.
Thousands of kilometres away a group of mostly elderly Aboriginal artists sit in the red dust of central Australia, churning out paintings for a middleman who oversees their output and pays them in cash or cars. Another group produces more pictures from poky rooms in a highway motel…
For stats freaks
As Artabase reaches its first birthday (June 08), here’s some stats I’ve been researching…
In our first year 30,000 people in the world viewed the website.
According to Quantcast , you’re a well educated, mature bunch, with higher than average viewers having graduate or post-graduate qualifications.
For 2008 we calculate around 100,000 Galleries and Museums in the world, and 0.2% of these are already have a Gallery profile on Artabase. That’s pretty good for our first year, with little marketing.
Domain tools report 18 Wikipedia pages linking in (thanks! We haven’t been responsible for all of those, I’m glad you find Artabase useful enough to reference).
Based on the current ratio of Artists to Galleries on Artabase we calculate roughly 250,000 Artists in the world, although we’d like to find a more solid reference for that if anyone can recommend one.
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Oblique Images from Stelarc’s Extra Ear
Boing Boing post discussing Stelarc’s extra ear with links to extra photos by Nina. Can’t wait to see these images!
Good Art RSS Feeds
Art Fag City has some interesting
Artist Resale Rights, your thoughts
Techdirt has a great article pointing out how Artist resale rights can depress the art sale market
What are your thoughts?
http://techdirt.com/articles/20080714/1723141676.shtml
A few years ago, we wrote about the rather silly plan in the UK to create an “artist resale right.” This says that even if an artist has sold his or her work, if that work is resold, the artist still gets a 4% cut. The non-economic thinking on this is that an artist is forced to sell his or her work when it’s not valued as high, and thus deserves a cut when the value is much higher. However, that’s not at all what is happening. Instead, evidence has shown that this is more often used to depress the local art market by making it more expensive to sell art (and decreasing the incentives of anyone to resell any art they’ve bought). It profits big name artists, but tends to hurt the lesser known artists (you know, the one’s it’s supposed to help).
So, of course, it should come as no surprise that the wealthy artists who benefit the most from this resale right in the UK are looking to expand it (found via Against Monopoly). Currently, it only applies to living artists. However, they’re now pushing to extend the right to 70 years after death, where the family of the artist will be compensated — claiming that families deserve to be compensated for artwork a family member may have sold off a century earlier because: “Our loved ones often sacrifice a lot to support an artist in the family.” Of course, there are lots of sacrifices that families make for people in other professions as well, but they don’t get paid a century later for their efforts. This clearly has nothing to do with encouraging more art, since it seems to discourage that. It is, like so many “intellectual property” grants, a way for established creators to get more money out of what they already created, while hurting the market for new upstarts.
Ergas, Ergo: Silvershot
For more cardboard heads check chronox
Discover hidden architectural treasures in Melbourne...
Which one?
It got pretty good coverage in The Age last weekend, I wonder how many people will be trying to go? I really wanted to see ‘The Labyrinth’ beneath Fed Square during Next Wave but managed to show up an hour after it closed. : )
Videoz
More about the project here http://julianoliver.com/levelhead
Videoz
Julian Oliver’s Levelhead, awesome project. Will be shown in prix ars electronica exhibition this coming september
http://selectparks.net/~julian/share/movies/levelHead-speedRun13.ogg
The file will play on any platform in the free VLC
cake boys: photographs, in two series
Review by Eliott Bledsoe http://art-wanker.blogspot.com/2008/06/let-them-eat-cake.html
Good Art RSS Feeds
The art life http://artlife.blogspot.com/
Discover hidden architectural treasures in Melbourne...
Melbourne Open House
The inaugural Melbourne version of the hugely successful London and New York Open House events will see our city’s most intriguing buildings and hidden architectural treasures open to the public for one day, Sunday 20 July.
Visit the Labyrinthine air-conditioning system in the underbelly of Federation Square, rarely seen interiors within the Manchester Unity Building, private spaces of Council House 2, unique glimpses of Walter Burley Griffin’s Capitol Theatre and many more.
For more information and to view the full program visit melbourneopenhouse.org
Event: Melbourne Open House
Date: Sunday, 20 July 2008
Venues: Visit melbourneopenhouse.org
Cost: FREE
Art Radio Shows Australia
And on 3CR
Arts Up! Mondays 2 – 4PM. Indigenous Arts Program, broadcast from 3KND In English. Presented by Kylie Belling, Kim Kruger and Janina Harding.
Art Radio Shows Australia
4zzz in Brisvegas has got ‘Art To Lunch’ on Sundays from 11am to 2pm
Art Radio Shows Australia
This in from Makeshift Swahili:
The Opening on PBS, Fiona Gruber Tuesdays 7-8pm
http://www.pbsfm.org.au/Documents.asp?ID=602&Title=The+Opening
How to make your Gallery Green
The Australian Commercial Galleries Association has a neat little guide for making your Gallery greener, which includes tips for saving energy, reducing waste, and helping artists and clients to live more sustainable and healthy lives.
You can download it here
More info on their website
Art Radio Shows Australia
Hey all
I’d like to compile a list of Radio shows in Australia that talk about Art. The only couple I’m familiar with are
Smartarts on Triple R with Richard Watts. 9am Thursdays in Melbourne or online
3mbs Convent Corner which interviews tenants at the Convent (artists, arts orgs like Midsumma etc) every Thursday of the month at 8:45am and 5:15pm
Radio National’s Artworks
What else is around?
Space Art - Ars Astronautica
Photographer images satellites that do not exist
Trevor Paglen is an astrophotographer with a difference… he takes photos of satellites that are not there. Officially “not there”, anyway. He spends many nights surveying the skies, waiting for classified spy satellites to pass overhead. When one appears, after researching what is actually out there (which is a hard task, these things are not meant to be discovered!) he captures it with his hi-tech astronomical spy satellite-catching equipment. His work makes for captivating (if unnerving) reading. Apart from capturing 189 “ghost” satellites in orbit, he’s turned his stargazing lenses to Earth and taken a peek into the top secret world of “black ops”…
Firefox Web Browser
Version 3 is out, its running a tonne faster. Recommended software for viewing Artabase with!
art heists
Art heists are probably as old as art itself. The modern era dates to the 1911 theft of the “Mona Lisa,” when the self-styled Marques Eduardo de Valfierno paid three men to steal it from the Louvre in Paris. It’s usually seen as the first great art heist of the 20th century. Since that time, countless works of major and minor art have been stolen.
http://www.forbes.com/2008/02/12/art-theft-museums-biz-cx_af_0212artheists.html
Forum formatting practice thread
there are hints below the comment field, an image starts with an exclamation mark, then insert the URL of the image, then follow it with an exclamation mark, no spaces.
a link starts with " then the link text then ends with ": and the url, again with no spaces
Space Art - Ars Astronautica
No need to apologise, have a practice in this thread
Website Updates
Some new RSS feeds
Great design comp (UK residents, 18+)
Great idea : )
Videoz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_utzVYSEiA
cute stop motion animation for a Go Genre Everything trak.
So Bill Henson... and censorship in Australia in general
Awesome, we have precedent!
In 95 a WA artist was charged with “indecently recording a child under the age of 13” for taking photo portraits of her children, but after a three year battle she was found innocent! Yay!
As reported in The Australian this morning.
Mobile Journeys
Short screen capture of one of the mobile games available on youtube
Hop Dac
I think you and Eric Henshall would make a nice showing together.
So Bill Henson... and censorship in Australia in general
As we’re probably all aware, Bill Henson’s photographs of young teens were seized by Australian police last week. The ensuing media debates wage child porn against artistic merit, with I’ve got to admit more points going to artistic merit with
Adult who posed for Henson at 12 without regret
Former head of Albury Regional Art Gallery wanting Henson’s removed works brought back
In a world that lauds the teen model Henson’s critics are hyprocrits
…combined with other significant data relating to the naturalness of girls 12-14 being sexual creatures given the state of their physical development (including, but which I have not seen covered in the media, the fact that girls are maturing earlier, with the average age of a girl’s first period (menarche) dropping over the past two generations).
What I think all the coverage I have witnessed fails to take in to account is how this impacts our already abysmally censored Australian culture.
It could be argued that Australia has the second-highest rate of censorship in the world, second only to China.
To begin with, the following three situations have been extracted from the Wikipedia entry on "Censorship in Australia
:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_Australia
In 2004, the Australian Centre for the Moving Image was responsible for the censorship of Australian female artist’s work which they had actually commissioned. Videoed images of the artist nailing her body to a tree were reduced in quantity and scale for final presentation to the public, against the artist’s consent.
In 2004, Experimenta refused to include the artwork ‘The Empty Show’ in the publicly installed version of the House of Tomorrow exhibition (it remains on the net.art website 18) due to images of illegally stencilled graffiti which depicted Mickey Mouse with drugs. The issue of Mickey Mouse being defamed was considered the risk, not the drugs. This censorship was known only to the organisers and the artists involved, and thus comprised a form of self-censorship.
Other Australian artists have received funding from public funding bodies, only to discover that their works are too controversial to be shown in this country, notably George Gittoes, whose work is still shown freely overseas.
Feel free to add more information regarding your experiences of censorship in Australia.
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I await with great anticipation the outcome of the Henson case. Should his work be found ‘acceptable’ we will hopefully see a maturation of the Australian cultural scene to something which is not ‘conditioned by alarmist media’ (to quote Henson’s response to the seize). If he is charged with obscenity, production of child porn or publication of child porn then we can kiss artistic license goodbye in this country, and possibly many of our best artists and artworks with it.
I’d also like to see a donation fund set up to help with Henson’s legal fees, as this case is going to affect all artists working in Australia. The case against Steve Hise in America being a good example of why this might be necessary.
Using art to keep kids distracted..
Artimus Art looks good – a website where you can store pictures your kids make as they are growing up.
Stranger of the Month
Please note the changed dates for this exhibition below:
You are cordially invited to take part in:
Stranger Of The Month
*
Saturday 24 May, 2008
12pm – 8pm
Office 10, Level 3,
Nicholas Building
37 Swanston St, Melb
*
A service for generating instructions for the anonymous Other, Stranger
of the Month takes its cue from ‘how-to’ manuals, spy novels, new age
self-help mantras, and minor acts of everyday subversion.
This coming Saturday only, we open our temporary mailroom and launch our
interactive publishing model – and we’d love you to contribute.
Submit your instructions; we’ll then transmit selected instructions (by
fax or post, via the web or Federation Square’s SMS-TV) to unsuspecting
strangers.
The mailroom is also where you’ll find selected instructions from
contemporary artists. Be directed by – or add to – Analogue Art Map’s
unknown trajectory. Join Krush Klub, or make an appointment with The
Vorticist.
Intended as an unsolicited act of generosity, the nature of the
instructions can assume varied forms. Instructions may provide a remedy
to the doldrums of a working life, an awakening to behaviours that are
habitual or unconscious; or they could function as a call to action, for
the purpose of a particular cause or belief. Alternatively, instructions
could operate in a more covert way, to form the beginnings of a game of
deception and intrigue.
To find out more – or to contribute online – visit strangerofthemonth.com
Contributing artists include: Panther (Sarah Rodigari and Madeleine
Hodge), Rebecca Cannon, Analogue Art Map, Jason Maling, Lucas Ilhein,
and Nathalie Quagliotto.
*
Curated by Kerrie-Dee Johns.
Next Wave Festival 2008.
Website Feedback and Suggestions
Hey Tim
Yeah, we were thinking the next button would be good
Love number 2, perhaps look only at artists with an image as well
Re: yours not being there, we sussed that out yeah? You were looking at artists in Australia, Victoria, but your artist bio didn’t have Victoria on it. So, that’s fixed now.
MM, text color fixed for upcoming release.
anon, great suggestion. I think inter-media is kind of a given for anyone with more than one media type selected, would you agree? Interactive should definitely be in the list.
ceramics
there’s a great book floating around on ceramics which I can’t remember the name of. it’s got a tonne of awesome modern work, some very disturbing.
this post on who killed bambi just reminded me to track the book down
yvonne lee schultz porcelain pistols
Space Art - Ars Astronautica
Melbourne artist Willoh S. Weiland is producing a fantastic live audio event which will then be recorded and broadcast light years into outer space by Deep Space Communications Network in Florida, USA.
Yelling at stars is performed at Sidney Myer Music bowl, Saturday May 31st.
People can participate by logging on to the website to contribute suggestions for what we should yell in to space.
Good front pages
as far as letting people know what’s going on…
LinkedIn: Relationships Matter
altho the front page of linkedin doesn’t really describe how valuable it is as a business networking thing. i would use it to find people for jobs if i like the people recommending their services.
Flickr makes it’s point
I like current tv but the front page is a bit crammed… i feel like i don’t want to bother watching anything because I’m never going to have the time to see anything, so i’m going to miss out on too much.
awesome site tho.
I Wish I Could Show You
Big brother, dear-god.net, confessing up to priestly strangers. Little sister?
Does anyone have a mobile with in-phone editing? (eg, shoot two clips, they are automatically pasted together). I think I heard of some mobile java app a few years ago but I don’t know if it was real or just a concept.
I think the videos would work a bit better if it was either confessions or precious moments; not both. When I’m in the mood for perving on confessions, fluffy baby chickens don’t work.
Would you die for art?
I wouldn’t die for Damien but I’d let him use my bits…
Speaking of whom somehow via the internetz he ended up a Fan of Artabase on facebook when we only had 23 fans…
this software has better connections than I do.
Cool hunter interview
Video interview with Bill Tikos behind thecoolhunter.com
Using art to keep kids distracted..
I like this, a sister-city type kids illustration competition.
http://artabase.net/exhibition/442-our-cities-in-ten-years
Would you die for art?
I wonder if he’ll get done for murder should he pull it off.
Using art to keep kids distracted..
Artplay at Fedsquare for kids under 12…
Favourites: Installation art
That is SO AWESOME!
On a related note, Sean Cordeiro and Claire Healy dismantled a house and stuck every piece of it in a gallery:
The role of the curator
There’s a good interview in today’s Australian with Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Artistic Director of the Biennale of Sydney talking about her curatorial approach, which is to be a collaborator.
more here
Artabase on Facebook
you’re just jealous coz they don’t let animate articles of clothing sign up for a user account.
Flight Zero
Last day!
Hop Dac
If by thing you mean thread, yes, it’s interesting isn’t it!
Optical Illusion Art
Julian Oliver has a fantastic article available on his blog called ‘Perceptual Play: Optical Illusion Art as Radical Interface’
You can get it from http://selectparks.net/~julian/index.php?entry=entry080228-202938
Call for ARTISTS Costa Rica
amazing looking place for a residency!
400usd per month is not so bad considering everything included.
Call for ARTISTS Costa Rica
that one as a link www.conceptosartisticos.com
Copyright Collection Agencies
Viscopy is a copyright collection agency for visual artists in Australia. Does anyone know of organisations like this for the US and EU?
Australia Council Arts Funding
2008 Briefing dates and times
AUSTRALIA COUNCIL ARTS FUNDING BRIEFINGS
If you are a professional craftsperson, designer, media artist, visual artist and arts writer interested in applying for arts funding then this is for you! The Visual Arts Board of The Australia Council for the Arts will be conducting Public Briefings around Australia throughout the year. The briefings are aimed at practicing artists and present a great opportunity for you to find out more about what the Visual Arts Board can offer.
SOUTH AUSTRALIA
Thursday 28th February, 3pm
JamFactory Contemporary Craft & Design
Lion Arts Centre, 19 Morphett Street, Adelaide
TASMANIA
Wednesday, 30th April, 6-8pm
CAST (Contemporary Art Services Tasmania), 27 Tasma Street, North Hobart
Thursday 1st May, 6-8pm
Design Centre, Tasmania, Cnr Tamar and Brisbane Sts, Launceston Tas
QUEENSLAND
Saturday 28th June, 5pm
Raw Space, 99 Melbourne Street, South Brisbane
Wednesday 2nd July, 6pm
Kick Arts – Centre for Contemporary Arts, 96 Abbott St, Cairns
NEW SOUTH WALES
Monday 30th June, 6pm
Lismore Regional Art Gallery, 131 Molesworth Street, Lismore
NORTHERN TERRITORY
Wednesday 21st May, 6-8pm
24hr Art – NT Centre for Contemporary Art
Vimy Lane, Parap Shopping Village, Darwin
Thursday 22nd May, 6-8pm
Watch This Space, 4/9 George Crescent, Alice Springs
Enquiries: 02 9215 9068 or Toll-free: 1800 226 912
Online Arts Resources
GUIDE TO EXHIBITING, COLLECTING & PRESERVING MEDIA ART
Please visit EAI’s new project, The Online Resource Guide for Exhibiting,
Collecting & Preserving Media Art, a comprehensive source for information
on single-channel video, computer-based art, and media installation:
http://resourceguide.eai.org
Founded in 1971, Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) is one of the world’s
leading nonprofit resources for video art and interactive media. EAI’s
core program is the international distribution of a major collection of
new and historical media works by artists. EAI’s activities include a
preservation program, viewing access, educational services, online
resources, and public programs such as exhibitions and lectures. The
Online Catalogue provides a comprehensive resource on the 175 artists and
3,000 works in the EAI collection, including extensive research materials.
Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI)
535 West 22nd Street, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10011
Online Arts Resources
MUSEUM AND GALLERIES SERVICES QUEENSLAND
Presentations from M&GSQ events are available from our website as audio
and video files. You can play these on-screen from the website or save and
play on your computer or portable device (such as an iPod) at a time of
your choosing.
Online Arts Resources
ARTFILES
Artfiles is a directory of the diverse and dynamic world of the arts and
cultural creators, facilities, programs and activities of Western Sydney.
Artfiles is brought to you by Information and Cultural Exchange (ICE),
with the support of the NSW Ministry for the Arts and 12 Western Sydney
Councils.
Artfiles is a resource used all year round throughout Western Sydney and
beyond. 20,000 copies of the printed directory will be distributed over
the next two years, while www.artfiles.com.au is accessed worldwide. This
year marks the seventh year that Artfiles has been connecting the wider
community with Western Sydney arts.
You can also search online for specialised information in Artfiles, such
as a complete list of practitioners of a specific artform or a list of
young artists from a particular area in Western Sydney.
To share any arts-related events or opportunities with the arts, cultural
and community industries in Western Sydney, send to artfiles@ice.org.au on
Monday of each week. We also provide a direct mail and email service (call
Artfiles on 02 9897 5744 for quotes and bookings).
To receive Artfile News, a regular enewsletter with information about
events, grants and other opportunities relevant to people in NSW, you can
subscribe by sending an email to; artfiles@ice.org.au
Online Arts Resources
DIGITAL ARTISTS HANDBOOK
The Digital Artists Handbook is an up to date, reliable and accessible
source of information that introduces different tools, resources and ways
of working related to digital art. The goal of the handbook is to be a
signpost, a source of practical information and content that bridges the
gap between new users and the platforms and resources that are available,
but not always easily accessible. The handbook will be slowly filled with
articles written by invited artists and specialists, talking about their
tools and ways of working. Some articles are introductions to tools,
others are descriptions of methodologies, concepts and technologies. The
site hosts articles on a wide variety of topics related to the bits and
bytes of digital art practice, including project management tips, open
content guides, instructions for digital video, digital graphics, and
sound tools, hardware development strategies.
The project is supported by Arts Council England.
Further information: www.digitalartistshandbook.org
Online Arts Resources
Here’s that one as a link http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/ed/myvirtualgallery
Great idea Jonathan. Reminds me of the Culture Victoria project in terms of providing an online access portal to a vast real-world collection. CV doesn’t allow curation tho, to my knowledge.
Formatting / Markup Help and practise...
and as recently discovered in the environmental art thread, putting a dash at either end of a word or group of words adds a strike through!
one of these – at either end, touching the letters. right
Space Art - Ars Astronautica
Whilst thinking about the possibility of making artwork that exists in space, but can be seen from earth, I came across this excellent website about space art;
http://www.arsastronautica.com
The site looks like it hasn’t been updated for a few years, but contains a hugely detailed history of art works that use space. I think my favourite piece was
1984: Joseph McShane’s Get Away Special (GAS) (G-308) which contained a system of spheres used as a materials coating experiment, originally conceived of and viewed as artworks upon return to Earth. McShane stated: “The sculpture “S.P.A.C.E.” is not the glass, but the outer space contained within. The sphere serves only to keep the one-g atmosphere from intruding on the space within, creating an anomaly of our common experience; a sculpture to observe and stimulate wonder about the nature and meaning of space, a sculpture to touch and know that only an 1/8″ of glass separates one from space.” (NASA, 1994)”.
- bringing a piece of space (as in truly empty space, not the stuff found in it) back to earth, what an awesome concept!
An orbital sculpture that didn’t happen;
Re: Orbital Sculptures
I guess these would come under the influence of sky art in general, which would also include sky-writing, fireworks, kite design, cloud-light-shows, large scale balloon and bird releases. And it would also follow the more recent lineage of earth-art works that are intended for enjoyment by those positioned in the sky, like environmental sculptures (crop circles included), massive landscaping branding projects, and the plethora of both natural and artificial large-scale projects intended for view from Google earth, etc.
Call for artists - A.I.R. International
app form’s available at http://www.hungarian-multicultural-center.com/
art on the environment
What kind of scale do you mean? Kirsten Bradley does a bit of small scale stuff.
Origami
Just found some lovely mathematical origami by Hideaki Azuma including this Mobius strip which is pretty cool (2002)
http://fine.ap.teacup.com/foldings/
Some of the patterns are gorgeous
Australian Network for Art and Technology
I just received the latest copy of ANAT’s Members only Filter magazine. Gotta say I love the new full colour glossy format, and am looking forward to checking out the complimentary DVD of experimental AV including works by jean poole, Wade Marynowsky, Ajbect Leader, Robin Fox and Delire/Pix amongst others.
Kudos to Director Dr. Melinda Rackham and the rest of the ANAT team for pulling together such a polished mag, I hope they can keep up the multimedia format. For anyone pondering whether ANAT membership is worthwhile I’d say now is a great time to do it given you get a few back copies of the Filter mag upon subscription, (not to mention their quick turnaround professional development grant).
Cory Doctorow on Artists Rights
Awesome article by the brainz behind Boing Boing – talking about the most important artist right of all – not copyright, but freedom of expression.
http://www.locusmag.com/Features/2008/01/cory-doctorow-artist-rights.html
And another article from 2002 talking about the work of Detritus.net who legally defended appropriative artworks like Tom Forsythe’s nude depictions of Barbie in a blender – and won.
Great design comp (UK residents, 18+)
But do you also win free beer, that’s the important question.
Primitives Collection Field
Write-up on Selectparks
http://selectparks.net/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=718
Open Source Knitting Standard KnitML
KnitML is a community standards effort aimed at defining a universal, machine- and human-readable system for describing knitting patterns.
It’s an XML compliant standard, which means it will be easily readably by humans and computers alike, and in most new technological contexts.
More info here http://www.knitml.com/blog/static.php?page=about-knitml
You can check out a basic sock pattern here
via boing boing
Website Feedback and Suggestions
Hi everyone,
Feel free to add your feedback and suggestions here. It’s been pointed out by a couple of people that adding an exhibition is a bit laborious. We’ll be improving this soon.
All your comments are welcome.
Unfurl
This work was shown in Experimenta’s ‘Vanishing Point’ exhibition. You can read a review on pages 21 – 23 of Unmagazine issue 6 at http://www.unmagazine.org/un6.html
(it was wonderful, don’t miss it!).
Why Creative People make artwork available freely
This article discusses reasons why artists obtain value from making their work freely available on the internet.
Open Source Art Software Wiki
http://artsoftware.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
ArtSoftware.org is a wiki for sharing information about free and open source art software!
Usage of Creative Commons by cultural heritage orgs
Here’s a link to a report on the usage of Creative Commons licenses by Cultural Orgs in the UK
http://www.eduserv.org.uk/foundation/studies/cc2007
which found that “Digital resources produced by publicly funded organisations are a valuable asset to the research and education community. Many people in the sector believe that access to and use of these digital resources could be better and that the wider use of open content licences would help to improve the situation.”
Trigger: Game Art
Do any of the artists from this show have any documentation? nullpointer needs some for late grant aquittal reasons.
MY DISEASED FRIENDS
ha ha, i never knew the story behind that one luce.. scuze the pun.
Machu Picchu
Can’t wait, haven’t heard Bruce’s audio in a long time.
WAKE
This was surreal Sally, great job.
The Systems That Shape Us by Aya Okawa
Great concept and execution.
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