SUPER AVANT GARDE FLASH MULTIMEDIA INTERACTIVE NET ART WITH A LOT OF SENSIBILITY FOR OTHER PEOPLE WITH ALOT OF SENSIBILITY- hector llanquin [ 4/25/2007 - 19:43 ] #
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|  | | OCC's first big event in VA a success!- Julia Yezbick [ 3/1/2006 - 11:59 ] #
  
OCC's first event in Virginia was a big success!! The opening
reception for "Waiting..." had a great turn-out and got press coverage
in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
We have had 2 pieces sold already and the owner of the restaurant has
agreed to donate 10% of the sales of any of the artwork to the next
show!! So keep an eye out for the next exhibit featuring artwork by
people in the food-service industry... (it may be called: "Still
waiting...").
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- Awesome! The glimpses look cool, wish I was there...wish you were here for that...more
- [stargrazer]
- check out this related link that a friend sent me! http://mrpertzels.blogspot.co...more
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| NEW ON TOWN- hector llanquin [ 11/22/2005 - 12:45 ] #
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| | | Ingredient of the Month- Ben Gaydos [ 9/8/2005 - 17:00 ] #
Braised
red cabbage goes well with apples, onions, nuts, and red wine, and it makes
an excellent bed for pork, duck, and salmon. Choose firm, shiny heads
that are as dark as possible. Don't overcook red cabbage or
you'll sacrifice flavor and vitamins.
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| | | magdelena's tea house- Ben Gaydos [ 12/10/2004 - 16:43 ] # 
Magdelena's tea house is a
community space located in Lansing, MI's Eastside. Not yet even a year
old, Magdelena's has provided a much needed space for Open Mic
Poetry/Music nights, film screenings, benefits, as well as a
comfortable place to meet/read/write/consume tea/alternative to the
usual bar and cofeehouse atmosphere.
OCC's own Tim Lane, hosts the (superb) monthly Open Mic Poetry Night (usually held on the last tuesday of the month), this Sunday, Dec. 12th at 5:30.
Magdelena's Calendar
Magdelena's Map
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- For those of you following along at home, the Magdalena's Poetry Series -- usual...more
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| Collaboration .2 [call for entries]- Ben Gaydos [ 11/23/2004 - 14:18 ] #
Outside Circle Collective
Collaboration .2
Call For Entries
Members of Outside Circle Collective are invited to submit proposals for Collaboration .2,
an international travelling exhibition to begin mid-2005. Each entry
should be a proposed collaboration between two or more members (eg, a
musician and a painter, a web designer, a film maker and a dancer;
whatever fits). Please submit names and contact information
with a proposal of no more than three pages. Submissions may propose
work in any format, but no funding will be provided. All proposed work
must be self-financed.
Proposals can be emailed to info@outsidecircle.com or snail mailed to :
Outside Circle Collective
426 West Second St.
Rochester, MI USA 48307-1904
Submission Deadline is February 15, 2005. If you would like more information about the exhibition or Outside Circle Collective, send email or visit the website listed below.
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- Yay! Thanks for the way prettier posting (and content!)
- [name not provided]
- i learned it by watching you.
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| east lansing art festival- Ben Gaydos [ 11/2/2004 - 07:28 ] # 42nd Annual East Lansing Art Festival Announces Call to Fine Artists, Fine Craftpersons & Emerging Artists
October 29, 2004
EAST LANSING, Mich.- The East Lansing Art Festival is seeking fine artists, fine craftpersons and emerging artists for its May 21 & 22, 2005 Art Festival. This juried art festival, held in the streets of downtown East Lansing, welcomes 230 talented artists from across the United States and Canada and as many as 12 emerging artists affiliated (within 2-3 years) with any university, college or art school.
Rated as one of the top art festivals in the country, the East Lansing Art Festival draws an estimated attendance of 70,000 from across Michigan and the Midwest region. In addition to our artist exhibitors, the Festival features free performances on two stages, an international style food court, and a hands-on art activities area. Admission for festival attendees is free.
For more details, participation rules and applications, please visit our website at www.elartfest.com. If you are an emerging artist please click on 2005 emerging artist application link, and if you are a fine artist or fine craftsperson please click on 2005 artist application link.
If you would prefer to receive an application in the mail please provide name and mailing address to: East Lansing Art Festival, 410 Abbott Road, East Lansing, MI 48823, or call (517) 319-6804. Please mention which application you would like to receive.
Application deadline is January 14, 2005.
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| | | Art Serve Michigan- Ben Gaydos [ 9/24/2004 - 12:15 ] #
ArtServeMichigan.org is a good resource for Michigan-based artists.
Their mission:
ArtServe
Michigan supports and advocates for the arts and cultural education in the state of
Michigan. ArtServe Michigan accomplishes its mission by working with artists, educators,
cultural organizations, businesses, volunteers and others through statewide programs,
services and a variety of collaborative efforts.
Register online
for Michigan Artist Directory's free monthly email listing of
competitions, commissions, grants, calls for entries and job
opportunities.
Visit the gallery/members pages.
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- one problem i have with the Michigan Artist Directory is that is essentially a &...more
- [ben]
- This also means that anyone with $40 can be a member. Not to be elitist, but th...more
- [stargrazer]
- What I mean to say is that good art comes from all income levels, not just those...more
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| Fort Unit-Sun Location Announced- Peter Richards [ 5/25/2004 - 12:38 ] # OCC's second annual weekend retreat, Fort Unit-Sun, will be on fifteen wooded acres
outside the small village of Fife Lake, Michigan, late August or
early September. We hope to time things so that we are there in
the midst of northern Michigan's dramatic autumn color change.
Stay tuned for more details.
Our host will be the lovely and talented mixed-media artist Nick Fisher, who
we know for his wise and twisted take on the surreal and the
fantastic. Recently, Nick has also been producing some great poster designs:
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- i'm hoping i can figure out the meaning behind the fort unit-sun title faster th...more
- [Ande]
- It ain't me, it ain't me...
- [stargrazer]
- Correction: 11 acres...
- [stargrazer]
- how about september 18th, which is a saturday and also happens to be my birthday...more
- [Ande]
- Check with Nick, but that date sounds good to me.I think we should brainstor...more
- [stargrazer]
- Looks like August 28-29 is the weekend for the retreat, renamed "Compound (x)."...more
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| the OCCswat team- Ben Gaydos [ 2/13/2004 - 12:01 ] #
is your life lacking excitement? adventure? a sense of purpose?
if so, that's really too bad...
...anyway, we've devised the OCCswatteam to
spread the word about our artists and our collective: an elite force of
proactive art lovers who want to let people know that art is being
created every day- galleries are unvieling new work, music is
being performed, poets are speaking, films are being exhibited, dancers
are well, dancing, thespians are taking stage, web gurus are punching
new codes... and all that other important stuff we do as
artists.
we would like OCC members, across the globe, to spread the word locally. all you have to do to sign up is click my profile at the bottom of the screen, once on your profile page check off the OCCswatteam newsletter box and you're officially cool. we'll contact you and send you your official swatteam gear, which will include:
- OCC Fliers/Poster
- [mini] JOWAI, The Journal of Words and Images
- OCC stencil
- Personalized OCC "business" cards
- The OCC CD-Rom
sound wicked-cool? it probably is.
if you have any questions about life threatening obligations or sketchy covert operations you might be involved in contact ben@edict.com
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- sweet! count me in for the UK distribution team!
- [pax]
- Thanks to the 6 of you who have signed up so far! We promise not to take advant...more
- [nick]
- we do?
- [ben]
- use me, abuse me. I'm really looking forward to that stencil!
- [stargrazer]
- One thing I can do is post links to juried shows in Michigan and the surrounding...more
- [stargrazer]
- Definitely Peter.
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| the future is now- Ben Gaydos [ 1/3/2004 - 18:07 ] #
 In
1969 Charles Eames sketched out a rough visualization of the design
process for an exhibition at the Lourve called "what is design?". It
consisted of three loose amoeba-like graphical elements floating in the
void of his sketchpad, overlapping, intersecting, and connecting to
create the most idyllic representation of what design should be. The
three layered forms respectively constitute the interests and concerns
of the designer, the genuine interest of the client, and concerns of
society as a whole. Where the subsets intersect lies the common ground
where designers can work with "conviction and enthusiasm". Like much of
the Eames' work, the beauty is found in the objects' duality. Floating
gorgeously in clarity and in the absence of pretense... churning below
are the complexities brought not only by the designer and the client,
but society as well. We as designers are given the daunting task of
mapping the blurred sovereignty where morals, economics, and personal
goals intersect.
We are at the beginning of a new epoch of
human viability, where all economies and ecologies are becoming
globalized, related and integrated. More than any other discipline,
design has placed us, for better of for worse, in this position. More
directly, for the last 100 years it has been graphic design acting as
the purveyor, instigator, and documentarian of cultural change.
Increasingly, however, graphic design has been depreciating its stock
as an art form by making itself available primarily as a commercial
tool. This, paired with the narrow selection of creative instruments
(primarily software), which we allow ourselves to use contributes to
the disposable conduit that makes up the majority of design encountered
daily. Craft and vocation are left behind, leaving the mass media with
unchallenging and comfortable design for the people. We
must seek to create work that is both visually and cognitively
demanding, but emotionally and intellectually rewarding.
By falsifying our skills as creative artists and knowingly swimming out to the undertow of an 'autistic economy',
where unemployment, inequality, and globalization prevail, finding the
area where the "designer can work with determination and enthusiasm"
becomes all the more difficult. We designers will not find it alone.
Working with colleagues both in and outside of the realm of visual
communications cultivates understanding. Collaborating with other
fields such as semiotics, social anthropology and linguistics, we
educate ourselves in the cultural values that give worth to human
life. We must seek to understand, study, and challenge how visual communication determines and reinforces cultural values.
The
collective conscious of the design community is beginning to reevaluate
its societal role. In his essay published by the American Institute of
Graphic Arts, The Citizen Designer, Rick Poyner states, "We must ensure
that design, as an interdisciplinary way of thinking, becomes an
integral and equal component of significant public initiatives."
melding such initiatives with our clients ideals and our morals, we can
better all parties involved. Through these means Eames' pluperfect land
seems all the more attainable. This is what we must seek.
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- Ben, a very thought-provoking assessment!"Do not commit design in a vacuu...more
- [stargrazer]
- I like the use of this space for essays and comentary.
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| the forest for the trees- Ben Gaydos [ 11/4/2003 - 17:25 ] #
 in edinburgh there exists a forest: a self-funded, not-for-profit arts café and exhibition space, run and staffed by a collective of volunteers. the forest is an inspiring experiment in arts, food, public space & forum, entertainment, sustainablity, and community. the space the forest (housed in a former church) maintains a gallery, a café/bar, and a gathering area to eat/ sleep /study /converse. it is staffed by volunteers and entirely funded by the food sold off of their menu (the most expensive dish costs £3.50), all of which is either vegetarian or vegan, as well as fairly traded and ethically produced. sound too good to be true? the forest also provides:
Free Bike Hire : passport or credit card deposit required
Free Sewing Machine : just in case
Free Broadband Internet Access : limited to 15mins only when there is a queue
Free Event Space : Host anything, see anything, all for nothin'
Free Workshops : and any event you or your friends wish to have
Ride Share Board : don't like it here, go someplace else
Multi Media Facilities : Super8, 16mm, video and computer projection available
Swap Board : change something old into something new
Open Decks : just ask!
Grants : up to £100 for worthy projects just submit a proposal
those that i talked with were quite interested in OCC as well as creating a dialogue between the two groups. they welcomed OCC's publication, jowai, and encouraged us to enter films in their film festival, and welcomed submissions for exhibition.
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| | | He's no expert, but he sure likes his beer- Nick Gaydos [ 10/9/2003 - 18:08 ] #
Outside Circle's Hiram Becker is now the Beer Guy at Michigan State University's State News. Here is a snip from Hiram's first article:
 "Paulaner is more widely known for its HefeWeizen (reminiscent of an Oberon) but also crafts a quality beer with this bock.
It's a fine beer with a fruity taste. Is that cherry I taste? But watch out - she's a thick one, too. At 7.7-percent alcohol by volume, it sits heavy in the tummy, much more so than your average Hefe. There's no need to drink too much. Because it's so strong and hearty, the Salvator might be more at home in the early spring."
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- I didn't know Hiram drank beer!
- [stargrazer]
- beer isn't good unless hiram is with in 25 meters
- [ben]
- I didn't know Hiram was such a hunk! meow!
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| Outside Circle weekend retreat at Fort Wendy- Peter Richards [ 7/17/2003 - 14:12 ] # I am pleased to announce the first OCC weekend retreat, August 22, 23 and 24 at Fort Wendy. What is Fort Wendy? Fort Wendy is more of an idealized meeting point for creatively minded people than it is an actual location...e-mail me at richar66@msu.edu for directions to the Fort this time around. There is plenty of camping space, a pit for bonfires, walking and mountain-biking trails, abundant wildlife, and I am told that crop circles have been appearing in the area. Details will be released to the collective as they unfold. If you have ideas or would like to help out as a volunteer, contact me or Ben.
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- I'm excited, Peter. I'll look that place up in the internet in the meantime. I...more
- [name not provided]
- Hiram, I don't think you'll find Fort Wendy (you see, it isn't so much a place a...more
- [stargrazer]
- To all: Some things you may want to bring: Camping gear if you will be staying...more
- [stargrazer]
- if anyone has any suggestions as to what events could take place at the retreat,...more
- [ben]
- those interested in the Stargrazer project, we will have a songwriter's round-ro...more
- [stargrazer]
- Speaking of volunteers, we could use two or three people to help things run smoo...more
- [stargrazer]
- Must one attend the entire weekend? I feel like I'm going to be pulled rather t...more
- [name not provided]
- Ah, and whichever night I am there, there will be an ad lib cook-in by the fire....more
- [name not provided]
- Friday and Saturday nights will also feature around-the-fire discussions about w...more
- [stargrazer]
- Is clothing required? If so, Is there a dress code? If so, Can we get www.wigg...more
- [name not provided]
- happy birthing day to hirma!
i think hirams idea of cooking either around the...more
- [ben]
- clothing will not be required, but pixelization is a must.
- [ben]
- peter, do we absolutely need to rule out any sort of electronic instrumentation?...more
- [ben]
- Can I bring a walkie-talkie?
- [name not provided]
- Ben, yes. My main concern is that we don't upset the neighbors (who own the pro...more
- [stargrazer]
- i know you can count on nick, julia, and i to carry share the load. i'm not sure...more
- [ben]
- ideas from last nights barrel discussion: possible guest speaker (not telling wh...more
- [ben]
- I have invited three guest artists to give a quick talk about their work. Their...more
- [stargrazer]
- I think that we will schedule things loosely, using "morning," "afternoon" and "...more
- [stargrazer]
- Here's a tentative schedule:
Friday afternoon - guests start arriving...more
- [stargrazer]
- Let's talk about food: Can someone bring a sack of potatos? Or oranges? Veggi...more
- [stargrazer]
- peter please email itinerary to nick (nick at edict.com) and i as well. we'll se...more
- [ben]
- Julia and Ben, can you lead a workshop on Saturday? Ande? Can anyone get ahold...more
- [stargrazer]
- I think i'll be helping people get their work documented and lead somewhat of a...more
- [ben]
- Probably not a huge surprise given recent events, but I don't believe I will be...more
- [name not provided]
- Bring photos, artwork, poetry, design work, etc (of scannable size or on a CD) t...more
- [stargrazer]
- Top 5 Reasons to RSVP:
1. You'll receive accurate directions
...more
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| | t | h | e | _ | g | r | i | d |- Ben Gaydos [ 6/2/2003 - 17:54 ] # 
"the grid is not only something we can't get out of... it runs right through us, it dominates the way we look at the world around us." - dan cameron
npr's studio 360 tackles what probably every art student has found to be one of the most liberating and constricting things they were taught.
the show investigates the origin of the grid and how it can be applied not only to 2 dimensional and 3 dimensional visual spaces, but aural spaces as well. the grid, which is often misread as limiting those who function with and within it, is discussed here not only through it's rigid lines, but also the openness of its neccesity, practicality, and instinctual relationship that we share with it.
chuck close is the show's guest.
check out the audio archive of the show: http://www.wnyc.org/studio360/show.html
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- The concept of the grid brings out the mathematical side of artistic thought and...more
- [pax]
- We did a design project with non-linear "grids." They were arrived at by cuttin...more
- [stargrazer]
- that's refreshing peter, freeing the composer of the initial binds that the grid...more
- [ben]
- Ben, sorry about the lag time -- It was in Professor Funk's 8-hour Design class,...more
- [stargrazer]
- Peter, I'd be interested in seeing the results. Any chance you have that file o...more
- [nick]
- I've listened to this studio 360 show twice now... with a month or two to digest...more
- [nick]
- Uhh...it's on one of those Zip 100s. I may have a hard copy I can scan, though....more
- [stargrazer]
- yeah preetty cool stuff, huh? peter, if you can wait until i get back i can put...more
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