Sunday, June 15, 2008
Call for Artists: LACDA INTERNATIONAL JURIED COMPETITION DigitalArt.LA 2008
2008-06-09 until 2008-06-30
Los Angeles Center For Digital Art
Los Angeles CA
LACDA is calling for artists to participate in the INTERNATIONAL JURIED COMPETITION- DigitalArt.LA 2008 jurored by Howard Fox, Curator of Contemporary Art, L.A. County Museum of Art (LACMA) and Rex Bruce, Director, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art. Enter our juried competition for digital art, digital photography, video and new media. All styles of artwork and photography where digital processes of any kind were integral to their creation are acceptable. We accept digital art stills of any kind, digital photogaphy, short experimental time based video, video loops, mobile media, interactive media, internet art (net.art) and new media works of any kind.
The competition is international, open to all geographic locations.
Video, interactive and new media are accepted by DVD/CD. Internet art (net.art) entries are viewed at their original URL. Still image entries are acceped by jpeg upload. Still image winners are printed by the gallery (up to 24"x36") for exhibition to eliminate the need for shipping, especially for international artists.
The selected winners will be exhibited as the central focus of the "DigitalArt.LA" expo (see below) in a large group exhibit at the LACDA gallery. The show will be widely promoted and will include a reception for the artists. Juror Howard Fox, Curator of Contemporary Art, LACMA, will attend the opening reception. The DigitalArt.LA expo runs August 14-16 (concurrent with and promoted by SIGGRAPH, the Downtown Art Walk and Downtown Film Festival - Los Angeles), the winners exhibit will remain in the gallery August 14-September 6.
DigitalArt.LA http://DigitalArt.LA is a multi-site international digital art expo in the Gallery Row area of Downtown Los Angeles organized by Rex Bruce and L.A. Center for Digital Art. The event includes exhibits by area galleries, theatres, and venues near LACDA. Many venues will host screenings and exhibits for major out of area institutions including Centre Pompidou Forum des Images, UCR | California Museum of Photography, Lanzia Center for Contemporary Art (Danzig, Poland), and the Austin Museum of Digital Art. The central exhibit will be the international winners show of juried submissions hosted by LACDA.
Nature as Artifice: The New Dutch Landscape in Photography and Video Art
Mary Markerink, A4 Schiphol, uit: Snelweg, 1996
2008-06-12 until 2008-09-28
Kroller-Muller Museum
Otterlo, Netherlands
The exhibition Nature as Artifice will be shown at the Kröller-Müller Museum from 12 June until 28 September 2008. The Dutch landscape immediately conjures up images of heathlands with meandering rivers and waterlocked meadows with cows, sheep and windmills. The reality, however, is rather different. Globalisation has replaced this pastoral idyll in the Netherlands with industrial estates, suburbs, motorways, airport expansions and locations for all sorts of commercial recreation.
Several star photographers and video artists from the Netherlands and abroad show us this new landscape in a colourful and varied exhibition with beautiful black and white and colour photographs and intriguing video installations. They record new images of our landscape, demonstrating that electricity pylons, railway lines and newly designed green spaces have their own intrinsic beauty.
The exhibition Nature as Artifice is part of the International Triennial Apeldoorn and includes work by Hans Aarsman, Wout Berger, Cary Markerink, Edwin Zwakman, Marnix Goossens, Frank van der Salm and Driessens/Verstappen. The exhibition will travel to Munich (Neue Pinakothek www.pinakothek.de 22 October 2008 - 18 January 2009) and Rochester, NY (George Eastman House, www.eastmanhouse.org 11 July - 4 October 2009).
Call for Artists: Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2009
2008-06-12 until 2008-07-31
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Washington, DC
Enter the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2009, sponsored by the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery Call for Entries in all visual arts media: June 2 – July 31, 2008 First prize: $25,000 and an opportunity for a commission to create a portrait of a remarkable living American for the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery.
www.portraitcompetition.si.edu
The competition and resulting exhibition will celebrate excellence and innovation, with a strong focus on the variety of portrait media used by artists today. The juried competition will result in an exhibition of approximately 60 of the finalists’ works. The National Portrait Gallery welcomes single figure-, group-, or self-portraits—from classical drawing and painting or hyperrealistic sculpture to large-scale photography to prints and new media. The competition is named for Virginia Outwin Boochever (1920–2005), a former Portrait Gallery volunteer whose generous gift has endowed this program.
The Land of a Million Cereals: A Mixed-Media Installation by Ryan Alexiev
2008-06-06 until 2008-07-12
Mission 17
San Francisco, California
If we are what we eat, a significant degree of who we are-at least, in this country-is cereal. In America, cereal is the most popular breakfast food and the third most popular product in the supermarket altogether-after only soda and cereal's constant counterpart, milk. In his up-coming show at MISSION 17, Ryan Alexiev explores this centrality of cereal to our constitution. But cereal, for Alexiev, functions as more than merely foodstuff. His engagement with cereal is informed by his appreciation of its history and continuing importance as a paradigmatic consumer product. Since the advent of cereal in the early twentieth century, the four basic grains-wheat, corn, rice, and oats-have consistently been packaged and promoted in a seemingly endless variety of products. Currently, there are 400 different kinds of cereals on the market, which ultimately are distinguished by little more than their ad campaigns. The substance of cereal is, in this light, ideology. And, when we consume it, we ingest more than merely calories. We literally incorporate a sense of who we are-not only through our identification with an image on the face of a cardboard box, but furthermore, for Alexiev, as rational subjects who imagine ourselves as free to choose.
Larry Tee upcoming dates
June 25th - Tingle Tangle Club in San Francisco
June 28th XLIB - Kiev
July 11th Z club TBA - Toronto
July 27th The Play Boy Club - n Las Vegas
August 3rd The warehouse - Calgary
August 9th Lekker - Copenhagen
August 22nd Location TBA - Lithuania
August 23 Mysteryland Festival - Amsterdam
Traditional Japanese Tea Ceremony Bowls by Peter Callas, Joe Campbell, Kristin Muller, Takao Okazaki, and Shane Sellers
2008-06-12 until 2008-07-07
Ch’i Contemporary Fine Art
Brooklyn, New York
Ch’i Contemporary Fine Art is pleased to announce the opening of "Tea Bowls and tea bowls", a group exhibition of Japanese tea bowls by Peter Callas, Joe Campbell, Kristin Muller, Takao Okazaki, and Shane Sellers. Traditional Japanese Tea Ceremony Bowls have been a “staple” form in the ceramic arts for many centuries. They have gone through a series of changes based on the historic era in which they were made, ceramic materials used to build them, firing techniques used to finish them, and most importantly, the individual “taste” of the Tea Master procuring the bowls for use. There are Summer Bowl shapes, Winter Bowl shapes, and those "in between" shapes that Okazaki jokingly claims are for late summer/early winter.
The exhibit consists of a minimum of 30 bowls, at least 6 from each artist, and will explore both the “traditional” styles and techniques, and the “not so traditional”. All 5 of the artists work, at times, within the relatively tight constraints of volume and aesthetics that are mandated by traditional thinking about the Tea Bowl. All 5 artists also choose at times to “color outside the lines” when making a tea bowl. How are these different? Why are these different? Is one “type” by definition more artistic, better suited for use, or more “acceptable”? These are the questions posed by the artists, to be answered by the audience that views the work. Soetsu Yanagi in his classic The Unknown Craftsman best describes this “shibui” concept as follows: “It is not a beauty displayed before the viewer by its creator – creation here means, rather, making a piece that will lead the viewer to draw beauty out of it for himself”.
The Florida Biennial
Cecil Herring // Title: St Johns River View // 2008 // Medium: Painting Acrylic // Price: US$ 1200 // absolutearts
2008-06-06 until 2008-08-24
Museum of Florida Art
Deland, FL
The Florida Biennial is an exhibition that has grown from a local museum member's exhibit into an important venue for artists across the state. As the Museum of Florida Art continues to expand in scope and reach, the Florida Biennial juried exhibition plays an vital part in this process by providing exhibition opportunities to a variety of artists working in a wide range of mediums. This year over 90 Florida artists provided submissions for jury. 61 artists were chosen. The exhibition runs from June 6 through August 24, 2008. The Florida Biennial IV was juried by Frank Holt, Director of the Mennello Museum of American Art in Orlando, Florida.
King Khan & the Shrines
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27 Jun 2008 20:00
Seaport Music Festival New York NY
28 Jun 2008 20:00
Johnny Brendas Philadelphia PA
29 Jun 2008 20:00
Rock and Roll Hotel Washington DC
30 Jun 2008 20:00
Local 506 Chapel Hill, NC
1 Jul 2008 20:00
Flying Monkey Arts Center Huntsville AL
3 Jul 2008 20:00
40 Watt Club Athens GA
4 Jul 2008 20:00
Lennys Atlanta GA
5 Jul 2008 20:00
One Eyed Jacks New Orleans LA
6 Jul 2008 20:00
The Mohawk Austin TX
8 Jul 2008 20:00
Rhythm Room Phoenix AZ
10 Jul 2008 20:00
Echo Los Angeles CA
11 Jul 2008 20:00
Great American Music Hall San Francisco CA
12 Jul 2008 20:00
Dantes Portland OR
13 Jul 2008 20:00
The Tractor Tavern Seattle WA
14 Jul 2008 20:00
Pats Pub Vancouver BC
16 Jul 2008 20:00
Urban Lounge Salt Lake City UT
17 Jul 2008 20:00
Larimer Lounge Denver CO
20 Jul 2008 20:00
Pitchfork Music Festival Chicago IL
21 Jul 2008 20:00
Crofoot Ballroom - Pike Room Pontiac MI
22 Jul 2008 20:00
Grog Shop Cleveland Heights OH
23 Jul 2008 20:00
Legendary Horseshoe Tavern Toronto ON
24 Jul 2008 20:00
Legendary Horseshoe Tavern Toronto ON
25 Jul 2008 20:00
La Sala Rossa Montreal PQ
26 Jul 2008 20:00
Zaphod Beeblebrox Ottawa ON
30 Jul 2008 20:00
Iron Horse Northampton MA
31 Jul 2008 20:00
Middle East Upstairs Cambridge MA
1 Aug 2008 20:00
Cafe Nine New Haven CT
