Adam has helped me document the installation in the Walter & McBean Galleries. This is part of the exhibition “We Remember the Sun”, on view from now till Sept 19th. Documentation video-taped by Adam Barczak.
This documentation footage is quite great and feels like some type of 3d model rendering or something. Speaking of which my cousin, Brad Phillips, is here this week working on pulling together his resume, doing some 3d modeling of upcoming projects, and generally hanging out. Great to have him here!
Lu’s art work is taking off. Our friend Josette from Gray Area Gallery contacted me out of the blue because she heard about Lu’s great artwork. The result is that Lu’s artwork is showing all Saturday night during an all female-themed event.
To take it a step further, I said to Lu, you gotta do something new too! Something I have been batting around for ages with Mark Hellar and others is an event where people’s hard drives can be played back. Well, Lu’s hard drive is being played back on 3 screens live for the last half of the night!
This coming Saturday, my videos will be screening at Gray Area Gallery from 8PM-4AM. Man, it’s an 8 hours screening! It’s hard to do without some partying! So this is a pride party night with all female DJs from San Francisco and LA.
My videos will be projected on three screens in the main space. From 8-10PM, they will be showing “The Plum in the Golden Vase”, “The Unique Dancers”, “Panda Express”, “Bump’n Grind”, “Don’t Talk About Politics’. After 10PM and the rest of the night, three screens will shuffle through video clips from my hard drives. They are clips of out takes of above videos, videos I have never shown, and old works back to 2001. This become a project itself I call it “Scratch”. Watch out! Dangerous dangerous!!
Text from Gray Area Gallery:
This Saturday night we will be inviting friends and family over for a Female Themed Pride Party. We thought it would be fun to celebrate and are excited to welcome- 3 talented queer female djs from los angeles: ANON, DAISY-O, and KIM ANH that produce Booby Trap.
They will be rocking Pride Saturday alongside San Francisco’s own DJs QZEN, ALONA, and, SIMILAK CHYLD.
BOOBY TRAP
is a weekly boob-friendly dance party in East Hollywood that attracts a crowded floor of hot, sassy, and did we mention hot? Ladies dance to upbeat electro pop and new wave from DJs ANON, DAISY-O, and KIM ANH (http://www.myspace.com/clubboobytrap). While the Hollywood crowds flock to Sunset, the savvy ladies East of Highland head to Booby Trap.
GAB would like to invite you to a special evening dedicated to celebrating women in honor of San Francisco’s pride weekend. We will be showing selected pieces from DEER FANG and an installation in our mezzanine.
DEER FANG
is a video artist working in San Francisco and Guangzhou. Her earlier projects investigate the condition of video in art making and the dynamics within the production process through participation, improvisation, real-time and socialization. Her current work uses common formats from popular culture such as the news, reality TV show, music videos, and online videos to dissect culture and political meanings in the media and in our everyday society. Fang studied in School of Visual Art with Luca Buvoli and completed her BFA in Graphic Design in 2005. She received MFA in New Genres (Video+ Performance) at the San Francisco Art Institute with Tony Labat, Paul Kos and Okwui Enwezor in 2007.
8 - 10 pm: Reception for Deer Fang (free wine)
10pm to Late (after-hours): DJs and Performances
Free before 10 pm
$10 after
Event proceeds support GAB & Bitch Magazine “feminist response to pop culture”.
I’m bummed out! Due to my Creative Commons responsibilities next Wednesday, I can’t physically get to my wife’s art opening next Wednesday. So, I will try to drive as many people as possible to the show. Please do go if you are in the San Francisco Bay Area! Its free and will be great! I will get to the after-party as soon as I can physically drive back from Creative Commons “Future of CC” night event which several of you are going to attend.
My latest project “Don’t Talk About Politic” is being installed in “We Remember the Sun” exhibition, a group show in the Walter & McBean Galleries. Opening is this coming Wednesday, exhibition on view through September.
“Don’t Talk about Politic” is a two channel video installation. Proposed plan is as image followed, as well as exhibition statement written by Mary Ellyn Johnson. I have been working on this in the past several weeks. And I found out that if you use NTSC video camera to shoot video in a lighted studio in a PAL country, then your video will be possibly have flickering all through it. What a lesson! Luckily I am able to eliminate this unexpected effect because it was shot in a blue screen studio. I am very excited to see when all is installed. And it should be an interesting show!
Some Video stills:
We Remember the Sun
Exhibition of Work by Fifteen Bay Area Artists
—Live Musical Performance at Opening Reception
Walter and McBean Galleries
San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI)
800 Chestnut Street, San Francisco, CA 94133
Opening reception: Wednesday, 18 June 2008, 7:00–9:00 p.m.
Cost: Free and open to the public
Exhibition Dates: 19 June–13 September 2008
Images: High-resolution digital images available
Press Contact: Bob Gamboa, (415) 749-4507, bgamboa@sfai.edu
We Remember the Sun, an Exhibition by Fifteen California Artists,
Opens at SFAI on 18 June 2008
Jon Phillips is an artist and developer with 14+ years of experience building communities and growing successful media projects. He is currently developing the Open Source project the Open Clip Art Library, works for Creative Commons as Community and Business Development Manager, is growing Overlap.org and Fabricatorz.com.
