When I taught at San Francisco Art Institute, I taught a class basically on Artist as Artwork, meaning one needs to work on him or herself regularly.
I updated my bio to reflect Jon 4.0 changes.
I need to spend some more time in the shop to work out the kinks before I really jump into any other big adventures like Creative Commons is the summary of my last few days 
I have cool wife! Check out this documentation of her project on display now at McBean Gallery at SFAI in recently sunny San Francisco. The show is totally free and interesting.
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 PerformancesFree before 10 pm
$10 afterEvent proceeds support GAB & Bitch Magazine “feminist response to pop culture”.
Ok, the above when I say 300 million cc licenses, erase that from your mind. The actual figure’s bottom end is 90 Million licensed images which relied on a statement of 50 million CC licensed images on Flickr. Well, now that figure is more accurately 70 Million CC licensed images on Flickr, so the low bound of CC licensed images has to be more than 90 Million.
This is a video that Jay Dedman and Ryanne Hodson did a year ago prior to me speaking at my favorite conference last year, Pixelodeon. I’m eagerly looking forward to the fall edition of this conference which I might have to fly back from China just to attend.
Also, I should add that Ryanne and Jay are such great people. I’m so happy to know great friends that are doing amazing creative work.
I’ve blogged about my favorite rapper, artist, musician before, Lil Wayne, when he consciously leaked tracks prior to his upcoming album in understanding the effect that would have on spreading his music, encouraging sales, and more commerce around his entire existence. Wayne embraced piracy, or as Gilberto Gil calls it, “peer-acy.”
Well, now Lil Wayne’s latest album, Tha Carter III has been leaked 10 days before the album is to be released on June 10 (and through btjunkie its quite easy to find). So, who did the leaking? Since he leaked, er, released, er, leaked tracks prior to Tha Carter III back before Christmas 2007, these are supposedly the real tracks that some DJ released out of anger for Wayne dissing on DJ’s. The Wikipedia article clarifies:
On May 30th-31st, Tha Carter III was leaked internationally. The first of the leaks were distributed on May 30th at around 8pm where five songs from the track list were available on the internet. Hours later on May 31st at 12am-1am the whole album was leaked and posted on various websites for free download. The DJ responsible for the leaks was DJ Chuck T who retaliated for an interview conducted by Wayne, where he discredited all DJ’s and the mixtape scene days before.
Do you all think this is true? Wayne owes mucho to DJ Drama and the entire mixtape scene. I find it hard to believe that Wayne would diss DJ’s without a good reason. I could think of some good reasons to diss DJs after seeing gramps DJ in Beijing a couple of weeks ago. I’m talking about DJ Cut Chemist mixing music from 20-30 years ago! Yes, that is how old Hip-Hop is now! Amazing.
WireTap Magazine has a great interview with my friend Rick Rinehart about being a “digital media curator.” He has this to say about Open Sourcing artowork and making an Open Museum:
Digital artifacts, unlike even film and photography, are infinitely reproducible and that reproduction does not diminish quality or authenticity. So, one can both preserve a copy of a digital artwork and at the same time provide global access to another copy from anywhere in the world at any time. In fact with digital art (or digital anything), having multiple copies helps preservation.
Furthermore, this access need not be limited to just an image of the artwork, or a presentation version, but one could provide access to the full artwork, all the materials (code) and everything under the hood. This kind of “open-source” access would only further both research and spur new artistic creation and it’s a kind of mashing up of the raw materials that is not possible with traditional art forms.
My idea is to create the OpenMuseum; a repository for both preserving and providing access to digital art in this broadest possible sense. Of course there are other concerns, artworks are not just technical objects, but also social, economic, and legal artifacts, so the OpenMuseum is a prototype to experiment with those issues and provide a new model for access to the world’s digital culture.
I’m involved with these efforts as part of the Berkeley Museum’s Vanguard including some notable individuals from the area led by Jane Metcalfe (co-founder of wired) and Rick Rinehart, as well as Larissa Mann, aka, DJ Ripley who I blogged about previously:
Larisa Mann writes about technology, media and law for WireTap, studies Jurisprudence and Social Policy at U.C. Berkeley and djs under the name Ripley. She is a resident DJ at Surya Dub, San Francisco, and collaborates with the Riddim Method blog-DJ-academic crew, Havocsound sound system, and various other cross-fertilizing organisms in the Bay Area and worldwide.
If you are in the SF/Berkeley area tomorrow (Monday, June 2nd, 2008) and Tuesday, then come check out the Berkeley Big Bang 08 which will include all the above participants on the topics of digital culture and art. I’ll be there for part of the day tomorrow and also onto 01sj festival later in the week June 4 - 8 in San Jose.
Right before Lu and I headed back to SF, where we are right now, I helped her shoot a video of some Cantonese hip-hop dancers in Guangzhou. We had so much fun playing some loud bass and seeing these goes go for it! Totally amazing! Here is an excerpts from lu’s site.
These are pictures from my video shoot in Guangzhou 2 weeks ago. The video is for the new project titled “Don’t Talk About Politic”. I am working on the editing right now…
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