Which One’s Oscar?
Posted by aaron on 18 Jul 2010 at 09:21 pm | Tagged as: art paparazzi, conceptual art, coverage, image & sound, performance art, politics, sound art, video/film
Our own correspondent is sorry to tell
Of an uneasy time that all is not well
On the borders there’s movement
In the hills there is trouble
Food is short, crime is double
Prices have risen since the government fell
Casualties increase as the enemy shell
The climate’s unhealthy, flies and rats thrive
And sooner or later the end will arrive
This is your correspondent, running out of tape
Gunfire’s increasing, looting, burning, rape
– Wire, “Reuters”, 1977.
Seeing an art show at a nightclub has its drawbacks, but one thing I took away from seeing the one-night only six-man show Oscar Mike at Nightrocker: Live was the idea that more galleries should paint the walls black. With proper lighting, it can be a natural neutral framing device which highlights the work and renders negative space somehow richer.
The line-up of the show drew me out of what has become, in my advanced years, a somewhat habitual avoidance of loud and smoky music clubs (note to San Antonio: in NYC, the smoking ban in bars seems not to have had any effect on the level of trade and sure makes it more comfortable for everyone, smokers included.) San Antonio-based artists Albert Alvarez, Jimmy Canales, the brothers Ruben and Rigoberto Luna, Miguel Nelson, and part-time Angeleno Vincent Valdez came together after the experience the first four had of putting together the possibly-someday-to-be-considered-seminal group exhibit Techjano/a: Hybrid Logic this spring at el Museo Alameda. The germ of the idea for this new show came from Valdez and developed after Rigo Luna introduced him to brother Ruben (who had curated the Alameda show.) A fast friendship and evidently an effective creative alliance was quickly formed, although Rigo is quick to point out that “Oscar Mike is a show, not a collective.”
The basis for the work in the show is the participants’ shared boyhood love for the 80′s iteration of G.I. Joe. A running theme of the youthful acceptance of the glamorization of war represented by the action figures, comic book and cartoon series – one of the early pioneering brands which synergized toys and media in an attempt to saturate children’s imagination and desire – is contrasted with the now-adult artists’ deeper understanding of the full ramifications of organized violence, and their rejection of the pop culture romanticization of the warrior myth.
Addendum: Scuttlebutt amongst the dogfaces says they may re-stage in a new theatre of operations. Waiting on word from the top brass back at HQ.
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- A dossier available on-site details code names and modus operandi for the six member squadron. Dossier photos by Adam Rocha.
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- Ruben Luna’s Joseph-Cornell-by-way-of-Marvel-Comics “toy box/weapons locker/altar” is an homage to the series’ ninja commando “Snake Eyes.”
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- Luna’s altar utilizes pages from the G.I. Joe comic book that helped inspire the exhibition.
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- Rigoberto Luna’s “Portrait of a Boy” is an overnight case prepared for a childhood sleepover, filled with the favorite toys of a pre-adolescent boy growing up in the 1980′s. The reverse quotes a relevant verse from Corinthians (13:11), and an audio component blares a mash-up of war and cartoon sounds.
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- Albert Alvarez’s videogame- and crappy-80′s-teevee-animation-inspired video depicts a future San Antonio, decimated by a northward-expanding drug war and occupied by anonymous troops who bear witness to seemingly random slaughter.
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- Vincent Valdez gives us a chronological progression of his own changing perspective on images of war, starting with this early childhood drawing. The insert is a rendering of the G.I. Joe logo featured on a slightly later drawing.
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- An adolescent Valdez rendered this drawing based on one of photographer Larry Burrows’ Viet Nam-era images of the “Walking Wounded.”
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- Detail from a recent Valdez drawing depicting a group of tattered, combat-weary soldiers desperately rushing a wounded comrade-in-arms away from the battlefiled.
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- The single most powerful image in the show is Valdez’s “John,” a memorial for a life-long friend who became a victim of untreated PTSD. An audio component features a recording of the soldier’s funeral interposed with a Pogues song.
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- Jimmy Canales hides in plain sight in his anti-camouflage sniper’s Ghillie suit. Handcrafted from shredded serapes, it is intended to draw attention to the wearer and induce shamanic ecstasy in onlookers.
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- In his shamanic capacity, Canales leads the crowd into a rapture of dance by doing the Tootsie Roll, as Miguel Nelson blasts 69 Boyz from the multimedia command center.
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- “Oscar Mike” is military parlance for “On Mission,” or “On the Move.”
But when Zeus had driven the Titans from Olympus,
mother Earth bare her youngest child Typhoeus of the love of
Tartarus, by the aid of golden Aphrodite
wish i hadn’t missed this
Aaron, this is fantastic!
Law of Closure — The mind may experience elements it does not perceive through sensation, in order to complete a regular figure (that is, to increase regularity).
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A crop circle is a sizable pattern created by the flattening of a crop such as wheat, barley, rye, maize, or rapeseed. In 1991, self-professed pranksters …
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The Gestalt laws are used in user interface design. The laws of similarity and proximity can, for example, be used as guides for placing radio buttons. They may also be used in designing computers and software for more intuitive human use. Examples include the design and layout of a desktop’s shortcuts in rows and columns. Gestalt psychology also has applications in computer vision for trying to make computers “see” the same things as humans do
Ancient technology
Love is always before us
Humor is the fastest path through most types of defenses, which is why I like it in literature and visual art. Done well, it’s universally disarming.
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In 1997, internet art hall-of-famer Olia Lialina made a “net drama” called Agatha Appears that was written for Netscape 3 and 4 in HTML 3.2. One of the main features of the interactive narrative was the travel of the eponymous avatar across the internet. Let’s just say the girl got around. But the magical illusion of the piece was that she appeared to stay still, even when links in the narrative were clicked and the viewer’s address bar indicated movement to another server.
a ápāma sómam amŕtā abhūmâganma jyótir ávidāma devân
c kíṃ nūnám asmân kṛṇavad árātiḥ kím u dhūrtír amṛta mártyasya
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On arrival at the space, located in the farthest reaches of the East End, I was greeted by gallery director Polly Staple, who gave me the rundown
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The Hindu philosopher Madhvacharya held that grace was not a gift from God, but rather must be earned
Internet art has sometimes been described as “performance” because of the potential for development over time, and while that may be useful to some extent, I think it relies too heavily on a vague common notion of what “performance” is. The study of language might offer more specific terms. Roman Jakobson’s 1960 essay “Linguistics and Poetics” names six functions of language that all operate in any act of communication even as one dominates. An utterance like “Can you hear me?” affirms that the channel of communication is open; its primary function is what Jakobson called the phatic. He took this term from anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski, who introduced it in the 1920s in his studies of small talk. Jakobson and Malinowski discussed two aspects of the same purpose — confirming contact — though Jakobson was more concerned with speech establishing the physical possibility of communication (again, “Can you hear me?”), while Malinowski was interested in the social possibility (“How are you?”, “Nice weather we’re having,” etc.).
We are spiritual beings having a human experience
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Announcement for SKOR’s symposium “Actors, Agents, and Attendants. Speculations on the cultural organization of civility,” 2010.
Instead, Rhea spreads out a banquet for Cronus, so that he becomes drunk upon fermented honey. Rather than being consigned to Tartarus, Cronus is dragged — still drunk — to the cave of Nyx (Night), where he continues to dream throughout eternity.
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The first quotation that you suggested for the discussion is extracted from a paragraph in “La Troisième”. There, Lacan explicitly kept distance from the way in which he had tried to write the relationship between signifier and object in his seminar L’identification. And I quote: “In short, when I think that for some time I had fun to play with that S1, which I had elevated to the dignity of the signifier One, that I played with that One and a, knotting them with the golden number, isn’t this priceless!”.
In order to highlight this, if it were necessary, it is about love transference, supported by the gaze object. She then refers to a great love of her youth, a fictional love cultivated by correspondence, where she creates, letter after letter, the fictitious character, the ideal object, the desired object that she would want to be in the eyes of an absent partner. It is exactly the opposite, she believes, of what she does with Lacan, dedicating to him the minimum gesture, the minimum act, offering them to Lacan’s gaze, she says, under the aegis of always being true to him. And further on, Lacan indicates that what she would want, is that his gaze is substituted for the patient’s and that he contributed “with the aid of himself”, to the point where she feels she is “remotely controlled”, to put it another way, that she is her analyst’s object. She tries to capture Lacan’s desire; it is him whom she wants to tempt. And the object, with which she, the little fish, would want to make Lacan, the rod-fisherman, swallow the bait, is the gaze she offers herself to as object in her relationship to any object. Therefore, she tries to become the object, the lost object, the agalmatic – Φ which lacks in the Other, because for herself, she lacks nothing. Then, as Lacan indicates, “she gets tempted by tempting the Other”.
NOTE: One character who appears in this novel is Valeria Matucheck, eldest daughter of Steve and Ginny Matuchek, protagonists of “Operation Chaos” and “Operation Luna”. Though written between these two books, “A Midsummer Tempest” takes place after both. Holger Carlsen, of Three Hearts and Three Lions, also appears.
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Primordial Being of the Heart
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It’s just the “value investing” that goes on in every recession
H3X3N is a group of Computer Witches who have built an enchanted cube that casts magical spells on computers. This cube, called IX, is a New Media Artwork that will be shown at The IX cube, an art and technology center and gallery in Chicago, this Saturday May 10. The dorsal stream is proposed to be involved in the guidance of actions and recognizing where objects are in space. Also known as the parietal stream, the “where” stream, or the “how” stream, this pathway stretches from the primary visual cortex (V1) in the occipital lobe forward into the parietal lobe. It is interconnected with the parallel ventral stream (the “what” stream) which runs downward from V1 into the temporal lobe.
here are “UFO wormhole” videos that show the exact same thing. But like everyone is saying its probably a test rocket transitioning to a second stage..
We can pretty much promise you will freak out at the dresses for sale.
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Nice post, thanks! The notion of a gallery being a social+sexy place ain’t nuthin new though, Watteau summarized things beautifully in Gersaint’s sign board.
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It is not a word frequently used by Lacan, who distrusted of all sorts of gifts frequently evoked in psychoanalysis: the clinical gift for example. An etymological annotation prevails. The “gift” is in principle “an action which gratuitously gives something to somebody”.
Dear Professor,
I believe that the “Interpretation of Dreams” contains the kernal of everything that we know and will have to work on for the foreseeable future…
The illustrated dreams are magnificent.
…Makes me feel special.
Emmy Werner (1982) was one of the early scientists to use the term resilience in the 1970s. She studied a cohort of children from Kauai, Hawaii. Kauai was quite poor and many of the children in the study grew up with alcoholic or mentally ill parents. Many of the parents were also out of work.[11] Werner noted that of the children who grew up in these very bad situations, two-thirds exhibited destructive behaviors in their later teen years, such as chronic unemployment, substance abuse, and out-of-wedlock births (in case of teenage girls). However one-third of these youngsters did not exhibit destructive behaviours. Werner called the latter group ‘resilient’.[12] Resilient children and their families had traits that made them different from non-resilient children and families.
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ATTENTION: THE COLLABORATIVE COLLECTIVE CORROBORATION has begun and YOU are part of my creation (SUBLIMINAL SUGGESTION:) THE COMPLETE and absolute Total energy Of EVERYTHING That exists, did exist or will exist. INFINITY this existence in TIME NOW HERE -YOU. FEEL ME hear ME SEE me ( ANUBIS SPIRE ) quote on music is available INQUIRE cyber puppy! FOR YOU are my grasshopper………(bows humbly)
Those who were especially devoted to these ritual and poems often practiced vegetarianism and abstention from sex, and refrained from eating eggs and beans — which came to be known as the Orphikos bios, or “Orphic way of life”
it is also Elliott’s most recent Artware mashup machine/Algorithmic Art account in his series of projects, so i thin/feel it is also safe to say that he is refining the process as he moves from each concurrent experiment/lesson/project
The imaginary nature of love leads Lacan to oppose all those analysts who posit love as an ideal in psychoanalytic treatment.
love is.
Set on the eve of World War I, A Dangerous Method is based on the turbulent relationships between fledgling psychiatrist Carl Jung, his mentor Sigmund Freud, and Sabina Spielrein, the troubled but beautiful young woman who comes between them.
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