(art) VIDEO, a new weekly column dedicated to presenting some of our favorite video art. In 1991 Stan Douglas created ten «Monodramas». Conceived as interventions into commercial television, these television spots interrupted the usual flow of advertising and entertainment when broadcast nightly in British Columbia for three weeks in 1992. These micronarratives mimic televisions editing techniques, but as kernels of a story they refuse to cohere. They are tales of dysfunction and dislocation, misanthropy and… [read more »]

Did you hear how 2012 was supposed to be the end of the world? For the past millennium, Stargazers across the globe have foretold a cosmic maelstrom of events to happen this year because of the many extreme aspects the planets make. While 2012 probably won’t be the last year of human consciousness, it will be a year of unprecedented change, and there is a series of powerful retrogrades (currently in progress) certain to send… [read more »]

One Tiny Hand

In 1999 Nicolas Fernández began to include the new digital media in his output; the web sites You_Left (1999) and Father_Nature (2000) offer viewers a walk of endless possibilities through mazelike sound spaces that are scattered with texts. Father_Nature brings together, amongst a range of images, photos from dif­ferent internet porn sites and paramilitary hunting clubs. They show nude female bodies posed in natural settings. The artist’s gesture alters the very texture of the images;… [read more »]

Two years ago today at 1:45 PM Dis Magazine shared it’s first content with the online universe. In the preceding two years, Dis has made thousands of uploads in to the collective subconscious, expanding the minds of a generation through collaborative projects on and off line. With a Sun in Pisces placed prominently in the 9th House of the Zodiac, Dis is an organization of indivduals brought together by a common interest in exploring the… [read more »]

Audio material for the following remixes was collected via a telephone call survey with around 100 ‘white cube’ galleries worldwide. The survey asked about characteristics of art gallery interiors, from tones of white paint used for the walls, to material used for the flooring. Recordings were then turned into 9 songs, given titles, and sent to 9 artists to be remixed into pop songs. TRAXX LIST: 1. Intro, Brenmar 2. Pretty White, M.E.S.H. 3. Best… [read more »]

TEN TEN An exhibition of 17 New York based artists March 9 – March 30th, 2012 Opening Reception; Friday March 9th, 6-9 PM, 91 Canal Street Dena Yago • Ben Schumacher • Darren Bader • Asher Penn • Debo Eilers • Valerie Keane • Dominic Nurre • Alisa Baremboym • Jared Madere • Jason Lee • Torey Thornton • Andrei Koschmieder • Peter Demos • Ryan Foerster • Sebastian Black • Jeffrey Joyal • Bradley Kronz Curated by Jason Lee and Alexander Shulan Jason Alexander 91 Canal Street New York, NY 10001 wed-sun, 12-6 & by appt. www.jasonalexander.biz info@jasonalexander.biz jason: 773.490.1844 alexander: 917.667.8541

Dear Whitney Museum of American Art, We are Arts & Labor, a working group founded in conjunction with the New York General Assembly for #occupywallstreet. We are artists and interns, writers and educators, art handlers and designers, administrators, curators, assistants, and students dedicated to exposing and rectifying economic inequalities and exploitative working conditions in our fields through direct action and educational initiatives. We are writing to call for an end to the Whitney Biennial in… [read more »]

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