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With a successful event held last year, “Gather Atlanta” plans round two for their annual conference of new and developing creative organizations. Participating groups include emerging galleries, creative collectives, and non-profit organizations who will be meeting on July 31st from 6:30-8 p.m. at the Trees Atlanta building in East Atlanta. Those in attendance will have an opportunity to network and share with the like-minded creatives from around the city who are interested in a growing creative and artistic community and interact with the public for publicity and exposure. Interested parties can contact the organization at Gather@GatherAtlanta.com for more information, an opportunity to participate in the conference, or to volunteer.

John Morse was commissioned to install a mobile adorned with money at a law firm in downtown LA which is titled “Here it comes - There is goes”. Money may not make the world go ’round but it sure had a hand in this piece. Click the image to view the video.

The busy Matthew Rose has yet another opening to mark on your calendar, this time in London, England. “Sweet Smoke” at the Orange Dot Gallery opens October 6th and runs until October 31st, with the opening reception on the 6th from 6-8. Included will be collages, mixed-media, and paintings.

Painting and Digital Video

Art collecting moguls Dorothy and Hebert Vogel personally amassed an extensive collection of contemporary art together as a couple starting with their first Picasso vase when they got engaged and have since added some 4,000 pieces to their estate. Without a venue to display the entire personal collection they have decided to disperse works of art to be exhibited in every state with the “Fifty Works for Fifty States” project, selecting a contemporarily relevant gallery or museum to temporarily house 50 selected works of art by various artists, including work from Joseph Nechvatal. Joseph’s work can be found at the group show “Herb and Dorothy: A Glimpse into Their Extraordinary Collection” at the Mississippi Museum of Art through September 12, 2010, open from 10-5 Tuesday-Saturday and noon-5 on Sunday.

Joseph is also having a solo exhibition entitled “Retinal Art Revisited: Story of the Eye” at Galerie Jean-Luc and Takako Richard in Paris. The show will hang September 4^th-29^th with gallery hours posted Tuesday-Saturday 11-7. The show will include paintings accompanied with digital video regarding the relationship between audio and visual during the creative process.

Caterina Verde aims to bring a number of global artists together in one place via live streaming video to broadcast performances as they unfold in a number of countries all simultaneously with the Strange Positioning System. The project is currently searching for funding and support to officially establish itself. The “SPS” is a play on the ever incessant reliance on Global Positioning Systems, allowing for various performances to be experienced no matter where on Earth you currently reside.  The entire project is deemed temporary as it relies on the actions and reactions of artists and their audience participating in real time, without video capture being rebroadcasted later.

The SPS “looks at the aesthetic, cultural and psychological peculiarities of positioning the self and collective enterprises in a fluid, electronically - dislocated environment”, according to the project’s fundraising page on Kickstarter. Patrons can make donations in varying amounts to help fund the projects. A $10 donation gets you in the door as a minimum donation and the levels go up from there; $25 gets a link on the site; $50 gets a signed card and a mention at the event; $75 a signed print; $100-$600 various signed prints and 3D objects; and $1500 gets you in the action to participate in one of the live broadcast events.

The next performance event will be the “Enigma of a Cultural Litmus Test” by Caterina Verde. It will be staged at the Hope Sandrow’s open air studio in Shinnecock Hills, Long Island, NY. with the date to be released soon, planned within the next two weeks.

WM. Turner Gallery will play host to another performance by Caterina, the curator of the entire SPS project, later in the Fall since the gallery could not participate in this current display.

The project currently includes artists such as ALEXANDER VISCIO, PASHA RADETZKI, ANDREA WOLLENSAK,HOPE SANDROW, MATTHEW ROSE, ELISE MARTENS, EBON FISHER, and ZOHREH ESKANDARI.

www.strangepositioningsystems.org

SPS on Kickstarter

"Red Son"

A contributing writer to the Arts Critic ATL blog, Jerry Cullum, wrote a warm and ardent review of the “Red Dawn” exhibition currently hanging at WM. Turner Gallery citing Brandon Sadler as a great artist blending diverse cultures readily and skillfully. Jerry mentioned a recent delving into Asian culture on a yearlong stint in Korea where Brandon undoubtably picked up some sensitivity to traditional Asian artworks to seamlessly render in his own graffiti-influenced style.

His newest work, at Wm. Turner Gallery through July 31, is hard to divide tidily. The quickly but very skillfully executed drawings (in media ranging from ink and colored pencil to oil and acrylic) owe a great deal to the graffiti traditions out of which he emerged, and even more to traditional and contemporary Japanese art. A good many of them are overlaid on Japanese newspapers. His signature, written to be viewed sideways, imitates the calligraphic appearance of Japanese kanji characters. -Jerry Cullum for Arts Critic ATL.

The entire review can be read at www.artscriticatl.com

Brandon’s personal website is www.risingredlotus.com

New York native Anita Arliss who transplanted to Atlanta will be returning to the North to participate in the show “Nature Calls” at SICA, the Shore Institute of the Contemporary Arts in Long Branch, New Jersey. The show is curated by D. Dominick Lombardi and includes numerous other artists and many mediums all dealing with the magnificent force of nature. A reception will be held Sunday, July 11th from 3-6 pm and the entire show will hang July 9-August 20. Anita Arliss has worked in Atlanta for years and has a permanent installation at the Heartsfield-Jackson International Airport. More information on her solo show at the WM Turner Gallery running between December 2nd and January 7th will be available later so stay tuned.

Towards an Immersive Intelligence is Joseph Nechvatal’s most recent publication discussing the new hypothetical “viractual” realm.  Robert Morgan reviewed the book and consolidated the rather intensive discussion for the rest of us to more easily digest.

To avoid unnecessary complexity, the subtitle of this impressive and provocative tome, though relatively minimal in its length (94 pages), gives us a literal transcription of what is to follow, that is: Essays on the Work of Art in the Age of Computer Technology and Virtual Reality, 1993-2006. Frankly, I don’t think the subtitle is necessary. The author makes his point without a prolegomena. To suggest that this is a seminal book in a new or renewed field of inquiry is an understatement. Nechvatal has done nothing less than put critical theory at the threshold of virtuality, what the author synthetically claims is the juncture of evolution where the virtual and the actual will find their own homeostasis in what he refers to as “viractual.”

- Robert C. Morgan.

The entire review of the book can be found on The Brooklyn Rail, and is available for purchase through Amazon.

Wm Turner gallery Presents:
John Morse
FLAT OUT

May 27  - June 19, 2010

Reception with artist’s talk
Saturday June 12, 6-9:00pm
Artist’s talk 7:00pm:
Seeing What Isn’t There

At Wm Turner Gallery

112 Krog St, suite 9, Atlanta, GA

UPROOTED is a photography show exhibiting 12 artists in Atlanta. The exhibiting artists include Deanne Andrus, Katherine Cooper, Dave Greer, Lauren Hughes, Jenny James, Aleya Malacane, Allison Neckman, Stephanie Pharr, Andrew Pruett, Cassie Robinson, Matthew Walker, and Chasity West. The opening will feature musical guest Lily and the Tigers, and food will be provided by chef Todd Ginsberg of Bocado, it is sure to be an amazing night. The opening will be held on Thursday June 3, from 6-9pm, and it the show will be up through June 10. UPROOTED is located in Atlantic Station next to Dillards.