Another Shameless Plug: Michel D’anastasio

Exposition "Lettre hébraïque" Paris Novembre 2008, originally uploaded by Danas paris.

Exposition "Lettre hébraïque" Paris Novembre 2008

Re-sharing the information for a friend's exhibition coming up in Paris. He's extremely talented and was a great host for an evening when I met up with him last year. If you are in the area, check it out.

Here's his flickr and his website.

Exposition :
Michel D’anastasio
du 6 au 30 novembre 2008
lundi au vendredi de 14h à 18h
vernissage le jeudi 6 novembre
à partir de 18 h

Lettres hébraïques
calligraphies modernes :
œuvres originales, sur toile, papier et photographie

à LA MAISON DES MICI – AFA
78, quai de jemmapes 75010 paris
www.afa.asso.fr
Métro République, Jacques Bonsergent
Bus Ligne 75 arrêt Allibert

NewMediaFest 2007

A little late sharing these press releases as I am traveling, but recently this blog was curated and featured by JavaMuseum as part of a virtual exhibition component called "A+B=BA, Art+Blog=BlogArt?" of NewMediaFest 2007. I also participated in JavaMuseum's Interview Project.

The online exhibition will be part of physical festivals too... some of which occurred already but some are still upcoming:

3rd International Digital Art Festival
Rosario/Argentina
15-17 November 2007
more info

Know Future Festival 2007
Rome/Italy
20-21-22 December 2007
more info

A 3rd physical exhibition of NewMediaFest will take place in Valencia/Spain during April/May 2008. More details at a later stage.

An additional cooperation takes place with FONDLAB
Online exhibition 3-31 November 2007
Physical exhibition in 2008 in the Water’s Museum in Coimbra, Portugal.
more info

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The main components and links for NewMediaFest 2007 are as follows:

1. Seven Way to Say Internet Through Netart
feature curated by Elena Giulia Rossi (Rome/Italy)
component details

2. a+b=ba? [art + blog = blogart]
feature curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne including 26 blogs
commponent details

3. solo feature: Jody Zellen
JavaMuseum is honouring 10 years netart working by this US artist
component details

4. launch of the 1st edition of the netart series, entitled: net.NET
component details

5. Official launch of JIP - JavaMuseum Interview Project
enter project

Special thanks to curator Wilfried Agricola de Cologne,
director of JavaMuseum, and curator of a+b=ba, which launched Nov. 1st 2007.

Digiarte '07 Followup

I posted previously how I contributed to the digital art annual exhibition DIGIARTE in Florence, Italy (May). Well the curator, Logu (Lorenzo) Guasti, finally created a flickr account for Digiarte and shared some photos of the space and installations/events. Here's a couple highlights but more on the photostream...

Command-Z Concludes...

Command-Z Exhibition at the Torrance Art Museum closed on May 26th. The Camera Tossing installation and slideshow received over 600 submissions from the community and public during the course of the show.

The Rotating Slideshow and Contact-Sheet views are still online, however submissions are closed.

I had the thought to post some "best of" from the submissions similiar to the pool picks, but there were simply too many that deserved mention. So instead here's all 7 pages of thumbnails archived as web-shots:






Once again, you can browse all these yourself. Congratulations to everyone in the community who contributed to the exhibition of this idea at Command-Z.

DIGIARTE 2007, Florence Italy, May 11th thru 26th

Today, May 11th, "Camera Toss" makes it's third appearance in a public exhibition setting. DIGIARTE 2007, the 4th installment of this annual group exhibition opens at the Plasma Club in Florence, Italy (see the profile on exibart.com). I was invited by the curator/director Lorenzo "LOGU" Guasti to contribute a few prints to the Digiarte permanent collection. There are several photographers and many digital/video/animation artists in this show, additionally many guest speaker/topic engagements and activities are scheduled during the show through May 26th (see digiarte.info for schedule and details).

Exhibition Details:



DIGIARTE IV (2007 Edition) - State of the Art
Press Release (Italian, PDF)

May 11th - May 26th 2007
Plasma Club, Florence, Italy
Piazza Francesco Ferrucci 1r (50126)
+39 0550516926 (info), +39 0550516927 (fax)
info@virtualplasma.it
www.virtualplasma.it
MapQuest

Curated by: Lorenzo "LOGU" Guasti
Press Contact: press[at]digiarte.info

Full list of contributing artists to DIGIARTE 2007: Caterina Pecchioli, Influx, Ciboideale, Marco Cardini, Federico Bucalossi, Claudio Bozzatello, Paolo Carta, and photography by LostItaly, Maggie KS, Sébastien Pérez-Duarte, and Ryan Gallagher - Camera Toss.


Of the photography included, three are also flickr users: Sébastien Pérez-Duarte, Maggie KS, and myself (Ryan Gallagher).

Sébastien is known for his mathematically inspired digital transformations and panoramic projections...


Curved church, hyperbolic by Sébastien Pérez-Duarte

Maggie for many things, but particularly her compelling self portraiture...


mix tape by Maggie KS

And myself, of course, for exploring the edges of kinetic motion photography with "Camera Tossing"...


Sheets and Strikes No. 51 by Ryan Gallagher

The other exhibiting artists have some really interesting work too, so be sure to dig those links rather deeply that I posted. Much of it is viewable online.

A twist I wasn't expecting when I signed on to this show... in line with the theme of digital art, this will be the first exhibition of any of my photographs in an entirely digital world! Digiarte launched an extension of the exhibition in the popular "meta-verse", Second Life. Here's some previews of the virtual exhibitions:



So if you are in Florenza, be sure to check it out! I sure wish I was there! If by some miracle I can coax Second Life into running on this slowish laptop, perhaps I'll stop by the virtual world version of the opening. ;-)

Camera Toss Community Gallery - RSS Feed

Many contributors and followers of the Live Community Gallery currently on display at the Torrance Art Museum have requested a way to keep up with new submissions. The Contact Sheet is a great way to browse all submissions. But what this project really needed was an Syndicated Feed, which it no has!

Subscribe in a reader

This feed contains incoming submissions to the exhibited gallery, as I activate them.

If you've been wanting to share your camera tosses now is the time! Grab your flickr account and push some camera toss photographs to the submissions interface via my Flickr API application. I announce most new features to this project here, but if you are really interested stop by in our flickr community forums.

Camera Toss Community Gallery (Contact Sheet Mode)

Camera Toss Community Gallery (Contact Sheet Mode), originally uploaded by clickykbd.

The installation slideshow on exhibit at the Torrance Art Museum now has a new way to navigate it!

Hello browsable Contact Sheet Mode!

A Growing Installation...

The community driven Camera Toss installation at the Torrance Art Museum is only a few days old but already contains over 450 submissions!

The Web Version makes a great screen-saver or active desktop background. I projected it in Austin at a friend's birthday party the same day as the opening and it generated a fair amount of discussion. It will remain active and accepting submissions for until at least the end of the show (May 26th).

Here's a few recent slides generated from submissions:







Also note, I've fixed a couple bugs lately with the code. If you were having problems viewing the installation with IE7 it should be fixed now. If you were one of the handful experiencing submission problems I fixed that issue too. Keep them coming! Great contributions so far!

Command-Z Opens!

Installation Content (web version) (refreshes every 20 seconds)

This evening was the opening reception for the group show "Command-Z" (posted previously) at the Torrance Art Museum (City of Torrance, Los Angeles county). My installation content, a community driven rotating slideshow of exclusively camera toss photography contributed by the flickr community was activated last night and we had many submissions in short time. Here's a sample of the generated slides as they are seen in the museum projection:







The Submission Interface is up and accepting photos from the public (provided you have a flickr account, as it utilizes the Flickr Public API). Here are some screenshots of the process:

After Authenticating with Flickr...


Searching for your camera tosses to submit:


Viewing your active photos (after moderator approval):


Should you submit, all rights are retained by the author of course, and you have complete control when to add, remove, edit your data in the installation. Here are some tips for submitting to this installation...

Submitting Tips:

Please try to only submit your favorite camera toss results... the gallery can't support all 11,000 camera tosses hosted on flickr! hehe

They must be true to the idea of a camera toss... no intense digital manipulations... no "sort of thrown" cheating. This is really about throwing cameras... and what you can do with that idea.

Use the preview button, and [demo] links for all your submitted photos!... I have tried very hard to make sure everyone's attribution is proper.... but the Flickr-API and your missing profile data may result in incomplete details. You can always fill out those fields with each photo you submit.

Bear in mind, as the moderator/curator of this one piece of the show... I may reject your submission, or just sit on it in pending status indefinitely. Please don't consider it a personal insult. Also It may take me 24 hours sometimes before your pending submission goes live (ocassionally I have a day job). ;-)

Save The Date - Camera Toss at "Command-Z"

When: March 31st through May 26th
Where: Torrance Art Museum - Torrance, California (Los Angeles Area)

The some of the big news I had been hinting about. I'll be presenting Camera Toss, the concept, the community, and the artwork at the Torrance Art Museum (Los Angeles area) as part of the group show entitled "Command-Z". In the tradition of the Camera Toss concept, open and participatory, one element of the exhibition will be a community driven projected slideshow (which will also be viewable online), created and curated by myself. I'll be posting about how to participate very soon. There is a lot of very interesting digital photography and new media work in this show, I encourage everyone to check it out if they can.

Here's the invitation e-card...



The official museum press release describes the show as follows...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Media Contact: Kristina Newhouse or Natalie Schoer
310-618-6340
torranceartmuseum@torrnet.com

COMMAND Z

Curated by:
Ted Fisher (New York)
Douglas McCulloh (Los Angeles)

On view: March 31 - May 26, 2007
Opening Reception: Saturday, March 31, 7 – 10 pm

Command Z—the Apple keyboard command for undo—presents work by artists exploring the leading edge of digital photography.

Works by: Kate Bingaman-Burt (Starkville, Mississippi); Rebeca Bollinger (San Francisco); Stéphane Degoutin, Marika Dermineur & Gwenola Wagon (Paris, France); Charles Fairbanks (Ann Arbor, MI); Ryan Gallagher (Austin, TX); Ken Gordon (New York); Martha Gorzycki (San Francisco); John Greyson (Toronto, Canada); Jonathan Harris & Sep Kamvar (San Francisco and New York); Noah Kalina (Brooklyn); Luke Lamborn (Provincetown, MA); leadingzeros (Tokyo, Japan); League of Imaginary Scientists (Los Angeles); Ahree Lee (San Francisco); Iris Lee (Brooklyn); Les LeVeque (New York); Michael David Murphy (San Francisco); Olde English (Brooklyn); Dane Picard (Los Angeles); Stuart Pound (London, Britain); Jacob Reed (Los Angeles); Hong-An Truong (Irvine); Jody Zellen (Los Angeles)

Photographic artists currently find themselves poised at a rare and remarkable moment—a revolutionary shift in basic technology and artistic possibility. There are two primary drivers of the digital revolution: extremely prolific photographic production and an intensifying circulation of these images on the web. In this situation, the systems of encountering the photographs become central, rather than the photographs themselves.

The artistic responses to the vast new digital image stream are memorable, captivating, and have the power to change your view of the world. For Command Z, examples are drawn from around the world: London, Los Angeles, New York, Paris, San Francisco, Tokyo, Toronto, and other points on the grid. By drawing from such a diverse group, Command Z sets out to make mid-stream sense of the paradigm shift in photography.

Some 40 billion digital images were made in 2003, the year that digital camera sales surpassed those of conventional film-based devices. In 2004, the amount of photos produced rose to 94 billion, according to former Hewlett-Packard CEO, Carly Fiorina. Phone maker Nokia estimates that camera-phones alone will create 100 billion increasingly high resolution photographs in 2007. And Hewlett-Packard predicts that digital devices will capture 312 billion images in 2008. Whatever the exact figures, the unprecedented scale of imagemaking is clear. Meanwhile, the internet makes these images omnipresent and available. One example among many is the website, www.flickr.com. In February 2004, Flickr emerged as an online photo storage and sharing system. By November of 2005 the New York Times reported that photographs available on Flickr passed the billion-image mark. The site now adds more than a million photographs per day. The result for the new photographic artists is the rarest of situations—completely unexplored artistic territory. Rather than merely make images, digital artists now devise methods of gathering, sorting and encountering images. The results range from the mundane to the sublime, from the hilarious to the strangely profound. In all cases, this is a largely new art, made possible by the scale of the current image universe and enabled by the new tools for encountering it, reshaping it, and making sense of it.

Hamburg Exhibition Extended...

I did not get a chance to announce this previously as I was in transit back to the United States... but my photography exhibition in Hamburg, Germany was extended by three weeks. The new closing date is March, 27th 2006.

The 3x23 gallery continues to accept visitors, inquiries, and orders for the signed limited edition prints. They will accept orders (up to the closing date and beyond) including online buyers. Please see the bottom of this posting for details about how to purchase.

Titles, dimensions, pricing, and edition information can be viewed by clicking individual images below:

Exclusive Signed Prints (79.2cm x 59.4cm)
550.00 Euro

Only one artist print and one edition print will ever be printed of these images...













Limited Edition Signed Prints (79.2cm x 59.4cm OR 56cm x 42cm)
200.00/180.00 Euro

Only 10 prints at the A1 (79.2cm x 59.4cm) size, and 5 prints at the A2 (56cm x 42cm) size will ever be printed of these images. In addition there is one artist print possible at each size. Several have sold so availablility is limited!



Purchasing...

Option 1:
For the internet audience the gallery has created this 3x23 Ebay Store primarily for anyone familiar with Ebay or fluent in German. Note, these are not true auctions, the listed prices are the "buy it now" price.

Option 2:
Contact the gallery by email info[at]3x23[dot]de (spam protected, remove the parts in brackets). Specify the item title and size/price you are interested in.

Option 3:
You could also email me directly and I will forward on the request to the gallery... cameratoss[at]gmail[dot]com.

Option 4:
The obvious one, in person at the gallery...

3x23
Internetcafé, PC-Service, Online Shop und Galerie GmbH
Sternstraße 107-109
20357 Hamburg
Tel. 040 - 430 95 0 60
Fax. 040 - 430 95 0 70

Note:
The exhibition closing is March 27th, but the gallery will continue to honor requests for purchase of these editions past that date, as will I.