I curated a show on add-art, the firefox plugin that replaces internet advertisements with art. You can read my curator’s statement and install the plugin to see the show which will be up through the first week of December. It features five super talented artists who work with the language of geometry. Here’s a preview of a few of the 136 images that make up the show:

Andrew Jeffrey Wright

Ann Altstatt

Pablo Manga

Maureen Halligan

Nik Hanselmann

Sounds like things are popping off again at UC campuses. Follow live news on my twitter aggregate feed: http://www.nicklally.com/uc

This feed will be part of the building installation in San Diego this weekend.

Fun-a-Day, a show I started with some friends almost seven years ago, is coming up again! The premise is simple: pick a project (take a photograph, make the bed, draw a picture, bake a cake, etc), do it every day in January, then show your work the following month in a big group show. There will be a bunch of shows around the country this year and everyone is invited to participate. Check out our site for more details and to post your project ideas. Or read our quick start guide to starting a Fun-a-Day show if you want to bring Fun-a-Day to your community.

graphic by kara

building is going to San Diego for the State of the Arts Conference 2010, from November 19th-21st at UCSD. Kyle McKinley, Madeline McDonald Lane, and I will be creating a participatory installation entitled still building which will include snacks, conversations, walks around campus and an effort to create a huge spatial/conceptual mapping of the new student movement.

Here are a couple reviews from the show I worked on last month with Tender Forever and Ted Passon at the Time-Based Art Festival in Portland:

Melanie Valera’s heart is as boundless as her bag of tricks.
Portland Monthly Magazine

Review: Tender Forever & Lovers
Portland Mercury

And a nice tweet: “Tender Forever just dropped some serious next-level shit at #TBA – I honestly can’t begin to describe how awesome it was.”

Here’s a Friendster message I sent to Aaron three months after it went public. Prescient.

I’m working with my good pals Tender Forever and Ted Passon on another multimedia performance piece, this time for the Time-Based Art Festival in Portland, OR (check out our last performance for the Whitney). It’s happening on September 15th in the evening. For more info, check out the festival’s website.

building, the installation-making art collective that I co-founded for my MFA show, is headed to San Diego this November for a conference put on by the University of California Institute for Research in the Arts (UCIRA). The theme of the State of the Arts Conference is “Future Tense: Alternative Arts and Economies in the University” and will look at the effects of the public education crisis on art programs and the ways in which artists are responding. building will be creating a dialogical space, mapping connections and conversations, and performing critical spatial interventions. The conference is happening from November 18th through the 21st at UCSD.

I’m teaching two class this fall: Mathematics and Computer Processes at the San Francisco Art Institute and The Art of Math at the California College of the Arts. They’re both hands-on, project-based approaches to learning mathematics.

And this November, I will be curating a show for Add-Art, the Firefox plugin that replaces advertisements with art.

I flew to Paris last month for the Digital Methods & Migrations Workshop. I’m leaving Paris today, on my way to London and then back home on the 20th. Here are some snapshots from my trip, including a trip to the countryside and to Barcelona:

I just exhibited my MFA Thesis project, entitled building. Here’s the wall tag text:

building
installation

by Kyle McKinley and Nick Lally with Ann Altstatt, Karl Baumann, Pou Dimitrijevich, Theresa Enright, Miki Foster, Nik Hanselmann, Jessy Lancaster, Madeline McDonald Lane, Lucas McGranaham, and Sophia Strosberg.

Building anything is a process. Building something good usually involves a lot of people’s ideas and labor. building is what we have called the people and the process of building something good in this building. Each Friday at 2pm, building gets together to talk, eat snacks, and make building. building builds on itself: last week’s building is this week’s built, but this week’s built is the place to build next week’s building. The interests of building include ghosts, software studies, coffee, walks in the woods, things that turn, critical spatial practice, the politics of representation, edge sites, flea markets, poesis, precarity, female-fronted punk bands of the 70s and 80s, and building. However, building interests are always building.  The process of building results in traces of those interests. It also involves traces of the art/works of Nick and Kyle. All those traces are the building where you now stand. What will be building tomorrow?

The artists wish to thank: Kelly Brown, EG Crichton, Sharon Daniel, Jennifer González, Shelby Graham, Chip Lord, Josh McVeigh-Schultz, Joshua Muir, Soraya Murray, Jennifer Parker, Warren Sack, Elizabeth Travelslight, Lyle Troxell, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Rob Wilson, Richard Wohlfeiler, and everyone who contributed to building. This presentation was made possible with funding from UCSC’s Porter College Graduate Arts Research Committee and the Florence French Award.

And here are some photos from building (project descriptions to follow):

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