Last month Emily Glaubinger and I were commissioned to draw a chalk mural for BC Tech during a two-day medical trade show. BC Tech is an outsourced medical product development and contract manufacturing company based in Santa Cruz, California.
FUN-A-DAY!!
Create your own project and produce one piece of artwork each day for the entire month of January. Then submit your 31 pieces by early February to be included in one of the six shows this year (Philly, Pittsburgh, Oakland, Boston, Santa Cruz and Portland).
ARTCLASH.COM for more details!
flyer by Kara
If you spent the revenue of an average Burger King restaurant on $1 burgers, the losses incurred would be of equal value to this many $1 burgers.
Inkjet Print and Gouache on Paper
2’x2′
Code Snippet:
float revenue2008 = 2454.7; //in millions
float restaurants2008 = 11565;
//multiply by one million to convert revenue to dollars
int averageRevenue = int(revenue2008/restaurants2008 * 1000000);
int burgerLosses = int(averageRevenue * .10); //you lose 10 cents on each burger
for (int i = 0; i < burgerLosses; i++){
drawBurger();
}
If everyone in the US bought two $1 burgers this year, Burger King would be operating at a loss. Eating burgers is radical politics.
Inkjet Print and Gouache on Paper
2’x2′
Ted and me, pre-Whitney performance.
And here’s the video of the performance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=472m0czbuKY
Experimental Mail Art Service, (831)xxxxxxx
Please read all of the following instructions before deciding to participate. The service requires a time commitment of approximately 1-2 hours which can be completed at your convenience.
1. THINK OF SOMEONE YOU WANT TO MAIL ART TO. They should live in Santa Cruz and be active in the public sphere. Please do not include their last name.
2. THINK OF A CLUE THAT WOULD HELP SOMEONE FIND THIS PERSON. Do not give an address! This clue should help someone find them in the public sphere. For example, you could say “he/she hangs out at Lulu’s coffeeshop” or “he/she works at the pizzeria”. Be creative!
3. DECIDE WHAT YOU WANT TO SEND HIM/HER. You should decide on something that can be made/written/gathered in an hour or less and which costs little or nothing. For example, you could say “a collage”, “a drawing of your hand” or maybe “a story about walking”. Be creative!
4. PUT STEPS 1-3 TOGETHER INTO A SINGLE SENTENCE OF 160 CHARACTERS OR LESS AND SEND IT VIA SMS/TEXT TO: 831.xxx.xxxx. Your delivery request will automatically be sent to another participant! Text messages over 160 characters will not be delivered. IMPORTANT: you are only able to send one request to the system (subsequent requests will be ignored), so make sure you get it right the first time! And it must be from a cell phone that has an unblocked number. Here is an example request: “Please send a flower to Dennis who is a regular at the Red Room”
5. MAKE SOMEONE ELSE’S DELIVERY. After you send in your request, you will receive someone’s else’s request which you will make and deliver! Please be patient–it may take a while for you to receive your delivery instructions. It is OK if you make the requested item and hand it off to someone else who is able make the delivery–just make sure it gets there.
6. INCLUDE THESE INSTRUCTIONS WITH YOUR DELIVERY AND PASS THEM ON TO ONE ADDITIONAL PERSON WHO YOU THINK WOULD LIKE TO PARTICIPATE. Please only give these instructions to two people!Send comments/questions, bug reports (this is the Beta version!) and/or documentation of your adventures to: xxx.
Nik and I have some old prints in a new building: the Digital Arts Resource Center at UCSC. They’ve found a nice home along a bright red wall on the second floor.
Nik and I have a piece in the Sesnon Gallery’s Full Disclosure show, opening tomorrow. The Sesnon is in Porter College on UCSC’s campus. The opening is Wednesday, October 7th from 4:30-6:30pm and the show will be up until November 21st.
Failbase 831.xxx.4046 is a system for the collection and output of participant testimonies of failure. By leaving voicemail or sending SMS (text) messages to (831) xxx-4046, participants can submit their failures. As they speak or type, the failures are printed in the gallery as paper receipts. Visitors to the gallery space are encouraged to submit their own failures, as well as to read, cut, notate and file incoming failures according to how they see fit.
Failbase 831.xxx.4046 was conceived and created by Digital Arts and New Media graduate students Nik Hanselmann and Nick Lally under the auspices of E.G. Crichton who invited them to be part of Archive of What’s Left Behind.
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