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Contemporary art is increasingly “untethered” and moves from the white cube of the gallery to any site – including the virtual – to engage the public in its own realm. Public art is an ever-expanding field of inquiry, with artists of all stripes exploring the public realm. Beyond murals, monuments, memorials (and the occasional mime) public art has become a vibrant and engaging practice. From the spectacular to the quotidian, permanent to ephemeral, sited to virtual, material to performative, conceptual to cinematic, we believe there are unprecedented opportunities for new art practices in our shared environment. This is the critical focus of Public Address.

Houseboat wanted
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02.19.2011
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"Lagoon," Photo Craig Simcox

"Lagoon," Photo Craig Simcox

The BodyCartography Project seeks houseboat for a performance commissioned by Northern Spark Festival. It is an intimate performance work for small audiences in a boat that travels on the Mississippi from Boom Island through the lock and dam and back again. Looking for a boat with character, electricity and a working toilet. Size of boat from 30-60 feet. The boat is needed for roughly a week, end of May until June 4th, with performances happening on one night only.

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Northern Spark nuit blanche
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02.6.2011
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Northern Spark

Northern Spark homepage

For one night only, more than 60 regional and national artists together with the Twin Cities’ arts community will display new art installations at public places and unexpected locations throughout the city. Directed and produced by Northern Lights.mn and funded by the MN State Arts Board, Northern Spark takes place this summer from sunset on June 4 (8:55 p.m.) until the morning of June 5, 2011 (sunrise 5:28 a.m.).

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Art in odd places – call
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02.6.2011
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Art in odd places - A festival exploring the odd, ordinary and ingenious in the spectacle of daily life.

Art in odd places. A festival exploring the odd, ordinary and ingenious in the spectacle of daily life.

Art in Odd Places aims to stretch the boundaries of communication in the public realm by presenting artworks in all disciplines outside the confines of traditional public space regulations. AiOP reminds us that public spaces function as the epicenter for diverse social interactions and the unfettered exchange of ideas.

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Art in odd places – call
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02.6.2011
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Art in odd places - A festival exploring the odd, ordinary and ingenious in the spectacle of daily life.

Art in odd places. A festival exploring the odd, ordinary and ingenious in the spectacle of daily life.

Art in Odd Places aims to stretch the boundaries of communication in the public realm by presenting artworks in all disciplines outside the confines of traditional public space regulations. AiOP reminds us that public spaces function as the epicenter for diverse social interactions and the unfettered exchange of ideas.

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Rethinking the Exhibition & Curating Communities
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Steve Dietz
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02.3.2011
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Amanda McDonald Crowley and Steve Dietz in conversation with Shane Mecklenberger at Initiative for Advanced Research in Technology and the Arts.

Log in to www.ustream.tv/channel/iarta to watch the entire event live. Mr. Dietz and Ms. Crowley will also present an additional lecture on Friday at UNT in the College of Visual Art & Design, RM 226 from 10:00am – noon. We look forward to seeing you at our next scheduled ART-TEC Event : Dancing with Wires – Feb. 17, Thurs. 8PM see http://iarta.unt.edu/art-tec.html for details.

Slides here.

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Google Art Project: does the Internet really need gallery walls?
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Northern Lights.mn
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02.3.2011
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courtesy of Google

What immediately struck me about this project is how fixated it is on perpetuating the experience of the traditional museum with walls. If Google is going to claim that their goal is to empower people to discover art, then they have truly missed an opportunity to reshape and redefine how people experience visual information online in more creative and constructive ways. Do you need to know to take two lefts in the gallery to experience the Van Gogh’s Starry Night? Why impose physical limitations on the Internet? Why propagate old paradigms when you can create new ones?

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The Responsive City – Fact or Fiction?
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01.25.2011
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Archigram, Instant City. In the exhibition Edge Condition, 2008 01SJ Biennial

Archigram, Instant City. In the exhibition Edge Condition, 2008 01SJ Biennial

CAA 2011 Conference

Thursday, February 10, 2011, 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm

On site at the Hilton Conference Center, 3rd Floor, Trianon Ballroom
Free and open to the public
http://conference.collegeart.org/2011/sessions/sessions.php?period=2011-02-10
http://www.newmediacaucus.org/wp/caa-2011-conference-nmc-events-and-activities/

Panel Participants

This panel will examine the experience of artists and presenters with large-scale, long-term interactive art in the public sphere and the pragmatic, conceptual and philosophical issues such projects engender.

Steve Dietz, Barbara Goldstein, Cameron McNall, Ben Rubin, Mark Shepard

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First skyscraper – design fiction?
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01.17.2011
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The world's first skyscraper was proposed by British architect Charles Burton in 1851

The world's first skyscraper was proposed by British architect Charles Burton in 1851. via Gizmag

“Design fiction . . . creates material artifacts that force conversations and suspend one’s disbelief in what is possible. It’s a way of imagining a different kind of world by outlining the contours, rendering the artifacts as story props, then using them to imagine.”–Julian Bleecker

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Art for Animals
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01.10.2011
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Winged Wisdom, Philippe Becker Design

Twenty-five artists, architects, and designers were initially invited to propose custom designed habitats for animal residents of the Presidio in San Francisco, and eleven site-specific commissions are presented as part of the Presidio Habitats exhibition. While a few of the playfully constructed sculptures were populated by visitors, all too soon it became clear that many of the installations were monuments to dead, displaced, or disappeared creatures, not unlike the rows of white gravesites lining the hills nearby…

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Goodbye and hello
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Steve Dietz
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01.4.2011
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For its first year, Public Address, our blog about experimenting with art in the public sphere, was a collaboration with Forecast Public Art, publisher of Public Art Review since 1989 and one of the premiere public art organizations in the country. Recently Forecast’s pioneering efforts were rewarded with grants from both the NEA and the […]

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