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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.

Smiles per hour
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Steve Dietz
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10.17.2010
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Smiles per hour zone, Port Phillip, Australia

“Are we a friendly folk here in Port Phillip? Do we smile or say ‘Hi’ to our neighbours and strangers as we walk down the street? Do we even make eye contact, or do we hurry down our street hoping no one will talk to us? In 2005, a survey of residents across our 7 neighbourhoods found that many people yearned for a friendlier neighbourhood, but didn’t know where to start. Some admitted that they also avoided eye contact and a smile with others in their streets.”–via

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Art(ists) on the Verge, 2010: The Inside and the Outside
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mediachef
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10.13.2010

by Ann Klefstad
Art(ists) on the Verge is the second iteration of a fellowship program run by Northern Lights.mn with the support of the Jerome Foundation. Five artists who do interesting things with new media technology were chosen by a jury to create new works, four of which then were exhibited side by side with artists chosen to represent the visual side of the Spark Festival of electronic music and arts.

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Open call for networked art
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mediachef
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10.13.2010
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Turbulence.org and Pace Digital Gallery announce an Open Call for Networked Art to be commissioned for the exhibition Turbulence.org @ PaceDigitalGallery 2. The curators are seeking works that address the notion of “Levels | Hierarchies”, as in chains of command, levels of play, stages of life, degrees of comfort… Pace Digital Gallery is, itself, distributed […]

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Dialog in/of/on the tall grasses
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Steve Dietz
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10.12.2010
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Stephen Vitiello, Tall Grasses (location shot), 2010. Courtesy of the artist

I am thrilled to be in dialog with artist Stephen Vitiello about his exhibition Stephen Vitiello: Tall Grasses, along with Christopher Cox, exhibition curator and Executive Director of the Salina Art Center on Friday, October 29. I hope you can make it, if you are in the area.

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Why nuit blanche?
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mediachef
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10.9.2010
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Bring to Light from Max Tiberi on Vimeo.

Brooklyn Street Art: We’re always talking about the intersection of Street Art, Urban Art, Public Art, Performance, Projection Art – do you think that there is a growing interest among city dwellers in reclaiming public space for art?

Interesting interview with the organizers of the recent NYC nuit blanche, Bring to Light.

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Community photo night University Avenue Project
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mediachef
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10.8.2010
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Wing Young Huie, The University Avenue Project, Project(ion) Site, 1433 University Ave.

The Community Photo Night

This Sunday, October 10, 6:30 pm
The University Avenue Project(ion) Site on 1433 University Avenue, across from Walmart
Come see photos and video taken by community members!

There’s still time to submit your photos-absolute deadline is this Sat, 6 pm! (See info below)

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Defrag his confidence
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mediachef
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10.7.2010
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Janet Zweig, Lipstick Enigma with Franklyn Berry for the Harris Engineering Center at the University of Central Florida, Orlando. 2010. Photo Stephen Allen

There have been numerous computational “sentence generators” since at least Joseph Weizenbaum’s Eliza program, including one of my all time favorites, David Rokeby’s Giver of Names. What seems particularly successful about Janet Zweig’s latest public art project, Lipstick Enigma, which mixes the language of engineering with the language of beauty advertising, is precisely how intelligible – and humorous – her sentences are. Some examples:

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Map me if you will
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mediachef
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10.7.2010
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This is an open call for Pixelache Helsinki 2011

“By the mere fact of living an ordinary modern urban life, we produce a huge amount of information about ourselves that we are hardly aware of, nor we usually see or make use of. Through this data we become traceable, accessible, predictable — and clearly enough — ideal clients of information-based capitalism. So if we cannot prevent the production and the corporate or governmental use of this data without changing our lifestyle completely, how can we at least benefit from it ourselves? How can we share this information with the society at large or the community we live in to our common advantage? And how could we even build systems ourselves that collect data for our own purposes?”

The deadline for proposals is Monday 8 November 2010. The application form can be found here.

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RFQ by this Friday for St. Paul public art
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mediachef
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10.7.2010
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The City of Saint Paul seeks artists to design and create public artworks that will be integrated into the new Penfield development in downtown Saint Paul. The Penfield is a new six story mixed-use development that will cover the block bounded by Tenth, Eleventh, Robert and Minnesota Streets, across I-94 from the Minnesota State Capitol […]

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Reach out and message someone
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mediachef
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10.7.2010
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"A Woman and Her Islands – Nova Jiang’s “Archipelagos” Project at the 01SJ Biennial" by Patrick Lydon via Artshift

“But the islands aren’t just a personal refuge for Jiang; they represent feelings that each of us have from time to time, and by the artist’s design, they call for us to address these issues with interaction. Each asymmetrically shaped mobile island is fitted with it’s very own sand dune, out of which stick pens, and corked glass bottles with empty papers inside.”

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Northern Spark
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mediachef
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10.6.2010
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Northern Spark is a new MN Festival modeled on a nuit blanche or “white night” festival – a dusk to dawn participatory art event along the Mississippi and surrounding areas.

Save the date!

Northern Lights.mn received start up funding from the MN State Arts Board and Northern Spark will take place the evening of June 4 (sunset 8.55 pm) till the morning of June 5, 2011 (sunrise 5.28 am).

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