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Hasta La Basura Se Separa [artcrush]
Tuesday, December 9th, 2008I finished a new work in Nuevo Laredo. Jubilee uses personalized giftwrap, recycled boxes, barbed wire, fencing and steel frame. Directions to the exhibition, photos of all works and more information about the Antigua Aduana Centro Cultural Space is available at the artcrush exhibition’s website. Exhibition closes December 31st. This just in…the exhibition closes January [...]
Exhibiting Software
Monday, August 25th, 2008There are undoubtedly some hurdles preventing contemporary art spaces from exhibiting software. From my experience, the software exhibited carries an experience generally closer to a screensaver or generative painting. But who blames them? In comparison to hands-off formats such as painting or sculpture, software is extremely needy, so any attempt to create the kinds of [...]
Ubuntu Live 2008
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008I recently received word that my session “Exhibiting Software” has been selected for the 2008 Ubuntu Live Conference. I am so excited to be involved and look forward to learning from everyone there. Ubuntu is a relatively new flavor of the Linux operating system that is aiming to be the Apple Inc. of the Linux world. Linux as a whole is only used on 2% of the world’s computers, but by contrast runs 70% of the world’s websites. Ubuntu is an even smaller pie, occupying conservatively 30% of the total Linux market.
Open Doors’ Expansion: Nov. 10 – Jan. 12 at The Dallas Contemporary
Saturday, November 3rd, 2007Reception: November 17, 2007, 7 ~ 9:30p Dallas Contemporary announces its upcoming exhibition Open Doors Expansion, is viewable Saturday, November 10 through January 12, 2008. Open Doors Expansion features large-scale, site-specific installation works by Open Doors Collective, an Austin, Texas based group of artists. A members’ opening reception, to which the public is invited at [...]
Call for Trophies
Tuesday, May 1st, 2007[Update: Oct. 31 2007 - I have stopped collecting trophies for this project and begun installing the work at The Dallas Contemporary. If you have not received a DHL waybill in the mail, then I will not be able to use your trophies inthis project and I apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused [...]
High Five
Thursday, July 20th, 2006My project, High Five, involves covering the roofs of 5 downtown Austin, TX buildings with violet tarp material in order to show up on the satellite imagery provided to services such as Google Maps. The proposal for High Five recently opened as part of Arthouse’s annual New American Talent exhibition. And by recently I mean [...]