Open Source industrial design in New York

Blue Man Group looks for CD

Are you interested?

Location: New York

Title: Creative Director, Research & Development

Status: Full-time/Regular



Blue Man Productions, best known for Blue Man Group, is looking for a seasoned Creative Director of Research & Development to conceive and design concepts in all creative areas, including: sets & scenery; props; instruments; gadgets; special effects; graphics and other cool,inspiring new stuff. The Creative Director will be able to solve creative problems through innovation and creativity. Reporting to the Senior GM/Production, he or she will oversee and direct the work of the creative teams: Associate Creative Directors; R&D members; outside Creative Contractors & Consultants. He or she will ensure that as new projects are developed, their progress is continuously communicated to the CCO & Creative Directors, and that creative feedback is effectively communicated and applied to the projects teams.



Responsibilities:

* Ensure that Blue Man Group values and artistic vision are understood and supported across the organization.
* Understand, articulate and build upon the evolving Blue Man visual aesthetic
* Partner with the CCO and Creative Directors to conceive, articulate, iterate & execute creative concepts in all areas: sets and scenery; props; instruments; gadgets; special effects; graphics, etc.
* Provide leadership for research and development; produce and communicate design ideas.
* Oversee and/or assist with the execution of design and research ideas as directed by the Senior GM/Production.



Requirements:

* Minimum 7+ years leadership experience in creative, collaborative environments required.
* Minimum 5+ years experience in fields of special effects, production design, special events or magic industry strongly preferred.
* Proven track record of leadership in large scale design and concept execution.
* Fluency in production and communication of design ideas, including: development of models; sourcing materials and fabrications; producing drawings and models.
* Excellent communication skills.



To be considered, please submit your resume and web links of your work with the title "Creative Director of R&D" in the subject line to hr@blueman.com

Please do not mail any materials to us at this time.

Conflux : September 13 — 16, 2007

Conflux is the annual New York festival for contemporary psychogeography, the investigation of everyday urban life through emerging artistic, technological and social practice.

The Village Voice describes Conflux as a “network of maverick artists and unorthodox urban investigators… making fresh, if underground, contributions to pedestrian life in New York City, and upping the ante on today’s fight for the soul of high-density metropolises.”

Participants in Conflux share an interest in psychogeography. Projects presented range from interpretations of the classical approach developed by the Situationists to new methods being developed today in cities throughout the world.

At Conflux, participants, along with attendees and the public, put their investigations into action on the city streets. The city becomes a playground, a laboratory and a space for the development of new networks and communities.

Conflux is produced by Glowlab.
Event Information
Thursday September 13, 2007
10am — 6pm

The Change You Want to See
84 Havemeyer Street
Brooklyn
NY 11211

Body of NYC artist Jeremy Blake found

Jeremy Blake: Mod Lang
Installation view at Feigen Contemporary
October 20 - November 24, 2001
Olympischer Sommer
2006
digital c-print
40 3/4 x 98 1/2 inches, edition of 3
27 x 65 1/2 inches, edition of 3

I was saddened by the news. Jeremy was an upcoming digital artist in New York and was in Whitney Bienniel for 3 consecutive years. Videotage had also played his video when Creative Times touring program came to HK in 2001, the program is reissued as retrospective in 2007.

Jeremy Blake's review (artnet, 2004)
Modern Art news


Artist Jeremy Blake missing, and his girlfriend has committed suicide (boing boing)

Artist Presumed to Have Killed Himself After Girlfriend's Suicide (Gothamist)

A body washed up on the shores of New Jersey has been identified as that of missing digital artist Jeremy Blake, presumed to have committed suicide after his companion Theresa Duncan blog took her life in the couple's New York City apartment.

The "html-movement-library" plus "Singing Website Wallpaper"

Singing Website Wallpaper gives voice to html by re-interpreting the code of three Websites such as yahoo.com, msn.com, and google.com as a musical score and visualizing the scales as printed patterns on wallpaper. While the sound component of the installation is influenced by the "live" html code of each site, the wallpaper shows "frozen" source code from each site translated into a visual set of functionality-related symbols. Depending on how the momentary html code of the site is structured, the program matches the acccording sound files to each html tag. For instance, if the html tag "table" appears in the code, my program (php) will interpret and "sing" the tag as "a", "b" and "e", as they are notes in musical notation. The same goes, for example, with the tag "head": we hear the "h", "e," "a," and "d." "h" exists in German music notation, so there is an extra "note" to sing...
Review

Automatic Update, an exhibition of five media installations made since 2000

Cory Arcangel. American, born 1978, Buffalo, Two Keystoned Projectors (one upside down) 2007. Installation projection video. © 2007 Cory Arcangel.

Automatic Update, an exhibition of five media installations made since 2000, features works of art drawn from the technology of the last decade. Employing computers, LCD screens, DVD players, digital video, and user-activated components, works in the exhibition show contemporary artists trying their hands at a range of newly invented art forms. The artists in the exhibition, Cory Arcangel, Xu Bing, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, and Paul Pfeiffer, make comical and sometimes absurd use of recent technologies while offering lighthearted critiques of today’s society.

The exhibition is on view from June 27 through September 3, 2007, in The Yoshiko and Akio Morita Gallery on the second floor, and is accompanied by a series of related films and videos that will be screened in The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters from July 7 through September 2, 2007. Automatic Update and the accompanying film-and-video series are organized by Barbara London, Associate Curator, Department of Media, The Museum of Modern Art.

In the 1990s, artists worked in a range of newly invented art forms, often switching from analogue to digital equipment as the technology evolved. They built interactive installations and electronic publishing networks, and made art for the Internet. Technology advanced so quickly that in some cases the platform upon which an art form depended would disappear while a work was being made. By the year 2000, this quasi-revolutionary aura had dissipated, and media art had settled into the mainstream.

Ms. London says, “The wildness of the dot-com era infused media art with a heady energy. Automatic Update is about the vision of art drawn from technology of the last decade. The show features the work of hackers, programmers, and tinkerer-revisionists from North America, Europe, and Asia.”

Cory Arcangel (American, b. 1978) is known internationally for his subversive reworkings of obsolete computer systems. He participates in the artist group BEIGE and the Radical Software Group. This exhibition includes his newest work, on view for the first time, titled Two Keystoned Projectors (one upside down) (2007). It comprises a VCR (video cassette recorder) and two projectors that cast two fields of color and a channel number onto the wall. The work takes into consideration now-dated VCR technology and shows what media art might look like if the engine of consumer innovation had stalled at the development of the VCR.

Xu Bing (Chinese, b. 1955) works in a wide range of media, creating installations that question language and demonstrate how meaning and the written word can easily be manipulated. Here he presents a classroom-like installation, Book from the Ground (2007, work in progress), in which he arranges two desks and a computer against a text panel. Viewers may interact with the icons on the computer screen, using Xu’s sequences of simple images to construct “sentences” from a universal, visual language akin to hieroglyphs. Icons are ubiquitous symbols providing information without words, antidotes to misunderstanding in the enveloping sphere of world languages in the global electronic network. The work plays with the notion of the word “icon,” which in the past referred to objects of worship. Now the word refers more commonly to company logos and the thumbnail images on computer screens that are clicked to activate an application. With Book from the Ground, an ongoing project, the artist intends to foster communication through a common language of icons.

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (Mexican/Canadian, b. 1967) develops large-scale interactive installations in public spaces, usually deploying new technologies and custom-made physical interfaces that use robotics, projections, sensors, and other electronic devices. Here he offers an interactive installation that is mounted on one wall of the gallery. Titled 33 Questions per Minute (2001–02), it consists of 21 small LCD screens linked together by cables. The cables are connected to a laptop computer that contains a grammatical software program. Viewers are invited to enter questions or words into the computer, which processes them and generates related questions on the screens at the rate of 33 per minute. Words or questions entered by viewers become part of the program’s database, expanding its vocabulary ad infinitum.

The husband-and-wife team of Jennifer McCoy (American, b. 1968) and Kevin McCoy (American, b. 1967) have worked together since 1990 in video, installation, media, and performance. Our Second Date (2004), draws upon Jean-Luc Godard’s film Week End (1967), which the McCoys saw together on their second date. A tabletop installation recreates the car accident scene in Godard’s film in miniature, while six video cameras film the scene from above. The footage is processed by a computer and played back live in both small and large scale in a projection on the adjacent wall.

Paul Pfeiffer (American, b. 1966) uses video, sculpture, and photography in works that dissect the role that mass media plays in shaping public consciousness. In a series of videos focused on professional sports events—including basketball and boxing—Pfeiffer digitally removes the bodies of the players from the games, shifting the viewer’s focus to the spectators, sports equipment, or trophies won. These intimate and idealized video works are meditations on faith, desire, and a contemporary culture obsessed with celebrity. For this exhibition, Pfeiffer deals with the subject of athletic stardom in John 3:16 (2000), an LCD monitor showing a digital video loop of basketballs hovering above the hoop, gleaned from countless NBA games. The title of this work refers to a passage from the Gospel of John in the Bible: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” The conjunction of this religious sentiment with professional sports, and therefore with celebrity, suggests that markers of success often substitute for traditional objects of worship.

The accompanying Web site, www.moma.org/automaticupdate, is designed in a retro, 1990s, pixelated style and includes descriptions of works in the exhibition, interviews with some of the artists, and information about the film program. The site was designed by Matt Owens of Volumeone, New York. It also features a link to the Automatic Update page at http://del.icio.us/Automatic_Update where visitors may view and share bookmarks pertaining to the show.

A film-and-video series features works by video artists and film directors concerned with issues of media and technology. The films and videos will be screened in The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters on dates between July 7 and September 2, 2007. Organized by Barbara London with Hanne Mugaas, Intern.

Open City with Eyebeam

Looking at the Open City site, I surprisingly realised that graffitti with light (laser) can caused acqusation of vandalism...

Graffiti writer, artist, and friend of the G.R.L. AVONE has recently been incarcerated on charges of vandalism. We haven’t used this site as platform to raise money in the past but if we can gather $2,000 bail ASAP then we can keep our friend from having to spend the next 3 weeks in jail. If found guilty he faces a sentence of at least 9 months.....

Beside SCOPE, PULSE New York will run concurrently with The Armory Show

PULSE is an invitational contemporary art fair held annually in New York and Miami. It presents high-quality artworks in an environment that serves both seasoned and emerging collectors. The format of the fair is based on a select choice of galleries invited by the PULSE Invitational Committee. The fair was created in response to the increasing numbers of galleries and growing collector base in the contemporary art market. It provides a friendly, highly selective and innovative context for all of its constituents.

PULSE New York will run concurrently with The Armory Show (23 to 26 Feb. @12tth Ave,55th Street) from February 22 through 25, 2007, taking place at the 69th Regiment Armory Building located at East 26th Street and Lexington Avenue. In its second year, PULSE New York will feature high-quality works from 63 established and emerging galleries from 15 countries, including additions from Israel, China and Korea. Thirteen of the exhibiting galleries were chosen through an open application and selection process by the PULSE committee members to exhibit in the MPULSE?section.


PULSE New York will also feature site-specific installations by the following artists (from PULSE sponsor gallery):

Jason Hackenwerth, Untitled, 2007, presented by SurroundArt and PULSE
Satch Hoyt, Portcullis, 2007, presented by SurroundArt and PULSE
William Kentridge, Bird Catcher, 2006, courtesy of BAM
Golan Levin, Petroglyphic Reflections, courtesy of bitforms gallery
PULSE Miami ULSE Prize?winner Travis Somerville, Barn Dance, 2007, courtesy of Nathan Larramendy Gallery