On the fourth Monday of every month, select ADC Young Guns winners present their work at the Apple Store in SoHo. February’s speaker: Stewart Smith.

Stewart Smith is the founder and principal of Stewdio, a consultancy that approaches art and software through the lens of graphic design. Stewdio has created collaborative works with renowned firms including Diller Scofidio+Renfro, O-R-G, Warning Office, and Death by Cyan. Stewart earned his MFA from Yale University and teaches Visualizing Data at NYU in the Interactive Telecommunications Program. He is also a research scholar at Columbia University.
Stewart is part of the ADC Young Guns 7 class of winners, honored in 2009.

Monday, February 22, 2010
6:30 - 8 PM
Apple Store SoHo
103 Prince Street, NYC

Free, no reservation required.

http://stewdio.org/apple/
http://www.adcyoungguns.org/events/#32

(Best of CL)

From an Old Woman to a Young Woman

Date: 2009-09-01, 1:22PM PDT

1. You are not a victim. No matter what happens to you, don’t take the pussy route and blame the world for your misfortune. If you were sexually assaulted, verbally abused, etc and lived to tell about it; take your pain and help those who need it. Writing emo poetry isn’t going to solve anything.

2. Invest in your education first, your looks second. Anyone can pay a plastic surgeon to look hot, but not everyone can read a book and do simple math.

3. No matter what you call it, having a ‘man to take you shopping’ is glorified prostitution. He wants you for your body, you want him for his wallet. Cut the crap and call it what it is.

4. Do not seek confidence in other people. Magazines, celebrities and most pop influences are there to make you feel like you’re nothing. Don’t buy into it. Those celebrities need your money to look fabulous. Invest in yourself, not hype.

5. Stop fueling gossip mongers [Perez Hilton, TMZ.]. They have nothing to talk about and if you follow them for long, neither will you.

6. Be modest; why have all your goods unwrapped and leave nothing for the imagination?

7. Know the difference between fucking and love. There is a major difference and if you don’t know it, pick up a book or ask someone who does.

8. Do not have children just because you’re lonely or insecure. Your child will end up hating you for it and you won’t get the emotional blanket you hoped you’d get.

9. Get a job. Seriously. Just because you’re a woman doesn’t mean that you are excused from work. Find a trade, get a job. If you are a house wife, be a good one. If you are a career woman, put your heart into what you do.

10. A respectable companion is rarely at a ‘bar’ or da club’. These places are meat markets and will only set you up for a douchebag or a wimp. If you go, refer to rule 7.

11. Learn to cook. Cooking is a dying skill that needs not be. You’d be surprise how much weight you lose and how you can get a decent companion if you know more than picking up a phone and calling for dinner.

12. Get off your phone. If it’s not your best friend, your job or your family, your cackling is not important and the rest of the world does not want to hear it. Listen more. Talk less.

13. Stop putting so much of your money into things [purses, shoes, make up] and start putting it into a savings account, a 401k or an IRA. Those shoes are not going to vest when you turn 65.

14. Stop using men to get you stuff. Have some self respect and buy your own drinks, meals and entertainment. A date will respect you more if you show them you are not helpless.

15. Perfume and baby powder does not make up for good hygiene. Shower, do your laundry, clean your place. Body odor is not excusable for either genders.

16. If you are a Lesbian, respect yourself and stop trying to find acceptance in the world. 9/10 they will not accept you. Tell them ‘fuck you’ and be your own woman.

17. If you are a Lesbian, you are not anymore special or important than anyone else. You love other women and you have that right, but do not flex your preference thinking it makes you unique. Your mind and experiences make you unique, either gay or straight.

18. Buy clothes that fit. Be tasteful with your clothing be you big or small.

19. Don’t eat for comfort, vomit to make yourself beautiful, and starve yourself to feel loved. Exercise, be sensible with your food choices, don’t deprive yourself but never eat too much. The quickest way to a size 30, and to the grave, is past your teeth.

20. If they say the love you, ask them to earn your heart through good deeds, genuine kindness and respect.

21. Romance is not dead; but if you’re not willing to give it, don’t expect it in return.

22. Stop being a bitch to other women and other people. If you are not happy, go get therapy. No one deserves to be berated because you don’t have the guts to berate yourself.

23. Do something new every day. Pole dance to learn about your sensuality, paint to express your creativity, write a blog to express your soul. Evolve and never stop learning.

24. Look in the mirror everyday and smile at what you see.

25. Stay safe. Learn to defend yourself against one or multiple attackers. Jackals do not attack if they see a big stick. If all else fails, run. There is no shame in running if it keeps you safe.

26. Love yourself. Always. When you love yourself to the fullest, the world will open with opportunities

http://typewar.com/

FEAST is a recurring public dinner designed to use community-driven financial support to democratically fund new and emerging art makers.

http://www.feastinbklyn.org/

What is FEAST and how did you begin?

Jeff Hnilicka: FEAST has been going on for a little over a year and runs out of a church basement in Greenpoint. There are around twenty people who help facilitate it. We come from the art world, food world, and design world, and we are connected to ideas of collectivism and immediacy – things like zines, living room dance parties, bike rides, and dinners. Many of us are also involved with Hit Factorie, an artist collective.

FEAST grew out of our desire to investigate the collapse of cultural production in the face of emerging sustainable food production systems that were successful. We wanted to ask “what is localism?” in relation to cultural production and how the structures of a farm co-op translate to an art economy. In the food world, the sustainable is the heirloom – that is the desired experience. In cultural production, the sustainable is relegated to the amateur, the “craft.” But we wondered: can you produce high quality cultural products using a sustainable model? Those were our basic goals. What developed was a dinner party, where around 300 people come to a church basement every couple of months. We ask for $10-20 donations at the door to attend the dinner, although no one is turned away. Artists propose projects over the course of the meal, and the guests select one project to fund. We vote democratically. Whichever artists get the most votes get a big bag of money with a dollar sign on it. We ask them to come back to the next dinner and present how they used the money.

I should mention that the model for FEAST is not our idea. InCUBATE in Chicago has been doing something called Sunday Soup for a long time. Other similar meals exist through Stock in Portland, Stew in Baltimore, Sugar City in Buffalo, Feast in Columbus, and I recently facilitated a FEAST in Minneapolis during a residency there.

http://rhizome.org/editorial/3281

Navigational device for New Yorkers to show you how long it takes to get everywhere else in the city.

via Cup of Jo

PEPSI: http://www.boardsmag.com/screeningroom/

COKE: http://www.madisonboom.com/article.asp?id=5955

 the original: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfBlUQguvyw

Chromedrones is a sound toy in your web browser. You can create sound-resonating attractor pop-up windows by pressing the ‘a’ key. The particles from the main window will feed the attractors energy that allow them to produce sound.

http://www.chromeexperiments.com/detail/chromedrones/

http://aaron-meyers.com/

http://rhizomatiks.com/

japanese flash wizards

http://shanghaiist.com/2010/01/28/googles_shanzhai_sister_goojje_pops.php

On September 27, 2007, the world experienced its first virtual strike. In response to a wage dispute, IBM workers in Italy organized a picket outside their company’s “corporate campus” based in the 3-D virtual world of Second Life. According to a report in the Guardian, workers “marched and waved banners, gate-crashed a [virtual] staff meeting and forced the company to close its [virtual] business center to visitors…. The protest, by more than 9,000 workers and 1,850 supporting ‘avatars’ from thirty countries,” included a rowdy collection of pink triangles, “sentient” bananas and other bizarro avatars.

While the strike was playful, it was also buttressed by careful planning and organization. Workers set up a strike task force, developed educational materials in three languages and held more than twenty worker strategy meetings. The hard work paid off. According to Christine Revkin of the UNI Global Union, which was involved in the strike, the online protest led to new negotiations and a better deal for the workers. Twenty days after the initial protest the Italian CEO of IBM, Andrea Pontremoli, resigned. (Here’s a video from the strike.)

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090202/smith_costello_brecher

Graphic Music – sound pictograms

The representation of music in notation form is interesting when composers have developed their own idiosyncratic forms of notation. The resulting scores double as sound pictures, esoteric diagrammatic representations of sound in space and time.

They are like magickal sigils understandable to only those who have the keys to work with them and understand their semiotics. Of course just like magickal sigils these images are interesting in themselves and beckon decipherment. Today my travels have lead me to collect some examples of ‘notation art’.

The blockmuseum has a page devoted to experimental graphical notation where you can zoom into each score and view its details.

Here are some more examples:
Water music – John Cage
Variations – John Cage
Fontana mix – John Cage

Often Cage used methods of randomness to bring about indeterminacy in his music, for example sometimes a piece involved the use of clocks allowing it to change throughout the day. We could call this work generative I think; the random algorithmic generation being controlled by external environmental artefacts.

Edges - Christian Wolff
King of Denmark – Morton Feldman
Tunnel Spiral - Stockhausen

Of course many visual artists have painted music. Paul Klee and Piet Mondrian both spring to mind.

http://dataisnature.com/?p=60

2channel (2ちゃんねる, ni channeru^?, 2ch for short) is a Japanese Internet forum, thought to be the largest Internet forum in the world.^[3][4][5] Launched in 1999, it has gained significant influence in Japanese society, comparable to that of traditional mass media such as television, radio, and magazines.^[

check out the the amazing ASCII art on one of their threads:
http://live24.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/eq/1254224828/

　　　　　 　　                ∧ ∧
　　 　　　　　 　　 < ｀∀´> Kekeke
　　 　　　　　　 　　/ つ¶つ¶
　　　　 　 　 　 ／￣￣￣￣＼
　 　 　 　 　 　 |) ○　○　○ (|
　　　　　　 　／″ 　　韓　 　 ＼
（(　((　(( 　／＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＼　　
　　　　　　￣ ＼＿＼＿_／＿／

Shift_JIS art is artwork created from characters within the Shift_JIS character set, a superset of ASCII intended for Japanese usage. Naturally there are many similarities between Shift_JIS artwork and ASCII art.

Shift_JIS has become very popular on web-based bulletin boards, notably 2channel, and has even made its way into mainstream media and commercial advertising in Japan.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_(ASCII_art)#Mon.C4.81

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shift_JIS_art

The Aquaduct vehicle seeks to address the two main challenges with water in the developing world: sanitation and transportation. Water-related diseases kill thousands of people each day. Moreover, water sources in developing areas can be miles from home, requiring women to walk these distances daily carrying heavy water vessels.

The Aquaduct is designed to enable a person to sanitize and transport water simultaneously, potentially lessening the physical strain of the task and freeing up more time for work, education, or family.

As the rider pedals, a pump attached to the pedal crank draws water from a large holding tank, through a filter, to a smaller, clean tank. A clutch engages and disengages the drive belt from the pedal crank, enabling the rider to filter the water while traveling or while stationary. The clean tank is removable and closed for contamination-free home storage and use.

In its current state, the Aquaduct is a prototype aimed squarely at demonstrating a concept and raising awareness around the issues of clean water in developing countries. The Aquaduct team plans to continue the concept’s development into an economically and technologically viable solution that addresses challenges such as cost, suitable purification technologies, and the logistics of addressing an issue that billions.

http://www.ideo.com/work/item/aquaduct/

Touch My Body is a conceptual miracle. Take Mariah Carey’s video, cut out every sound and image except for Maria and fill the rest with fluorescent green. Then publish it on YouTube and wait for the people to fill in the void. Insubordinate art for the masses, republished on his own site HERE. We curate a second chef-d’oeuvre by Laric: AIRCONDITION. You’ll love it.

http://www.unitedvloggers.com/2008/11/15/touch-my-body-green-screen-version/

Super Mario Clouds» is based on the «Super Mario» game for Nintendo’s NES game console. Cory Arcangel hacked the game and modified it so that all that remains of the game are the white clouds on a blue sky. Gone is the main character, Super Mario, who the player had to guide through a labyrinth in the original jump and run game, just like the obstacles, landscapes and opponents that lend the game its narrative structure. Those people who are familiar with the game can imagine them on the empty background, everyone else will just see the cartoon-like display of a sky. The work was created on the basis of a manipulation of the hardware and software. Cory Arcangel had to open the cartridge, on which the game was stored, and replace the Nintendo graphics chip with a chip on which he had burned a program he had written himself. Cory Arcangel is a member of the Beige Programming Ensemble who have focused their artistic programme on the hacking ethic of manipulating existing technology, thereby taking the modification of legacy technology to absurd extremes: the group have published computer programs pressed on records and organise an annual competition for «cassette disk jockeys.»

Coming to theatres on October 16, 2009.
Well….We all love NYC, aren’t we?
This super-project film brings a collaboration of storytelling from some of todays most imaginative filmmakers and featuring an all-star cast. Together they create a kaleidoscope of the spontaneous, surprising, electrifying human connections that pump the citys heartbeat. Sexy, funny, haunting and revealing encounters unfold beneath the Manhattan skyline. From Tribeca to Central Park to Brooklyn the story weaves a tale of love as diverse as the very fabric of New York itself.

To mark the launch of MySpace Music we went behind the scenes with 9 artists to reveal the music they love. Watch the artist films and check out their playlists right here, then get cracking with your own playlists.

http://www.myspace.com/getrealclose?artist=alicia