The Ups & Downs: 65 | 77 | 03 | (September 4-5)

65 | 77 | 03 | by Liz Glynn
As part of The Ups & Downs, an installation series curated by Mathew Timmons

Opening reception September 4th, 7:00pm
Closing reception September 5th, 7:00pm
To attend the opening on September 4th, please RSVP to mathewtimmons@gmail.com.
NOTE: September 4th opening is FULL!!! No more RSVPs please, unless you’ve received a direct invitation to the opening!

The Ups & Downs is an installation series. The show goes up, the show goes down. Opening party on Friday night and closing party the next night, on Saturday. No time for exhibitions. Low impact, ephemeral and immersive art. People with lots of People. The market. It’s a party. Time for the underground. It’s a ball. It’s for The People. This has been made for you. You look familiar? The show must go on. Installed and De-installed. Up. Down. Now what? Now then…

artist’s statement:
One hundred seven stories high over Manhattan, a group of diners at the World Trade Center’s skyscraping restaurant Windows on the World downed their digestifs, took a last glance at the stunning lightshow below, and crowded into a waiting down elevator. The doors slid shut. The elevator didn’t budge. Someone stabbed irritably at the button. Nothing happened. Somebody got the doors open and the passengers free. “The elevator’s out,” one of them huffily informed the white-jacketed captain. The captain shrugged toward the nightscape outside, gone suddenly inky black. “So’s New York,” he replied. – from “Heart of Darkness,” Newsweek, June 25, 1977

65 | 77 | 03 | – is a meditation on the blackouts which have occurred in New York City over the last forty years. From the relative social harmony of the mid sixties to the period of unrest and economic stagnation which followed in the next decade, each blackout unfolded in a different socio-economic context. Based on interviews and news accounts of each event, Liz Glynn will stage a series of vignettes exploring the social dynamics of a city gone dark.

]]> http://www.workspace2601.com/2009/08/the-ups-downs-65-77-03-september-4-5/feed/ 1 http://www.workspace2601.com/2009/05/the-ups-downs-scriptor-10-june-5-6/ http://www.workspace2601.com/2009/05/the-ups-downs-scriptor-10-june-5-6/#comments Wed, 20 May 2009 06:57:01 +0000 abk http://www.workspace2601.com/?p=844 Scriptor 1.0 by Brian Kim Stefans
As part of The Ups & Downs, an installation series curated by Mathew Timmons

Opening reception June 5th, 7:00pm
Closing reception June 6th, 7:00pm
with a short artist’s talk each night at 8pm.

The Ups & Downs is an installation series. The show goes up, the show goes down. Opening party on Friday night and closing party the next night, on Saturday. No time for exhibitions. Low impact, ephemeral and immersive art. People with lots of People. The market. It’s a party. Time for the underground. It’s a ball. It’s for The People. This has been made for you. You look familiar? The show must go on. Installed and De-installed. Up. Down. Now what? Now then…

The Scriptor series is meant to bring free form doodling into the digital world. For the project, I created my own letterform creation program that, purposefully, lacks many of the elements of professional graphics programs such as Illustrator and Flash that encourage symmetry, cut-and-paste, and the mathematically precise placement of objects that we associate with digital design, not to mention much digital art. These letterforms and doodles are all “by hand,” and “by eye” – they are a version of penmanship for the screen, but one in which each line or stroke of the letterform can be animated algorithmically (something you can’t do with digital fonts). The words themselves are parsed from news articles – interesting phrases are randomly picked out, given randomly generated sizes, placements and trajectories, as well as a “crazy level” (that’s the name of the variable in the program) that determines their legibility. This “crazy level” can grow or shrink – once the “crazy level” reaches a certain pitch, the letter explodes, but in some instances letters can be brought back from the brink of disaster to reach a stable state again.

Scriptor teases the eye into a game of determining when a form is merely a scrawl and/or when it makes that invisible transition into an icon, a “letter” – or, inkblot-test style, into something else. These are not films – nothing you see on the screen will ever happen again (or, for that matter, ever happened).

Opening reception March 6th, 7:00pm
Closing reception March 7th, 7:00pm

Coverlands is a sculptural installation inspired by the artist’s recent journalistic embed with U.S. forces in Jalalabad. During the months of November and December 2008, Danielle followed women intelligence officers on two bases in eastern Afghanistan. The objects reference classified maps and woven blankets sold at the bazaar on base, and highlight the army’s effort to preserve U.S. national identities in a foreign environment. Danielle uses wax paper and thread to invoke dual qualities of delicacy and durability.

For more information on related work please visit:
www.first-assignment.com
www.danielleadair.com

The Ups & Downs is an installation series curated by Mathew Timmons. The show goes up, the show goes down. Opening party on Friday night and closing party the next night, on Saturday. No time for exhibitions. Low impact, ephemeral and immersive art. People with lots of People. The market. It’s a party. Time for the underground. It’s a ball. It’s for The People. This has been made for you. Do I know you? The show must go on. Installed and De-installed. Up. Down. Now what? Now then…

This installation is about elbows, the least friendly part of the body; elbows on the freeway, the least social social-interaction. Let’s face it: In the freeway it is You or Them. Body parts are at high risks, morphing into the space of the car, you maneuver and try to out-strategize Them. The last figure in the installation is the hopelessly ideal. The one that is the Other. The unused body part, the dreamer, the drifter, the asleep at the wheel, the one no one talks about.

Opening reception February 6th, 7:00pm
Closing reception February 7th, 7:00pm

The Ups & Downs is an installation series. The show goes up, the show goes down. Opening party on Friday night and closing party the next night, on Saturday. No time for exhibitions. Low impact, ephemeral and immersive art. People with lots of People. The market. It’s a party. Time for the underground. It’s a ball. It’s for The People. This has been made for you. Do I know you? The show must go on. Installed and De-installed. Up. Down. Now what? Now then…