AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

The HMC, Inc. and Mucius Gallery cordially invite you for the

HMC/A.I.R./Budapest International Artists Residencies
closing exhibition

Mucius Gallery
1066 Budapest O utca 35

August 5 - August 10, 2008
Closing reception: Tuesday, August 5 at 6:00pm
Opening remarks: Beata Szechy, HMC

Exhibiting artists are:

Holly Boruck, CA, USA - Howard M. Christopherson, MN, USA - Lana Ing Gabor, Kanada - Odette England, UK - Lisa Erdman, FL, USA - Gregory Euclide, MN, USA - Niku Kashef, CA, USA - Benjamin Page, CA, USA - Andreas Papanastasiu, UK/GR - Candida Pestana, Portugalia - Megan Randlett, MA, USA - Jenna Spevack, NY, USA - Hannah Verlin, MA, USA - Marlene Vinha, Portugalia - Patricia Tinajero, TN, USA - Kristine Trever, VA, USA - Rudee Westphal, SD, USA

FilmFest:

JoyPRadio: In Stereotype
(http://www.nedpr.org/2008/joypradio)
(an episode of NedPR produced by Joy D’Albora)

In this episode you’ll find :::
“Cherry Fillin’ and the art of…..”
The local West Hollywood Drag Queen fills us in on the day and the life.

“Jimbob’s Plea”
Oh no! People are scary!

“Luellyn Watts”
An in studio interview with a guy who knows a lot about something.

“Hapu’s Party Spot”
A 7-eleven in the Valley…..just wants to party.

And peace. Love and Happiness.

You may view the latest post at http://www.nedpr.org/2008/joypradio

Best regards,
Nedcaster
ned@nedpr.org

last week I had a work shop in Emam Ali Museum. That was good. I had some feedback and got some new experience.now I would like to share it with you. Here you are.

I performed this piece, which I spent hours researching and writing, for my writers group last week, and was actually filled with a new kind of fear while I read...I had this abstract feeling of impending destruction, perhaps on the line of Guillermo Vargas' destruction for creating his gallery installation. I'm realizing quite poignantly that one must be quite brave when one sees things in a different way then the herd, and yet one is an artist, so must self-express.

I followed the piece with Lawrence Ferlinghetti's "Dog,” a poem I highly recommend you google and read, as it captures the spirit of the free roaming dog of the U.S. 1950s, as well as provides a great metaphor of the human spirit:).

"To make people free is the aim of art, therefore art for me is the
science of freedom." Joseph Beuys

Three months ago, hoping to find artists willing to volunteer for a most unusual art event, Episodes placed an advertisement on the Internet. We specifically made our appeal to artists, because they genuinely represent a sensibility that depends and operates on the basic principles of freedom. To that one hopeful announcement, 129 artists from four continents responded with sincere interest and enthusiasm. After days of reviewing, we selected 13 of them to participate in what had come to be known as ‘13 Isolations’ and the beginning of a historical moment in the making and experiencing of art.

This issue of Unlikely 2.0 features;

art by Johan Wahlstrom,
photographs by Mary Ellen Derwis,
performance art by Leigh Herrick and Branko Gulin.

Check it out @ http://www.unlikelystories.org/

Jeff

If I could unzip my body I'd probably unleash my soul
Release my whole existence to finally go and reach my goals
My stamina persistence, be demandin you to listen to
The parables of livin-life, to understand my vision you must
Project your eye sight directly on what I write, cuz
I see the future retrospective in my hindsight
Trajectories paved, by intellects and true scholars
So that kids like me, could unchain our blue collars
I'm dat militant type, concepts explode your conscious state
Your self's concussion had your blood gushin all your common traits
Fulfillments from the sweat I spilled, killed me dead so I could build
A bigger badder self of who I am today... wit these skills
I speak to space, bantering wit stars on my weaker days

In a dynamic change to the format of the traditional SIGGRAPH Art Gallery, this year's art program will represent innovative, juried and curated installations. I was lucky enough to be invited to serve on this Jury by its Chair, Lina Yamaguchi (see below), and am quite excited to see this exhibition in August in L.A. ... this experience with Lina and the other Jurors was a great one and I believe this exhibition will be quite a 'marker' (alongside Vibeke Sorensen's Jury in 2007) for all the experimental arts.
J.Dill
http://interdisciplinaryartinstitute.com
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Slow Art:
In Slow Art, new media artists re-imagine speed through the paradigm of slowness.

Vol. 5, Issue 2 of The Poetry Victims is now online @

http://thepoetryvictimsvol5.blogspot.com/

Guest artist ... Carol Radsprecher
Guest poet ... Taylor Graham

Check it out!

Jeff

I'm speakin of hell...every fuckin weekend I dwell
On this redundant life cycle that repeated itself
No different from the last, but the beat of it spells
Imprisonment from nine to five, it keeps me in jail
A humble mind is crumblin, to flakes and ash I'm stumblin
While takin cash to pump it in, to gas's taxation
A nation's addiction, to be burnin oil...my jubilation
Reached its boiling point, as my sermon coils in truth - my patience
Left the hospital, impatiently as my premonition
Strapped itself to when my vision's, windshield was clean...
As I windmill through dreams, fantasies of who I used to be
A life liver drop out, reminiscin on who I used to see
A copout of mine, was that I had no time to write a rhyme
Thoughts grew insecure, so now I hide this idle life of mine.