Mar 22, 2010




An Immaterial Survey of Our Peers presents installation images of an exhibit that never physically took place. Using digital compositing techniques, we have re-imagined the process of browsing through a Google Reader by adding art to images of the Sullivan Galleries’ empty walls. This presentational gesture of conflating scrolling with strolling is meant to question the ongoing tendency to believe material interaction with art is mandatory despite living in an age of utter dependency on the digital image as an informational source. Like the Argentinean Communication Media artists before us, we have cut out the middle-man (objects) and inserted the image as our final product, aware that the documentary media art receives plays the most pivotal role in defining its public discourse anyway. To expedite this process of media exposure, An Immaterial Survey is simultaneously being debuted online in addition to its projection in Chicago, confusing the boundaries of when and where the exhibit took place.

It is an intentional choice to offer no objects and no work of our own as our final display at SAIC. This is in part a tribute to the decentralized network of artists who comprise An Immaterial Survey. To present art online is an act of selflessness; the creator forfeits stringent control over their work’s meaning in favor of allowing the most generous opportunity for global viewership possible. For this we are thankful and indebted to the names that comprise our list of participants. We choose not to present sellable goods because we are fully aware of the irony of the BFA Exhibit itself; four years of a Feminist-Marxist education culminating in a grand celebration of luxury goods and the willful commodification of artist identity brands (best exemplified by the entire shelving units dedicated to freshly printed business cards). It is our intent to use this opportunity not for our own market assimilation, but for the praise of others and the criticism of art’s hierarchy of material value still present in our digital age.

An Immaterial Survey of Our Peers includes work by:

Aaron Graham
Abigail McGuane
AIDS-3D
Andreas Banderas
Arielle Gavin
Anna Mack
Ben Schumacher
Brad Tinmouth
Brenna Murphy
Brian Khek
Kevin Caldwell
Chris Collins
Chris Coy
Daniel Everett
David Horvitz
Derek Frech
Elina Minn
Esteban Schimpf
Hanna Terese Nilsson
Hermonie Only
Iain Ball
Ilia Ovechkin
Israel Lund
Ivan Gaytan
Jamie Felton
Jason Lazarus
Jeff O’Brien
Jennilee Marigomen
Jon Rafman
Jordan Rhoat
Kari Altmann
Katy Heinlein
Lili Huston-Herterich
Manny Mireles
Martijn Hendriks
Martin Kohout
Maryanne Casasanta
Matthew Green
Micah Schippa
Mitch Thar
Natalie Rognsoy
Nick DeMarco
Parker Ito
Rachael Milton
Ryan Barone
Samara Golden
Timur Siqin
Travess Smalley

Curated by Brad Troemel and Lauren Christiansen

Mar 18, 2010


via Crissy B
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via an ambitious project collapsing
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Sterling Ruby

Jenni Hiltunen

Pink Mania from Jenni Hiltunen on Vimeo.



w33d+peaches+ryan trecartin+lady gaga

Steal Everything by Kid Rock

Micah Schippa
























Micah is becoming one of my favorite artists in Chicago

Korey Vincent




















Korey Vincent

Jericho Ditch


























JERICHO DITCH IS A NON PROFIT PROJECT SPACE LOCATED IN SOUTH EAST VIRGINIA. WE NEVER CLOSE.
18 POPE SWAMP TRAIL, ISLE OF WIGHT VA.

Miltos Manetas - Happiness is Heavy, 1999




















a prophetic must read

ADOBE PDF ISSUE 1




















http://adobepdf.info/issue1/


AdobePDF.info is an online index of "Adobe PDF," a series of digital
exhibitions in Portable Document Format. Shows are available for
download for a limited time and in limited editions.

Issue one will be available until
April 18, 2010.

Featuring new work by:
Patrick Armstrong
Dan Brewster
Patrick Groth
Pablo Larios
Micah Schippa
Laurel Schwulst
Hayley Silverman
Chris Vamos
Everett Williams
Dena Yago

Mar 15, 2010

Zen desk



zen desk by Nick Demarco

Mar 12, 2010



4eva connected is an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) site featuring daily events, performances, lectures and massive chill sessions. The front page presents a calendar, with each day passing a new sculpture will appear and the chat will take a different direction. Each sculpture will be an evolved version of the previous, constructed by the direction of conversation and aura of the chat room from the previous day. The sculpture will be displayed each day in its altered state alongside a form of documentation of the occurrence that most greatly impacted it's formation. The chat room will be closed occasionally for private events.

Vickers encourages individuals and groups to use the chat room as a performative space, as he himself and other artists (including Ito & Denny) will be every day. Through the use of triggered word simulations, loosely scripted narratives and reenactments of seminal performative artworks, being aware of the chat rooms intentions and realities will be a challenging experience of groundlessness.

Ben Vickers is a British artist residing in London, concerned with an ideal form physically and through the web. Consumer marketing campaigns become vigils of hope, counter cultures dependent on dead media and outdated technologies acquire cult icon status, new age imperialism has run amok; luxury and romanticism become pillars of logic in Ben Vicker's digital collages, sculptures and web based works.
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Part of JstChillin's "Serial Chillers In Paradise" exhibition.

www.jstchillin.org
www.ben-vickers.net

Mar 11, 2010


La Nature des choses
By Frédéric Fleury
Design, colouring & layout by Bongoût

52 pages + cover
Silkscreen
20 x 24 cm
Ed. of 100
Signed & numbered

Published by Bongoût
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Melted Hologram by Paul Bonnet
20 pages, black and white printed
14 x 21 cm
printed on 115gr cyclus
first edition : 100 copies
handnumbered edition

Published by Kaugummi
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Round The Way by Maya Hayuk
20 Pages
19.5 x 25.5 cm
Color Offset,
First Edition, 2010

Published by Nieves
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Zine by Shaun O´Dell
16 pages 28 x 37 cm
B/W offset
Edition of 150
2010

Published by Dynasty Zine
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Artists’ Book by Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs, Berlin (DE)
Produced and published on site on the occasion of the exhibition
“Tutto Incluso” at EX3, Florence, February 12 – April 11, 2010

124 Pages, 19 x 28 cm
First Edition of 150
2010

Published by Rollo-Press
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Precious Matter Department by Joakim Drescher
24 Pages, 10 x 14 cm
BW Photocopy [Cyclus Offset 80gsm]
Edition of 50

Published by Cafe Royal
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Portraits by Hanna Terese Nilsson
24 pg
5 x 7.5 inches
full color
edition of 80

Published by Medium Rare

Mar 9, 2010


Classic Subject

33 x 33 cm
Oil on canvas
by Piotr Lakomy

screenprint 4 sale



1 color screenprint in 2 variations, grey and blue
350mm x 500mm
Signed and numbered
Edition of 30
15 € plus shipping

Contact me if you want to buy
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sculpt a swan out of a block of ice
by Natalie Rognsøy

Mar 8, 2010