→ Artlog & Scope Hamptons Day Trip
Artlog members are invited to ride the Artlog Shuttle on Saturday July 26th for a special day trip to SCOPE Hamptons.
Artloggers will meet at the Soho House at 10:30am and a chartered luxury bus will transport you to the SCOPE Hamptons art fair at East Hamptons Studios. SCOPE President Alexis Hubshman will greet you in the VIP lounge where the first silent SCOPE Foundation Collector Mentorship Auction will be taking place. Continuing its “Art Fair as Resource” mandate, this silent auction features seasoned collectors Beth Rudin DeWoody, Melva Bucksbaum, Raymond Learsy, Eileen and Richard Ekstract, Adam Lindemann, Enrique Norten, Jed Walentas, Rick Wester, Dennis Oppenheim, Nancy Seltzer, Kim Levin and others donating an hour of their time to mentor less experienced art enthusiasts.
After touring SCOPE Hamptons, the Artlog Shuttle will take you to Elie Tahari to enjoy a cocktail while viewing More Than This, a site specific show curated by Andrea Salerno. The shuttle will depart the Hamptons around 6pm, arriving back in the city by 8pm.
This event supports two projects backed by SCOPE Foundation, The Arctic Circle and The Girl Project. The Arctic Circle (tac) is a series of artist led expeditions to remote destinations with the goal of capturing amazing art and sharing it with the public. The Girl Project is sending 5,000 cameras to teenage girls with the hopes of representing life seen through the eyes of young women in America.
Shoot the day
Nish and I will be at the NYC Gathering for Photoshelter’s Shoot the Day event this afternoon. Judging from the program, it looks like it’s going to be a good, informative afternoon for photographers.
If you make it over, stop by the Artlog booth and say hello.
Letterpress workshops @theArm
Dan’s running several workshops at the Arm over the next month or so.
LETTERPRESS ON THE VANDERCOOK PRESS
DATES: Sunday June 29th OR Sunday July 27th
DESCRIPTION: In this one day workshop you will learn the basic principles of letterpress printing on the Vandercook proof press. We will go over the parts of the press and how it operates and how to print from metal type, wood type, photopolymer plates and hand cut linoleum and wood.
This one day class will prepare you to use the presses in our studio needing only occasional guidance from the studio personnel._
PRINTING POETRY: A Workshop for Poets and Visual Artists at The Arm Letterpress Studio
DATES: Saturday July 12th AND Saturday July 19th
DESCRIPTION: In this two day letterpress workshop designed especially for poets and visual artists, you will learn how to print a broadside/poster in two colors by combining images and text. No previous letterpress experience necessary. All supplies are provided.The Arm’s public studio is now open by appointment even late and on the weekends. Press rental for any of The Arm’s Vandercooks or C&P Pilot presses is $15 per hour and one-on-one teaching on any of the presses is available for $45 per hour. Please email if you have any questions.
Have a look at http://www.flickr.com/photos/thearm/ for images of the studio, past workshops and events.
Last week worked out
Artlog/I Am Still Alive ran on fumes for the past several weeks, but at this point it looks like we made it through fine – better than fine. All four big Artlog events last week were awesome.
- We met lots of new folks and showed great work here in the studio over the course of two sweltering days during the Atlantic Ave Artwalk.
- We spread the gospel of Artlog a bit during the Affordable Art Fair where we were the media sponsor and where we presented a booth full of work by Artlog users
- Konrad’s Chelsea Art Museum performance on Thursday was a big success – we provided some organizational & marketing support
- Friday’s Artlog Collect LES art walk was huge. 1,200 folks came out to see work at 24 Lower East Side Galleries and the New Museum. People at the participating venues were jazzed across the board and attendees could be spotted exploring the LES pretty much all evening event maps in hand. Big thanks to the participating galleries, the New Museum, our sponsors – Radeberger Pilsner, Christiania Vodka, A Casa Fox, Moscot, the Sixth Ward, Doyle & Doyle, Gallery Bar & LES BID – and to press that got us out there and covered the event – TimeOut, Daily Candy, Associated Press, Mashable.
Now that Nish and I have a little breathing room, we are plotting our next moves – shifting focus back to the site itself and angling in to re-focus and refine the tools over there.
Collect LES
So Nish, Rebecca and I have been putting this event together for Artlog over the past few months. It’s tomorrow and it all seems to be coming together nicely. Collect LES is a collective gallery open house of sorts – it’s an event we put together to shine a brighter light on the art activity coming out of the Lower East Side these days.
Join Artlog for Collect LES, an art crawl through the Lower East Side’s burgeoning art community. Coordinated by Artlog in partnership with the LES Business Improvement District, Collect LES includes 24 galleries and the New Museum.
At Collect LES ‘08, discover new galleries, artists and art works as you walk through the Lower East Side. The event will bring more than a thousand art lovers together. From Bowery to East Broadway, there will be an array of painting, photography, video and installation art. Enjoy free wine, beer and liquor and special offers at local businesses.
Konrad @Chelsea Art Museum tonight
Konrad Kaczmarek performs at the Chelsea Art Museum tonight. The show runs from 6-8pm.
This concert brings together several pieces Konrad Kaczmarek has written for acoustic instruments and live electronics that explore the idea of computer-generated extended technique and improvisation. Using a software program he authored called Metamorphic_Gestures, each piece will highlight a different form of interaction between the performer, the instrument, and the electronic processing.
Artlog co-organized the show, which also engages and responds to work by artists – including Dana Bell, Sarah Friedland, & Gabriel Winer – as part of our Participate open call system.
Artlog @the Affordable Artfair this week
If you are in New York and going to the Affordable Art Fair, stop by Artlog’s booth (#505). We are presenting work by Dana Bell, Elizabeth Daggar, Camilla Fallon, Marlene Marino, Andrew Ti, and Lara Wechsler.
Stop by the studio tomorrow &/or Sunday
I am opening the studio here for the next two days as part of this year’s Atlantic Avenue Artwalk. Artlog had an open-call and several artists from the site will be exhibited here this weekend.
I’m doing a letterpress demo here at 3pm tomorrow and attendees will keep the prints we run off. Sunday at 3pm, Konrad Kaczmarek will be playing a concert here in the space as well.
So feel free to stop on in and tell me I sent you.
NB. Don’t forget to visit Axelle Fine Arts next door for amazing silkscreen and Cannonball Press down the road.
→ Artlog / Collect LES 2008
Come hang out with me at Collect LES next Friday. There are quite a few great Lower East Side galleries participating—with Dispatch Bureau, jen bekman, Woodward Gallery and Envoy among them.
Collect LES is a private one-night art open house devoted to introducing new collectors to the Lower East Side’s burgeoning art community. Coordinated by Artlog in partnership with the LES Business Improvement District, Collect LES includes approximately 25 galleries and the New Museum of Contemporary Art.
→ nycruby
Who we are
We’re a group of Ruby and Rails programmers who live and work in the New York City area. Developers and dilettantes of all skill levels are welcome.Meeting Place and Time
We meet on the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month. The first meeting centers on presentations by one or more group members, and the second meeting is an unstructured hackfest (bring your laptop).
I’m finally going to make it to the local rails meetup tomorrow night.
Binding For Hand Made Books & Zines
Dan has scheduled another workshop at the Arm. The Saturday after this coming Saturday (Saturday, February 16, 2008), Louisville’s Alex Brooks will lead a book binding workshop from 11 AM to 5 PM. I am jazzed and am gonna be attending.
In this day-long class at The Arm you will learn to print & bind your own hand-made books and zines. We’ll cover basic bookbinding tools and techniques, as well as layout and design. We’ll pay particular attention to non-adhesive binding structures and explore how binding and letterpress can work together.
This workshop aims to provide you with techniques you can use to bind your own books at home with the most basic binding supplies.
No previous knowledge is necessary and we’ll build on any skills or experience you bring along.
This workshop will be led by Alex Brooks of Press 817 (Louisville, KY). Alex has recently curated a traveling show of work by young letterpress printers from across the globe.
Get in touch with Dan to sign yourself up.
Let's hangout at the New Museum
Artlog is having a meetup at the New Museum tomorrow evening. The museum’s free after 7 on Thursdays and there’s a discussion (also free) to which I am looking forward with Jeffrey Inaba, Mark Wigley, and Richard Flood.
It’ll actually be my first time in to see the new building.
Artlog Happenings: Phillips de Pury
Phillips de Pury is hosting a private tour of of Julian Rosefeldt’s “The Ship of Fools” and the upcoming “Photographs Auction” for Artlog users tomorrow at 6pm.
Phillips de Pury photography Specialist Vanessa Kramer will lead the tour. Should be interesting (and you get to meet Nish and myself).
The Arm Vandercook Workshop
Just got an email from Dan@the Arm NYC
Beginning Letterpress on the Vandercook Proof Press – Sunday Jan. 27th
In this workshop you will learn the basic principles of printing on the Vandercook cylinder proof press. You will learn the parts of the press, how it operates, how to lock up a form from wood and metal type or photopolymer plates and how to make a print. Oh, and to clean up the press after you’re done!
The work produced in this class will be a collaborative effort, but this one day class should prepare you to return to use the studio as a self-sufficient printer needing only occasional (and free) guidance from the studio hand. This one day workshop will be held on Sunday January 27th from 11AM-5PM. This workshop will be limited to six people each so please make your booking as early as possible to ensure your place.
If you want to sign up, holler at Dan.
He adds:
The public studio at The Arm is now open by appointment days, evenings and on the weekends. Press rental for any of our Vandercooks or C&P Pilot presses is $15 per hour and one-on-one teaching on any of the presses is available for $35 per hour. We are located at 281 North 7th St. in Williamsburg, Brooklyn just a couple of blocks from the Bedford L train stop. Let us know if you’d like to come by to see the studio or talk about printing.
The Arm is also hosting an opening tomorrow night for Judge and G Kelly with music by Son Wyatt in support of American Handscape.
