6PM SATURDAY 15 JANUARY 2011 (REALTIME)
You Are Here has been rescheduled!
The new date for the new year is Saturday 15 Jan
6pm
The Workhouse Test Room
Callan
Co Kilkenny
Ireland
FREE 20TH OCT - 23RD JANUARY 2011 http://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/429
http://www.newmuseum.org/free/ “Free” explores how the internet has fundamentally changed our landscape of information and our notion of public space. Our shared space has expanded beyond streets and schools to more distributed forms of collectivity. What constitutes this expanded public is not only greater social connectedness but a highly visual, hybrid commons of information. As the artist Seth Price wrote in his essay “Dispersion,” which serves as a touchstone for this exhibition and is featured here within a large-scale sculptural Essay with Knots: “Collective experience is now based on simultaneous private experiences, distributed across the field of media culture, knit together by ongoing debate, publicity, promotion, and discussion. Publicness today has as much to do with sites of production and reproduction as it does with any supposed physical commons, so a popular album could be regarded as a more successful instance of public art than a monument tucked away in an urban plaza.” “Free” takes its name from free culture, a social movement that acknowledges the revolution the internet has caused in industries like music and print publishing, and argues that it be dealt with as an opportunity for greater sharing and distribution of knowledge, rather than a threat. “Free” is based in this commitment to openness — but not directly about the movement itself. Rather, it explores how artists are engaging with the complex freedoms of a newly expanded public space; how they are examining the possibilities and dilemmas enabled by broader availability and circulation of digital material, rooting out information that is missing or hidden in an ostensibly more transparent society, and locating new contexts for art to take place. Instead of exploring the internet’s formal properties — code and connectivity among them — “Free” explores its broader influence as a territory populated and fought over by individuals, government, and corporations, as a tool and as a cultural catalyst. The artists included here span various disciplines: photography, sculpture, video, and installation, among others. They emerge from different modes of artistic practice, and are connected through an expansive conversation around the show’s themes. The exhibition catalogue will take the form of an active website —newmuseum.org/free — including descriptions of each artwork in the exhibition, biographical details on the artists, as well as essays and a blog. “Free” is curated by Lauren Cornell, Executive Director of Rhizome and Adjunct Curator of the New Museum.
Lisa Oppenheim - The sun is always setting somewhere else 2006
RIVEROFTHENET
Riverthe.net is a new site derived from a collaboration between artist RYAN TRECARTINand Tumblr founder DAVID KARP. Continuing from where they left off with Project Ten earlier this year, where they initially proposed this website, riverthe.net permits anyone to anonymously upload a video clip, up to 10 seconds in length, with three tags. With no interface the viewer is confronted with a 10 second video and thereafter the site delivers a continuous stream of clips related to a shared tag. With influences from recent websites likeDump.fm and Chatroulette, Trecartin and Karp take interactive media to a larger context without the limitations of using webcams. Widening the public space the internet has already created, this platform presents a vast array of possibilities. Although never played in the same consecutive order, its three tag navigation allows an elementary method of creating narrative as you are taken through the videos. With such an open stream of videos and limited control, essentially, the site is a boundless and ever evolving video orchestrated by the masses. Riverofthe.net will be featured in the upcoming exhibition Free at the New Museum, 235 Bowery, New York from October 20th 2010. Text Annabel Fernandes RE-BLOGGED FROM PURPLE DIARY
Seven on Seven: Ryan Trecartin & David Karpby Rhizome 
http://vimeo.com/12239333Seven on Seven will pair seven leading artists with seven game-changing technologists in teams of two, and challenge them to develop something new —be it an application, social media, artwork, product, or whatever they imagine— over the course of a single day.
Bios:
Ryan Trecartin
Ryan Trecartin is a pioneering artist whose feature-length video works update moving image practice for the Internet age. His fast-growing body of work explores the impulses and attitudes of a generation whose self-perceptions and relationships are deeply tied to media. Trecartin’s first major solo exhibition, entitled Any Ever, is currently at the Power Plant in Toronto, and will travel to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles this summer before moving to the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris in October and MoCA, North Miami in 2011. His work has been included in The Generational: Younger Than Jesus (2009) and the Whitney Biennial (2006), and he has had solo exhibitions at Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York and the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.
David Karp
Born in 1986, David left high school to run technology at UrbanBaby.com, until CNET Networks acquired it in 2005. He spent two years at the helm of his development firm, Davidville, before his team launched the publishing platform Tumblr.com. After gaining an instant cult following among artists and new-media influencers, Tumblr took on funding in October 2007 from a number of investors including Spark Capital and Union Square Ventures.
RIVERTHE.NET BY RYAN TRECARTIN AND DAVID KARP
The Workhouse Test - YOU ARE HERE
This inquiry was originally devised as an event to take place on 4th December at The Workhouse Test, Callan, Co Kilkenny. Due to sublime weather conditions (we’re snowed in) it has been decided to postpone the actual event to a later date. Until then, we have decided to use this tumblr platform as a forum for the discussion of the question-
“Is the internet a valid place to exhibit and experience contemporary art?”
Here is a projected outline of the original event-
SAM KEOGH/BRAD TROEMEL/LORRAINE NEESON
‘You Are Here’ is an exchange of ideas between two international artists via
Skype. Sam Keogh (IRL) and Brad Troemel (US) consider the internet as a valid
place to experience art along with the relevance of the object and it’s ‘aura’
in their individual practices.
Following this, work installed by artist Lorraine Neeson (IRL) at Fennellys will
respond to the notion of physicality and space versus photographic/online
representation.
Housed within a former famine workhouse, the evening offers a departure from
the usual ‘seminar’ environment and will consist of an open discussion between
rural Kilkenny and New York City. We invite you to join us in questioning the
relevance of the web as a means of creation, display and dissemination. In
addition, we ask how this affects conflicting trajectories in contemporary art practice.
The event will take place in two parts:
1. The Workhouse Test Room: Open discussion
2. Fennelly’s: Informal dinner/drinks
This is the second in a series of events at The Workhouse Test, which aims to
promote individual artists, international connectivity and exchange of ideas
from a rural setting.
