Art Under the Bridge

The Dumbo Arts Center (DAC) is presenting the 12th Annual Dumbo Art Under the Bridge Festival ™

NYC’s big FREE urban forum for experimental art.
60+ new artworks in public space, neighborhood-wide open studios and non-stop new video art at video_dumbo.

September 26 - 28, 2008

Over the festival weekend, art will be happening everywhere in Dumbo: streets, sidewalks, storefronts, elevators, lobbies, the water, the waterfront, parks, nooks, crannnies, on the NY Water Taxi, and more. Along with the 65+ new public art projects, over 100 local artists will open their studios to the public and at the new Galapagos Art Space, video_dumbo will feature a non-stop program of cutting edge video art from NYC and around the world.

Opening night on Friday, September 26 will include the following events:

1. POLITAOKE: Hop on board the NY Water Taxi for FREE (every 30 minutes between 7 and 9 pm) at the Fulton Ferry Landing to participate in Diana Arce’s Politaoke (www.politaoke.com) - POLITcal speeches as karAOKE), where you too can deliver the great rhetoric of today’s most important politicians.
2. HACK THE DEBATE - 3D!: Galapagos Art Space, 16 Main Street: video_dumbo presents Current TV’s “Hack the Debate,” an interactive broadcast of the first presidential debate. For visual enhancement, video_dumbo will transform the Broadcast into 3D! “Hack the Debate” will, for the very first time, integrate real-time Twitter messages (aka “tweets”) over major portions of a live television broadcast. As Twitter users tweet throughout the course of the live broadcasts, Current and Twitter will collect comments regarding the debate and layer the individual messages over the debate feed.

   In addition, the debate will appear in three-dimensional space, based on a new polarized filter technique called Chroma-depth®. Ironically, this stereoscopic system is based on the colors RED and BLUE. Each object displayed in those colors will create the illusion of either protrude out of the screen, or retract behind the screen - creating a true stage for this political theater. More at videodumbo.org/opening-night.html, current.com/debate, twitter.com/current.

3. US premiere of The Snow White Project by Catherine Baÿ might be: check out the live performance at 111 Front Street, Room 202, (fiaf.org) from 7 - 9 pm.

More details at: dumboartfestival.org

Selling Solo vs. Working with a Gallery

Ed Winkleman weighs in on Selling Solo vs. Working with a Gallery.

Abortion for art's sake?

Art student Aliza Shvarts is using abortion as a medium for art and political discourse. Her art project is a documentation of a nine-month process during which she artificially inseminated herself “as often as possible” while periodically taking abortifacient drugs to induce miscarriages. The story is here as the Yale Daily News site has (understandably) crashed.

The Business of Art Photography

This Thursday, on April 17, ASMP will host a seminar on The Business of Fine Art Photography presented by New York gallery owner and art professor Thomas Werner.

"This seminar will explain how to edit and market your photographs for the Fine Art market — how to present your work, how to build a relationship with a gallery, what to expect of an exhibition, and so on.

The world of Fine Art Photography is changing as rapidly as the commercial market place. During this time of change, it is important to develop multiple revenue streams to support your business. It is also important to keep your vision fresh and alive. In this seminar, Thomas Werner explains how creating and properly marketing a body of fine art work will help you achieve these goals."

Women in art photography

Humble Arts and 3rd Ward present Women in Art Photography.

In his 2006 article entitled “Where the Girls Aren’t,” Jerry Saltz writes: “Of all the artists in [MOMA’s] P&S collection with work completed before 1970, fewer than 1 percent are women.”

Please join Humble Arts Foundation and 3rd Ward in welcoming Amy Stein to moderate our first panel discussion on Saturday, March 22 at 6 pm. The discussion will encompass what it means to be an emerging photographer in New York City right now and how gender may or may not influence the artist’s work in terms of process, subject matter, impact and career path. The panelists, Rachael Dunville, Tema Stauffer, Cara Phillips, Mary Mattingly and Sarah Small, will field questions, give advice and speak about their personal experiences as women photographers.

Date: Saturday, March 22, 6 – 8 pm
Location: 3rd Ward
195 Morgan Avenue, Brooklyn, NY