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A Search for Comity in the Intellectual Property Wars: symposium at The New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU, April 28-30, 2006 [slides, audio, transcripts]
Will Fair Use Survive? Free Expression in the Age of Copyright Control, by Marjorie Heins and Tricia Beckles.
download the report [PDF]
NEWSgrist will be on hiatus while attending the iSummit in Dubrovnik in June. Yes that's right across the Adriatic from Venice...
To keep up with the conference and our activities abroad, check in once in a while at iCommons.org and at the Flickr set I've put together for the residency :
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Recently, NEWSgrist had the opportunity to sit with Art Fag City and shoot the shit. Okay, full disclosure: I do do other things:
Recently I was invited to be an Artist in Residence by a fantastic spin-off of the Creative Commons called iCommons and to attend their annual summit, which will be held this year in Dubrovnik. Art Fag City honcho Paddy Johnson will be the art blogger in attendance. She is helping launch the residency by interviewing each of us artists, either in person (locally in NYC/Bkyn) or via Skype:
[via AFC ]: Art Intercom is a six part series conducted by Art Fag City blogger Paddy Johnson, who will be interviewing the iCommons Summit Artists in Residence. In the weeks leading up to the conference, interviews will be posted once weekly, profiling the artists’ work and describing their approach to Creative Commons licensing. Artists to be interviewed include Ana Husman, Jaka Železnikar, Joy Garnett, Kathryn Smith, Nathaniel Stern and this weeks interviewees, Mike Sarff and Tim Whidden (who go by the names M.River and T.Whid), of MTAA. Tim will be representing MTAA as one of the Artists in Residence at the iSummit in Dubrovnik.
A two-part interview with MTAA has been posted here and here; my interview was posted here today, and a portion of it is also up on AFC:
Art Fag City at iCommons: Art Intercom Features Painter Joy Garnett
We'll all be heading to Dubrovnik in early June. More to come.
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Joanne gets the award for the most comprehensive coverage of the Miami fairs of any single blog; check it out: http://www.joannemattera.blogspot.com/
more, via comments section of Fair Fatigue, in Ed_Winkleman:
I attend the fairs. I get to show in them. I blog them. I enjoy them as a welcome break from my solitary work in the studio. Hey, I had a great time in Miami. But when I hear dealers talking about giving up their bricks-and-mortar spaces in favor of a gallery identity and an itinerant reality, that scares me. And what happens when—as with all fashion trends—the art fair trend dies down?
By the way Ed, in the midst of all the hype about sales that permeated the fairs, your wonderful artist Jennifer Dalton shows drawings with amusing and terrifying statistics about artists and the artworld. Most artists need to work an outside job to support themselves, many don’t have health insurance, and if they’re lucky, they’ll make about $30,000 a year from the sale of their work.
Best,
Joanne Mattera
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A Miami Basel art party. Photo: Barbara P. Fernandez for The New York Times
via NYTimes:
Miami Basel: An Art Costco for Billionaires {excerpt}
By GUY TREBAY
Published: December 10, 2006
MIAMI BEACH [...] For people locally referred to as V.V.V.I.P.'s that might include, say, a business breakfast with Steven A. Cohen, the multibillionaire collector; a lunch given by the art dealer Larry Gagosian; a stop at a Yoko Ono installation in a hotel lobby; a cocktail party at a $14 million trophy apartment, which happens to be on the market; a dinner with Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones given by a billionaire Turkish developer; and an after-party given by Colette Dance Class from Paris at a club called Mansion. After that, well in Miami Beach the night is always young.
All of these things, of course, are auxiliary to the main event, which is the art fair or fairs.
"Now you have Pulse, Flow, Aqua, Nada, Scope and the Design Miami fair downtown," said Mary Hoeveler, who runs Citigroup's art advisory, a sort of personal shopping service for aesthetically enlightened plutocrats. Ms. Hoeveler was referring to the satellite fairs that have sprung up like camp followers to the main art fair, each organized to accommodate a market segment and each held in one of the city’s seemingly limitless supply of disused warehouses or boutique hotels.
"Miami stakes it all on Miami Basel now," she said, and it is certainly true that where the beach once seemed wreathed in a fog bank of Hawaiian Tropic tanning lotion, the sweet aroma of wealth now floats in the air. "The money is burning a hole in people's pockets, and they’re here to spend," Ms. Hoeveler said.
Just to thumb-tap all the pertinent social data of a day into a BlackBerry might induce torment, seizure or at least repetitive stress injury. But it would be good pain for the roughly 38,000 people who descended on this beach town and is easily cured by opening one's wallet and watching bills fly.
"They're getting so rich so fast now it's hard to keep up," said someone in the crowd that formed early on Wednesday, "Supermarket Sweep"-style, outside the Convention Center, awaiting a signal for the noontime V.I.P. preview to begin.
When the doors opened, the throng rushed forward, racing toward favorite dealers' booths. These were not housewives wearing kerchiefs and rollers but socialites and hedge fund billionaires and Silicon Valley tyros and Palm Beach matrons with faces as taut and expressionless as the ones on inflatable love dolls.
"Art Basel essentially invented Miami Basel to cater to North American and South American capital," said Nadja Swarovski, of the famous crystal manufacturing company, who sponsors one of the week's big events. Ms. Swarovski was referring to Miami Basel's parent entity, a respected traditional art fair in Switzerland. "The world is flat now," Ms. Swarovski said. "The borders are breaking down. Cultures are merging." [more...]
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Overheard during Vernissage, Art Basel Miami Beach:
"Oh, he's vandalizing his own work again."
"It's so 'high-low.'"
"I hate to say it: not everything I'm wearing is free."
"This reminds me of Long Island."
"Better than being a lawyer."
"Okay, will you JUST CALL THE DRIVER?!"
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I've just spent five days blogging about seven fairs, so maybe I'm too dazed to be commenting here now, but I can't tear myself away from the keyboard. For 20 years I supported my art life as an editor, working on Madison Ave., largely for women's magazines (the pay was good and it gave me enough time to paint) until I had enough and made the leap full time into the studio. What I see in the art world now world is a "fashionization" of art that is just getting more intense: the art trends (like fashion moments, which which keep cycling faster and faster), the age thing (will we all have to be size 0, too, if we want to show or sell work?), the celebrity-ification of artists more intense than it has ever been, and now what seems to be an insane ramping up of the art fairs. As I was schlepping from venue to venue, I was thinking how like Fashion Week it was, with a bit of The Academy Awards thrown in, what with the celebrities, the parties, the who-what-where is hot, and the art must-haves this holiday season. Eek.