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The president won't apologize to women so Liz Plank did it for him...

The president won't apologize to women so I did it for him. pic.twitter.com/Y4GGnWu4FU

— Liz Plank (@feministabulous) December 21, 2017

Bill Jones releases 'Burma Road'

Burma Road: monument to fallen empires

Music and video performance by Bill Jones
iPhone videography by Daryl Wein

Bill Jones releases his third solo “album” of music/video performances titled Burma Road after the infamous war-torn passageway that runs from Burma (Myanmar) to China.

Fourteen years ago, Jones, a visual artist and conceptual photographer, embarked on a collaboration with composer, producer and mutantrumpeter Ben Neill.  In 2012, Jones started working solo, producing the music and video for his VJ performances and music/video recordings.

Each music/video track employs a single 20-second loop of video that was shot for Burma Road by noted director Daryl Wein (Sex Positive (2008), Breaking Upwards (2009), Lola Versus (2012), Food (in pre-production)) on his iPhone while traveling in Myanmar in early 2014. Jones then stretched each of the 6 short loops into 5-minute music/video performances using the VJ (video jock) software modul8. Jones records both video and sound on two linked computers, producing the sound (Logic Pro X) and video (modul8) simultaneously. Each music/video track is recorded in one take with Jones manipulating the moving image and “scratching” the recorded sound on the video loop with a midi-keyboard.

The “album” of six extended music videos is available exclusively on the streaming media sites Vimeo and YouTube.

“The performance work I did for many years with Ben Neill was best when experienced in the context of the music scene, in clubs and theaters,” says Jones. “We performed our work in a number of gallery and museum shows, but it was really made for music venues. I saw myself as a visual artist having a one night show. The kind of hybrid, fusion work I’m doing now fits best online, where it is most accessible. I want to make work that is available to everyone.”

Burma Road on Vimeo

Burma Road on YouTube

More about Bill Jones on Wikipedia

Artist's website: http://bill-jones.com

Daryl Wein on Imdb

 

Painting and the Technical Image World - Pratt Talk 2012

Artist Joy Garnett to Speak on Painting and the Technical Image World,
Wednesday, Nov 28, 2012 @ 12:44 pm

Joy Garnett will deliver a lecture titled "Painting and the Technical Image World" as part of the Department of Digital Arts' fall 2012 lecture series. The talk will take place on Wednesday, November 28th from 12:45 PM to 1:45 PM in Myrtle Hall, Lecture Room 4E-3, on Pratt's Brooklyn campus.

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

See event details on Facebook.

Joy Garnett is an interdisciplinary artist and writer. Her paintings, based on found images of explosive events, locate instances of the apocalyptic sublime in mass media culture. Her social media projects examine the intersections of our digital and material worlds. Garnett studied at the Ecole des beaux-arts in Paris and received her MFA from The City College of New York. She has received numerous fellowships including a grant from Anonymous Was a Woman.

Garnett is represented by Winkleman Gallery, NY.

More info: http://joygarnett.com

DDA Fall Lecture Series: http://prattddals.wordpress.com/

4 Possible Outcomes for Cariou v. Prince

 

Courtesy Flickr and the Artists; Illustration by BLOUIN ARTINFO - Image Via

Handicapping Cariou v. Prince: 4 Possible Outcomes for the Landmark Appropriation Art Lawsuit

by Rachel Corbett

Published: August 29, 2012 in ARTINFO.com

Rumors have been swirling that judges in the Patrick Cariou v. Richard Prince copyright lawsuit are nearing a decision. But while the outcome of the ongoing appeal has been eagerly anticipated on both sides, there’s a good chance the answer won’t be a simple “guilty” or “not guilty” for Prince. Instead, legal experts expect the judgment to fall somewhere in between, or perhaps even branch off into dozens of rulings — one for each painting in the contested series.

Last year, U.S. district court judge Deborah Batts sent shock waves through the art world when she ruled that Prince’s “Canal Zone” collages, which incorporate photographs from Cariou’s book, “Yes, Rasta,” infringed on the photographer’s copyright. Batts wrote that Prince didn’t meet the four standards of the fair use principle, and that ultimately the paintings — some of which are worth more than $10 million — could be destroyed.

Whatever the outcome of Prince’s appeal, that penalty doesn’t seem likely to stand. In May, one of the three appellate court judges, Barrington Parker, compared the injunction to “something that would appeal to, you know, Huns or the Taliban.” In fact, according to Columbia University law professor Philippa Loengard, it’s “very unlikely” that the judges will uphold the lower court’s decision in its entirety. “I would bet millions that’s not going to happen,” she told ARTINFO.

So, we asked Loengard, what are the other possible scenarios?

 

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NYU Comedies of Fair U$e (2006): Molotov talk now up on YouTube

My ancient googlevideo account just prompted me to transfer an old video to YouTube. I couldn't imagine what it was. It turned out to be my voice-over + slide show from the 2006 conference at NYU "Comedies of Fair U$e", organized by Larry Lessig and Lawrence Weschler for the New York Institute for the Humanities (that's LW's voice at the beginning of the clip introducing me and the subject of the panel). It was a great conference: all the panels were organized by cultural category (publishing, fiction writing, documentary film, visual art, music sampling, etc). The visual art panel included me and my then nemesis, Susan Meiselas, Art Spiegelman, Lebbeus Woods and Judge Alex Kozinsky. Here's my spiel, in a tightly wound 13-1/2 minutes (as opposed to my 45min Columbia Univ. talk given in 2004 on the same subject -- by 2006 I was much clearer on the issues):

WATCH THE VIDEO:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiO784BvVDE