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		<title>You Down With OPP?: A Primer on Artist Websites</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 15:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martine Syms</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[** A response to this post can be found here. Enjoy!** A few weeks ago I asked the Chicago Art Community (#chiart) for a moratorium on OtherPeoplesPixels websites. One too many poorly worded artist statements had greeted me on the homepage. I’d inadvertently downloaded my fair share of CVs. I’d had enough. OtherPeoplesPixels is a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>** A response to this post can be found <a href="http://badatsports.com/2011/other-peoples-pixels-opp-responds-to-a-post-on-artists-websites/">here</a>. Enjoy!**</p>
<p>A  few weeks ago I asked the Chicago Art Community (#chiart) for a  moratorium on <a href="http://otherpeoplespixels.com" target="_blank">OtherPeoplesPixels</a> websites. One too many poorly worded  artist statements had greeted me on the homepage. I’d inadvertently  downloaded my fair share of CVs. I’d had enough. OtherPeoplesPixels is a hosted web application  that provides portfolio sites for artists. I’ve been against this  ubiquitous content management system since my first encounter with an  OPP-hosted loading bar. The company was founded in  2005 by artists Brian Kirkbride and Jenny Kendler. The platform is  notably employed by Chicagoans <a href="http://theastergates.com" target="_blank">Theaster Gates</a>, <a href="http://saraschnadt.com" target="_blank">Sara Schnadt</a> and <a href="http://jaustineddy.com" target="_blank">Austin  Eddy</a>. Despite its popularity, I’ve never met a proud OPP user. Everyone I  know complains about the service and is perpetually on the verge of  switching providers.</p>
<p>I  don’t mean to hate on OPP. They saw a need and they filled it. That’s  business. But as a graphic designer and gallery owner I’m more concerned  with good design. And as Thomas Watson of IBM once said, “good design  is good business.” Don’t we all want to do <em>good</em> business?  OPP is not well designed. Why does it take three clicks to see a single  artwork? Shouldn’t a portfolio site have the work front and center? It  also wouldn’t kill them to update their themes every, I don’t know, five  years or so. They should at least update the logo if it must be so prominently  displayed on of each site.</p>
<p>During  a lecture at the Art Institute Ed Ruscha discussed how he had  used design throughout his career. He worked as a graphic designer for  Art Forum under the pseudonym “Eddie Russia” and took advantage their office  equipment to make his own invoices and letterhead. On the Bad at Sports  podcast Jefferey Deitch attributed his success to ambition. He thinks  that within the art world “if you take yourself seriously, other people  will too.”</p>
<p>My  fundamental problem with OPP can be found in their tagline, “Spend time  on your artwork, not on your website.” If you are a professional  artist, meaning that you (plan to) make money from your art, these  activities are not mutually exclusive. Marketing your artwork is part of  the job. Don’t be bothered by the word marketing. Marketing is showing  or telling people what you do. If you don’t want to market anything, why  pay $160/year (OPP’s going rate) for a website? Just skip it and then  you can really spend time on your artwork. Otherwise, let’s think this  through.</p>
<p>The  first step is to define your <strong>Unique Selling Proposition</strong>. Your USP is  why anyone would want to buy/read/listen to/look at your shit instead of  someone else&#8217;s. Once you’ve figured that out, consider your goals and  your audience. Most artists have similar goals (to make work, to show  work and to sell work) and similar audiences (peers, curators, dealers  and collectors). When you know what you want to accomplish and who you  want to reach, you can begin looking for website solutions that best  serve your purposes.</p>
<p>An  artist website can be as simple as a <a href="http://martinbasher.com" target="_blank">few images and contact information</a> or <a href="http://www.temporaryservices.org/" target="_blank">much more comprehensive</a>. Regardless of their needs every client I’ve  ever had has always requested that their site be “simple” and “easy to  update.” Assuming that as a given, here are a few suggestions:</p>
<p><strong>If You Are A Hopeless Luddite:</strong><br />
Don’t  DIY. Save yourself the stress and hire a professional (<a href="http://martinesyms.com" target="_blank">me</a>). If you find  someone who will do it for free, let them have fun with the project and  complete it at their leisure. If you hassle them or promise them  exposure they have my permission to punch you.</p>
<p><strong>If You Can Get Down With Facebooks/Twitter/Etc.:</strong><br />
Pick  <a href="http://arlosites.com/" target="_blank">Arlo Sites</a> for a complete solution. $100/yr gets you well-designed  themes, unlimited images, video, audio, blogs and social media  integration. Steve Ruiz of Chicago Art Review <a href="http://chicagoartreview.com/2008/12/15/a-quitters-guide-to-other-peoples-pixels/" target="_blank">wrote a long post</a> about  using Tumblr as a portfolio site. I’ve seen that <a href="http://julierudder.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">work successfully</a>, but  make sure you back up regularly because their server goes on vacation  once a month.</p>
<p><strong>If You Customized Your Livejournal/Had A Geocities Site/Know How To Weave Dreams:</strong><br />
<a href="http://www.indexhibit.org/" target="_blank">Indexhibit</a> is content management system that was created by artist Daniel Eatock.  It’s particularly good at handling projects and sorting information  chronologically. Indexhibit was built to be extremely flexible and if  you can handle the rude forum dwellers it’s a brilliant option. My  personal favorite is <a href="http://wordpress.org/" target="_blank">WordPress</a>. While it was originally conceived as a  blogging platform, WordPress can be configured to do just about  anything. For two very different examples compare the Bad at Sports  website and the visual arts calendar <a href="http://onthemake.org" target="_blank">On The Make</a>. Both sites run on  WordPress! The <a href="http://madebyraygun.com/lab/portfolio-theme/" target="_blank">Portfolio Theme</a> by Raygun gives you the Indexhibit look  with the power to scale.</p>
<p>It’s  better to have no website than a bad one. A scan of business card would  be more effective than some <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20021208124943/http://www.dirtstyledesign.com/" target="_blank">dirt style design</a>. If you want to be treated  like a professional artist you should have the highest quality of  documentation that you can get, you should know how to talk and write  about your art and every designed element, from the paper you print on  to the typeface you choose to your domain name, should be working for  you. The most important tools for your practice are your images and your  words. An understanding of design lets you communicate with intention.</p>
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		<title>REVIEW: Wave Int&#8217;l Issue 01</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 19:04:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wave Int’l isn’t like any of the publications I’ve previously reviewed. Wave is a network that is documented in a quarterly exhibition and journal. Wave Int’l is co-directed by Brian Khek and Jasmine Lee, two students at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In Issue 01 artists Ida Lehtonen, Micah Schippa and Bret [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_19274" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 435px"><a rel="attachment wp-att-19274" href="http://badatsports.com/2010/review-wave-intl-issue-01/waveissue01_1/"><img class="size-full wp-image-19274" title="waveissue01_1" src="http://badatsports.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/waveissue01_1.jpg" alt="" width="425" height="319" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Wave Int&#39;l: Issue 01</p></div>
<p>Wave  Int’l isn’t like any of the publications I’ve previously reviewed. Wave  is a network that is documented in a quarterly exhibition and journal.  Wave Int’l is co-directed by Brian Khek and Jasmine Lee, two students at the School of the Art  Institute of Chicago. In Issue 01 artists Ida Lehtonen, Micah Schippa  and Bret Scheider were commissioned to tackle “office iconography.” I  chatted with Jasmine Lee about the relationship between publishing and  curating and she explained how Wave seeks to innovate in both areas.</p>
<p><strong>Martine Syms: How did you and Brian [Khek] meet and why did you decide to start working together?</strong></p>
<p>Jasmine Lee:  I had just moved to Chicago last summer from San Francisco for the VCS  program at SAIC and I wanted to start a publication. Brian and I met in  the fall. We went to school together and he lived down the street from  me.We started cooking together. Brian makes the best Pad Thai. We would  cook, talk art and we&#8217;d look at publications together. It was a nice welcome to Chicago.</p>
<p><strong>MS:  A friend of mine thinks that every artist/designer should be  an adept cook. He puts it on the same level as technical or  communication skills. Would you agree?</strong></p>
<p>JL:  Yes, absolutely. We talk about this a lot. Cooking or creating anything  for consumption requires a prior knowledge which isn&#8217;t unlike art. It&#8217;s  funny to us that art and food are still sort of in their own fields. We  look at lot of different fields for fodder, like science or technology.  What we like about food and technology is their ability to bring people  together.</p>
<p><strong> MS: Do you see Wave Int’l functioning in a similar way? </strong></p>
<p>JL:  Yes, we love to invite people over for food. The conversations we have  are a lot of fun. We&#8217;re obsessed with the idea of connectivity</p>
<div id="attachment_19277" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 435px"><a rel="attachment wp-att-19277" href="http://badatsports.com/2010/review-wave-intl-issue-01/waveintl01i/"><img class="size-full wp-image-19277" title="waveintl01i" src="http://badatsports.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/waveintl01i.jpg" alt="" width="425" height="526" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Wave Int&#39;l: Issue 01, installation view at Co-Prosperity Sphere</p></div>
<p><strong> MS: So why a publication? </strong></p>
<p>JL: A lot of our work is done online.</p>
<p><strong>MS: What do you mean by work? Artwork, homework, client work? </strong></p>
<p>JL:  Yes, all of it. Life work. When you work this way, there&#8217;s this feeling  of fluidity. We wanted a publication because it’s more tangible. It’s  less abstract than say a blog.</p>
<p><strong> MS:  When you work on a computer each activity blends into the next. A  publication is more discrete, more representative of a specific  moment/event.</strong></p>
<p>JL: The publication and exhibitions are meant to be meeting points. A moment for us to gather our thoughts, reflect and move on. It’s meant to be transient, like a network.</p>
<p><strong>MS:  Tell me about your curatorial process. How did you find the  artists in the show? Was there a particular narrative you and Brian were trying to  express with the exhibition?</strong></p>
<p>JL:  We&#8217;re interested in bringing together people who&#8217;s work reflects ideas  we&#8217;ve been contemplating. We&#8217;re not so interested in regionalism.  Because of how we all experience a lot of the same things, regardless of  where we live we have a starting point.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s kind of crazy how many people are making work. Bookmarks help. Brian and I exchange readings and  work we like. As with most things, we wanted to work with people whose  work we&#8217;d admired and respected, and most importantly, were curious  about. As connected as we are with each other [online], a lot of this  critical discourse that&#8217;s engaged by the visual work is often  overlooked. Wave wants to welcome everyone to the conversation.</p>
<div id="attachment_19278" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 409px"><a rel="attachment wp-att-19278" href="http://badatsports.com/2010/review-wave-intl-issue-01/waveissue01_2/"><img class="size-medium wp-image-19278" title="waveissue01_2" src="http://badatsports.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/waveissue01_2-399x600.jpg" alt="" width="399" height="600" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Wave Int&#39;l: Issue 01, installation view at Co-Prosperity Sphere</p></div>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong> MS:  On your website you use the term &#8220;network&#8221; and call yourselves the  directors. Do you see Wave operating in the tradition of the gallery or  the magazine?</strong></p>
<p>JL:  We see ourselves as facilitators. Wave Int&#8217;l is a platform for critical  discourse. We&#8217;re not so much concerned with the tradition of the  gallery or magazine. We&#8217;re concerned with the responsibility that goes  along with putting work out there, the push and pull of things that last  and don&#8217;t last. We don&#8217;t just want to talk about something and throw it  out there into space. We’re thinking about what happens after a show or even after the opening.</p>
<p><strong> MS:  In using the term director you&#8217;re acknowledging your responsibility,  but in using network, you reconcile what happens afterwards, once the  work is up, or the show is taken down.</strong></p>
<p>JL: Yes. We’re interested in the potential of the ephemeral.</p>
<p><strong>MS: Tell me about Ida Lehtonen and Micah Schippa, the artists in the show/issue. </strong></p>
<p>JL:  Micah is graduating from SAIC this fall. He’s from Holland, Michigan.  He’s one of our cooking buddies! He makes the best soups and is awesome  at baking. He’s someone we talk with a lot. We met Ida for the first  time this week, after being in contact with her online for a year. Ida  attends the School of Photography at the University of Göteburg in  Sweden. Her work is very playful. Both Ida and Micah deal a lot with  iconography in their work. Which is inherent in the medium [internet  art]. I think there&#8217;s a lot of &#8220;net art&#8221; out there that&#8217;s really  unapproachable, because of how esoteric it tends to be. It&#8217;s  intimidating, but their work isn&#8217;t like that.</p>
<p><strong> MS: What’s next for Wave Int’l? </strong></p>
<p>JL: We want to travel. It’s another part of the practice, geographic  diversity. Kind of like a tour. We&#8217;re currently building an ongoing program, which involves a  library of visual, audio and literary appropriations from our own  archives and that of our peers. We also have a printed version of the PDF, edition of 25, very very slick. Email <a href="mailto:waveintl@gmail.com" target="_blank">waveintl@gmail.com</a> for more info.</p>
<p><em>Download a copy of Wave  Int’l: Issue 01 featuring Ida Lehtonen, Micah  Schippa and Bret Schneider at <a href="http://www.waveintl.info/" target="_blank">www.waveintl.info</a>. The printed version can also be purchased at <a href="http://shopgoldenage.com" target="_blank">Golden Age</a>, where you&#8217;ll find Jasmine Lee working hard each Thursday! </em></p>
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		<title>REVIEW: Can I Come Over to Your House?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2010 18:02:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martine Syms</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can I Come Over to Your House?, the anthology commemorating the first ten years of The Suburban, has a strange power to make its beholders confess to their unwavering love of co-founder Michelle Grabner. “I know I’m impulse buying, but I have to get this because Michelle Grabner is my hero,” a buyer admitted before [...]]]></description>
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Can I Come Over to Your House?</em>,  the anthology commemorating the first ten years of The Suburban, has a  strange power to make its beholders confess to their unwavering love of  co-founder Michelle Grabner. “I know I’m impulse buying, but I have to  get this because Michelle Grabner is my hero,” a buyer admitted before  purchasing a copy. A few days earlier another artist had disclosed that  she “wanted to impress Michelle Grabner” while she fondled the stout red  volume. Some visitors have taken to staring deeply into the cover and  clasping their hands around the book. I try not to interrupt them.</p>
<p>I  was surprised to hear this outpouring of devotion to Grabner from so  many artists. I thought I was the only who dreamed of being her best  friend. Everyone loves Michelle,  especially those who “hate” her, and this little book reminds us why.  The encyclopedic publication features contributions from the art world’s  heaviest hitters from James Welling to Olivier Mosset to Wade Guyton to  the Midwest’s patron saint of art David Robbins. Anyone who had ever  exhibited under the umbrella of The Suburban was asked to submit four to  six images and a brief text that “would best represent” their practice.</p>
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<p>Karl Haendel’s provocative text, <em>Questions For My Father</em> begins, “Why did you decide to have children? What if I came out  retard? How close did you come to hitting me?” Amy Granat opts for the  traditional artist statement, while David Hullfish Bailey provides two  (three?) artist statements AND an essay by Danish curator Jacob  Fabricius. Novelist Jonathan Safran Foer gives us no words and only  images. If an exhibition at The Suburban is &#8220;more closely related to  what happens in your studio&#8221; as Grabner said in a recent interview, then  C<em>an I Come Over to Your House?</em> successfully translates that practice to print in this thousand page guestbook-cum-sketchbook.</p>
<p><a href="http://shopgoldenage.com/shop/publications/can-i-come-over-your-house" target="_blank"><em>Can I Come Over to Your House?</em> is  available at Golden Age in Chicago.</a> Visit <a href="http://thesuburban.org" target="_blank">The Suburban</a> this Sunday for  the opening reception of Jeff Gibson and Geoff Kleem and come to Golden  Age on September 25th for the <a href="http://shopgoldenage.com/projects/upcoming" target="_blank">launch party</a> of <em>Can I Come Over to Your House?</em>.</p>
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		<title>Review: Manystuff #1, One Possible Catalyst</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 22:42:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Manystuff is a blog, edited by the mostly anonymous Charlotte Cheetham, that offers a &#8220;daily selection&#8221; of graphic design. Manystuff has a devout, international following of 5,000+ visitors a day, they regularly organize design exhibitions and recently began publishing a magazine. Manystuff #1 is actually the second issue. Manystuff #0, More Real Than Fiction was [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_17297" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 435px"><a rel="attachment wp-att-17297" href="http://badatsports.com/2010/review-manystuff-1-one-possible-catalyst/manystuff-one-possible-catalyst-one/"><img class="size-full wp-image-17297 " title="Manystuff-One-possible-catalyst-one" src="http://badatsports.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Manystuff-One-possible-catalyst-one.jpg" alt="" width="425" height="283" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Photo by Charlotte Cheetham © Manystuff</p></div>
<p>Manystuff is a blog, edited by the mostly anonymous Charlotte Cheetham, that offers a &#8220;daily selection&#8221; of graphic design. Manystuff has a devout, international following of 5,000+ visitors a day, they regularly organize design exhibitions and recently began publishing a magazine. Manystuff #1 is actually the second issue. Manystuff #0, <em>More Real Than Fiction</em> was released in 2008, but I wasn&#8217;t able to get my hands on it, so it remains less real to me.</p>
<p>Manystuff #1, <em>One Possible Catalyst</em> states its case modestly. The objective is to &#8220;fix a laboratory of experiments and meditations released from formal and theoretical prejudices.&#8221; <em>One Possible Catalyst</em> is not for those seeking a practical treatise about running your own studio or how to do-it-yourself, nor those looking for a barrage of striking images to consume. It  comes as a refreshing counterpoint to the glut of design thinking, design within reach, and design sponging that currently abounds. <em>One Possible Catalyst</em> is for serious thinking about Design. Read it when you&#8217;re feeling cynical, but not when you&#8217;re feeling sleepy.</p>
<p>(Contributors were asked to diverge from the following three themes:)</p>
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<p><strong>Less is more</strong><br />
This way of life has become a cliché and/or vice versa. Less is More is an argument for minimal graphic design that features an essay on the public notice by Rob Giampietro, a collection of business cards from Christian Brandt and a historical survey by Olivier Marcellin. Succinctly, &#8220;Use of a sans-serif and a uniform background.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>Support Graphic Design</strong><br />
Support Graphic Design is a catalog of structures used to hold posters and other designed objects, including outdoor benches from EventArchitectuur, billboards from Experimental Jetset, and a mobile bookshop from Robin Gadde. I was struck by the beauty and economy of the mobile bookshop, a succession of plywood sheets with rectangle cut outs for shelves.</p>
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<p><strong>Transmission</strong><br />
The headline asks &#8220;What about intergenerational relations between designers?&#8221; I often wonder if it&#8217;s even possible to establish intergenerational relationships outside of an institution. Sometimes I lament that the only way I&#8217;ll be able to meet so-and-so is to go to X school or secure another internship with no pay but lots of prestige. Although <em>One Possible Catalyst</em> provides no alternatives, it does offer a series of texts pairing educators with students and employers with interns that contemplate the role of generational exchange within the field.</p>
<p>Manystuff #1, One Possible Catalyst features contributions from <a href="http://www.christianbrandt.org/" target="_blank">Christian Brandt</a>, <a href="http://www.lorenacardenas.ch/" target="_blank">Lorena Cardenas</a>, <a href="http://www.changeisgood.fr/" target="_blank">Change is good</a>, <a href="http://www.happy-design.ch/" target="_blank">David Conte</a>, <a href="http://www.pinardemirdag.com/" target="_blank">Pinar Demirdag</a>, <a href="http://neildonnelly.net/" target="_blank">Neil Donnelly</a>, <a href="http://www.laurentfetis.com/" target="_blank">Laurent Fétis</a>, <a href="http://www.keesdeklein.nl/" target="_blank">Kees de Klein</a>, <a href="http://www.forfurtherinformation.org/" target="_blank">Wayne Daly</a>, Bear Demen, <a href="http://www.eventarchitectuur.nl/" target="_blank">EventArchitectuur</a>, <a href="http://www.experimentaljetset.nl/" target="_blank">Experimental Jetset</a>, <a href="http://www.robingaddeandteam.com/" target="_blank">Robin Gadde &amp;team</a>, <a href="http://www.linedandunlined.com/" target="_blank">Rob Giampietro</a>, <a href="http://www.g-j.ch/" target="_blank">Hannes Gloor &amp; Stefan Jandl</a>, <a href="http://www.officeabc.cc/" target="_blank">Catherine Guiral</a> &amp; <a href="http://www.supercontinuum.eu/" target="_blank">David Cluzeau, Arnaud Daffos, Vincent Lalanne, Aurélie Guérinet</a>, <a href="http://www.heberling.se/" target="_blank">Rikard Heberling</a>, <a href="http://www.heyho.fr/" target="_blank">Hey Ho</a>, <a href="http://www.hyjoe.net/" target="_blank">Hyoun Youl Joe</a>, <a href="http://www.julia.uk.com/" target="_blank">Julia</a>, <a href="http://www.konst-teknik.se/" target="_blank">Konst &amp; Teknik</a>, <a href="http://www.sachaleopold.com/" target="_blank">Sacha Leopold</a>, <a href="http://www.objetslivres.fr/" target="_blank">Olivier Marcellin</a>, <a href="http://www.fanettemellier.com/" target="_blank">Fanette Mellier</a>, <a href="http://www.pipiparade.com/" target="_blank">Pipi Parade</a>, <a href="http://www.pleaseletmedesign.com/" target="_blank">Please Let Me Design</a>, <a href="http://r0binh00d.free.fr/" target="_blank">Thibaut Robin</a>, <a href="http://gregoire.romanet.free.fr/" target="_blank">Grégoire Romanet</a>, <a href="http://weizer.ch/" target="_blank">Mathias Schweizer</a>, <a href="http://www.myspace.com/abakespace" target="_blank">Maki Suzuki (Åbäke)</a>, <a href="http://www.pierrevanni.com/" target="_blank">Pierre Vanni</a>, Karen Willey, and <a href="http://www.shooshbang.com/" target="_blank">Ivor Williams</a>.</p>
<p>It is available now at <a href="http://www.manystuff.org/?page_id=6561" target="_blank">Manystuff</a>.</p>
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		<title>REVIEW: Suitable Video &#8211; Volume 1</title>
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		<dc:creator>Martine Syms</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scott Wolniak was the proprietor of Suitable, an alternative (garage) space in Humboldt Park, from 1999-2004. He started the space after receiving his MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago and ended it when the roof collapsed. The goal of Suitable was to provide young Chicago artists with an opportunity to show their work. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.scottwolniak.com" target="_blank">Scott Wolniak</a> was the proprietor of Suitable, an alternative (garage) space in Humboldt Park, from 1999-2004. He started the space after receiving his MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago and ended it when the roof collapsed. The goal of Suitable was to provide young Chicago artists with an opportunity to show their work. Recently, Wolniak curated a show at <a href="http://www.westernexhibitions.com/current/Ryan_Suitable/suitable/index.html" target="_blank">Western Exhibitions</a> consisting of videos that had been seen years earlier at Suitable. In conjunction with the exhibition, <em>Suitable Video</em>, Wolniak released a limited edition compilation of the works under the same name. <em>Suitable Video: Volume 1</em> has a run-time of about an hour and includes work from Charles Irvin, Julia Hechtman, Sterling Ruby, John Neff, Kirsten Stoltmann, Marc Schwartzberg, Paul Nudd, Reed Anderson &amp; Daniel Davidson, Sarah Conway, Miller and Shellabarger, Ben Stone, and Siebren Versteeg.</p>
<div id="attachment_16613" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 435px"><a rel="attachment wp-att-16613" href="http://badatsports.com/2010/review-suitable-video-volume-1/nudd_worm/"><img class="size-full wp-image-16613 " title="nudd_worm" src="http://badatsports.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/nudd_worm.jpg" alt="" width="425" height="284" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">A still from Paul Nudd&#39;s Wurmburth</p></div>
<p>Sterling Ruby&#8217;s contribution, <em>Cook</em>, is a one minute montage that combines several documentary-style sequences of clandestine meth labs while a distorted voice over repeats, &#8220;I&#8217;m a chemist, I&#8217;m a cooker, I&#8217;m a manufacturer, and a distributor. I&#8217;ll do whatever the fuck I want in the privacy of my own home.&#8221; The phrase is oddly catchy and I found myself singing it throughout the day. Paul Nudd&#8217;s <em>Wurmburth</em> also stuck with me, out of disgust, it&#8217;s really gross. I said this to a friend and she asked &#8220;Gross-sexual or gross-dirty?&#8221; For three minutes an amorphous phallus goes in and out of various neon green caverns, while smoke, mucus, and spit ooze out. It&#8217;s both dirty and sexual. The piece I enjoyed most was <em>Untitled (Nixon/HAL)</em> by John Neff. In it a man gives two monologues against a solid blue background. The first is a statement that was prepared for President Nixon in the event of a moon disaster and the second is HAL&#8217;s final monologue from <em>2001: A Space Odyssey</em>. The melodrama and humanity of the texts are rendered emotionless by their messengers, creating an amusing tension.</p>
<p>I was a film student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and I recognized a few of the pieces from my video classes. During my senior year of college I wouldn&#8217;t have considered Sterling Ruby young, Chicago-based, or in need of exhibition opportunities. When I saw these works at school they were presented out of context, completely removed from the community that is very apparent when I watch the <em>Suitable Video</em> anthology. &#8220;There is no thematic or conceptual agenda,&#8221; Wolniak acknowledges in his curator&#8217;s note. &#8220;There is a tangible sense of utility in much of the work– they do not seem fussed over, they communicate directly.&#8221; Unfussy, direct communication is a fitting theme for a compilation meant to encapsulate the efforts of a DIY exhibition space. These type of spaces pop up when a group of artists, with the help of their most entrepreneurial peers, need the most immediate way to connect with an audience. Alternative spaces stop being effective once they fulfill that need and when they close their doors, they take that history with them. Last year&#8217;s <a href="http://www.hydeparkart.org/exhibitions/2009/05/artists_run_chicago.php" target="_blank"><em>Artists Run Chicago</em></a> at the Hyde Park Art Center was one way of telling the history of alternative spaces, <em>Suitable Video</em> is another.</p>
<p><em>Suitable Video: Volume 1</em> is available at <a href="http://shopgoldenage.com/_product_34244/Suitable_Video_-_Volume_1" target="_blank">Golden Age</a> in Chicago.</p>
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		<title>Review: North Drive Press #5</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 21:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martine Syms</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I first heard about North Drive Press while working at Ooga Booga. It was selling well because it had been featured on Daily Candy, an insider newsletter on the &#8220;latest in fashion, food, and fun.&#8221; I think North Drive Press counts as fun. Daily Candy had pegged it as a tool to impress art snobs, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a rel="attachment wp-att-15755" href="http://badatsports.com/2010/review-north-drive-press-5/issue5/"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-15755" title="issue5" src="http://badatsports.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/issue5.jpg" alt="" width="248" height="325" /></a>I first heard about North Drive Press while working at Ooga Booga. It was selling well because it had been featured on Daily Candy, an insider newsletter on the &#8220;latest in fashion, food, and fun.&#8221; I think North Drive Press counts as fun. Daily Candy had pegged it as a tool to impress art snobs, a key to unlock the world of contemporary art.</p>
<p>Technically, North Drive Press is a cardboard box of artist multiples, interviews and texts. It was started in 2003 by best friends Matt Keegan and Lizzy Lee and named after the street that connects their childhood homes. The project was originally designed to function as a mobile exhibition for emerging artists, but quickly evolved into an annual non-thematic publication. Issue 5 is the final issue.</p>
<p>Like past issues #5 contains a variety of formats, from a Bart Simpson t-shirt to a photo of Damien Hirst&#8217;s penis. Although I don&#8217;t smoke I like handling Aurel Schmidt&#8217;s faux cigarette butt, a three-dimensional translation of her detritus drawings. For my fellow non-smokers there is also a mashed-up &#8216;no smoking&#8217; sign by NY-based Nick Relph that would look amazing on an apartment wall.</p>
<div id="attachment_15754" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 435px"><a rel="attachment wp-att-15754" href="http://badatsports.com/2010/review-north-drive-press-5/ndp_creditsusanbarber/"><img class="size-full wp-image-15754 " title="ndp_creditsusanbarber" src="http://badatsports.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/ndp_creditsusanbarber.jpg" alt="" width="425" height="323" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Editions (clockwise) BY Aura Roseberg, Becca Albee, Mended Veil, Aurel Schmidt, B. Wurtz, Nate Hylden, B&#39;L&#39;ING. Photo by Susan Barber.</p></div>
<p>What I like best about North Drive Press is that it can act as both an archive and a fanzine. It&#8217;s as important as you want it to be. You could re-gift each multiple or earnestly collect each issue. In his recent documentary,<em>How do you document a city?</em>, Keegan interviewed archivists in San Francisco about their city and the relationship between objects and social history. With that concept in mind, North Drive Press could be called <em>How do you document a scene?</em></p>
<p>All of the interviews and texts from issues 1-5 are available for free on the <a id="o43w" title="North Drive Press" href="http://www.northdrivepress.com/">North Drive Press</a> website. North Drive Press #5 is available at <a id="g7uq" title="Golden Age" href="http://blog.shopgoldenage.com/_product_34240/North_Drive_Press_5">Golden Age</a> in Chicago, <a id="diz8" title="Ooga Booga" href="http://www.oogaboogastore.com/">Ooga Booga</a> in Los Angeles, and <a id="r.fx" title="Printed Matter" href="http://www.printedmatter.org/">Printed Matter</a> in New York.</p>
<p>View Matt Keegan&#8217;s 22-minute documentary <em>How do you document a city?</em> <a id="j51c" title="here" href="http://www.altmansiegel.com/projects/doccity.mov">here</a>.</p>
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		<title>Review: The Music and the Wine by Paul Cowan</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:06:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just started reading Six Nonlectures by E.E. Cummings and I love it. Each time I set down my book I fantasize about being a Harvard grad class of 1936 (or earlier) and I want to write in that canonical W.A.S.P.-y  literary style. A style first introduced to me in middle school through The Great [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a rel="attachment wp-att-14659" href="http://badatsports.com/2010/review-the-music-and-the-wine-by-paul-cowan/themusicandthewine_large/"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-14659" title="themusicandthewine_large" src="http://badatsports.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/themusicandthewine_large.jpg" alt="" width="320" height="450" /></a>I just started reading <em>Six Nonlectures</em> by E.E. Cummings and I love it. Each time I set down my book I fantasize about being a Harvard grad class of 1936 (or earlier) and I want to write in that canonical W.A.S.P.-y  literary style. A style first introduced to me in middle school through <em>The Great Gatsby</em> and <em>Catcher in the Rye</em>, and later impressed upon me in college through Burroughs, Stevens, Kerouac, and other dudes. These frequently referenced stories are part of an American myth that I can&#8217;t seem to shake.</p>
<p>My friend Paul Cowan knows what I&#8217;m going through. He recently released a collection of short stories entitled <em>The Music and the Wine</em> that follow a series of unnamed protagonists through everyday scenarios. The vignettes are about &#8220;nothing,&#8221; meaning ideas that are hard to describe: why your favorite pants are your favorite or what it feels like when someone steals your jokes. Paul once told me that he thought reading fiction was indulgent and his writing is decidedly enjoyable.</p>
<p><em>The Music and the Wine</em> is a bizarre homage to the great American novel. In <em>Wilke Dairy Co</em>. Cowan acknowledges his indirect nostalgia for a time that only really exists in retrospect. He celebrates the Midwest and the 1950s. In <em>Wilke Dairy Co</em>. the narrator recalls a perfect night making out with Ann Wilke, a dairy heir, in her parents&#8217; basement. The narratives are funny, nearly satirical, and my favorite is about a divisive social butterfly. It begins, &#8220;It’s a thin line between love and hate. And I never walk that line.”<br />
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The Music and the Wine</em> is available from <a id="z6v0" title="Paul Cowan" href="http://paulcowan.net/Paul_Cowan_-_Stories_Excerpts.html">Paul Cowan</a> and <a id="svr6" title="Golden Age" href="http://shopgoldenage.com/_product_34235/Paul_Cowan_-_The_Music_and_the_Wine">Golden Age</a>. On Saturday, March 27th 7-10pm please join us at Golden Age for <em>Alla Prima</em>, a show of new works by Paul Cowan. Visit <a id="uwjm" title="www.shopgoldenage.com" href="http://www.shopgoldenage.com/">www.shopgoldenage.com</a> for more information.</p>
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		<title>Review: Bless 10 Years of Themelessness DVD</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During a recent visit to Los Angeles I picked up the video compilation BLESS: Celebrating 10 Years of Themelessness at Ooga Booga. When I asked Wendy, the shop owner, about the dvd I was told “It’s not for people new to Bless. You won’t learn more anything about them. It’s for the true Bless fan.” [...]]]></description>
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<p>During a recent visit to Los Angeles I picked up the video compilation <em>BLESS: Celebrating 10 Years of Themelessness</em> at <a href="http://www.oogaboogastore.com/shop/misc/detail/BlessDVD.html" target="_blank">Ooga Booga</a>. When I asked Wendy, the shop owner, about the dvd I was told “It’s not for people new to Bless. You won’t learn more anything about them. It’s for the true Bless fan.” For a moment I considered whether or not I was a true Bless fan and decided that I was.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.bless-service.de/" target="_blank">Bless</a> is a conceptual fashion house based in Paris and Berlin started by Desiree Heiss and Ines Kaag in 1996. They release products designed to “make the near future worth living for.” They make thoughtful garments,  <a href="http://web.me.com/blessberlin/BLESS_new/Nr/Eintr%C3%A4ge/2005/7/28_26_Cable_Jewellery.html" target="_blank">jewelry for electronic cables</a>, <a href="http://web.me.com/blessberlin/BLESS_new/Nr/Eintr%C3%A4ge/2004/3/28_22_Perpetual_home_motion_machines.html" target="_blank">hanging wardrobe mobiles</a>, and other items intended to be <a href="http://web.me.com/blessberlin/BLESS_new/Nr/Eintr%C3%A4ge/2008/3/1_N%C2%B0_35_Automatica.html" target="_blank">used</a>, <a href="http://web.me.com/blessberlin/BLESS_new/Nr/Eintr%C3%A4ge/1999/3/28_09_Merchandising_2.html" target="_blank">lived with</a>, and sometimes <a href="http://web.me.com/blessberlin/BLESS_new/Nr/Eintr%C3%A4ge/1997/7/28_03_2.html" target="_blank">discarded</a>.</p>
<p><em>BLESS: Celebrating 10 Years of Themelessness</em>, released by <a href="http://www.bureaudesvideos.com/bdv/editions/bless/" target="_blank">Bureau des Videos</a>, collects 15 short videos from the Bless archive. Many of the pieces are documentation from the public presentations of their varied collections. In N<sup>o</sup>25, Uniseasoners, as people enter the dining area of a restaurant they are seated by servers wearing Bless clothing. The servers take orders, bring wine, and later bring food. Everything is normal, maybe even boring, except for occasional pauses to highlight elements of the clothing. A scarf turns into a hooded sweater. In another video, N<sup>o</sup>13 Basics, a narrator lets me know that we’re in an apartment in Paris where several friends have spent the day together “wearing sweaters, bodysuits, trousers and customized Levi’s jeans” as if they were their own.</p>
<p>There is nothing precious about Bless. Bless is a project that presents ideas about living. There is no lifestyle to buy, you must bring your own. As their modest iWeb page says, FITS EVERY STYLE.</p>
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		<title>REVIEW: Apartamento Magazine</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:05:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martine Syms</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apartamento Magazine, a bi-annual interiors journal, began in 2008, but seemed like folklore to most stateside bibliophiles, as it was incredibly hard to find. They had no known US stockist. Issue #1 was totally and completely sold out forever within months of its release. Post Poetics had Issues #2 &#38; #3 for a while and [...]]]></description>
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<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 587px"><img title="Apartamento_Magazine" src="http://www.apartamentomagazine.com/files/DSC_4812.jpg" alt="Apartamento Magazine #4" width="577" height="385" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Apartamento Magazine #4</p></div>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.apartamentomagazine.com" target="_blank"> Apartamento Magazine</a>, a bi-annual interiors journal, began in 2008, but seemed like folklore to most stateside bibliophiles, as it was incredibly hard to find. They had no known US stockist. Issue #1 was totally and completely sold out forever within months of its release. <a href="http://www.postpoetics.org/" target="_blank">Post Poetics</a> had Issues #2 &amp; #3 for a while and I would frequently look at the page, tempting myself to buy the magazine, but the $30 international shipping permanently deterred me.</p>
<p>The first time I held Apartamento in my hands was just two months ago. A friend let me borrow a few of the past issues. It was as gorgeous in person as it looked in the photos I’d seen online. Thanks to art direction from designer Omar Sosa of <a href="http://folchstudio.com" target="_blank">Folch Studio</a> and photographer <a href="http://www.nachoalegre.com/" target="_blank">Nacho Alegre</a>, Apartamento is an object of immense beauty.</p>
<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 587px"><img title="Apartamento_Magazine_2" src="http://www.apartamentomagazine.com/files/DSC_4862.jpg" alt="Interview with renowned designer Enzo MAri" width="577" height="385" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Interview with renowned designer Enzo Mari</p></div>
<p>Issue #4 features watercolors of artist studios (Julian Schnabel, Jeff Koons, Kiki Smith) by Grillo Demo, an interview with CFDA award winning jewelry designer Philip Crangi’s about his New York factory, an essay by Chloe Sevigny about her “70s preppy Connecticut” apartment, a photo tour of Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore’s Northhampton home, and a kids supplement curated by <a href="http://referencelibrary.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Reference Library’s</a> Andy Beach with contributions from Geoff McFetridge, Enzo Mari, and more.</p>
<p>With the tagline  “an everyday life interiors magazine,” I was expecting Apartamento to be a sneak peek into regular, <a href="http://realnormal.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">real normal</a>, everyday interiors. My tiny apartment, a bus driver’s home, the tenants who have lived in the same building for over 30 years. Apartamento is <em>kind of</em> like that, except if those things looked ten times better.</p>
<p>Issue #4 is OUT NOW and available worldwide through <a href="https://www.bruil.info/apartamentomagazine" target="_blank">Bruil</a>.</p>
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		<title>Review: &#8220;Spirit&#8221; by Henry Roy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:03:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Henry Roy’s Spirit seems to live even as it lay open on my kitchen table. The cover image depicts a sleeping man in breathtaking color. The man’s rich, dark skin and the green of a plant in the background pop against the amorphous beige interior that surrounds the scene. Spanning the past ten years of [...]]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://henry.roy.free.fr/" target="_blank">Henry Roy’s</a> <em>Spirit</em> seems to live even as it lay open on my kitchen table. The cover image depicts a sleeping man in breathtaking color. The man’s rich, dark skin and the green of a plant in the background pop against the amorphous beige interior that surrounds the scene.</p>
<p>Spanning the past ten years of his career,<em> Spirit </em>collects nearly 50 photographs and 6 short stories that capture a mystical energy. With the eye of a portraitist, Roy skillfully isolates his subjects and obscures their circumstance. Working in a “very intuitive, almost mediumnic way,” Roy manages to express a poetic tension between reverie and the mundane in his images.</p>
<p>My favorites stories in the book are <em>Paris In October</em> and <em>A Night In Africa</em>. The former is a brief ode to the Parisian autumn, while the latter tells of a half-drunken protagonist urinating on a bathroom wall. Both stories are narrated by an urbane young man suffering from a bout of ennui. The ordinary settings of the narratives provide a nice counterpoint to the dreamy images, and make me a little less jealous of Henry Roy’s life.</p>
<p><em>Spirit</em> was released in October by Gottlund Verlag, a small publishing house based in Kutztown, Pennsylvania. Available at <a href="http://gottlundverlag.com/" target="_blank">Gottlund Verlag</a> online and <a href="http://shopgoldenage.com/_product_34231/Henry_Roy_-_Spirit" target="_blank">Golden Age</a> in Chicago.</p>
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