Who Says You're A Great Lover?

February 19th, 2010
In any business, some people are better at getting their name out there than others. Artists are no exception.

Advertising, Marketing, Public Relations, or Branding? Don't know the difference? These cartoons should help.

Are you strong where you want to be? Are people talking about your work, your creativity, your vision? This is laced with some humor, but we artists have a good bit to be learned from this, actually. The rest of the options after the jump...where do you fit in? [click the 'continue reading' link below]
--







So which bucket are you in? If nobody is talking about you being a great lover, I suggest you think about ways to change that. Errr...you know what I mean.

Happy Friday, everyone. Thanks to the zig blog for the cartoon.
--

Get my every move: Follow Chase Jarvis on Twitter
Get exclusive content: Become a Fan on Facebook

Shower time, 5:26am, Brooklyn

February 2nd, 2010


Shower time, 5:26am, Brooklyn

Ahmet Ö?üt: Exploded City / MATRIX 231

January 20th, 2010


Ahmet Ö?üt: Exploded City / MATRIX 231

January 24, 2010 - April 11, 2010

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive BAM/PFA, California

With Exploded City, Ahmet Ö?üt envisions an imaginary metropolis comprising buildings, monuments, and vehicles that have figured in acts of violence and terrorism over the past two decades. Structures from Turkey, Ireland, India, Yugoslavia, Great Britain, and the United States, among other countries, form a unified urban scale model, reconstructing these sites in the moments before they were destroyed. The installation, originally commissioned for the Turkish Pavilion at the 2009 Venice Biennale, is accompanied by a text situating the included locations within a Calvinoesque narrative that engages the poetics and politics of space, architecture, violence, and international relations. Paraphrasing Calvino’s Invisible Cities, Ö?üt presents visible but “semi-anonymous” buildings, whose intact form may be forgotten while the aftermaths of their destruction are seared into the collective consciousness via the media and individual consciousnesses via personal experience. The collapsing of time and distance in this collection of models is echoed by the vehicles—also used in terrorism, but referencing as well Ö?üt’s ongoing interest in distance, time, and speed, measures by which our relationship to reality is shaped and through which disparate lands are connected.

From this central installation, the exhibition expands to other works. The film
Things We Count pans slowly across the retired fighter planes at an airplane graveyard in Arizona’s Sonoran desert, as a voice counts them one by one in Kurdish, Turkish, and English. This counting, in the languages of faraway lands, connects the planes in their U.S. resting place to their actions in the larger world.

Ö?üt recently had solo exhibitions at Künstlerhaus Bremen; Centre d’Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona; and Kunsthalle Basel. His work was also recently included in group exhibitions at Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw; De Appel, Amsterdam; New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; Malmö Konsthall, Sweden; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, the Netherlands; and the Berlin Biennale. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition in the United States. Born in Turkey in 1981, Ö?üt lives and works in Amsterdam.

Elizabeth Thomas
Phyllis Wattis MATRIX Curator


The MATRIX Program at the UC Berkeley Art Museum is supported by a generous endowment gift from Phyllis C. Wattis; The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; and the continued support of the BAM/PFA Trustees. The presentation of
Ahmet Ö?üt: Exploded City / MATRIX 231 was made possible in part by the Mondriaan Foundation, Amsterdam.


January 6th, 2010

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

Home – Spring 2002 Spring 2003

January 5th, 2010

home3

Home – Spring 2003 Summer 2006

January 5th, 2010

ut

Home – Summer 2006 – Summer 2007

January 5th, 2010

a1

Home – Summer 2007 2008

January 5th, 2010

home2008

Home – Summer 2009

January 5th, 2010

homesummer2009

Home – Autumn Winter 2009

January 5th, 2010

homeautumn2009

getting in a negative sense.

January 4th, 2010

if you only get what you give why do thoughts matter?

Tanriya Feryat

January 4th, 2010

1969

p>

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

 

Tanrıya Feryat(1969)

printing

December 28th, 2009

printing

printing
  • Andy Howard
  • WhatTheyThink.com
  • ARMON? S?GORTA
  • Matbaa Egitim
  • Printing Pre-Press Systems and Materials (Repro, Platemakers, CTP, Workflow, Document Management, Design Software, etc.) latest news on Printingtalk
  • News from printweek.com
  • News from printweek.com
Preview this bundle

printing-industry

December 28th, 2009

printing-industry

printing-industry
  • Andy Howard
  • Printing Industry Blog
  • Dr Joe's Printing Industry Blog
  • Small Business Trends
  • PrintCEO Blog
  • Printingtalk - printing industry news
  • wrapmogul.com
  • Print on Demand
  • ImagingInfo.com: The Latest
  • Printing Impressions Current Issue
  • Printing Pre-Press Systems and Materials (Repro, Platemakers, CTP, Workflow, Document Management, Design Software, etc.) latest news on Printingtalk
  • News from printweek.com
Preview this bundle

Best of the blog

December 23rd, 2009
The bizarre stories from the world of physics this year

“To Notice Everything Is To Care For It.” Orhan Pamuk

November 14th, 2009

Read this wonderful interview with Orhan Pamuk by Nathan Gardels about Pamuk’s new book The Museum of Innocence. It’s very thought-provoking. (click here) Here’s an excerpt:

Orhan Pamuk: The habit of collecting, of attachment to things, is an essential human trait. But Western civilization put collecting on a pedestal by inventing museums. Museums are about representing power. It could be the king’s power, or, later, people’s power.

This has generally not been present in the non-Western world. There, the collector has been an individual who is doing something peculiar. He cannot be proud about what he is doing since his collection is not something that categorizes the larger human experience. On the contrary, it only signifies points of his own personal reality.

However, in the last 50 years, the non-Western world is catching up with museums because it wants to represent its power. Most of the time such museums are about the power of the state. They are crude exercises, like waving a flag. This new museum mania avoids representing reality in an artistic or personal way. Power is more important than art or the person. That is the trend.

So, in my novel, where Kemal collects the teacup, cigarette butts, bedroom door handle, and other items of Fusun’s, he is building a museum not to power, but to the intimate experience of love, to an individual life. My point is that, whatever a life is made of, its dreams and disappointments, is worth taking pride in…

Pamuk: The fashionable Istanbul bourgeoisie is clashing with the upcoming Anatolian bourgeoisie – this is the cliche by which Turkish intellectuals try to understand what is happening. There is some truth in this, but I look at it more ethically than sociologically.

For me, the old Istanbul money and the new Anatolian money are the same class.

What is happening is that a freer, more open, more fully democratic and egalitarian society is clashing with old-fashioned conservative modernism. To solve its problems, the old, conservative Westernized elite must yield to more free speech and more democracy for the aspirations of the whole country, not just the elites.

My problem in Turkey is the intolerant political culture, whether old guard or new. This is not only true of the secularists at the center but also in rural Anatolia, Islamists as well. On crucial issues they embrace each other’s intolerance…

black magic (messing with what is real)

October 17th, 2009

p>

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

 

Jose James – Back Magic (untold Remix) http://www.brownswoodrecordings.com

Generation X – Turkey

September 17th, 2009

Turkiye’de 1970 oncesi dogumlu herkes Turkiye’nin kayip nesilidir. generation x’dir. Sisteme ve kanuna guvenmeyen, “alip gotururler, geri getirmezler” e inanan, buna gore haraket ederek bunu desteklediklerinin farkinda olmayan, 12 Eylül 1980 ‘den itibaren en az 5 seneyi sikiyonetim denilen “temel hak ve hürriyetlerin kullanılmasını geçici bir süre için sınırlayan” bir zindanda yasamis ve insan ozgurlugunun ustunlugune inanclari bu sebeple suresiz olarak tahrip ya da telef olmus, karar mekanizmalari islevini yitirip sikiyonetim sisteminin, oncesinin, ve sonrasinin silinemez izlerini tasiyan ve modern Turkiye’de yeri olmayacak nesildir.

Ataturkculuk‘un 6 ilkesinden hangisinin “temel hak ve hürriyetler” i destekledigini bularak konuyu daha iyi anlayabiliriz.

September 16th, 2009

Rüyada görülen sarı bir yüz gibi duygusuz,

tenha ufuktan görünürsün sessiz.

yüzünden akan aydınlığın sonsuz hüznü,

her ruha döker bir hıçkırıklı sıla hasreti,

bir sıla hasreti ki, hep geçmişe ait:

Günlerle ölen hatıralar… her şeyi durgun,

Her şeyi gülüşlerle dolu mutlu geçmiş…

Bir an sevilmiÅŸ, unutulmuÅŸ kederli

Rüyalı kadın gözleri… sakin gökler:

Sislerde solan gizli pırıltılar gibi dargın.

Akşamları dökülen hayal renkleri gibi şüpheli,

Suskun yüzünde güzel, belirsiz ve bırakılmış…

 

ahmet haÅŸim – (çıktığın geceler, 1909)

B?ANET'TEN

July 14th, 2009





"Cumhurba?kan? Gül Terörle Yarg?lanan Çocuklar ?çin Devreye Girsin"

Sanatç?lar Alabora ve Saban milletvekillerinin verdikleri sözleri tutumalar?n? ve TMK'nin çocuklarla ilgili maddelerinde düzenleme yap?lmas? için Meclisin ad?m atmas?n? istediler. Gazeteci Tamer devletin uluslararas? anla?malar? hiçe saymas?n? ele?tirirken, dansç? Tanbay da Gül'ün affetme yetkisini çocuklar için de kullanmas?n? istedi.

?stanbul - B?A Haber Merkezi
14 Temmuz 2009, Sal?

Terörle Mücadele Kanunu (TMK) kapsam?nda tutuklu bulunan çocuklardan bahsetmeyen medyay? ve çocuk haklar? sözle?melerini ihlal eden devleti ele?tiren Çocuklar ?çin Adalet Ça?r?c?lar? TMK'nin konuyla ilgili maddelerinde düzenleme yap?lmas?n? istediler.

Grup ad?na bas?n aç?klamas?n? okuyan sanatç?lar Derya Alabora ve Nedim Saban, "Bu sorunun ikinci y?l?n? doldurdu?u ?u anda, verdikleri sözü tutmalar?n?, meclis aç?ld???nda 'çocuk bir önceliktir' ilkesinden hareketle, kanundaki de?i?iklik önergesini Meclis gündemine almalar?n? ve gereken kanun de?i?ikliklerini gerçekle?tirmelerini bekliyoruz" dediler.

Tamer: "Bu çocuklar?n farkl? muamele görmesi kabul edilemez"

Bas?n toplant?s?na kat?lan gazeteci Meral Tamer bianet'e ?unlar? söyledi:

"Devletin neden uluslararas? anla?malara uymad???n? anlamak mümkün de?il. Bu çocuklar?n bat?l? çocuklardan farkl? muamele görmeleri kabul edilemez. Ben de bu çocuklar?n yerinde olsam da?a ç?kard?m."

Türkiye'de korkunç bir adalet sistemi oldu?unu ifade eden dansç? Zeynep Tanbay da "Cumhurba?kan? Abdullah Gül'ün yetkisini kullanarak tutuklu bütün çocuklar? serbest b?rakmas?n?" istedi.

"E?er herkesin cumhurba?kan?ysa bu çocuklar? affetmeli. Ben 18 ya??n alt?ndaki bir çocu?un s?rf polise ta? att? diye hapiste tutulmas?n? ve yeti?kinlerle ayn? ?artlarda yarg?lanmas?n? kabul edemiyorum. Bu sorunu görmeyen medyay? da anlam?yorum."

"'Terör suçlusu' de?il, 'suça itilen çocuklar'"

Bugün Taksim Hill Otel'de düzenlenen toplant?da Alabora ve Saban taraf?ndan okunan metinde ?u bilgiler yer al?yor:

1991'de ç?kan ve 2006'da yenilenen TMK yüzünden ya?lar? 12 ile 18 aras?nda de?i?en çocuklar terör suçlamas?yla ve yeti?kinlerle ayn? ko?ullarda tutuklan?yor, sorgulan?yor, yarg?lan?yor ve mahkum ediliyorlar.

Hapishanelere konulan bu çocuklar pedagojik destek alam?yor ve ö?renimlerini b?rakmak zorunda kal?yorlar. Baz?lar? yeti?kinlerle ayn? ko?u?larda kal?rken, ço?unun aileleriyle görü?meleri engelleniyor, iki haftada bir verilen spor/oyun izinleri iptal ediliyor.

"Sorunun Kürt çocuklar sorunu de?il, çocuk sorunu oldu?unu" kaydeden Alabora ve Saban "bugün Kürt çocuklar?n?n ba??na gelen bu sorun, Türkiye toplumu olanlar?n fark?na varmad?kça ve devlet de gereken yasla düzenlemelere gitmedikçe, yar?n her inançtan, etnik kökenden, s?n?ftan, ideolojiden 'ötekile?tirilecek' ana-baban?n çocuklar?n?n da ba??na gelebilir" diye konu?tular.

Sanatç?lar tutuklu çocuklar?n 'terör suçlusu' de?il, 'suça itilen çocuklar' muamelesi görmesini ve milletvekillerinden verdikleri sözleri tutmalar?n? istediler.

Bas?n aç?klamas?n?n sonunda Alabora Ece Ayhan'?n "Meçhul Ö?renci An?t?" ?iirini okudu, ard?ndan "Çocuk gibi ya?amak ve çocuk gibi muamele görmek yeryüzündeki tüm çocuklar?n hakk?d?r, hakk? olmal?d?r" dedi.

Bas?n toplant?s?na Necmiye Alpay, Sevin Okyay, Filiz Kerestecio?lu, Sennur Sezer, Kür?ad Kahramano?lu ve Hakan Tahmaz da kat?ld?.(BÇ)

Parting Shot: Global Overlords

July 10th, 2009

world_leaders_

These are the people that rule your lives. Enjoy your weekend. (Photo of world leaders from the last day of the G8?-G14?-G39? or whatever you call it summit.) Click here for the super-sized version.

Photo by Ciro Fusco/ANSA via OECD

MUHTELIF 5 / COMING SOON

July 10th, 2009
Agustos da ç?k?yor / out by August

MUHTELIF
güncel sanat yay?n? contemporary art publication ?stanbul

Yaz 2009 Summer 2009 Say? 5 Number 5 Ücretsizdir Free

Retroakt / Retroact
Susanne von Falkenhausen
Totaliteralizm ve Avangard?
Totalitarianism and the Avant-Gardes?

Diyalog / Dialogue
a conversation with Wael Shawky
“?slak kültür – kuru kültür”
“wet culture - dry culture”

Praksis / Praxis
Markus Miessen in conversation with Rodney LaTourelle
?ddial?, romantik, fakat tamamen anlay??l?.
Pretentious, romantic, but totally insightful.

Gramer / Grammer
a conversation with Lucien Kroll by Hans-Ulrich Obrist
“ertelenmi? kat?l?mc?l?k”
“postponed participations”

?imdi / Now
Ulus Atayurt
Sak?n ola küçümseme… Anlat?lan senin hikayen..
Don't you belittle it - It's your own story

Günlük / Daily
F.Zahir Mibineh
Tahran Günlü?ü
Tehran Report

Havuz / Pool
Metahaven
“We Lived In Financial Times”



Editörler Editors Pelin Tan, Adnan Y?ld?z Asistan Editör Asistant Editör Banu Çiçek Tülü ?ngilizce Düzelti Proofreading Ashkan Sepahvand Türkçe Düzelti Turkish Proofreading Özge Aç?kkol, Burak ?u?ut Çeviri Translation Adnan Y?ld?z, ?z Öztat, Banu Çiçek Tülü, Pelin Tan, Bar?? Çakan, Ashkan Sepahvand Tasar?m Design Ali Cindoruk Kapak Cover Elmas Deniz