Expanding the Presence of Experimental and New Media Arts in the Midwest

All the pieces have finally arrived as of yesterday.  Thank you to all the artists participating in this great exhibition:

Alessandro Perini

Alex Myers

Bart Vargas

Ben Garthus

Brian Spolans

Chris Collins

Chris Wildrick

Clare Szydlowski

Deric Carner

Elizebeth Morisette

Erik L. Peterson

GaalN (Olivier Perriquet and Lou Galopa)

Jen Thomas

Jennifer Ryan

Jonas Kulikauskas

Ken Morgan

Lisa Rockford

Lynn Tomasszewski

Nathan Morton

Nestor Armando Gil

Nobutaka Aozaki

Paul Willerton

Rick Melby

R. Eric McMaster

Robby Rackleff

Patrick Lemieux

Chris Sims

Tattfoo

Tina Stevens

William Evertson

Wim Janssen

Chris Sims, Atari Remote #1, Bronze

Check out the Press Release at UNO:

http://www.unomaha.edu/news/releases/2010/03/25_gameplay.php

Russ and I have been working for the last 4 months on the  GAME PLAY exhibition.  The work is starting to arrive and we will be installing in a week.  I love Chris Collins Bronze Sculpture Atari Remote #1.  I spent a great deal of my 11th year playing Adventure with my dad, which you can now get as a flash game. Game Play should surprise and delight all those entertained by games of all fashion. Over 30 artists from across the globe will share their work during the exhibition at the Criss Library H. Don and Connie J. Osborne Gallery.

Check out the great article in The Reader by Mike Krainak on INTERACT.

http://www.thereader.com/art.php?subaction=showfull&id=1264628134&archive=&start_from=&ucat=11&

http://www.omaha.com/article/20100122/NEWS02/701219807/-1/news02

http://media.www.unogateway.com/media/storage/paper968/news/2010/01/12/Entertainment/Exhibit.Allows.Students.To.interact.With.Visual.Art-3852817.shtml

10 days until Interact opens. Lynn and Cynthia are arriving in the next few days and install will begin.  I will be posting updates of the install progress and documenting the process.  850 postcards went out today, even in the 21st century of web 2.0 getting a postcard in your hand is still exciting.  a 4 x6 inch piece of paper that somehow marks the existence of something in the world becuase of its embodied state – Hi, I am a little paper snippet of what is coming.  No matter how wired we get, I do not think I will ever be able to give up the little pieces of paper.

Video Art World

http://www.videoart.net/home/?CFID=3955095&CFTOKEN=93053686http://www.videoartworld.com/beta/aboutus.php

5,000 postcards are here!  They are going out in the mail tomorrow, and getting delivered all over town.  Cynthia and Lynn will arrive later this week to install their work.  They will at on campus January 11 – 15 at UNO Art Gallery with assistance from Russ and I.

I love this organization’s monthly newsletters – they compile film/video/media deadlines on a monthly basis.

http://www.womenarts.org/news_funding/filmenews58.htm

2010 is lining up with two exhibitions this spring and several summer and fall projects in the works.  I decided that t a new twenty ten site was in order.  After years of an old school html site I have upgraded to the wordpress platform and all the best of web 2.o.  I think I have reached my goal of a basic site framework by the end of 01-01-2010 by 30 seconds.

2010 I love you already.