Hanna Fushihara Aron, Self Portrait
* For my fellow nerds in the audience, here is the link to my new tech blog I'm using to comment on the technologies I work with.
* Little Cakes is closing for now, and tomorrow (Sunday) is the last day to see them in this location. Brent Burket gives us an excellent tribute on the ArtCal Zine.
Yesterday, I used Dotster to buy a domain name for a new art gallery client. Their name is an Polynesian name shared with a certain beach in the Pacific, and has no hint of a porn connection, as far as I know. This is a screen grab of what Dotster put up as a placeholder page. I recommend pairNIC in the future.
I see that a huge email of posts from the last week or so went out tonight to those who subscribe to my email list. As you can see, I've relaunched this blog and James's with a new layout and the latest version of Movable Type, and apparently this confused our email service.
Maureen Gallace at 303 Gallery (The Armory Show 2006)
Maureen Gallace at 303 Gallery (The Armory Show 2006)
Due to our previous coverage of "photography not allowed" policies, blogger and artist Mark Barry forwarded an email he just received from 303 Gallery regarding 2 images on Flickr from his set from the 2006 Armory Show. The photos were taken during the press preview.
From: Simon Greenberg
Date: May 7, 2008 10:06:33 AM EDT
To: mark@markbarryportfolio.com
Subject: Maureen Gallace image - flickrhello mark -
this is simon at 303 gallery. i noticed you had an image of Maureen
best
Gallace's work up on your flickr page - please be aware that 303 Gallery
owns the copyright to the work and all public display of images, including
web content. if you could kindly remove this image from your page, it would
be most appreciated.
simon
This is one of the more infuriating things I have seen from an art gallery lately. Do the gallery's artists know that they're spending this kind of time trolling the web and harassing bloggers? It hardly seems like a good use of resources.
Related:
[The two photos above are the ones referred to in the email.]
--
Updated: more blogs on the subject
No blogging from me until at least Monday. Road Runner knocked us off the internet Friday night, and they hope to give us a connection again by end of day Monday.
My college French got a bit of a workout with ArtCat's latest client: the New Galerie de France. It's our first client in Paris, and the first one with a bilingual site. We now have clients in New York, Chicago, London, Paris, and Berlin. Los Angeles should happen soon, but nothing is live yet.
[screengrab from my profile]
Via C-Monster, I learned that the Brooklyn Museum is sharing images of works in their collection via a Facebook application called Artshare. They set it up so that other institutions can join in too, and so far the list includes
I particularly liked this, from the Museum's blog announcement:
For the past week, weve been uploading (OK, well, Francesca Ford has been uploading thanks, Francesca) our collection highlights into the application, but then we hit a snag when we got to our Contemporary collection. Since artists often retain the copyright on contemporary works, we stopped uploading and started making phone calls and sending emails to artists and galleries seeking permission to include their work in the first phase of this project. I have to extend my thanks to the artists (Jules de Balincourt, Barron Claiborne, Anthony Goicolea, Rashid Johnson, Lady Pink, Kambui Olujimi, Suzanne Opton, Andres Serrano, Swoon, Yoram Wolberger) who saw the worth in this kind of endeavor and said go for it. We will continue to contact more of the contemporary artists in our collection and add to these initial works, but we wanted to pause now and launch ArtShare for beta testing.
If you're already on Facebook, go here to add it.
Related:
A group of people from the art / technology / web nexus have put together the Art Wikimarathon to get Wikipedia more useful for art research. Here is my suggestion: Someone needs to write an entry for Nayland Blake.
There's a lack of art/artist info on Wikipedia, and we're often too busy to find the time to contribute. So, we're setting aside one day where a crew of people collectively drop serious knowledge into wikipedia about art. From your favorite notable artwork, artist or exhibition, to our soon-to-be-famous peers. We'll also add structural links to alumni schools and categories like collective art groups, non profit orgs, etc.The day is Saturday January 26th: an afternoon on the internet quietly enriching the public domain. We imagine groups of 2-4 people around tables across the country, bottomless coffee cups fueling the discussions, fact checking, and troubleshooting. Ideally lots of "oh, that person worked with X, I'll make a page for them, link me up." There will also be a lot of online chatting across coasts. Video chats if bandwidth permits.
Roughly 12-8pm EST (9am-5pm PST) Saturday January 26th
- IRC: irc.gimp.org #artwikimarathon (irc://irc.gimp.org/#artwikimarathon)
- AIM: join chat: artwikimarathon
Here's a post for my geek readers. ArtCal now uses Amazon S3 for all of the exhibition images. That means we don't have to worry about storage space as we continue to add shows, and that images should load more quickly.
Quite of the few of the ads are served that way too. We just DNS magic to make it appear that they're coming from hosts with names like adimages.tristanmedia.com and static.artcat.com.
The new ArtCal uses feeds from Flickr, blip.tv, and also searches for links back to each listing via Bloglines Citations. When you're out taking photos and videos, or writing about shows, don't forget to tag/link appropriately.
This page (which was used for the screencap above) shows a good example of all three.
Update: Here is another idea for artists and galleries. If you have video or computer animation in a show, and your website isn't really set up well for video (unlike this), put some excerpts on blip.tv and tag them so that people visiting the exhibition page on ArtCal can watch them.
