Pisser de l'oeil

Gaslamp Art Showcase
Sunday, March 29 - Noon to 5pm

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UCSD NEWS RELEASE


Media Contact: Tiffany Fox, 858.246.0353, tfox@ucsd.edu

'Version' Online Arts Journal to Experiment with Content, Viral Publishing

Reception to be held April 2 at the gallery@Calit2, UC San Diego

San Diego, Calif., March 24, 2009 — A new online journal based at the University of California, San Diego, is experimenting with Web 2.0 sensibilities to explore the space where art, viral publishing and multitasking collide.

Titled Version, the journal features short-form writing, photography, video and other media work limited to 500 words, five images or 50 seconds in length. Co-editor Jordan Crandall, an associate professor in UC San Diego's Department of Visual Arts, says the publishing constraints are intended, in part, to accommodate an increasingly crowded online world, where content must compete for the attention of users who are already bombarded by constant media feeds and the demands of social networking.

"The idea behind Version is to avoid publishing long academic essays that require a substantial investment of time," Crandall explains. "Instead, we're interested in work that you can read in conjunction with the other things you're doing on the Internet. In this way, Version lends itself to a kind of multitasking space, where the content stays agile, mobile and re-mixable."

The public is invited to celebrate the launch of Version at a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, April 2, at the gallery@Calit2, located in Atkinson Hall on the UCSD campus. The reception will include a presentation on the history and development of Version. Calit2, otherwise known as the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, is producing the journal in conjunction with UCSD's Visual Arts Department and its Division of Arts and Humanities.

Although the journal's content will initially be published within the confines of the Version Web site, co-editor Caleb Waldorf imagines it will spread by way of 'viral publishing' — a means of sharing content among users until it ultimately lives in a multitude of spaces online.

"We purposely designed our content modules to be the same size as the advertising blocks you see on most Web sites so that they can reside anywhere on the Web," says Waldorf, who is a Los Angeles-based artist, former UCSD Visual Arts graduate student and researcher with the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts at Calit2. "The way we title the content is flexible enough that it can be recognizable in other places, almost like a code string."

A Version essay about the deadpan humor of conceptual artist John Baldessari, for example, is titled "Illuminations.john+c+welchman.deadpan.022609," reflecting the journal content category ("Illuminations") the author (UCSD's John Welchman, professor of modern art history), the title of the piece ("Deadpan") and the date of publication. When displayed in a Twitter feed or as a Deli.cio.us bookmark, the titling mechanism serves as a marker of Version's brand identity, but is also understandable to users who have never visited the Version Web site.
"Eventually," Crandall predicts, 'Version could become a decentralized journal. We hope our identity will carry through as the content gets forwarded and resides in other places, but perhaps it will mutate, and maybe that's interesting, too."

While the majority of the journal's initial contributors are faculty and affiliates of the Visual Arts Department, Crandall and Waldorf say they are especially interested in transcending disciplines and genre divides and welcome contributions from anyone up to the challenge.

"Our idea is to publish work that is based in anecdote and allegory: Stories, scenes and encounters that happen in everyday life, things we can all relate to," Crandall says. "Although there is a certain experimental element behind this project, it's not a grand philosophical argument. It's about the texture and richness of physical experience. It's about that sensory charge you get when something resonates with you.

"With good art, you want to pay attention to the infrastructure and form, yes, but also the content. And in order for this journal to work, the content has to be compelling, evocative, rich and full of life."

gallery@Calit2
UCSD Department of Visual Arts
UCSD Division of Arts and Humanities

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Saturday, March 21 / Panel Discussion - Videos
7:00pm

ART Produce Gallery
3139 University Ave.
San Diego, CA
619.584.4448 or 619.200.8297

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nineRooms
LIVEArtINSTALLATIONS

INSIDE
444 SOUTH CEDROS AVENUE
SOLANA BEACH, CA 92075

“nineRooms, LIVEArtINSTALLATIONS” features nine artists and their processes on exhibit for one night only. Curator and artist, Melissa Stager of Susan Street Fine Art Gallery and the South Cedros Property Owners Association have joined forces to reveal the extraordinary underlying talents of live artists in San Diego. The exhibition will include installation and performance pieces by MiraCosta College professors, Yoshimi Hayashi and Anna O’Cain, and San Diego Artists Chris Warr, Hollis Swan, Benjalmin Eldworlds, Jessica Gannon, Joshua Bellfy, Justin Morrison, and David White, founder of Agitprop art space in San Diego. The Installations are diverse and will vary between live performances of interactive process; artists creating in solitude who can be viewed through peepholes; artists who are presenting installations documenting site-specific performance pieces. Artist, David White will be providing free legitimate tax preparation services for any viewer that comes with the required documents in hand. Musical entertainment will be provided by the engaging Pacific Northwest’s indie rock, low fi/country/folk band, ‘The Gift Machine,’ whose performance will be sandwiched by eclectic San Diego DJ, Nick Gaby. “nineRooms, LIVEArtINSTALLATIONS” is a one-night event from 5pm–9pm that is expected to draw a large diverse crowd from both the San Diego and North County areas who are coming together to explore the engaging multi dimensions of live art. This exhibition is in partner with Cedros Third Thursday Gallery Walk Night and the Cedros Blooms festival and will take place inside of 444 South Cedros Avenue in the heart of the Cedros Design District in Solana Beach, CA. For further inquiries, please contact melissa_stager@yahoo.com

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by Naomi Nussbaum, Mario Torero, Cheryl Nickel, Synergy Art Foundation


To - Attendees of the December '08 Artspace Meeting

At last!
Attached is a link to the Survey for San Diego Artists and Arts Organizations. We are sending this to all who attended the Dec '08 Artspace presentation, and others who have expressed interest in the fate of the Arts in San Diego. Please forward this survey link to anyone you think may be interested. We hope to have 3,000 responses by deadline of April 15 '09.

If you are not an artist or a representative of an arts organization but wish to be involved or informed, please send a return email with your name and contact information. Iif you are interested in volunteering to help with the project , please let us know your area of interest. We will be organizing a "task force" to help with the many aspects to address - Finance, Politics, Research, Community, Philosophy, etc.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=DDEBzMDXs_2f0wf3yK_2fcYr8Q_3d_3d

Thank you for your support,

Naomi Nussbaum
Mario Torero
Cheryl Nickel
Synergy Art Foundation

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Intimate Simulations / Simulaciones íntimas

Grand opening of Lui Velazquez 2.0
Saturday March 14th / Sabado 14 Marzo / 7-9pm





Featuring the work of:
Susy Bielak
Dream Addictive Lab
Elle Mehrmand
Zac Montanaro
Priscilla Lázaro Rabago

Co-curated by Katherine Sweetman, Micha Cárdenas and Felipe Zuñiga

Lui Velazquez
Calle José Maria Larroque #273.
2do Piso, Int. 6, Colonia Federal.
Tijuana, Baja California.
Mexico, C.P. 22 300
directions at: luivelazquez.com/directions

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