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meeting minutes-7.6.2010

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Thursday, 08 July 2010
Minutes 7.6.2010 In attendance Sara Sun, Zhang Ga, Olga Lysenko, G.H. Hovagimyan. Sara Sun is a new member she’s a new media/video artist. She’s been involved with [PAM]. Zhang Ga is a new Media curator. Here’s his bio/web signature – ZHANG Ga Artistic Director / Curator TransLife: Media Art China 2011 - International Media Art Exhibition National Art Museum of China http://www.mediartchina.org Professor / Director TASML \| Tsinghua University Art & Science Center MediaLAB -------------------------------------------------- Associate Professor School of Art, Media and Technology Parsons the New School for Design http://tasml.parsons.edu Senior Researcher Meda x Design Lab EPFL \| Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne -------------------------------------------------- Visiting Scientist MIT Media Lab Zhang is interested in coming to meetings. He is interested in the group dynamic. Sara will introduce herself through the list soon. The meeting commenced with Olga presenting a project that her and Jaime developed. The project involves creating a curator persona with the name Matt Signierties (an anagram for Artists Meeting!) I will ask Olga to repost the entire proposal for the group to look over and discuss. Various terms were batted around such as Synthetic person, Virtual Person, Pseudo Curator for this ersatz person. Zhang who is a curator added his point of view. He said that the idea of constructing a curator had been done several times in the art world. He questioned what the motives were for creating such a project. Olg said it was a critique of the curatorial process. Z said it’s not clear from the proposal what exactly is being critiqued. He felt that the proposal was an attempt to borrow the authority of the curator to legitimize Artists Meeting. He said that we need to set out some parameters such as; what are the problems of curating, what is AM’s problem with curators, How arbitrary is curating etc.? Z then talked about his experience of curating from very small intimate shows to 3 million dollar Biennials. He said you start with a curatorial goal and then go through a series of choices and compromises based on budget, what pieces are more accessible to the general public, and a host of political considerations such as the host countries artists and various quotas for race gender etc. GH piped in that the art world seems to have a series of thematic memes that all the curators use. He commented that a while ago every showed had the theme of, “the body.” After that the theme shifted to, “mapping” and then a lot of variations on interactivity and “locative media.” He mentioned that often there is a theoretical basis for the curatorial theme that refers to someone such as Jacques Ranciere. Z said that artists also function as theoreticians in some measure. He said that there is the question of curatorial mechanism that might be worth investigating. All in all, the consensus was that the project needs to be researched more and defined more clearly. Zhang the left and Sara, Olga & gh continued the discussion. Sara mentioned that the Matt Signierties represented an authority figure or a gatekeeper. GH remarked that Lee Wells was missed at the meting and he would have another unique perspective. Lee had siadthat he approached curating as a sort of Duchampian exercise. Sara asked what that meant. Gh said that Duchamp was the curator for Walter Arensberg. At that time everyone was trying to define what modern art and modernism was. GH said that artists usually did that with their work but that Duchamp also engaged in defining modernism through curating as a conceptual exercise. GH came up with an idea for a Virtual Curator, a sort of chat bot. He said that there are sites on the web where you can construct your own chat bots. Olga said maybe call the project, Matt Signierties, Curator 2.0. The group thought we could program a chat bot with curatorial jargon. We could have artists submit there work either online or at a Kiosk depending on the venue. GH had mentioned that there is a programming language called AIML (artificial intelligence markup language) that can be used if we want to be hard core there are also a series of free software programs that need to be researched on the web to make this all viable. Be first to comment this article \| Add as favourites (9) \| Quote this article on your site \| Views: 92
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Meeting Minutes 01.19.10

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Wednesday, 20 January 2010

Meeting Minutes 1.19.10

In attendance Nicole Abahuni, Jon Handel, G.H. Hovagimyan. Discussion was about Apex Art proposal and proposal for Pulse NY. We focused on Pulse NY.

GH says we should think about how much space we need. He assumes that we will get some left over space or dead space like they gave us in Pulse Miami. That is if they accept our proposal.

Jon came up with several ideas. One was to set up a phone number or series of number or skype phone numbers that people could call. We could have the phone number on the wall. Another was to sell services. GH says we should have artists giving Tsiastu massages to stressed out art collectors and dealers.

Nicole suggested to bake cupcakes and have a piece of art printed on the paper surrounding the cupcake.

Jon said have surprise grab bags of art in brown paper lunch bags.

Jon Suggested to have an actor do a live lecture on some serious subject.

GH suggested a traveling video report of the art fair in the manner of a sports announcer.

Jon said we can send text or images via bluetooth to cellphones. GH says we had that idea way back for the DUMBO arts festival and there is a hack for that.

The group than talked about using project proposals from Pulse Miami, and updating and enlarging the idea for Pulse NY. The thought was to have a wall display that has a grid or a line of digital picture frames. Each artist in the group would buy the same frame and put digital slideshow on the frame. Each frame would be numbers and a corresponding list would be put on the wall. This would have the artists name and a project decription. The individual frames/projects can be sold or they can simply be project proposals.

The costs of the frame is around $60-100 depending on the size. The final list can be printed out at Kinkos as a giant Xerox. This proposal can also be used for apex art unless there are other suggestions for proposals. Jon Handel said he would take some of the responsibility for organizing the booth at Pulse NY if our project is accepted.

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meeting minute 10.13.09

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Thursday, 15 October 2009
Meeting Minutes_10.13.09 In attendance: James Andrews, Bethany Fancher, G.H. Hovagimyan, Thomas Hutchison, Olga Lysenko, Mayuko Nakatsuka, Joao Salema, Lee Wells Thomas brought his drawing for the Auction poster he’s got it sketched out and is working on filling in the colors. G.H. has put up the auction site at http://artistsmeeting.org/auction. He’s also put in paypal buttons. The buttons are set to the starting bid so that pre-auction people can purchase the works at that price. The buttons go to GH’s paypal account. He tried to set up an Artists Meeting account but paypal wants a bank account and a credit card on file for any account. Maybe that’s for when the group starts getting major funding!!! Auction is set for Nov. 1^st at Flux Factory. GH has sent out corrected press releases, put the PR on the front page of the AM site and also in the press release section on the AM site. He’s also set up a press release web page that can be email via browser or linked to by other sites. The page is http://artistsmeeting.org/auction/press_release.html Discussion continued about the Nov. 1^st auction. Mayuko has two bands for the event Super Seaweed Sex Scandal and Live Footage. Discussion was about the charges for the event. $10 at the door, no free drinks. $2 for beer $4 for liquor. GH says we have $150 from the last YTTP to spend on booze. One question was how to chill the beer. We will get 15 cases of Pabst. GH says we get one or two plastic garbage cans and fill them with ice. There are three areas to make money on this event, the admission, the bar and the auction. Here’s the percentage breakdown; (admission – Bands 40%, Flux Factory 10%, AM – 50%), (Bar – Flux Factory 10%, AM- 90%) , (auction – artists 30%, Flux Factory 10%, paypal 2.9% plus 30cents per transaction, AM –57% more or less) Thomas wants to keep the door and the bar as a suggested donations. The rationale is that we can’t really charge without a license. Thomas also says that he will find basswood to fashion bidding paddles for the auction. GH presented the AM paphlet in two sizes. The group liked the smaller size. He will print them out and we will have them at the Auction/Benefit/Concert. So for the admission you get a paddle and a pamphlet! Bartending will be by AM members. Everyone thought that Daniel was a really good bartender at the last YTTP. The discussion is that for the auction people will need to sign in with a number. The thought is to number the paddles and take the persons name address and info at the door. There was a suggestion to do a silent auction before Bethany starts the auction. Also the DJ’s should be playing as people come into the space to view the exhibition. GH says that he thinks if this event is successful we should do another auction but treat it like an integrated art installation/intervention. He also says that Bruno the sysadmin for nujus may be able to set up our own AM auction site. The accounting for this event will be critical. The thought is to have Edita handle the registering of auction bidders and have her record the final prices paid for each piece. GH says we can use his paypal account if we have WIFI access at the Flux factory. We can also accept checks and cash. Promotion of this event is critical. We need everyone to get people who might buy art to come to this auction. The suggestion is to have each member contact a potential collector for their work. Bethany says she has some people she will contact. James said that theres a yearly auction where people pay $200 admission and get to choose an artwork after their name is picked out of a hat. These are high profile artists. More discussion on future AM auctions is in order. Installation of the works and set up will begin on noon at the Flux Factory. Thomas says each artists should bring their work and be responsible for installing it. GH has a plinth shelf and a larger plinth base that he showed the group to use to make the installation less about hanging a few pieces on the wall; The more interesting the installation the more the interest in the work. Several pieces have variations on installation, Olga’s Light sconces, the AM drawing roll, GH’s large piece, the four AM dress shirts, and Christina’s suite of six prints. Thomas says the bands should set up in the loading dock area and the bar can be set up in a niche in the wall. People will enter though the office area. James has suggested that we all bring plastic bags and wrapping materials so that when people take the work with them they have something to carry it in to protect from the weather. Several of the pieces are unframed prints. The suggestion was to put them in a plastic sleeve and use binder clips to hang on the wall with push pins. Thomas says that he will be responsible for the lighting and the P.A. at the Flux Factory. He did the wiring for the whole place and knows the electrical system to power the bands and anything else. YTTP- DokFest, Kassel Germany – Jaime Jackson and Eliza Fernbach will do a YTTP on Nov. 12^th. It’s suggested that everyone create new Tritychs to give them a choice. It’s also good if each member looks at what they’ve created and start an online discussion about what works to help Jaime & Eliza have a good event. Next workshop for Galilee is scheduled for Oct. 23. Olga says she will have the Olgamobile to drive up on Sat. the 24^th. Thomas & Kate & dog are coming up with Olga. Maybe Jon Handel will come with Olga as well. Lee & Joao are coming up with GH. For PULSE Miami GH is looking to rent a house or apartment that sleeps 6. The rental fees are $1350-1500 a week. He will try and get nine days instead of seven. Lee says that The flight to Ft. Lauderdale is around $250 round trip and there is a shuttle to Miami. He will fly down with Joao. Thomas says he will fly from Charlotte, NC. GH and Joyce will be driving with the Art Machine modules and the artwork. They plan to leave Nov. 24^th or 25^th and drive to DC for Thanksgiving, continue to visit relative in Savannah and wind up in Miami on Nov. 29^th. Installation and building the art machine wall will begin on Monday Nov. 30^th We have Mon.Tues. Wed. for Installation. Lee thinks the opening will be Wednesday evening. Be first to comment this article \| Add as favourites (61) \| Quote this article on your site \| Views: 393
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meeting minutes 9.15.09

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Wednesday, 16 September 2009
Meeting Minutes 09.15.09 In attendance – Bethany Fancher, Olga Lysenko, John Handel, Lee Wells, G.H. Hovagimyan Discussion was around the benefit event for the Flux factory. Group is waiting for exact date to begin preparations. The group seemed to think that doing an art auction was very difficult and that having a dual event auction/band concert was problematic. Also the time constraint of using kickstarter for payment put a final date of Friday October 16^th as the proposed date. There’s not enough time to organize the event and publicize it in that short amount of time. GH says that we should disregard the Oct.16^th time constraint and assume that the kickstarter fundraising isn’t working. (note: most people thought the kickstarter site was an amusing send up artwork and didn’t pledge any money, we shold simply play it as that – gh ) Lee says that there’s some hostility and jealousness that AM is going to Pulse, as a consequence he believes that most people won’t come to a benefit to help us get to Miami if it’s advertised that way. He suggested we simply do a party/concert with a bar and not mention Pulse. The group thought that separating out the art auction and doing at another time was a better choice. Lee said that he’d been to failed auctions. It was better not to have that happen to us. In anycase the amount of work to gather and catalog all the art works, put up a web site and arrange for payments and produce all the promotional materials seemed to be too much work. John Handel said that a good site to list events was on artcards.cc Lee and everyone said they could do separate email promotions of the AM event once we have a definite date set. GH said that it might be better to have Bethany do a stripped down auction style performance with five pieces of art. This would be part of a performance/concert/party AM could host to bring in cash. There was some discussion of the AM group donating art works and Olga talked about a high-end lamp she could donate. GH said there are other possibilities for an auction to be at a later date at maybe Postmasters or Emily Harvey foundation. For the Flux factory it was decided to do an eving of performances and bands with a bar. Entrance price would be $10 with one free drink. Drinks would be $5 after that. The suggested performances thus far are; Leesa & Nicole doing their recent performance, Olga says she can get tap dancers and Burlesque dancers, Bethany can do an art auction with five items and stringers in the audience, GH says he will do a new series of Rants. Anyone else have any ideas for performances? Mayu has a couple of bands lined up. The group also talked about doing gh’s rich sucker rap each person doing it. It was proposed to do it on video during the last workshop. Olga says she can translate it into Ukrainian! Other possible venues for a benefit aside from Flux factory – John Handel suggested Envoy gallery on Chrystie street. Also John Handel who is our newest member has said he will seek booze sponsorship for the event once we get a date and fixed location. Next weekend workshop at gh’s place is Sept. 25^th. Olga says she can get her parents car and take four people up. This involves the four people taking a train to the GW bridge and then taking a $1 bus across the bridge to NJ to meet her. (note: I’ve done this it’s very easy-gh) gh says he will have room for three people in his car but as you know he leaves Friday around noon and returns Monday afternoon. Lee says that Chris Borkowski is getting interested in the project and may also drive up in his red sports car! The group turned to a design discussion for the face of the the AM-AM wall. There are some blank areas that need to be articulated in some manner with text or signage. Lee said simply have Artists Meeting and the names of all the artists. GH suggested to do the letters perhaps with Kodak lenticular paper and drill out for xmas lights or small roud bulbs like in a marquee. GH also says there is a melamine plywood we can use instead of masonite that come prefinished in white so we don’t have to paint the façade or treat it in any way. He will stop at home depot and research the product. Th group thought that listing all the artists name on one panel but doing it in several languages would be good. They thought that Mayu might translate into Japanese and Olga could do Russian and Ukrainian. There was also the suggestion of Chinese but we need to have someone do that. Lee said we can try the auto translation sites on the web. Lee said that the space behind the needs to have a curtain or something that would stopped people from seeing the gallery wall behind it. GH saId he’s got a curtain rod in the barn that will do the trick. GH also said he has four fluorescent lights to attach to the back wall lighting up the modules. He had followed Joao’s suggestion and cut a window with a plexi insert to show the drawings as the come out of the machine. The discussion than turned to the vinyl envelopes. Each envelope is 6 x 9 inches and AM artists should be producing artworks to put in these packages. The group scheduled another meeting for Oct. 9^th and is asking that artworks be ready at that time. GH had a booklet prototype of 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches that he made by folding and stapling together tow tabloid size piece of paper. He said he can print out the larger sheets on his big printer. Lee took the folded paper template. We are asking that members start giving him content to assemble into small booklets to be put in the object dispensers. (note: We may have to be prepared to have 250-500 vinyl packages made for the dispenser. Lee has said that he also wants to do a more expensive back room deal for adventurous collectors. We could wind up making $5000 or more on this project if we get enough volume of sales!) Lee says that the digital frame should only have images of the products we are selling and also some text statements. John Handel suggested we do a pamphlet of meeting minutes (gh says he’ll try and do this.) Lee said that each vinyl envelope should have an insert that says: artists meeting art machine, the date, and perhaps Pulse Art Fair Miami. Anyone want to design the type? Finally the group came up with a viral project for facebook based on the adopt an orphan campaign. It would be a sponsor an artist facebook site. Anyone interested in producing this and laying out the parameters? It could be very hot! The next meeting was scheduled for Tues. Oct 9^th. Be first to comment this article \| Add as favourites (64) \| Quote this article on your site \| Views: 463
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meeting minutes_8.4.09

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Wednesday, 05 August 2009
Meeting minutes 8.4.09 In Attendance – James Andrews, Michael Clemow, G.H. Hovagimyan, Thomas Hutchison, Olga Lysenko, Mayuko Nakatsuka, Maria Joao Salema, Raphaele Shirley, Lee Wells Meeting was held on Raphaele’s roof with a bar-b-cue and two French art historians in attendance. G.H. brought AM undies propotypes made by Olga & GH . French historians took two of Olga’s and one of GH’s as a gift and will take them back to Paris. They said they will tell their friends how to meet artists in New York. Thomas proposed a concert/event fundraiser at Flux Factory in October (NOTE: this should be done before October 17th which is the finish of the Kickstarter page) Thomas said he will organize the bands and the event. Discussion is to have artworks for sale and use kickstarter as the payment vehicle. GH says everyone should pledge to kickstarter. It generates interest and will convince more people to pledge. Joyce is pledging $50 a week for the next ten weeks. This will bump the AM page up to the top of the recently backed list every week. If all AM members pledge it will also up the supporters count and make the AM page be listed under most popular. Also everyone should try and get friends to pledge. Lee Wells put the AM kickstarter.com link on the front of [PAM] and Heinrich put it on the front page of Vernissage TV Olga says she wants to do portraits of AM members on banana hammocks. GH says use the staring contest for the portraits. Perhaps make a soft fade oval around the face and have Artists Meeting on the bottom and the members name on the top. Lee says we should do plain letter AM and also have photos of real underwear with real behinds. GH says we should have all the members model the underwear. Lee says he doesn’t have a Brazilian wax job. (note: we should try and do this for our work session weekend Aug.22nd) Thomas says he has a silkscreen and can re-burn it to make AM stencils for more underwear. AM-AM project proposal has been sent to Art Cologne GH says he got an automated email response that the head Adlehaid Tauber is on family leave and will return end of August. He will re-send at that time but he CC’d Heinrich Schmidt who says the proposal looks good. The proposal is to do the Art Machine installation and also have a YouTube party at Art Cologn, the Kickstarter site and video are also part of the project. Other possible venues are Pulse Art Fair in Miami, Scope in Miami and Next Art Fair in Chicago. Lee says he will help with recommendations for Scope, and send an email to his friend who is the director of Art Cologne. Lee says he has done 17 art fairs in two years and will help and advise wherever he can. Discussion also turned to building the prototype wall. This will be done at GH’s country studio. He will host a group weekend Aug. 22nd . Everyone can come up. Lee says perhaps the group can rent a 9 person van for the weekend. Discussion continues with parameters of art machine. Michael says the drawing dispenser is easy. He says he can make a spiral wire product dispenser. Question is what is the actual installation like? Is it two drawing dispensers and a trough for drop down products in shrink wrapped packaging or is it one drawing dispenser and one object dispenser? GH suggested a digital frame to display a slide show attached to AM –AM wall. This can be of objects AM is vending or portraits. Thomas says he has a mini-dvd player where the sound doesn’t work he can donate to display videos. GH says he has some old laptops that can function as display mechanisms as well. GH says the machine should use tokens and has found a site that will make custom tokens. Group approves of tokens. Thomas says he wants his nose on token! (gh note: please look over token site -- http://www.tokensdirectstore.com/ standard token is $185 for 1000. I like no cash value and the American Eagle with freedom custom designs are more expensive and minumum is 5000) GH says token slot should probably be made of Plexiglas. Mike says T&T plastics on church street will fabricate coin drop to our specs. GH says T&T is worth a field trip visit to look at materials such as Kodak lenticular contact paper. Olga says she’s been wanting to make cabinets from that material. Discussion continue with making drawings for drawing machine GH says he found a supplier for 8 inch wide paper rolls on the internet. Drawing session is discussed. Lee says roll it out long and we all draw on it. GH says James can go crazy with his drawings, Olga says we can cut patterns in paint rollers and roll them across the paper. Raphaele discusses building schedule for wall and module for AM-AM. She thinks that we may need to rent a truck and drive the whole project down to Miami. Lee & GH say build the modules separately and attached to wall we build on site. Discussion also continues about Art Cologne in April and taking modules on airplane. GH says we can build custom cases for them and ship them along with the objects for the AM-AM . Be first to comment this article \| Add as favourites (87) \| Quote this article on your site \| Views: 519
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minutes_6.23.09

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Wednesday, 24 June 2009
Meeting minutes 06.23.09 In attendance Michael Clemow, Olga Lysenko, Mayuko Nakatsuka, G.H. Hovagimyan Michael demonstrated a working prototype for the Art ists Meeting-Art Machine [AM-AM] drawing dispenser module. This consisted of a DIY hacked together automatic paper towel dispenser and an automatic coin counter. Nice work Michael! Michael wired up a couple of micro controllers to the coin counter and the towel dispenser. This module now needs drawings to dispense. There are several ways to create drawings on continuous rolls of paper. The rolls of paper are 8 inches wide by 425 feet long. Each time the dispenser is triggered it puts out a one foot piece of paper that can be torn off. If a person puts in another quarter and doesn’t tear off the paper the drawing is 2 feet x 8 inches. We have 8 rolls of paper towels. One possibility is to feed the roll through a regular printer and print images on it. I will experiment with this on my printer. We could give AM members the chance to create their own drawing/roll/prints individually. We could also collect jpegs from everyone and print a collective roll of paper. The other thing to consider is the notion of rolling/unrolling as the basis for any drawing. This might involve the creation of a frieze motif. GH suggested that we have a drawing/painting session for the next meeting. Perhaps we can do this at Raphaele’s studio when she returns or maybe we can use a space at SVA or Parsons. GH suggested that we use paint rollers that we cut up to create a rolling repetitive motif. We could all buy or bring ink, paint, rollers etc.. for a painting party! Michael says that if we use one coin drop interface we can plug in 12 separate art modules. One suggestion was to have a wall of drawing dispensers. Michael tought it would be amusing to do a curated show of artists giving each artist a drawing dispenser. The group talked about other types of AM art that could be dispensed. The proposal was to create a module that could be installed in Art Fair booths. We would have a false wall built in a booth behind which we could install various coin operated art dispensers. This is the proposal that GH will develop for LMCC/Art Cologne/kickstarter. Olga and Michael then began to design further modules. They quickly came up with the idea that a flat piece would be the easiest to dispense various art worls. This would be a DVD case approx. 5inx8in and perhaps a cardboard sandwich with shrink wrap or taped together pieces that would hold, underwear or maybe a pack of Joao’s pleasant places post cards etc.. So far we have suggestions for using/dispensing what we have already produced such as SBOW videos in a DVD or the AM triptych posters or AM chefs shirts or dispensing lengths of Barricade tape. GH says that a preliminary search shows that the standard Art Fair booth is around 12 ft by 9ft tall. The group thought that six dispensers could be fitted into this wall controlled by one coin operated interface. Michael say we can have a button panel that would select each one of the modules or we could also have a random choice. Michael and Olga will research standardized packages and also begin to design/fabricate another trough dispenser for the other artworks in the card board packages. GH said he will approach Postmasters to ask if we could install an Art Machine in the foyer of the Gallery. The next meeting is scheduled for July 14th. Perhaps we can have a painting session before then when Raphaele returns. Be first to comment this article \| Add as favourites (96) \| Quote this article on your site \| Views: 587
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minutes_05.27.09

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Thursday, 28 May 2009
Meeting Minutes – May 27th, 2009 In attendance – Leesa Abahuni, Daniel Blochwitz, Michael Clemow, G.H. Hovagimyan, Olga Lysenko, Joao Salema The group has two deadlines. June 8th for all materials for the Berlin Metro proposal and August for Art Cologne proposal. The group has a new member Michael Clemow a recent graduate from the ITP at NYU. He’s interested in helping AM to design the interfaces and hacks for the Art Vending Machines. GH passed out copies of the NGBK -- Berlin Metro call for project proposals and also had scrap paper on hand for drawing and doodling. You can get the call and application form here -- http://ngbk.de/site/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=39&Itemid=40 Proposals for metro discussion; Leesa suggested a bench with a sound art work triggered by people sitting on it. GH said maybe this should be like a movie vignette where a light flickers overhead, a video goes on when the person sits, maybe a vending machine dispenses something etc. Michael suggested a performance in front of the security cameras. GH thought it might be interesting to have video monitors with images of East German (communist) guards walking the platform. The initial call for proposals talks about several abandoned and/or unused stations. Daniel suggested that we propose to do a recreation of a New York City Subway station. The group liked that idea and decided to go with that. Some stations proposed were, Times Square, Utica Ave, Jamaica, Canal St, Coney Island, Wall St, East Broadway. No decision on which is best. Group decided we all should collect as much material as we can and bring it to a special meeting next Wednesday. It was decided to collect as much materials for the proposal and then meet and see what we have. From there we will put together a proposal and decide the best Station Name to use. Olga says she can set up an indesign template that we can all download and scan, plug-in our images and proposal ideas. The parameters are to use an unused station on the Berlin Metro an fit it out to look like a New York subway station. Trains passing through would see this. There is also the idea of having a performance in the transformed station. Maybe a tableau vivant or any other type of performance. Other inspiriations or themes might be Germans in New York. Leesa suggested to take photos of some of our favorite or noticed details in New York Subway stations. These can be used in the proposal and may be anything as for example a water stain seeping down a steel column or a bit of old fashioned tile work. Everyone should do research by snapping some pix of stations. Also we need people to go to the New York Transit Museum and do some research take photos etc.. or we can all go as a field trip together. There is a website that also has a bunch of images we can grab for the proposal -- http://www.nycsubway.org/cars/nytm.html There is potential for getting NYC transit involved if our proposal is accepted from Berlin. There is an agency called MTA arts in transit that could help us if we get further along. This means that if we propose replica subways signs or want to ship a portion of a NYC subway car, we might be able to enlist their help. Daniel says there are video displays in the Berlin trains. GH proposed to do a video montage of old film sequences that have the interior of Subway cars. There is also a proposal to do projections that are timed to coincide with the trains entering the station so it looks like a motion trigger. Daniel also suggested that in our Faux New York station we can have all the billboards display images/prints/artworks that can be changed periodically. The parameters of the piece; The selected projects should be realized between Autumn 2009 and December 2010. A total budget of 60.000 Euro for artist’s fees, production, travel and accommodation costs will be available (subject to grants from the Berlin Senate’s Department for Culture). NOTE: I don’t think this means 60,000 for each project, I think it means they have 60,000 to divide among 8 projects. I think this means, 7.500 euros is our target budget Which is around $10,000. When designing your proposal try to figure a rough cost for what you intend to do. It is important to have all your materials ready to bring to the next meeting on Wednesday June 3rd at 11 Harrison Street. Artists Meeting Art Machine [AMAM] The other main topic of discussion was the art vending machine project. GH has suggested that each member suggest a vending machine and be responsible for overseeing the design and fabrication of their part. The suggestions so far are, an automatic paper towel dispenser that can have a continouos drawing scroll created by the group that can be torn off in pieces. Each drawing piece will be dispensed by a coin-operated interface. Michael will research how to hack an existing dispenser and main a coin interface. Project can be proposed to Postmasters Gallery for their foyer and later be integrated into a larger project of Art Cologne. GH also is exploring other possible venues for presenting project such as Northern Lights in Minneapolis. Olga has proposed an AM underwear dispenser titled Artists Meeting Panty Raid. Discussion is to have Artists Meeting Contact info silk-screened on both panties and boxer shorts. GH envisions a wall with several dispensers of AM art objects such as barricade tape, drawings, CD’s or DVD’s Olga suggested an interactive display that created art as people put money into the machine to cause it to make a design on a screen. Joao has the idea of dispensing her Pleasant places post cards. Be first to comment this article \| Add as favourites (92) \| Quote this article on your site \| Views: 623

minutes 03/03/09

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Wednesday, 04 March 2009
Meeting Minutes March 3, 2009 In attendance, James Andrews, Olga Lysenko, Maria Joao Salema, Raphaele Shirley (via phone) Edita Zulic, G.H. Hovagimyan James presented the proposal/structure for the next youTube party that he and Lee had worked on. James is supposed to forward the full proposal to the list. The idea is to focus on youTube celebrities. The discussion was also about the idea of creating an “opera” the characters would be the youTube celebrities. It was suggested that all members start researching youTube celebrities. GH mentioned twitter whore as a likely candidate as well as any of a number of bounty hunter guys with ferocious dogs. James suggests getting a Live DJ and also have forty dancers jumper out at an appropriate moment in the event and start dancing. The group discussed tentative dates for the next youTube party which were Mid May and june 20 – 21st. The discussion of the opera also involved the idea of the structure or the Libretto. GH suggested that Steve Strouse from you3B might be able to do an annotation hack on the youTube code so that you tube videos assembled by members could jump by link from one video to another. (gh notes: there’s a video in the first youTube party that does just that see-- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ovmge_z4mFA&feature=PlayList&p=F9F7BE6269863505&index=0&playnext=1 ) . Raphaele talked about the soapbox opera video piece she want to do for the MTAA space, April 17th. She has 2-3 actors that will act/interpret text. She’s asking members to submit text for acting. The initial thought was some sort of theory text. GH suggested for a publication that the AM group take up where the Bad Santa collaboration stopped and create a Graphic Novel or comic book that we can print. (gh notes – we could have each person do a panel and have them follow the narrative from a cue in the previous person’s panel..) Edita and Joao talked about Emile Zola’s novel The Masterpiece and discussion continued on how to do the As the ArtWorld Turns Project. The youTube Party has to take into account the Venice Biennial and the Basel art fair June 1-14th . GH suggested that we contact the Whitney education dept about doing a youTube party as a performance event. Anyone want to start that ball rolling? Be first to comment this article \| Add as favourites (135) \| Quote this article on your site \| Views: 664
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meeting minutes 12.09.08

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Wednesday, 10 December 2008

Meeting Minute Dec. 9, 2008
In Attendance – James Andrews, Daniel Blochwitz, G.H. Hovagimyan, Thomas Hutchison, Mayuko Nakatsuka, Maria Joao Salema.

Group talked about next YouTube Slam. Tentative date Friday Jan.9 or Saturday Jan. 10th. GH will talk to Magda to confirm date. Next Slam to be organized by Maria Joao, James and Thomas. James will be liason to Magda and consult on video curating.Thomas will doing physical set up and organize sponsorship (six points beer). Joao will work on playlist and curating. Maria Joao, James and Thomas are the steering committee for the youTube Slam. GH says that Joyce will also kick in for the booze. The group decided to use you3.com triptychs for the next interface. James set-up an artists meeting account on you3b.com id:artistsmeeting, pswd:same as our youTube account. Joao says the new playlists need names and also tags. Discussion on how to proceed needs to be fleshed out. GH suggested that we work on a third slam for the springtime that uses youTube hacks maybe something like plug in a poetry generator to the youTube search engine to create random playlists or some other hack that can be an AM special project.

Next publication: Steering committee Thomas and Daniel. Thomas says he has a top-notch graphic designer he wants to work with to design the publication. Target is to have it ready for the armory show and all the Spring art fairs March 4 –8th. Daniel has suggested sending out a questionnaires or 3 questions that he will formulate to AM friends. Questions will be what they think are viable alternative models for art production. James says he will chat up some alt curators he’s seeing tomorrow evening. The idea is to get some models or text that can be used as content for the publication. GH says that Alan Moore has scored a swing space for a Colab project and invited AM to do a meeting at the space. GH suggests that maybe we should continue the alternative models discussion at the meeting and invite all the responders to engage in a discussion than document the event to add as content to the publication. James says there is a model people are talking about now called payforward. He also says there are interesting models to view on websites greenmuseum.org and charityfocus.org.

GH says that plazaville is picking up steam and he will be shooting 10 scenes once a week starting January 2009. He’s getting a response from a casting call he put out through an actress friend of Raphaele’s. The actors are excited about the project and are willing to work with AM on it. The final presentation of Plazaville will be at Pace Digital gallery in the month of April and the separate episodes will be available on the turbulence site as they are produced.

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meeting minutes 10.22.08

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Thursday, 23 October 2008

Meeting Minutes – 10.22.08

In attendance – Leesa Abahuni, G.H. Hovagimyan, Thomas Hutchison, Mayuko Nakatsuka, Maria-Joao Salema, Raphaele Shirley

Leesa says that she got Inocente Tequila to sponsor the youTube Slam and give us five bottles of Inocente Tequila. The group then talked about the youTube slma scheduled for Nov.8th. The set-up at Postmasters is a large projector in the main gallery. The gallery is carpeted. Magda asks that we set up a bar either in the front foyer or in the back gallery.

GH says he will check out the gallery today. Tech questions are where to put the computer for the slam and can you have two computers one of which plays the playlists while the other may be used for participants add their own playlists. Raphaele say that we should have the computer in the main gallery so that the VJ can interact with the crowd.

Leesa thought that if food (tostidos) and booze were in the back no one would be in the gallery. She suggested to do a performance piece where she and other AM members carry shot trays around in the main gallery. She suggested a costume. GH said like a marching band. Leesa said she was in a marching band in HS. Joao said that we should all wear the AM shirts for the party making it a “performance.” GH said that he wants to video the party as a part of the Plazaville project. He referred to the cocktail party/execution scene in Alpahville. He said that we could play the execution scene from youTube and have some of the actors watch it while mixing with the crowd.
Thomas asked how the Vjing was structured – the consensus was to play it by ear and see how the situation is on the day of the event. Joao said that based on her experience with Lee doing YouTube parties at Monkeytown the AM group should prepare the material beforehand and not rely on the crowd to participate. We need to confirm who is doing the event and what the division of labor will be. So far we have confirmed for the event – Leesa & Nicole, Mayuko, Naho, GH, Thomas, Maria-Joao. Of course we all miss Lee and wish he wash here with his expertise in the video area.

There was some discussion about using deezer.com as a DJ combat event in the back room. Two questions are whether this will distract from the main room and how complicated it will be to add another layer to the event. Thomas & Maria-Joao said we need a backup plan in case youTube freezes or something. Thomas said he will bring his iPod as back up. GH said he wants to shoot video of the event and then upload it to youTube.

The group decided to meet once more before the event to edit the playlists and view all the content thus far. The meeting is scheduled for Tuesday October-29th at 8pm at GH’s place. The group will look at all the videos to get a sense of the event. GH said he put the playlists up on the AM site.
The group talked about Plazaville as a group project. GH said he is pursuing grants and venues for doing an installation of a projection piece. He felt that VIDEO DUMBO would be easy because everyone knows Casper Straecke.
He said he is also proposing to Centre Pompidou and Museo Reina Sofia.

GH Said he still has a lot of material that was shot by Christina McPhee that needs to be edited. Thomas and Raphaele said they would help with the editing. The discussion went for a while on how to create various scenes for Plazaville. Raphaele said she wanted to use Zircotti Park and put up a temporary Sunken city with a smoke Machine and incorporate that into Palzaville. GH said there is a part in the script of Alphaville that has the scientists talking about the plans of Alpha-60 computer. He also talked about doing a hotel scene at the Tribeca Grand. Raphaele.

The group said they liked Lee’s idea to do a newsprint paper like the one we did for Conflux. GH had suggested twice a year. Fall and Spring. No ideas on content or theme yet.

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Meeting Minutes_8.12.08

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Wednesday, 13 August 2008

Meeting Minutes – 8.12.08
In attendance – Leesa & Nicole Abahuni, James Andrews, Noah Apple, Thomas Hutchison, G.H. Hovagimyan, William Meyer, Mayuko Nakatsu, Maria Joao Salema, Rapahele Shirley, Lee Wells.

Noah Apple talked about his plan to do a “Pillow Man” man performance for the conflux festival. This would involve using a leather jacket and attaching as many of our brown vinyl pillows as he could. They would be detachable and he would distribute them downtown as he walked around.

The pillow sewing started. The consensus was that 16” x 16” was the best size. Raphaele asks that anyone who can come and cut out vinyl for pillows and do sewing to contact her. 1-917-805-6320 She wants people to come over on Saturday and Sunday to do sewing. This is very crucial. We need a lot of labor to get this done.

Here’s photos of the work session

http://nujus.net/~am-map/AM_vinyl/index.htm

Thomas said he could burn some silkscreens and screen print on the pillows. We also have a number of white chefs shirts that could function as A.M. uniforms/costumes. The consensus was to do two screens one with the letters AM and the other with the POPS logo. James Andrews set to work subverting the logo and came up with several variations.

The logos are also ideal as mini icons that the group can use on the Psycho-Geo Map. The group picked up the idea of using the logos for a rating system for the POPS plazas. This was discussed at a previous meeting. The notion was to make up icons that had arbitrary meanings such as “DEAD TREE PLAZA” and so on.

GH brought a print out of the most recent psycho-geo map. Lee talked about different ways we could get the printing costs down to something we could all kick in for. We have a deadline to submit all the final images and text for the map/newspaper. This should be the end of this week and the beginning of next week. The map/paper needs images expressing each persons project and/or images that express a psycho-geo sense of the plazas.

Each person discussed their projects, what, when and where they would do them. GH is trying to gather all the info so that he and Lee can make a good design for the final map/ newspaper.

Leesa & Nicole looked through the AM site conflux walkaround and were fascinated by the the colorful metal conversation seats in front of 200 Water street . They proposed to do a sound art piece that would interact with people who sit in the seats.

Raphaele has proposed to do a melted cityscape & laser closing party at the 60 Wall Street Plaza. This would be Sunday Sept.14th, 7pm-10 pm.

GH remarked that Artists Meeting already getting feedback and attention on the conflux site. See links –

http://confluxfestival.org/conflux2008/public-exhibition-space/

http://confluxfestival.org/conflux2008/category/projects/event-mobile/

Maria Joao presented her piece for the festival – the piece is titled Pleasant Places. She will copy a series of Dutch fantasy landscapes from the 16th century onto postcards and give them out to people. This was inspired by the idea of lower Manhattan as a Dutch colony and also as the Netherlands being the beginning of the sort of free market trading capitalism that Lower Manhattan stands for now. GH remarked that 85 Broad St has a number of vitrines embed in the sidewalk that reveals the ruins of the original Dutch Colony of New York.
Joao thought that would be a very good place to hand out the postcards.

GH also brought his barricade tape with the words printed; unknown unmade unseen undone. He discussed the performance using the tape. This would involve two people unfurling the tape while walking away from each other. He thought that this would have particular impact if done on Sept. 11th across from the WTC site.

Eliza Fernbach has conveyed to GH her desire to do a sticker piece that related to her “Driving to Your Death” billboard.

Lee Wells proposed to do a sticker piece that is a white smiley face on a black background with the word warning above the head.

GH said that there are a number of other projects that were proposed for conflux such as doing a walking tour of Psycho-Geo plazas. Leesa & Nicole said they still have the amplifiers from last years DUMBO performance that the group could use. This needs to be organized properly.

GH talked about shooting video in the Plazas during the festival as a part of a work that is a loosely inspired by the Godard film Alphaville. He said the psycho-geography fits with the corporate plaza sterility.

Lee had suggested that everyone give a 50 word CV for the map. The group later decided that it wasn’t necessary because the website has all the CV’s and the url is printed on the front of the psycho-geo map.

The group decided to meet every Tuesday evening until the festival to get the projects organized properly. The next meeting is Tuesday August 20th at Raphaeles place at 7pm.

James Andrews talked about his cubicle person sympathy piece. He said the piece has to be anonymous and under the radar. GH read the text James had prepared for the performance.

Here’s the list of projects – confirmed for the psycho –geo map

Leesa & Nicole – sound piece using metal benches –
Friday Evening Sept.12 & Saturday Sept. 13 Sunday

Noah Apple – Pillow Man - Walks around and distributes pillows -Sept. 11-14

Maria Joao Salema – Pleasant Places – gives out 16th cent. Dutch print postcards- Friday- Sept.11 to Sept.14 – 55 Broad St.

Artists Meeting – pillows for benches- Sept. 11th to 14th , various locations

Raphaele Shirley - Melted City – Sept. 14th, 7pm-10pm 60 Wall St. plaza.

Lee Wells – psycho-geo map design & smiley face sticker

GH – Tape Piece – Sept. 11th - Millenium hotel & wtc site.
GH – Plazaville video shoot, Sat. Sept.13 & Sun.Sept. 14. Various times & Locations.

James Andrews - (temp workers angst relief) – Friday Sept.12 and Sat. Sept.13 – 10 state street plaza.

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Meeting Minutes-Jul.22.08

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Thursday, 24 July 2008

Artists Meeting Minutes 07.22.08
In attendance: James Andrews, Daniel Blochwitz, G.H. Hovagimyan, Marie-Joao Salema, Raphaele Shirley

The group came to the idea that the “psycho-geographical” map should be the main focal point for the group. Raphaele talked about Steven Parrino’s conceptual project that was a brochure handout and felt that was an elegant way to tie all the disparate projects and ideas for the group together.

Raphaele has put up a website for the map and gh + raphaele will try to build it so that everyone can add content to the map. The idea is that the map will be the product as well as any actions we do or propose. The suggestions are to collate as much psycho-geographical material for the 44 sites and have that be the lasting residue. We are looking at printing out a one-color newsprint map.
Everyone should suggest what they want to include in this map. This came was inspired by two alternative arts catalogs that Lee had sent with Joao for the group to look at.

The group should make their own psycho-geographical maps and send them to the artistmeeeting email list for everyone to look at. Good formats are photo & text in pdf or odt or msword doc.

Members can also add content directly to the Artists Meeting site under the recent projects section.
http://www.artistsmeeting.org/index.php/Current-Projects/
You need log in as a user and then click on the

If you add anything alert the group via email. GH needs to make your post visible after you submit it.

GH says that the conflux people are not really responding to any questions and that we need to proceed without any support from them. The material for the arts was a question because he group needed to get a letter of intent from conflux. Raphaele suggested we call up and make and appointment with material for the arts and see how far we get. (note: I just called MFTA and spoke with a person who will hopefully get in touch with Christina @ conflux)

The signs for the various plazas were discussed. GH says that the plastic laminate signs 8’ x 10” cost $45 each. Daniel suggested pursuing a corporate critique theme. Lee had suggested small message readers that can be had for $10.00 a piece on ebay. Everyone likes the message readers but felt they would probably be stolen and the battery only lasts 24 hours. Daniel suggested putting a lot of them in a line and have them synced in some way. Raphaele said it would be cool to stick a bunch of them up on a plaza wall in a random pattern.
There’s many other suggestion for ways to produce signage. The problem is that many of the corporate plaza don’t have the privately owned public signs up.

Daniel has suggested superimposing the private/public logo on the map of lower manhattan as a psycho-geo map.

The group looked at images taken by Raphaele during the first walk around to view the plazas. James said that we should paint smiley faces on the awful Plexiglas circles that are “sculptures in one of the plazas. GH said we can do it with electricians black tape.

One of the psycho-geo maps suggestion was to make a scale of measurements, a rubric, for all the plazas on the map. At first the group thught of practical measures such as tables, benches etc.. but then GH said it should be personal and aesthetic maybe even a non-sensical rating code such as friendly to clowns, good place of fire hydrants, best audio echos, Most number of ugly planter boxes, etc.. Each person could pick any number of plazas and rate them according to their personal system. These could be overlayed onto the pycho-map on the web and included in the newsprint out.

The newsprint out map should also have locations and times for any events we are actually producing. One of the suggestions was to conduct Psycho-geo tours. We could take turns walking around and pointing out really absurd things in our walk.

One of the interesting psycho-geo intersections occurred as Raphaele, James & GH were at the Herman Mellville wall plaque. Right underneath was a homeless man doing Moslem prayers on a plastic garbage bag.

Other quicky psycho-geo takes – Daniel suggested to pill a bunch of stuffed teddy bears around the bronze bull at the end of broadway. This is a pretty terrific idea. Anyone know where to get a hundred teddy bears?

Security was discussed as was the potential to be arrested. James suggested we make up some letters from Artists Meeting that a person can carry saying they are part of the group and part of Conflux Festival. They other ting is to print up business cards for Artists Meeting. GH say’s he has the card stock and can print up the cards.

Raphaele is pursuing having a closing party event that features a melting city that relates to the psycho-geo idea. Part of the discussion was the 60 wall street plaza and how to get that closed off for an event. LMCC may be able to help with this.

GH also remarked that Christina McPhee will be coming in from California to do some pieces for conflux as part of the Artists Meeting umbrella. Christina is pursuing the possibility of inclusion the center for Architecture through a connection there. She is talking about doing layered c-prints. She has invited everyone in the group to work with her to incorporate content into the layers. This is a really cool collaborative idea. Contact Christina This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Finally, Many people in the group are out of town or can only partially commit to this festival and can devote their time to making this work.
Here’s the list thus far for Sept. 11-14

In town and able to work – gh, maria-joao, james, lee, Eliza, Christina, Thomas

Maybe can work or part time – Daniel & Raphaele

The jobs walking tours, putting up signs, taping up benches, sewing cushions, Distributing brochures, Photo documentation, Video documentation,
Gluing message readers etc.. Also finding a printer, laying out the psycho geo map, taking the art work to the printer, picking ou the art work etc..

James Says that he is begining to organize the office temp events and will have a first get together this Thursday at Raphaele’s loft.

Finally we are meeting again for a walkaround at 60 wall Street in the esplanade at 6:30 on Tuesday Jul.29th. We will continue to look at all the plazas on the map. Come if you can. If you cannot please take the privately owned public space map and look at the sites on your own. It is very important to see them and add your psycho-geo takes.