Artists Meeting - Meeting Minutes January 29th 2008

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Meeting Minutes January 29th 2008

Written by G.H. Hovagimyan

Thursday, 31 January 2008

In attendance – James Andrews, Daniel Blochwitz, Bethany Fancher, G.H. Hovagimyan, Joao Salema.

Daniel is working on developing his Common Sense project in a WIKI form. GH has put up the wiki at http://nujus.net/mediawiki
The project is perfect of a rhizome commission. Daniel needs the help of some members to write the rhizome grant and also maye Chris can help with the layout of the WIKI. James mentioned that the Langlois Foundation is interested in both creating digital archives and having their archive used for research. The common sense project could be the reason to apply to Langlois for a research residency. James has suggested that there be a panel discussion along with the launch of the final project. (common sense wiki) .

Lee has invited A.M to do a project for scope. The group will have access to a data projector & screen. Chris has said that he will set up the same computer set-up as we used for dumbo. There has been some discussion online about using wifi webcams to set up a market surveillance of the art fair. GH says that we can set up a text messaging app using a cellphone and sms this can be input into the patch.
There is also the possiblility of having two or more people doing live audio discussions/interviews and feeding that into the patch. This would function as an overview/critique of the market. James remarked that the text and the general imagery for the patch should be slowed down because it flashed by too fast at dumbo. The date for SCOPE is March 27th.

The group talked about proposing to the Kunsthalle Exnergasse in Vienna Daniel suggests picking 3 projects from the Whitney proposal and developing a proposal. There is a 1500 euro stipend, plus a technicien. http://kunsthalle.wuk.at/5e/frame.htm
The Deadline is March 1st. This is an excellent opportunity.

Maria Joao talked about making the AM site more image friendly. GH said that Chris’s new editor and database is excellent and should be used. The group talked about a new common project like and exqusite corp where everyone could add images. Bethany Fancher came up with the name NO PURPOSE. GH remarked that that was a situationist method. He said he would put up a page on the AM site that everyone could add to and that it would be a good way to exercise using the JCE editor. Note: the page is up and it can be added to with separate layers. The boxes are already in place. Read Chris’s howTo upload images tutorial.

There was some discussion on email etiquette. James had suggested doing a stealth email loop. GH said that would result in our IP being banned as a spam server.

There was a discussion about the eviction of artists from 475 Kent Ave. The discussion was very lively and was a starting point for an analysis of art production and the use of artists to gentrify a neighborhood. James had suggested the group do something but there was not any consensus on what to do. GH said that artist need to seek different ways to make art that don’t fit into the same old production model. Note: Bethany posted a blog on AM enlarging on this discussion. She remarked that one of the reasons she was riding a horse across the country was that she had lost here studio.

There was also a discussion about whether to add a political action section to the AM site.

GH had also said that he had installed a project management module for the website called Hydra but had not configured it yet.