Artists Meeting - Meeting Minutes June 10th-2008

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Meeting Minutes June 10th-2008

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Sunday, 15 June 2008

Artists Meeting Minutes June 10th-2008

In attendance, Daniel Blochwitz, Thomas Hutchison, G.H.

GH says that he has a streaming video server that can offer different
playlists of videos. The playlists can be set to random play so that
a piece such as the gumbo@dumbo can be streamed and all the separate
video will shuffle. He proposed that the group use his video server
in some project. One suggestion was to do the day in the life as a
video project. Each person can shoot video in short clips of say,
10sec, - 1min and put the on the video server. If this is random
select it would create interesting narratives.

Daniel had suggested a video exquisite corps. He proposed to have
each person shoot some video and then hand the camera to the next
person telling them only what the last shot was. This would create
the video equivalent of the exquisite corps. G.H. says he just got an
HD video camera and was willing to let the group use it to produce
this video project.

GH says that the group can exhibit a streamed video piece as an
installation in the Split Festival of New Film in Split, Croatia
http://www.splitfilmfestival.hr/eng.htm

Sept.13th – 21st 2008.

The meeting then turned to discussing the LMCC Swing Space.
The group thought it would be good to ask for a Presentation Space
and write a proposal that would call for a series of artists meetings
that had 2 components, first, a private meeting for the group and
then later a public meeting/ presentation for other artists to
presents their work on a open call/ demo format.
The notion is a potluck artists’ presentation for one hour or so.
LMCC has some equipment such as data projectors that could make this
possible.   The group would use the space as an ongoing workspace to
put up, drawings, photos, brainstorming, etc..
Daniel said that we could put up a notice/ open call on the NYFFA
list. GH said that this would attract a bunch of careerist painters
looking to plug into the art market and would be the opposite of the
groups intention.
The group then thought that organizing nights according to a theme
might be better such as:
Theoretical presentations, Performance art, software Demo party, Food
Event.

Daniel suggested we ask for 8 weeks for this and have a party/
exhibition at the end of the residency.   Part of the proposal is to
create a pdf document/ catalog that can be online and also printed
out for the final exhibition.   GH says that he has some sound
equipment, and speakers that can be used for [presentations as well
as an old laptop. The idea is to limit the presentations to CD slide
show, powerpoint presentation or dvd. If we have internet access we
can also do such things as a youTube jam or a mySpace jam session/party.

The proposal to LMCC is due by June 27th. The group should add
recommendations now so that GH can write the proposal.