Istanbul, here I come!

I’ll be flying to Istanbul next week to participate in this awesome project (or rather, the Counterfeit Crochet Project will be representing!)… It’s happening during the Biennale, which should be a great way to get the word out on the project. Stop on by!

Hackers and Haute Couture Heretics
The “Hackers and Haute Couture Heretics” exhibition curated by fashion designer Otto von Busch (www.selfpassage.org) at Garanti Gallery* between 4 September – 11 October 2007 investigates how fashion can be hacked, recircuited and transmutated. The participating artists and designers use hacking, shopdropping, and craftivism as tactics used in the outskirts of fashion and explore these methods further through a series of open workshops at the gallery. During the six-week relay the artists and designers taking part in the exhibition propose new ways of operating within the fashion system, reverse engineer the concept of fashion in order to find ways to practically hack it. These artists and designers are not subverting fashion as much as subconstructing it, tuning it, and making its subroutines run in new ways. 

Participating artist’s work times at Garanti Gallery:

• Giana González (PA): 4-11 September 

• Stephanie Syjuco/Counterfeit Crochet Project (US): 11-15 September

• Megan Nicolay (US): 18-22 September
Cat Mazza (US): 22-27 September

• Junky Styling (UK): 28-29 September 

• Rüdiger Schlömer (DE): 2-6 October
SHRWR (SE): 2-11 October

During the exhibition workshops led by the artists will be held every evening in the gallery between 18.00 and 20.00The opening party at The Hall on 6th September is a Swap-O-Rama-Rama, a public clothes swap and hack. Bring a bag of your old clothes that are dying in the back of your wardrobe and reconstruct them into something new! In the night the Swap will turn into a fashion party organized by IstanbulStreetStyle. During the party entitled “Heretics”, there will be a showcase of 35 artists from Copenhagen / Triangle Project in installations of sound and visuals, eclectic DJ music and sumptuous grooves from vocalist Camille Jones.

EXHIBITION:
HACKERS AND HAUTE COUTURE HERETICSMODA ATÖLYELER?
Garanti Gallery
?stiklal Caddesi 115a Beyo?lu 34430 ?stanbul
Tel: +90 212 293 6371 Fax: +90 212 293 8327
garantigaleri@garanti.com.tr
4 September – 11 October 2007
Tuesday-Saturday 11.00-20.00 

There is Always a Machine Between Us at SF Camerawork

YouTube and chatting in the name of contemporary art? Yes, it’s true. I’ll be available for random talks via Skype between 9/6 and 11/17, along with a bunch of other artists, so if you’ve always wanted to chat about miscellaneous nothings, please do so, and get creativity credits while yer at it . Part of the show at SF Camerawork that opens next week…  

“There is Always a Machine Between Us”

6 September – 17 NovemberOpening Reception Thursday, 6 September from 5 to 8 p.m.

SF Camerawork, 657 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA

http://www.sfcamerawork.org

SF Camerawork’s galleries become a global gathering place, a research lab and an ongoing experiment in visual communication this fall with There is always a machine between us, an interactive exhibit of work sourced from and inspired by the Internet.

In one gallery, visitors experience an evolving line up of artists’ projects that change every two weeks. Presenting artists include Lars Laumann, Mary Magsamen and Stephan Hillerbrand, Matt Wolf, Matthew Hughes Boyko, Ursula Biemann, and more. Additionally, an installation by collaborators Jeanne C. Finley and John Muse entitled Flat Land will be on view for the duration of the show. Flat Land explores the visual culture of men and women at war by looking at publicly available images of “Flat Daddies” (life-size photographic cut outs of individual soldiers that families at home can use as a stand in at the dinner table and beyond) and “Flat Stanleys” (small cut outs of a cartoon boy, sent by American school children on adventures around the world and sometimes to war-zones). In their installation, Finley and Muse project a slow rotation of Daddies and Stanleys on opposite sides of the gallery, inviting viewers to meditate on the deployment of these flat characters into the world.

In another gallery, visitors are encouraged to browse, chat and participate in a virtual art happening that extends beyond the walls and around the world, constantly growing as cultural producers and the public add new material and explore the artistic process together. Visitors can sit down to watch an ever-changing program of artist-created online videos, interviews, performances, studio tours and more. They can also chat with cultural producers around the world in real time and browse a visual library of material found on the web that informs the work of participating artists. In the gallery or back at home, the public can go online to view artwork related to the exhibit and can even upload video responses to it.

Organized by curators Kate Fowle, Karla Milosevich, Chuck Mobley, and Dan Orendorff, the show is designed to generate new material as it evolves. SF Camerawork will continually post notices of upcoming artist projects and chat opportunities taking place in the gallery on its website at www.sfcamerawork.org. Links will also be provided to the exhibit’s companion online pages. Visitors are encouraged to check the website frequently for updates and additions.

There is always a machine between us is supported by the San Francisco Arts Commission, the Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation and Alexander Lloyd.