I am remembering some great website design collaborations with Alon Zouaretz and some fine exhibitions if I do say so myself..

Democracy is Fun?
organized with defne Ayas

http://michelethursz.com/democracyisfun/

Public .exe
Organized with Anne Ellegood and Defne Ayas

http://www.exitart.org/public.exe/

Art – Actually
Organized with Fatos Ustek

http://dawebsiteb4dawebsite.com/art-actually/main.swf

This looks VERY exciting! The action, concept , space and best of all the cross sections of artists. MY GOODNESS when I read the press release I felt like I was flipping through a personal photo album of artists that I have exhibited, ole’  school mates and childhood friends! Hope it’s everything I am imagining! More power to the organizers of “Never Can Say Goodbye” and the organization NO LONGER EMPTY!

Here we go loop ti loop, here we go loop di la..

dNASAb presents “dataclysmic”, a solo project b Frederieke Taylor Gallery

What happens when man made technologies are thrown back to nature?

dNASAb has created an  ecosystem akin to a new production model, set  for production, creating a new form  that can be read as documentation or new body of work.  This practice is exposed in the exhibition, dataclysmic, Frederieke Taylor Gallery.

Exhibited are two sculptures and a new photograph series. The sculptures are abstractions of modernity, every surface is charged with information, color, light, and moving image. These works are ornate by definition.  The photograph series shares with the public a performance/ action, an exchange that creates possibilities of an alternative plane  for information to live.  DNASb confronts nature with his multidimensional sculptural interface, composed of waterproof L.E.D’s, fiber optics and other materials, by placing the sculpture between the surf and the shore.  An organic relationship occurred where the boundaries between hardware, visual information, and elements of nature merge in unison. The action and the dialog were documented in the middle of the night using a long exposure magnifying the union and confrontation of nature’s elements.

Cyclical

dNASAb:  http://www.tc43.com/2006/MAINandtoolbarFRAMESET.htm

“dataclysmic”, Frederieke Taylor Gallery 535 West 22nd street,NYC

Bulletin Board Café – Institute 193: Dec 10 – Jan 9

www.institute193.org

Concept and organization by Michele Thursz in collaboration with Phillip March Jones.

The Bulletin Board Café at Institute 193 is an installation and social tool that encourages dialogue amongst individuals, local art communities and other groups with diverging interests. It is foremost, a place to exchange information locally. Bulletin boards are constantly being relocated to dedicated URLS, which propose an international public. In order to determine where technology might be best deployed is to address local needs, we must find situations where individual members of local communities are actively trying to find, connect, and share information with one another.

We propose the Bulletin Board Café at Institute 193 as a sociological tool that supports proximal information to encourage useful sharing amongst the local art communities and general public. The exchange of information supports the individual’s interests within a community and can possibly initiate broader social, cultural and economic dialog and actions. Bulletin Board Café is a tool for participation and community voice. We invite you to share responsibly any information with your public; this public includes minors. Bulletin Board Café will have a sign-up sheet to schedule free use of the café space to host PUBLIC round tables, free courses, and negotiations.

All ephemera, objects and information are to be included in the installation of Bulletin Board Cafe and all actions can be documented for publication.

Philosophy

It is human nature to communicate; the first societies were built on exchange thriving on the local resources. A healthy community will mirror in the individuals rights, freedom of expression, arts, politics, economy. As a community we can actively participate in a global society.

Health is cognitive to expression and aligns with prosperity, tolerance, and change.

Commodity

The Bulletin Board Café will serve coffee, tea, and soda.

Design

Property should be a small room with storefront window, to create intimate environment with a fish bowl visibility.

Bulletin Board Café/ installation

Bulletin board

Long picnic table

One chalk board for impromptu strategizing

Contact

Michele Thursz: michele.thursz@gmail.com

Phillip March Jones: phillip@institute193.org

Crumb: Interviews with New York based curators

During a project-based visit at Eyebeam in Summer 2008, a series of interviews with New York based curators were carried out. Michele Thursz was interviewed by Verina Gfader and Beryl Graham on Mon 7 July at Eyebeam. The dialogue developed around questions of platforms built out of necessities; conceptual gallery spaces; using topical relevant information as principle in curatorial practice; curating as art project; the value of and insistence of layers of conversation; education as site of potential; the variety of art markets and the conversation about the art market fundamental to operate within and outside; interest in the longevity or continuation of an artist’s project; production team rather than collaboration.

Carlo Zanni

My Temporary Visiting Position from the Sunset Terrace Bar

January 24 – April 2009

Sandroni.Rey/Project Space

Sandroni Rey is pleased to present My Temporary Visiting Position From The Sunset Terrace Bar, an exhibition in the Container project space by Carlo Zanni. This is Carlo Zanni’s first exhibition with Sandroni Rey, organized by Julia Fryett and Michele Thursz.

Carlo Zanni (La Spezia, 1975) is an Italian born artist living between Milan and New York. His work is focused on the intersection of computation and representation fusing old and new media to shape landscapes and portraits often confronting themes of real time/real life; fiction/information. Zanni’s practice finds its minimalist roots in Sol Lewitt’s artist statement, “The idea becomes a machine that makes the art”, which he translates into a contemporary adaptation, “The idea becomes the code that renders the art.”

Shown in the Container is an archive of My Temporary Visiting Position from the Sunset Terrace Bar. Set in the city of Ahlen, Germany, the project imitates an amateur’s film of the landscape framed at sunset. The work confronts themes such as exile, migration and border control and is enhanced by a poem by the esteemed author Ghada Samman and music by Gotan Project and Gabriel Yared. While the city strip is prerecorded, the sky is captured in real time from a webcam shooting Naples, Italy at sunset. Zanni exposes a new dimension in cinematic production by the use of generative information, DATA CINEMA, using narrative structures and the use of live data feedback gathered from the Internet to create time based social consciousness experiences. The entire project may be viewed at http://www.fromthesunsetterrace.com, where visitors choose upon two ways to experience the work: a live mode, available only in a specific time frame during the sunset in Naples or browsing through the archive where a time accelerated HD version of the movie is rendered every day and archived online.

Carlo Zanni has shown worldwide in galleries and museums including: MAXXI Museum, Rome (2007, 2006); New Museum, New York (2005); Gavin Brown’s Enterprise at Passerby, New York (2005); Chelsea Museum, New York (2004); CCA Glasgow (2003); Analix Forever Gallery, Geneve (2003, 2002); P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York (2001).

ICA – Institute of Contemporary Art in London held his first retrospective in October 2005 and published the book “Vitalogy”.

“They Always Say That Time Changes Things…”

“They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” - Andy Warhol

This series of short films studies how time has been interpreted by experimental film artists from 1963 to the present. Featuring works by Andy Warhol, Bas Jan Ader, Jørgen Leth, Christian Marclay, Joe Diebes, Annika Larsson, Reynold Reynolds, and Carlo Zanni, the series takes the conceptual films of Andy Warhol as a point of departure, investigating the fundamental ways in which the camera can either document or manipulate real time. Warhol utilizes both of these cinematic devices in Kiss when time appears to freeze. The trajectory of contemporary artists presented engages the many ways in which the camera can communicate passage of time, whether through simply recording an event or creating a hyper-real world with new technologies.

Series of short films:

1) Andy Warhol Kiss, four minute excerpts, 16 minutes

2) Bas Jan Ader, “Broken Fall (Organic)”, 1971, 1 minute, 44 seconds

3) Jørgen Leth, “The Perfect Human”, 1967, 13 minutes ( http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8341864322805018162)

4) Christian Marclay, “Telephones”, 1995, 7 minutes, 30 seconds

5) Joe Diebes, “Scherzo”, 2008, 13 minutes

6) Annika Larsson, “Hockey”, 2004, 26 minutes

7) Reynold Reynolds, “Secret Life”, 2008, 10 minutes

Carlo Zanni, “My Temporary Visiting Position From The Sunset Terrace Bar”, 2007, 13 minutes Total Time: 101 minutes

Organized by: AKTIONSART Foundation- Julia Fryett and Michele Thursz.

Public programs are made possible by a major gift from Ann and Jerry Moss.

Additional support is provided by Laura Donnelley, Bronya and Andrew Galef, and the Hammer Programs Committee.

am building a blog to replace my original website; a post media network; that acted as an archive and exhibition space.

The BLOG should bring to life the archive of my previous site and allow for a conversation. The act of sharing through conversation and participation is the conceptual underpinning of my professional practice as a curator .

During construction you may visit my old site: http://www.michelethursz.com/site/