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Kyong Park Displays The New Silk Roads - A review from Revista de Art -- Logopress - Jul 19 '09 by the Editor
Submitted by yolietorres on Mon, 07/20/2009 - 11:11am. ReviewKyong Park Displays The New Silk Roads
(Kyong Park muestra Las Nuevas Rutas de la Seda)
By Editor for the Revista de Arte -- Logopress July 19, 2009
The sample unfolds and reviews the ambitious project of urban investigation that Kyong Park is developing through the cultural, social and political territories which include and expand from the antique Silk Route.
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Original article in Spanish on the Revista de Arte -- Logopress (Art Magazine -- Logopress) website at:
http://www.revistadearte.com/2009/07/19/kyong-park-muestra-las-nuevas-rutas-de-la-seda/
Kyong Park: MUSAC - E-Flux
Submitted by yolietorres on Thu, 07/09/2009 - 9:42am. ReviewMUSAC
Ugo Rondinone, Kyong Park, Jorge Galindo, Cyprien Gaillard at Laboratorio 987 & Printed Matter at the Showcase Project
July 11th 2009 - January 10th, 2010
MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, presents solo shows by Ugo Rondinone, Kyong Park , Jorge Galindo, Cyprien Gaillard and an editorial project on Printed Matter.
On July 11th, Ugo Rondinone opens in MUSAC The Night of Lead, a complex and melancholic artistic experience that reflects Rondinone's fascination with rituals, dreams, poetry and the everyday of the human condition. Kyong Park. The New Silk Roads, will be the first show featuring the ongoing ambitious urban research project of this urban planner, theorist and activist, carried out through different journeys along the intricate route between Istanbul and Tokyo. Madrid artist Jorge Galindo will show La Pintura y La Furia (The Painting & the Fury), a veritable manifesto of painting as a craft and the painter's position in today's World. The independent Project space Laboratorio 987 is to hold French artist Cyprien Gaillard's first solo exhibition for a Spanish institution under the title Sedimented Landscapes, and the Showcase Project will host Printed Matter. Learn to Read Art, a project on the largest non-profit organisation in the world devoted to promoting publications made by artists. Also, from July 21st, a selection of MUSAC Collection travels to the MNBA, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Buenos Aires, Argentina) under the title of HUÉSPED, the first show of the MUSAC Collection in Latin America.
Kyong Park: 'The New Silk Roads' - at the Musac - Castilla n Leon, Spain - Jul 11 '09 - Jan 10 '10
Submitted by yolietorres on Mon, 07/06/2009 - 8:11am. Announcement | Faculty Show
Kyong Park and Teddy Cruz
The New Silk Roads
Exhibition runs July 11, 2009 through January 10, 2010
Symposium on October, 10, 2009
Directed by Octavio Zaya with the participation of Santiago Cirugeda, Teddy Cruz and Kyong Park
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y Leon (MUSAC)/ Hall 2, Spain
(http://www.e-flux.com/shows/view/7231)
MUSAC presents Kyong Park. The New Silk Roads, the first show featuring the ongoing ambitious urban research project of the urbanist, theorist and activist Kyong Park, carried out through different journeys along the intricate route between Istanbul and Tokyo. With this exhibition, and the monographic publication accompanying it, MUSAC showcases and examines the complex conditions and relations shaping the cultural, social and political territories throughout the Asian continent, Eurasia and the Middle East that this activist of Korean origin describes as The New Silk Roads.
Kyong Park: The Musac opens on the 11th its new season exhibitions with authors Ugo Rondinone or Kyong Park - Europa Press
Submitted by yolietorres on Mon, 07/06/2009 - 7:42am. ReviewThe Musac opens on the 11th its new season exhibitions with authors Ugo Rondinone or Kyong Park
LEÓN, 2 Jul. (EUROPA PRESS)
"...Another proposal from the new expositive stage will be ''Kyong Park: The New Silk Routes," the first show featuring the ongoing ambitious urban research project of the urbanist, theorist and activist Kyong Park, carried out through different journeys along the intricate route between Istanbul and Tokyo...."
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Complete story in Spanish on the Europa Press website at:
http://www.europapress.es/castilla-y-leon/leon-00369/noticia-musac-inaugurara-dia-11-nueva-temporada-expositiva-muestras-autores-ugo-rondinone-kyong-park-20090702174008.html
Kim MacConnel and Alum Brian Dick: Discombobulated: San Diego Arts Prize Winners Exhibition by Kraig Cavanaugh for sandiego.com
Submitted by yolietorres on Fri, 05/29/2009 - 1:11pm. ReviewKim MacConnel and Alum Brian Dick
San Diego Arts
Discombobulated: San Diego Arts Prize Winners Exhibition
(http://www.sandiego.com/index.php?option=com_sdca&target=46c27af6-be62-4d10-871b-304c654fcad8)
A Contemporary Commedia dell'Arte
By Kraig Cavanaugh for sandiego.com, May 28th, 2009
Artist Kim MacConnel hates clowns. He hates litter, too. To reconcile his dislikes, MacConnel created disfigured clowns from trash as part of his artwork. Artist Brian Dick loves to mimic both cheap figurines and Hollywood figures. He photographs himself while attempting to recreate the facial expressions of figures such as Travel Lodge’s mascot Sleepy Bear or celebrities such as Julia Roberts and Mel Gibson.
The current exhibition Discombobulated at L Street Fine Art at the Omni Hotel in downtown San Diego (the L Street Fine Art gallery is an entity of the Omni Hotel that is operated as a municipal gallery space) features both Mr. MacConnel and Mr. Dick—two winners of the third annual San Diego Arts Prize. The art prize is given to an established artist, who then recommends an emerging artist; then both are featured in a two-person exhibition, and each is awarded a cash prize. Presented through the San Diego Visual Arts Network, the award is produced through the efforts of Joan Seifried, Ann Berchtold, and Patricia Frischer, who are known together as The Art Girls.
Kim MacConnel and Alum Brian Dick: 'Remaining S.D. Art Prize winners named' - SD Union-Tribune
Submitted by yolietorres on Tue, 04/28/2009 - 7:23am. ReviewKim MacConnel and Alum Brian Dick
Remaining S.D. Art Prize winners named
(http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/apr/24/1c24artprize193047-remaining-sd-art-prize-winners-/)
By Robert Pincus Union-Tribune Staff Writer, April 24, 2009
The announcement has come in stages, but all four artists receiving the San Diego Art Prize have now been named.
This is the third year for the award, organized by Patricia Frischer and Ann Berchtold. And as before, recognition is being given to established and emerging artists. Those in the established category, Kim MacConnel and Richard Allen Morris, were named in December.
San Diego Art Prize Exhibition: Kim MacConnel and Brian Dick - SD Union-Tribune
Submitted by yolietorres on Wed, 03/25/2009 - 8:49am. Alumni_Review | ReviewKim MacConnel and Alum Brian Dick
San Diego Art Prize Exhibition: Kim MacConnel and Brian Dick
The two conceptual artists share gallery space at L Street.
(http://entertainment.signonsandiego.com/events/san-diego-art-prize-show-kim-macconnell-brian-dick/)
By KELI DAILEY, SIGNONSANDIEGO STAFF WRITER, March 23, 2009
Kim MacConnel. The established artist's bright Ndebele-reminiscent panels were at the forefront of the Pattern and Decoration movements a few decades back.
Laida Lertxund: Farce Sensationelle! October 2009 - April 2011 - From Ecstasy to Rapture. A 50 Year Retrospective ...
Submitted by yolietorres on Tue, 03/24/2009 - 1:28pm. Announcement | Film Screening | Faculty Show
Laida Lertxundi
From Ecstasy to Rapture. A 50 Year Retrospective of Alternative Spanish Film /
Del Éxtasis al Arrebato: 50 Años del Otro Cine Español
October 2009 - April 2011
Farce Sensationelle!
Laida Lertxundi's 35mm
Australia | USA | Japan | Spain
January 2010
Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY 10003 – (212) 505-5181
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
January-March 2010
National Gallery,National Mall between 3rd and 9th Streets at Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20565 - (202) 737-4215
http://www.nga.gov/home.htm
January-February 2010
Bass Museum of Art of Miami, 2121 Park Avenue (between 21st and 22nd Streets), Miami Beach, Florida 33139 - 305.673.7530
http://www.bassmuseum.org/
(to view complete schedule please click on "read more" below)
Xcentric packs its bags. The CCCB’s film programme is setting out to travel the world with a cycle of Spanish experimental films.
“From Ecstasy to Rapture. 50 Years of Alternative Spanish Film” is the title of the programme of Spanish experimental film going on show as of October in cities such as Melbourne, New York, Washington, Miami, Tokyo, Madrid and London. It offers a retrospective of the experimental film made in Spain between the 1950s and the present day. “From Ecstasy to Rapture …” is the brainchild of Xcentric, the regular film programme at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona.
Sheldon Brown: UC San Diego and IBM Launch Center for Next-Generation Digital Media to Power Tomorrow's Virtual Worlds-UCSD News
Submitted by yolietorres on Tue, 03/24/2009 - 7:10am. Announcement | Awards & Honors | ReviewUC San Diego and IBM Launch Center for Next-Generation Digital Media to Power Tomorrow's Virtual Worlds
IBM Shared University Research Award of a System z10 Mainframe Computer Will Support New UCSD Campus Center
(http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/general/03-09IBM.asp)
By Doug Ramsey for UCSD News Center on March 17, 2009
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego today announced plans for a new campus center dedicated to invent the next generation of virtual worlds, multiple player online games, and high fidelity digital cinema, using one of the world's most sophisticated computer servers -- the IBM System z mainframe.
IBM (NYSE: IBM) provided a Shared University Research (SUR) award to help the university jump-start its new Center for Next-Generation Digital Media on the UC San Diego campus. In addition to multiple peripherals and additional support, the IBM award consists of the company's newest System z10 Enterprise Class server with the Cell Broadband Engine (Cell/B.E.).
"Students will have access to IBM's newest hybrid computing system with blazingly fast and powerful capabilities. UCSD students can now tap into security features and 'specialty engines' designed to handle a new generation of virtual world applications, where massive numbers of simultaneous users can share a single environment," said Bernie Meyerson, IBM Fellow and vice president of Systems and Technology Group.
"We want to facilitate the invention of the next generation of digital media," said Sheldon Brown, a visual arts professor at UC San Diego. "By significantly increasing the experiential richness of virtual worlds, we think they will become a proving ground for creating and interconnecting digital media of all forms, starting with games and cinema. As virtual worlds and digital cinema develop more visual sophistication and cultural literacy about how we use them, they will start to intersect and will become much richer and more complex."
Initially, Brown and his team in UCSD's Experimental Game Lab will use the IBM System z server to develop and operate a virtual world based on Brown's museum installation "Scalable City," extending it to be experienced by potentially thousands of simultaneous users worldwide 24 hours a day and seven days a week. Users could potentially experience a more visually and behaviorally complex virtual world than current efforts as seen in Second Life, The Sims or other massively multiplayer online role-playing games, such as World of Warcraft.
Omar Pimienta: The Culture of Me Me Me New Contemporaries II - Part IV - Art As Authority
Submitted by yolietorres on Wed, 03/18/2009 - 7:19am. ReviewOmar Pimienta
"Faite comme d'habitude" or the Culture of Me Me Me New Contemporaries II - Part IV - FINAL
Pimienta is by far one of the most refreshing and interesting artists I’ve seen to date. I thank him for his insight and compelling fresh work
(http://www.artasauthority.com/2009/03/faite_comme_dhabitude_or_the_c_3.html)
by Kevin Freitas for Art As Authority on March 17, 2009
"....Omar Pimienta as I mentioned in the beginning, could be the dark horse in this year’s NC2. I’m not sure you would immediately understand what Pimienta is up to, after seeing 12 identical scaled down replicas of the Statue of Liberty standing on a Pre-Columbian pyramid arranged neatly in the back of the gallery. But a video to the left of the installation is a crucial element to its comprehension as well as its subtle yet biting commentary. There’s an irony to be found in such expressions of liberty from a French sculptor Frederic Bartholdi, designer of the Statue of Liberty, and Tijuana-San Diego artist Pimienta, creator of “Lady of Libertad” that might have its origins in France’s own motto: Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité (a creed based on Napoleonic Code in accordance with the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen). More importantly, what do these words mean: Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity and how do you go about assuring every man, woman and child obtains those inalienable rights. Isn’t this why people flee oppressive doctrines or governments and seek out the new world or land whatever the case may be? Bartholdi imagined this possibility, world citizens I suppose from different cultures, laws, and traditions living harmoniously together; he even conceived and produced a “sketch of a Pre-Columbian pedestal for the statue’s base” in accordance to his vision of equality.
What then would inspire another artist in some bizarre six degrees of separation, to cast and replicate Bartholdi’s original drawing into actual statues, if it wasn’t to document and bring to our attention, a forgotten but no less tumultuous frontier that isn’t as friendly or welcoming perhaps to the huddled masses as is its Atlantic friend? Pimienta’s statues are cleverly I believe, “to scale” of the level of expectation the people of Mexico have of ever hoping to flee its teeming shores and make a better life for themselves in America.