A movement-video mixtape for Capri by Night, projected at Schauspiel Köln / Offenbachplatz in Cologne, Germany.
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Sans Neutrality is a set of two fonts, NetNeu Sans & NetNeu Serif. They are fairly standard except that the letters A, E, I, K, L, N, O, R, T, U, W, and Y—those used to spell “Network Neutrality”—have been removed.
Sans Neutrality was produced by an anonymous font-world friend, and the respective versions are based on Adobe Source Sans Pro, designed by Paul D. Hunt, and Source Serif Pro, designed by Frank Grießhammer. The text up top is by poet and NEA fellow Danniel Schoonebeek.
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nationalportraitgallery.us
In November of 2010, G. Wayne Clough of the Smithsonian bowed to pressure from the conservative right and anti-gay groups and removed a video piece (A Fire in My Belly) by artist David Wojnarowicz from the National Portrait Gallery’s exhibition Hide/Seek. The decision drew sharp criticism form other museums, The New York Times, artists, LGBTQ groups and their allies and museum patrons.
On Christmas day a few weeks later, I got a gift of $100. I turned and gave it to my brother, a skilled computer programmer, and asked him to replicate the National Portrait Gallery’s website as closely as possible and host it on two domains I’d just bought, nationalportraitgallery.net and nationalportraitgallery.us.
The sites were identical … membership and donation links, museum info, the works … except that I’d placed the censored A Fire in My Belly video front and center, along with a list of resources about related protests, response works and so on. The site was live on December 27th and the following press release was issued on January 1st, 2011:
Smithsonian Institution
National Portrait Gallery
Eighth and F Streets, NW, D.C., 20001
(202) 633-8300
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
01/01/11
Dear Valued Patron,
The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery is proud to present a special online-only screening of A Fire In My Belly by David Wojnarowicz. This presentation of the original 13-minute silent version has been made possible by the Estate of David Wojnarowicz and P.P.O.W Gallery, New York.
A Fire in My Belly is a surrealistic video collage filmed in Mexico which expresses the suffering, marginalization and physical decay of those afflicted with AIDS. Wojnarowicz uses religious imagery in the tradition of art that uses such imagery to universalize human suffering.
A Fire In My Belly will not return to the Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture exhibition itself. The Secretary of the Smithsonian, The Secretary for History, Art and Culture and The National Portrait Gallery Director in collaboration with exhibition curators have taken great time to consider the requests of both supporters and opponents of the work's display, and feel this compromise is fair.
Please be warned that the video may be considered graphic or offensive to some viewers.
To view A Fire in My Belly, please visit our website:
http://www.nationalportraitgallery.us
For further information, please contact the National Portrait Gallery:
natportgal@gmail.com
The project got some traction, mainly on art-fan blogs but did break through a few more mainstream outlets:
“After outraging the art world, several of its funders, and a giant chunk of its constituency with its fatal decision to remove David Wojnarowicz’s “Fire in My Belly” from the National Portrait Gallery’s “Hide/Seek” show, the Smithsonian has chosen to respond to its critics in a dramatic, and rather odd, fashion: instead of returning the work to the exhibition, the institution has turned the National Portrait Gallery’s Web site into an all-Wojnarowicz-all-the-time resource center, complete with a “special online-only screening” of the original 13-minute long version of “Fire in My Belly.” - BLOUIN ARTINFO
Huffington Post reported on my website, but later corrected the article. The updated story is on view here.
I can’t find an archived link, but Jerry Saltz also wrote on a blog somewhere that he thought the museum’s decision to show the video on their website didn’t go far enough.
Here are some of the related articles my site collected:
N.E.S.T.
N.E.S.T. (The North East Sticks Together)
By TD Sidell, EXiMiOUS Productions, Bodies of Water Arts & Crafts, Honeypump
We booked a “non-festival” of sorts, a week across a few venues to highlight all the different stuff going on in Boston. Some shows were at DIY venues, some at proper clubs. The idea was simply that if we put a whole lot of shows together under one name, we could get some of these artists more coverage and attention.
The N.E.S.T. logo was drawn by Ron Regé, Jr.
2005 Lineup:
Abhorred, About, Age Rings, Alek K Redfern, Alex Onslaught, Anderson Comedy, Animental, Aquanet, B.E.A.R.D., Bad Jaime, Badman, Bakula, Beauty Pill, Bent!, Big Digits, Black Forrest Black Sea, Black Helicopter, Blanks, Boston League of Women Wrestlers, Brenden Wesley, Bury the Needle, Certainly Sir, Cheer Accident, Christians and Lions, Clawjob, Colin of USAISAMONSTER, Conquistador, Conversions, Crystal Understanding, Cul de Sac, Dania Shapes, David Day, Diamonds in the Back, Dilly Dilly, Dirty on Purpose, DJ Casey, DJ David Dancer, DJ D'hana, DJ Frank White, DJ Joseph Colbourne, DJ Juan Maclean, DJ Ken, DJ Knife, DJ Morgan, DJ Paul Foley, DJ Sir Loins, DJ Tommee, DJ Yard, Donna Parker, Dust Galaxy, Eggplont, Eli Reed and the True Loves, Ernesto Gianola, Ettrick, Ex Models, Extinction Agenda, Faces on Film, Full Grown Spiders, Future Classics, Geoff Farina, Hallelujah the Hills, Harris, Harry and the Potters, Hats and Glasses, Headband, Heathen Shame, Hekersi, Helms, Hirudinea, Ho-Ag, Hot Lunch, In Black and White, Jana Hunter, Jason Forrest, Judah Johnson, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Kids on T.V., Kites, Lazy Magnet, Legends of Style, Lip Service, Lorna Doom, Mahi Mahi, Major Stars, Make a Rising, Mark E. Moon, Mark Robinson, Matters and Dunaway, Meanings, Mike Joy, Mittens, MMM's Live Archive, Mo Juice Mike Costa, Musk, Neptune, Nicky Click, Noosebomb, Oliver North, Our Lady of Bells, Pants Yell!, Polaris Mine, Ponies in the Surf, Punk Rock Flea Market, Rahim, Reports, Reverand Glasseye and His Wooden Leg, Revocation, Rose Melberg, San Serac, Sheperdess, Shrinking Islands, Snakes Say Hiss, Square Productions, Squids, Steve Brodsky, Sweet Theives, Thalia Zedek, The Abraham Lincoln Brigade, The Beat Awfuls, The Body, The Chinese Stars, The Desert Sea, The Elephants, The Hidden, The In Out, The Konks, The Pill, The Student Council, Tiny Hawks, Tony Gong, Traniwreck, Tristan da Cunha, Truth Serum, U.V. Protection, USAISAMONSTER, Varietae, Victory at Sea, Villains, VJ Matt Boch, Volatile , Watchmaker, Well I Never and the I (Do) Declares, Why Twist the Hair, Yoni Gordon
Media Sponsor: The Boston Phoenix
As part of NEST 2005, we produced a CD sampler of 20 local bands: Ringers, Toxic Narcotic, Night Rally, Mad Man Films, U.V. Protection, Ho-Ag, Tunnel of Love, Plunge Into Death, Mittens, Wildlife, Chinese Stars, Black Helicopter, Shanghai Valentine, Roh Delikat, Magic People, Devil Music, Certainly Sir, Purity’s Failure, Reports, and The Mules. I believe 1,000 or so were pressed by The Boston Phoenix and distributed around the city leading up to, and during the week’s events. You can listen to it right here.
2006 Lineup:
40 Watts, Achillies, Alek K Redfern and the Eyesoars, Animal Hospital, As Long as We're All Living We're All Dying, B.E.A.R.D., Badman, Big Bear, Black Helicopter, Blacktail, Bones Brigade, Bread and Roses, Brown Bird, Cassette, Certainly Sir, Cornucopia, Crank Sturgeon, Crystal Cocks Over Canada, Devil Music, Disappearer, DJ Caulder, Juan Maclean, DJ Ken, DJ P , DJ PTVN, Donna and Kate, Ed Gein, Electrosocial, Fat Worm of Error, Fatal Flying Guilloteens, Fiasco, Fruit Salad, Get Killed, Get Smart, Ghetto Fighters, Goat of Arms, Hats and Glasses, Hivemind, Ho-Ag, Isolee, Jacob Berendes, Jason Anderson, Karlheinz, Kayo Dot, Khanate, Landing, Luasa Raelon, Mad Man Films, Made in Mexico, Magic People, Mahi Mahi, Major Stars, Mark Robinson, Meli, Minamata, Mittens, Night Rally, No Idols, Nurse and Soldier, Octave Museum, Organelles, Pants Yell!, Parts and Labor, Piles, Plunge into Death, PosiXforce, Pragnus Grey, Presley, Protokoll, Punk Rock Flea Market, Purity's Failure, Rainbow Bright, Ramona Cordova, Raw Radar War, Regeneration Records, Reports, Ringers, Roh Delikat, Shanghai Valentine, Shore Leave, Sinaloa, Soul-le-lu-jah, The 9 Billion Names of God, The Butcherings, The Carslile Sound, The Chinese Stars, The Gossip, The Hound, The Invisibles, The LUVs, The Mules, Oxford Collapse, The Pill, The Reputation, The Sanguine, The Teeth, The Westward Trail, They and the Children, Throne of Blood, Tigersaw, Tiny Hawks, Titty Cakes, Toxic Narcotic, Travers, Tunnel of Love, U.V. Protection, Victory at Sea, We Are Wolves, Where Are You From? Are You in School?, Wilderness, Wildlife, x-04, Yoni Gordon
Media Sponsor: The Weekly Dig
Venues
Great Scott (2005, 2006)
O'Brien's Pub (2005, 2006)
P.A.'s Lounge (2006)
The Middle East (Corner)
T.T. The Bears (2006)
The Middlesex Lounge (2005, 2006)
The Cyclorama (2006)
ZuZu (2005) The Midway Cafe (2006)
The Milky Way Lounge (2006)
YWCA (Central Square) (2006)
Massachusetts Art (2005, 2006)
Northeastern University (2005)
Regeneration Records (2005)
Chez Vous (Skate Rink) (2006),
The Brattle Theatre (2006)
Jacque's Cabaret (2006)
Partners
Mass Art Eventworks (2005, 2006)
Alex Onslaught (2006)
Truth Serum (2006)
EXiMiOUS Productions (2005, 2006)
Bodies of Water Arts & Crafts (2005, 2006)
Hot Lunch (2006)
The Student Council (2006)
The Pill (2005, 2006)
The Plan (2005, 2006),
The Dear John Letter Lounge (2006)
Bent! (2006)
Ernesto Gianola (2006)
MUSK (2006)
Honeypump (2005)
Varietae (2006)
Corleone Records (2005, 2006),
Square Productions (2005, 2006)
Aquanet (Jamaica Plain) (2006)
Clawjob (2006)
Not Really Confident
Looking at Abstract Art with Microsoft CaptionBot, April 17-28 2016
An excerpt appears in CLOG (2018)
For Not Really Confident, I've run 267 images of abstract art through CaptionBot (© Microsoft 2015), an image caption-generating AI that came online late March 2016. In CaptionBot's "own" words, "[I] was created to showcase some of the new capabilities of Microsoft Cognitive Services. These new capabilities are the result of years of research advancements ... Specifically, I use Computer Vision and Natural Language to describe contents of images. I am still learning, so sometimes I get things wrong."
My starting place was this list of abstract painters on Wikipedia; most images of the artworks themselves were found using Google's image search. I was familiar with maybe 15% of the artists in advance, and selected images by looking at several works by each and trying to find a decent example that summed up a main body of work, or style. Images were downloaded, then uploaded to CaptionBot for processing. You can also provide CaptionBot with an image's URL, but I opted for the upload route on the off chance the AI might search the contents of related pages for context-clues. I then took screen shots of the resulting captioned-images and organized all the before / afters into some shared folders.
As the process went on, I thought of some related works (poems, exhibition strategies, etc) which you can see under the Ideas section above. If you have any corrections, questions, or ideas shoot me an email.
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