BottledProject at Atlantic Gallery

Former ScrapCycled Supply recipient and current Gameplay as Community Program CoDirecter Pollie Barden is unveiling the latest version of BottledProject at Atlantic Gallery in Chelsea tonight.  (Barden received ScrapCycle admission materials in support of BottledProject in November, 2008.)

About the Exhibition

As oil gushes into the Gulf of Mexico at a rate of up to 100,000 barrels a day, Atlantic Gallery announces WATER, a group exhibition of artwork inspired by the elemental and timely topic of water.  The call for submissions predated the Deepwater Horizon disaster:  Water seemed a suitable subject-and one of growing urgency as the world’s water was already in peril.  The resulting deluge of water works in many media: painting, photography, sculpture, monotypes, etchings, glass art, fiber art, assemblage, video and installation pieces will be on view from Wednesday, June 23rd through Friday, July 23rd.

Water is a subject of immense depth and magnitude.  The gallery runneth over, reflecting many aspects of water through the artists’ responses with works small and large, abstract and representational.  Images of dam infrastructure, storm clouds, beachfronts, toxic waterways, and plastic bottles share space with swimmers, tankers, and creatures of the sea.  Water wild and domesticated will be on view -- from crashing waves to the verdant subdivision made green by water pumped from sources far away.

Water is a sacred purifier to most religions, so it’s surprising (if not stupefying), that we don’t treat it with more respect.  We offer it toxins, plunder its depths, and run the tap without a second thought.  Today, a combination of climate change and our aging infrastructure shows that the surf is definitely up.  Architects and city planners design with rising tides in mind.  California must now address the deteriorating Sacramento - San Joaquin Delta, which some say could be "Katrina all over again" ..only worse.  Who could have anticipated how much worse it could get?  More people than we presently know, it turns out.

(WATER opens at Atlantic Gallery, on 135 West 29th Street in Chelsea, at 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday June 23rd.  Admission is free and open to the public.  Refreshments will be served.)

 

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Summary

Participants use a web-interface to generate sounds as part of a shoal.  Simple rules, based on shoaling behavior in fish, act as a social algorithm and guide gameplay.

For the Organizer

Ensure all participants are connected to the web interface (via the color-coded web links above) and can create audible sound via their mobile device.  Ask each participant to choose an initial waveform and frequency from the list of sound URLs, and to begin immediately by playing their selected pitch.  Set predetermined stop signal (e.g., a bell, a hand clap). 

For the Performers

After following the color-coded links (above) to the performance web page, choose a starting sound by clicking on the numerical list of pitches (i.e., numbers 400 through 1200, in hertz).  A continuous sound file will play.  Listen the pitch you are playing, in relation to the other notes you hear around you.  Decide whether you are playing the lowest note, highest note, or within the range of the pitches you can hear.  When that pitch fades out, choose a new note:  If your previous pitch was the highest, select a lower pitch (i.e., at least 4 pitch lower in the list); if your previous pitch was the lowest, select a higher pitch ((i.e., at least 4 pitch higher in the list)); if your previous pitch was within the shoal, select a pitch that is near to your previous pitch.  When conflicted, always react to the pitch-neighbour nearest to you.  Continue until the predetermined signal to stop.

ScrapCycle(reUSE/reCOMBINE)

creative reuse of refuse through recombination 

NEW YORK  --  Analogous Projects is pleased to present ScrapCycle(reUSE/reCOMBINE), a group show opening at 7:00 p.m. on May 7th at Devotion Gallery in Williamsburg, with works by Aricoco (Ari Tabei), Katherine Liberovskaya + o.blaat (Keiko Uenishi), LoVid (Kyle Lapidus + Tali Hinkis), Philip Galanter, Phillip Stearns, Pollie Barden, Ranjit Bhatnagar, Torino:Margolis (Jenny Torino + Ben Margolis). 

ScrapCycle is an ongoing project devoted to the creative reuse of refuse.  This annual one-night event has been reinterpreted as a group exhibition, ScrapCycle(reUSE/reCOMBINE).  In addition to featuring upcycled artworks and performances, workshops will take place throughout the month in order to underscore the participatory nature of the ScrapCycle series.

All events require a piece of refuse for reuse as the price of admission. Materials are used for on-site installations, directed toward local upcycling artists, or repurposed as holiday gift wrap.  These action-based economic and environmental aspects of ScrapCycle refer to the act of reuse as requiring us to approach everyday decisions from a use-value perspective, which is in opposition to our collective exchange-value upbringing.

ScrapCycle places an exchange-value on upcycled and reused materials, in order to probe the environmental effects of economic perspective.  By presenting concrete implementations of reuse and recombination, ScrapCycle(reUSE/reCOMBINE) serves to liken the small pervasive effects of social sculpture, environmental activism, and economic perspective to a fine-tuning of interdependent parameters with global results.  ScrapCycle(reUSE/reCOMBINE) references complexity science as it relates to political economy, ecology, and methods of reuse and recombination (i.e., small-world networks, social systems theory, ecological systems theory, evolutionary computation, genetic algorithms, neural networking).

ScrapCycle(reUSE/reCOMBINE) opens at 7:00 p.m. on May 7th at Devotion Gallery (54 Maujer Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11206) with performances by Bora Yoon, Ranjit Bhatnagar and the Glass Bees, and Tom Vanderwall.  Admission is a used water bottle for reuse, and is open to the public.  Refreshments will be served.

Press Materials

EXHIBITION: Opens 7:00 p.m., Friday, May 7th, 2010. Through Sunday, May 30th.
LOCATION: Devotion Gallery at 54 Maujer Street in Williamsburg. L to Lorimer, G to Metropolitan.
OPENING FLYER: http://www.AnalogousProjects.org/storage/ScrapCycleReuseRecombine.jpg
PRESS RELEASE: http://www.AnalogousProjects.org/storage/scrapcycle-PressRelease.pdf
MEDIA RELEASE: http://www.AnalogousProjects.org/storage/scrapcycle-MediaRelease.pdf
FULL PRESS KIT: http://www.AnalogousProjects.org/storage/ScrapCyclePressKit.zip
CONTACT: Marie Evelyn at Marie@AnalogousProjects.org

Event Schedule

(All events charge a piece of refuse for reuse as the price of admission.)

Friday May 7th (Exhibition Opening)
7:00 p.m. - Doors
8:00 p.m. - Ranjit Bhatnagar and the Glass Bees (Performance)
8:45 p.m. - Tom Vanderwall (Performance)
9:30 p.m. - Bora Yoon (Performance)

Sunday May 16th and Tuesday May 18th - Thursday May 20th
1:00-6:00 p.m. LandFilles Build (Collaborative Build with the Artists)

Friday May 21st
7:00 p.m. - Doors
8:00 p.m. - Katherine Liberskovaya + o.blaat (Performance)
8:45 p.m. - Katherine Liberskovaya + o.blaat (Performance)
9:30 p.m. - Katherine Liberskovaya + o.blaat (Performance)

Saturday May 22nd: Kids Workshops, Lecture and Tasting, Tutorial and Demo, Performance
11:00 a.m. - Repurposed Planters (Kids Workshop with Pollie Barden, Ages 5-9)
2:00 p.m. - Upcycled Gaming (Kids Workshop with Pollie Barden, Ages 10+)
6:00 p.m. - Questionable Edibles (Lecture and Tasting by Jenny Torino)
7:30 p.m. - Break Breadboards (Tutorial and Demonstration by Phillip Stearns)
9:00 p.m. - Torino:Margolis (Performance)
9:45 p.m. - Gunung Sari (Performance)

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