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Wednesday, February
28
Admission: Free, $10 minimum
Showtime: 7:30pm
reservations
are recommended
Since 2001 Brooklyn painter Alex Itin has been exploring what
it means to be an artist in the age of digital reproduction. Working
first on digital books integrating painting, audio and video,
Itin moved onto the Web in February '05 at IT IN place ( http://www.futureofthebook.org/itinplace
) as artist-in-residence at the Institute for the Future of the
Book. Here he began to explore mixed media in a networked context.
Work of the past two years combines blazing low-res images of
paintings and drawings with text, photographs, short films, video
quotations, animated GIFs and audio mashups -- all within the
constraints of the scroll-like form of a blog. In his second year,
Itin began to explore new trails out of the blog, establishing
a presence on social media sites like Flickr, YouTube, Vimeo and
MySpace. Through these networked rovings Itin has found a larger
audience for his work, attracting new readers back to IT IN place
where the media fragments are reassembled.
Recently, Itin has been organizing "The Library," a
collaborative project bringing together dozens of artists from
online social media communities, particularly Flickr and Vimeo.
In the project (a sort of exquisite corpse-Ray Johnson exercise)
one artist takes a physical book and in some way alters it. They
then send it by email to another artist in the network who, in
turn, completes the work and mails it back. Images of these collaborative
works are posted in a gallery
on Flickr and often showcased on IT IN place. To celebrate its
second anniversary, IT IN place will relaunch on February 28th
with a spruced up design and an innovative new graphical interface
to its by-now enormous archives -- a feature that will unlock
the vault of stellar work Itin has produced over the past two
years.
IT IN place: http://www.futureofthebook.org/itinplace
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