Showing posts with label Native American art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Native American art. Show all posts
10.27.2010
Tonto Revisited @ ArtRage Gallery, Syracuse, NY
Come check out the Tonto Revisited exhibit, which will coincide with a few events that I am involved with. My own exhibit Round Up (curators: Jenny Western & Ryan Rice), all single channel videos, will be screening one night only, November 21st, 4pm-6pm with an artist talk. For more event information check the ArtRage Gallery Events Schedule.
7.27.2010
U.S. premeire of Round-UP to open Santa Fe, NM August 2nd 2010.
Well, I can say it's been an adventure, after attempting to export media files for DVD authoring of my latest new works my external HD decided it didn't want to stop spinning somewhere in the middle of exporting and thus has not been accessible. So, four new pieces sit somewhere in a spinning HD unable to be located for writing. Although, after taking some time off of work I was able to reconstruct two of the four pieces for my upcoming exhibit in Santa Fe: Round-UP (originally established by the Urban Shaman Gallery in Winnipeg in October of 2009). I always like to get new pieces out there and thought this new showing of Round-UP would be a great opportunity were it not for the rejection of technology.
I hope to get the other two and another possible piece reconstructed by end of August and sent back to the Museum of Contemporary Native Art first thing in September so they have what I intended to be shown. The two pieces I was unable to reconstruct in time are Kemosabe version 2.0 (with additional title) and an as of yet untitled F-Troop piece and another piece I was working on that's a bit of a departure for me entitled, Cayuga. So, I have a month to re-access my brain and reconstruct what/how I remember the pieces to be. My job has afforded me a G5 tower and 20 inch monitor to bring home, now I can wake up or come home and power it up and create without having to head into the office at all hours after working 8 hours just to use a more powerful machine than my PowerBook G4 from 2005--I love this little laptop (it's served me well traveling with me through the country and internationally), but it's time for a new Intel powered device, sometime when I have the money.
It's been a difficult month struggling after attempting to author my DVD for the exhibit. I was right there. I sat on the pieces for a month and came back to them to tweak them where I thought necessary, and then moved on to export them for the DVD and then the doomsday scenario hit. Now I can get some rest, recoup and come at the work from a more focused, less stressed mind.
I hope to get the other two and another possible piece reconstructed by end of August and sent back to the Museum of Contemporary Native Art first thing in September so they have what I intended to be shown. The two pieces I was unable to reconstruct in time are Kemosabe version 2.0 (with additional title) and an as of yet untitled F-Troop piece and another piece I was working on that's a bit of a departure for me entitled, Cayuga. So, I have a month to re-access my brain and reconstruct what/how I remember the pieces to be. My job has afforded me a G5 tower and 20 inch monitor to bring home, now I can wake up or come home and power it up and create without having to head into the office at all hours after working 8 hours just to use a more powerful machine than my PowerBook G4 from 2005--I love this little laptop (it's served me well traveling with me through the country and internationally), but it's time for a new Intel powered device, sometime when I have the money.
It's been a difficult month struggling after attempting to author my DVD for the exhibit. I was right there. I sat on the pieces for a month and came back to them to tweak them where I thought necessary, and then moved on to export them for the DVD and then the doomsday scenario hit. Now I can get some rest, recoup and come at the work from a more focused, less stressed mind.
12.01.2009
NAICA—the remnants of a wonderful online world
I received an email from my good friend about a website we were involved with, NAICA online (NAICA), which is an acronym for Native American Indigenous Cinema and Arts. Apparently someone is interested in replicating the content and idea behind this wonderfully constructed and conceptually based online site.
The sad part of this situation is the particular individual interested in practically duplicating what once was done, and completely funded by those involved is an educated person teaching at the university level, but seemingly incapable of conceptualizing a blog style site centered on Indigenous Arts.
Now, we never received funding of any kind in constructing the site, although, we as a group—and almost a complete non-profit entity—did receive discounts at film festivals so we could provide our unique brand of coverage. My friend wasn't happy that someone would contact them and ask for assistance when they were going to replicate the site in a university classroom environment, and I told them they have every right to be unhappy.
What irritates me, as probably does my friend, is they asked for our contact list of individuals that we worked tirelessly obtaining through creating trusting relationships over time, enduring various film festivals to meet and request interviews from individuals, cold calling and emailing people regarding their work. It's rather aggravatingly apparent this individual has no comprehension of what it takes to utilize web-based technology, let alone create a blog where one would interview an individual to utilize the content online.
Why do some people jump in before testing the waters? You might suggest that they are contacting my friend for assistance, so actually they are testing the waters. Au contraire. Assistance is one thing when you are coding html and cannot figure out how to center a "div" tag once you've coded the CSS. But it's an entirely different creature when you ask of an organization, that faded out way before its time, to provide their coveted contact list so you can virtually duplicate what we had to stop doing because we had to earn a living and time was too precious and too little for us to forge ahead.
What is obvious is that someone wants to recreate what we have already done—the majority of which my friend lost countless hours of sleep, time and money over. Sure that's flattering, but it's also insulting to contact the founder to request information that was entrusted to our organization, as well as, for the most part, ask how we did it—that shows lack of effort and capability on the part of the individual and it makes me question how they got to the university level to teach.
The sad part of this situation is the particular individual interested in practically duplicating what once was done, and completely funded by those involved is an educated person teaching at the university level, but seemingly incapable of conceptualizing a blog style site centered on Indigenous Arts.
Now, we never received funding of any kind in constructing the site, although, we as a group—and almost a complete non-profit entity—did receive discounts at film festivals so we could provide our unique brand of coverage. My friend wasn't happy that someone would contact them and ask for assistance when they were going to replicate the site in a university classroom environment, and I told them they have every right to be unhappy.
What irritates me, as probably does my friend, is they asked for our contact list of individuals that we worked tirelessly obtaining through creating trusting relationships over time, enduring various film festivals to meet and request interviews from individuals, cold calling and emailing people regarding their work. It's rather aggravatingly apparent this individual has no comprehension of what it takes to utilize web-based technology, let alone create a blog where one would interview an individual to utilize the content online.
Why do some people jump in before testing the waters? You might suggest that they are contacting my friend for assistance, so actually they are testing the waters. Au contraire. Assistance is one thing when you are coding html and cannot figure out how to center a "div" tag once you've coded the CSS. But it's an entirely different creature when you ask of an organization, that faded out way before its time, to provide their coveted contact list so you can virtually duplicate what we had to stop doing because we had to earn a living and time was too precious and too little for us to forge ahead.
What is obvious is that someone wants to recreate what we have already done—the majority of which my friend lost countless hours of sleep, time and money over. Sure that's flattering, but it's also insulting to contact the founder to request information that was entrusted to our organization, as well as, for the most part, ask how we did it—that shows lack of effort and capability on the part of the individual and it makes me question how they got to the university level to teach.
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