Going Underground

On Tuesday, February 1 at 7:30 pm we will meet at ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia Street (near the corner of 21st and Valencia) in San Francisco for a studio visit/art salon gathering with Craig Baldwin (read on for more info about Craig).

If you hope to carpool, let me know in advance - I can take up to 4 others. Meet in JFKU/Berkeley parking lot by 6:45 pm sharp.

For those who are taking BART, the nearest stop is 24th Street Station in the Mission. Walk 1 block over to Valencia and 3 blocks down to 21st Street.

For those who are driving, there is a parking garage on 21st Street, between Mission and Valencia.

In addition to your curiosity and artistic spirit, bring beer/wine/or non-alcoholic drink of choice and money to throw down for your share of pizza (probably around $5-8 or so). If you don't want to eat pizza, bring your own snack/food of choice. We'll be there til 10pm, or so.

Craig Baldwin is an extraordinary underground filmmaker who has played an integral role in establishing an independent film scene in San Francisco's Mission District. His film program, Other Cinema, hosted at ATA Gallery (Artist Television Access), promotes the work of both emerging and established artists working in experimental, independent, or underground film. The programming occasionally includes performative elements, with improvised, multiple or hand-cranked projections, interactive installation and or music.

Craig has made numerous found-footage films, including his most recent feature-length feat, Mock Up on Mu, a collage-narrative which premiered at the San Francisco International Film Festival this past April. He 's adjunct faculty at California College of Art, San Francisco State University and UC Davis and teaches courses in Avant Gard Cinema and Media Archeology, to name a few. He also has an incredible archive of old films-16mm industrials, home movies, lost porn, commercials, 35mm feature film prints, rare to whatever---he's probably got it. And he sells (some of it) for $3 a shot.

I've included Other Cinema in the resources link on this blog, but for more information about Craig Baldwin and his work, just do a quick google search...you'll get an avalanche.

We'll hang out with Craig in his basement studio, hear his thoughts on time based collage, culture jamming and copyright, then move upstairs to the gallery pizza and drinks around 9:00/9:30pm.

Blogging Baby

Dear Intermedia-ist!

I am excited to check in on your process and experiences of intermedia so far, and looking forward to your reading comments to each other…so, let’s get those blogs started! (why am I hearing heavy techno beats and bobbing my head back and forth like a chicken after writing that?!)

If you are already blogging and want to stick with the blog you’ve got, just send me the name/access link to your current one and I will post onto our intermedia blog, right here!

And, if you are ready to start reading each other’s posts, check out links under “Students 2011” (obvious, right?) I will keep adding your blogs there as they come in.

If you are completely new to blogging, the simplest place to create one that I know of is www.blogger.com.

You will need to set-up a gmail account to log on- please don’t forget to write down your password!!!!

Blogger will walk you completely through the process, but in case you do by chance get stuck, call on me, I am happy to help as much as I can in my limited knowledge of blogging. In case you are wondering, tho, your blogs can be VERY, VERY simple. But I do expect images and text with (nearly) every post. We are artists, afterall, so give me the eye-candy, please!

The blogging assignment is not just a way to get us looking at each other’s works, but as you have probably already intuited, I consider the internet another medium for intermedia artmaking, so if you want to have your blog be an art project, that is absolutely great. No need to share your internal process if you’d prefer to make an art project out of this assignment. It’s all up to you! (but it doesn’t preclude the other projects…unless you talk to me about why it should).

That is all for now. I hope I have not confused. I hope you remain inspired. I look forward to our creative 2d presentations on Tuesday the 25^th! Yay!

Robbyn

Notes on Intermedia-What is it?

1. blending different artistic media

2. art as experience

Roots in FLUXUS: conceptual/experiential/time

work in a participatory manner to create & experience avant-garde, multi-disciplinary art.

FLUX/Intermedia has associations with Dada, Duchamp, Situationiste, Futurism & Surrealism.

Avoids limiting art theories, spurns pure aesthetic objectives.

FLUXUS produced mixed-media works:

found poems, mail art, silent orchestras, collages of readily available materials (scavanged posters, newspapers, and other ephemera). Experiemental films, installations, happenings, situations and events (including performances, guerilla or street theater, concerts of electronic music.)

George Maciunas (Lithuanian-American, 1931-1978) coined the name Fluxus. He described it as "a fusion of Spike Jones, gags, games, Vaudeville, Cage and Duchamp." He co-ordinated and edited numerous Fluxus publications.

Artist:

Fluxists include Joseph Beuys, George Brecht (German, 1926-), John Cage (American, 1912-1992), Robert Filliou (French, 1926-1987), Henry Flynt (American, 1940-), Ken Friedman, Al Hansen (1927-1995), Geoffrey Hendricks, Dick Higgins (American, 1938-), Ray Johnson (American, 1927-1995), Alison Knowles (American, 1933-), George Maciunas, Jackson MacLow (American, 1922-), Larry Miller (American), Charlotte Moorman (American, 1940-1994), Yoko Ono (Japanese-American, 1933- ; married to the "Beatle" John Lennon), Nam Jun Paik (Korean-American, 1932-), Daniel Spoerri (Swiss, 1930-), Benjamin Vautier (French, 1935-), Wolf Vostell (German, 1932-), Robert Watts, Emmett Williams (American, 1925-), and La Monte Young (American, 1935-), among many others.