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HOPE
Shepard Fairey
Shepard Fairey; OBAMA HOPE; mixed media stencil collage on cotton rag paper; 1 of 3 in existence, each is unique in collage, not numbered, not an edition; 45'' x 69''; National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC, 2008
Shepard Fairey's 'Hope' poster of Barack Obama, which became ubiquitous in the US during the election campaign, has entered the collection of the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC, reports the Art Newspaper. The red and blue stencilled portrait, which became the central image of the election campaign, is the first portrait of the new president to enter the national collection. The original poster was given to the museum by the Washington-based lobbyists and collectors Heather and Tony Podesta, whose brother John is the co-chairman of Obama's transition team.
"This work is an emblem of a significant election, as well as a new presidency," said Martin Sullivan, director of the National Portrait Gallery in a press statement. A spokeswoman for the National Portrait Gallery says the work will be on view in the museum's first floor gallery in time for Obama's inauguration on 20 January.
Born in Charleston, South Carolina in 1970, Shepard Fairey is a contemporary artist, graphic designer and illustrator. Fairey graduated from Rhode Island School of Design in 1992 with a B.A. in illustration. He is most recognized as emerging from the skateboarding scene and became most notably known for his 'André the Giant Has a Posse' sticker campaign and 'OBEY' street art movement. Since 1989, Shepard has consistently produced a wide range of artwork from screenprints, mix media stencil collage, to 15 foot mural installations. In 2007, Shepard embarked on a pivotal year with producing 3 major solo exhibitions in New York City, London, and Los Angeles. All 3 exhibitions sold out with a showing of over a 100 pieces of art in each exhibition.
Recently, Fairey has created a series of posters supporting Barack Obama's candidacy for President in 2008 which led a massive grassroots street awareness campaign. Fairey's 'PROGRESS', 'HOPE', and 'CHANGE' posters have created a huge impact in the visibility of the Obama Campaign, in which Senator Obama, himself, personally thanked Fairey for making this art. Namely sending him a letter that has also became itself very well known in the public realm. Since then he created an exclusive design for Rock the Vote, and sits on the advisory board of Reaching to Embrace the Arts, a not-for-profit organization that provides art supplies to disadvantaged schools and students.
Shepard Fairey's posters of Barack Obama became the icon of the Presidential campaign, so TIME magazine asked the artist to design the cover for its Person of the Year December 29, 2008 year last issue.
IRAQ WAR ENDS
In an elaborate hoax, pranksters distributed thousands of free copies of a spoof edition of The New York Times on Wednesday morning, November, 5th, at busy subway stations around the city, including Grand Central Terminal, Washington and Union Squares, the 14th and 23rd Street stations along Eighth Avenue, and Pacific Street in Brooklyn, among others.
The spurious 14-page papers - with a headline "IRAQ WAR ENDS" - surprised commuters, many of whom took the free copies thinking they were legitimate. The paper is dated July 4, 2009, and imagines a liberal utopia of national health care, a rebuilt economy, progressive taxation, a national oil fund to study climate change, and other goals of progressive politics. And also that George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States, was indicted Monday on charges of high treason.
The hoax was accompanied by a Web site that mimics the look of The Times's real Web site. A page of the spoof site contained links to dozens of progressive organizations, which were also listed in the print edition. (A headline in the fake business section declares: "Public Relations Industry Forecasts a Series of Massive Layoffs." Interesting.)
The Associated Press reported that copies of the spoof paper were also handed out in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Philadelphia and Washington, and that the team - who included a film promoter, three unnamed Times staffers, and 30 other people, many of whom work at New York daily newspapers, and Steven Lambert, an art professor - financed the paper with small online contributions and created the paper to urge President-elect Barack Obama to keep his campaign promises.
According to the AP, software and Internet support were provided by The Yes Men, who were the subject of a 2004 documentary film.
On Wednesday, The Yes Men issued a statement about the prank, stating, in part: In an elaborate operation six months in the planning, 1.2 million papers were printed at six different presses around the country and driven to prearranged pickup locations, where thousands of volunteers stood ready to pass them out on the street.
See also the New York Times Special Edition Video News Release - November, 12, 2008 by H Schweppes.
Significantly the web site used to put the action in motion during all this time bears the title Because We Want It!
Deportation-Class
"It usually takes a scandal for companies to begin looking at values management," says Dirk Gilbert, professor at the European Business School. Sometimes one scandal is not enough and it takes a strong campaigning to let a company change it's policy. And before it takes into effect, a long battle has to be fought and a lot of different arguments have to be applied.
Some of the major airline companies are currently running into troubles, because they are transporting thousands of deportees per year. Human rights activists, antiracist groups and the press are targetting these companies on their deportation policies.
We at Deportation Class prefer to speak plain text. We don't conceal, what is really happening in the last rows of an airplane, when people are suffocated, tranquillized and fettered, in order to deport them to countries they were once fleeing. We don't care, what it must be like for other passengers to see someone bound and gagged in the seat next to them. And overall, we won't bore you with endless idle talk about global villages, new nomadism and freedom of movement.
In the Deportation Class only one value counts: you have to have the wrong passport and then we will treat you with services you have never dreamed about. There are no round-trips and the only way out is manifest resistance.
Yours sincerly,
Jan Hoffmann
CEO of the Deportation Alliance
Go to http://www.deportation-class.com
Data retention is no solution!
The European ministers of Justice and the European Commission want to keep all telephone and internet traffic data of all 450 million Europeans. If you are concerned about this plan, please sign the petition.
What's wrong with data retention? The proposal to retain traffic data will reveal who has been calling and e-mailing whom, what websites people have visited and even where they were with their mobile phones. Telephone companies and internet services providers would be ordered to store all traffic data of their customers. Police and intelligence agencies in Europe would be granted access the traffic data. Various, competing proposals in Brussels mention retention periods from 6 months up to four years.
Data retention is an invasive tool that interferes with the private lives of all 450 million people in the European Union. Data retention is a policy that expands powers of surveillance in an unprecedented manner. It simultaneously revokes many of the safeguards in European human rights instruments, such as the Data Protection Directives and the European Convention on Human Rights.
Data retention means that governments may interfere with your private life and private communications regardless if you are suspected of a crime or not.
Data retention is not a solution to terrorism and crime!
In July 2005 the European Parliament adopted a report by Parliament member Alexander Alvaro on the mandatory data retention plan. The report concludes that the proposal is disproportionate. The report also questions the necessity, effectiveness and high costs for industry and telecommunication users.
No research has been conducted anywhere in Europe that supports the need and necessity of creating such a large-scale database containing such sensitive data for the purpose of fighting crime and terrorism.
The attacks on London are an attack on human rights. The protection of those human rights matters most when governments and societies face times of crisis. The worst possible response would be to jeopardise thos carefully wrought rights by a panic-inspired response. A mass surveillance response to terror would result in a resounding success for the perpetrators of these attacks: a fundamental undermining of our most fundamental values.
What can you do to stop this plan?
If you are concerned about the European plans for data retention, please sign the petition and alert as many people as you can to support this campaign. The signatures will be sent to the European Commission and the European Parliament.
Go to http://www.dataretentionisnosolution.com/index.php?lang=en to sign the petition.
Cost of War
In April, 2003 an intergenerational team of Niko
Matsakis of Boston, MA and Elias Vlanton of Takoma
Park, MD created costofwar.com
After maintaining it on their own for the first year,
they gave it to the National Priorities Project to
contribute to their ongoing educational efforts.
Where Do Your Tax Dollars Go? NPP's latest publication
shows how the average household's tax dollars are
spent for every state and 193 cities, towns and
counties.
Up is a running total of what taxpayers are spending
on the Iraq War. This total is based on estimates
from Congressional appropriations.
thing.net
Thing é um dos pioneiros sites para a comunidade da arte. Apresenta-se como uma especie de forum para artistas e para pessoas interessadas no mundo da arte. Um dispositivo para muitos dos melhores projectos de net.art produzidos por net.artists americanos. Tem ramificações em Berlin, Viena (o original), Amsterdam, e Frankfurt, ainda que todos tentem rejeitar a filosofia de um site localizado.
press conference >???????? 3.00pm
opening > saturday ???????? 6.00pm
public opening > 8th november
closing > 18 december
mejor vida corp.
press conference > ???? 3.00pm
opening > saturday ???? 6.00pm
public opening > 18th october
closing > 18th november
Lawrence Weiner
Homeport, Palace, [äda'web], 1997
![Lawrence Weiner, Homeport, Palace, [äda'web], 1997](../../img/LaurenceWeiner/LW_Homeport_72dpi.jpg)
Lawrence Weiner, Homeport, Palace, [äda'web], 1997
Abandonar os significados e as hipóteses dadas como adquiridas, na medida em que estas se apoiam na aceitação do espaço e do tempo subordinados a uma linearidade histórica, é a proposta de Homeport de Lawrence Weiner, e produzido pela [äda'web].
A desmaterialização do objecto de arte proposta pela arte conceptual a partir dos anos 60, veio a ganhar nos anos mais recentes uma renovada importância, fundamentalmente devido à Internet. Apesar de galerias aparecidas mais recentemente terem vindo a afirmar a sua programação com a apresentação de propostas enraízadas neste novo media e território estético, a conhecida galeria Leo Castelli, em New York, entrou online em 1997, através da exposição de Lawrence Weiner. Juntamente com um conjunto de obras que ocupavam a sala principal da galeria, Homeport foi apresentado pela primeira vez nesta ocasião na sala das traseiras, na qual duas estações de trabalho Macintosh equipadas com o software Palace, e que assim, permitiam o seu respectivo acesso online.
Homeport é ainda acessível de qualquer computador em qualquer lugar através da [äda'web].
http://adaweb.walkerart.org/project/homeport/
press conference > 11th september
3.00pm
opening > saturday 11th september 6.00pm
public opening > 13th september
closing > 15th october
lawrence lessing + Random Foo
<free culture>
http://randomfoo.net/oscon/2002/lessig/free.html
press conference > 17th july 3.00pm
opening > saturday 17th july 6.00pm
public opening > 19th july
closing > 7th august
Dyske Suematsu
Asphratus
Dyske Suematsu, Asphratus, Netabstration,
http://dyske.com/netabstration.html
press conference > 22th may 3.00pm
opening > saturday 22th may 6.00pm
public opening > 24th may
closing > 17th july
Yugo Nakamura
Clockblock1.0
Yugo Nakamura, Clockblock, merry christmas from santaproject, shockwave director screen saver, mono*crafts, 2001
press conference > 22th may 3.00pm
opening > saturday
22th may 6.00pm
public opening > 24th may
closing > 18th june
Jackpresents@gmail.com
soon moving to new premises to be announced
opening hours
monday to saturday > 2.00 to 8.00pm /
sunday closed
free admission /
by appointment
+351 962 453596
www.jackpresents.com/galeria
