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call for submissions, EV 12 - "Jung @ Heart"

2008-07-06T07:06:33Z

Emerging Visions visionary art ezine #12, theme title: Jung @ Heart
expected to emerge in deepest July

I find it easier to work the collage with a running theme, usually associated with the astrological influence at the time of "emergence" of the issue. #12 is due out during the astrological month of Leo, around Jung's birthday. Leo rules youth and heart.

For Submission Guidelines and Issue #11 Imagine Nation:
http://emergingvisions.blogspot.com

I am hoping you will submit artistic visions relating to fairytales, youth archetypes, playfulness, creativity, childlike wonder, and such.
If you have something for the issue, please do send it.

libramoon42@mindspring.com

~~~~ make it happen

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Thoughts on UNAUTHORISED COPYING of SHAG and MARK RYDEN art??

2008-06-26T02:13:08Z

OK, it happens all the time I know......but when you start to see the art of your lowbrow/underground favourites being blatantly copied for others profiteering (is that a word?) it really hits a nerve!

Not so long ago I saw dodgy shag coasters at a major local grocery chain down here in Australia....on further inspection I noticed they were mass produced (or should I say mass ripped off) from China. My sister-in-law actually bought a set, unknowingly, because they looked
"kool"......she had never heard of Shag beforeI I later found out Outre gallery here in Oz who represent Shag and Ryden etc. did their best to put a stop to the importation of them!

While searchin for tiki mugs on ebay a few days ago I came across Mark Ryden's piece "Tiki God" being offered as an iron on transfer. On further inspection I realised this was not only an unauthorised item, they hadn't even given the artist any credit! I immediately contacted the seller and explained that it was wrong and a breach of copywright. They replied saying they had purchased the item "unaware"......but the story did'nt wash with me because they also offered an enlarging service and in their "sellers other items" had several more very familiar designs on offer!

Anyway, they basically were not too fazed by my concerns and the item continues to be listed! Ya' see this shit really pisses me off, being an artist myself. I'd like to know your thoughts on this matter of shamefully copying & profiting from others hard work?

Go to

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260096862534&sspagename=ADME:B:RTQ:AU:1

to check out this item on ebay.....& send 'em a message if ya don't like what ya see!

TEZ
www.skullpussy.com

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Orphan Works Act

2008-05-20T21:54:02Z

Orphan Works Act of 2008
http://youtube.com/watch?v=CqBZd0cP5Yc

On April 24, Senators Pat Leahy (D-VT) and Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Representatives Howard Berman (D-CA), John Conyers (D-MI) and Lamar Smith (R-TX) introduced legislation (S.2913, HR 5889), which is now being referred to as the Shawn Bentley Orphan Works Act of 2008. It is virtually the same bill that was presented in 2006, and subsequently rejected by Congress. But now, they are trying again.

If passed, the Act would radically alter copyright laws, taking away the automatic copyright now guaranteed to artists of all types who create any type of work. Right now, under U.S. law, artists are automatically guaranteed copyright on everything they create, from the sketches in their sketchpad to their best paintings and sculptures. Under the Orphan Works Act, every creator will be required to register everything he or she creates in a private registry system, requiring a fee of course, and supposedly to make it easier for the "public" to search for works and contact the creators if they want to use the works for some purpose.

Everything created in the last 30 years will need to be registered through this as-yet nonexistent system, including those works already registered via additional fees with the copyright office. If they aren't, and some member of the public makes "due diligence" to find the creator of a work and can't find him or her, that member of the public is entitled to use the work without any limitations, and artists will have no legal recourse. That means every piece of work artists have out there, especially online, would be open season for use by major publishing houses and businesses (Microsoft — who owns one of the largest online image databases — and Google have already voiced support for the bill and indicated they will use thousands of images) and everyone in between. Proponents of the bill say it will assist the public in identifying and contacting creators of works and going through the proper channels to contact them to ask for permission. While we understand the need for an organized system of search, there are MAJOR FLAWS in the proposed bill that need to be addressed before any such proposal should take place. Here are a few points:

Under this law, artists would need to register EVERY piece of work they create, including those works that you have already registered with the Copyright Office officially, in some system that does not exist and would likely require them to pay to do so. The time and cost to do this is going to be prohibitive for visual artists.

While this is meant to apply to all types of creative works, including music and literary, visual artists will be impacted the most because of the sheer volume of work they create, making it very expensive to register everything they have ever created or will create.

For the visual arts, there would still be little protection for them and their work, even if it is registered, because search tools would rely on names of artists or titles of work, and not image recognition tools, which are still in their infancy of development.

Under this law, if artists register their work, they would have to respond to EVERY inquiry sent to them for use of the work. So in other words, if an artist has a work out there in a registry system, and some person contacts the artist and says he or she wants to use the artist's work for free on his or her Web site or in his or her new catalog, the artist would need to take the time to officially respond to every inquiry within a specified time limit, letting him or her know if the artist doe not want to have him or her publish the artist's work for free. This will take a lot of time and effort that professional artists do not have.

Last week, the House Judiciary Committee unanimously approved the bill, and yesterday, May 15, the Senate Judiciary Committee did as well. This means the bill will be presented to Congress, likely before the end of May.

We need you to write to your representatives ASAP and let them know that you do NOT want this bill to be expedited, as it is now. Tell them we need a better solution, or tell them you don't want it at all: Just be sure to tell them something soon.

Click the links below to get more information on the bill, including a video that gives you a great overview of the artists' concerns:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=CqBZd0cP5Ychttp://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00261http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00185http://www.capwiz.com/artsusa/issues/alert/?alertid=11346091&type=CUhttp://www.asmp.org/news/spec2008/orphan_update.phphttp://judiciary.house.gov/media/pdfs/Perlman080313.pdf

Click below for several options of pre-written and editable letters that you can fill out, and that will automatically identify and send it to your representatives when you enter your address. http://capwiz.com/illustratorspartnership/home/

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back for Earth Week

2008-04-22T22:24:34Z

http://emergingvisions.blogspot.com/2007_04_01_archive.html

It's really a simple story Beings find planet. Beings treat planet badly. Planet goes about her business. Beings start to realize that they need planet, and had best learn to make friends rather than futilely keeping up enmity.

Gaea: A Ritual Performance

layers of imagery, music, tribal drums, futuristic dreams

Gaea was there, in the beginning. Gaea was all. Gaea was wise.
How could we not have seen, in the blindness of pride, of avarice,
of service pledged to false gods?

The journey was long.
The journey was cold.
The journey was lonely.

Asleep in a box with wilderness dreams. Or awake on the watch, wondering what was to come.

Thus it was those false gods bespake us: Out of the cold vastness of space and time,
out of the fear that was all the companion we knew,
out of a need to make it all Someone else's responsibility,
out of a need to believe all would be well for our kind.

Our planet was dying.
We did what we could to survive.
Survival we find
an appopriate end
to any means.
Survival will give us
the time we need
to find a better way
to survive.

The strongest of us,
the proudest of us,
the meanest of us,
would not allow us to die.
We took off in our ship with the barest of plans

to find another land
where our kind could live ...
expand.

Now,
hybrid children evolved
from refugees
fleeing a hostile star.
Skygods and Earth Mother of ancient lore.

It's time we relinquish fear and hatred, accept Gaea as partner and home
that we may all live and thrive.

The land, when we found her was so warm and inviting.
We felt safe, supported, encouraged to grow.

We ate of her fruit and her herds.
We built with her trees, stone and clay.
We drank from her cool crystal streams which we soiled with our waste.
Gaea was saviour and womb.
We repaid her with rape.

We didn't understand,
thought her merely land,
thought ourselves masters from afar.

Gaea sent storms to bring us to our senses, wild winds and seas.

Gaea tried to shake us off: Earthquakes, Floods, Famine, Plagues
sending us scattering into hiding. Intermingling with her primates, Gaea's children.
Without question or shame, we murdered what we could not steal.
Without honor or remorse, we laid waste to our host, to our adopted home,
then cursed her for not giving more.

By accident or design, chimera adapting to Gaea's marketplace creating
new ways to define our origins from outer space
We lied to our halfling children, denigrated their Gaean kin,
twisted their virtues into a false concept that we called "sin."

What Gaea did to us? Cruel, evil, in need of the whip.
we seal over her bounty
into mad parody of Mother Ship.
Unforgiving of the mess of living, the miracles of life.
In our ignorant pride we gave ourselves law to decide
propriety over fate
turning
in our minds
mother love
into a mirror of hate.

Frozen in fear and rage, children swept out in the storm,
trapped in a self-made cage we had hoped to protect us from harm.

Gaea, we cry, why do you treat us so angrily?
What will it take for us to wake up and see it is we who are wrong?
To hear and be aware of Gaea's song singing in our blood?
To learn the cycles, the seasons, the reasons for fire, wind and flood?

To redefine our race, to find out that our place is here among our Gaean kin?

The telling of new tale must begin.

Gaea opens to sunshine to ease our agitation
Easy winds, easy gushing of summer rain
Feeding the greedy young grains,
growing along the plains, the flowers of the storm.
Feeding the beasts of the field,
continuing the cycle, as all is revealed.

Love is the web,
craftily spun by great mother spider,
Gaea's familiar,
weaving magestic grace
no longer concealed. It was never our place
to control, nor others' to steal.

Gaea creates in intricate arrangements,
feeding us all of us all, a transformative stew.
So much energy wasted; painful lies to find our way through
our beings to create such beautiful
children, reaching out to become and be free,
enjoying our destiny,
as Gaea's beloved.

Arising in the circle, giving voice to pain -- grateful to Gaea's grace, dancing in her cleansing rain,
we sing in voice united:

It would be so nice (paradise)
You and I
Floating in the sunlight
Ready to break free
To be
Exactly who we are.

(c) April 9, 2006 Laurie Corzett

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Evil Eye

2008-04-11T21:36:02Z

thought some of you guys might enjoy this:
http://www.threadless.com/submission/158437/Evil_Eye/

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Allyson Grey, "Nameless Presence" Exhibition at Microcosm Gallery NY, NY

2008-03-21T17:05:05Z

Date & Time: Saturday, March 15, 2008 - Saturday, May 3, 2008
11:00 AM
Location: MicroCoSM Gallery, @(CoSM) NYC
542 West 27th Street 4th Floor
NY,NY 10001 view map
More Info: 212.594.8841
www.microcosmgallery.com
Press Release – For immediate release
Contact Manager: Gizem Bacaz
manager@microcosmgallery.com; 212-594-8841

"Nameless Presence"
Works by Allyson Grey

On exhibit at MicroCoSM Gallery are the works of Allyson Grey, co-founder of the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors. For thirty years, Allyson has expressed in her paintings an essentialized world view consisting of three root components: chaos, order and secret writing. Chaos in these paintings symbolizes the material world where distinctions and entropy exist in all systems. Order in the work suggests the bliss realms one might experience in transcendental states of mystic unity sometimes called Nirvana, heaven, or the infinite Divine. Grey's secret writing is comprised of twenty unpronounceable letters, corresponding to the nameless presence, existent in all sacred writing, the spirit imbedded in communication that cannot be reduced to concepts. These oil paintings of tens of thousands of labor intensively painted spectral squares and a mystery language point to paradoxes of particles and waves, cells and systems, entropy and inter-reflectivity, meaning and the ineffable.

The inspiration for this focus came during a psychedelic journey in 1976. Allyson describes the event: "As I lay meditating next to Alex, I could see that our bodies had become infinite strands of light that were both a fountain and a drain, simultaneously individual and distinct, yet connected to all nodes in the network, blowing and sucking pure energy in an infinite field of confluent effluences. The energy was love, the unifying force. Witness to a revelation of the grid upon which the fabric of our material reality is draped, both of our art was forever changed." A description of the Hindu Jewel Net of Indra, relates strongly to this experience. In the abode of Indra, God of Space, a net stretches infinitely in all directions, and at every intersection of the net there is a jewel so highly polished and perfect that it reflects every other jewel in the net. A diptych oil painting entitled "Jewel Net of Indra", included in this exhibition, is Allyson's most reproduced work of art.

This exhibition at MicroCoSM Gallery includes paintings from the past ten years. Allyson's solo exhibitions in NYC include Stux Gallery, O.K. Harris Gallery, The Clocktower, with inclusion in exhibitions at White Columns, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The artist is credited with numerous large scale permanent public commissions and inclusion in dozens of corporations and private collections. An artist and writer all her life, Allyson received a Master of Fine Arts Degree from Tufts University. She has edited dozens of articles, journals and books, including those authored by Alex Grey, with whom she has been a constant companion and collaborator for over thirty years. Grey divides her energies between her own paintings, work for the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, the active career of her husband, Alex Grey, and the successful acting career of their daughter, Zena Grey.

www.allysongrey.com

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New address for mail-art, pen-pal letters, or just random weirdness.

2008-02-27T20:41:51Z

Hi all!

I'm new to this site, but relatively familiar with art-mail and pen-pal type things. I've rented a PO Box for this purpose, and hope to get some things going.

If you send art with a return address, I'll send you something back.

Or you can just mail something odd or random or weird.

Do what you will, just try and keep it legal.

Address is as follows:

free-for-all
PO Box 1283
Jackson, Ga, 30233

Thanks for your time, and I hope to have a full box soon!

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Salon of Visionaries, Microcosm Gallery

2008-02-09T22:36:19Z

February 7, 2008- March 29, 2008

MicroCoSm Gallery Presents "Salon of Visionaries", a show of iris giclee prints of some of visionary art's living masters. The term iris giclee describes a contemporary category of printmaking in which signed limited edition fine art prints of archival quality are produced from digital source using ink-jet printing.

The collection of prints are affordable, framed and ready to hang! Great opportunity to begin a collection, or complete one.

Artists:
Paul Laffoley
Mars-1
Robert Venosa
Martina Hoffmann
Carey Thompson
Luke Brown
Robin Larsen
Mikio Kennedy
Michele Wortman
Alex Grey
Allyson Grey
and more...

Microcosm Gallery is open Tue-Sat 11-6
542 West 27th Street, NYC 4th Floor
212-594-8841
contact Gizem Bacaz, manager@microcosmgallery.com
more info: http://www.microcosmgallery.com
or, http://www.cosm.org

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Call for Art, Art Outside 2008, Austin TX

2008-01-22T06:30:01Z

Calling ALL Artists For The 4th Annual Art Outside Brouhaha! March 6th – 16th 2008.
To take part in AO|08 Go Here- http://www.artoutside.org/

Ladies and gentlemen of the art world, we are seeking any and all creative humans who use their skill and imagination in the creation of aesthetic objects, environments, or experiences that can be shared with others. That is, we are looking for those whose life is art, and everything they do is DIY. We are searching for those who are creating the Hand-Made Nation. We are calling !ALL! make-believers, dreamers and reality re-arrangers. We are searching hi and low for lowbrow-urban-contemporary-pop-surrealism, pop art, op art, hard-edge, lyrical abstraction, post minimalism, which might be interpreted by some to mean that we are looking only for painters, but that is most definitely not the case. For you see, of course, we need masters of typography, sketchers, illustrators, satirical stencilers, screen printing is way cool, and yes, you too, graffiti fools. Least we forget every culture jammer in the hood. Do you manipulate earth/land/sand/plants/junk into art? Then we have a home for you.

Now, we know some of you may be thinking “What about Dadas’ Dadaists, though?” To this we say, but of course we are calling all inspired by DADA- for where would art be without fluxists, productivism, neoplasticism, pittura, metafisica, arbeitsrat and bauhaus. Well, we are looking for all of “you” from then and now, if any of you still are around. And one may wonder… What about the cubists? We say, “But of course.” Conceptualists? Indeed. Installationists? Please! One might ask if we are seeking anything that might fall under postmodernist modernist who are not distracted by abstractionists and other IST’S. Of course there is always impressionism, post-minimalism, pre-contemporaryism, and expressionism. Are you working in symbolism or surrealism or any of the other -isms that we have not yet mentioned? Well come on out. But wait that’s not all, that could not possibly be all this call for ARTE is all about? Well, Dali you’re right,

This call goes out to all kinetic sculptors, fire sculptors, sound artists bending invisible waves, and video projectionists playing with light. We must invite the minds of the poets and their spoken slam voices, along with improv comedians who mimic the true history of time. Or was that the klown? How can we forget about the klowns! Mimes? Performers “performing” art, puppeteers with their puppets, musicians making sounds. Oh, and least we forget outsider artists wanting to be outside.

In short, we invite all the conceivable movements, modes, and theories of art known to wo/man kind. We say to you, the Artisans of the world who wish to unite because the world needs ART, because the world’s not right. It is time, Your window of opportunity is now. Our space is your blank canvas. Your dreams are our inspiration. You and your art are invited to take part in this epic artistic endeavor.

The world may be going to hell… So let’s make some art.

To take part in AO|08 Go Here- http://www.artoutside.org/ao08faq.htm

P.S. If we happened to have forgotten any form of ART in this call for art then we do deeply apologize. Please note that you too are invited.

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Looking for Artists and Models for Life Drawing Space in SF

2008-01-21T22:59:03Z

What: Life Drawing
Where: SF's SOMA District, (1 block away from Yerba Buena Gardens 4 block from Powell BART)
When: TBD
Cost: TBD

Artists, Models, and Other Creatively-Wired Individuals,

We are putting together a group of people interested in honing their life drawing and/or modeling skills.

ARTISTS:
As there will be no official teacher for the class this is meant for people who are comfortable being self-directed artists. However, if you wish, people of varying skill levels and experience can help and guide each other.

MODELS:
We value diversity so all types of models are encouraged to join regardless of sex, gender, ethnicity, body type. Ideally we would have a good mix of different kinds of models as well as artists

What we offer is a modern and clean studio (with a bathroom) in safe part of SF 4 blocks away from Powell BART

As of today we have these time slots available:
Mondays: 1:00 PM-3:00 PM
Tuesdays: 8:30 AM-12:00 PM, 1:00 PM-3:00 PM
Wednesdays: 1:00 PM-4:00 PM
Fridays: 7:30 PM-9:30 PM
Saturdays: 3:30 PM-9:30 PM
Sundays: 11:00 AM-8:00 PM

Ideally we would like to have a sizable group or groups that meet regularly so that we can make it worthwhile for everyone involved.

If you are interested please let me know:
1. If you are a model, artist, or both
2. You schedule preferences

If you know other people that might be interested please pass this along to them. If you have any further questions please contact me at my email or tribe.

Thank You,

Omar
http://people.tribe.net/ohmzz

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New works by Alex Grey TILL DEC 31ST!!!!!

2007-11-29T19:38:59Z

For immediate release
Gallery Manager: Gizem Bacaz
Email: manager@microcosmgallery.com
ph: 212-591-8841

"Net of Being"
New works by Alex Grey
November 10 – December 31
Opening - November 10, 2007 6 - 9pm

On exhibit at MicroCoSM Gallery are Grey's major new paintings including “Holy Family,” and "Net of Being," a fifteen-foot long oil painting introduced to millions by the rock band TOOL. After years of labor, this epic work is on view along with drawings that led to its creation. Related to Grey's series of painted and sculpted "universal beings," begun in 1999, the "Net of Being" portrays an endless perspective of column-like four-faced Godheads. Each head is composed of a fiery grid of eyes and galaxies linked with similar heads in an endless mesh, implying a realm of boundless interconnectedness. A new topology of Being and infinite awareness is mapped by this omni-directional web. Grey states that this visionary realm was visited during an entheogenic (psychedelic) ayahuasca journey he ex-
perienced in 2002. Small sculptural details of the Net of Being are also on view. “Net of Being” was featured on the cover of TOOL’s recent “10,000 Days” album, and the CD package won a 2007 Grammy Award.

Also on exhibit are models of the future Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, architecture designed by Alex Grey. The
entryway pavilion on the ground level is a wheel of 12 Godhead columns similar to those portrayed in the
painting "Net of Being." In the space between the heads nestle smaller replicas of the large domed Chapel.
Smaller Godheads and Chapel shapes repeat fractally, reaching tiny proportions that harmonically relate
to the overall pattern of the building. From every point of view on the grounds of this domed circular struc-
ture, observers witness two profiles mirroring each other, created by the outline of the building and implying
two giant celestial faces. The message encoded in the building is, “When beings come together in Oneness,
they create sacred space.”

The Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, being designed to house a permanent collection of
Grey's paintings and sculpture, is itself a profoundly inspiring sculpture for a timeless body of artwork.
Best known for his paintings which “X-ray” multiple dimensions of reality, Alex Grey's visual meditations
on the nature of life and consciousness, have led to a world renowned career of exhibitions from the New Mu-
seum in NYC, to Tokyo, to Sao Paulo, a retrospective at Museum of Contemporary Arts San Diego, features
on Discovery Channel, Newsweek, Time, and album art for multi-platinum and Grammy award winning rock
bands such as Tool, Beastie Boys, and Nirvana. Because of his underground cult status in the psychedelic
world, his artwork is some of the most reproduced on sheets of blotter acid.

Alex Grey's art illuminates worlds of subtle energy and proposes new icons of trans-denominational spirituality. Along with his wife,
artist Allyson Grey, Alex co-founded the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, CoSM, located in Chelsea, open for three
years, as a testing ground for the alliance of divinity, creativity, and community.

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Die down your daily mind in Himalaya!

2007-11-03T09:04:30Z

Die down your daily mind in Himalaya!

Welcome to Himalaya!

If you want to live as a facilitater of body communication worlshop, you can learn the whole method here.
If you want to become an unique butoh dancer, also you can learn whole creation method here.
If you want to meet your whole self, you can learn how to contact your whole here.

School Guide 2008

One year course: March 17-December 8
Half year course: Available to start flexiblly
Three months course: Available to start flexiblly

●Spring term（Three months course ）: March 17- June 6, 2008

●Summer term（Three months course）: June 16- September 5, 2008

●Autum term（Three months course）: September 15- Decmber 5, 2008

Monday to Friday
AM 10:00 - PM 4:30

Anybody, any age, any sex, any handicaped people; OK!
(But here is the highland of 1800m sea level, on the foot of Himalaya mountains. Regrettably, you can not use wheelchair.)

One year(Three terms): 1300 US$
Half year(Two terms): 1000 US$
One term(Three months): 570 US$

International Subbody Butoh School
(Jogibara, Dharamsala. Himachal Pradesh, India)

Ten　students only (In order of application. Long term student are given priority.)

Send e-mail with your personal information and hope.

to: subbody@hotmail.com

more info.: www.subbody.net

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call for artists in nj

2007-10-27T04:53:35Z

in the process of finding individual who would like studio space in downtown newark nj?

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joining tribe outsider art this fels close to home does that disqualify me?

2007-09-16T11:10:02Z

The nature of language is to define our definitions..by transforming the world through for example surrealism we create new limits of expression ..be kind..be gentle ..be sure..if in doubt leave it out and communicate with the soul of the place ....still raining still dreaming ..big high to you all...jumblymamba

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NEW TRIBE...AMAZING ART

2007-09-01T12:14:00Z

This is a tribe to celebrate the worlds greatest artists
How, When, Where, and Why they created the worlds most timeless works
Lets create a gallery that we can all be proud of
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Religious and Spiritual Art (Apparitions

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http://tribes.tribe.net/963b1f92-281c-4bcf-b395-325a809d1b54?_click_path=Application%5Btribe%5D.Tribe%5B963b1f92-281c-4bcf-b395-325a809d1b54%5D

AMAZING ART

http://tribes.tribe.net/29104d87-26ac-4a27-a01c-ac24e71ecf8a?_click_path=Application%5Btribe%5D.Tribe%5B29104d87-26ac-4a27-a01c-ac24e71ecf8a%5D

Folk Art and Pop Art ( Folk- N- POP )

http://tribes.tribe.net/95d03c97-1166-4b76-88ea-d1b3ae450e28

The Prophecy of Magog - tribe.net:
http://tribes.tribe.net/d64e82b0-72ef-4c72-b5e7-299383c1d4e0

WARTIME
http://tribes.tribe.net/542c9b86-93b1-4b12-bc96-a754f89c5e8e?_click_path=Application%5Btribe%5D.Tribe%5B542c9b86-93b1-4b12-bc96-a754f89c5e8e%5D

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lakesha jackson artwork $5 on Ebay

2007-08-01T21:22:55Z

http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?from=R40&_trksid=m37&satitle=lakesha+jackson&category0=

<img src="http://i1.ebayimg.com/02/i/000/ab/40/a1a4_1.JPG">

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Have a Nice Day, Citizen!

2007-05-09T05:32:18Z

Just whoring some new stuff. :)

http://people.tribe.net/water_muse/photos/2587fa01-34d0-4949-9d8b-78d9eb961a28

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Reality TV

2007-04-30T23:40:10Z

http://people.tribe.net/water_muse/photos/23497216-8486-4bea-99f3-c8698d6cd1ce

'nuff said

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Call for Art ~ the Greenhouse Project

2007-04-28T20:15:55Z

The intention of this work is to recognize and embrace the natural cycles of life, to arrange
our lives in collaboration with natural cycles, and in doing so, we can grow a greener, more
sustainable, integrated, and meaningful experience of our world. The Greenhouse Project
is intended to be an encounter that serves to reconnect and reawaken the participants to
take an active part in the universal, cyclical cycles of life. Through interaction, reflection,
and co-creation, the participants come to encounter themselves as part of the movement of
the Universe. When we awaken to the fact that we are collaborators with nature, we are
more effective in initiating and sustaining beneficial change in our world.

How can you get involved?

Contribute a 4-5 part series or a single piece of art in any medium, and spread the word!
I'm looking for any work that illustrates a natural process, however specifically or broadly
construed. The art could honor the elements, the seasons, any natural cycle involving
plants, water/rain, fire, etc., cycles of life, birth, and death, the passing of time, growth and
decay. Series in all mediums encouraged – paintings, sculptures, photographs, masks,
poems, found objects, natural things (rocks, flowers, plants, feathers) etc. Feel free to run
with it, cuddle with it, expand it, contract it, turn it upside down, inside out, tie it up, set it
free, whatever pleases you the most.

Art contributions made from recycled, reused, and natural materials are highly encouraged.

Other stuff needed:
exotic/tribal fabrics, sheer fabrics/scarves, prayer flags, extension cords, wind chimes, plant
pots, decorative containers, rocks, dried herbs, candles, candleholders, offering bowls,
bells, mirrors, christmas lights, el-wire, and any other miscellaneous items that fit with the
concept and spirit of the project.

Contribute NOW, in time for Flipside (www.burningflipside.com), or after
that, for Bonnaroo and Rainbow Gathering, or even after that,
for Burning Man (www.burningman.com). Play along at home and become a part of
the (r)evolution of this installation in its various incarnations. Stay tuned for a slideshow of
the ongoing process and links to contributing artists @

www.earth2LL.com

For more information or to make a contribution, contact:
Laura Lea, LL@earth2LL.com

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Art ?

2007-04-20T00:12:10Z

How does one know if it is art that one is creating?

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do you like my art at the end of my photos

2007-04-19T23:55:31Z

do you know any one that wants my folk art or has a home studio to share.... i will live anywhere/EUROPE .USA.LATINLANDIA ECT,ECT/ for cheap as long as i can PAINT....google me im for real///ralfkagonzalez@ YAHOO DOT COME////// BE WEL LOVE HAS NO BORDERS

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always accepting submissions

2007-03-24T15:23:18Z

always accepting submissions
why vandalism? is an online arts journal currently accepting submissions from visual artists and writers of poetry, fiction, and gonzo. We also publish original art/film reviews and essays.

www.whyvandalism.com/

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Please join the Artist Collaboration Tribe and post your collaborative works!

2007-03-02T17:35:14Z

Hello Digital Art tribe,

Please join me in the dynamic experimental world of trading imaginative energies with other creative souls.....
Let the PSD layers fly, don't be shy, contact your fellow vision holders and give this adventure a try. My greatest hope is that people will connect in this space, give each other a delicious taste, and give birth to new place, one created in joy and respect for each others grace.
Be grateful for each other, we are all sisters and brothers, and in our struggle to create art, we honor that which has given us life - the womb of all creation, the supreme galactic mother. So go ahead, reach out and remix someone, don't forget to spend every moment having fun, look into the future and set the dial on your ego to none, open your arms - and your minds, the endeavor to enlighten has just begun.

http://tribes.tribe.net/hybridart

PAX,
Michael

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KLab9 Call for Contributions

2007-02-18T00:26:02Z

KLab9 Call for Contributions
From KnowledgeLab
KLab9:Art - Technology, Authorship and Ways of Living
A weekend gathering for collaborative and creative reflection. 5th - 7th October, 2007 tbc.
Institute for Advanced Studies, Lancaster University, North West England.

INTRODUCTION

The Knowledge Lab is an attempt to provide a collective space for anti-capitalist reflection. It is located at the margin of the university, an institution essentially geared towards the production of knowledge as a resource for corporate interest and as justification for particular constellations of power relations.
This knowledge lab will address art and ways of critically thinking about our world. Within this broad region of enquiry, the lab will encompass notions of life and art as a political commitment, the influence art can exert in politics and how political ideas in turn influence art. It will also address new ways of making art and how this relates to technologies and social changes, and the use of art as an anti-capitalist means to change and fight the system.

We hope that the knowledge lab will not merely address, but also show that art can initiate critical thinking in the various guises outlined above. Our expectations, in terms of the event, and its outcome, are that this be a sharing of creative ideas and ideas about creativity. We hope that it will draw together people with a common interest in art and alternative ways of living, but working in different fields. From this collective thinking we hope that people will be incited to realize, or make manifest, some of these ways of living and thinking creatively when they leave: We will learn from each other.

STREAMS

Like previous knowledge labs the day will be divided into four streams, each will take place in a separate room.

STREAM 1: TECHNOLOGY Free software, art spaces and interfaces, hardware, DIY and recycling/reusing.

STREAM 2: WAYS OF LIVING This stream concerns process, moment and performance. It is the political stream where we will consider primarily imaginative resistance and artivism, but also touch on debates surrounding gender issues, community and cultural production, and personal/political. We hope to see papers touching on initiatives in direct democracy; the art of changing that system, and the paradigms of inspiration. We would like to discuss how artivism will change society, possibles networks of artivists, ways of action.

STREAM 3: AUTHORSHIP Copy rights, ownership, patenting, and appropriation. (Creative commons, Copyleft,...)

STREAM 4: THE ART MARKET (new ways of) curating, spaces (physical and virtual) to show art, ways of making money: Marketing, the means of production, market forces and anti-market forces, the art market, and art and ethics.

CONTRIBUTIONS

Each day will be split into two parts. On Saturday and Sunday morning papers will be presented in each of the four streams, each lasting 20-30 minutes. Papers will be followed by a brief question period of 10-15 minutes. The afternoon will be divided into discussion periods in each of the four streams. During the weekend there will also be a separate space for workshops and performances.
There are therefore a variety of ways to contribute to the weekend. See below for details:

ACADEMIC PAPERS

The list of streams is not prescriptive, it simply outlines some of the issues we envisage arising given the general themes.

Please also send papers on other themes, these will be gratefully considered.

Submit an abstract of no more than 500 words. In addition please enclose a brief biography. Try to make this, along with your paper, as accessible as possible.

FACILITATED DISCUSSIONS (INVOLVEMENT AND SKILLS SHARING)

If you have an idea for one of the afternoon discussion topics that links in with one of the four streams then send in a your idea and think about one of the two types of involvement below:

If you'd like to take a more pro-active role during the conference, you might want to ADOPT a session - that is, prepare it in advance (suggest questions, main issues, reading material etc and propose the length of the session), arrive prepared for discussion themselves, attend it, and participate passionately in the debates.

We also need people to FACILITATE sessions - ideally a session should NOT be adopted and facilitated by the same person(s). Consider that facilitators are usually best if experienced in their task. Any which way, please get in touch.

== WORKSHOPS, ARTWORKS, AND PERFORMANCES ==

These will broadly tie in with one of the four streams above. Send a proposal [Max: A single side of A4], elaborate on: What your contribution will be e.g. a workshop, a performance, an artwork. How long you envisage it taking. Do you need any equipment or materials? Do you want to limit the number of participants? If so, how many? What do you hope will be born out of this? How do you propose to arrive at this end?

SATURDAY EVENING

DJ and VJ session: Call for DJs and VJs to send in samples so they might come and contribute to an evening of art in many guises. As well as other music, visual, perfomance, etc artist and Artivist.
Nb. Groups are welcome to contribute workshops, materials for display and/or distribution.

INFORMATION

Anybody is welcome to attend the weekend, get involved in the discussions, and take part in the workshops. HOWEVER, YOU NEED TO REGISTER TO ATTEND AS THE EVENT IS LIMITED TO 100 PEOPLE, SO PLEASE GET IN TOUCH: klab9art@googlemail.com

DEADLINE FOR ALL PROPOSALS May 1st 2007

CONTACT klab9art@googlemail.com
Amy, Ana and Synnove

COSTS AND PRACTICALITIES

Unwaged persons: free Unfunded students/low-paid persons: donation Funded students/Lancaster university staff: £20 Academics/waged persons: £65 This contribution is for the whole weekend and includes Friday and Saturday dinner, Saturday and Sunday breakfast and lunch. All food will be vegan and predominantly organic.

ACCOMODATION

Shared accommodation is available on the floor of the very spacious and friendly Quakers' Meeting House, it is free, but please bring sleeping bag and mat. Get in touch if you have any special requirements, and again, please let us know in advance if you're bringing a child.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Visit respectively the respective sites for the previous knowledgelabs:
http://knowledgelab.org.uk/wiki/FirstKnowledgeLab
http://knowledgelab.org.uk/wiki/SecondKnowledgeLab
http://knowledgelab.org.uk/wiki/ThirdKnowledgeLab

About Klab9:Art
http://knowledgelab.org.uk/wiki/KLab9

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MungBeing #13: Ritual & Myth Submissions Call

2007-02-16T22:44:50Z

Hello, all.

The next issue of MungBeing will launch on 06 April, and the deadline for submissions is 16 March. The themes are ritual & myth.

In the realm of visual art, we accept submissions of paintings, illustrations, collage works, comics and photography. Forward us a link to any web galleries you may have, or, if you do not have a site, send us one .jpg or .gif file sample of your work.

jody franklin
Editor, MungBeing
jody@mungbeing.com
http://www.mungbeing.com

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Outside Online Gallery

2007-02-13T07:21:58Z

Hello,

I have finally gotten my website to the point that I am seeking comments, criticisms, and critiques.

The url is pjmart.creativeconnectionarts.com

The site features my digital manipulations and collages, along with my writings.

Thanks in advance.

Pat

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ART CAR PROJECT!

2007-02-11T07:45:01Z

Hey All,

So, i want to transform my car into an art car and i need some help. I dont really want to change the body of my chevy malibu or glue things to my car. I want to paint my car. I have never done an art car before so this should be pretty fun. I need people to help me sand my car, anyone who knows about creating an art car, and anyone who shares my vision for the car can help me paint my car too.
The vision is one of peace, love, community, freedom, social justice, self-expression, light, free flowing, and lots and lots of fun!
No downers or pessimists needed here to help with the transformation of my purple malibu into a walking form of artistic slef expression. I have no idea what it will end up looking like in the end, and thats all part of the fun.
Who would like to help my transform my car?

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Hello!

2007-02-09T16:43:54Z

this is a awsome idea for a tribe!
"Outsider Art is defined by the situation of the artist who makes it. The main characteristics of an Outsider Artist are that they are typically self-taught; they have little or no contact with the mainstream art world; they are frequently on the margins of society. Often these outsiders are believed to suffer from mental illness. "
You are talking about me for sure! I have some paintings in my pictures if you wanna check them out!

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Show me yours- I'll show you mine

2007-01-27T10:42:35Z

Art anyone? Let me see it!!!

(go to my profile- mine are in my pics)

-Murex

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Nina's New Website

2007-01-15T18:05:34Z

My new website is finally finished.
If you have a chance to check it out, please let me know how it functions in your browser.
We are still working out the bugs and would appreciate any feedback you can give us.
I designed the site in photoshop, but my husband Ilia made it work. It was a big learning
experience for me. I’m just happy to have some new work up, and a better website.
Here is the link: http://www.dreamloka.com/

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Got New Photos

2007-01-11T03:11:37Z

Please check out my new shots,

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The Merry Cemetery, Sapanta, Romania

2006-12-26T23:37:09Z

(here's a couple mini-documentary podcasts from CamillE BacoS on Citadel of Sepia, there's a lot more material but for those who have never heard of or visited the Merry Cemetery, this will take you there. ~mIEKAL)

I was smiling. There’s nothing wrong with smiling, is there? But what about if you’re in a cemetery & these are written on the cross of the people who passed away?
This is how it is at Merry Cemetery a totally unique place situated in Sapanta, county Maramures, NW of Romania.

People’s short stories like short fables, tragic stories are told with humor. This is what this place is about & what makes it unique is making fun-smiling about the end, our end & adding humor where usually there is only tears, pain & black.

I visited this place in the fall of 2004 & I had the opportunity to interview the artist who’s creating the crosses & the short poems. He is the second generation of folk artists, the woodcarver responsible for creating Sapantza’s Merry Cemetery

http://driftlessmedia.com/citadel/?p=12

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Where no man has ever gone before

2006-12-18T23:52:24Z

Dr Evermore's Forevertron
http://www.dreamtimevillage.org/gallery/Dr-Evermores-Forevertron

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Napoleon, Eternal outsider

2006-11-12T18:02:51Z

I don't know where this link belongs exactly but I completed this page's graphic to mark the death sentence on Saddam Hussein and I wanted to share it somewhere:

http://www.mageworld.co.uk/exit/napoleon.html

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Art show @ 110 Capp Saturday the 21st, also call out for art for Erotic show in November and Craft/Budget art sale in December

2006-10-18T18:28:17Z

Art SF presents
A MADHAPPY'S ART SHOW
October 21st
8pm - 12am

@ Art SF 110 Capp St (Capp @ 16th St.)

$5-$15 - sliding scale

Art SF presents a gallery opening featuring comic and cartoon themed artwork. It is a special one year birthday party for the Madhappys Comic Collective. They produce a free comic newspaper every month. Pick one up today!

Featuring art by:
Adam Air
Aidan Sellers
Alex Helibron
Alex Holmes
Andrew Goldfarb
Andrew Greene
Byron
Calvin Trezise
David Chastain
Diana Walker
Duncan Kwitkob
Dustin Sweet
Franz Keller
Gary Stocker
Gordo
Jeff Walker
Johnerik Lawson
Kevin Brady
Kristen Farr
Kwan Booth and Curious Project
Kwansoo Kim
Lev
Lorely Bunoan
Mike Hales
Nate Orman
Nathalie Fabri
Nicole Hagen
Nili Yosha
Peter Hurley
Renata Hocking
Sean Sponsler
Serena
Shalo P
Stephanie Mufson
Terry Hollowell
Zak Nelson
and more

Music with:
DJ Cuba
Joshua Gabriel
the Slow Poisoner
and more

www.madhappys.com
www.artsf.org

Stay tuned for future gallery openings at Art SF. November 25th The Erotic Art Show with topless erotica readings and December 17th Holiday craft sale and cheap art show. Send us an email to joemama@spaz.org if you have art you want to get in either of these shows.

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Outsider Lit.

2006-09-30T07:09:15Z

Does anyone know of any good autobiographies written by people who have become mad and recovered (at least partially)?

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VSA arts of Virginia Call for Art

2006-09-26T20:34:44Z

VSA arts of Virginia is pleased to announce new visual art exhibition opportunities for artists with disabilities and others with limited access to the arts. VSAVA's Outside The Lines exhibition program is open to artists with disabilities and others with limited arts access, nationwide . Outside the Lines offers opportunities to showcase work for sale while learning how to professionally submit and present art for consideration in juried and curated art exhibitions. Exhibitions begin February 2007 in 4 different venues in the greater richmond area. Arts organizations and human services agencies are welcome as well. Deadline for submissions is January 1, 2007.

For eligibility and application guidelines for Outside the Lines contact:

Krishanna Spencer
Outside the Lines- Exhibitions
VSA arts of Virginia
Zero E 4th Street, #50
RIchmond, VA 23224
Phone:804.230.0246
Fax: 804.230.0247
Email: kspencer@vsava.org

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Call for submissions Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Art 2007

2006-09-06T10:05:35Z

Spark Festival of Electronic
Music and Art 2007

CALL FOR WORKS
University of Minnesota School of Music, Noel Zahler, Director Announces

2007 Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Art

Douglas Geers, Director West Bank Arts Quarter, University of Minnesota Twin Cities Campus

Minneapolis, MN February 20-25

CALL FOR COMPOSERS, ARTISTS, and PRESENTERS Submission Deadline: September 30, 2006 (postmark)

The University of Minnesota School of Music is proud to present the 2007 Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Art, February 20-25. The festival will be held on the Minneapolis campus of the University of Minnesota (USA) and neighboring Minneapolis performing arts venues, and will feature guest artists Morton Subotnick, Richard Devine, and others to be announced.

Now in its fifth year, the Spark Festival showcases the newest groundbreaking works of digital music and art. Last year's festival included innovative works by over one hundred international composers and artists, including featured guest artists Alvin Lucier and Scanner. Leading scholars and technology specialists also presented papers relating to new technology and creativity. Audiences for the concerts, installations, and lectures last year totaled approximately 4,000 people and garnered multiple mentions in local and national media.

Spark invites submissions of art, dance, theater, and music works incorporating new media, including electroacoustic concert music, experimental electronica, theatrical and dance works, installations, kinetic sculpture, artbots, video, and other non-traditional genres.

Spark also invites submission of scholarly papers on Collaborative Arts, Interactivity, Cognition, Compositional and Artistic Process, Social and Ethical Issues in the Arts, Art, Music, Video, Film, Animation, Theater, Dance, Innovative Use of Technology in Education, Scientific Visualization, Virtual Reality , intermedia composition, performance, human-computer interaction, software/hardware development, aesthetics, and history and all topics related to the creation of new media art and music. All accepted papers will be published as part of the Spark proceedings. Please see http://www.spark.cla.umn.edu/media.html for a PDF copy of the Spark 2006 proceedings and program.

MUSIC SUBMISSIONS
Music submissions will be accepted in four categories:

1. Concert works: Interactive works for acoustic instruments and electroacoustics (performance forces are available, TBA) Electroacoustic works with and without performers. Performance venues will accommodate 2-8 channel works and works with video. Although there is no strict limit of duration, pieces of fifteen minutes or less are encouraged.

2. "Spark Nitelife": Experimental electronic performances in a "club-style" venue. Performers of various styles will be considered, including those influenced by IDM, hip-hop, glitch, jazz, and etc. Selected performers will be given sets of 15-30 minutes. Performance venue will accommodate stereo sound and video.

3. Installations: [See "Art Works" below]

4. Music with video [See "Art Works" below]

New!
Bob Dylan Events
In collaboration with the Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota in conjunction with its exhibition "Bob Dylan's American Journey 1956-1966," we are inviting submissions in two special catagories:
Bob Dylan Remix Submissions: Submit your remix of a Bob Dylan work. Selected submissions will be programmed throughout the festival.
Bob Dylan Themed Installations: We are looking for installations that relates to the theme of "Bob Dylan's American Journey, 1956-1966." Selected installations will be installed at the Weisman Art Museum and elsewhere throughout Spark Festival event locations.

To submit in either of these catagories, enter the online submission system and follow the instructions.

Software
A new submission catagory for software has been added. We are looking for applications that create, enrich, enhance, or contribute to the digital arts or the teaching of the digital arts. Selected applications will be given a demonstration area and poster presentation. Additionally, programmers may be invited to give a paper demonstration on their work.
To submit enter the online submission system and identify your submission as a Software Poster Presentation.

ART WORKS
Submissions will be accepted in three categories:

1. Installations and gallery works: A number of installation and gallery exhibitions will be mounted in various spaces on the UMN campus, including the Weisman Art Museum. Please include technical and space requirements with submission. Installations may be physical objects, video and/or sound projections, or combinations thereof. Artists may be required to provide some or all of necessary technology to mount installations.

2. Video: Experimental video works will be screened at multiple Spark events. Videos featuring digital music compositions (two-channel or Dolby 5.1) are welcome, but this is not required. Although there is no strict limit of duration, pieces of twelve minutes or less are encouraged. Please submit on DVD (NTSC) or DVD data disk in mpg, mov, or avi file format.

3. Theater/Dance: A number of theatrical and dance works incorporating new technologies will be programmed at Spark 2006, with a special interest in shorter works that can be integrated into programs with music and video works. In addition, although not confirmed as of this writing, we hope to produce at least one performance in a dance theater with video projection and an Internet 2 connection. Please include performance venue and technical requirements with submissions.

PAPERS
Technical papers, lecture/demonstration, and workshop submissions that deal with topics relating to creating arts and music with new technology are encouraged, including Collaborative Arts, Interactivity, Cognition, Compositional and Artistic Process, Social and Ethical Issues in the Arts, Art, Music, Video, Film, Animation, Theater, Dance, Innovative Use of Technology in Education, Scientific Visualization, Virtual Reality , intermedia composition, performance, human-computer interaction, software/hardware development, aesthetics, and history. Paper presentations will consist of a twenty-minute presentation and five minutes of Q/A, and all accepted authors must attend to present their papers.

Submissions should consist of a two-page abstract with bibliography. Camera-ready papers will be due on November 1, 2006.

Individuals may submit a maximum of one paper and one lecture/demonstration, and these will be submitted online. More information about the submission process will be available soon on the Spark 2007 website when the online submission procedure has been activated. All accepted papers will be published as part of the Spark proceedings.

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
Applicants are invited to submit one work per category in up to three categories for consideration. All applicants must complete an online submission form on the Spark Festival website and include their submission number(s) with any physical media sent via postal mail. The submissions website will be at http://spark.cla.umn.edu/submissions.html and will be activated in late August. More details about the submission process will be available on the Spark 2007 website when the online submission procedure has been activated.

Regarding music and other performance works: Performing resources will be drawn from the University of Minnesota and Twin Cities area musicians. However, availability of musicians will be taken into consideration when selecting works, and therefore applicants are encouraged to bring their own performers when possible. More information about available performers will be posted on http://www.sparkfestival.org when the online submission procedure has been activated.

Composers and artists whose works are selected for inclusion are strongly encouraged to attend the festival. Scholars whose papers or demonstrations are accepted will be required to attend Spark to deliver their presentation.

TECHNICAL DETAILS
Selected works will be announced by November 1, and travel and accommodations information will be posted on http://www.sparkfestival.org by the same date.

Submission deadline is September 30 (postmark). More information and the online submissions procedure will be posted soon on the Spark 2007 website at http://www.sparkfestival.org . Questions can be directed to the Spark hosts at sparkfst@umn.edu .

***Deadline possibly will be extended, watch website or contact sparkfst@umn.edu for info***

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FREE SETH D8 ART!

2006-08-05T14:31:45Z

Get your FREE, personal use, Seth D8 art hot off the presses!

Announcing the launch of my FREE Seth D8 art print source!

As an artisan I have two categories I work in, digital illustration and commercial graphic design. I have chosen to freely share my digital illustration with anyone whom would like a print. I have plenty of commercial clients to satisfy my financial needs, plus I know I will always have all of needs met in every way before I have even asked. I love sharing my digital illustration because when a person is drawn to a piece incidental love is created and the love of creation is reflected back to me. And I love, LOVE!

I have uploaded a large selection of my digital art in hi resolution format to shutterfly.com, I have also set up a page their to access and order the prints. They offer everything from 4x6 prints to 24x36 inch prints in amazing detail and color. You can even create your very own Seth D8 art book of your favorite pieces, all for very reasonable rates. The only cost involved is the production of the prints, and I do not get a cut or add a commission to the service. It is at cost, and my art is completely free for personal use.

Please feel free and browse my current selection and get prints of anything you like, and the best part is you get to be part of the creative process by choosing exactly the correct size and media to suit your need. I will be uploading new hi resolution images a couple times a month so be sure and subscribe to my new Artisantastic illustration RSS feed. When I produce a new image it is immeaditly added to the feed, so you will always be up to date with my latest creations. And believe me I am a prolific artist creating new pieces on a daily basis.

LINK INFO:

Get Prints
http://sethd8.shutterfly.com

Get Feed
http://feeds.feedburner.com/SethD8Artisantastic

Thank You and Enjoy!

Seth D8

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Outsider Artist Documentaries

2006-06-19T02:34:53Z

A couple months ago I watched "In the Realm of the Unreal", the documentary on Darger. It opened my eyes in a new way to the world around me, making me aware of people who often don't seem to exist. Now when I walk past an apartment or lonely house with a light on late in the night I wonder what fantastic project they may be working on. A compulsion to look, visit or just know overwhelms me. It's really a wonderful feeling to think that something magical is going on right under our nose and we could discover it if we just opened our eyes.

Sadly though, I think many of the outsider works of isolationists like Darger wind up in the trash or get stuffed in the next generation's attic. That depresses me and I almost become panicky in a search to discover them. No luck yet, but I'll keep you posted.

From the affect this documentary had on me, I would love to know if anyone has other Outsider Artist documentaries they would recommend.

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outsider art in bay area?

2006-06-16T19:54:21Z

is there any good outsider art in the bay area?

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who are we ?

2006-04-25T14:35:26Z

" In the time of the ancients "

In the time of the ancients
There were no galleries
No juried shows
No mandated corporate expenditures for public art
No “wear your best black” wine and cheese openings

No monkeys rolled in paint post-modern simian expressionist
No hyper-syllabic art reviewers spouting esoteric excrement
No outsider art
No insider art
Just art

Now we have pigeon holes
Genres
Schools
Boxes for all occasions
Outsider
Is more than a name
More than a box built by the corporate art world
It
Is
A sense of being
We’re people that are
Because we are
Not because of the vocation or avocation we’ve chosen
Or by virtue of our training

Rather
Because we’ve given ourselves to the creation of things
Things that have beckoned to us to share their form with this
Physical world

These words, these works
Are dedicated to the spirit of those who
Share this universal breath

D.L.Blake

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Butoh School Photo Journal

2006-04-05T15:04:17Z

We started Weekly Photo Journal of Subbody Butoh School Himalaya.
FInding the ugliest qualia from the darkness of body, and open it with the best Jo-Ha-Kyu timing, this is the deepest butoh method.
See the miracle of subbody method.

Please visit our site: http://subbody.net/

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guide to the deepest butoh method

2006-03-24T19:44:00Z

Hi! friends

Subbody Butoh School has started.

I start weekly journal about what I teach at my butoh school on my

website.

Why butoh dance is deep?

How can you connect to the depth of you.

What is Jo-ha-Kyu?

What is Riken?

I teach the deepest subbody butoh method here.

Now You can learn it in the Subbody Butoh School Himalaya India

There is beginner's one month course to Facilitator's three years

course.

If you are interesting in,
please visit the site;

Subbody Butoh Himalaya; www.subbody.net/　

Rhizome Lee

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http://tribes.tribe.net/rawvision

2006-03-15T13:59:17Z

This tribe is not really moderated and it is for the development of the Awareness of Forms of Creative Expression that exist outside accepted cultural norms - www.rawvision.com

http://tribes.tribe.net/rawvision

Henry Boxer is the director of Rawvision and I love to promote his Audio Interview by Xan
(see below)

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My best friends's online interview

2006-03-15T13:56:05Z

www.xan.co.uk/volume_24.php
My best friends's online interview

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+ Newentriborartisan

2006-03-15T06:37:53Z

+ Hello Fellow Beings!

+ I am glad to take my place along the other "outsiders" here. I am a self taught artist, designer and illustrator living in Boston MA. I have also been working on an online webstore to share my art and philosophies with the world, I will be having my official launch on April 1st (Still lots of work to go) but my Artwarehouse is at a point where I feel people can get what I am up to by visiting it. The URL is http://artwarehouse.sethd8.com . I have never really gone to a school to learn anything I use, I have learned everything through real life experience, and the power of observation. I have posted some of my work in this tribes photo bank to introduce my collective creation to the group. I would love to hear from you!

+ Namaste!

+ Seth D8

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Junebug - "Outsider"-related movie

2006-02-21T03:02:53Z

Just saw Junebug tonight and it was a throroughly enjoyable film. One of the lead characters is an outsider artist curator and the plot involves her finding and trying to sign an outsider artist. Of course, the outsider artist is quite the character and the art itself is pretty interesting.

Great movie, good depiction of life and some of the characters in the South (which I am from). Highly recommend it.

Here's the movie site link:
http://www.sonyclassics.com/junebug/main.html

The art was created for the film based on the needs of the script. Interesting though, here's the artist's website:
http://www.annwoodcustom.com/

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well sounds like me

2006-02-07T09:21:15Z

i kinda invented my art w/ wire. the person that taught me showed me" This is how you hold the wire. Put it between these two finger & bend.. may years later this is what I came up w/.. W/ all this time & focus, & I never made much $$ at it. But it is a wonder to many.. Does that sound like mental illness..H ha ha ha He he he.. i would be building mantions by now if I'd started that way....Ha ha ha ha..

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Roman Kravchenko

2006-01-26T19:16:00Z

Dear friends!
I invite you in Cave cities of Crimea!
I invite will familiarize with my site http://www.crimea-guide.com
Any routes both on a land and under water.
Sincerely yours!
Roman Kravchenko

IF YOU WANT TO DISCOVER A CRIMEA AS AN ECOLOGICAL TOURIST - ON YOUR FOOTS WITH A BACKPACK AND A CAMP, DIVE IN A WARM BLACK SEE WITH A BOTTLE OF A FRESH CRIMEAN WINE, SLEEP ON A MOUNTAIN NEAR A FIREPLACE SEEING NO ONE BUT STARS, PREPARE A FOOD WITH A BEST SPICE OF A FIRE SMOKE, TO LIVE FOR A DAY OR TWO IN A REAL CAVE CITY, TO MEET NEW FRIENDS FROM ALL OVER EX-USSR, AND TO SEE HOW PEOPLE LIVE ON THIS SIDE OF THE MOON -

YOU ARE IN THE RIGHT PLACE!

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Favorite 'outsider' artist(s) ?

2005-10-04T05:17:36Z

Are there any 'famous' or well known outsider artists?
Who are your favorites? Recommend anyones art to check out?

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Henry Darger on PBS

2005-08-05T18:40:57Z

It's part of The P.O.V. series this month. It's well-done & enlightening.

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an art & politics forum is born

2005-07-11T00:28:58Z

hi. im birthing this forum that focuses mostly on art and left politics.

its all fresh and new and waiting for instigator types to help shape the place. hardly anyone in there right now but it has a lot of potential. who ever gets involved at this point would be key in developing the character of the place.

you can put pictures and stuff in each post.

im still adding a forum or two more and working on the design of the place.

i would be honored by your presence. come check it out: http://p207.ezboard.com/btheemptyroom

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Graf exhibit and live mc's july 7 oakland

2005-07-03T22:31:37Z

URBAN FUNK

REBELLION

ALL-YOUTH GRAFFITI EXHIBIT

The Final Chapter

The Vandal Resurgence Explodes

Grand Finale, Closing Exhibit

& Silent Art Auction

deep roots

urban teahouse

1418 34th Avenue

Oakland CA, 94601

Thursday, July 7

7:00 to 11:30 PM

Featuring Works By:

ARIK

DAZ ONE

As Well as Students From:

URBAN ARTS ACADEMY

BERKELEY HIGH

Pre-Opening Blackbook Session @ 6 PM

w/ SPIE TDK

Performances by:

NAC ONE & DJ GIGS

ORUKUSAKI (Forensic Science)

SUN RU SKYWAKA

Plus Special Guest...

QUESE IMC

(live from the Vans Warped Tour)

CD RELEASE

GROUND EFFECT MIX VOL. II

Produced By DJ GIGS

Proceeds from the Silent Art Auction

& Ground Effect CD Sales go to

the Searching for The Perfect Beat

Youth Hip-Hop Cultural Exchange 2005

organized by Higher Gliffs. Connect Force

& the University of Hip-Hop

For more info call (510) 625-9940

or Email HigherGliffs@aol.com

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Outsider Art Featured In MungBeing #2

2005-06-11T14:52:00Z

Featured artists include Gus Fink, Kelly Moore, Liz Parkinson, Ian Pyper, Billy Childish and more.

http://www.mungbeing.com

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The second issue of MungBeing Magazine, the only "hot potato" magazine on the internet, has hit the cyberstands!
It is now even more delicious with 70+ tantalizing pages of writing, art and music! That's over TWICE the material than before!

This bi-month, MungBeing is focusing on Outsider Art and Stuckism, two movements that are really causing a stir. And with good cause, as is demonstrated by Stuckist founders Charles Thomson, Billy Childish, Ella Guru, and Joe Machine, and driven further home by a selection of VERY talented Stuckist painters from around the world.

Our Outsider insider overheard a conversation with Gus Fink so that story is presented here, too. There's also Outsider artwork from Kelly Moore, Liz Parkinson, Ian Pyper and artists SO outside they don't even WANNA come in. How Childish.

he written works of the talented MungBeing collective continues to
shine with thematic pieces from Kevin Ausmus, Michael O'Briant, Jeb
Ebben, Rik Albatros, Starchy, Robert Dayton, Mark Teppo... the list goes on. And the comics section glows with beautiful work from Julian Lawrence, mckenzee, Suzanne Baumann, and Harold Penis.

Musically, there's an excursion into the delightful world of Outsider
Music, a world that includes Joe Meek and R. Stevie Moore, with Comfort Stand Records (www.comfortstand.com) and your host Otis Fodder. There's also an EXCLUSIVE TRACK and a conversation with the incomparable Naomi Hall.

And there's a recipe for LGBT Casserole.

WOW! We're pulling from a WELL STOCKED BeingPool here!

Stuckism and Outsider Art. Two great tastes that fit together like
inverted handmaidens at a baby shower. Only twice as wet!

Don't forget to check out our forums where you can interact with
MungBeing readers and contributors. Everybody knows something else.
http://www.mungbeing.com/forums/

MungBeing is an online bimonthly magazine published under a Creative
Commons license and released by the spring-loaded action of the Magaload
A-37b.
Questions and inquiries may be directed to inquiries@mungbeing.com
And watch for the MungBeing ad in FOUND magazine - on newstands in July.

Thanks for playing,
Mark and jody
Editors,
MungBeing Magazine
www.mungbeing.com

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Folk Art Society of America Conference

2005-05-31T03:28:46Z

Has anybody ever went to the FASA conference? Debating going to the one in chicago this year. Any opinions?

http://www.folkart.org/conference/confmain.html

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new here...wanna see my art?

2005-05-04T23:44:56Z

http://louuu.deviantart.com/

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Daybreak Designs May 6-7

2005-05-02T09:15:01Z

Hello,
Daybreak is an extraordinary center and shelter that is devoted to meeting the immediate and ongoing needs of mentally ill homeless women. Some of the weekly classes women take at the center include cooking, dance, music, drama and art. The women are presenting their Annual Spring Sale of original arts and crafts. They earn 70% of revenue from items sold.
Forget the mall, please come to Daybreak this weekend!
Best,
Laurie
[please pardon my crosspostings]
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DAYBREAK DESIGNS ANNUAL SPRING SALE
Gifts for mothers, graduates, brides and grooms, pets, and much, much more...

Friday, May 6, 11:00am - 7:00pm
Saturday, May 7, 10:00am - 5:00pm

1610 7th Street, Santa Monica, at the corner of 7th and Colorado

Daybreak Designs is a grassroot company run by artists and craftswomen overcoming mental illness and homelessness, who design and make jewely, greeting cards, afghans and other items to supplement their limited incomes.

Please make donation checks payable to:
"DAYBREAK DESIGNS" and send to
1453 16th Street
Santa Monica, CA 90404

For information, call 310-450-0650
http://www.opcc.net/site/daybreak.html

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call for art and writing on outsider related themes

2005-04-11T19:10:43Z

Hello from your friendly neighborhood community founder here. I am proud to announce that the first issue of MungBeing, an online magazine, has been published today. The second issue, which will be released on 01 June, will be exploring the themes of outsider art and music. If you have something to submit, contact me by 18 May at jody@mungbeing.com.

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The premiere issue of MungBeing has hit the cybershelves! http://www.mungbeing.com

MungBeing is an online bimonthly magazine containing artwork, short stories, articles, essays, music, recipes, poetry, comics, and fun-filled interactive features. The brainchild of Mark Givens (Wckr Spgt) and jody franklin (July Fourth Toilet), the debut edition features an interview with enigmatic philosopher and cult figure Robert Anton Wilson. A variety of wonderfully talented essayists and poets explore subjects such as debauchery in Mexico, the Oval Office, ghosts, cantaloupe pie, and poems that won't be written. Our wordsmiths include John Darnielle (The Mountain Goats), Robert Dayton (Canned Hamm), R.S. Deese (The Fossil Record), a plethora of Salmon Bosch alum, and members of The Misfit Library. The magazine is illustrated with myriad original visual art works and comics by artists such as Jason McLean, Michael O'Briant, Julian Lawrence (Drippytown Comics) and others. And as an added bonus, the first issue of MungBeing includes an unreleased song from The Congress (featuring John Darnielle and Mark Givens).

MungBeing aims to be a narrower, more focused Outsider Salon, a Low Art New Yorker (A Lorker), Juxtapoz's bookish third cousin, the sly Cubists to Pop Surrealism's witty Futurists, a poor substitute for sleep, the natural progression/extension of Salmon Bosch into the digital domain, and an outlet for some restless ideas.

It exists to entertain, amuse, provoke, and evoke; it is meant to be contemplated, absorbed, savored and enjoyed. It is the cantaloupe pie of cyberzines, magalogs and weberags. Your friends will want a slice of the pie, too, so share it because there's enough to go around.

Questions and inquiries may be directed to inquiries@mungbeing.com

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Outsider Artists at George Eastman House, Rochester, NY

2005-04-05T14:55:24Z

This group and that exhibit didn't click until now, but The George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film (http://eastmanhouse.org) currently has an exhibit running titled "Create and Be Recognized: Photography on the Edge." The introduction is as follows:

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George Eastman House presents Photography on the Edge: Create and Be Recognized, an exhibition exploring a long overlooked aspect of outsider art — outsider photography, which are works created outside the established photographic field. The 15 artists surveyed include luminaries Howard Finster, Morton Bartlett, Henry Darger, and August Walla. Through their lenses and appropriated images, many of these artists have exposed their own worlds, often fueled by obsession and passion. For the first time the work of these artists has been brought together to examine the motivations, methods, and materials that allowed them to created work outside of the mainstream. Photography on the Edge, on view at Eastman House Jan. 22 through April 10, is a rare opportunity to experience their creations.
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On April 7, W. M. Hunt, director of photography, Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York City, lectures in conjunction with the exhibition.

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Basquait's exhibit in Brooklyn, NY

2005-04-01T16:54:32Z

Hey all,
Just wanted to let you know it's until June 5th

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Keith Haring tribe

2005-03-30T14:06:33Z

Hi, For all you Keith Haring fans, check out the new tribe. Keith lives! - Bob Master

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