→ Artlog & Scope Hamptons Day Trip
Artlog members are invited to ride the Artlog Shuttle on Saturday July 26th for a special day trip to SCOPE Hamptons.
Artloggers will meet at the Soho House at 10:30am and a chartered luxury bus will transport you to the SCOPE Hamptons art fair at East Hamptons Studios. SCOPE President Alexis Hubshman will greet you in the VIP lounge where the first silent SCOPE Foundation Collector Mentorship Auction will be taking place. Continuing its “Art Fair as Resource” mandate, this silent auction features seasoned collectors Beth Rudin DeWoody, Melva Bucksbaum, Raymond Learsy, Eileen and Richard Ekstract, Adam Lindemann, Enrique Norten, Jed Walentas, Rick Wester, Dennis Oppenheim, Nancy Seltzer, Kim Levin and others donating an hour of their time to mentor less experienced art enthusiasts.
After touring SCOPE Hamptons, the Artlog Shuttle will take you to Elie Tahari to enjoy a cocktail while viewing More Than This, a site specific show curated by Andrea Salerno. The shuttle will depart the Hamptons around 6pm, arriving back in the city by 8pm.
This event supports two projects backed by SCOPE Foundation, The Arctic Circle and The Girl Project. The Arctic Circle (tac) is a series of artist led expeditions to remote destinations with the goal of capturing amazing art and sharing it with the public. The Girl Project is sending 5,000 cameras to teenage girls with the hopes of representing life seen through the eyes of young women in America.
Last week worked out
Artlog/I Am Still Alive ran on fumes for the past several weeks, but at this point it looks like we made it through fine – better than fine. All four big Artlog events last week were awesome.
- We met lots of new folks and showed great work here in the studio over the course of two sweltering days during the Atlantic Ave Artwalk.
- We spread the gospel of Artlog a bit during the Affordable Art Fair where we were the media sponsor and where we presented a booth full of work by Artlog users
- Konrad’s Chelsea Art Museum performance on Thursday was a big success – we provided some organizational & marketing support
- Friday’s Artlog Collect LES art walk was huge. 1,200 folks came out to see work at 24 Lower East Side Galleries and the New Museum. People at the participating venues were jazzed across the board and attendees could be spotted exploring the LES pretty much all evening event maps in hand. Big thanks to the participating galleries, the New Museum, our sponsors – Radeberger Pilsner, Christiania Vodka, A Casa Fox, Moscot, the Sixth Ward, Doyle & Doyle, Gallery Bar & LES BID – and to press that got us out there and covered the event – TimeOut, Daily Candy, Associated Press, Mashable.
Now that Nish and I have a little breathing room, we are plotting our next moves – shifting focus back to the site itself and angling in to re-focus and refine the tools over there.
Collect LES
So Nish, Rebecca and I have been putting this event together for Artlog over the past few months. It’s tomorrow and it all seems to be coming together nicely. Collect LES is a collective gallery open house of sorts – it’s an event we put together to shine a brighter light on the art activity coming out of the Lower East Side these days.
Join Artlog for Collect LES, an art crawl through the Lower East Side’s burgeoning art community. Coordinated by Artlog in partnership with the LES Business Improvement District, Collect LES includes 24 galleries and the New Museum.
At Collect LES ‘08, discover new galleries, artists and art works as you walk through the Lower East Side. The event will bring more than a thousand art lovers together. From Bowery to East Broadway, there will be an array of painting, photography, video and installation art. Enjoy free wine, beer and liquor and special offers at local businesses.
Artlog @the Affordable Artfair this week
If you are in New York and going to the Affordable Art Fair, stop by Artlog’s booth (#505). We are presenting work by Dana Bell, Elizabeth Daggar, Camilla Fallon, Marlene Marino, Andrew Ti, and Lara Wechsler.
Stop by the studio tomorrow &/or Sunday
I am opening the studio here for the next two days as part of this year’s Atlantic Avenue Artwalk. Artlog had an open-call and several artists from the site will be exhibited here this weekend.
I’m doing a letterpress demo here at 3pm tomorrow and attendees will keep the prints we run off. Sunday at 3pm, Konrad Kaczmarek will be playing a concert here in the space as well.
So feel free to stop on in and tell me I sent you.
NB. Don’t forget to visit Axelle Fine Arts next door for amazing silkscreen and Cannonball Press down the road.
→ Artlog / Collect LES 2008
Come hang out with me at Collect LES next Friday. There are quite a few great Lower East Side galleries participating—with Dispatch Bureau, jen bekman, Woodward Gallery and Envoy among them.
Collect LES is a private one-night art open house devoted to introducing new collectors to the Lower East Side’s burgeoning art community. Coordinated by Artlog in partnership with the LES Business Improvement District, Collect LES includes approximately 25 galleries and the New Museum of Contemporary Art.
→ Participate: Artlog Open Calls
Tomorrow is the deadline for the first couple open calls posted to Artlog. If you are looking to get your work out there, submit some work.
Participate is a new initiative to organize and help find alternative exhibition venues for artists to show their work.
Artist Portfolios
We just started rolling out the initial version of the artist portfolio system over at Artlog. Just a few hours into the launch, the response has already been very positive.
→ Artlog / 8 New York Art Fairs
Artlog’s co-sponsoring several of the 8(!) art fairs coming to New York next week. We’re also organizing a bunch of happenings in/at/around the fairs; so come and join us.
→ Artlog in focus
The Artlog zeitgeist – a tumblelog pulling together art news and selections from user videos, images, blogs, and audio recordings.
Make it wider
I’ve changed Artlog’s front-end design today. Kinks still abound, but I am pretty jazzed about the wider format. I reckon, it’s going to give me a lot of extra space with which to experiment.
Nish working out of the studio
Manish has been working on Artlog stuff out of the studio for a while now.
Telling stories around the campfire
I just set up a chat room through campfire for I Am Still Alive and Artlog.
I’ll probably just leave the room open in my browser while I work here in the studio. So drop in & rap with me here:
Let's hangout at the New Museum
Artlog is having a meetup at the New Museum tomorrow evening. The museum’s free after 7 on Thursdays and there’s a discussion (also free) to which I am looking forward with Jeffrey Inaba, Mark Wigley, and Richard Flood.
It’ll actually be my first time in to see the new building.
Artlog postcards
Here are a pair of snapshots of the Artlog postcards I just ran off on the SP15. If you’re looking at the photographs of the cards when you are not reading these words, you are looking at the front and back and they aren’t yet trimmed down.
Artlog Happenings: Phillips de Pury
Phillips de Pury is hosting a private tour of of Julian Rosefeldt’s “The Ship of Fools” and the upcoming “Photographs Auction” for Artlog users tomorrow at 6pm.
Phillips de Pury photography Specialist Vanessa Kramer will lead the tour. Should be interesting (and you get to meet Nish and myself).
Artlog business cards
I just printed a couple hundred Artlog cards for Manish and myself on the C&P (and boy is my right leg tired).
[ED. I have gone ahead and redacted my phone number since somebody just called me to ask me about the logotype. Hey, Leigh, It is set in Fakir Black by Underware and the contact info is set in Galaxie Polaris Medium by Chester. Both are available from Vllg. No problem.]
Artlog
I am really psyched to announce the launch (beta as it is) of Artlog. Artlog is a social web application sited in art. It combines directory services (map-based venue, artist & event listings), original content, and social web features (the basics – messaging, friending, bookmarking, blogging – along with the ability to add photos, videos, and audio recordings to events, venues, & artists).
It’s an extremely young project and very much “beta software;” I’ve been working on it with Manish for a few months now and we’ve only got about 120 users right now clicking around and discovering the site. We will be rolling out new features pretty regularly for the next few weeks (today, artist & artwork directories; coming up, a database of artist grant application deadlines). We are deploying interface tweaks just about every five minutes (feels that way, anyhow).
So if you can dig it, sign up (and start adding events at your gallery or posting your work or discovering new art).
