The Art & Law Residency > Exhibition and Symposium
Maccarone > 630 Greenwich Street > New York, NY 10014

Exhibition Dates:  August 16- August 27
Gallery Hours:  Monday-Friday 11 am-6 pm
Artists: > Eric Doeringer > Alicia Grullón > Charles Gute > Nate Harrison > Bettina Johae > Miguel Luciano > Benjamin Tiven > Angie Waller > > Admission is Free.

Information about my work that is included:
http://angiewaller.com/books/originality-cases-and-materials/
http://angiewaller.com/video/beauty-for-ashes-2/

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Doors open at 6pm. Free event. BYOB.

The panel, Crossing the Line, brings together working artists who look to other media for inspiration and sustainability. What’s gained by looking to other traditions? What’s lost? And how do different disciplines come together in the first place?

I will be presenting my data mining work along with:
Christian Johnston, a New York based photographer, has studied at International Center of Photography, Fashion Institute of Technology and TCC’s Visual Arts Center. He is a regular contributor to the New York Post where he does feature work. Some of his other clients include: Yale Magazine, ESPN, Sun Microsystems, Bank of America and MTV. His work has been exhibited at the T.C.C’s Visual Arts Center in Virginia, the Hudson Guild Gallery in NYC and at Portlock Galleries in SoNo Chesapeake, VA.

Shamar Hill graduated from the M.F.A. writing program at New York University, where he received a fellowship. He is the 2009 recipient of the JP Morgan Chase Foundation Award for fiction; 2008 Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance Award in fiction and the 2006- 2007 New York Foundation for the Arts Award in fiction. He teaches at Cooper Union School of Art.

Jon Stancato is Producing Artistic Director of Stolen Chair Theatre Company.

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With the introduction of the new iPad, a new wave of freedom of speech concerns has swelled to the surface. The New York Times reported on Pulitzer Prize winner, Mark Fiore, being rejected by the iPhone app store because it “included cartoons that ridiculed public figures.” After the public embarrassment, Steve Jobs personally wrote to Fiore and called the rejection a mistake.  It is not clear that other applications making political commentary will be accepted in the future. A slideshow of other rejected applications is available at The Huffington Post.

This story brings up an interesting point about the future of freedom of speech as our personal devices migrate to platforms that only have access to information approved by one publisher — Apple.

After all of these years of enjoying freedom of expression and content on the Internet, we are steering in a conservative, corporate direction with a new device that controls the information we are allowed to receive. Not only that, Apple guides the design principles of their volunteer-content-producer-army…that’s us.

A blog post at Information Architects discusses design “suggestions” in Apple’s HI Guidelines.

Now one thing just didn’t click: The guideline to make apps look like physical objects. It’s quite clear why Apple would try to push designs to imitate tangible things:

1. It’s a touch interface: 3D objects look more tangible and inviting
2. Everyday interfaces are easy to understand and familiar in their use
3. Glitzy interfaces are easier to market

Everybody in the iA team strongly doubted the validity of that particular guideline, but we had no way to verify or falsify our doubts. So we went full steam ahead: Everything 3D! Make a newspaper look like a newspaper! Make that word processor look like a type writer! Use wooden backgrounds! And why? Because Apple said so. – IA Blog

Before the Internet, Public Access Television was developed to give airtime to diverse voices and points of view. Unlike the Internet, there were still communities who could challenge content they found objectionable. There were times when obscure technical requirements would disqualify material from being aired. It was suspected that these technicalities were a guise for censorship.

When the “Spectrum News Network” of Orange County came under fire by conservative members of the community because of its content for gay audiences, the cable access channel proposed a two-week review process before programs aired to ensure “that programs meet certain technical standards, such as clear picture resolution. It also allows the board to reject obscene or defamatory material.”

Carol A. Sobel, senior staff council for the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, said mandatory review does not violate cable law. The guidelines must clearly state the technical criteria, however, “so that technical quality does not become a mask for eliminating controversial viewpoints,” she said. – LA Times

Not that Apple is approving any content they deem objectionable, the aesthetic standard set by Apple seems ambiguous with ample room for arbitrary enforcement. As the App Store is an open marketplace, it is unclear why Apple should enforce its aesthetic standards on designers creating content for the device. If an app is poorly designed, no one will buy it. But already, Apple has rejected content based on the design having “limited utility.”

The “Pull My Finger” app allowed users to virtually ‘pull’ a character’s finger to have it emit a farting sound. “Pull My Finger” was initially rejected by the iTunes App store on the grounds that it was of ‘limited utility.’ Three months later was accepted and went on to become one of the store’s most popular apps. –Huffington Post

Before you rush out and buy your iPad, just remember the struggles of free speech and the “Pull My Finger” app. Not only can Apple control what you say, they can control how you say it. Has anyone had success in turning that annoying Ken Burn’s effect off of their slideshows?

Photo above from Pee Wee’s Funny or Die video.

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As an homage, I made a movie of some of my favorite searches using the new google search engine movie maker.

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A street in the Uptown Tenderloin district.Thor Swift for The New York Times

San Francisco Detours Into Reality Tourism published April 11 in The New York Times describes a new area for San Francisco tourism: the Uptown Tenderloin. Includes walking tours of “the world’s largest collection of historic single-room occupancy hotels.” Just like the tenement museum in New York — except people are living there NOW! Instead of the bus tours like south central Los Angeles mentioned in the previous post, it seems like these tours avoid night time meanderings, when the “drunken people collapsed on streets and others furtively smoking pipes in doorways.”

Previous post: Slum Tourism in the U.S.

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Top: Architects Thierry W. Despont and Richard Meier discuss the pros and cons of carpet in art galleries. Clip taken from Concert of Wills–Making the Getty Center.

Bottom: Sacha Baron Cohen as Jean Gerrard in Talladega Nights.

As my boyfriend noted, Talladega Nights–The Ballad of Ricky Bobby has become my family’s It’s a Wonderful Life at the holidays. Over the past three Christmases, we have seen the Will Ferrell Nascar movie five times, and my parents own two copies. Our familiarity with the material had us cracking up during the recent MoMA screening of Concert of Wills. Perhaps you have to experience the tension of the movie to find the humor in the above comparison.

For anyone who has struggled with design-by-committee and/or control freaks, I highly recommend this documentary about the making of the Getty Center, which is available here: http://www.getty.edu/bookstore/titles/concert.html.

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Influenced by my medium, my source materials and subject matter became historical, “dead” things- quite literally. I chose to research séances at the White House, which happens to be a subject matter rich with material.

I discovered a New York Times archive where Harry Houdini was the key “prosecutor” in a hearing to regulate clairvoyants. Houdini’s assistant testified in court that a spiritualist by the name of Mrs. Jane Coates had told her privately that she held séances with President Coolidge’s family as well as four senators on Capitol Hill.

I decided to letterpress the headline in a style as close to the original format as my beginner stages would take me.

I have found many more leads to the séance subject matter including the Lincolns, the Reagans, the Clintons. Ironically, after he proclaimed in court that all séances were gimmicks, Houdini’s wife held séances at his grave, confirming my suspicions he was jealous of their market share.

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• Paul Chan will have his dvd “Sade for Fonts Sake” available as well as some of his new designer baby onesies.
• Angie Waller will be selling her books, dvds, digital paintings, candy-filled mugs and Hip-Hop Snowmen Designer Christmas sweaters.
• Ben Coonley will feature his Adorable Stocking Stuffers for all ages and levels of intelligence.
• Marianna Ellenberg’s will present her customized American Apparel T-shirts give STDs a cool retro style.
• Matthew Mottel and Blanka Amezkua will be presenting ephemera of multiple mediums.

and just announced… Arthur Jones will be drawing personalized caricatures throughout the event. Want to see yourself on a tandem bike with Sylvester Stallone? – he can do it! Bring photos of your loved ones for caricature gifts.

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