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If you don't have cable, go here for some great video clips from the Daily Show. Thanks to dave for the link. Unfortunately, you have to sit through car ads before the clips. If you are like me with no tolerance for such things, hit the link, go get a snack, and come back for the video. Or skip it altogether. After all, it's just TV.
Guest Top Ten
Do you have your own 2003 top ten art list to post? email it to me at smblog@sympatico.ca and I'll post it here. Or click on the comment link below and post it yourself.
Paola's top 10 (links by SM)
- Michael Bittermann (Netherlands) talking at digifest about the hyperbody research group (Oosterhuis Associates) and e-motive architecture.
- Talking to Steve Mann on the phone (he is a clever sponge - this is a term I picked up from Dutch architect Kas Oosterhuis) about his ideas around de-consiousness.
- The Butterfly Effect - choreographers Petr Zuska, Shawn Hounsell, Jiri Kylian - 3 contemporary dance works premiered at Narodni divadlo, Prague.
- A hypnotic 20 minute or so video by a young British artist that repeated the phrase "you're no good" shown at the Venice Biennale (I don't know the artist's name - if someone knows what I'm talking about, please tell me, it now feels like a really hot dream). (I think it might be these guys. - ed)
- The Japan Pavilion at the Venice Biennale for an eclectic curation of a short video, a sculpture light-show, and what may otherwise pass as trash.
- Sheila Butler's Medusa Mum and Sally McKay's Miss Mouse for Girls and Guns.
- Julie Voyce all the time. (I can't find a good link for Julie Voyce! its a shocker - help me out! - ed)
- Bill Buxton talking at the Registered Graphic Designers Conference about the future of personal information within the urban landscape (architecture) and specifically of the capacity to project information in public and private space using a wrist watch within 5 years.
- Patrizio Davila's slick "gumba" photo series. (ditto on Davila link - ed)
- Compagnie Marie Chouinard's "Chorale" dance choreography coming so dangerously close to dance video or over the top fuck-up, premiered at Harbourfront.
Guest Top Ten
Do you have your own 2003 top ten art list to post? email it to me at smblog@sympatico.ca and I'll post it here. Or click on the comment link below and post it yourself.
Top Ten Art Events 2003
by Tino
- CANZINE (MOST FUN)
- TTC STREET CAR INSTALLATION - BLACK OUT (SPOOKIEST)
- THE SADDAM CAPTURE VIDEOS - US ARMY/CIA (MOST BULLSHITTY)
- CITY BEAUTIFICATION ENSEMBLE - POST AND RING PROJECT (MOST BEAUTIFUL)
- WEDGE GALLERY - JAMEL SHABAZZ: BACK IN THE DAYS (COOLEST)
- WORLD PRESS PHOTO - BCE PLACE (MOST GRIPPING)
- TOKYO DOLL (MOST EXOTIC)
- ART ATTACK II - PUBLIC SPACE COMMITEE (MOST INSPIRING)
- CRITICAL MASS VS. TORONTO POLICE FORCE - HALLOWEEN (MOST TICKETS)
- TING - THE MOVE-OUT - SAM HIGGS (SURREALEST)
Guest Top Ten
Do you have your own 2003 top ten art list to post? email it to me at smblog@sympatico.ca and I'll post it here. Or click on the comment link below and post it yourself.
Terrible Ten Art Stars Virtual Names
by Andrew James Paterson
- Vita Iconic
- Yoke No
- Damn Hirstute
- Guide Millinery
- Julian Schnozzle
- Pipilotti Wrist
- Van Goth
- Pieta Mondrian
- Jackson Police
- Baronet Newsman
Wow - we got mentioned in the National Post! (more detail/discussion soon). Welcome, new people. The art/not art discussion that Catherine Osborne mentioned is on Tom Moody's blog here. While you are looking around, check out the other blogs at digitalmediatree. It's a really dynamic group and there's lots of fun, smart writing.
Guest Top Ten
Do you have your own 2003 top ten art list to post? email it to me at smblog@sympatico.ca and I'll post it here. Or click on the comment link below and post it yourself.
Louise Bak's 2003 Art Top Eleven (links by SM):
- Getting an early-read of Philip Monk's new book "Double-Cross: The Hollywood Films of Douglas Gordon". I think it will be a critical surprise when it is released in 2004 from The Power Plant and The AGYU.
- Guy Maddin's Cowards Bend The Knee was the most splendidly sordid video installation at The Power Plant.
- Will Munro and Jeremy Laing's performance at Zsa Zsa, that involved multiple erogenous appendages and orifices was a pure delight.
- Bjork's outdoor concert on Olympic Island. Even her twee "thank-you" after each song was otherworldly.
- Virtual Clearcut by Brian Fawcett was one of the most touching books I've read in a long time.
- Christine Duncan's sound poetry performance in the annual Musicwork's fundraiser (at the Gladstone).(anyone got a good link for Christine Duncan? please post a comment -ed)
- Jeremy Deller's lecture at the Power Plant. The range of his folk/vernacular interests, ranging from aging burlesque workers to acid brass combinations was eccentric and inspiring.
- Chester Brown's "Louis Riel" (Drawn and Quarterly). A comic-strip biography, that is an entertaining and extensively researched account of the life of one of the country's most shadowy historical figures.
- A.A. Bronson's "The Quick and the Dead" at The Power Plant.
- Young and Sexy's "Life through One Speaker," Peaches' "Fatherfucker," Outkast's "Speakerboxx", were at the top of my play-list. I also re-visited Elliot Smith's "either/or" in my sadness, when I heard he committed suicide at 34.
- The limo-ride with pornstar Ron Jeremy, (as the last gal he saw) before he returned to L.A.