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UbuWeb | Spring 2009


Tony Oursler - Synesthesia: Genesis P-Orridge (1997-2001) Tony Oursler's Synesthesia project features interviews with twelve legendary figures in the downtown music, performance and art scenes. This video features Genesis P-Orridge, performance artist and vocalist for the iconoclastic English industrial band Throbbing Gristle in the late 1970s, pioneered industrial music. P-Orridge, who went on to form the experimental band Psychic TV, continues to work in music, art, and performance in New York, and is undertaking a long-term "Pandrogeny" project involving a radical identity transformation. These conversations reveal fascinating insights and anecdotes from some of the most influential figures in the experimental rock and art underground of the 1970s and '80s, from pre-punk innovators to post-punk icons, from industrial and avant-garde music to noise bands and No Wave.


1000 Avant-Garde Films UbuWeb now hosts 1000 avant-garde films by over 500 artists in our Film and Video section. To celebrate, we've upgraded our streaming player so that finally, UbuWeb videos can be viewed full-screen as well as embedded in your web pages and blogs. Ubu would like to salute Max Fenton for making this all possible.

SCHOOL OF ART FORUM
SEMESTER ONE 2009
Forum # 6
Dr Kristen Sharp
Lecturer in Art History & Theory, RMIT

SUPERFLAT WORLDS:
TAKASHI MURAKAMI AND SUPERFLAT ART

Date: Wednesday May 6th

Time: 5.30 – 6.30
Venue: 8.11.61

Moltadagio56

Moltodagio56 (see link) is a great blog by an amateur Melbourne photographer who puts up one image a day (usually of Melbourne).It is a great site by an artist outside the "scene" and is developing a site which as as comprehensive and individual portrait of a city as you could want.

jah jah sphinx

Too Much of nothing

jah jah shinx

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check out jah jah sphinx for a collective image blog made by a group of Melbourne artists.

also

too much of nothing (see link) list for image based blog by Greg Moncrieff. A blog about the "other stuff".

check this out--gold coin donation -music bands/acts from vca and rmit

opening at the narrows

OPENING MONDAY MAY 4 2009

TOBIAS FRERE-JONES

MAY 4–JUNE 6 2009
THE NARROWS
2/141 FLINDERS LANE
MELBOURNE AUS

Tobias Frere-Jones (b 1970, New York) spent seven years as Senior
designer at Font Bureau in Boston creating typefaces such as
Interstate – a comprehensive display font developed from highway
type specimens.

Since returning to New York in 1999, Frere-Jones has undertaken a
meticulous research project – mapping 'non-designer' typography
covering the buildings of Manhattan. Whilst contemporary type
design is digitally driven, these hand painted letters – some
constructed of steel, neon, timber and glass have become the
seed for many of Frere-Jones' typefaces.

"Public spaces are teeming with handmade sans serifs that share
the same underlying structure, an engineer's idea of "basic
lettering" that transcends both the characteristics of their
materials and the mannerisms of their craftsmen."
-Tobias Frere-Jones

Frere-Jones has designed over 700 typefaces for various client
applications and experimental projects, though none of these
have received the attention of a sans serif suitably called
Gotham. Originally commissioned by GQ Magazine and more recently
annunciating US President Barrack Obama's "CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE
" campaign, Gotham (2000-) germinated from a steel sign atop the
Port Authority Bus Terminal entrance – a gem collected on his
observation trail.

This exhibition explores the process of a craftsman of
letterforms – whose practice is typically dressed in anonymity –
yet whose rigorous method and celebrated output has redirected
the observer's focus away from the sign towards the writer.

The exhibtion opens at 6pm on Monday May 4 and continues until
June 6. The gallery is open Wednesday – Friday 12-6pm and
Saturday 12-5pm or by appointment.

Group and school bookings can be made by calling the gallery on
03 9654 1534

Exhibition partners:

Australian Graphic Design Association (AGDA)
[http://www.agda.com.au]

K.W.Doggett Fine Paper
[http://www.kwdoggett.com.au]

For more information on Tobias Frere-Jones visit
Hoefler & Frere-Jones
[http://www.typography.com]


The Narrows / 2/141 Flinders Lane Melbourne AUS 3000 +61 (3) 9654
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Visual Discrepancies

Blog by artist Brent Hallard: VISUAL DISCREPANCIES

Has some great interviews with other artists and loads of links to other blogs and artists sites. Definitely worth a look for anyone interested in abstraction, reductive art, concrete, light/space etc etc.