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Jon Rafman - The Age Demanded

Hey! We're looking forward to seeing you all tonight, for the opening of The Age Demanded. Below is the program of events for this weekend. There will be an artist talk and live demonstration of Paint FX with Jon and Micah Schippa.

Jon Rafman - The Age Demanded
October 29 - December 10, 2010 
Golden Age
119 N. Peoria #2D
Chicago, IL 

Friday, October 29
Opening Reception 6-9 pm
Live Kool-Aid Man Second Life Tour 8 pm

Sunday, October 31
Artist Talk & Paint FX Live 3-5 pm

 

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Recent History with Jon Rafman

I know we typically do this on Fridays, but we can't wait for tomorrow! We're busy installing with Jon Rafman, for his show The Age Demanded which opens tomorrow, Friday October 29, here at Golden Age. In our down time, he's been sharing some of his favorite links from his Recent History. Here are his top ten.


(background courtesy of Brian Khek :)

Jon Rafman lives and works in Montreal. He is currently scheduling tours with Kool-Aid Man at a Second Life near you.

1) Bangs - 'Meet Me On Facebook' Exclusive - [OFFICIAL VIDEO HD]

2) Growing Up Lammy 

3) Super Central II

4) PAINTED, ETC.

5) California Dreaming of Pot Legalization

6) Joel Holmberg's CNN Blog

7) Chris Collins' Blog

8) John Transue's Activities Page

9) 491

10) Video artist Kathleen Daniels speaks to AdrianIII for DIS Magazine

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Public Service Announcement

We'll be closed until Friday for installation. Come see us then for Jon Rafman: The Age Demanded, you won't want to miss the Kool-Aid Man in Second Life tour at 8p!

CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO

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The Beaver Trilogy

The above clips are from the first, second and third incantations of The Beaver Trilogy. A film by Trent Harris, about a young man in Beaver, Utah with a hunger to perform.  

An important historical note is that these are Sean Penn and Crispin Glover's first screen roles. In their performances, you can really see the influence of Groovin Gary on the characters Jeff Spicoli of Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Marty McFly of Back to the Future

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MARY L. NOHL FELLOWSHIP EXHIBITION AT INOVA















1. Harvey Opgenorth, Peripheral Vision, 2010 and John Riepenhoff, Plein Air, 2010
2. Harvery Opgenorth, Objet Trouve - Accidental Awareness, 2010
3. Exhibition Installation
4. Peter Barrickman, Performance, 2010
5. John Riepenhoff, Plein Air (night painting) detail
6. Kim Miller, Dance Accessories, 2010
7. Golden Age Experience at The John Riepenhoff Experience
8. Golden Age Experience at The John Riepenhoff Experience with Viewer

All images from Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowships for Individual Artists 2009 Exhibition
October 8 - December 12

Inova
2155 North Prospect Avenue
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202

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Warp Weft Woof

"Our interests lie in creating design alternatives that emphasize individuality. We believe in the importance of having an active role in the creation of our physical world. Bridging an invisible path to the metaphysical. Initiating other acts of awareness. Awareness is consciousness. Consciousness is reality/truth/life. Passivity is death." via Warp Weft Woof

Ok, so we obviously can't get enough of Warp Weft Woof. WWW is a design collaborative between Bailey Salisbury and Myranda Gillies, based out of Brooklyn, NY. They recently started a Flickr account and uploaded some totally drool-worthy, woven designs. Check em out below.

Bailey will also be speaking in "A Cultural Reader", Golden Age's series of micro-lectures, at the NY Art Book Fair in November. Don't miss it!


(photos by Jessica Williams)

 

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David Horvitz: We Would Like To Offer You A Flower

"We would like to offer you a flower, I say a flower because we don't have enough for all of you, but one is enough if you share it and if each one of you keeps a tiny fragment..." -John Berger,  The Shape of a Pocket

 

Instructions:

Download a flower PDF from below
Find two random fax numbers online
Using an online fax service such as http://faxzero.com/, fax the flower to both numbers (faxzero offers two free faxes a day*)
When they have been successfully sent, e-mail hikarusaru@gmail.com with your (1) name, (2) your location and (3) the locations you sent faxes (please write "fax data" in the email subject)
Repeat again the next day if you wish

A map indicating where faxes have been sent and received will be on display at the Reanimation Library Hyde Park Branch at DoVA Temp Gallery from 10/22 - 11/13. The map will be updated continuously throughout the exhibition. Faxes may be sent from now until the end of the exhibition. The image of the flowers were found in the Reanimation Library in Brooklyn, New York. This is part of Communicating Forms: Aesthetics, Relationality, Collaboration, the fifth annual joint English and Art History conference and exhibition. This piece was curated by Mackenzie Schneider.

* One way around the two fax a day limit is to use multiple email addresses. Another, which this project employs, is to use the collective effort of a lot of people at once.

via David Horvitz

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Martine at Pecha Kucha

This Saturday I'm going to be presenting at Pecha Kucha. My talk is about fanzines and I'm going to show a picture of myself from high school. It will be totally LA'd out. You don't want to miss it!

Pecha Kucha Night Chicago
112 S. Michigan Ave. Ballroom
Saturday, October 23rd 4:30pm

 

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MARTIN KOHOUT AT THE YOUTUBE/GUGGENHEIM PLAY BIENNIAL

Moonwalk, by Martin Kohout.

Moonwalk is one of the 125 videos shortlisted as part of the Youtube/Guggenheim Play Biennial of Creative Video. Tune in for live streaming on October 21, 8pm EDT.

 

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WAVE INT'L: ISSUE 01


Tonight at Co-Prosperity Sphere Jasmine Lee and Brian Khek present Wave Int'l 01, the first installment in their ongoing exhibition and publication series.

"Wave Int'l is a platform for peers to meet and collaborate on some ideas we've been contemplating in our readings, writings, works and conversations. We hope for our global community to convene in the form of quarterly networks, or Issues, in various geographic locations throughout time. Each issue culminates in an exhibition and publication.

For Issue 01, we invited Ida Lehtonen (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Micah Schippa (Chicago, IL) to talk about iconography in the "office". The issue will feature new works from Lehtonen and Schippa, and a contribution from Bret Schneider (New York, NY)."

Wave Int'l 01

October 15 - November 12, 2010
Opening Reception: October 15, 2010 @ 7-10 PM

Co-Prosperity Sphere
3219-21 South Morgan Street
Chicago Illinois, 60608

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