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Podcasting updates: SFMOMA and WAC

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According to SmartMobs, SFMOMA is offering a $2 admission discount to museum visitors who present an mp3 player loaded with their Artcast files. They’re also hosting an “Artcast Invitational,” in which artists and wannabe curators can submit their own podcasts. Winning recordings will win a membership and get a slot in SFMOMA’s podcast rotation. Here [...]

According to SmartMobs, SFMOMA is offering a $2 admission discount to museum visitors who present an mp3 player loaded with their Artcast files. They’re also hosting an “Artcast Invitational,” in which artists and wannabe curators can submit their own podcasts. Winning recordings will win a membership and get a slot in SFMOMA’s podcast rotation.

Here at the Walker, Art on Call is going strong. Filmmakers in the Women with Vision festival will be using the system–which is a cellphone-based audio guide that can also be downloaded as a podcast on the Walker site–to share their musings during the 13th annual edition in March. And commentary from architects featured in our exhibition Some Assembly Required: Contemporary Prefabricated Houses are now available as mp3s, podcasts and via cellphone.

Mobile museum

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Walker on Wheels, a mobile art lab designed by Atelier van Lieshout, brought artmaking activities to local neighborhoods, but the Netherlands’ Pleinmuseum takes the idea to a new level: it’s a transportable art center that can be plopped down in the center of a city. Designed by René van Engelenburg, it was created to open [...]

Walker on Wheels, a mobile art lab designed by Atelier van Lieshout, brought artmaking activities to local neighborhoods, but the Netherlands’ Pleinmuseum takes the idea to a new level: it’s a transportable art center that can be plopped down in the center of a city. Designed by René van Engelenburg, it was created to open up to the life of the city–literally:

During daytime, the pavilion remains closed and as such symbolically refers to the ‘white cube’, the paradigmatic model of the modernist museum. After sunset, the cube opens itself hydraulically and forms a dynamic architectural installation that embraces space. The white walls become projection screens that continually take on new appearances, like the skin of a chameleon. In this manner, Pleinmuseum becomes a temporary stage for visual communication; a platform through which artists and designers can communicate with a broad audience.

As We-Make-Money-Not-Art reports, the museum toured to cities in the Netherlands and Belgium last summer, and a European tour is in the works.

Hugo Boss shortlist

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When the 2006 Hugo Boss Prize shortlist was announced early this month, it included some artists with close ties to the Walker. Berlin-based John Bock was featured in the recent installation Urban Cocktail, and the team of Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla have a much deeper connection here: they were included in the exhibition How [...]

When the 2006 Hugo Boss Prize shortlist was announced early this month, it included some artists with close ties to the Walker. Berlin-based John Bock was featured in the recent installation Urban Cocktail, and the team of Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla have a much deeper connection here: they were included in the exhibition How Latitudes Become Forms: Art in a Global Age, returned for their micro-radio residency Radio Re-volt: One Person, .00One Watt, and are featured in the upcoming Whitney Biennial, co-curated by our own Philippe Vergne. (For excerpts from an interview I did with them during their 2004 residency, click here).

The entire shortlist:

Tino Seghal

Tacita Dean

John Bock

Aida Ruilova

Damin Ortega

Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla

And: Rirkrit Tiravanija, 2004 winner of the Hugo Boss Prize, will be participating in an exhibition of past Walker artist residency participants. Opening in March, the exhibition will include an installation by Tiravanija, as well as by choreographer Ralph Lemon and filmmaker Spencer Nakasako, plus events curated in the galleries by local artists. More details here.

[Photo: Cameron Wittig]

Warhol’s Brokeback Mountain?

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With Ang Lee discussing Brokeback Mountain here tonight and a Warhol show in the galleries, this seems particularly apropos: The Smoking Gun posts FBI documents from 1968 in which they were investigating whether Andy Warhol was involved with the interstate transportation of obscene material. The offending film, scoped out by two agents at a San [...]

With Ang Lee discussing Brokeback Mountain here tonight and a Warhol show in the galleries, this seems particularly apropos: The Smoking Gun posts FBI documents from 1968 in which they were investigating whether Andy Warhol was involved with the interstate transportation of obscene material. The offending film, scoped out by two agents at a San Francisco festival, was a gay cowboy saga called Lonesome Cowboy. As TSG writes, “Though not as polished as Pauline Kael or Roger Ebert, the agents still get two thumbs up for delivering this marvelously entertaining report.”

From January 19 through 26, the Walker hosts “Factory Films,” a series of Warhol’s early films. Alas, Lonesome Cowboy won’t be screened.

Panel Discussion Live on the Web.

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It looks like the panel discussion to open Some Assembly Required will probably fill up (so get your ticket early). If your not in Minneapolis or you can’t get a seat don’t worry we are streaming the whole thing live on the web. If you do get to see the panel you can relive the [...]

It looks like the panel discussion to open Some Assembly Required will probably fill up (so get your ticket early). If your not in Minneapolis or you can’t get a seat don’t worry we are streaming the whole thing live on the web. If you do get to see the panel you can relive the whole event when the video hits our archive.

Panoramic heads, new and old.

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Game developers are working on applications to plot a panoramic photo of a man’s head. While the technology’s new, the basic idea isn’t. Here’s Kiki Smith’s self-portrait, a photogravure created in 1995. It’s on view now at SFMOMA and here at the Walker starting in February. (Via Digg.)

Game developers are working on applications to plot a panoramic photo of a man’s head. While the technology’s new, the basic idea isn’t. Here’s Kiki Smith’s self-portrait, a photogravure created in 1995. It’s on view now at SFMOMA and here at the Walker starting in February.

(Via Digg.)

A new site for Prefab.

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We got the site for Some Assembly Required: Contemporary Prefabricated Houses done just in time for the exhibition. Although done may be a misnomer since the site will continue to add more documentation after the show opens. The new site is full of supplemental info about prefab houses, obviously including the 8 projects featured in [...]

Some Assembly Required

We got the site for Some Assembly Required: Contemporary Prefabricated Houses done just in time for the exhibition. Although done may be a misnomer since the site will continue to add more documentation after the show opens. The new site is full of supplemental info about prefab houses, obviously including the 8 projects featured in the exhibition, but Andrew also gathered a lot of other resources that should make the site useful for anyone interested innovative contemporary housing.

Photo outtake: Snake Man

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During a photoshoot for the next issue of the Walker magazine, Bruce Delles, reptile consultant for our Huang Yong Ping exhibition, stopped to show photographer Cameron Wittig his tattoos, one of which he liked so much he put it on the sign for his St. Paul store. He’s investment in tattoos would “make a nice [...]

During a photoshoot for the next issue of the Walker magazine, Bruce Delles, reptile consultant for our Huang Yong Ping exhibition, stopped to show photographer Cameron Wittig his tattoos, one of which he liked so much he put it on the sign for his St. Paul store. He’s investment in tattoos would “make a nice down payment on a house,” he says. Look for more on Delles in the January/February issue of Walker, available in two weeks.

The literatest city.

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I wonder why Minneapolis dropped from America’s most literate city last year to number two this year (damn you, Seattle). Factors in the study, conducted by the Center for Public Policy and Social Research at Central Connecticut State University include newspaper circulation, number of bookstores, library resources, periodical publishing resources, educational attainment, and access to [...]

I wonder why Minneapolis dropped from America’s most literate city last year to number two this year (damn you, Seattle). Factors in the study, conducted by the Center for Public Policy and Social Research at Central Connecticut State University include newspaper circulation, number of bookstores, library resources, periodical publishing resources, educational attainment, and access to online media. The study, it’s worth noting, doesn’t measure whether citizens can read, rather if they do.