Jeremy Bailey: Less Important Portraits

Jeremy Bailey: Less Important Portraits 
Opening June 14th, 7-10pm. On view until July 7th, 2013.

"As an artist, when I look at crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter.com all I see are the creators, where are the backers? I've been an artist long enough to know that art is about who pays for it. How can important people be satisfied helping others without being recognized themselves? The powerful and wealthy patron should be celebrated the way they have been in the past, in grand portraits commissioned and hung on the walls of museums and galleries.

The portrait has existed as an art tradition for centuries. A well-executed portrait expresses the inner essence of a person. Portraits have primarily memorialized the rich and the powerful as important records of status. For artists they have represented subsistence as paid commissions and an opportunity to demonstrate the latest techniques and technologies for artistic expression.

I am revealing the true inner essence of over 50 backers of a successful KickStarter campaign I ran in February with their very own 21st century augmented reality portrait. As a Famous New Media Artist I have access to the latest techniques and technology, everything necessary for you to truly express yourself is at my fingertips. I've been making myself look amazing in augmented reality self portraits for over 10 years and I've decided it's time to help others look as great as I do."

Bailey’s selected recent exhibitions and performances include Rhizome's Seven on Seven Conference, New work for The New Museum's First Look commission series, Life Feed: New Works by Jeremy Bailey and Antoine Catala, at the New Museum in New York, The Future is Now, Media Arts, Performance and Identity after Nam June Paik, at Tate Liverpool and Myths-Online, at MOSAIC, Polytechnic Museum Moscow, Russia.

Bailey’s selected recent exhibitions and performances include Rhizome's Seven on Seven Conference, New work for The New Museum's First Look commission series, Life Feed: New Works by Jeremy Bailey and Antoine Catala, at the New Museum in New York, The Future is Now, Media Arts, Performance and Identity after Nam June Paik, at Tate Liverpool and Myths-Online, at MOSAIC, Polytechnic Museum Moscow, Russia.

Bailey has been extensively exhibiting and performing, since 2003, nationally and internationally. Including: Dadamachinima, Devotion Gallery, (New York, USA), Domain, ZER01 San Jose Biennial, (San Jose, USA), BWNY, Albright Knox, (Buffalo, USA), Colours of the Spectrum Art Metropole (Toronto, ON), Space Invaders, NIMk, (Amsterdam, Netherlands), The Jeremy Bailey Show, HTTP Gallery (London, UK) , Festival International du Film sur lʼArt - Musee d'Art Contemporain (Montreal, QC), Definitely Independent, Transmediale, Akademie der Kuenste (Berlin, Germany) and many more.

Born in 1979 Bailey received his MFA in Video Art from Syracuse University (2006) and an undergraduate degree in Visual Studies from the University of Toronto(2002). He is co-founder of award winning artist video collective 640 480 and performance journalism collective ArtStars*. He has been described by Filmmaker Magazine as "a one man revolution on the way we use video, computers and our bodies to create art".

Mark Skwarek: AR Intervention

Mark Skwarek: AR Intervention 
OPENING ON: FRIDAY, March 1ST 7:00 - 11:00PM. 
ON VIEW UNTIL March 25TH, 2013.

Mark Skwarek showcases a series of recent augmented reality interventions created across the globe. These confrontational, politically charged works are created by the artist and his community. Skwarek acts as instigator and organizer for the community at large and several of the pieces feature an array of contributors joining arms in a virtual protest. For this exhibition, Skwarek will release a new work in the form of an App, createAR, that lets the public create Augmented Reality objects of their choosing at any location.

From the 1st augmented reality in North Korea to the theft of the British Museum's Parthenon Marbles the work will test the meaning of public and private space in digital age. Augmented reality gives artists the ability to create without many limitations and the AR Intervention show points to this future.

Special Events

Saturday March 9th 2013, 7pm to 10pm
Artist Mark Skwarek will brave an augmented reality flood which has spread across WIlliamsburg in a homemade boat. Audience members will have the opportunity to participate with mobile devices.

Mark Skwarek is a new media artist working to bridge the gap between virtual reality and the real world by using augmented reality. He is a founding member of the artist augmented reality group manifest.AR. Skwarek earned his M.F.A. from Rhode Island School of Design's Digital Media Department. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses at New York University Polytech where he is full time faculty. Reviews of his artwork have appeared in the New York Times, Art in America, Boing Boing, WIRED, the Boston Globe, The Huffington Post, NPR, BBC, the art blog and Leonardo. Skwarek has exhibited in various venues, including: the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; ISEA; Dumbo Arts Festival; UCLA Digital Grad Gallery; Devotion Gallery, the CyberArts Festival; the Sunshine International Art Museum, Beijing; and the Krannert Art Museum at the University of Illinois, the Zero1 Biennial and the Nikolaj, Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center. Upcoming shows include FACT in Liverpool England, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.

Babycastles presents DADAMACHINIMA

Curated by Walter Langelaar of WORM (Rotterdam)

DADAMACHINIMA explores tactics of emergent gameplay, disrupted modes of interactivity, and brute-force hacks of contemporary (video)game interfaces and environments.

In Aram Bartholl's project 'First Person Shooter' a now iconic screen-element, adapted from the videogame Counter-Strike, is transferred into physical space. Players can cut and glue parts from a do-it-yourself kit together and receive a pair of glasses bearing the protagonist's arm with the weapon.
http://datenform.de/fpseng.html

JODI, or jodi.org, are unanimously considered pioneers of new media art. Their work 'Composite Club' is a conceptual hack of the popular "Eyetoy" device involving Playstation's camera-based games being triggered by prerecorded video clips.
http://compositeclub.cc

'Mary Mack 5000' by Kaho Abe & Lina Fenequito is a fast-paced, competitive, technologically enhanced rocker-twist on the classic schoolyard hand clapping game that challenges your rhythm, speed and timing.
http://www.kahoabe.net/MaryMack5000

In 'Video Terraform Dance Party' director Jeremy Bailey plays an enthusiastic nerd channeling Bob Ross as he dons a forehead-mounted VR controller to demonstrate new modeling software that will allow him to bop his head around and 'plan the ideal landscape.
http://jeremybailey.net/vtdp.html

Opening 7pm on Friday, February 4th. On view until Sunday, March 7th 2011. WORKS: FPS [first peron shooter] by Aram Bartholl | Mary Mack 5000C by Kaho Abe & Lina Fenequito |Composite Club by JODI | Levelhead by Julian Oliver | Video Terraform Dance Party by Jeremy Bailey

Opening Night Performances: Lovid, Radio Shock, Casperelectronics, DUBKNOWDUB, Dan Friel LoVid will also debut a performance of 'Catchy' 

Mary Mack 5000 Intro Movie from Kaho A on Vimeo.