Have I mentioned that I like off the cuff strings that look like serial numbers? As in I want to create a line of housewares featuring them.

Ok, so here are some publications- traditional, digital, and otherwise- that I found interesting this week.





Glitch: literature/art

“Glitch is a community web project as well as a book publication. It is a space for creative production in literature and art. An inclusive system that attempts to capture and juxtapose information from remote and unrelated points of reference in an organic dialogue.

As the name may already suggest the publication deals with distortion and deviation from any number of accepted notions and concepts, specifically as it relates to individual experience and expression.”

It’s local-ish.
The last print addition was done by All Along Press.
The current topic is “Connection Time-Out.”
Per an email to critical mass:

“Greetings to the Mass!

Glitch is a new art publication. It is a collective of writers/ visual
artists/ noise makers/ hopeful cynics and hopeless romantic robots.

We are celebrating the birth of the first issue by opening our doors to the
public. In order to participate you must first see what we are.
Please do so by visiting our online home here .

If you like what you see and would like to contribute work, please visit our
blog . There you may see the next issue as its
being compiled.

All you need to do then is to register and post your submissions directly
via the blog. At the end of a August all submission on the blog will
be compiled into Glitch 2 and published. All participants receive a free
copy of the journal along with the feeling of accomplishment for seeing
their work reproduced on the surface of a beautiful printed page alongside
other happy participants.

We are hosting a Launch Party for Glitch next month. See the details below.

For any questions feel free to contact us at – mail@theglitch.info

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http://theglitch.info
http://theglitch.info/blog
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Launch Party for Glitch:
Saturday July 11th @ Fort Gondo | 7pm
with sonic experiments by Dave Stone and OKI
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After party for Glitch:
Saturday July 11th @ Upstairs Lounge | 10pm
music by Jim K/ Caustik/ hard_drive ft. Rockwell Knuckles
video projection by freeformfilm.org”

Mute Vol 2 #12 – The Creative City in Ruins

“Post-Fordist State planners, developers, and their entrepreneurial service arm have debased the meaning of ‘creativity’ to a shallow pretext for the further looting of cities and public wealth. The cookie-cutter aestheticisation of selective zones of our cities (tourist promenades, waterside public art, creative quarters), is a mere fig leaf covering the acts of enclosure and exclusion that cultural regeneration entails. As the sensibilities of the Creative Class are sensationalised, courted, and monetised, the creative possibilities of the dehumanised majority narrow.”

In addition to their online format Mute Magazine: Culture and Politics After the Net publishes a print edition and seems to be addressing some of my qualms about the labeling and accompanying commercialization of our so-called “creative class” in this latest volume. Ordered.






Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web

I love the Art:21 blog and am very interested in the new column which aims to explore uses of social media platforms relevant to the arts community. From the inaugural post by New York photographer and digital media artist An Xiao:

If there’s anything revealed about the use of social media technologies in the Iranian election, it’s that Twitter, Facebook and other social spaces online have become a new form of public space. Like any public space, social media serve as a place to meet with friends, people watch and, as we’ve seen, even protest. The key difference with this digital public space is one of scale and access, as users find ways to reach an international and growing user base, limited only by access to a computer or mobile phone and, to a certain extent, a common language.

One question I explore in my social media work is how this new public space can become a site for public art.”

An Xiao’s twitter projects and other social media and Internet-based art are also on my list of things to check out.





And speaking of local art, culture & politics after the ‘net, Buddhists, and social media…

RFTSTL: Art, Music and Technology Make for a Fun Evening at Contemporary Museum

Bill Streeter has been blogging about new technology and social media for the Daily RFT for about a month now. Buyer-in beware, given his relentless mission to “explore and report some of the interesting things people in St. Louis are doing with it and critique or comment on some of the less interesting things they might be doing” you may find your liberal urban professional twitter-dependent freedom fighter wannabe tendencies exposed when you least expect it. Or you might get a run-down on this:

“The Contemporary Art Museum hosted an interesting event last night in which it invited people to listen to tunes (spun by DJ Thomas Crone) and watch as artist worked on various projects.

Tony Gaddis was the featured artist and he was making a film, well, part of a film anyway. He was creating a stop-motion segment that will eventually be part of a longer video project — a music video for a kind of obscure Japanese musical discipline called Shakuhachi in which a Buddhist monk or a priest wears a basket on his head while playing the flute.”