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By BIG RED Print this article September 17, 2005 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at The Middlesex Lounge for the Art Show Down fundraiser. Photos by James Manning.
By BIG RED Print this article September 15, 2005 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the reception for Return On Investment and David Brown at NESAD/Suffolk University. Photos by James Manning.
By BIG RED Print this article September 9, 2005 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at SOWA first Friday. Photographs by Fred Levy.
By BIG RED Print this article September 16, 2005 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at Collision Eight El Ocho at Art Interactive. Photos by James Manning.
By BIG RED Print this article Boston artist Chantal Zakari, who recently co-curated the exhibition Bit Logic at GASP, has announced the release of her new book, webAffairs. From the announcement, this book “is an artist’s documentary of an adult video web community.” Using images collected from her time in chat rooms and by gaining friendships with other chat users, under her screen-name Show-n-tell, Zakari creates a story of both voyerism and participation. “One woman is living with her boyfriend but is having an affair with another man online… A prematurely retired…
By MARINA VERONICA Print this article Upon viewing Duane Slick’s new work at the Nielsen Gallery, one may recall Andy Warhol’s 1985 silkscreen prints of company logos and symbols or collaborative paintings with the young African-American graffiti artist with Haitian roots, Jean-Michel Basquiat. In “Pre-Contact Landscape in Milkweed Patch”, one of Slick’s finest paintings in the exhibition, a high-flying Pegasus recalls Warhol’s “Mobil” and the logos “Artforum” and “Art in America” (esteemed publications that contribute to the making of art stars) bring to mind his prints attributed to Paramount, the powerful film…
By JONATHAN FARDY Print this article What happens when we interact with the computer? Even a simple word processing program, changes the way I write, its not my handwriting, it auto corrects my typos, notifies me of spelling and grammatical blunders, in short its reshaping me and my process form the moment I press the boot up button. When you use the web this reshaping process, this altered, or mediated (a favorite buzz word) experience not only layers itself into my usage, in some cases it forms it all together. Many of…
By HEIDI MARSTON Print this article The lights go down, everyone screams. We don’t see anything yet but we know what’s coming. The anticipation is almost too much. The smoke pours out onto the stage; the lights from below light everything up like something from out of this world. They walk out, the music starts, and they are almost in reach but always above you when you are in the front row. They begin to move wildly, their hair long, like Jesus, like the messiah, like gods. It’s amazing. It’s a religion.…