Installment 3: Kymia Nawabi

Kymia Nawabi stood out at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Swing Space show. Her whimsical, yet somewhat disturbed drawings, paintings, and sculpture have the illustrative quality reminiscent of Tim Burton, giving characters multiple limbs or mix-matched bodies, and overlapping pattern over pattern –a complex world that begs to be dissected.

Frida Kahlo Archive Drama

The LATimes‘ Christopher Knight reports on the archive of the “magnetic, self-mythologizing” Frida, little-known and drama enducing.

Laughing Kookaburras and Preserved Fetuses

Thank god the Museum of Animal Perspectives exists to post videos of what it looks like to walk through the woods from the top of a wolf’s head. But actually, this one is pretty good: Laughing Kookaburras

in real life we’re much less bitchy

Art Fag City’s pitting (overrated light artist) James Turrel vs. Alice Aycock in a devestating expose of public sculptures in New York (catalogued via google maps). It’s part of the Let’s Meet In Real Life series that we mentioned a few weeks back with regard to SD Idea Man Jesse Aaron Cohen.

And look, they’re making a zine!

In keeping with the intent of the show — to reveal the behind the scenes operations of online work through the use of public physical space — we intend to use the gallery itself in the same way we employ the Internet: as a method of distribution. As such, the last two hours of the residency will be dedicated to printing out the findings and compiling them as a homemade limited edition zine. This will include individual works found on Google maps, a map locating all sculptures, and a lot of low resolution pictures.

In other google map projects, today we discovered SeeClickFix, which maps civic problems to be reported (by volunteer “fixers) to 311.

Conference Conference

Not to bore you or anything but we thought we’d pass this along, a call for proposals from the Museum Computer Network.

Conference Topics

Prospective authors are invited to make submissions in areas including, but not limited to:

* Technology and Information Management Serving the Institutional Bottom Line
* Digital Readiness, Digital Accomplishments, Digital Accountability (Image Capture, Digital Asset Management, Best Practices, Preservation, Access)
* Implementing Systems in Tough Times
* Digital Convergence: Archives, Libraries, and Museums
* Doing More with Less
* Leadership, Sustainability, Accountability
* Social Media
* Superior Content, Superior Delivery

After the shushing’s done

The librarian is drinking again. Cute post from the Desk Set’s much improved website, Where DO Librarians and Archivists Hang Out? We know and like most of these local haunts, and look forward to the book swap on March 30th at nearby Pacific Standard.

Get drunk, inside.

PTP (Yeah You Know Me)

Quick heads up ’bout a phun lil’ phundraiser / bar night coming up, for the Progressive Technology Project. This slides more into the netroots arena, but still, information technology nerdlingers such as ourselves are into it. Anyways here are the deets:

March 9th, 6:30pm – 8:30pm!
Huckleberry Bar, 588 Grand Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211 – It’s close to the Lorimer stop on the L train.
Who is PTP?: A nonprofit that works with community organizers around the country providing the tools and training that move the movement for progressive social change. http://www.progressivetech.org

Please consider a donation to PTP in an amount that’s right for you. If you can’t make a contribution this time, please come anyway and meet the PTP folks!

RSVP to kwame [at] progressivetech.org or on facebook http://tinyurl.com/d2wf4a

Real Life vs. Internets Life

Archivist, SD conspirator, and web-1.0 aficionado Jesse Aaron Cohen has just celebrated the 50th installment of his monthly email exhibition series, a set of curated images and links sent to subscribers once a month for the past several years. Often the material is drawn from his day job as archivist at a yiddish library/archive in Manhattan, but over the years there’s been plenty of other cultural ephemera included in the exhibitions. They are awesome! Subscribe to them!

Slides from all 50 months-worth of exhibitions are going to be shown as part of an upcoming ‘real life‘ event on internet bloggers and artists.

More info after the jump, takke.