TEST_LAB: Tools for Propaganda
Experience how new media technologies direct, divert, distract and manipulate your gaze on the world

March 11 / 20:00-23:00
V2_Institute for the Unstable Media
Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Featuring: Maurice Benayoun (FR) | Marc Lee (CH) | Damian Stewart (NZ/AT) | Opening: Alessandro Ludovico (IT) | Screening: uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki | www.subvertr.com | streetwithaview.com 

This event will be streamed live at http://www.v2.nl/events/test_lab-tools-for-propaganda
 




2010 HOT PICKS ARTISTS
Smack Mellon Studio Program

Jane Benson, Suzanne Broughel, Laura Carton, Blane De St Croix, Jenn Figg, Colette Fu, Cooper Holoweski, Takahashi Horisaki, Ben Kinsley, Kristian Kozul, Matthew Mazzotta, Alison Owen, Anne Percoco, Letha Wilson, Seth Wulsin

The top artists, as selected from the Studio Program applicants by a panel of esteemed curators and arts professionals, are featured on the Smack Mellon website for one year. Only the top 15 artists have been selected to be a part of Smack Mellon Hot Picks this year.

The panelists this year were: Linda Earle, Executive Director of the New York Arts Program; Rachel Gugelberger, Director at Sara Meltzer Gallery; and Ellen Harvey, Artist.

http://smackmellon.org




ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE
January 4 - March 26, 2010
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE

Art Talk: Thursday, February 4 at 7:00 pm

http://bemiscenter.org




23rd STUTTGARTER FILMWINTER: Festival for Expanded Media
Online/Offline Exhibition

January 14-20, 2010
Friedrichstraße 23a, 70174 Stuttgart

http://www.filmwinter.de




FRENEMIES
The creative comradery of Cleveland and Pittsburgh

December 4, 2009 - January 17, 2010
Front Room Gallery, Cleveland, OH

http://www.frontroomcleveland.com

Work by: Michelle Fried, Ben Kinsley & M. Callen, Sarah Paul, Lisa Ramsey, Greg Witt






MANIPULATING REALITY
September 25, 2009 - January 17, 2010
Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina, Florence, Italy

http://www.strozzina.org/manipulatingreality/
http://www.strozzina.org/manipulatingreality/e_hewlett.php#content

Artists: Olivo Barbieri, Sonja Braas, Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Gregory Crewdson, Thomas Demand, Elena Dorfman, Christiane Feser, Andreas Gefeller, Andreas Gursky, Beate Gütschow, Osang Gwon, Tatjana Hallbaum, Ilkka Halso, Robin Hewlett & Ben Kinsley, Rosemary Laing, Aernout Mik, Saskia Olde Wolbers, Sarah Pickering, Moira Ricci, Cindy Sherman, Cody Trepte, Paolo Ventura, Melanie Wiora