MAP installation at Mendell Plaza in Bayview Saturday March 4th!

Thank you to everyone who stopped by Mendell Plaza on Saturday May and participated in “The Free Music Project”, an interactive MAP installation that celebrates Mixed Tape culture and the nostalgia music can bring back!  This event was in partnership with the Bay View Opera House and Swap/Meet SF (who had some great interactive projects taking place!).

Bayview Opera House

4705 3rd St., San Francisco, California 94124
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MAP at Pro Arts on Friday March 1st!

Thanks to everyone that stopped by Pro Arts on Friday MArch 1st and participated in our “Free Music Project” installation set up in front of the gallery. The evening was a huge success and we got to hear many anecdotes and stories about mixed tapes, cassette culture and memories of musics past! Keep posted later on this summer and we will be adding a “Free Music Project” page to our blog that will contain crowd sourced responses to this project!
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PRO ARTS     

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

February 7, 2013

The Free Gallery
By Free Utopian Projects  |  Exhibition Call Selection 2013 
Exhibition Dates: February 26 – March 29, 2013
Preview: Tuesday, February 26 – Friday, March 1
Artists’ Reception and Free Art Launch: First Friday, March 1, 6-8pmOakland, CA:Pro Arts is pleased to presentThe Free Gallery by Free Utopian Projects, a new exhibition presenting free artwork, found objects and art ephemera to the public.The Free Gallery is both an interactive experience of an alternative art economy, as well as a study of art as a consumer product. Who makes art? Who exhibits art? Who buys art? The Free Gallery explores the collapse of these distinctions by offering a subverted gallery experience where not only admission is free, the art is too.Participating artists donate work to the exhibition to be presented salon-style in a continually evolving cycle of giving and taking art. A ‘Preview’ will be held from Tuesday, February 26 to Friday, March 1 to allow viewers an exclusive preview of items that will be available free to the public from the Artists’ Reception onwards. A practice of taking one work per person will be encouraged. The project proprietor Jocelyn Meggait will be onsite most gallery hours to discuss the project with visitors, coordinate artwork, and document the selection experience.The Free Gallery brings a distinctly Bay Area tradition of a free community happening – from The Digger’s Free Shops in the 1960′s to thriving First Friday’s in Oakland – to an exhibition experience. By embracing the potential for visual chaos and participatory mayhem, The Free Gallery seeks to highlight alternative routes for accessing, valuing and experiencing art.Participating Artists: Gwynessa Balvanz, Evan Barbour, Jennifer Brandon, Kenna Kristen Cabral, Sohyung Choi, Susanna Corcoran, Madelyn Covey, Alix Critchley, Veva Edelson, Peter Foucault, Hilary Galian, Matthew Gottschalk, Michael Hall, Dana Hemenway, Sarah Herniesen, Amy M. Ho, Becky Johnson, Samuel Levi Jones, Michael Koehle, Matthew Kowalski, Barbara Laukat, Hung Liu, Keegan Luttrell, Lauren McDougald, Kath Irwin McGaughey, Michael Mersereau, Nadja Eulee Miller, Doug Millison (Little Free Art Gallery), Seth Minor, Camilla Newhagen, Sheri Leigh O’Connor, Tressa Pack, Meri Page, Chelsea Pegram, Simon Pyle, Kate Rhoades, Alex Rubio, Kent Rodriguez Segura, Jenny Sharaf, Sofia Sharpe, Kate Short, Kelsey Thorne, Chris Treggiari, Marilyn Treon, Katy Warner, MAP (Mobile Arts Platform)

         …more artists to be announced soon!

The Free Gallery is the 2013 Exhibition Call Selection. The Artists’ Reception and Free Art Launch, featuring Mobile Arts Platform, will be held on First Friday, March 1, 6-8pm. Exhibition and events are, of course, free.

About Free Utopian Projects:
Free Utopian Projects is an ongoing alternative art project exploring Utopian economic systems by creating free, socially active installations. Curator/proprietor/artist Jocelyn Meggait has installed Free Projects at Kala Art Institute, Mills College Art Museum, and most recently at the alternative art space A Temporary Offering in the Renoir Hotel, San Francisco.

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Thanks to everyone who participated in our MAP installation on Feb. 9th in Venice Beach!

A huge thanks to everyone who stopped by our pop-up MAP office on Venice Beach, CA and filled out an “LA Walking Itinerary”! Your contributions were included in our MAP installation that night at Marine Contemporary. After the exhibition closes we will post an online archive of your responses.

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MAP at Marine Contemporary Salon, Opening Saturday February 9th

LAX_imageWe invite you to please stop by Marine Contemporary’s Salon Space and check out our new interactive LA Mapping project on Saturday February 9th! Should be an amazing evening featuring the work of some amazing LA artists. Hope to see you there, pice of the event to come!! The show will be up until March 30th.

Marine Art Salon is delighted to present Salon No.10, Works 301 – 331 (The Boys

Club) a group exhibition presenting the work of James Anderson, Matthew Burbidge,

Adam Dix, Matt Merkel Hess, MAP: Mobile Arts Platform (Peter Foucault and Chris

Treggiari), Chris Miller, Jason Ramos, Christopher Reynolds and Isaac Resnikoff.

Salon No. 10 explores the themes of mark making, intimacy, memory and ritual.

http://www.marineartsalon.com/pressreleases/Salon-No-10-Press-Release.pdf

http://www.marinecontemporary.com/gallery.php

Telephone/Fax

+1 310 399 0294

Email

rsvp@c-artmarine.com  Please RSVP by February 4th!

Web

marineartsalon.com

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MAP at the North Beach Art Walk Friday Nov. 2nd!

If you are in the North Beach neighborhood on Friday night please check out our MAP installation! We were invited by the MicroClimate Collective to participate in their exhibition ADD which is taking place at the Emerald Tablet.

For this event we will be presenting the Building Bridges of Peace Station, an interactive Pop-Up post office/mail art installation which is a collaboration between MAP and Bay Area-based non-profit Building Bridges and features postcards created by Kerri Lee Johnson and John Casey.  MAP will also be installing the Mobile Vespa Screenprint Cart which will feature original screenprints created by Lisa Solomon and Marcos Lafarga.
Please stop by, make a free take-away poster and participate in a mail art project!

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A.D.D.
A show of artwork in multiple genres with five events
The Emerald Tablet
80 Fresno Street
San Francisco, CA 94133

Friday, November 2nd  6-10pm  Free 
North Beach First Friday
Special guests Mobile Arts Platform (a collaborative project by Peter Foucault and Chris Treggiari) will present Building Bridges of Peace Station, an interactive Pop-Up post office/mail art installation which is a collaboration between MAP and Bay Area-based non-profit Building Bridges and features postcards created by Kerri Lee Johnson and John Casey.  MAP will also be installing the Mobile Vespa Screenprint Cart which will feature original screenprints created by Lisa Solomon and Marcos Lafarga. This piece is can only be viewed during First Friday, so don’t miss it!  Also that night you will have another opportunity to experience RedGreenBrain, Santhi Elayaperumal’s brainwave driven robotic drawing machine.

Saturday, November 3rd 8-10pm  $5
CollectiveGIF: Information Overload

AnimatedGIFs embody the short attention span: gestural images pulling you into meditative focus and distracting you at the same time.  Native to the Internet, the GIF is a vernacular form, easily dismissed.  Glitchy, contrary, paradoxical in their position, animated GIFs take things out of normal time and place.  CollectiveGIF: Information Overflow will present thousands of gifs – momentary gesticulations collected from the wilds of the Internet

Featuring CollectiveGIFs from killer banshee: Eliot K Daughtry & Kriss De Jong with Jerry Smith, Fly, Zon Wakest, Travis Meinolf, Dean Putney, Alma Alloro, Phil Bonner, ABVH, AJElledge, MrGIF, Dain Fagerholm, Beck&Burg, Eric L. Sanchez, Anthony Discenza, Ignacio Torres, Jake OLimb, Luli & the many minions of the memescape that is AnimatedGIF.

Gallery Hours: Friday evenings, 6-9pm; Saturday and Sunday afternoons, 2-6pm


Participating Artists, Performers and Collaborators:
Kirkman Amyx
Christopher Burch
Tom Comitta
Santhi Elayaperumal and Yulia Pinkusevich
Stephanie Ellis and Serena Wellen
Mary Franck and Ian Smith-Heisters
Blake Gibson
Phillip Greenlief with shudder
Liz Hickok
Clint Imboden
killer banshee: Eliot Daughtry & Kriss De Jong
Phillip Maisel
Mobile Arts Platform: Peter Foucault and Chris Treggiari
Sonya Philip
Joseph Rosenzweig
Laura Sackett
Ann Schnake

Curated by MicroClimate Collective: Glenna Cole Allee and Victoria Mara Heilweil
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ALTEX_logo_blackSupport for MicroClimate’s 2012 exhibitions is provided by Southern Exposure’s Alternative Exposure Grant Program; grant funds will allow us to archive the exhibitions.

Artwork Credit (left to right): Liz Hickok, Phillip Maisel, Sonya Philip

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MAP at Marion and Rose’s Workshop for October Oakland Art Murmur!

The First Friday on October 5th will be bustling with activity at Marion and Rose’s Workshop!  We will be setting up the MAP mobile Vespa screen print cart from 6pm-9pm, collaborating with local artists and inviting the public to create free take-away posters.  Confirmed artists include Lisa Solomon and Marcos Lafarga.

Additional show inside will be featuring work by Walk Softly, photographs by Norma Cordova and shesaidred.

Please stop by and join us!

461 9th Street, Oakland, California 94607
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MAP at the Torrance Art Museum on September 22nd!

A huge thanks to everyone who stopped by TAM last Saturday and participated in our MAP installation! An amazing evening, below is some info and pics..

The Torrance Art Museum proudly presents
Gallery 1:The SubterraneansOpening reception Saturday, September 22nd, 6-9 pm
On view until Saturday, November 3rd

Come participate in interactive artworks created by the Mobile Arts Platform, featuring collaborations with LA artists Elizabeth DiGiovanni and Pete Ippel

Featuring works by the artists who run and operate…

Actual Size
Autonomie
Concord
Control Room
Durden and Ray
Elephant
Favorite Goods
Foundation for Art Resources
JAUS
JB Jurve
LA Pedestrians
LA Road Concerts
Latned Astar
Materials and Applications
Monte Vista Projects
Pieter
RAID Projects
Shorthouse
Show Cave
Slanguage
Summercamp Projectprojects
untitled art projects
Weekend
WPA

The Wulf

 

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