The Way Things Go: When Appropriators Collide

A still from Christian Marclay's 1995 video "Telephones." [Link] Appropriated from ---?? via NYTimes: Art The Image Is Familiar; the Pitch Isn't By MIA FINEMAN Published: July 13, 2008 IN February 2007 the Swiss-American artist Christian Marclay was installing a...

Posted on: 13 July 2008 | 8:26 am

SCANNERS - The 2007 NY Video Festival: Ben Neill + Bill Jones in "Circuits Maximus"

SCANNERS image: "Winona Ryder," from Voom Portraits by Robert Wilson (courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery) Friday, July 27 9pm: Ben Neill will play his hybrid electro-acoustic “mutant trumpet” in the liminal spaces created by video artist Bill Jones in Circuits Maximus,...

Posted on: 14 July 2007 | 3:20 pm

Catsup Catchup

Photo: A.J. Mast for The New York Times Amateur filmmaker Dan Burke recreates a scene where he brushed his teeth with ketchup for a Heinz ketchup commercial contest at his home in Dayton, Ohio. via NYTimes: The High Price of...

Posted on: 26 May 2007 | 8:42 am

Mr. Mellencamp: Right On Target

Photo: Mark Cornelison for The New York Times The singer John Mellencamp in Bloomington, Ind.; Mr. Mellencamp, who has lived in Indiana all his life, often writes about small-town life. via NYTimes: Changes in Mellencamp Country By ALAN LIGHT Published:...

Posted on: 22 January 2007 | 10:03 am

Romancing the Spiegeltent with XIX

XIX, is the new band composed of Ben Neill, Bill Jones, Mimi Goese, John Conte and Jim Mussen, recently hit the Summerscape at Bard-- reviewed @ Tony Fletcher's JAMMING and reBlogged here: Spiegel on the Hudson It was a 100-mile...

Posted on: 25 July 2006 | 1:53 pm

Lean, mean, brash, crass and about as deep as a shot glass....

Palladio's own Zoe Lister-Jones in Off-Broadway smash hit: NYTimes: THEATER REVIEW: 'THE LITTLE DOG LAUGHED' Actor in the Closet, Agent in Control By BEN BRANTLEY Published: January 10, 2006 [excerpts] Lean, mean, brash, crass and about as deep as a...

Posted on: 10 January 2006 | 9:20 am

The Little Dog Laughed Off-Broadway

Palladio's Zoe Lister-Jones ("Molly") will appear in the upcoming world premiere production of Douglas Carter Beane's comedy The Little Dog Laughed Off-Broadway at Second Stage Theatre: Galecki, Huff, Lister-Jones, White Set for Beane's The Little Dog Laughed By: Brian Scott...

Posted on: 16 November 2005 | 7:35 pm

More on Mobisodes: "24: Conspiracy"

Mobisode: "24 Conspiracy" via NYTimes: Now Playing on a Tiny Screen By LAURA M. HOLSON Published: October 17, 2005 LOS ANGELES, Oct. 16 - When Eric Young directed his first episodes for the cellphone serial drama "24: Conspiracy," it was...

Posted on: 17 October 2005 | 10:43 am

DJ Food: Raiding the 20th Century

image source reBlogged from BoingBoing [originally from UbuWeb]: 40-min MP3 of the history of bastard pop, remix and mashup By Cory Doctorow Cory Doctorow: This is a 40-minute MP3 of a British radio broadcast called "DJ Food - Raiding the...

Posted on: 7 October 2005 | 10:19 am

Paul Spinrad's The VJ Book

via Eyebeam reBlog: Paul Spinrad's The VJ Book Paul Spinrad just published a new book called "The VJ Book: Inspirations and Practical Advice for Live Visuals Performance." (Paul is also the author of the classic RE/Search Guide To Bodily Fluids.)...

Posted on: 7 October 2005 | 9:39 am

Cillit Bang Kills Self

via Eyebeam reBlog : Viral advertising backfires From the U.K this Guardian article says,"household products usually promise to help get rid of dirt, but one leading brand has been shamed into cleaning up its own act after an internet marketing...

Posted on: 7 October 2005 | 9:08 am

Introducing Palladio Mobisodes

PALLADIO: Mobisode 1 (The Friday Massacre) from billjones and Vimeo.

Posted on: 25 September 2005 | 11:03 am

Wake Me Up When September Ends

reBlogged from NEWSgrist: Big props go to Karmagrrrl for both the "almost too perfect" mash-up (dated 9/8/05) and for the NYTimes broadcast: Critic's Notebook - NYTimes, September 24, 2005: Art of the Internet: A Protest Song, Reloaded By SARAH BOXER...

Posted on: 24 September 2005 | 9:28 am

Mobisodes, Coca-Cola and Ringtones

reBlogged from networked_performance: Signs of the Times Mobifilms and Ringtone Vending Machines "Nokia is offering five online lessons in making movies for mobile phones. [Via Picturephoning]. And "Ireland will be the first European market to see a new generation of...

Posted on: 20 September 2005 | 11:36 am

Cronenberg: Not Selling Out

image: still from Videodrome via NYTimes, September 18, 2005: David Cronenberg's Body Language By JONATHAN DEE At the Cannes Film Festival this past May for the premiere of his new film, "A History of Violence," the director David Cronenberg got...

Posted on: 19 September 2005 | 11:17 am

Posthorn at NIME05 Festival, Vancouver

image source NIME 2005 - May 26-28 The 2005 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC Concert Program - School of Music, Recital Hall THURSDAY, 19:30-21:30: OPENING Concert [full program] Posthorn Ben Neill,...

Posted on: 25 May 2005 | 10:32 pm

PlayStations of the Cross

< Nathan Fox A new article by Jonathan Dee in the New York Times Magazine: PlayStations of the Cross By JONATHAN DEE Published: May 1, 2005 The Rev. Ralph Bagley is on a very 21st-century sort of mission: introducing the...

Posted on: 1 May 2005 | 9:40 am

Clifford Odets: THE BIG KNIFE

{Featuring Palladio's Cort Garretson} THE BIG KNIFE By Clifford Odets Directed and Produced by Daryl Wein May 4th - May 8th, every night @ 8pm & Sun @ 5pm FOR RESERVATIONS CALL: 212 561 9126 or www.thebigknife.com NYU KIMMEL CENTER...

Posted on: 21 April 2005 | 11:04 am

Viral Marketing + The Fake Polo Ad

via FRIEZE: Informant Viral Marketing is aimed at a public jaded by traditional advertising - where will it end? By George Pendle When is an ad not an ad? When it has no product to sell. A man leaves his...

Posted on: 7 April 2005 | 11:30 am

Is it Art? Is it Advertising?

Review of Palladio: IS IT ART? IS IT ADVERTISING? By Holly Daggers The Forward Motion Theatre Bill Jones and Ben Neill premiere PALLADIO: a playable film "In the future there will be no photographs. In the future there will be...

Posted on: 8 March 2005 | 3:18 pm