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In conjunction with “Free,” DIS documents the work and the art going experience while borrowing conventions from stock photography. The characters pictured in these documents are tourists, students, dealers, art administrators, curators, docents, and emerging artists.

DISimages.com is a serial project focused on manipulating the codes of stock photography to answer questions that have not yet been asked. By generating new stock options, DIS will broaden the spectrum of lifestyle portrayal.

West Side — a new book by Emily Roysdon with Alvin Baltrop. In it, photographs taken of the Hudson Street Piers decades ago by Baltrop are paired with ones by Roysdon from today. The images expand the common conception of the Piers as a place used for cruising and sex to one where many other activities (like art-making & friendship & sleep) also took root. The behavior and spirit of Baltrop’s subjects are just as unregulated and beautiful as the broken down industrial architecture on which they are variously standing, lying around naked or simply sitting reading a book. $40. Also with poety by Roysdon and designed by Circle and Square. Photograph here by Roydson: the Piers Untitled #2

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Plant vs. Zombie

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Last week, my show ‘Free’ opened at the New Museum.

I hope you’ll stop by.

Image above is SKIES THE LIMIT (LEAVE ME ALONE) 1998-2009 by Amanda Ross-Ho

This work is in my upcoming show, and was developed out of Seven on Seven, via purple-diary:

Riverthe.net by Ryan Trecartin and David Karp

Riverthe.net is a new site derived from a collaboration between artist Ryan Trecartin and Tumblr founder David Karp. Continuing from where they left off with Project Ten earlier this year, where they initially proposed this website, riverthe.net permits anyone to anonymously upload a video clip, up to 10 seconds in length, with three tags. With no interface the viewer is confronted with a 10 second video and thereafter the site delivers a continuous stream of clips related to a shared tag. With influences from recent websites like Dump.fm and Chatroulette, Trecartin and Karp take interactive media to a larger context without the limitations of using webcams. Widening the public space the internet has already created, this platform presents a vast array of possibilities. Although never played in the same consecutive order, its three tag navigation allows an elementary method of creating narrative as you are taken through the videos. With such an open stream of videos and limited control, essentially, the site is a boundless and ever evolving video orchestrated by the masses. Riverofthe.net will be featured in the upcoming exhibition Free at the New Museum, 235 Bowery, New York from October 20th 2010. Text Annabel Fernandes

I selected two wonderful artists — Colter Jacobsen and Tauba Auerbach— for the Sept issue of the Paris Review, the first issue edited by Lorin Stein, who writes in his intro: “Often we hear the question asked, in panels and symposia, “Can the literary journal in print thrive in the age of the Internet?” The real question is not whether journals can survive in some imagined future, but what we ourselves want and need. And when have we needed a great print journal more? Most of us spend our days in an enforced state of distraction, with nothing allowed to sink in. This Review is designed to sink in. It can’t be surfed. It won’t deliver your e-mail. It is, we submit to you, pleasing to the eye. The works here will demand that you read them from start to finish, or not at all. Reader, we are constantly told that there aren’t enough of you anymore. Experience teaches us otherwise.” They also re-launched their site, thanks to Thessaly LaForce, and its great. :)

Via Rhizome: CaptchArt, a long post on Captcha humor/ art by our awesome Editorial Fellow Jacob Gaboury, who writes “…the practice really took off when Moot implemented reCAPTCHA on the 4chan boards. Users took their extensive MS Paint skills and trollface comic generators and produced a wide variety of CAPTCHA related art and images, a sample of which we have included here.”