Our latest video entitled, Data Loss, will be premiering this Friday, March 16 at Links Hall in Chicago as part of Arte No Es Facil. Data Loss is comprised of the binary translation of all communication between the artists and their partners in Cuba as they attempted to configure and realize a work in partnership. Simultaneously confronting the limitations and possibilities of digital communication, language, and physical distance, Data Loss is the story of the creative potential so often lost in translation.

ARTE NO ES FÁCIL is a project “based in creating relationships beyond pictures between Cuba and the US through the manifestation of art. The project seeks to create a two-way passage for dialogue, collaboration, and information between our two countries by establishing connections between artists separated by location and context, yet sharing an interest in form, content or strategy.”

Early poster from the ballet

“Three years ago Ben Huh visited a blog devoted to silly cat pictures – and saw vast potential…Sensing an Internet phenomenon, Mr. Huh solicited financing from investors and forked over $10,000 of his own savings to buy the Web site from the two Hawaiian bloggers who started it.”

Read the full article here.

Chicago Premiere Event

Saturday, May 1

Stay tuned for more details!

Here is some beautiful digital art-making. It’s giving me some ideas about The Facebook Project (tentative title that I’m not really happy with…). Enjoy.

Dax Tran-Caffee “successfully traded a painting for poetry – creativity is the currency of the FUTURE”

Tif Bullard “life is full of flakes – some snow, some human.”

Joshua Esmanuel-David Slater “I wish I didn’t have to pay rent and medical bills and school tuition and other bills so I can shop all day. But then I would be living in my mama’s basement…I still look good so it all works out.”

“I try hard never to forget that art is essentially a game of signification, and that in our capacity as artists, we always endeavor to ask questions, to search, and to play.”

- Joseph Kosuth

This is the best piece of advice that we gave today:

The way to understand Art is to say it the way you imagine a seal would, in the middle of the night, at the top of your lungs, eight times fast:

“ART! ART! ART! ART! ART! ART! ART! ART!”

Videotape that, put it on your blog and voila: instant artist.