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Dolita Paris Designs
Open April 2-April 17th
Dolita worked in the couture studio of Jacques Esterel when she was 16, and now she produces her own collections. Last season her runway looks were a huge success and garnered a lot of attention, including that of megastar Beyonce. Her designs are sensual and seductive. She uses sexy fabrics like Silk jersey, Lace (from France), Lycra, and Velvet; her clothes feel like a second skin. It’s clear that Dolita Paris is on the path to becoming a signature brand! She is FANTABULOUS! Don’t miss her.
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Freakcast & Panman Productions gears up to bring the world the Original Hooligans Picture. Watch as the shoot develops!
Panman Productions and Roger Smith Shorts present an Original Hooligans Picture
The film is about a young man named Marlo, who may or may not be trapped inside his own mind searching for the shoes his daddy gave him. His best friend Pipe Adams is there to see to it that everything goes according to plan. Or not.
This blog will have everything you need to get your OH fix. Including antics, and dicks, and everything in-between.
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Nobody Leaves, Everybody Goes
Blue Box Gallery
Midtown
501 Lexington Avenue, 347-948-3962
March 11 - March 20, 2010
Opening: Thursday, March 11, 7 - 9 PM
From March 12-20, 2010 the exhibition will be reinstalled in the RS POP-UP Shop at The Roger Smith Hotel.
After exhibiting in places as far afield as Austin, Texas and Linz, Austria, the Los Angeles-born, New York-based Barcia-Colombo brings his pioneering collection of interactive, multi-media artworks – an amalgam of three-dimensional objects and two-dimensional video, dubbed “video sculpture” – to New York City.
Nobody Leaves, Everybody Goes is an exhibition about memorialization and, more specifically, the act of leaving one’s imprint for the next generation. While formally implemented by natural history museums and collections (which find their roots in Renaissance “cabinets of curiosities”), this process has grown more pointed and pervasive in the modern-day obsession with personal digital archiving and the corresponding growth of social media culture.
The exhibition includes ten digital sculptures that play upon this exigency in our culture to chronicle, preserve and wax nostalgic, an idea which Barcia-Colombo renders visually by “collecting” human beings (alongside cultural archetypes) as scientific specimens. He repurposes everyday objects like blenders, suitcases and cans of Spam® into venues for projecting and inserting videos of people. While making conspicuous references to Marcel Duchamps’ ‘Ready-Mades,’ he also draws from an eclectic range of other influences, from the combines of Robert Rauschenberg and the video spectacles of Aernout Mik to taxonomy texts and anatomical drawings.
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he Blue Box Gallery, which is helmed by Julia Kaganskiy and Karen Bookatzand aims to “showcase contemporary artwork that redefines, remixes and reinterprets – in other words, hacks – conventional art-making practices,” hosted its inaugural opening (pictured, left) at The Roger Smith Hotel’s Starlight Loft on Thursday night. The gallery takes its name from a “blue box,” an “early phreaking tool used to gain unauthorized access to telephone consoles,” and like those devices, it will also be mobile.
The first exhibition, Nobody Leaves, Everybody Goes by Gabriel Barcia-Colombo, explores memorialization and “the act of leaving one’s imprint for the next generation” through pieces which involve video projection, including Animalia Chordata where six individuals of different professions and backgrounds appear trapped in glass containers of various shapes and react angrily when the work is approached and Spam where a Spam® can contains a looped video of a girl continuously shouting the “aggressively absurdist prose of spam e-mails.”
The exhibition will now be on display at the Roger Smith Pop, a storefront outside of The Roger Smith Hotel which, in addition to serving as a temporary gallery space, is also a “social media pop up shop.” For more information about hours, check out the gallery’s Web site here.
At the opening, I ran into author Michael Malice, artist Nic Rad,McKinsey & Co.’s Devin Brown, and Rocketboom’s Andrea Rosen.
I tend to think that multi-media exhibitions rarely tap into the potential of this art form as a participatory medium. Los Angeles-born Gabriel Barcia-Colombo’s latest works, currently on view at BlueBox’s pop up gallery in the Roger Smith Hotel, prove me wrong.
The exhibition, titled “Nobody Leaves, Everybody Goes,” and curated by Karen Bookatz and Julia Kaganskiy, includes ten digital sculptures that play upon this exigency in our culture to chronicle, preserve, and wax nostalgic, an idea which Barcia-Colombo renders visually by “collecting” human beings (alongside cultural archetypes) as scientific specimens. He repurposes everyday objects like blenders, suitcases, and cans of Spam® into venues for projecting and inserting videos of people.
We love how uncomfortable one feels upon interacting with these objects which trigger the little creatures trapped inside to react vividly. We love his nod to Duchamp’s Ready-Mades, and the video spectacles of Aernout Mik. Above all, we love the fact that these interactive, multi-media artworks are clever little low tech “video sculptures” yet they question our high tech, digital lives.
Gabriel Barcia-Colombo: “Nobody Leaves, Everybody Goes”
March 11, 2010 from 7 pm - 9 pm, The Starlight Room at The Roger Smith Hotel
501 Lexington Avenue New York, NY 10017
on view through March 20th. 2010
Like the Spice at the Roger Smith Hotel
March 19th, 2010 – April 18th, 2010
featuring the work of Jason Bryant, Allison Edge, and Ross Racine
Opening Night Reception: March 19th,…
BLUE BOX Gallery Presents Gabriel Barcia-Colombo
Join us in viewing the work of New Media artist Gabriel Barcia-Colombo
After exhibiting in places as far afield as Austin, Texas and Linz, Austria, the Los Angeles-born, New York-based Barcia-Colombo brings his pioneering collection of interactive, multi-media artworks – an amalgam of three-dimensional objects and two-dimensional video, dubbed “video sculpture”– to New York City.
The exhibition includes ten digital sculptures that play upon the exigency in our culture to chronicle, preserve and wax nostalgic, an idea which Barcia-Colombo renders visually by “collecting” human beings (alongside cultural archetypes) as scientific specimens. He repurposes everyday objects like blenders, suitcases and cans of Spam® into venues for projecting and inserting videos of people. While making conspicuous references to Marcel Duchamps’ ‘Ready-Mades,’ he also draws from an eclectic range of other influences, from the combines of Robert Rauschenberg and the video spectacles of Aernout Mik to taxonomy texts and anatomical drawings.
Blue Box is a mobile gallery (conceived of by Karen and Julia) dedicated to showcasing contemporary New Media artwork that redefines, remixes and reinterprets – in other words, hacks – conventional art-making practices.
Opening Press Reception March 11th, Exhibit Installation Viewing from March 12-20th tin the RSPOP-UP Shop!
In August of 2009, 6 short films were created in a heat wave at the Roger Smith Hotel. The 2009 Roger Smith Shorts Directors are Daniel Brothers, Sean Cunningham, Sherng-Lee Huang, Jacob Mendel, Dmitry Povolotsky, and Ted Wallach. During the Roger Smith Shorts Film Festival Workshop we hosted several industry workshops, panels, music events and parties to celebrate this week long film festival. It was an epic week of blitz creations hosted at the Roger Smith Hotel in Midtown Manhattan.
Another Great Night of Shopping, Style and Cocktails!
