2006/11/30

I had a dream...

應該是想再多睡一會兒
我才會捨不得離開那個夢境

莫名由地溢滿鬱悶
應是夢已簡單地作了註解:
過去是一場惆悵
夢的終場竟是我還留在紐約

2006/10/24

日與夜 我和我自己

走進空房撥下強壁上燈開關 三盞投射燈中亮了兩盞
暈黃光反射在白牆上 反過來 射過去 讓光效累積到最大狀態
這樣光亮其實就夠了

房間裡還有一盞立燈
旋開鈕 燈泡光往上射出 三段調燈 扭三下後最亮

我走出去
房間就空了 但很亮

七彩夢幻銀河

2006/09/06

Conflux Festival

September 14-17, 2006
Brooklyn, NY

http://confluxfestival.org

Conflux is the annual New York festival for contemporary psychogeography, the investigation of everyday urban life through emerging artistic, technological and social practice.


Featuring the works of a bunch of students and alumni:
Sawako Kato (ITP '06)
Michael Bukhin & Michael DelGaudio (current ITP students)
Emily Conrad (ITP '05), Todd Holoubek (ITP '02), Jeff Galusha (ITP '05)
Ed Purver, Dan Phiffer, Brijetta Hall (current ITP students)
Alison Sant & Ram Subramanian (ITP '06)
Hana Iverson (ITP '99)
Mushon Zer-Aviv, Dan Phiffer, Kati London, Thomas Duc, Ran Tao, Charles Pratt (current ITP students)

Hyperpolis 3.0: Really Useful Media

Conference and Celebration
October 19th and 20th of 2006

We don't know enough about digital media as something other than a means to
an end, as “instrumental culture”, where culture itself —mainstream,
alternative, underground, or otherwise— is degraded to the status of tools
(some hard, some soft, all ware).

We know too much about media discourses as, on the one hand, “popular
culture”: alienated and commodified cultural forms; and on the other,
“cultural theory”: paranoid cosmologies of hyper-rhetoric, and the
ubiquitous inevitability of evil...

Hyperpolis: Really Useful Media will provide a forum for the discussion and
presentation of some positive contributions to the field, in light of these
chronic imbalances.

Atopia (David Turnbull and Jane Harrison)
Katherine Carl
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
Jodi Dean
Karen Hall
Tom Keenan
Michael Liegl
Geert Lovink
Rev. Luke Murphy
Eric Redlinger
Richard Rogers
Ruth Ron
Michael Schumacher
Steven Shaviro
Juha Uitto
Greg Van Alstyne
McKenzie Wark

Thursday, October 19th and Friday, October 20th, 11am to 6pm, 2006 in Dibner
Auditorium, Polytechnic University, 6 MetroTech, Brooklyn, 11201.
Contact Carl Skelton at 718-260-4018 or cskelton@poly.edu.
Check out~ http://idmi.poly.edu/drupal/?q=hyper and come join us!

Celebrate México Now

Please come, discover MEXICO with a different perspective and have some drinks with us!...

Wednesday, September 6, 6:15 PM
King Juan Carlos 1 of Spain Center at NYU
53 Washington Square South
(between Thompson and Sullivan Streets)
Tel.212 998-3650
www.nyu.edu/kjc

Ernesto Rios.

Mexico Now: www.mexiconowfestival.org

Celebrate México Now
September 1 – 17, 2006

Catch Celebrate México Now 2006, a citywide festival of contemporary
Mexican culture, from September 1 to 17 at venues throughout New York City. With
performances, conversations,
screenings, and tasting,
Celebrate México Now spotlights some of the most intriguing Mexican artists working in
dance, music, film,
literature, visual art, theater, and cuisine.

Visit the Celebrate México Now website for all the details:
www.mexiconowfestival.org

A selection of photography’s from Szalay’s 35 years of
traveling throughout his native country, this book of
lush photographs reflects the biodiversity and
cultural pluralism of contemporary Mexico. Slide
presentation with Szalay followed by reception.

Call For Submissions – UNCOMFORTABLE ART

3rd Ward is a 20,000 sq. ft workspace and studio facility for artist and creative professionals whose work often crosses media boundaries and requires access to an adaptable atmosphere.

The Gallery at 3rd Ward draws its tone from the creative facilities surrounding it. Be it metalwork or sound, photography or movement, we are always seeking out the grey area between mediums. Collaborations and cross-media work receive the main spotlight, while innovation and humor hold their own.

Our role as part of the 3rd Ward team is to support artists in realizing their creative vision.


The Gallery at 3rd Ward is now looking for art works for a possible upcoming show in our 2007 roster. We are looking for artwork that brings out or reflects on a feeling of mental or physical discomfort, uneasiness, anxiety or suspenseful excitement and anticipation.

Work in all medias accepted

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Please choose ONE of the following:
- CD with up to 10 Jpegs of your work and an image list
- A DVD with a 3-minute reel

Please provide a CV, Artist Statement and estimated price list.

Application fee $10 (free for members)
Include a check, money order (made payable to 3rd Ward) or your 3rd Ward
member ID

Also include you name, phone number, mailing and email address on all
materials submitted.
You may provide a SASE, though we do not guarantee that materials will be
returned.

Do not send original work

Deadline: September 15th 2006

Send all materials to: 3rd Ward
Uneasy Gallery Show
195 Morgan Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11237, U.S.A.

For more information Emailgallery@3rdwardbrooklyn.org

For more information on 3rd Ward and the gallery at 3rd Ward go to 3rdwardbrooklyn.org

2006/08/31

The New York Korean Film Festival 2006

time: 8/30-9/3, 2006
place:
ImaginAsian Theatre, 239 east 59th street. NY 10022 / www.theimaginasian.com

BAM cinématek@BAM Rose Cinemas (Brooklyn Academy of Music), 30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217 / www.bam.org

Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)/ http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/

Organizer: The Korea Society
Sponsors: Samsung Electronics America, Inc, Korean Cultural Service in New York, Korean Film Council, Cosmos Department Store, Stanford Hotel, New York Film Academy

event web page: http://www.koreanfilmfestival.org/

2006 New York Taiwan Women’s Film Festival

Portraying TAIWAN: Images by Women, for Women, about Women
2006 New York Taiwan Women’s Film Festival


Show Time: September 7,8,11,14,15,21,22,28,29(every Thursday & Friday afternoons and evenings)

September 6, 2006
pm 3:00~5:00 & 7:30~9:00, Opening Screening, Auditorium
pm 5:00~6:00 Panel Discussion/Press Conference, Auditorium, 1 East 42nd Street, Taipei Economic & Cultural Office in New York
pm 6:00~7:30 Lobby, Reception (By Invitation Only)

Screening Place 1: 20 West 53rd Street, Donnell Library Center, New York Public Library (DONNELL)
Screening Place 2: 1 East 42nd Street, TECO, Auditorium.
Screening Place 3: 137-44 Northern Blvd, Flushing. Taiwan Center (only on September 11, 7:00 pm)

Women Film’s Poster Exhibition :1 East 42nd Street, TECO,2F Gallery. September 1~29,

Organized by:
New York Public Library;
Press Division & Taipei Cultural Center,
Taipei Economic & Cultural Office in New York;
Taiwan Women Film/Video Association

http://www.taipei.org/benny/portraying.htm

2006/06/09

成為舞台上的完美舞者 Perfect Dancer

在美生活期間最喜歡的電視節目之一是"You Think You Can Dance?", 這個節目靈感應來自當今全美最收歡迎的American Idol歌唱新秀選拔,宗旨不外就是尋找全方位的最優秀舞者. 自2005年秋季在Fox頻道開播, 2006春末夏初正進行其第二季收視.今天就是趁看完節目初選top 20舞者,感動未褪之際 快筆寫下震撼心頭的體會.

這個節目給我最大的啟示就是"完美專業"除了天份之外,還需要不懈努力,以及謙和,自信的人格特質.
生命就是如此嚴苛,愈接近金字塔頂端的競爭愈是無情難測,未被淘汰者繼續下一輪的競爭汰換直至強壯到足以頂天立地為止;被淘汰批評者就是得忍辱自省,改進再來,才能在競爭規則中獲得下一輪展露頭角的機會.

否則淪於自暴自棄,或乾脆停滯在足以支撐生計的能力範疇也是可以.擺脫競爭壓力,放棄讓天賦才華更上一層樓,別人是沒有資格責怪你的.

成功就是如此孤單進行著背負愈益嚴苛的集體競爭壓力.

儘管是在單一範疇內,也須面面俱到,廣泛吸收,還得內化創新,才能成為當中佼佼者.

2006/06/03

薄衣散不盡所有體熱

初夏曼哈頓窄小公寓裡
炊煮後的熱氣加上四方襲進的溫度就待住下來了
欲歇息的軀體給悶熱了 就算穿上那廉價 沒啥繁密織線的Old Navy薄T-shirt
依然蒸出微微膩出的汗 難道所有室內的熱氣都住進我身體了?
看那半透明緊身的淺綠T-shirt包住的身軀
一個人的心裡更悶了

2006/02/02

夜夜與 Barns & Noble 約會

三十街到十七街
八九點行人尚多
我因身材壓力和不想散慢下去
打算每晚步行到 Barns & Noble 翻完至少一本書
馬上就從今晚開始

設計書材琳瑯滿目
學富滿車 專業自修 總需從第一本開始累積
一小時後
貼近地平面的視野果然就這樣開始掀起

書店打烊前 我的雙眼用紐約客的速度迅覽所有吸引我散渙注意力的封面
滿足地推門而出 向左轉 再左轉
沿著 Park Ave. 與已顯少的路人步向今晚的歸處
滿腹的晚餐至此時似乎消化順利

我要持續夜夜與 Barns & Noble 約會
即使單身 也要自得其樂

2006/02/01

寫下

天氣的變化是無章地亂 氣溫高高低低
我的想法是亂地無章 方向左左右右
如果三十歲末還未踏出夢境 落後的失敗只會愈蓋彌彰

黑夜已沉
微風冷拂
腦子茫然

有這樣的壓力 應該就快覺醒了吧