I worked on the Magnum Photos exhibit, that's where I've been for the
past week or two. The opening is tomorrow, in conjunction with some
interesting stuff on the floor below. Come join in if you are
nearby. The whole thing was realized using Pd-extended/Gem on 10
Ubuntu/Lucid Dell computers and one Mac mini.

The FLAG Art Foundation invites you to the opening of SUMMER @ FLAG Thursday, July 8 6-8 PM The FLAG Art Foundation, 545 West 25th Street, 9th Floor

9th FLOOR Noriko Ambe

• ARTISTS BOOKS, Linear-Actions Cutting Project

• pronounced KIRU means cut in Japanese. This solo exhibition of New

York based artist Noriko Ambe is comprised of a specific selection
of artist books that were the result of an ongoing exploration by
the artist. Utilizing twenty art monographs from artists such as
Damien Hirst, Andy Warhol, and Tom Friedman, Ambe has meticulously
cut hundreds of varying shapes and lines into each page of each
book, creating intricately controlled biomorphic and sculptural
fissures. Immersing herself in the body of work encompassed by each
monograph, Ambe evaluated the nature of her connection with each
artist and specific works - this aided in her decision of what to
subtract and what to reveal.

Jennifer Dalton MAKING SENSE Like an archaeologist of the present-day, Jennifer Dalton collects
and examines cultural information, organizes and evaluates this
information according to her own personal criteria, and then
displays her findings. These displays take the form of drawings,
photographs or sculptural installations consisting of assembled or
handmade objects. In Making Sense, she analyzes the cultural
institutions Facebook, the New Yorker, and Artforum, testing her own
biases and hypotheses and applying taxonomies where they might not
be expected. Her process is quasi-scientific, at the intersection
where apparently objective data encounters low-tech and personal
methods and conclusions.

Robert Lazzarini guns, knives, brass knuckles guns, knives, brass knuckles, is an installation and exhibition of
sculpture by New York based artist Robert Lazzarini. All of Robert
Lazzarini's sculptures of the past decade begin with what the artist
calls a 'normative object'. The works in the exhibition start with a
set of common kitchen knives (chefs, paring, pruning, cleaver,
etc.), a .38 Smith & Wesson Model 10 revolver, and a unembellished
pair of brass knuckles. These objects are then subjected to
mathematical distortions and fabricated out of the materials that
are original to the objects themselves: blued carbon steel and
walnut for guns, stainless steel, wood and plastic for knives; and
yellow brass for brass knuckles. The combination of these
distortions with the lack of any conventionally artistic 'material
translation' (e.g. a car out of cardboard; flesh out of marble)
renders these objects familiar yet strange and difficult, quite
literally, to grasp. In canting the gallery's walls, Lazzarini
extends the dislocation exercised on his objects to the space of
their display. This altered environment not only further subjects
one's perceptions to a kind of visual slippage, but also connects
Lazzarini to a lineage of artists, from Richard Serra to Alberto
Giacometti, distinctly concerned with processes of perception and
visual abstraction.

10th FLOOR The Magnum Mark SELECTIONS FROM THE MAGNUM PHOTOS ARCHIVE The signature styles of Magnum's photographers and their commitment
to documenting the world have brought each of them individual
acclaim. But it is their collective and it's archive, with its
wealth of iconic images, that have guaranteed their influence on
Twentieth and early Twenty-First Century visual culture. As digital
technology usurps analogue, in both the taking and distribution of
photographic work, the physical print archive, once at the heart of
Magnum's business, has taken on a new role as a resource for
scholarship and exhibition. This exhibition sets out to celebrate
the legacy of Magnum's print archive, uncovering the processes
behind traditional, manual, image dissemination, interpreting the
mysterious marks on the back of press prints and demonstrating the
craft of printing Magnum's famous photographs. It also looks to our
digital future, in which technological innovation and the world wide
web have created exciting new models to deliver, and re-interpret
Magnum's photography.

Featured within the exhibition will be previously unseen press
prints, darkroom "print maps", original contact sheets and
additional ephemera from Magnum's New York archive alongside a new
media component.

545 West 25th Street, 9th Floor New York, New York 10001 www.flagartfoundation.org

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