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2009 Transatlantic Cable Re-enactment gets International Coverage
To commemorate the 150th anniversary of the first offical message from the US to Great Britain Astrodime sent a message via tin can phones from Sunset Point to Bumpkin Island. The event was picked-up by A+A Magazine (China) and published in their December issue. The article is by Liu Chao .
Add comment February 15, 2009
Fire Sale at the Rose Art Museum
The Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University will be closing its doors. According to the Boston Globe:
Rocked by a budget crisis, Brandeis University will close its Rose Art Museum and sell off a 6,000-object collection that includes work by such contemporary masters as Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, and Nam June Paik.
The phrase “cutting the arts” isn’t nearly descriptive enough. I think “erasing” is a better word.
Here’s the Globe to the January 26, 2009 article by Jacob Berkman
http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2009/01/26/brandeis_to_sell_schools_art_collection/
The director, Michael Rush has curated some amazing new media and multidisciplinary exhibits as writing books on New Media In Art. He has written a response letter to the closing of the museum, and here is a quote:
“Art cannot be treated as a liquid asset. Seeking a solution to dire financial difficulties by selling precious art that was given (or bought) in the deepest trust between donors and the university (via the museum) is an aberration. History will record this as a desperate action that flies in the face of all intellectual and ethical standards. “
You can sign a petition sponsored by “Concerned Alumni of Brandeis” at
ttp://www.thepetitionsite.com/3/in-opposition-to-the-closing-of-the-rose-art-museum
Also of note: the museum is open until April 4, 2009. For more info, here are visiting hours and information:
http://www.brandeis.edu/rose/visitus/hours.html
Monday Closed
Tuesday Closed
Wednesday Noon to 5pm
Thursday Noon to 8pm
Friday Noon to 5pm
Saturday Noon to 5pm
Sunday Noon to 5pm
Admission
Entry to the museum is free for members, senior citizens, children under 12, present and former students of Brandeis, and all other students with a valid I.D. For all other guests there is $3 fee.
Add comment February 1, 2009
Basta Ya playing January 3
If you are in Boston, join AstroDime member sam smiley and bands Basta Ya, Golden Grrls, and ANGELA at PA’s Lounge Jan 3. Bailando!
Add comment December 31, 2008
Hub Comics carries INtransit!
I am completely delighted to announce that Hub Comics, at 19 Bow Street in Somerville, Mass is now carrying INtransit volumes 1-3. This store is awesome..graphic novels, manga, comics, zines and locally made films and videos as well as toys, gadgets, and curiosities. Visit their site at http://www.hubcomics.com for more information and to participate in forums.
Add comment December 28, 2008
Memorial Sidewalk
I can’t resist this..i was traveling near Spartanburg, South Carolina for my teaching work and I saw this sign.
Hubert E. Jones memorial sidewalk
1 comment November 10, 2008
AstroDime and Bumpkin island exhibit october 17-19!
Studio Soto is hosting a Bumpkin Island exhibit for this weekend’s open studios at Fort Point Channel in Boston. Included in that is an installation by AstroDime. It chronicles our land mass tin can telephone connection between Bumpkin Island and Sunset Point in Hull, a reenactment which commemorates the Transatlantic cable of 1858. Check it all out!
The reception at Studio Soto is from 6-8PM on Sunday October 19. Location is listed below.
Studio Soto
http://studiosoto.jot.com/WikiHome
Fort Point Open Studios:
http://www.fortpointarts.org/cgi-bin/FPAC?s=open_studios
•Where: 35 Channel Center St, (corner; Thompson Design Group)
•When: Friday October 17 – Sunday Oct. 19; hours Fri – 4-7pm;
Sat, and Sun: 11am-6pm.
Reception: Sunday October 19, 6-8pm
Add comment October 14, 2008
Transatlantic Messages
AstroDime is busily working on its commemoration of the transatlantic cable of 1858. Having re-enacted it on Bumpkin Island with tin can telephones and human performance artist repeaters, we are also looking at the artifacts from the actual event. Here’s a map of the actual transatlantic route from Ireland to Newfoundland.
transatlantic cable route between Ireland and Newfoundland
Amid much fanfare, President Buchanan and Queen Victoria exchanged congratuations. Here is the text of the message from Queen Victoria and President Buchanan. Queen Victoria’s message took around 17 hours to transmit.
THE QUEEN’S MESSAGE.“The Queen desires to congratulate the President upon the successful completion of this great international work,in which the Queen has taken the greatest interest. The Queen is convinced the President will join with her in fervently hoping that the electric cable which now connects Great Britain with the United States will prove an additional link between the two nations, whose friendship is founded upon their common interest and reciprocal esteem. The Queen has much pleasure in thus directly communicating with the President, and in renewing to him her best wishes for the prosperity of the United States.”
THE PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE.Add comment October 5, 2008
Lumen Eclipse: One Minute Film Fest
Here’s a call for work from a cool organization!
Le:60 – LUMEN ECLIPSE’S 1ST ANNUAL 1-MINUTE FILM FESTIVAL
Send us your best minutes, the minute you surprise yourself with – if your minute glimmers like a fish just under the surface of the water, we want to spear that bad boy. Not to exceed sixty seconds, your films, will compete to be the first screened at this perennial event to take place in Harvard Square. Selections will be screened outdoors under the stars, setting films free from dark theatres and computer screens.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED – AUGUST 15th, 2008 * postmarked/uploaded by midnight
ENTER HERE – http://www.le60.org/register/
THE FILM FEST -
Saturday, September 27, 2008 | 6:00 – 10:00 PM
Newly Renovated Palmer Street, Harvard Square | Cambridge, MA
THE JURY -
o CECI MOSS – Editor, Rhizome at the New Museum
o EMILY DOE – Associate Editor/Producer, Wholphin DVD
o JUSTIN HARDER – Director, MTV, VH1, Coke, NIKE + more
o RUTH LINGFORD – Professor of the Practice of Animation, Harvard University, Dept of Visual + Environmental Studies
o DAN HIRSCH – Concert Program Manager, The Museum of Fine Arts + Non-Event, Co-curator
o NED HINKLE – Creative Director, Brattle Theater, Cambridge, MA
http://www.le60.org
submission guidelines, event details, PRIZES + more
http://www.lumeneclipse.com
to learn more about Lumen Eclipse
Selections will be juried in early September
Please email questions to: Kate@LUMENECLlPSE.com
Add comment July 8, 2008
Screeings for ‘Secret Decoder Ring’
Greetings everyone, We are excited to announce upcoming 'Secret Decoder Ring' screenings.
We hope you can attend.
Preview rough draft: (at Lesley University, in-house only)
7pm wednesday April 16 in Wolfard 201 at the main campus of Lesley University.
Located on Mellen Street just off Oxford in Cambridge.
Premiere of Final: Saturday May 3 at 8pm at the 119 Gallery (http://www.119gallery.org).
Finally, Secret Decoder Ring is going to be featured at this year's Electronic Literature Organization conference in Vancouver, Washington(near Portland Oregon).
We are very excited about this!!!!
The conference is in June of 2008.
Add comment March 25, 2008
