We installed #1/5 in the apartment of Robert Bielecki, who’s a philanthropist, angel investor, and cognoscente of poetry, new music and contemporary art.

50 Different Minds Installed

Robert wrote on his blog FastOrbit

I made the decision to acquire edition 1 of 5 the day I saw the inchoate artist proof a year ago. Conceptually it is completely original. 50 Different Minds is nine panels of sumptuous, saturated colors. It’s thought-provoking and meditative, deeply mindful of art history and decisively futurisitc, ironically repititious and non-repeating.

Perhaps the highest compliment I can offer is that 50 Different Minds is a visual corrollary to Morton Feldman’s composition Triadic Memories. Of that work he states:

“What Western musical forms have become is a paraphrase of memory. But memory could operate otherwise as well. In Triadic Memories, [...], there is a section of different types of chords where each chord is slowly repeated. One chord might be repeated three times, another, seven or eight - depending on how long I felt it should go on. Quite soon into a new chord I would forget the reiterated chord before it. I then reconstructed the entire section: rearranging its earlier progression and changing the number of times a particular chord was repeated. This way of working was a conscious attempt at “formalizing” a disorientation of memory. Chords are heard repeated without any discernible pattern. In this regularity (though there are slight gradations of tempo) there is a suggestion that what we hear is functional and directional, but soon realize that this is an illusion; a bit like walking the streets of Berlin - where all the buildings look alike, even if they’re not.”

Our studio is located in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, which is fantastic even though it’s a flood zone.

With the possibility of flooding, we moved everything off the floor.

We bolted wood against the windows, in case the glass broke.

And we survived.

50 Different Minds

50 Different Minds was exhibited in two art fairs - ArtMiami and SF ArtMRKT. Catherine Clark Gallery sold #1 of the edition to a collector. Here are some images of it in production.

Junko weaving fiber panels for the new piece.

Nora attaching plugs to the fiber mesh

Testing the new weave next to the AP.

Nora testing the illumination of the new panels

Marshall working with Ed Bear on programming firmware for the chips.

ArtMiami

At Art Miami, we were so fortunate to be able to work on the tapestry at the home of our friends.

Converting the living room into a studio.

Nora unpacking the frame in the home of Steve and Sarah Sorkin.

We worked next to the pool.

50 Different Minds on display at Catherine Clark Gallery's booth.

SF ArtMRKT

At the ArtMRKT we assembled the tapestry at Montalvo Art Center.

We had a beautiful studio in Montalvo.

Nora working on attaching the mesh to the LEDs.

Marshall testing the circuitry.

Rick Prelinger and Megan Shaw Prelinger and Lee Warren dropped by to see us.

Nora and Lee looking at the tapestry at Catherine Clark's booth.

Artware Editions published a new set of snow globes - The History of Art. The production is a team effort.

Nora inspecting Futurism.

Marshall inserting gaskets into the glass globes.

The History of Art snow globes in the studio.

Packaged and ready to ship to Miami.

Artware Editions presented the collection at Pulse in Miami.

The Brooklyn Navy Yard Museum

But what really makes this year special, is knowing that the Deadly Sins #1-7 snow globes have finally made it into a museum collection - the Brooklyn Navy Yard Museum, that is.

Now the Navy Yard can add this to their entrance sign: We used to launch ships, now we launch snow globes…

Deadly Sins on exhibit in Building 92 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

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• We’re continuing our work with ice sculptures and social commentary. The latest one, Morning In America, we presented at Jim Kempner Fine Art on June 18, 2011. It was a large sculpture of the words “middle class” and melted away in 8 hours.

• We have a new edition of snow globes that Artware Editions is publishing in the fall. These are 20 6-inch, snow globes of modern and contemporary art movements. They came out of a special project we did for the Noguchi Museum’s 2011 spring benefit.

• And we’re really excited to be continuing with the fiber optic tapestry, which we showed at Catherine Clark Gallery during ArtMRKT in San Francisco in May.

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Morning In America - A Temporary Monument to the Reagan Revolution

Morning In America Ice Sculpture

This year will be remembered not only for the uprisings in the Middle East, but also for the uprisings in the Midwest. Conservatives in Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana, and New Jersey are on the rampage - they’re attacking public sector employees and their unions - aiming to take away their pensions, their health insurance benefits, and their collective bargaining rights. Since when have public librarians, school teachers, firefighters, and police officers been responsible for the current economic decline? More.

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History of Art Snow Globes - Artware Limited Edition

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This fall we are introducing a new edition of snow globes with Artware Editions. There will be 20 snow globes featuring our favorite art movements and schools, like Fluxus, Expressionism, Superflat and many more. The globes will be numbered and available singly or in groups. We will also be producing a lettered edition of 10 sets of the entire collection. Stay tuned.

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Fiber Optic Tapestry

Roswell Rudd, master trombonist at the studio for dinner

For the past year, we’ve been perfecting a new media work, we call a fiber optic tapestry. This is a hand-woven fabric that displays patterns and colors derived from live information from the internet. Now we will make a series of these. The first one, 50 Diferent Minds is in an edition of 5, with 1 AP.

Our goal is to make 5 new woven new media pieces over the next 2 years. Future tapestries will take the form of woven maps to show the appearance and disappearance of information from around the world; woven portraits, using an individual’s internet reading and self-metrics to create a picture of them; and a disaster tapestry that overloads and ultimately fails. More.

Morning In America is the third ice sculpture/installation we’ve made. We like to work with this medium, because of the way the sculptures change over time. They have a strange sense of finality about them, as well as their theatrical/performative aspect. They disintegrate, and in the process distort time and space and create a third place.

A communal, social space. They’re accessible, people can actually approach them, almost enter them; and in fact, touch them. There is the need to connect with something tactile.

These sculptures’ strong, beautiful and physical presence are extremely ephemeral, elusive, even, fragile. Within hours, they totally disappear. Leaving the artifacts of the performance of the sculpture. Frozen moments or video remain. They transit through networks, enlarging the space - becoming social sculpture, expansive, exploring ideas, ideals in flux.

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The video has gone viral - seen by thousands just days after its launch on YouTube.

Statistics from YouTube.

Rachel Maddow and Senator Sanders tweeted it.

Senator Sanders posted it on his office’s webpage.

It was featured on MoveOn’s video channel MoveOn’s video channel.

And it’s been posted on DailyKos DailyKos.

and ArtNet ArtNet.

Comments from YouTube

• The? 2 people who disike this Video are in the 1%
  awhocarez 4 hours ago 4
• This is USA under Bush & Obama. Shame on them !?
  leVideyo 8 hours ago
• Only point I disagree with: This is not a class? war … this is class GENOCIDE!
  nike2422 8 hours ago
• Sanders/Kucinich 2012! Lets make this? happen!
  krumbumm 8 hours ago
• We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War’s a spiritual war… our Great Depression is our lives. We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one? day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won’t. And we’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off.
• that’s a fantastic piece of political art..what a genius idea…and amazing to look at.?
  marycigarettes 9 hours ago
• America the Filthy Rich, this is disgusting. The middle class is all but extinct. It is not just the Senators and? Representatives in Washington, it is also at the state levels too. There has been more done to hurt the middle class and help the wealthy in states like Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana and Michigan to name a few.
  hearmeror 12 hours ago
• Everyone that has a Republican Senator and/or Representatives in Washington should contact them and tell them it is time to cuts all the loopholes to the top 5%. This is hurting all citizens, not just Democrats and independents but republicans as well.? Just because the republicans are divided and indecisive on the hill does not mean the citizens of or great nation needs to be.
  9491419 12 hours ago
• This? is what President Obama�s �Big Deal� would stop.
  9491419 12 hours ago
• all I can say is…WOW! - kelleyjostallings 12 hours ago
• Senator Sanders is my HERO!?
  BellaLuchia 17 hours ago
• Two people voted “dislike” for this video? Let me guess… the two Koch brothers.?
  resonantfilterblog 20 hours ago 2
• @resonantfilterblog OR any two republicans who STILL think that the rich? will use the money to create jobs. Sad fools they are!
  suz1055 15 hours ago
• How dare? people be wealthy. Shame on them.
  pthayer09 20 hours ago
• @pthayer09 The point isn’t about them being wealthy. It’s about the few in who are siphoning money from other areas of society through politicians and not contributing a proportional amount to society. With loopholes heavily skewed to the richest? in the country they end up paying less as a percentage of their income than the vast majority.
• The rich have a greater capacity to contribute than the middle class. Why is it fair to tax a teacher 25% of her income and a hedge fund manager only 5%?
  gbushimprov 16 hours ago
• @pthayer09 Wealth is? fine…but GREED…… SHAME ON THEM!!!
  suz1055 15 hours ago
• @pthayer09 Wealth is fine…but this is not about wealth it’s about GREED….yes….SHAME ON? THEM!!!
  suz1055 15 hours ago
• WOW! That’s a POWERFUL MESSAGE! Americans needs to tune in to what’s going on instead of watching mindless, pointless & FRUITLESS crap like DWTS & Idol and get involved with the political reality facing this country, the globe & our collective future! Senator Bernie Sanders deserves the Medal of Freedom & a? Purple Heart for fighting with ALL HIS HEART FOR THE MIDDLE-CLASS! Other politicians play the regular game of politics. The stakes are way too serious for that! Bernie is AMERICA’S SENATOR!
  99jerseyboy 22 hours ago
• Thank? you, Senator Sanders. You are a true American hero in speaking truth to power.
  angela7174 22 hours ago
• Bernie? Sanders gives “Politicians” a good name.
  Wuz314159 22 hours ago
• Play that speech every time congress? meets to and gives tax breaks to the rich. Excellent
  jein08 23 hours ago
• Bernie Sanders speaks the truth!?
  RJ63 23 hours ago
• Brilliant.?
  toddsmitts 23 hours ago
• I’ve loved Bernie Sanders for years and now I have two new favorite artists. Whomever gave this a ‘thumbs down’ is? a complete moron - probably one of the Koch brothers.
  libsechumanist 1 day ago 4
• Brilliant! I hope everyone who sees? this shares it. Tweet it, post it, share it.
  SteveMaul 1 day ago
• Every morning I get up and? look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I�m not there, I go to work.
  chrisman101902 1 day ago
• that? speech was powerful (and necessary).
  nicknormal 2 days ago 11
• brilliant! and urgently needed?
  oysidotorg 2 days ago 2
• Your beautiful video work? continues to speak the truth.
  videoportrait1 2 days ago 16
• Excellent! ? Thanks!

“Ultimately, the piece visually describes language, perpetuating the ancient tradition of textiles as text. Before written communication, the semiotic patterns and colors of textiles provided pivotal information about culture and social beliefs. In 50 Different Minds, Ligorano/Reese invert this idea by converting the actual words of a twenty-first-century phenomenon, Twitter, into textile designs.” - Susan Taber Avila, Fiber Arts magazine

The first weekend in November, we took a stand at Printed Matter’s NY Art Book Fair. We brought out all our pureproducts wares - Deadly Sins #1-7 snow globes, Line-Up, Dough-Yo’s and Po-Yo’s. And of course, our famous F**K snow globe!

Thousands of people came by, friends, artists, curators.

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we’re making the first Fiber Optic Tapestry
and debuting it in San Jose at ITAB.

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In this video clip, Ligorano/Reese explain the concepts behind their Fiber Optic Tapestry.

The tapestry is bi-coastal, developed and built in Silicon Alley and Valley.

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The tapestry parses information from Twitter and other data sources to display color, light and pattern onto woven fiber optic panels using RGB LEDs. The resulting real-time animation is an abstract, data visualization that continually updates as data changes.

“It’s like weaving information,” Ligorano says, adding, “We wanted to make a textile using contemporary communication materials and processes, to redefine the role of a tapestry in contemporary culture.”

Weaving epitomizes social interaction. Textiles have a shared history throughout the world’s cultures and are common throughout time. In European culture, medieval tapestries tell narratives, and in the 21st century, we find our stories threaded and networked throughout the web. The Fiber Optic Tapestry is an art form about networking, communication, and society.

The artists debuted the tapestry called 50 Different Minds at the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles as part of the zer01 Festival in San Jose. The piece measures 50 by 50 inches. It displays patterns and colors that relate to Twitter Tweets of color words. It also uses air traffic data from the nine busiest airports in the U.S. Horizontal and vertical lines on the tapestry’s surface move in real- time, synchronized with the longitude and latitude of arriving and departing flights.

Visitors can also interact with the tapestry by tweeting additive and subtractive color names. The tapestry is programmed to display colors in response to tweets written using the expression #optictapestry and then color words.

For more information see: Fiber Optic Tapestry on:

This project was funded in part by the Jerome Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts, and through residencies at Montalvo Arts Center and Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology.

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The tapestry parses information from Twitter and other data sources to display color, light and pattern onto woven fiber optic panels using RGB LEDs. The resulting real-time animation is an abstract, data visualization that continually updates as data changes.

“It’s like weaving information,” Marshall Reese says, “we wanted to make a textile using contemporary communication materials and processes, to redefine the role of a tapestry in contemporary culture.”

“Weaving epitomizes social interaction,” for Nora Ligorano, “Textiles have a shared history throughout the world’s cultures and are common throughout time. In European culture, medieval tapestries tell narratives, and in the 21st century, we find our stories threaded and networked throughout the web. The Fiber Optic Tapestry is an art form about networking, communication, and society.”

The artists are presenting a tapestry called  50 Different Minds at the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles. The piece measures 50 by 50 inches. It displays patterns and colors that relate to Twitter Tweets of color words. It also uses air traffic data from the nine busiest airports in the U.S. Horizontal and vertical lines on the tapestry’s surface move in real- time, synchronized with the longitude and latitude of arriving and departing flights.

Visitors can also interact with the tapestry by tweeting additive and subtractive color names. The tapestry is programmed to display colors in response to tweets written using the expression #optictapestry and then color words.

For more information see: Fiber Optic Tapestry on Kickstarter.com.

This project was funded in part by the Jerome Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts, and through residencies at Montalvo Arts Center and Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology.

LIGORANO/REESE
NORA LIGORANO and MARSHALL REESE have collaborated together as Ligorano/Reese since theearly 80’s. They make limited edition multiples, videos, sculptures and installations and exhibited at the Cleveland Museum of Art, Museum fur Angewandte Kunst (MAK) in Frankfurt, Germany, MIT MediaLab, Museum of Arts & Design, the Neuberger Museum of Art, Schroder Romero Gallery, Kent Gallery, ZER01, Eyebeam, The Kitchen, the Sculpture Center, and Lincoln Center.

They have received fellowships and funding from the Jerome Foundation, the Fulbright Commission, NYFA, NYSCA, the NEA and Art Matters. They have been artists in residence at the Montalvo Arts Center, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, and the MacDowell Colony. Their work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, SFMOMA, The Getty Research Center, Clark Institute, Yale University, and private collections. Ligorano/Reese’s edition work is represented by Jim Kempner Fine Art in New York.

ITAB: International TECHstyle Art Biennial ITAB is a juried exhibition of work by artists mining the expressive potential of combining fiber media with new information and communication technologies in their artistic processes, in the content of their work and as a mean of artistic expression.

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