Monday, March 10, 2008

Sunday, March 02, 2008

This relates to a conversation I had in Miami

“Disagreements only happen when you enter the conscious world, when you try to consider things.”

“Sometimes you have to accept that you’re a product of your environment and no matter what input you want to put into that environment, that’s just your personal taste, the culmination of all your influences, being creatively voiced one way or another, like a painter might do.”

“Some people are so tied up with the whole issue of understanding — they think you need to understand something in order to like it.”

“You don’t realise where routine and schedule become habits, and then become rules. […] It’s good sometimes to remove a lot of the conscious process.”

—Sean Booth, of Autechre, an interview, Wire (2008, March)

Friday, February 29, 2008

Monday, February 18, 2008

The End of an Era

I'm in a group show at Gavin Brown's Passerby that opens this Wednesday February 20th 2008.

Passerby will close on March 31st 2008.

www.newyorkisdead.biz

An excerpt from the press release:

As you may know GBE@Passerby will be closing very soon: March 31st will mark the final day of its decade-long existence. We, at newyorkisdead.biz, are hosting an exhibition prior to the closure, entitled, Cube Passerby, 2008. We would like to think that the premise of the show is as vaguely thematic as the title, although participating artists are encouraged to translate as they wish.

The term 'cube' in relation to the art canon/institution will obviously imply an array of interpretations. We encourage the artists to possibly think about those interpretations, although we stress that it is not required.

Curated by Darren Bader and Michael Caputo.

Cube Passerby 2008 Artists:

Richard Aldrich
Darren Bader
Ben Beaudoin
Dirk Bell
Marlous Borm
Carol Bove
David Brooks
Robert Bryn
Katinka Bukh
Toby Cecchini
Claudette Claudette
Tyler Coburn
Peter Coffin
Dan Colen
Adrian Crabbs
Sean Dack
Chris Dorland
Ara Dymond
Jodie Foster
Jonah Freeman
Nik Gambaroff
Liam Gillick
Tony Huang
Alex Hubbard
Steve Johnson
Ryan Kitson
Josh Kline
Terrence Koh
Joseph Kosuth
Lansing-Dreiden
Justin Lowe
Nate Lowman
Peter Mandradjieff
Eddie Martinez
Nick Mauss
Brett Milspaw
John Mobilio
Sean Paul
Juniper Perlis
Davis Rhodes
Ryan Schneider
Chad Scoville
Arnd Seibert
Matt Sheridan Smith
Joshua Smith
Rirkrit Tiravanija
John Tremblay
Ned Vena
Allison Viera
Jane Virga
Garth Weiser
Jesse Willenbring

Rob Brown of Autechre interview in Pitchfork

Autechre

Wednesday, February 06, 2008

Opening Saturday, February 9th. Miami, Florida.

February 9th - March 3rd , 2008

Opening Reception:
Saturday February 9th, 2008
7: 30 - 10:00pm


Fredric Snitzer Gallery
2247 NW 1st PL
Miami, FL 33127
305.448.8976
info@snitzer.com




Fredric Snitzer Gallery is pleased to present the exhibition, ECHO/REPEAT, by
artist Sean Dack. In this exhibition, images are altered through a series of conversions from digital to analog Thus exposing flaws within the technologically advanced medium, and appreciating the beauty that lies in chance.
"In the end, what I am after is something that still relates to the language of the photography, but breaks free of the use of a camera, as well as plays with the notion of a correct image, or what is assumed to be what a photograph should look like." states Sean Dack.



The exhibition will also feature Future Songs where the viewer is again presented with the dichotomy of manipulated versus real through the use of musical scores accompanied by a text lifted from the paranoid cold war predictions of noted science fiction writer Philip K. Dick. Future Songs being orignally produced as a book, was mailed out and placed on the web as a virtual/mail This will be the first time it has been installed in a gallery context.
"The words of Dick/Dack become the lyrics to songs from 1983 to 2000. Or thereabouts...It is a way of taking the lines of writing out of the badly designed Dick books and replacing them into a Dack book. A Dack sensibility" states Liam Gillick.





Sean Dack was born in Albany, and currently lives and works in New York. Dack has exhibited both nationally and internationally in France, Frankfurt, London and Tokyo. Sean Dack studied at Purchase College and graduated with a B.A., and graduated with his M.F.A. from Columbia University. Dack has exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in conjunction with LOT/ek architecture, New York, NY. The Moscow Biennial, The Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Serpentine Gallery, London, and Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL, among others. His work has been reviewed in many periodicals including The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Art Forum, Flash Art, and The Miami Herald.





Fredric Snitzer Gallery
2247 NW 1st PL
Miami, FL 33127
T.305.448.8976
F.305.573.5810

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

For Miami



Building (Sir Norman Foster) 2008 30"x 45"

Sunday Feb 10th at Sundown

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Wednesday, January 09, 2008

New Exhibitions

01.19.08

"The Hidden" (Group Show) at Maureen Paley, London. Featuring: Sean Dack, Graham Durward, Dick Evans, Lars Laumann, David Ratcliff and Dash Snow.
The Hidden is a group show with six artists from Europe and the U.S.A. The idea behind the exhibition is to examine elusive and unseen things that, although remain unrevealed, are able to impact upon our unconscious minds.


02.09.08

Sean Dack, "Echo/ Repeat" at Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami


03.15.08

Sean Dack, "Ghost Hardware" at Daniel Reich Gallery, New York

Saturday, December 29, 2007

Unedited Burial Interview Transcript in Wire Magazine

Burial

Fascinating within these times of total media saturation

Friday, December 28, 2007

Thursday, December 27, 2007

My Favorite Songs of 2007

In no particular order.

Holy Ghost- Hold On

Burial- Archangel

LCD Soundsystem- Us v Them

Professor Murder- Dutch Hex (Max Pask Remix)

Snoop Dogg- Sensual Seduction

Samim- Heater

Switch- Brick n Lace

Yeasayer- Forgiveness

Radiohead- Weird Fishes/Arpeggi

The Tuss- Rushup Bank 12

The Field- Everday

Hot Chip- Ready for the Floor (Soulwax mix)

Battles- Atlas

Maybe I'll post empeethrees tomorrow when I have a moment.

My Favorite Music Video of the Year

Battles "Tonto"

Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Thursday, November 29, 2007

Curated Shorts in the New York Times Style Magazine

Curated Shorts

There are a few other friends featured, mine is the last one.

Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Friday, November 09, 2007

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Berlin


Off to Berlin for the weekend. Posts when I return.

Friday, October 26, 2007

Monday, October 22, 2007

Tuesday, October 09, 2007

In Rainbows

Waiting around for my email to let me know it's time to download the new Radiohead album "In Rainbows."
Quite a major coup towards the record industry and rightly about time for something like this to happen and ironically for
the first band to have been a "leaked" band in the times of internet downloads back in 2000 with Kid A. They were the first band to have things let loose and made abundant in the early days of Napster, etc.
So, it makes sense for them to be the first ones to embrace a new process of distribution, shunning the corporate stronghold that has dominated since the beginning of modern popular music (it has also seen to be a great marketing tool, as well).
It also becomes a political statement as only they can pull off.
They also understand the great power of their creative output to allow their listeners to pick a price for what they so obviously want, again democratizing the output and consumption. It's no secret that even a band of their stature were making most money off of tours and not from sales and this will only put the power more in their hands.

Has Money Ruined Art?

Jerry Saltz in NY Magazine

On Assignment Pt 3

Saturday, October 06, 2007

Thursday, October 04, 2007

Monday, October 01, 2007

Cut out the middleman

Radiohead "In Rainbows" in New York Times

Radiohead "In Rainbows" in Pitchfork

Radiohead "In Rainbows" album site

Genius.


More images coming soon from me. Just back from a trip and taking another quick one for an assignment. More later this week. I still operate in a mostly celluloid context so it takes a bit longer.

Monday, September 24, 2007

Installation Photo


"The Devil Made Me Do It" 2003
In the exhibition "Deaf 2 From the Audible to the Visible" at Galerie Frank Elbaz. Paris, France.

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Friday, September 14, 2007

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

It will not take a genius to figure out where this was shot



"1,368 Ft Above Sea Level," tryptych, ed of 3. Shot September 2000.

Monday, September 10, 2007

Monday, September 03, 2007

Deaf 2 in Paris



Deaf 2 "From the Audible to the Visible"
curated by Peter Coffin

with
Hisham Akira Bharoocha
David Byrne
Bjorn Copeland
Martin Creed
Sean Dack
Meredith Danluck
Christopher Garrett
Rodney Graham
Frank Haines
Erik Hanson
Jim Hodges
Karl Holmqvist
Scott King
Jutta Koether
Adam McEwen
Dave Muller
Oliver Payne & Nick Relph
Michael Pestel
Ara Peterson
Joshua Smith
Nico Tepreff


Vernissage samedi 8 septembre 2007 de 17h à 21h
Opening Saturday September 8th, 2007 from 5pm to 9pm


Exposition jusqu'au 13 octobre 2007 du mardi au samedi de 11h à 19h
Exhibition runs through October 13th, 2007 Tuesday-Saturday, 11am-7pm

Informations complémentaires et images disponibles sur demande. Contacter Johana : 01 48 87 50 04 ou johana@galeriefrankelbaz.com
Detailed information and images available upon request - Contact Johana: +33 (0)1 48 87 50 04 / johana@galeriefrankelbaz.com


galerie frank elbaz
7 rue saint claude
75003 Paris France
T + 33 1 48 87 50 04
F + 33 1 48 87 52 93
www.galeriefrankelbaz.com
info@galeriefrankelbaz.com

Sunday, August 05, 2007

Wednesday, August 01, 2007

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Publication coming soon.



Essay by Liam Gillick
Published by Daniel Reich Gallery

Tuesday, July 03, 2007

Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Sunday, June 10, 2007

Back once again

So I've been travelling quite a bit over the last three weeks:

London
Beijing
London
Cotes D'Azur
Paris
London


Posts to come very soon

Sunday, May 13, 2007

I'm back.... Tokyo #1



I've been travelling and working. More to come..