Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Monday, June 09, 2008
Friday, June 06, 2008
Songs
Got this from Simon's blog
via Man Like Dan
"List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they’re not any good, but they must be songs you’re really enjoying now, shaping your spring. Post these instructions in your blog along with your 7 songs. Then tag 7 other people to see what they’re listening to."
1. Cutty Ranks "Limb by Limb" and the Style of Eye "The Big Kazoo (Nacho Lovers' Limb By Limb edit)"
2. AFX "Xmd5a" off of Analord 10
3. Michael McDonald "What a Fool Believes"
4. Autechre "Altibzz" from Quaristice LP
5. Hercules and Love Affair "Raise Me Up" from Self Titled LP
6. Air France "June Evenings" from "No Way Down" EP
7. The Notwist "Where In This World" from "The Devil, You + Me" LP
EXTRA!
Bark Psychosis "A Street Scene" from "Hex" LP
I'll probably spruce this post up with some images and maybe some links soon.
via Man Like Dan
"List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they’re not any good, but they must be songs you’re really enjoying now, shaping your spring. Post these instructions in your blog along with your 7 songs. Then tag 7 other people to see what they’re listening to."
1. Cutty Ranks "Limb by Limb" and the Style of Eye "The Big Kazoo (Nacho Lovers' Limb By Limb edit)"
2. AFX "Xmd5a" off of Analord 10
3. Michael McDonald "What a Fool Believes"
4. Autechre "Altibzz" from Quaristice LP
5. Hercules and Love Affair "Raise Me Up" from Self Titled LP
6. Air France "June Evenings" from "No Way Down" EP
7. The Notwist "Where In This World" from "The Devil, You + Me" LP
EXTRA!
Bark Psychosis "A Street Scene" from "Hex" LP
I'll probably spruce this post up with some images and maybe some links soon.
The Future As Disruption at The Kitchen
The Future As Disruption
The Kitchen
512 West 19th Street, New York, NY 10011 212-255-5793 www.thekitchen.org
June 18–August 1
Opening Reception: Wednesday, June 18, 6-8pm
Curated by Rashida Bumbray and Matthew Lyons
The genre of science fiction, in all its various manifestations in books, television, music, and movies, has long provided a rich and valuable resource for artists who seek to critique contemporary society by looking forward. Science fiction transports us beyond the horizon of our current technologies and established ways of life in order to enable a renewed outlook on the present and, in particular, on today’s pressing political issues such as the environment, consumerist culture, and life during wartime. By envisioning possible ramifications of the technological, social, psychological, and political conditions of our current moment, the artists in this exhibition create works in sculpture, video, painting, and photography that are evocative of a daily existence quite distinct from our own. Artists include Julieta Aranda, Joan Banach, Sean Dack, Jonah Freeman,Olalekan B. Jeyifous, Simone Leigh, Ann Lislegaard, Adam Pendleton, Mungo Thomson, and William Villalongo.
Exhibition Hours: Tue-Fri, 12-6pm; Sat 11-6pm FREE
This exhibition is made possible with generous support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Dedalus Foundation, Inc., and with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.
Thursday, June 05, 2008
Alice Remixed.
By electronic artist Pogo via youtube.
"The music video for my song 'Alice', an electronic piece of which 90% is composed using sounds recorded from the Disney film 'Alice In Wonderland'. Download the full song in 128kbps MP3 format here:"
http://www.last.fm/music/Pogo/_/Alice
Radiohead "Nude" "remix"
Video by James Houston
jim@1030.co.uk
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Radiohead held an online contest to remix "Nude" from their 10th album - "In Rainbows" This was quite a difficult task for all the electronic musicians that entered, as Nude is in 6/8 timing, and 63bpm. Most music that's played in clubs is around 120bpm and usually 4/4 timing. It's near impossible to mix a waltz beat into a DJ set.
This resulted in lots of generic entries consisting of a typical 4/4 beat, but with arbitrary clips from "Nude" thrown in so that they qualified for the contest.
Thom Yorke joked at the ridiculousness of it in an interview for NPR radio, hinting that they set the competition "for a laugh" and to find out what would come out of such an impossible task.
I decided to take the piss a bit, as the contest seemed to be in that spirit.
Based on the lyric (and alternate title) "Big Ideas: Don't get any" I grouped together a collection of old redundant hardware, and placed them in a situation where they're trying their best to do something that they're not exactly designed to do, and not quite getting there.
It doesn't sound great, as it's not supposed to.
Sinclair ZX Spectrum - Guitars (rhythm & lead)
Epson LX-81 Dot Matrix Printer - Drums
HP Scanjet 3c - Bass Guitar
Hard Drive array - Act as a collection of bad speakers - Vocals & FX
Saturday, May 31, 2008
Friday, May 23, 2008
Opening Saturday May 24th 6-8 pm
Daniel Reich Gallery is very pleased to present a new solo exhibition by Sean Dack, Ghost Hardware, featuring new photographs and sculpture.
Sean Dack’s new photographs expound upon Dack’s pursuit of the cryptography of digital images and the unpredicted errors intrinsic to their transmission. Malformed and missing crucial “blocks” of data, such images belie the digital nature of our illusionistic virtual world: abrasive ruptures while watching a DVD (causing one to manually tap the player) or while loading an image in ones computer Browser. Rendered in dubiously pop CMYK cyans, hot pinks and electric blues: Dack’s partially decipherable subjects appear dynamic and mobile. Yet since digital “glitches,” tangle and halt the flow of information, Dack’s “stopped” images seem to express an isolated impersonal world. This impersonal world is hermetic - outside of the orbit of the world at large - enclosed in the obsessive-compulsive space of computer screen work and folly. A helicopter hovers, the ostentatious rounded terraces of a postmodern hotel signify grotesque vacuous luxury, and the faces of glamorous women are obscured by formal pixel blocks. As the resolution of digital images has improved in a few decades, the appearance of the evident square of the pixel is nostalgic yet tinged with the recollection of non-user-friendly computing: not completely enveloping computing distinguished by its imperfect pixilated line and the healthy differentiation between daily life which is merely mapped instead of replicated. As Dack’s colors are garish, his pixels are aesthetically dubious: evocative of early “computer drawing” and “poor taste” is also at issue in Dack’s work. And yet Dack’s glossy prints are formal and function sculpturally as seductive reflective slabs. In this way, there are aspects of Jacques Derrida’s concept of “hauntology”. As Derrida“s theory of “hauntology” has recently been ascribed to music and popular culture, it is the glimmering, shimmering and suggested - a quality attributable to Dack’s prints and sculptures. In the distant “reality” “obscured” by Dack’s formal pixel stripes, there is a heady mystery in terms of indecipherable action beneath the pixels, the color and the gloss of the print. And in the midst of a day-glow palate, there is foreboding and blocky subsumed death as though one is among bright ghosts and half rendered covert actions. Yet this same day-glow formal block quality has a modish goofy celebratory insouciance in rambling irregular staggered bars of information.
The loss of capacity to relay meaning is also captured in Dack’s excellent Ghost Hardware sculptures in attractive candy primary colors. These works are John McCracken-like: cast in bright hues making the oblongs of obsolete stereo components (tape deck, multi disk c.d. changer etc.) into formal sculptures. While their largess, once made them enticing objects emblematic of auditory superiority, they now have a mute slab like quality albeit bright yet bleak in their import.
Recently, Dack participated in “The Hidden” at Maureen Paley in London. His solo show at Fred Snitzer Gallery in Miami was exceptionally received. In the past year, he has exhibited at the Moore Space, The Moscow Biennial, and in a Peter Coffin curated exhibition at Frank Elbaz in Paris. Last summer Dack produced the book Future Songs as a mail exhibition in conjunction with Daniel Reich Gallery. Dack has also exhibited at Hiromi Yoshi in Tokyo and will be included in “The Future as Disruption” at The Kitchen this summer.
For additional information please contact Daniel Reich Gallery at 212 924 4949 or at daniel@danielreichgallery.com / www.danielreichgallery.com. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 11:00am - 6:00pm.
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
New Exhibition
Sean Dack "Ghost Hardware" at Daniel Reich Gallery, New York. Opening May 24th. More information to follow shortly.
Thursday, May 08, 2008
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Monday, April 28, 2008
Friday, March 28, 2008
Monday, March 10, 2008
Wednesday, March 05, 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)
“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
Tuesday, February 26, 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
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
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

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
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
"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
Monday, December 31, 2007
Saturday, December 29, 2007
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.
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.
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Monday, November 19, 2007
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Saturday, November 10, 2007
Friday, November 09, 2007
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Friday, October 26, 2007
Tuesday, October 23, 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.
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.
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.
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.
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
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
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Saturday, August 18, 2007
Sunday, August 05, 2007
Thursday, August 02, 2007
Wednesday, August 01, 2007
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
The Rapture at Coachella 2007
The Rapture at Coachella 2007 Direct link
A short film I made for the band this year at Coachella Festival, Indio, California... Great times...
A short film I made for the band this year at Coachella Festival, Indio, California... Great times...
Monday, July 23, 2007
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Tuesday, July 03, 2007
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