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Trampoline Elephant From my Paper Milk series in 2010 while I was expecting my son. One of three left in the series of over fifty! $200 (at VEMA - Veron Ennis Modern Art)

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THE DAILY PIC: To make a new series of pieces now on the walls of Petzel Gallery in New York, the artist Walead Beshty first replaced the gallery’s normal desktops with polished copper. As dealers and their minions sat at their computers, bodily oils, spilled coffees and other office corrosives tarnished the bright metal, leaving a Taylorist record of these workers’ labors. The altered copper sheets were then hung in Petzel’s nearby gallery spaces, making the path between production, display and sale shorter than it has ever been. (Although you could argue that, for these pieces to exist, sales have to come first in that list.)

Beshty has always worked in photography’s most expanded field, and his copper pieces fit this practice. Like conventional photographs, they provide a direct, indexical trace of the world around them. They also expand the reach of that trace so that it records the economic activity that makes their own existence possible. This triggers several role reversals: Hands-off dealers become hands-on makers, “signing” their work in fingerprints, and the people usually charged with keeping art pristine are here made to sully it. I worry about the salesman who normally supplies Petzel with white-cotton gloves.

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Debra Barrera’s painting created after melting a large block of ice with powdered pigment onto a marble surface.

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This #friday at #allianceforthearts 5pm- Curator Closing Talk for #aleatoric #art in the #21st #Century | then the conversation continues for #ArtTalk @ the #Art #Loft from 7-11. BYOB/W (at VEMA - Veron Ennis Modern Art)

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Robin Meier & Ali Momeni: The Tragedy of the Commons (2011)

The Tragedy of the Commons consists of a live experiment in the form of an installation, in which thousands of Atta ants – commonly known as leafcutter ants – create a choreography while reacting to certain flavours and smells expertly selected by Robin Meier and Ali Momeni with the help of the Laboratory of Comparative and Experimental Ethology of Paris 13 University. The installation is structured via three circular boards, all connected to one another either directly or through video surveillance and sound. The first of these, at the show’s entrance, is occupied by the ant colony and is physically linked to a second and central board through a long transparent tube; the insects move back and forth through this, accessing goods and bringing them to their nest. In this instance, the goods (or ‘commons’) are a mix of privet and rose leaves and petals, discharged daily onto the central ‘platter’. Contact microphones and cameras, set up on its entire surface, amplify the sound of the ants’ stridulation and offer live playback of their gleaning on a couple of monitors, installed – for closer observation – on the third and last board at the back of the room.

In other words, Meier and Momeni have created a metaphoric ‘food stock market’ for the ants, since every smell or flavour available becomes merchandise capable of affecting their collective behaviour. Accordingly the two artists, who share a background in electronic and experimental music, here manage to make audible and visible a mechanism of social manipulation. On the sonic level, the amplified sound within the installation space corresponds to the ants’ more or less sustained activity – which is particularly effective, grating and loud when, for example, rose petals and leaves are ‘served’ on the central ‘platter’; for, logically enough, the more the ants are fond of a certain flavour, the more greedily they cut that certain plant within their mandibles and, accordingly, the more noise they make. On the visual level, when the central board is flooded with goods – and the insects’ gleaning drastically intensified – quite stunning traffic jams occur in the tube that the ants use to bring food back to the colony.

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AleatoricArt.com is an online magazine and gallery devoted to showcasing the work of a select group of artists, both emerging and established, who constitute a collective known as MAMA—the Movement of Aleatoric Modern Artists. The movement pays tribute to the DADAists of the early 20th century among the many other artists throughout history who have bravely chosen to relinquish partial control of their creative processes to the hands of fate, the laws of physics and the continuum of perpetual chaos which prevails over our universe by design. By learning to value and preserve that which we can never own, to respond and yield to that which we can never predict and to respect and trust that which we can never control, the aleatoric artist inherits the divine principle of acceptance, the creative process becomes a cooperative collaboration with the forces that govern the universe, and thus the aleatoric artist transcends the limitations of the mind and body to reach artistic plateaus previously unattainable.