Silver Bell Tree

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I mad an app. 

It connects two phones that are physically close, and then when you move in different directions, it displays the distance between them, and points an arrow to the other phone. 

So it becomes a kind of compass, and you each become the other person's North. 

Moving poles.... 

Orientation towards bodies.

It's about space/place, distance, orientation, intimacy, bodies.

It’s about looking towards someone.

It's supposed to re-think how we conceive of space + distance. And its an arrow that points away from the screen, not a dot on a map in a screen. Its supposed to divert attention away from the non-space of the internet and back into physical space.  

It was commissioned for a show at the kunstvereins in Biefled + Nurnberg in Germany. Both shows are open It is free to download.

It's only for two phones, you can't have more phones connected (it's an anti social media!).

You need  an iphone 4s or higher. download link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/the-space-between-us/id1054845321?mt=8 more info: davidhorvitz.com/distance

The phone above is pointing in the direction of Jenny Chert in Berlin. I am standing in Mexico City.

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This was donated to the Museum of Modern Art Library in New York City. A handmade archival slipcase with a glass a bottle of Barr Hill Gin. The foil stamping on the side reads: HORVITZ and 2014. It was donated to the library, to become part of the library’s collection, to be shelved inconspicuously amongst the other books. For the librarian whose had a long day, or for the exhausted post-grad researcher…. (a libation for a librarian?) 

(Barr Hill Gin was used because the Vermont based distillery is named after the small town Barr Hill nearby.  This town was founded by the Barr family, which included Alfred Barr H. Jr., MoMA’s first director.)

These are donated untitled to the libraries. I am unsure how it is catalogued. 

The box was hand built by Small Editions in Red Hook, Brooklyn.

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Ferdinand Cheval (mail art call)

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: 2009 <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 4:00 AM Subject: #12 To: [email protected] This is being sent at 6:57am EDT in Brooklyn, New York. It is the morning.

I have been asked to create a mail-art call for an exhibition taking place September 6 to November 9 at Franklin Street Works in Stamford, Connecticut, USA. In the tradition of mail-art calls the call is open to anyone. All works must be submitted through the postal mail. All works will be hung in the gallery. Every artist’s name will be listed in the exhibition, and on the gallery’s web-site. A digital catalog will be made documenting all the received artworks.

All artists must RSVP by emailing [email protected]. You will be sent instructions on how and where to mail your art-works. You must RSVP BEFORE 6:57am EDT on August 20, 2014, one day from when this email was sent. This call is only open for one spinning of the Earth. You can forward and post this. - thinking about information circulating and multiplying around the globe over the course of one day, like something growing.... - thinking about a postman delivering the day’s mail, with a stone in his pocket.... Today marks the anniversary of the death of French Postman Ferdinand Cheval, who died ninety years ago. Postman Chevalspent thirty-three years building the Palais idéal in Hauterives, France, out of pieces of limestone he carried in his pocket that he collected while delivering the town’s mail. Envelopes and pockets. The call is open to anything. You can send rocks if you want. Your RSVP must be received BEFORE 6:57am NY time tomorrow.

(Your work can arrive anytime before November 9. The idea is that works continuously arrive throughout the duration of the exhibition. An opening reception will occur on September 13, and a closing reception will happen later. A chronological artist list will be made indicating the time of each artist’s RSVP.)