From Sun Tzu to Xbox: War and Video Games

BookCourt talk with Tom Moody

Save the date for this special summer event!

Wednesday, July 19th at 8:00 pm

Author Ed Halter discusses his book From Sun Tzu to Xbox: War and Video Games with digital artist and art-blogger Tom Moody

At
BookCourt
163 Court Street
Brooklyn NY 11201

* map and directions

About Tom Moody
Tom Moody is an artist based in New York. His most recent shows were a solo exhibition at artMovingProjects in Brooklyn, and "The GIF Show" at Rx Gallery in San Francisco. His blog was recommended in the 2005 Art in America article "Art in the Blogosphere," and his writing on art and music has appeared in Artforum, Sculpture, Art Papers, and other publications.

Book Party Photos

Forgive me. With jaunts to Berkeley, Las Vegas and Poughkeepsie filling up most of June, I haven't had time to properly blog the June 15 book party at the New Museum. Shall this photo album suffice for now? Thanks Rhizome!

Vega$

For anybody out there who will be in Las Vegas this weekend (ahem, hello YearlyKos attendees!), come check out a talk and booksigning I'm giving at the Cinevegas Film Festival.

It's free, and takes place at Brenden Theatres in the Palms Casino Resort,         4321 W. Flamingo Rd.
      
Saturday, June 10, 2:30pm

060606

Next Tuesday, 06/06/06, I'll be participating in Down With Serious Games, a day-long colloquium sponsored by the UC Berkeley Center for New Media. What exactly will take place is rather mysterious, and I have no idea who my fellow participants will be.

In honor of the conference, allow me to hyperlink you a project by Cory Arcangel:  Iron Maiden's "The Number of the Beast" compressed over and over as an mp3 666 times.

Image War

pictured: Joy Garnett's Kill Box (2001), an oil painting based on a night-vision image from the first Gulf War.

WHITNEY’S INDEPENDENT STUDY PROGRAM PRESENTS IMAGE WAR: CONTESTING IMAGES OF POLITICAL CONFLICT, MAY 19-JUNE 25, 2006 At the CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street Opening Reception: Friday, May 19, 2006, 6-8 pm Gallery Hours: Wednesday-Sunday 12-6 pm Featuring work by fourteen contemporary international artists, Image War: Contesting Images of Political Conflict highlights recent artistic practices that explore media representations of war and conflict. Artists included are Willie Doherty, Claire Fontaine, Coco Fusco, Rainer Ganahl, Joy Garnett, Jon Haddock, Amar Kanwar, Dinh Q. Lê, An-My Lê, Radical Software Group (RSG), and Tamiko Thiel & Zara Houshmand.

...Organized by the 2005/06 Helena Rubenstein Curatorial Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, this exhibition features work in a variety of media including painting, photography, digital compositions, video, and interactive virtual reality. The works in the show were all made since the first Gulf War, but focus on conflicts ranging from the Vietnam War through the current war in Iraq. The artists in the exhibition examine how media coverage of political violence often determines our understanding of conflicts.

More info on Image War at Newsgrist

See also: Night Vision, a travelling exhibition curated by Joy Garnett

June 15 Book Party NYC

Hey, you're all invited!

Release party for From Sun Tzu to Xbox: War and Video Games

Part of Rhizome's Celebrating New Media Scholarship series

Friday, June 15, 2006
6:30-8:30pm

The New Museum of Contemporary Art Store
556 W 22nd Street
New York, NY 10011

More info at Rhizome