Pablo Machioli
Artefactory Baltimore
827 N Howard St
Baltimore, Md 21201
EMP Collective and the New York-based One-Minute Play Festival (OMPF) have announced the Baltimore One-Minute Play Festival, coming to EMP on Feb 9th and 10th at 8PM.
Baltimore One-Minute Play Festival
February 9th and 10th at 8PM
EMP, 307 West Baltimore Street
Tickets are $15, available HERE
Proceeds from the event will benefit OMPF and EMP Collective’s mission to nurture and challenge local artists of all mediums through cross-collaboration and artistic experimentation.
Sunday’s performance at EMP will be live-streamed online at #newplay TV HERE.
ABOUT THE FESTIVAL
The Baltimore One-Minute Play Festival will feature over 50 brand new One-Minute Plays by nearly 30 local or Baltimore-rooted playwrights. Burgeoning playwrights will be working alongside prominent artistic voices in the region. OMPF takes the temperature of a collective artistic conscious through these series of pulsing moments.
Playwrights were selected by invitation and asked to engage in OMPF’s playmaking approach. Playwrights are encouraged to write about anything they are passionate about, and, as emerging themes or ideas become apparent, the plays are curated and presented in clusters to reflect those elements. Teams of directors and actors work to stage each cluster of plays.
Artists from EMP Collective, Single Carrot Theatre, Baltimore Rock Opera Society (BROS), Glass Mind Theatre, and other Baltimore theatre artists are among the participants.
Downtown arts collective, EMP, is opening their first exhibition of 2013 on January 18th. “Reject the Gaze” features the paintings and drawings of local visual artists Lacey Anderson and Sylvia O.
In “Reject the Gaze,” the artists are stylistically juxtaposed yet share a similar effect on the viewer: both Anderson and Ortiz turn notions of the flesh on their head and directly challenge the viewer’s gaze on the female form.
“Reject the Gaze” opens January 18.
Thousand Little Brothers is the latest installation by Hasan Elahi. A former subject of an intensive FBI investigation post 9/11, Hasan Elahi developed tracker to disclose every bit of information about him. The project is comprised of over 50,000 images collected over a year period along with screenshots of his financial data, communications records, and transportation logs.
This multimedia exhibition builds on a series of installations, performances, and websites that use Elahi’s self-surveillance to critique contemporary investigative techniques. A second innovation in this work is its embrace of surveillance for its subject’s own protection; Elahi has protected himself from unwanted scrutiny by making his entire life and whereabouts publicly accessible.
Elahi’s work examines issues of surveillance, simulated time, transport systems, and borders. The Thousand Little Brothers exhibit employs the use of multiple cameras, televisions, and audio – immersing the viewers’ pseudo-voyeuristic behaviors and observational obsessions. Elahi also draws inspiration from each space that he exhibits in. MAP is located in a highly touristic area of Baltimore and is also adjacent to the Baltimore Police Department and “The Block,” Baltimore’s red light district. This location will play a role in the exhibition outcome.
Opening Reception: Thursday, January 24, 6-8pm
Maryland Art Place
8 Market Place, Suite 100
Baltimore, MD 21202
The full-gallery installation “Locale Unlimited” is a collaboration between Jeremy Stern, whose interdisciplinary fabrications explore distortion in cartographic processes, and Adam Franchino, whose programmable constructions investigate the visualization of time-based information captured through sensor systems. With open-ended results, this installation engages the changing nature of maps while allowing visitors to circulate the space to define the artistic territory as essential contributors to the art themselves.
“Locale Unlimited” opens Sat Jan 19, 5:30-7:30pm. On view Jan 19-Feb 22. Main Gallery hours: 11am-7pm, Tue-Sat. Creative Alliance, 3134 Eastern Ave, Baltimore, MD
Adam will lead a workshop “Introduction to Arduino” at Creative Alliance on Thu Jan 31, 2013, 6-8pm. Arduino is an easy to learn approach to physical computing, built with artists in mind. The hands-on workshop will help students through circuits, illustrating basic functions of the Arduino.
601 E. Fort Avenue, Baltimore, MD
Jan 9th, 6pm
From the press release:
“My goal was to create paintings that could have an interactive element and engage people. The show is both a nod to the popular photo-sharing application as well as an exercise in using the smart phone as a planning tool, somewhat like a traditional sketchbook,” said Nicklas.
Nicklas has hung eighteen new paintings and will hold an opening reception at the popular Fort Avenue bar/restaurant on Wednesday January 9th at 6pm. This is Nicklas’ second solo show at Captain Larry’s.
A teacher at Lansdowne High School and CCBC, Nicklas was recognized as Baltimore County Public School’s Career Art Teacher of the year for 2012-2013. “Its a funny thing to be recognized for the year in advance, so I’m trying to live up to the honor,” said Nicklas who also plans to return to both Baltimore’s Kinetic Sculpture Race and 48 Hour Film Festival in the spring.
Aintstagram may not be created with a cell phone camera but the show does not try to hide its alliance with the Instagram Ap. The show is intended to look like an Instagram profile on a much larger scale. It utilizes the square, three-column grid format, the limited set of colors found when using simple filters and the somewhat random nature of collected subjects.
All of the paintings are created on found wood using remnant house paints adding a sense of utilizing what’s at hand like a photographer might when encountering a great subject without a digital SLR. The paintings can be linked to their source photos, by searching Instagram for the hashtag #aintstagram. Nicklas hopes that, “people find it fun to look up the photos and leave comments on images associated with the paintings, then get inspired to take some home!”
PInebox Art Center will be having their first group show called New Frontiers and grand opening on January 11.