Ashley Hunt: Turn This Upside Down
Jun
1
to Jun 2
Earmark: Artist Publications & Editions

Ashley Hunt: Turn This Upside Down

detail of Turn This Upside Down

FREE COPIES AVAILABLE AT GREENPOINT OPEN STUDIOS JUN 1/2, 2024

Ashley Hunt

Turn This Upside Down

Created with Critical Resistance members, Nick DeRenzi, Lily Fahsi-Haskell, Alex Ludington, Viju Mathew, and contributions by Steve Brooke and Jo’an Dunn

EARMARK COLLECTION
Recent Addition: Turn This Upside Down, newsprint

Ashley Hunt is an artist, writer and educator whose documentary and community-engaged artworks of the past two and a half decades have focused primarily on the U.S. prison system — its growth, ecologies, effects on communities, continuation of the U.S.’ genocidal histories, and its abolition. A recent fellow of the Art for Justice Fund, his works have included short and feature length documentaries, video installations, maps, performances, photography, and an experimental dance school: alongside collaborations with community organizations including Critical Resistance, the Underground Scholars, California Coalition for Women Prisoners, Release Aging People in Prison, Southerners on New Ground, Project South, Citizens for Quality Education, the Youth Justice Coalition, Mass Liberation Arizona, and Friends and Family of Louisiana’s Incarcerated Children.

 

PHOTO CREDIT: Ashley Hunt

 
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Greenpoint Open Studios
Jun
1
to Jun 2
Events

Greenpoint Open Studios

Greenpoint Open Studios

JUNE 1 – 2, 2024

ON VIEW
Earmark, selected works from the collection of artist publications
A Guided Sublimation (Movements), new double vinyl LP box set from Plexus Projects Founder & Artist Laura Splan
Open Call: GUI/GOOEY, group exhibitions exploring digital representations of the biological world

Earmark: Selected Works

Earmark, is a curated collection of editioned print and sound publications including artist books, catalogs, zines, ephemera, and vinyl projects. The collection includes artists using a variety of printing processes ranging from laser cutting to Risograph to photocopy techniques. Artists in the collection include Katie Garth, Candace Williams, James Bascara, Jess Woods, Shane Smith, Brett Wallace, Dawn Light Blackman, Paul Shortt, Fritz Welch, De Kwok, Becca Albee, Chris Duncan, 57 Cell, Nathan Brown, Laura Splan, and others.

GUI/GOOEY: Open Call

Plexus Projects is accepting submissions of artworks for “GUI/GOOEY 2.O”, the second installment in a series of online and in-person exhibitions exploring digital representations of the biological world. The exhibitions interrogate intersections of computational paradigms and organic forms and transgress the boundaries that distinguish them.

PREVIOUS ARTISTS IN GUI/GOOEY EXHIBITIONS
Abraham Homer US; Alt23 MT; Andrea Mikyska DE; Anni Garza-Lau, Yunuen Vladimir, Hugo Escalpelo, Lilianha Dominguez MX; Brian Zegeer US; Cezar Mocan PT; Derzu Campos MX; Dexter Callender III US; Diana Scarborough UK; Dylan Rundle US; Elaine Whittaker CA; Electric Skin TR/FR/US/ES; Ellen Bjerborn SE; Finn Dugan US; James Bascara US; Jeff Thompson US; Josh Urban CA; Katina Bitsicas, Rachel Strickland US; Keaton Fox US; Kimberlee Koym-Murteira US; Lolo Ostia US; Lizz Thabet US; Mark Ramos, Ziyang Wu US/CN; Morgan Green, Andrew Bearnot US; Nina Sumarac CY; Reid Arowood US; Ryan Woodring US; Sarah Buckius US; Yousif Alzayed, Ben Glass, Yimei Zhu US

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Creating Art Publications & Zines in Adobe InDesign
Feb
1
6:00 PM18:00
Studio Practice Workshops

Creating Art Publications & Zines in Adobe InDesign

Image: Laura Splan

 

STUDIO PRACTICE WORKSHOP PRESENTED BY POWRPLNT
MAY 1, 2024 FROM 6PM–9PM
AT PLEXUS PROJECTS

CREATING ART PUBLICATIONS & ZINES IN ADOBE INDESIGN

In-Person Workshop with New Media Artist Laura Splan, Sliding Scale

Multimedia artist Laura Splan will lead this hands-on workshop in using Adobe InDesign for creating artist publications including zines, catalogs, and books. Participants will explore the core features including creating documents, working with graphics and color, creating and styling text, and exporting for print and screen. 

TOPICS COVERED

Getting Started

  • Zine/book Examples

  • Creating Document

  • Documents Settings

  • Navigating Documents

Essential Techniques

  • Images

  • Typography

  • Color

  • Shapes

  • Transformations

  • Styles

  • Guides

Finishing Techniques

  • Print Booklet

  • Export for Print

  • Export for Screen

  • Package Archiving

  • Folded Zine Template

Printing Resources

Free Fonts

Image Resource

11x17 Folded Zine Template

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AI Image Generation with Midjourney
Jan
1
4:00 AM04:00
Studio Practice Workshops

AI Image Generation with Midjourney

Image: Laura Splan

STUDIO PRACTICE WORKSHOP
APRIL 7, 2024 FROM 11AM–5PM
AT PLEXUS PROJECTS + ON ZOOM

INTRO TO Midjourney

AI Image Generation

with New Media Artist Laura Splan

Explore the possibilities of generative image making with Artificial Intelligence (AI) using Midjourney’s powerful capabilities with artist Laura Splan. Participants learn how to create and optimize text prompts to generate unique AI-generated images for a variety of applications including art, graphic design, and digital photography. Exercises guide students to develop their own unique approach to AI-assisted image making and while incorporating this new technology into their creative processes. Course topics include prompt creation, settings, blend mode, and more!

Topics Covered

  • Creating images in different styles and aesthetics

  • Adjusting settings 

  • Choosing keywords for prompts

  • Incorporating pre-existing images into the image-generation process

  • Tips and tricks

  • Integrating with Photoshop and other post-processing tools

  • Understanding the pros and cons of other tools, like DALL-E and Stable Diffusion

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Danielle Ezzo & Bobby Davidson: Future Object
Jul
23
to Jul 31
Exhibitions, Residencies

Danielle Ezzo & Bobby Davidson: Future Object

EXHIBITION + RESIDENCY
JULY 23 – 30, 2023

DANIELLE EZZO & BOBBY DAVIDSON

Future Object

Reception: July 26th from 6–8pm

Future Object is a two-person exhibition of artists Bobby Davidson and Danielle Ezzo and the release of Ezzo’s debut artist book “If Not Here, Then Where?”. Each has a practice that concerns itself with the postdigital and its relationship to technological expression. Together they experiment with the idea of the polysemantic word artifact as both physical and historical as well as digital and speculative. Their respective works are presented in tandem as a dialog circling similar lines of inquiry. 

In Davidson’s "A Noiseless Patient Spider" (2023) he investigates the contrast between pre and post-AI creations and the abundance of digital detritus by repurposing mundane and banal imagery. He uses 3D software to create hyperreal digital fictions which are translated from photoreal renderings wrapping readymade objects. By creating these functional artifacts, he returns these uncanny assemblages back to their origins, while offering a fresh perspective on everyday objects.

In contrast, “If Not Here, Then Where?” (2021-22) Ezzo is concerned with the flow of historical artifacts and how they are sorted, searched, and translated where the form and meaning of objects shifts depending on how they are represented. She builds on and converses with The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s digital archive. Artifacts are then printed and constructed into delicate paper mobiles that are finally rephotographed into new and unlikely forms.

Bobby Davidson’s work has been exhibited with the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, New York, NY; MOMA PS1, New York, NY; The SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; The Alabama Contemporary Art Center, Mobile, AL; Tsinghua University, Beijing, CHN; The Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY; Parsons Design Center, Shanghai, CHN and the Aperture Foundation, New York, NY; his work is part of the permanent collection at the SCAD Museum of Art, Yale University and the New School. Davidson lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. 

Danielle’s work has been published in the Boston Globe, The New York Times, The Tate, Lenscratch, and Feature Shoot and exhibited in numerous exhibitions and festivals including the A.C. Institute, The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, The Far Eastern Museum of Art, and Currents New Media Festival. She’s lectured at conferences, companies, and schools about the future of photography. Bylines include The New Inquiry, Magnum Photos, Art Observed, Right Click Save, Fellowship Trust, and Obscura Journal among others. She is the author of If Not Here, The Where? published by Silent Face Projects.

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