NEWS:

Dear Friends, and Collaborators,

This summer and fall have been quite busy. Many years ago we began as a rag tag bunch of artists, architects, BMXers, philosophers etc. We were curious and perplex by how things happened, emerged, and changed. And over the ensuing years we have often been categorized as “interventionist artists” or an “artist collective”. These labels and practices, while being interesting enough, seem far from our interests today. We still are a rag-tag bunch, there are more of us, and our work has expanded. But more than this we have grown and shifted both in our ideas, and our practices. Our curiosity, and the ideas that have emerged through working with others, have forced us to rethink and remake ourselves a number of times. Currently we rarely see ourselves as artist and rarely worry much about what is happening in the arts. We are most curious about systems -- systems that entangle us as humans with non-humans across many scales and logics. We are interested in experimenting on a systems level with questions and issues.


Currently we are very curious about thinking through this question from a number of perspectives. Here is a brief list of some ongoing events that come out of this. And as ever we are very interested in hearing from you, what you think and most importantly: what you are doing. Please be in touch (spurse01@gmail.com)


Regards from all of us and


  1. PRESS:

  2. 1. Art Papers “Spurse’s Expanded Field”. Jennie Klein wrote a good article on our work. Take a look and tell us what you think!


  4. 2. Our work on re-conceptualizing contemporary logics of time: DeepTime RapidTime was in residence at the Bemis Art Center. Here are two interesting reviews that get at some of our questions and concerns: MATR of Time, and Time Travel. We published a book of exercises as part of this project that can be purchased directly from LuLu. Another research component of this project was at Grand Arts and here is a good walkthrough of the piece from the local NPR station. When we spoke about this work at the University of Maine Eryk Salvaggio published at good overview of this work. The next research iteration of the work is coming out in the next CAA Art Journal -- keep an eye out for this.


  6. 3. Our collaboration with MADLAB to develop better retail logic for a wine store in NYC (Le Vigne)has been featured in a number of articles, here are just two: NYTimes, Design Milk. Our collaborators Leon Johnson and Megan O’Connell developed the graphic language.



  9. EVENTS:


  11. 1. We were recently working with our long-time collaborators B+M at SUNY Oswego at a conference on their work: Emergent Collectives of the Human and Nonhuman. They have an excellent blog on their work. Take a look.


  13. 2. Our collaborator Matthew Friday organized with us class + symposium at the University of Ohio Entangled Citizens. The workshops, lectures and symposium led to a number of great and innovative ideas/project around systems theory, activism, and Acid Mine Runoff Remediation. Here is some interesting press on the symposium.


  15. 3. This spring we will be up in Montreal to do a workshop with Erin Manning, and a lecture at Concordia University. More coming soon.


  17. 4. Long time collaborator Iain Kerr will be lecturing at the New School on December 8th. More coming soon on this as well.


  19. EXHIBITS


  21. 1. Our Microbiological Unit is part of the traveling show: Experimental Geography. This will be opening soon in Pittsburgh at Carnegie Mellon University. More information our our unit.


  23. 2. Earlier this year we did an exhibit at the Bemis Art Center: MATR + TIME DRILLS


  25. 3. This spring after many years of research we set up our DeepTime + RapidTime research lab at Grand Arts. This component of the research was just one point in a system of linked research exhibits: Denver, Cleveland


  27. 4. UPCOMING: we have a number of projects in the works, some will take us to Greenland, others to rethink mobile research systems, and others to rethink our entanglements with fish. We will be posting more on all of these soon.


  29. ONGOING RESEARCH


  1. 1.We are currently teaching a class at Parsons as part of our ongoing collaboration with NAMA. This work is part of our interest in the development of ways of being part of the ocean. And how we rethink our relations to fish and fishing.

  2. 2.Other key areas of research include (1) systems theory, (2) the human and nonhuman, (3) logics of emergence and temporality,



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