From open-reading-group at o-r-g.com Sun Nov 1 20:48:29 2009 From: open-reading-group at o-r-g.com (open-reading-group at o-r-g.com) Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 20:48:29 -0500 (EST) Subject: Dexter Sinister presents TF/LN and Farewell, etaoin shrdlu Message-ID: Join us on Tuesday 3 November from 6-8pm to inagurate THE FIRST/LAST NEWSPAPER, a project by Dexter Sinister for Performa 09 from 1-22 November. See http://www.dextersinister.org/MEDIA/TFLN.pdf We will celebrate having just sent the first of six editions to print by screening FAREWELL, ETAOIN SHRDLU a 1980 documentary about technological changes at The New York Times Conceived by Carl Schlesinger and directed by David Loeb. Carl Schlesinger will be present to introduce the film at 7pm at our temporary PORT AUTHORITY workspace, 641 8th Ave at the corner of 41st Street directly opposite the new New York Times building. More details at http://www.dextersinister.org or http://www.performa-arts.org. Drinks courtesy of Stoli vodka. From open-reading-group at o-r-g.com Wed Nov 18 17:16:24 2009 From: open-reading-group at o-r-g.com (open-reading-group at o-r-g.com) Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:16:24 -0500 (EST) Subject: Dexter Sinister presents ``Today's chip paper, tomorrow's news'' Message-ID: ``FIRST/LAST'' NEWSPAPER TO FOLD AFTER ONLY SIX EDITIONS --- Dexter Sinister will commemorate the printing of their final \textit{First/Last Newspaper} and closing of their Port Authority site this Saturday 21 November from 7 -- 9pm. Visitors will be able to collect remaining stock produced during the paper's brief three-week existence, including the latest and last just delivered from Linco Printers in neighboring Long Island City. Also present in the Port Authority Space, at the corner of 41st Street and 8th Avenue, will be Gareth Spor's version of Brion Gysin's seminal 1960s Dream Machine --- a stencilled cylinder placed on a revolving turntable with a 100 Watt lamp inside to produce a stroboscopic flicker that induces a supposedly hypnagogic state when viewed with eyes closed. Spor's update replaces Gysin's original pattern with open letterforms that spell out an aphorism by Gysin's friend and collaborator William Burroughs: ``Illusion is a Revolutionary Weapon.'' The public should note that this machine may be dangerous for people with photosensitive epilepsy or other nervous disorders. Also available will be portions of fish & chips wrapped in old issues of \textit{TF/LN}. Due to concerns over ink poisoning, particularly related to old lead type, the tradition of wrapping fish & chips in newsprint has largely been phased out despite industry workers' claims that modern newspaper inks such as those used in Queens pose no such health risks. Today's chip paper, tomorrow's news, as the old Fleet Street saying goes. Surely this is, at last, the ``artless art.'' Sinister stress that they will assume no responsibility for the public's epilepsy or poisoning. (DS) \QED -- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: fish.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 31641 bytes Desc: Url : -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: chip.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 31443 bytes Desc: Url :