Closing event for my solo show at Crossing Art gallery with Leaders in Software and Art
Joshua Spodek Closing Event Description and Details
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Closing event for my solo show at Crossing Art gallery with Leaders in Software and Art

The closing event for my solo exhibition at Crossing Art gallery will be held in conjunction with Leaders in Software and Art (LISA) Thursday, July 14, beginning at 6:15pm. Details and directions are below. Both organizations are outstanding and I owe gratitude to each. I spoke at Crossing Art for my opening event last month and at LISA in February. Unlike most LISA events, which are members only, this one is open to the public. So at this event you will have not one, but four artists represented, and not only wine, but hors d'oeuvres. LISA events are incredible. They mix art, software, related media and technology, and -- most importantly -- the people behind them. The people who speak at and attend these events…

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July 7, 2011
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A review of my solo gallery show

Lillian Chan is an independent film producer and friend who has attended and recorded a couple of my seminars and now my gallery opening. After writing a few paragraphs reviewing the seminars, she reviewed my solo gallery show too.

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June 20, 2011
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Joshua Spodek: big in China

I'm big in China! I can't tell what the video or text says, but Sinovision.net covered my opening. Here's a video of me and my work. Totally cool to watch, assuming they are saying cool things about me. Here's a write up. Here's a web translation of the write-up. If anyone can make better sense of it, please let me know: Static in the move - Joshua Spodek expansion diorama display 18 Flushing Author: Bin Zou time :2011 -06-16 17:50:07 Click: 78 [medium and small] [Zou Bin, China Press correspondent in New York reported on June 16] "Static in the move - Joshua Spodek expansion diorama" personal art exhibition will be held on the 18th day in Flushing, New Moon Art Gallery formally meet with…

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June 20, 2011
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Solo gallery show first images and video

Here are a couple videos of my solo gallery show "Motion in Stillness" at the Crossing Art gallery in Queens. Yesterday was the opening. These videos are from before the opening. Better quality video will go up soon. Some people at the opening had some serious cameras. From before the press preview, here is a quick tour of the show. As always with my medium, only seeing it in person does it justice. Still, it's something. Some of the pieces were still under construction (the ones showing the animations in the back) and the camera is the low quality one in my phone. Another recording, slightly better, I'd say, is here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwbPjVO_wQY From Friday, after the press preview and before the opening, my sister, father,…

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June 19, 2011
Finishing touches
Joshua Spodek's solo opening at Crossing Art Gallery in Queens
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Finishing touches

Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery I've been working day and night on the finishing touches for the show, mainly simplifying things, inspired by the space and the quality of the work by Jennifer, Sunny, and Kyung Yung (sp?), who work at Crossing Art. You'd think the sad irony would be that the more your work, the less chance of people recognizing it. But you don't have to worry about that. Most importantly, enjoying the work makes it its own reward. Secondarily, people who you want to recognize the work required for simplicity will. They've done it too. Others will simply enjoy the simplicity and you can…

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June 18, 2011
Early reviews of the show from a four year old
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Early reviews of the show from a four year old

Anyone knows making it big in the art world means challenging people's views of art and making complicated, ponderous pieces. It can't be accessible to children. I guess I can't to anything right. I explore and draw out wonder, curiosity, amazement, and fascination -- the emotions of scientists. And children. My four-year-old niece came to the gallery today to see the installation in progress. She came with my sister (her mother) and my father. Here are a few pictures of her. She loved running past the display and telling my sister where to walk her around when being carried. Tomorrow I expect people to move around a lot too and to watch each other moving. It's fun. You'll smile. Don't tell people in the art…

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June 17, 2011
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Announcement on the show

I worked about twenty hours today preparing for the opening, so only a brief post today. The Q-note, a page about cultural life in Queens, interviewed me and mentioned me and the upcoming show in their blog. At the end of the 7 train, in Flushing, Crossing Art will put the spotlight on Joshua Spodek’s (joshuaspodek.com) striking linear zoetropes in the astrophysicist-entrepreneur-artist’s solo show, Joshua Spodek: Motion in Stillness (Saturday, 4 p.m. – 6 p.m.; artist talk, 3 p.m. – 4 p.m.). This transformative retro medium, which Spodek contemporized in subway tunnels, allows viewers to see still images as if they were animated. “If I actually want to meet the artists, I don’t go to Chelsea; I go to smaller places. In Queens the artists…

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June 14, 2011
Your new plans for Saturday
Joshua Spodek's solo opening at Crossing Art Gallery in Queens
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Your new plans for Saturday

Cancel your plans for Saturday afternoon, June 18, 3-6pm, this is better -- my first solo show in years, at the beautiful Crossing Art Gallery: Joshua Spodek: Motion in Stillness If you haven't seen my work, now is your chance to see some mind-blowing and amazing art. Like no other medium, there is no substitute for the wonder of seeing it in person. (EDIT: more posts on the show: images and video of the show, reviews, closing event with Leaders in Software and Art, more videos) Critics hail it as both retro, recalling Eadweard Muybridge and Étienne-Jules Marey, and radically new, pushing limits on laser-cut machining and digital image processing; showing both its commercial and subway-based roots as well as  my science and nature background…

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June 13, 2011
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Linear zoetropes in Amsterdam

By chance I found a video of a display made by a Dutch art student last summer who contacted me to help make a lenticular linear zoetrope. Her name is Kyra Martens and she was incredibly resourceful and a terrific problem solver in creating the piece. She was able to bring together the Amsterdam Zoo (for whom she made the display), the Dutch equivalent of Macy's (in whose window she installed the display), a media company, and me to create a display as a final project for an art class. The video below shows the display she made with random members of the public viewing it with the usual wonderment people have viewing it the first time. Congratulations Kyra!

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June 11, 2011
My next solo gallery show at Crossing Art Gallery
Joshua Spodek's solo opening at Crossing Art Gallery in Queens
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My next solo gallery show at Crossing Art Gallery

Ladies and gentlemen, my first solo gallery show in over five years will have its opening event Saturday, June 18. You're invited! I will be showing new works I've been working on and have been excited to show. Publicly showing your work is what an artist lives for. That said, until people see the new stuff, you never know how it will go over, so there's the usual anxiety and excitement. The logistics: Joshua Spodek at the Crossing Art Gallery June 18 - July 17, 2011 Artist talk: Saturday, June 18, 3-4pm Opening reception: Saturday, June 18, 4-6pm Press preview: Thursday, June 16, 2pm Address: 136 - 17 39th Avenue, Ground Floor, Flushing, New York 11354 Directions: 7 Train to Flushing Main Street, walk one…

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June 7, 2011
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Parsons student linear zoetrope videos

Here are videos of the final non-digital linear zoetropes made by the students in Parsons Submedia collaboration studio in the spring of 2011. The students are superstars. The students' next step will be the display in Union Square, so stay tuned. I took all the videos with my low quality camera phone. More videos are at the course blog. First the grand tour of all the zoetropes in the Arts, Media, and Technology department -- i.e., the tenth floor. https://joshuaspodek.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/grand_tour_tenth_floor_zoetropes.avi The linear zoetropes downstairs facing Fifth Avenue and 13th Street at night. https://joshuaspodek.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/5th_and_13th_night.avi The linear zoetropes downstairs facing Fifth Avenue and 13th Street during the daytime. https://joshuaspodek.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/5th_and_13th_day.avi linear zoetropes that were downstairs back upstairs.   Group 1's linear zoetrope -- the Unicorn.   Group 2's…

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May 27, 2011
New images and videos of the Parsons Displays
Final Fifth Avenue and 13th Street Parsons Student Linear Zoetropes
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New images and videos of the Parsons Displays

Here are some videos and images of the displays the Parsons students put up in the corner of 5th Avenue and 13th Street. As usual, my camera is not great and my recording ability is worse. Cameras don't capture the medium. The final product also doesn't capture the challenge and work that went into creating the displays. Also, please see the course blog for lots of other images and videos of projects they did along the way.

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May 5, 2011
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Update #3 on the Union Square display

We made the minimum on the Parsons Union Square kickstarter project! The project raised $5,017, just over the minimum of $5,000 we set (which is still below the what we'll need, but we'll figure out how to make it). Here's the latest updated we sent out. Update #3: We made it! Thank you! We made it! Just barely! Making it this close ($5,017 out of $5,000) means every contribution counted. Thank you to every one of you from all of us. We appreciate each of your contributions all the more for each one counting so much. We are that much more dedicated to making a beautiful display. Whether you contributed to help make New York more beautiful, to help students, to contribute to art, for…

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April 30, 2011
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Update #2 on the Parsons Union Square display

Here is an update to the Parsons Union Square kickstarter project. Update #2: Video of the Fifth Avenue display Here is a video (just from my camera phone, sorry not great quality) of one of the displays in Parsons' window facing Fifth Avenue and 13th Street. As mentioned in the last update, this display is a big, genuine art piece, although still in preparation for the Union Square piece, which will be bigger and digital. Still, this one is pretty cool. The animation is a whimsical one of one of the students in the course, although everyone contributed to designing, building, and installing the display, as well as creating the animation in it. Many people walking by stop and look at it. Please check it…

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April 28, 2011
Update #1 on the Union Square display
Fifth Avenue display being installed
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Update #1 on the Union Square display

Here is an update to the Parsons Union Square kickstarter project. Update #1: Prototype displays go up in Parsons windows, 5th Avenue and 13th Street The class has been preparing prototype linear zoetropes to be placed in the windows of Parsons' building at 5th Avenue and 13th Street, facing the street. We shouldn't call them prototypes because they are full art pieces everyone in the class participated in creating, hosted by a great institution, on display for the public to see. But they are preparation for the Union Square display, which will be bigger and digital. Below are some pictures of the students completing and installing these linear zoetropes. If you are near Manhattan, please come see them. By this point, most of the difficult…

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April 26, 2011
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Working on art

When you feel like a superhero it's hard not to indulge in sharing why you feel so great. Solving technical problems makes you feel like a genius when you get it. I've had two days straight of amazing progress. One thing after another fell into place. It all took a lot of research, trial and error, moving step-by-step, not biting off too much at a time. Most of that was software and deliveries coming in. For those who know, the software I'm working on was getting the Western Digital media players for the Union Square digital linear zoetrope display to work remotely, which requires getting into the hacker community for the product. For anyone who doesn't know, working with hacker communities means searching all over…

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April 22, 2011
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Donations begun. You can be next!

Already $178 donated for the biggest best most beautiful public art piece New York will see this year! Student-built! You can be next! Please contribute to this awesome project! See this morning's post.

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April 2, 2011
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My next big beautiful public art piece! (please contribute!)

My next big beautiful public art piece will be with my Parsons class in Union Square. You can help make New York more beautiful, give people something to enjoy in their busy days, help students learn and build experience. Visit the project's Kickstarter page and donate! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/492851406/big-beautiful-public-art-by-parsons-class-in-union About this project: We are 18 young talented art students and 2 professors in a class together at Parsons The New School of Design's Art, Media, and Technology (AMT) program. We are raising money to build a big beautiful interactive public art installation in New York City's Union Square. Our goal is to create a dramatic new interactive digital motion-picture display unlike any the world has seen, entertaining and engaging to all New Yorkers for free, in the…

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April 2, 2011
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Teaching is awesome and inspiring

Class at Parsons today was awesome and inspiring. The project due today -- a linear zoetrope for each group, internally lit -- was a big challenge. At the beginning of class a couple groups appeared to be having trouble -- missed communications, etc. They grouped together, rallied, figured out what they could do during class, and, by the end, nearly every group was nearly finished. I expect each will be done by the end of the week. (I'm hoping to get emails from each group as they mount each completed display). They keep surprising me. Whenever I mention an idea I've never done, one of them implements it better or quicker than I would have. Inspiring. Check out some of their work on the class…

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March 8, 2011
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Parsons Class

The Parsons Class I'm co-teaching this semester has a blog.So far it just has a few pictures from the zoetropes a few students did. The results from that first assignment were incredible -- tremendous variety of solutions to the various challenges of physical animation devices and animations: materials, sizes, quality versus quick and dirty, colors, contrast, motion, repetition, etc.I can't wait to see the results of the later projects, which will be substantial efforts.Correction: There are already many images and animations, I was just blocking javascript. Enjoy the class site!

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February 7, 2011
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Joshua Spodek’s Art Resume

Joshua Spodek EDUCATION 2006 MBA, Columbia Business School New York 1999 PhD, Astrophysics, Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences New York 1993-94 MA, Physics (Completed at Columbia), University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences Philadelphia 1993 BA, Physics, Columbia College New York 1991 L’Institut Brittanique, University of London Paris EXHIBITIONS 2017 The Museum of Math, Dance New York 2011-12 District 36, Elements New York 2011 Union Square Subway Station, Union Square in Motion New York 2011 Crossing Art Gallery, Motion in Stillness New York 2011 Parsons the New School of Design, Expressions (group project with students) New York 2010-11 Bryant Park, Bryant Park in Motion (with MTA Arts for Transit and NYU/Tisch) New York 2011 Leaders In Software and Art New York 2010…

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January 10, 2011
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New Bryant Park in Motion Videos

First, here is MTA Arts for Transit Page on Bryant Park in Motion (EDIT: Arts for Transit changed the page to one on Union Square in Motion) -- created by me and four students and NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program:  Molly Schwartz, Igal Nassima, Brett Murphy, and Eyal Ohana. Below is an overview of the piece, starting from Bryant Park at the corner of 42nd and 6th, then entering the station and viewing the piece. By coincidence, a family of five happened by the piece while I was taping. All five, especially the three kids, are fascinated by it, peer in it, and enjoy it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIfi71_ffG0 Below is just the kids and family from the previous video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anwg1BhkAFU Below is a common viewing pattern involving an…

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March 10, 2010

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