I haven’t blogged anything here for a long time. But when I read the news yesterday I new there was a blog post coming:
“A German man who lost his way in the dark while wandering around on sea ice off the country’s northern coast was saved by a woman 500 kilometres away who spotted him on a webcam, police said.”
Proving that watching sunsets on webcams isn’t just a nice experience! Of course I was hoping the woman in question was using Eternal Sunset to watch the sunset. I searched through a lot of reports in various newspapers, but none of them mentioned Eternal Sunset.
Still it’s been doing the site some good. A lot of people today seem to be searching for “sunset” and “webcam”, and guess where Google is sending them…
It’s been almost a year since the last post. Eternal Sunset has just been up and running with nothing to report.
But a few weeks ago Johan posted a comment. A poem about Eternal Sunset. I think it shouldn’t be tucked away in the comments, so here it is:
Chasing the Sunset
Slowly the sun falls before my eyes
My memory races
My heart heavy
I feel empty
Chasing the sun before it goes
I lose my mind
But keep my hope
Chasing the sun before the moon
One more glimpse
Before evenings bloom
Chasing the sun with purple skies
One rosey kiss
One sweet goodbye
Chasing the sun the night becomes
I slow down
I succumb
Thanks Johan!
Eternal Sunset will be exhibited at the STRP festival from between November 22nd and 25th.
STRP is an Art & Technology festival held in a former industrial area turned cultural precinct in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. It looks like a great festival with music, perfomance, visual art, etc. The exhibition program boasts works by (amongst others) Ken Rinaldo and Christian Moeller; nice company :)
Eternal Sunset will be projected above the festival bar - so everyone can indulge in sunsets with a beer in their hands. Nice.
Oh, and of course it’s extra nice being part of STRP because I used to live in Eindhoven. Too bad I can’t make it over there…
Between the 6th and the 15th of September, Eternal Sunset will be exhibited at the New Forms Festival in Vancouver, Canada.
The theme of the festival is Re:Use, encompassing a wide variety of artistic and intellectual practices including, but not limited to, sampling, collage, remixing, and appropriation. Whether it involves the recycling of equipment and changes in its function, the reprogramming of material, the sampling and mashing-up of sounds and images or the rethinking of ideas, the notion of re:use encapsulates the continuous growth and change in media and electronic arts.
Eternal Sunset will be presented in the web exhibition of d/Art/07. d/Art is the annual showcase of new and experimental screen, web and mobile art, organised and presented by d/Lux/MediaArts. d/Lux/MediaArts is a not-for-profit media arts organisation located in Sydney, Australia.
I feel like I should declare my tight bonds with d/Lux: I worked there as the Program Manager for two years between 2004 and 2006 and am currently a board member. However, I was in no way involved with the selection of Eternal Sunset into this exhibition (honest truth).
Other than the web exhibition, d/Art/07 consists of a screening program (screened both in cinemas and online), a mobile phone art exhibition, a forum on business models for selling video art and art tours through Second Life. Cool!!!
Oh, d/Art/07 takes place between the 13th and 29th of July.
In celebration of their respective ten-year anniversaries, Turbulence and Rhizome collaborated with Upgrade! New York to present an exhibition of works that they commissioned or presented over the course of their histories: D.I.Y. or DIE
Eternals Sunset is included in this exhibition that is presented both online and at the IAO gallery in Oklahoma.
From December 13 to 17, Eternal Sunset was part of the 10th edition of the Videomedeja festival which took place at the museum of voivodina, in Novia Sad, Serbia.
Eternal Sunset has been selected for inclusion in Orilla#06, a digital art festival in Santa Fé, Argentina. The festival will take place from November 9th to December 3rd at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Santa Fé.
Last night was what the whole trip to New York was about: the presentation of the 2005 Rhizome commissions at the New Museum Store. It was a very nice evening, with a great turnout, much interest, great sunsets and nice cocktails too.
Thanks to Lauren and all others at Rhizome and the New Museum Store for a great night of celebrating net.art!
Late last night Mei and I arrived in New York. We’re here because next week Eternal Sunset will be presented at the New Museum as part of Rhizome’s Ten Year Anniversary Festival. The event will celebrate the works from Rhizome’s 2005 Commissions Program with a one-night installation and presentations by several of the commissioned artists.
With the support of the Dutch Consulate General in New York and the Mondriaan Foundation I was able to come out to New York for this great event. Thanks very much! The images are of the Mondriaan Foundation’s beautiful loft apartment we’re staying in.
More soon!
Rhizome Commissions 2005-2006
October 24, 6.30pm
New Museum Store
556 West 22nd Street
New York NY 10011
