On the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the war in Iraq, I collaborated with Lee Montgomery on a musical protest: the star spangled banner played backwards five times. If I remember right, we had the anthem as interpreted by Jimmy Hendrix, Dolly Parton, John Phillips Sousa, Rosanne Bar, and one real old timey classic version too.

The infamous photos of Abu Ghraib came to light in 2004. Now, four years later, we are still debating the ethics of torture, and are still apparently unable to really process the contents of the images we received from the American dungeons of Iraq.

This new website is about the questions asked of artists: http://questions.onetwothree.net.

The submission of the artist to questioning is an unavoidable aspect of art practice. The interview, the artist talk, the grant application, the studio visit, the critique, etc. -- all occasions for interrogation. It seems that the very identity of the artist is constructed inside of that interrogative process.

President George W. Bush's final State of the Union address will be analyzed as well as televised thanks to the State of the Union website, a software art project by Brad Borevitz. The address is scheduled to be delivered to Congress and the American people by the President on January 28th. Within an hour after the text of the speech is released, visitors to the website at http://stateoftheunion.onetwothree.net will be able to see the results.

If you are in San Francisco, and want to read and discuss art, theory, politics, and technology, join the reading group.

To start out, I am considering three readings on games and play that range over a wide temporal span:

I will be in the show as a participant in this year's ISP Studio Program. The show will include 10 new works under the title of "The Rules of the Game | The Game of the Rules."

WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART - Independent Study Program - Studio Program Exhibition - May 19–27, 2007

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