August 2012
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NewMediator.org: Josh Freda (1 of 2) →
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In this episode Dave LaMorte sits down with Josh Freda and talks about his part in the NewMediator MixTape. You can hear Josh’s contribution “Planetary Nebula of the Sun in C Minor” on our Bandcamp page or his other music: http://soundcloud.com/joshfreda Also…
June 2012
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Live From Metuchen!
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We are in our new studio and it is CRAY. We are still dealing with technical issues, but we are back. We discuss some local art shows, festivals, and our upcoming projects.
Liz Levering at PRO Gallery
Frank May is curating a show of still lives by artist Liz Levering http://www.facebook.com/pages/Riverview-Arts-Center/127413884018924?ref=ts
PRO Gallery 68 South Main Street...
February 2012
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Take On The Champ →
{Mp3 Link} This episode we discuss Jeff Songco’s new blog on the Huffington Post and the Buck Art Contest.
Jeff Songco is making more moves to be the United States representative at the 2023 Venice Biennale. He is now blogging about his life and the arts on the Huffington Post. You can see him discuss the Super Bowl commercials, his recent solo show in San Francisco, and the death of Whitney...
Thunk Tank Afterward →
Today we are going to talk about the opening of the now closed Thunk Tank: Corpus Absurdum show at the Dino Eli Gallery and Jeffrey Songco’s upcoming solo show at Steven Wolf Fine Arts in San Francisco.{Click to Play}
Dino Eli Gallery →
This episode we discuss the upcoming artshow Thunk Tank: Corpus Absurdum and my experiments with Etsy. Thunk Tank: Corpus Absurdum opens Saturday December 3rd from 6-9pm at the Dino Eli Gallery.
I included an exerpt from Thunk Tank of an interview with the owner and curator at the Dino Eli Gallery, Dino Eli.
November 2011
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Thunk Tank Coming
Dave LaMorte talks about the upcoming Thunk Tank artshow a the Dino Eli Gallery and about OWS. The artshow is coming together nicely as we approach the opening on December 3rd. We even have some audio from WFMU where we talk about the show. If you are looking for an alternative to big businesses on Black Friday, check us out on our Etsy site. Put your cash in the pocket of an independent artist...
September 2011
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Arts in the Park
This Sunday (September 25, 2011) I will one of the participating artists at Arts in the Park, the Highland Park NJ annual arts festival. I will be exhibiting drawings, sculptures, painting and collage. I am hoping to take some videos and audio of the event for the NewMediator.org podcast. If you are in the area come stop by or hit me up on twitter.
This is also part of a juried show, so...
July 2011
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Frank May, Artist
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Today I am speaking with conceptual and conventional artist Frank May. Frank is a talented artist and a friend from art school. Frank recieved his BFA from the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.
Frank is the artist in residence at the Riverview Art Center in Phillipsburg, NJ. Frank is going to be producing/curating his next show on August 13th and 14th, 2011.
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June 2011
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Current and Upcoming
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This is an action packed week for all of the artists at NewMediator.org. There are a number of shows that some of our artists are in now and are going to open soon (even one opening today!).
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Currently the NewMediator.org show is going on at Nighthawk Books until July 1st. You can still see works by Amanda Thackray, Sheree Rensel, James Post, Olivia Kaufman-Rovia,...
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New Mediator Art Show May 2011
This is an audio tour of the current New Mediator Art Show at Nighthawk Books. The show features the work of past New Mediator guests John Herman, Olivia Kaufman, James Post, Amanda Thackray, Jeffrey Songco, Sheree Rensel, and your host David LaMorte.
Links to the artists’ pages:
John Herman (http://johnherman.org)
Olivia Kaufman-Rovira (http://oliviakaufman.com/)
Dave LaMorte...
May 2011
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24 Hour Novel Project →
The has 24 Hour Novel Project already started. As part of the NewMediator Show John Herman is ring-master of the collaborative project. Go to the site now to see the writing underway.
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Highland Park Open Studios →
Last weekend I participated in the Highland Park Open Studios in Highland Park, NJ. Each year the Arts Commission and the Highland Park Artists Collective organize the event, promoting the artists and advertising for the event.
I had a lot of fun talking to everyone who came through the Lotus Studios and saw me and a bunch of other artists. I have attended many open studio events, but this...
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Duncan MacKenzie, Bad at Sports
I am excited to share this interview I did with Duncan MacKenzie from Bad at Sports. A great deal of the work we are doing on NewMediator was inspired by the many dedicated folks behind Bad at Sports. I am basically stealing their idea and trying to do what I think they have done with the Chicago art world and apply it to New Jersey. He was gracious enough to sit with me and discuss his many...
April 2011
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Jewel Lim, Curator at Alfa Art Gallery
Today we sit down to talk with curator, Jewel Lim. Jewel is the curator at the Alfa Art Gallery in New Brunswick, NJ. We discussed her work at the gallery and the New Brunswick Art Salon. The New Brunswick Art Salon is a juried show that features emerging and established artists from the New Jersey area. Part 1 runs from April 22nd through May 12th and features the work of Carlos Frias...
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NEWScast
[Mp3] Olivia Kaufman part of Appearances: Provincetown Green Arts Festival : Appearances April 15th - 24th, 2011 Provincetown, MA http://issuu.com/appearancesprovincetown/docs/appearancesbrochure2 From Olivia herself:
For those of you in the area or for those of you who want to make the trip to Provincetown from out of the area, the event is going to be a beautiful celebration of the...
Open Enrollment | The Importance of Being Sketchy... →
I am freaking out! In one month, I’ll be installing my artwork at The Winery SF for San Francisco Art Institute’s MFA Thesis Exhibition. Last year at this time, my buddy and neighbor from my days in Bushwick, Bonnie Kaye Whitfield, presented her Pratt thesis exhibition in a solo-show format at a gallery on campus. Next year at this time, my buddy and undergrad classmate from Carnegie...
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John C. Herman (Enhanced Podcast)
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John Herman is a writer, director, actor, web producer, musician and educator based in New Hampshire. John is a fixture of new media and pioneer in combining art and the web. As the creator of numerous projects that are also numerous in scope.
For our group show John is going to orchestrate 25 authors to write a single book in 24 hours. The writing/editing of the chapters...
March 2011
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NewMediator Show Mentioned in SeaCoastOnline.com →
John Herman was interviewed for an article on the Sea Coast Online. In it he discussed is project for the NewMediator Show on May 28th!
“The gist is, at midnight, the morning of May 28, till midnight, a novel will be created all over the country typing on a single digital document connected through the Web,” Herman says. “So what it will look like when you go to the art show is...
Phillip J. Mellen (Enhanced Podcast)
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Today’s episode is an interview with, artist and podcaster, Phillip J. Mellen. We discussed his excellent art podcast and his artistic practice. Phillip produces the ahtcast, where he interviews contemporary artists he has met and discusses their work with them. Not only are the artists and their work high quality, but the conversations are interesting and easy to...
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James W. Post (Enhanced Podcast)
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Today we talk to another one of the talented artists for our upcoming group show, James Post. James is a Brooklyn based painter who draws from eastern thought, his martial arts training, and the relationship between conscienceness and the body.
His paintings always seem in flux, drawing his own beliefs and research. Trying to capture a sense of transformation. I think what I...
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Olivia Kaufman-Rovira (Enhanced Podcast)
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Today we sit down with installation artist and sculptor Olivia Kaufman. We discussed her artwork and Upcycled, her most recent show in New York dealing with recycled art and installation.
There was also a recent Jersey Journal article about her and her work if you want to learn more about Olivia. Article in the Jersey Journal, on NJ.com
You can find more of her work and...
February 2011
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Amanda Thackray (Enhanced Podcast)
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We sit down with artist Amanda Thackray. She is a talented artist from New Jersey who is currently working on her masters at the Rhodes Island School of Design.
We discuss her work in printmaking, bookbinding, and now fiber arts. Amanda’s work is very process oriented and she takes us into her approach to her work. I have wanted to sit down and talk...
$300 Art Show
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/davidlamorte/newmediator-art-show
I am producing and curating an art show this May and I need your help! I invited some of my favorite artists to submit work, but you can also become part of the show. We are producing a catalog to pay for the show and as an ephemeral art piece and I am going to podcast the show as well. If you would like to become a backer...
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Google Art Project
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One of the newest projects from Google Labs is the Google Art Project. Google has teamed up with a group of international fine art museums to create high resolution images of selected work
This is a great tool for teachers and anyone who is interested in seeing these works, but it has a few major faults. Applying a Google Street view interface to a museum catalog is not going to...
January 2011
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Jeffrey Augustine Songco (enhanced podcast)
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We sat down with artist Jeffrey Augustine Songco (http://songco.org) and discussed his past and current work. We discuss Jeffrey’s shifting back and forth between relationship aesthetics, Internet art, installation art, and performance art. Most interestingly, Jeffrey explains where his work is going and why being big on the Internet is not all it is cracked up to be.
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Twitter Art in Moss, Norway →
This is a video covering a Twitter Art Exhibit that I’m in and is being run by an amazing painter named David Sandum. More about the exhibit from David:
The interview is with the Director at the Moss public library, Lillian Salomonsen. I was featured on the NRK news the day after (see link below). Clip in Norwegian but show many art pieces. See: http://www.tvostfold.no/klipp/2708.html...
Jeffrey Augustine Songco 2012 (mp3 audio)
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This is the audio of an interview performance I did on Newmediator.org with Jeffery Augustine Songco. You can see the full video on blip.tv
Jeffrey Augustine Songco is a world renown multimedia artist and writer. Jeffrey (or J) sat down with me to talk about his upcoming work for his exhibition at the 2012 Whitney Biennial. He discusses his recent success and his new graduate...
Newmediator Artshow
Newmediator.org is hosting its first live event in May 2011 and we need your help! We are going to be hosting a one day group exhibition in Highland Park, NJ.
We are a web operation so we have an excited group of artists, but with no space to exhibit the physical work. To pay for the space we are going to launch a Kickstarer project next month. This means that we are going to ask for...
November 2010
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Jeffrey Augustine Songco is a world renown multimedia artist and writer. Jeffrey (or J) sat down with me to talk about his upcoming work for his exhibition at the 2012 Whitney Biennial. He discusses his recent success and his new graduate assistants, while still staying relatively grounded.
For more information check out J’s work online: http://songco.org/...
October 2010
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Newmediator
Newmediator is a podcast and virtual gallery of visual art and performing art. Each episode will focus on the work of a single artist. Each project is an experiment and a collaboration between the artist and their audience.
You can participate in the experiment by posting your comments and participating in our live shows and discussions. Feel free to email us as newmediatorart@gmail.com.
