Please join _gaia, the artists, curators and NJCU for an evening of informal conversations about media news effects on our lives and how artists can make art out of them. Artists and Curators of the 365 Days of Print exhibition, currently on view at NJCU’s Visual Arts Gallery, will be discussing their project’s concept, artistic processes, and challenges.

There have been two excellent reviews of the show published:
http://www.nj.com/jjournal-news/index.ssf/2011/09/newspapers_form_the_basis_of_n.html
http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2011/09/365_days_of_print_exhibit_at_n.html

We look forward to seeing you!

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NJCU Visual Arts Gallery presents:

365 Days of Print
AN EXHIBITION OF ARTISTS MINING MEDIA

Oct. 1 – Oct. 27

Artists’ Panel: Oct. 20, 5:30 p.m. at the auditorium (adjacent to the gallery)

Gallery Location: 100 Culver Avenue, Jersey City, NJ 07305

Gallery phone number: 201-200-2496

Comprised of works by over forty artists from the online project of the same name, “365 Days of Print: An Exhibition of Artists Mining Media” catalogues the struggle and challenge to process, respond to and engage with the evolving media landscape, its images and content. Artists have used audio, collage, photography, embroidery, and sculpture to comment on and critique press coverage of every major event – from protests in Tunisia and Egypt to the debt ceiling debate, from the Fukushima disaster to the arrest of Dominique Strauss-Kahn.

Since January 2011, 365 Days of Print has invited small groups of artists for one-month residencies to create work sourcing newspapers and various media outlets. Working under the same deadlines as journalists, artists created work every day that engaged and commented not only on the information and events covered by The New York Times and other newspapers, but on the medium itself and such concepts as bias, objectivity, sexism, consumerism and conflict of interest.

Organized by artists and curators Kenneth Pietrobono and Doris Caçoilo, the exhibition will feature over 120 works and will be installed at both the Dumbo Arts Festival and The Visual Arts Gallery at New Jersey City University. Using a loose chronological format, the exhibit will illustrate news events as they occurred, allowing pieces to engage in a visual dialogue of shared experience. In keeping with the pace of the media cycle, space will be left available for future works by contributing artists throughout the run of the exhibition.

Created by Maya Joseph-Goteiner, 365 Days of Print continues to enlist artists to make new work through 2011. For more information on the project, please visit http://www.365daysofprint.com/

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