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Ongoing Project Our biggest project to date, Earthbound Moon (EbM) is a non-contiguous sculpture garden that covers the face of the Earth, each parcel the home to a publicly accessible sculpture. Each artwork is site specific -- imagined, built and installed by an artist engaged with the site and the community's experience of the work. The design, management and artwork installed are done so in conjunction with the local community surrounding each site. Our goals for EbM are to benefit local communities, challenge and inspire artists across mediums and create a work of contemporary art unto itself. Much much more about Earthbound Moon (like who we are, our future installation sites and artists we're going to work with) can be found on our website. Our first artworks (we are commissioning contemporary art of all sorts, not just sculpture for our garden) will be installed in Bledsoe Texas; San Francisco, California; Portland, Oregon; and international waters. All those in late 2010. For 2011, we are negotiating sites in Chania, Crete, Greece; Evanston, Illinois: Lebanon, NH; Cairo, Egypt; Tacoma, WA; and a few other sites more tentative than not at this stage. In September 2010, EbM will be installing our inaugural sculpture near the town of Bledsoe, Texas. Once the sculpture is installed, the artwork and land will be publicly accessible. We have commissioned a Danish artist, Heidi Hove, to design and install the work. Her work will be a large solar powered Welcome sign that will light up in the mostly empty high plains of west Texas, and will be visible from a nearby highway. We're very excited to have Heidi come to the United States and install the work with her. Our Bledsoe site is generously supported by people like you (see right hand panel and Kicjstarter info) and funding from the Danish Arts Council. Ongoing Project 23 Entryways Into My Mind, Portal 6: 23E Studios, in conjunction with The Museum of Viral Memory and Fringe Exhibitions, Presents Disembody Holy cow! The last year was quite the ride. And there's a year and a half left to go for 23 Entryways Into My Mind, Portal 6: 23E Studios, in conjunction with The Museum of Viral Memory and Fringe Exhibitions, Presents Disembody. We are pleased to say that the installation of the Morgellon Theater, as part of Disembody, was a huge success at Fringe Exhibitions in Los Angeles. We are now moving on to the next phase: populating the wiki, so that all of the references and influences of the varied and sundry crew members can be explored digitizing all of the footage, well over 100 hours parsing the footage into discrete scenes exporting each of these in multiple formats, .dv, .mpg, .mov uploading all of the footage to our database at the internet archive tagging every scene, so that the complete collection (literally every second of footage shot for the project over the course of a year) is easily searchable editing a feature length documentary about the creation of this work of contemporary art. The goal of all this is to make the project available in its entirety to the world at large. It's to be expected that we, the artists and filmmakers will make a film out of our labors, and submit ti to festivals and distributors. We're also curious to know what each crew member's individual film might be like. And so every crew member is being encouraged to create their own documentary about what happened, and to submit those to festivals. Beyond this, we are making all of this footage available online, in high and low resolution formats, under a Creative Commons license, not just for crew, but so that anyone on Earth can use it and remix it, re-imagine it. It is our suspicion that the most fascinating visions of our work will come from those who have never heard of The MVM, from those outside our world and community. We're also pleased to announce that the next two Portals in the series are currently in development. More news on Portal 7: A Mild Informality and Portal 8: Expansion will be forthcoming soon. |
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Earthbound Moon is currently being fiscally sponsored by an amazing non-profit art space in San Francisco, The Lab, meaning all pledges made to this project are tax deductible. Current Product
The Stowe-Pembleton Project CDs Hommage An Klaus Kinski and Confusion Bleue (BRAND NEW!) are out. This is improv jazz with heavy doses of post-fusion (Nobu Stowe) and sampled chaos (Lee). They're available from Soul Note/Black Saint as compact disc and as MP3 downloads. Hoorah! You can also buy them online from Amazon, Emusic, iTunes and other fine stores. Cuts from Hommage and Confusion can be found at the group's MySpace page. |
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Mission Statement The Museum of Viral Memory was founded by Lee Pembleton, Randolph Carter and Duke Lee in 2000. It is an ever expanding and contracting organization of artists and musicians. The MVM is a subsidiary of Nightmare City. Today's mission statements are: The MVM are makers of friends, not objects. Poor commercial choice. Wise life choice. The primary focus of 23 Entryways Into My Mind is immortality:
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