JK Keller

The Daily Photo Project video will be showing as a part of a group exhibition Past (Present) Future at Laurence Miller Gallery (20 West 57th St, NY). Check it out at a size slightly more impressive than the online version. The show runs from July 9th through August 16th. Unfortunately, there is no reception.

Living My Life Faster will be showing in the New InSight exhibition (video about exhibition) at Art Chicago. The exhibition “promises to be an amazing display of the future emerging talent in the art world. New InSight is comprised of artwork from 24 graduate students at 12 of the country’s most influential Master of Fine Arts programs.”

“All of the artists featured at New InSight will be invited to Chicago for an opening reception during the Art Chicago preview party on Thursday, April 26, and will also be on hand for a town hall-style meeting on Friday, April 27 at 1pm.”

Art Chicago runs from Friday, April 27–Monday, April 30, 2007

Cranbrook’s finally coming to a close. See what two years in Bloomfield Hills does to a person.

April 22 - May 11, 2007
Opening Reception (I’ll be attending this)
Saturday, April 21, 6–8pm

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For the first time this year (finally!) I added new photos to the Daily Photo Project. All of January and February are there, ending with the first image of my new spectacles. I’m sure someone will comment that they hate/love them, so I’ll just upfront say that I think they’re pretty great in real life.

In other news… I will be adding a couple new projects this weekend. I just need to get some decent documentation

Oh, and the video “Living My Life Faster” of the daily photos will be featured in an exhibition of graduate student work at Art Chicago over the weekend of April 26-29. I’ll even be in attendance, if you’re in the Chicago area and want to grab a beer. It’s going to be just a week after the grad show exhibition opens, and a week before our thesis is due, so I should be in rare form at that time. FYI.

For all those Minneapolitans out there…

Alphabet: An Exhibition of Hand-Drawn Lettering and Experimental Typography is coming to the Minneapolis College of Art & Design in two weeks. The show has been traveling around the USA for the past two years and “presents 63 wildly inventive alphabets” including my own PostMapper / BitScripter Typeface Generator. It will be open from February 23 to April 1, with an opening reception on March 2 from 6 to 8pm. If you happen to like type or are around MCAD during this period, check it out.

This is the latest output from the web visualization project that I built in Macromedia Director. It starts at www.macromedia.com and then gets caught in an error loop 2096 steps later at www. systransoft.com. I printed this out as two 42″ x 96″ inkjet prints for an exhibition in Ann Arbor at Gallery Project. I think it turned out pretty sweet. Makes me want to work on the project some more too…

Pay no mind to the TV and stuffed animal in the foreground… Someone else’s work.

The type on the wall is a version of the Paulette script ribbon type

Last night Matthew and Cullen put together the BMX Stunt Spectacluar show in the Forum Gallery. This was my submission to the show. It’s plastic ribbon woven into garden fencing. I wanted to do some type work with it, but ran out of time. Will be working a little on that coming up though. It’s about 3′ by 3′.

Venice, 29 September 2005 to 2 October 2005.

Teach me, a permanent laboratory-observatory on new teaching methods and research on the rapport between students, schools, and teachers, returns this year with Teach me, Stories.

Promoted by the Faculty of Arts & Design of the University Iuav of Venice and by Fabrica, Communication Research Centre of the Benetton Group, supported by Aprilia and Veneto Region. Teach me, Stories will take place in Venice, at the Magazzini Ligabue, from 29 September to 2 October 2005. The event represents the continuation of last year’s successful Teach me. Festival of Italian Graphic Design.

This important event involves the study of new methods, language, content and programmes. Focus is placed on the most experimental and extreme forms of contemporary expression, an essential feature of the Faculty of Arts and Design, of Fabrica, the international laboratory on creativity, as well as of Aprilia, company of Piaggio Group really close to the world of design.

This encounter between university and the Teach me, Stories project is once again a propellant of energy and inspiration for talented students who attend the University.

Teach me, Stories takes place over the course of four days and includes conferences, workshops, shows, screenings and discussions on graphic design, communication, design, fashion and art. This year Teach me is above all dedicated to stories concerned with the object, told through the use of symbols, drawings and writings which express the unexplored, other side of the world of artefacts.

A large festival of images and words which will include the exhibition “Amico Massimo”, a collection of visual letters sent by students and friends in memory of graphic designer Massimo Dolcini. Professionals from interrelated fields have been invited to participate in the festival, including photographers, film directors, writers, screenwriters, and others whose work is distinguished for its particular creativity and originality.

While I didn’t do any advertising of the event, on Friday I debuted my sign language matchbooks. At the Incredibly Thin Miniature Spectacular, I showed a full ASL alphabet as well as a version of the original inspiration for the matchbooks (see #2 of previous post). Dave Glanz took the photograph for me, which I’m thankful for, since I haven’t gotten my new digital camera yet.

What I’m really surprised at is that no one got drunk (and stupid) enough to set the matches ablaze. I’m very thankful, but it wouldn’t have shocked me…

I’ll get a page made specifcally for the matchbooks soon. But since I’m in the process of moving to Detroit, and getting prepared for grad school, it might be a while. Need to get my new camera as well I think.

Whoops, guess I should thank Ryan for asking me to be a part of the festivities. I probably wouldn’t have gotten around to making the full alphabet without the impetus of the event. So, thanks!