15 June, 2009

I Need Your Help


Hai ppl I need your help. Does anybody have Kevin Bewersdorf's track "My Sun and Moon"? Since he deleted his website I cannot download it anywhere. I know he has a video on YouTube, but I am looking for the good quality mp3. THIS IS IMPORTANT! He promised to send me the last and unreleased song "Amen Brother" from the album Babes once I recovered the files (like some kind of sick scavenger hunt). I promise I'll post it for you, so come on help me find "My Sun and Moon"!!!!

06 May, 2009

wtf

01 May, 2009

Untitled (Michael Jackson)

I had this cube laser etched for the Michael Jackson Doesn't Quit exhibition at The Future Gallery:



Interview

Nikola Tosic did an interview with me for tosic.com
In return I did one with him:

Q how much do you love dolph lundgren?

i do not know really. in 80s and maybe even 90s he was a hero to us
kids in pre-war serbia. i have not seen many of his recent films and i
have to say i enjoy jean-claude van damme much more - ive just
finished watching blood sport and it is awesome. i think dolph was big
but never made it. jean-claude and steven seagal are definitely like
class one, with chuck norris being always a weird guy in his own
strange league.

the movie with dolph i remember most is blackjack directed by john woo
and i was actually disappointed by that movie. that particular movie
is an important point in my life - it is one of the first movies from
which my expectations were not met. movies for me before were always
great, a movie was great by default, pure pleasure, always... and i
think blackjack was the first movie when i actually checked out the
director and actors and such, like i knew something about the movie,
and i was expecting to great fun and it just did not deliver.

so dolph lundgren has this place in my life, in this movie blackjack,
as sort of a disappointment. its not his fault, i never got into john
woo... but he is related to this in my mind.

Q are you coming to stuttgart this weekend (for frühlingsfest)?

no, my girlfriend, martina, was born in stuttgart and we visited it
once when we were around, but i am not interested in visiting it again
unless theres really something super cool there (besides you). spring
festival just does not cut it for me. muenich is ok, its next to
stuttgart and i had a nice time there (if you can ignore that fruit
costs like 20 times more in germany than in serbia).

what i do regret is that on my travels around stuttgart i did not stop
in german lego land. it is my dream to visit lego land (preferably
danish one) and i was too lazy to do it then and there. i think it is
better i leave it for some later occasion and for the danish one.

Q artificial rasberry and bacon?

i dont know what is this artificial stuff. either one if its
artificial i guess. whatever.

24 April, 2009

Michael Jackson Doesn't Quit


I will be in the show at The Future Gallery in Berlin, May 1 - May 7, curated by Mike Ruiz and Ben Aqua.

Featured artists:
Martijn Hendriks
Jason Lazarus
Harm van den Dorpel
Tracky Birthday
Chris Buck

Go check it out, I made an awesome work for it. Opening reception on Thursday, April 30, 6 – 10 pm

PS: It's weird how all those exhibition headlines look alike, right?

02 April, 2009

Forms Of Melancholy



My homest homeboy Chris Coy is curating a show called Forms Of Melancholy at Sego Art Center in Utah.

Proud to be in it, among great artists as Kari Altmann, Jeffrey Baij, Charles Broskoski, Ryan Browning, Chris Collins, Petra Cortright, Constant Dullaart, Patrick Dyer, Chris Harris (lung), Thomas Galloway, Quinn Gorbott, Bardhi Haliti, Charles Harlan, Joel Holmberg, jpegmess, Justin Kemp, Andrew Kozlowski, Thomas Mailaeander, Eilis Mcdonald, Jon Rafman, Billy Rennekamp, Hayley Silverman, Zach Shipko, James Whipple, Bennett Williamson, Jessica Williams, Damon Zucconi and others.

The exhibition is all about cafepress, check out the press text here! A collection of works can be found here.



03 March, 2009

De:Bugged and SOLD OUT




Best before - A Dsico Fanzine is featured in the current issue of De:Bug (thanks Ram for pointing out). Even though we just sold our last copy yesterday, you might be lucky to find some remaining copies in selected stores.
Berlin: Pro qm
Stuttgart: Second Hand Records, Pauls Musique, Salon Vow, Boutique Olympia.

02 March, 2009

In Real Life



djeah: ill be creating a work for the upcoming clubinternet.org show on sunday, march 8th from 4 to 8pm.

"The opening will be held in the Capricious Gallery, Brooklyn, New
York, in cooperation with I Heart Photography (Laurel Ptak) on the
occasion of the In Real Life event.
The show will run for a month.

Sunday March 8th, at 4pm, the curatorial criteria will be announced by
email. The show will go online at 8pm. You are requested to make or
select a work during those 4 hours in between the announcement and
launch of the show. The process of creating the show will be presented
in the gallery."

More about In Real Life:
"An exhibition that invites innovative and independent online art initiatives to each come do a 4-hour residency inside the space of a gallery—attempting to explore how the distribution, production, analysis, and consumption of culture are rapidly evolving in an online context. In particular the exhibition aims to render the labor of these online practices transparent, providing “real life” access to these cultural producers, and overall inspiring public dialogue around their practices.

[...]

The 14 participating websites—Art Fag City, ASDF, Club Internet, Ffffound, The Highlights, Humble Arts Foundation, I Heart Photograph, Loshadka, Netmares/Netdreams, Platform For Pedagogy, Private Circulation, UbuWeb, VVORK, Why + Wherefore—represent a wide spectrum of online practices and practitioners. Among them are: online curators and critics, internet surfers, bloggers, artist collectives, and much more. These sites, and others like them, represent a truly expanded field for the discourse of contemporary art. Often they show us work, viewpoints, and voices missing from more established, “real world” venues. Overall they have pioneered forms and frameworks that offer us new ways to see, think about, and participate in contemporary visual culture......"

Read More!



26 January, 2009

Come party with us


, originally uploaded by tracky_birthday.

Konrad Kuhn and I are playing at the 1-year anniversary party of the AiLAIK store in Wiesbaden. Feb 7th, come on out!

Stuttgart Filmwinter


Stuttgart Filmwinter, originally uploaded by tracky_birthday.

"Dennis Knopf’s final project –Youtube channel BootyClipse, got the Prize for Online Art at the 22nd Filmwinter Festival 2009.

No wonder, Bootyclipse is one of the most interesting web project of our time, a beautiful statement on current video culture, amateur aesthetics and an answer to the question “What is net art today?”

Read more in the Infinite Seance article."

Olia Lialina

micromusic.net


, originally uploaded by tracky_birthday.

drx and my song websiiite is ranked 2nd on micromusic.net!

22 January, 2009

Nasty Nets





nastynets.com

15 January, 2009

DATASOFT


DATASOFT, originally uploaded by tracky_birthday.

Working on this thing with my brother Bobby, for www.htvdeijsberg.nl

07 January, 2009

FAUND Magazine

The new issue of FAUND Magazine is out today! Featuring artists Jon Rafman, Erik van der Weijde, Misaki Kawai, Team Assignment, To, Dennis Knopf and Log_070329.


22 December, 2008

New Album!!!!

I've just released my new album Animal Audition on UpitUp Records. Take a listen!

Look What I Got For Xmas!

05 December, 2008

Junk Jet

The fanzine Junk Jet features an article Olia Lialina wrote about my work BootyClipse. If your brain is quick you can see it in the animated .gif below!

30 November, 2008

4


4, originally uploaded by tracky_birthday.