Art Spaces Archives Project

AS-AP

Art Spaces Archives Project AS-AP is a non-profit initiative founded by a consortium of alternative art organizations, including Bomb Magazine, College Art Association, Franklin Furnace Archive, New York State Council on the Arts NYSCA, New York State Artist Workspace Consortium, and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, with a mandate to help preserve, present, and protect the archival heritage of living and defunct for- and not-for-profit spaces of the "alternative" or "avant-garde" movement of the 1950s to the present throughout the United States.

News

Art Spaces Archives Project at CAA 2010 [Press Release]
At the College Art Association's 98th Annual Conference in Chicago, AS-AP will present a panel discussion, "Alternative Publishing and Distribution Models as Art and Curatorial Practice."

NEA and NYSCA Grants awarded to Art Spaces Archives Project [Press Release]
The National Endowment for the Arts and The New York State Council on the Arts have both awarded the Art Spaces Archives Project with substantial funding in support of projects relating to archiving alternative and avant-garde arts organizations throughout the United States.

Featured Organization: Digital Giraffe

Palo Alto, CAhttp://www.giraffe.com

Our mission has been and continues to be the development of a native iconography for digital imaging. Using the computer’s own language, without scanning or photography, we have attempted to develop a vocabulary of vision as offered by the computer. Just as the camera and the paint brush have their distinct ways of viewing the world, the computer has its unique vision of reality. This vision, or rather the radical change in vision offered through digital imaging, is as profound a development in the history of art as was renaissance perspective in its time. We are going places that artists have never been before. The energy that is transforming the human race into something other-than is revolutionary and profound. As the body escapes its gravitational chains, we are perhaps evolving into another species, one that is biodynamically incorruptible and doesn’t throw up over Mars.

These images celebrate the glory of that new energy field. While we may not know where it is taking us, we do know that a new iconography of seeing is required to express this new era.

View Organization

View Completed Survey

More Organizations:

All Organizations ...