Guarded : Finley + Muse

deep and superficial storage

Posted: Jul 13 | Author: John Muse | Filed under: News & Updates | Tagged: Catapult, George S. Kingsley, Guarded, Living Under Satellites, Sleeping Under Stars, Vanessa Marsh

Equipment from the Aldrich exhibition, Sleeping Under Stars, Living Under Satellites, arrived in San Francisco last week, and so yesterday we took this gear to our Vallejo storage unit in a Zip truck. Thinking about storage, George S. Kingsley’s Atlas Storage, the ubiquity of “stuff,” and the obsolescence and allure of artworks that depend on dead and dying tech—we unpacked and repacked our stuff. Read More >

recent updates

Posted: Mar 13 | Author: John Muse | Filed under: News & Updates | Tagged: Flat Land, Guarded, Imaginative Feats Literally Presented, Judith Butler, Undoing Gender, Xerox PARC

We’ve updated a few projects and added two.

installation shots of Guarded at the Flaherty

Posted: Mar 12 | Author: John Muse | Filed under: News & Updates | Tagged: Colgate University, Flaherty Seminar, Guarded, Irina Leimbacher, Warren Wheeler

As featured artists during the 2009 Flaherty Seminar, we installed Guarded in Little Hall at Colgate University. Here are some shots of that installation by photographer Warren Wheeler.

another diagram

Posted: Feb 03 | Author: John Muse | Filed under: News & Updates | Tagged: Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Flat Land, Guarded, Imaginative Feats Literally Presented, Lost

John found a napkin with a drawing of the layout for Imaginative Feats that predates the ones we posted a few months ago.

Installation shots of Imaginative Feats

Posted: Nov 18 | Author: John Muse | Filed under: News & Updates | Tagged: Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, documentation, Flat Land, Guarded, Imaginative Feats Literally Presented, Lisa Boughter, Lost

Here are a few installation shots of Imaginative Feats Literally Presented: Three Fables for Video Projection by Lisa Boughter.

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Rebooting Imaginative Feats, an extra-and-no-curricular, quasi-open-source project

Posted: Nov 07 | Author: John Muse | Filed under: News & Updates | Tagged: Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, collaboration, Flat Land, Guarded, Haverford College, Imaginative Feats Literally Presented, Lost, reboot Imaginative Feats

We will make the three armatures that drive Imaginative Feats available to Haverford College students and others in the community. What will they do with them?

Documenting Imaginary Feats

Posted: Nov 06 | Author: John Muse | Filed under: News & Updates | Tagged: Flat Land, Guarded, Imaginative Feats Literally Presented, LA Freewaves, Lisa Boughter, Lost, Patricia Sweetow Gallery

Photographer Lisa Boughter documented our show Thursday night. We don’t have her picts yet, but we do have some of her.

Review of Imaginative Feats Literally Presented

Posted: Nov 01 | Author: John Muse | Filed under: News & Updates | Tagged: Guarded, Haverford College, Imaginative Feats Literally Presented

The Bi-College News published a review of the show. Read More >

Flaherty Seminar catalog

Posted: Oct 31 | Author: John Muse | Filed under: News & Updates | Tagged: At the Museum, Based on a Story, catalog, Colgate University, Flaherty Seminar, Guarded, Irina Leimbacher, The Adventures of Blacky

In early June of this year we showed some of our work at the 2009 Flaherty Seminar at Colgate University in Hamilton New York. Irina Leimbacher, the seminar programmer, included Guarded, Based on a Story, The Adventures of Blacky, and At the Museum: a Pilgrimage of Vanquished Objects.