#155 freeman

Chris Marker memorial, discovered in front of 155 Freeman Street, Greenpoint, this morning. JOIN US TODAY, for Light Industry's "For Chris Marker":

As a tribute to Chris Marker, who passed away last month, Light Industry is hosting a free, all-day screening of his films, with introductory remarks and remembrances by Paul Chan, Thomas Keenan, Tom McDonough, Molly Nesbit, Martha Rosler, Jason Simon, and Amy Taubin, among others.

Anna Lundh, from her essay "The Tale of the Big Computer," published in Bad Actors, Issue 13 of Triple Canopy.

Triple Canopy presents artist Anna Lundh for a deluxe reading, performance, and silent concert of her piece, "The Tale of the Big Computer," published in Bad Actors, Issue 13 of Triple Canopy.

In 1996, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Hannes Alfvén published the Swedish sci-fi novel The Tale of the Big Computer under the pseudonym Olof Johannesson. Alfvén's bestseller inspired in turn a “computer opera” by the composer Karl-Birger Blomdahl. The opera was never completed, and all that remain are fragments of evidence. Lists of noises such as “sword against shield, water boiling, meat frying, steam engine, a falling guillotine, subway, a radio being squeaky and noisy, the first voice of a sputnik, washing machine, dishwasher, A-bomb explosions.”

Collaborators and collaborators' collaborators including Billy Klüver, Pontus Hultén, Öyvind Fahlström, and others involved with E.A.T. (Experiments in Art and Technology). 

The Making of Americans A marathon reading of Gertrude Stein’s novel with Triple Canopy

From Friday, 1/20, at 7 p.m, until Sunday, 1/22, at (very approximately) 7 p.m.

In celebration of the opening of 155 Freeman (our new home in Greenpoint), a 48-hour marathon reading of Gertrude Stein’s allegedly unreadable novel The Making of Americans.

155 Freeman: Triple Canopy, Light Industry, Public School -- by Triple Canopy

This September, three New York-based nonprofits — Triple Canopy, an online magazine, Light Industry, a cinema, and The Public School New York, an open-source classroom with no curriculum — will launch a new arts-and-culture center at 155 Freeman Street, in the Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn.

So all of this sounds nice, right? Culture! Arts! Usually free! All in one place and conveniently located just a few blocks from my apartment! (just me?)

But who are these people and just what to they do?

Light Industry is a venue for film and electronic art in Brooklyn, New York. Every week they have an event organized with a different artist, critic, or curator. Every week! The idea is to bring together the worlds of contemporary art, experimental cinema, new media, documentary film, and academics to do cool stuff. Or "foster a dialogue." You know, the usual.

Public School is "a school with no curriculum." They have classes about everything from infographics to sewing circles to (your favorite and mine) Walter Benjamin. The way it works is like this:

First, classes are proposed by the public ("I want to learn this" or "I want to teach this"); then, people have the opportunity to sign up for the classes ("I also want to learn that"); finally, when enough people have expressed interest, the school finds a teacher and offers the class to those who signed up.

(Hippies.)

So they'll be host all their classes on Freeman St. The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction, indeed!

Triple Canopy is a place where people come together over a shared love of sticking their head through overhead projectors.

Not really!

Triple Canopy is a beautiful online publication with a really fun domain name, and also a workspace and general hub for all kinds of curatorial and editorial activities dedicated to "slowing down the internet."

They'll have all kinds of readings, performances, screenings, and panels (who doesn't love a panel?) here at Freeman St. Ellie Ga may even show up to stick her head through a projector again.