Video of Washboard Leo at Texelectronica 2006

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=6845512

Invited to Participate on Panel discussing FAST FORWARD at the DMA April 26th 7PM at Horchow Auditorium

Coordinator and DMA Curatorial Director Suzanne Weaver of the Dallas Museum of Art has invited me to participate on a panel in May covering the topics mentioned in the recent Yale University Press publication “Fast Forward” which celebrates three remarkable private collections of contemporary art that were donated in 2005, presenting them in context with masterworks already owned by the museum. Featuring over two hundred works, many previously unpublished, by such major artists as Matthew Barney, Joseph Beuys, Louise Bourgeois, Vija Celmins, Philip Guston, Jasper Johns, Donald Judd, Ellsworth Kelly, Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Sol LeWitt, Bruce Naumann, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter, Mark Rothko, Robert Ryman, Richard Tuttle, and many others, this volume provides a stunning visual history of the critical art movements that have shaped––and continue to shape––contemporary art since the 1940s.

Essays by distinguished scholars discuss the works, which range from sculpture and painting to photography, installation art, and video and electronic media, and address the importance, history, and evolution of Dallas’s collection.

María de Corral is an independent curator who co-directed the 2005 Venice Biennale will also be present to participate in the discussion. Other participants may include:

John R. Lane is The Eugene McDermott Director at the Dallas Museum of Art. Frances Colpitt is The Deedie Potter Rose Chair of Art History at Texas Christian University. Mark Rosenthal is Adjunct Curator of Contemporary Art at the Norton Museum of Art. Allan Schwartzman is Director of the Rachofsky Collection and, formerly, a curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York. Charles Wylie is The Lupe Murchison Curator of Contemporary Art at the Dallas Museum of Art.

Solo Exhibition at Collin County College Gallery

Max Kazemzadeh: express & local
[Exhibition run Jan. 16-Feb. 10th, 2007 : Opening performance Thurs. Jan 25th, 6 PM]
Express & Local is an interactive installation with projection and sound revolving around the decision and experience of choosing and traveling on the express or local subway lines in transit. Max will put on an interactive software/hardware performance at the opening reception as part of the exhibition, with the help of two of his students Jon Snyder and Matthieu Brookes who formed their own hacker band “Toybox,” and performed at Texelectronica ’06 at The Museum of Modern Art in Fort Worth.

http://www.ccccd.edu/theartsgallery/1_Calendar/index.htm

http://www.ccccd.edu/THEARTSgallery/

Donated “i.give” to Glasstire.org Benefit Auction/Gala Event

I submitted I.Give to be auctioned off at the Glasstire.org Benefit Auction in Houston in November.

Gave Artist Talk, Workshop and Performance at Medialab Madrid

Medialab Madrid which is made up of an amazing creative group of electronic media artists, intellects, and movers & shakers, invited me to give a presentation on my work and research in a talk called “Low Cost Phyical Computing,” a workshop, and a performance in the AV Lab (Audio Visual Synthesis Lab). The group includes Marcos Garcia, Laura, Gustavo, Kike, Sonia, Paqui, Monica, Miquel, Raul, Antia, Jorge, Azucena, Daniel, Angela, and Leonor, who made my stay there enjoyable and my presentations successful. Medialab Madrid is located in the huge beautiful government office compound of the Conde Duque (Count Duke) located in the center of Madrid. The Medialab Madrid will be going through some changes soon, forming a larger group called Intermedia.
My friend Zachary Lieberman presented and gave workshops there in the past.

http://www.medialabmadrid.es/jueves16nov.html
http://www.medialabmadrid.es
http://newmediafix.net/daily/?cat=26
http://newmediafix.net/daily/?p=1041
http://www.mediateletipos.net/archives/4944

Exhibited/Spoke/Gave-Workshop in Microwave Festival in Hong Kong October-December 2006

I was invited by New York curator Nicole Wong to participate in the 10 year running Microwave Festival which has seen well known electronic media artist participants like Stellarc, Casey Reas, Camille Utterback, and more. This year included a short list of very established new media artists like Camille Utterback, Jin Yo Mok, Alvaro Cassinelli, Philip Worthington, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Daniel Shiffman, and a few others. It was an honor to be a part of this group.
Each of the artists also gave talks and short workshops.

http://www.microwavefest.net

Youtube video during installation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhCtjRKRF4U&mode=related&search=

Invited to Give an Artist Talk and Workshop at Texas Sculpture Symposium

I was invited to give an Artist Talk and Workshop at Texas Techs Annual Texas Sculpture Symposium which is a great reimergent retreat of sculptors and other artists from around Texas that gather in Junction, Texas. Two of my prize students Christos Polemenakos (BFA) and John Losey (MFA) gave the talk and workshop for me, since I had to be in Hong Kong to install Spin.Flick for the Microwave Festival

http://glasstire.com/ReviewsDetail.asp?id=333

Texelectronica Symposium Complete

Texelectronica 2006 (SPIN) Symposium was a success, including 12 participating artists from around the world: China, England, Sweden, France, New York, Los Angeles, and more. There were symposium talks, great performances, exhibitions, and more around the Dallas/Ft. Worth Metroplex. I would like to thank all of the participating artists which included: Zhang Ga, Carmin Karasic, HeHe (Helen Evans and Heiko), Li Tan, Frank DuFour, Josephine Durkin, David Bithell, Janek Schaefer, Casey Reas, Yao bin, Paul Slocum, Dean Terry, Bayou Bennett, Jonah Brucker-Cohen, Toybox, the 12 Inch Pimps, Jonny 5, Artificiel, Ryan Humphrey, Washboard Leo, and fashion designer Monique Hebert, who created Texelectronica couture gowns and tops for the festival. I would like to thank the additional presenters Terry Thornton, Robert Milnes, Tom Linehan, and Joel Savary.
I would like to thank everyone who was not only involved in the preparation, planning, exhibition setup/take down, driving artists around town, but also sacrificed their time, personal comfort, and gasoline for the success of this event, including: Robert and Karen Milnes, Andy Holtin, Jesse English, John Losey, Christos Polemenakos, Matthieu Brookes, Raechel Langmack, and Kevin Willoughby.
I would like to thank the participating venues which include the Museum of Modern Art Fort Wort, the University of North Texas Ft. Worth Artspace, the And/Or Gallery, Road Agent Gallery, Fuse, O’Bar, House of Dang.

Texelectronica website
http://www.texelectronica.com

press:
http://glasstire.com/ReviewsDetail.asp?id=333
http://web2.unt.edu/news/story.cfm?story=10048
http://www.qotile.net/blog/wp/?p=424
http://www.turbulence.org/blog/archives/003244.html
http://www.deanterry.com/blog/archives/2006/10/metaverse_talk.html
http://www.texasgigs.com/events/2006/nov/25/25057/

http://culturetvvideo.blogspot.com/2006/10/texelectronica-symposium-and.html

Exhibited in “Native Sons” at Fotofest in Houston

Native Sons was an exhibition recently curated by Jen and Vinod at Fotofest in Houston (October 12 – November 18, 2006). Fotofest is a non-profit organization and exhibition venue that holds exhibitions in their wonderful large space in the center of downtown Houston. Native Sons included a small group of artists that work in quite diverse ways from one another, and not everything is photography. While I included five photo installation pieces, I also had one non-conventional video installation and another interactive kinetic installation piece “Controlling the Wild West.” It was great to be a part of the show. I also participated in the Saturday Matinee Artist Talks on November 11th with Sterling Allen, Brian Piana, David Woody

http://www.fotofest.org/nativesons/

Artechmedia (and Montse Arbelo) presented my work at the ARCO Art Fair in Spain

Artechmedia is a traveling symposium that was represented at the ARCO Art Fair in Spain. They presented a number of selected electronic media artists works in a symposium presentation there, and my work was one in the list. Their site is http://www.artechmedia.net They will be publishing a book with all of the included artists within the month.

http://www.artechmedia.net