Hi all, welcome to a new project which is a collaboration between Fabricatorz and Garage Biennale. Here are two levels of scale about the project:

“Art show in Guangzhou, China in September 2008 and then in San Francisco November 2008.”

And, a few more sentences…

“Garage Biennale and the Fabricatorz are bringing you Cantocore, a research project investigating contemporary art and culture between Canton (Guangdong) and cities around the world. The initial focus is a contemporary art exhibition with two versions of the same show in San Francisco and Guangzhou, China.”

There is a solid line-up of artists working on projects at present for both shows with the main concept being the ideas of import and export where projects in both locations are the same, but different versions.

Lu re-blogged the Cantocore Home Concert Preview we are doing next WED in SF, and so, I’m pushing out this post about the Cantocore project which is a contemporary art show that Lu, myself and Justin Hoover are pushing out this early September and November. The first instance of Cantocore is to generate some funds to help in production of the artwork. No one is getting paid from the raising of monies to support art production, so we are putting on a concert to preview the artwork for the show.

Lu wrote about here:

What it will take to make an art show. You will need three things: Artists, Space and Money! Sometimes these three things don’t come so easy, don’t they?

These are the things we are pushing right now for Cantocore exhibition, a show in both Guangzhou China and San Francisco this fall. There is a home concert preview party coming Wednesday 7/23 to fund the production of the shows. I am not a very good sales woman, but really want to make this one works!

Visit Cantocore site for information about the show, artists, and detail about the preview concert. Performing musicians for the the preview concert are Ma Jie and Christopher Willits.

And then there is a follow-up post on the Cantocore website:

Cantocore Home Concert Preview is coming up next Wednesday July 23rd, 7-9 PM in San Francisco. Right now our RSVP deadline for this event is extended to Monday, July 21st. And tickets are on sale right now for $50 USD! All money goes to the production of the Cantocore exhibition in Guangzhou and San Francisco. And, all contributions will be rewarded with praise, promotion in printed materials and on this website.

This event is a preview of the coming exhibitions, and also a home concert featuring Chinese traditional instrument musician Ma Jie and electronic musician Christopher Willits.

To reserve your tickets please do one of the following:

Call Justin at 415-425-1647
Email: jhoover.charles@gmail.com
Or use Paypal option

We are eager to raise some funds from those interested in the ideas which will gain both a plug on the http://cantocore.com website and then in our printed material. Feel free to ask questions here on this blog post publicly, or send us email about this.

Please participate in this project and if in SF, RSVP by next MONDAY, July 21 to come to the Cantocore Home Concert Preview.

Lu with blue warhol mao at peter hirshberg's house

Lu with blue warhol mao at peter hirshberg’s house

Originally uploaded by rejon

We are working hard on the Cantocore show and will have more shortly In San Francisco for a few more weeks until back in China in August!

Hello, everyone.I am so glad to be one here. My name is Mean Chan from Shanghai China. I am one of Deer Fang’s students in Sun Yat-sen University, studying Digital Media Arts for the 2nd year. From May 10th 2008 on I became the assistant of Jon Phillips & Deer Fang. Although I have no background study in art before I entered into university, I am interested in art and want to know more about artists. That’s why I am an assistant here. I want to learn more here. Also I hope I can help deal with something as an assistant. Email me if I am in need.

E-mail:meanchan@fabricatorz.com / meanchan.cm@gmail.com

MeanChan@Guangzhou

Check out this presentation I gave about some of my involvements, including Fabricatorz. Also, note, there is a big new project brewing between China and SF, and looking to hire 1-2 people here in China very very soon.

Show Some Color 2 project is published in “Asia and the Commons Case Studies Booklet”. Released by CCau and the Creative Commons Clinic
(The booklet can be downloaded here:
http://creativecommons.org.au/asiaandthecommons)

Tomorrow Jon Phillips and I will be heading to Taiwan to attend ACIA: International Workshop on Asia and the Commons in the Information Age. Also on January 18 from 9PM-11PM, we are hosting Media Exchange event 2 at Taipei’s VT Art Salon. Come out if you are in Taipei. Detail as follow.

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Media Exchange 2: Open Call

Location: VT Art Salon
Address: Yitong St., #47, B1
Map: googlemaps , vtartsalon
Time: January 18, 2007 Friday 9:00 - 11:00 PM
Contact: christopher.lee.adams@gmail.com
Tel: 09-53-036-630

Open Call to Exchange Media: come and present your project this Friday at VT Art Salon in Taipei. Media Exchange 2 is a night of presentations about art projects, models of art practice and art communities. The set presenters of the night are Christopher Adams, writer and critic based in Taipei; Jon Phillips (www.rejon.org), Open Source Developer and artist from San Francisco; Deer Fang (www.deerfang.org), media and video artist from Guangzhou and San Francisco; and, Wang Chunyan, project Lead for Creative Commons China, and a Professor at Renmin University of China Law School.
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On November 16, Southern Exposure had a reception for all of their first-ever Alternative Exposure grantees. Fabricatorz were there with cameras in hand and Lu and Jon talk about the project.

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Here’s a composite of those who had their paws on Show Some Color 2:

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Our polls closed at midnight last night with over 300 votes and the winners for Show Some Color 2 have been determined by your participation. Thanks to everyone who created this event with their skills, talents, attendance, and VOTING!

Don’t miss the last run of all the performances and videos on Channel 29, Access SF this Sunday, December 2 at 3pm. And of course, the event will keep it’s home at Fabricatorz.com

Voting for the best performer and best video clips is closing tomorrow PST November 28 11:59 PM. Please take the final chance to vote for six women performers and four video clips produced by video makers.

From November 1 to now, we have received 276 votes, and many interesting comments. All the traffic, attention and support we gain from the web are expanding the project and the dialogue we initiated. I want to say thank you to everyone who voted and left comments.

Tomorrow we are announcing the top voted winners!

We have received some comments that the star voting didn’t work for some people. The way the voting system works right now is it records the IP address when someone clicks on the star to vote. The website allows voter to vote once on the same post through that IP address. That means if you and several friends sharing the same net work in one location, you can only vote once on one video. The solution is to do it in other locations.

Hope you like the top feature box we added.