Momentarium : : by Markuz Wernli Saitô

Project t.h.a.n.k.s. as part of The Distributed Exhibition from April 10 to May 10, 2008: Short slide loops co-created daily by Mike Reandeau and Markuz Wernli Saitô that are projected onto the window of a San Jose residence.

The Emergent Game is about mixed realities where players interact though fluffy and pixelated avatars in the virtual and real world. As homo ludens I will be contributing actions and counteractions.

For the art conference Intervene! Interrupt! Rethinking Art as Social Practice (May 14 to 17, 2008) at the University of California in Santa Cruz I am planning a discretely distributed performance project titled 7A/10-M-E (7 actions/10 min. each).

The photo exhibition PeaceWorks from August 23 to 31, 2008, at ZAIM Arts Foundation in Yokohama, Japan, will feature images from the collective documentary Shadow Followers.

What happens when a neighbor and artist open up their creative dialog through a daily slide projection?

Between April 10 through May 10, 2008, Mike Reandeau and Markuz Wernli Saitô will co-create short slide projection loops every day that are being presented at the window of a private residence in San Jose's historical Reed district.

t.h.a.n.k.s. can stand for: tiny. humble. ardent. now. knock. soul. Feel free to make your own version.

Mike as host and Markuz as contributing artist signed an agreement which commits them to keep project t.h.a.n.k.s. running for consequent 31 days. Mike promised to submit every day a message to the artist describing "something to be grateful for". Markuz in turn promised to receive that message and create daily a slide of gratefulness.

badatsports: Episode 136, Ampersand International
Brian Anders and Marc Deblanc talk with Lori Gordon, Hope Hilton, Markuz Wernli Saito and Bruno Mauro about Lying to Curators and strange Effects of Silence.

CASAzine issue 4: Drawing the Line (between art and activism)
In the most recent issue I am discussing with curators Milena Placentile and Monika Vykoukal the public action series At Your Service where we look closer at activist implications and combined efforts towards social transformation.

ASPECT The Chronicle of New Media Art, Vol. 10: Rural Educator and environmental journalist Deborah Mantle didn't shy from getting up early and wet feet. She joined me to a City Canal Tour and realized a commented video-feature for this DVD magazine. Read the experience report on wilderness in the urban.

DIALOG IN COMMON

Brett Bloom [Temporay Services] reflects on the Service Paradigm in art: "It is the social spaces that artists produce. This can produce a sociological analysis if we are talking of art as providing a service."

Jane Trowell [Platform London] talks about artful collaboration and public learning: "Basically it's about making a subject dynamic, which before was made accessible to a very specific audience through restricted language."

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Each moment of the everyday, every action of living, poses the question: how it might be lived differently, more truthfully and respectfully. Through conscious interventions Momentarium provides a forum of inquiry on human coexistence.