319 Scholes

12/05/2016

We're devastated about the fire at Ghostship in Oakland. It's a tragic loss for the arts community. Please join us in offering support to the victims:

We are working with the Oakland Mayor's Office, The Red Cross and other fundraisers to be the main fund for this effort. We will work to use the Red Cross' knowledge of the appropriate format for distribution of these funds. We are working every minute to figure this out. Please keep sharing and...

04/15/2014

Great interview with Ben Vickers about Post-Internet Art and the power of networks vs. institutions.

Participate don’t dominate The art world often seems to vacillate between money-fuelled complacency and a politics that is merely for show. London-based curator and activist BEN VICKERS stands outside this dichotomy as an inspiring advocate of a future-oriented progressive politics driven by network...

10/23/2013

“Seriousness doesn’t have anything to with the sensuality of a body’s encounter with art. It’s mostly about control. Control is comforting, whether you have it or someone else does, and that’s why we’re always depending on seriousness. Also because seriousness doesn’t want to let us believe in the validity of any other disposition. Screw that.”

- Brian Droitcour ☆☆☆☆☆

Brian Droitcour collected five random Yelp reviews of the New Museum, then doled them out to artists to illustrate.

10/01/2013

Online bidding for , the first-ever digital art auction at Phillips (curated by our co-director Lindsay Howard!), is now open on Paddle8. Happy bidding!

Phillips and Tumblr have partnered with curator Lindsay Howard to present Paddles ON!, the first auction dedicated solely to digital art at Phillips. Artists will receive 80% of the sale profits and the remaining proceeds will be donated to Rhizome, the leading non-profit organization dedicated to s...

09/24/2013

Love this! Reporters from The Wall Street Journal parse through Petra Cortright's Video Catalog and Rafaël Rozendaal's Art Website Sales Contract:

Auction houses are entering the market for digital art, but how does one invest in art that's so easy to replicate? Jennifer Maloney joins Digits.

09/23/2013

JiaJia Fei, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum's Digital Marketing Manager, does some real talk about art online:

For the first time in the history of art, a person’s initial interaction with an art object or exhibition is most likely online—in an email, via an online review, or on Instagram. This trend can only continue to expand. Eventually art will become, if it hasn’t already, a social object more defined b...

09/23/2013

HUGE!

At its first-ever digital-art auction, co-organized by Tumblr, Phillips will offer up a website, a YouTube video and digital files that could be displayed on a range of devices at the discretion of the buyer.

09/21/2013

Stop by today from 2-4pm if you're interested in joining our new coworking space!

319 Scholes new coworking space provides a collaborative work environment with unique amenities for members of the art and tech communities. We offer high-speed internet, free equipment rentals, laser cutting, 3D printing, and space for meetings or special projects.

09/04/2013

Our Curatorial Director, Lindsay Howard, is curating the first digital art auction at Phillips this October. Submit your work to the open call: http://paddleson.tumblr.com/

07/24/2013

Congrats to Aaron Meyers and Lauren McCarthy! The project they created during our last Art Hack Day – "God's Eyes" – has been awarded a Rhizome commission!

Rhizome is pleased to announce the artists and collaboratives awarded grants through our annual Commissions Program.

06/24/2013

"Artists have been hacking since even before the computer was invented. Pulling things apart, examining them, and putting them back together again in meaningful and unexpected ways..."
- Rhizome's Heather Corcoran

Last week, an impromptu call out on Twitter brought a group of artists and coders to the Brooklyn-based 319 Scholes gallery to take part in a hack session supporting of Istanbul’s protesters in Gezi Park.

06/06/2013

Here's a link to a few of the memes that are developing out of to help raise awareness, as seen in Igal Nassima's media archive.

Justin Wedes of Occupy Wall Street is reporting from the front lines of the protests in Turkey for ANIMALNewYork all week. He's also tweeting from the field.