Friday:
And/Or Gallery: Our show of the Canadian collective, Artificiel, opens and we’ll also be hosting some performances that are part of Texelectronica. reception starts at 6pm, performances 8pm-11pm.

Pan American: Heide Fasnacht: Wild Blue 2001-2004 & McKay Otto: Ever Within Ever, reception 6pm-9pm.

Saturday:
UNT Fort Worth Artspace: This is the opening for the main Texelectronica exhibition with performances that start at 8pm including Tree Wave (awesome!) and Janek Shaefer. See the schedule again for more info and location.

Might Fine Arts: Big As Night 2 — a lot of artists at several different spaces around MFA. See the flyer for more info.

Friday 10/20:

Sweet Tart gallery talk at 500x at 8

Steven Shores and Martin Delabano at Conduit 6-8

Susan Sales / Jeff Wilson / Gregory Horndeski at Craighead Green 6-8

Modern till midnight at the Fort Worth Modern w/ Octopus Project!!! and other bands playing…

The Horror Show at Kettle Art 7-midnight

Frances Bagley and Andrew Bennett at Marty Walker 6-8

Black White (&Gray) at the UTA gallery 6-8:30 w/ talk at 6:30

Saturday 10/21:
Allison V. Smith and Ann Stautberg at Barry Whistler 6-8

Say Hello to my Little Friend at Plush 6-9

Sunday 10/22:
Van Gogh: Sheaves of Wheat at the DMA opens

Saturday, Sept 30, their “Underexposed” photography show opens from 7pm-10pm with a big list of local artists. More info here.

And/Or Gallery: The reception for the Nick Ackerman + Michael Bell Smith show from 6pm-9pm. We’ll have an artist talk at 6pm with NY video artist Michael Bell-Smith and half of JODI, the Holland-based digital art collective famous for their Internet deconstruction art and video game hacks/exploits. This is a preview of the talk they’ll give at the MOMA in a few weeks!

Angstrom: It’s not a typo. David Quadrini and co. are back with a new show!! Not sure what the future is for the Dallas Angstrom, but previously they had some of the coolest shows around, so I hope it continues. The reception for this one is 6pm-9pm and it’s “Ab Obo”, a multi-media visual arts project organized by angstrom gallery veteran Steven Hull.

Might Fine Arts: Jo-Ann Mulroy “Traces”. A show of tweaked up appropriated Victorian images. Reception 6pm-9pm

Plush + MFA: Plush and Mighty Fine Arts are teaming up for the Pajama Party at the Clubhouse. 6pm until noon the next day. At 411 N. Tyler / Dallas (2 doors down from Mighty Fine Arts) Here’s MFA’s info for the same event.

Lots of openings this weekend, and the The Dallas Art Dealers Association is having their gallery walk.

I’m short on time today so I’m not going to post info about every one, but I’ll probably be stopping by Conduit, Marty Walker, Holly Johnson, Plush, and 500X. Check out the Dallas Glasstire page for details on most of the openings.

(image of “Forever Developing Shrine” by Jason Villegas, who’ll have a show at Plush this weekend)

We are one of the 7 cities that gets Mike Judge’s new Idiocracy. What I’ve heard from my friends who are in the movie biz is that Mike Judge really pissed off the studio, and they’re showing it in the minimum number of theaters that the contract allows (125). There is no media promotion at all. No posters, no media kits, no ads, nothing.

I think the main problem is the threat of legal action from the many companies that he parodies in the movie. The plot is pretty much Sleeper mixed with The Truth about De-Evolution. Luke Wilson wakes up 500 years in the future and everybody is a moron. Everybody’s clothes are covered with ads, and most restaurants and businesses have added sex to their list of products. It’s totally over the top and very unique. If you’re a Mike Judge fan, I’d definitely check it out quick before it’s gone.

More about the movie here.

Friday Sept 8th:

The Dallas Contemporary: Legends 2006 awardee Nic Nicosia’s photography & video, 7 ~ 10 pm, free (remember: they try to tell you it costs $10, but that’s really a suggested donation)

Saturday Sept 9th:

And/Or Gallery: new show starts on Saturday, but the reception isn’t until the 23rd. We’re open noon-6pm, but after that I’m outta there to see the openings listed below. new show is: Nick Ackerman from San Francisco and video artist Michael Bell-Smith from New York.

Art Prostitute: New work by Jophen Stein, Evan B. Harris, Mark Nelson, and Will Rhoten, 6-10pm. All artists will be in attendance. The Party’s DJ Nature and $elect will be on the turntables. (supported By Red Bull Art of the Can Contest, Decade Clothing, and Central Booking)

Barry Whistler: John Wilcox and Adam Raymont, 6:00-8:00

Dunn & Brown: Michael Smith and Joshua White: TAKE OFF YOUR PANTS! and Helen Altman: Dozens, reception 6:00 – 8:00

Road Agent: Ryan Humphrey: Diver Down, 6:00 – 9:00

1) Feral Nature at UTD curated by Margaret Meehan

2) Last of the Road Agent summer series, Richard Patterson tonight.

3) Dunn & Brown is the Dallas venue for the 5×7 show. It’s not on the Dunn & Brown site of course, which is only occasionally updated. But the info is on the Arthouse site.

The Dallas Video Festival starts tomorrow and runs through Sunday, spread between the Angelika, the DMA, and the Dallas Theatre Center. I went last year for the first time in a few years and was blown away by some of the stuff I saw. Dallas is missing a regular venue for more experimental film and video (like the Aurora or Northwest Film Forum), but this almost makes up for it.

The schedule is here and you can actually email Bart Weiss (the artistic director) and ask for suggestions of what to see based on what you like. bart at videofest dot org

Definitely my #1 do-not-miss is the Nam Jun Paik retrospective. I usually like the more experimental or electronic stuff, and this is what Bart suggested for me:

Wednesday August 09
8:45 PM The Modern Housewife (Angelika 2)

Thursday August 10
7:00 PM Nam June Paik Retrospective (DMA Horchow Auditorium)

Friday August 11
7:15 PM Mouse Heaven (Video Cabaret)
8:30 PM ROOM (Video Cabaret)
9:00 PM The Editorial Frame (Video Box)
9:00 PM Laptop Deathmatch (Videotheque)

Saturday August 12
4:00 PM Frozen Angels (Video Cabaret)
4:15 PM Urban Friction (Video Box)
5:15 PM The Other Side (Video Box)
9:10 PM Peep Show (Video Cabaret)

Sunday August 13
12:00 PM SIGGRAPH Electronic Theater Program (Videotheque)
3:30 PM Braindamadj’d … Take II (Videotheque)
3:45 PM The Wraith of Cobble Hill (Video Lounge)
3:45 PM “S.P.I.C. The Storyboard of my Life” (Video Lounge)
8:15 PM The Texas Show (Videotheque)