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1stfans Twitter Art Feed Artist for November 2009: Cass Bird

Will Cary on November 2, 2009

When Shelley and I went to visit Cass Bird at her Brooklyn studio last week, we weren't sure what to expect.  We had known her work via Global Feminisms and our Feminist Art Base and there are some artists that our curators think would be great for the Twitter Art Feed—Cass was one of them. Cass is a photographer, but what we ended up discussing was how photographs and other images (books, advertisements, diagrams, etc), when juxtaposed, can create something really interesting and appealing.

Cass Bird (American, born 1974). I Look Just Like My Daddy, 2004. Chromogenic print, 40 x 30 in. (101.6 x 76.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Prints and Photographs Council and the Robert A. Levinson Fund, 2005.40.1.

So this month, Cass will be posting to the feed a variety of things including her own photographs, photographs from other photographers she likes, and various other visual and pop culture images. Though she won't be "curating" the feed, the end result will be a strong collection of pictures that reflect her personality, her artistic process, and her own work. Like Joseph Kosuth's month on the feed, we really have no idea what to expect from her. One of the reasons we started the Twitter Art feed was so we could give artists an opportunity to experiment with a few vehicle for their work and, in doing so, give 1stfans access to an artist in a new way. I promise that access to Cass for a month will not be dull!

Just a heads-up: Cass' own work often contains nudity, and 1stfans should expect that to be the case for other work she posts as well.

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1stfans Twitter Art Feed Artist for October 2009: Trish Mayo

Will Cary on September 29, 2009

We found that 1stfans really enjoyed Nick Fortunato's project for June's Twitter Art Feed because of the idea that history could come alive again and be relevant in a social networking age. Trish Mayo, this month's artist for the Feed, sent in a similar proposal based around the issue of how historical figures would receive twitter if they were alive today.

Trish Mayo. Hot Bird's Last Stand, 2008. All rights reserved.  Featured in Click! A Crowd-Curated Exhibition.

Trish is a photographer by trade—her work was featured in our Click! exhibition in 2008 and was recently part of an exhibition at the Morris-Jumel Mansion in Washington Heights.  In addition to having her work featured in the New York Times, she has a huge following on Flickr. Trish's proposal was selected from the open call and we've noticed that the proposals we receive via this channel tend to be from artists who use Twitter everyday and have a great understanding of how people interact with the medium in their everyday lives. Here, in Trish's own words, is her project for October's Twitter Art Feed:

IF THEY ONLY HAD TWITTER - pity those poor people who lived before twitter was available! I propose to give those twitter-less people a chance to comment on the online social networking phenomenon using their actual words by posting a series of quotes. Taken out of context these quotes can seem to show support, skepticism or trivialize twitter and other social networking sites. Reading these words spoken or written many, even hundreds, of years before the twitter age should make us think not only about what we are saying now, but also about what has been said before and how it resonates through time and space.

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