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Spectre Event Horizon is an aggregate of actionable intelligence, a five year old open-source online collaborative, gathering investigative research from across the disciplines.Meanwhile:
As such, Spectrecon1 : Miami, our inaugural presentation, showcases contemporary conceptual artwork inspired by current events, juxtaposed with street photojournalism, various non-art experiments, and other relevant findings; an exhibition of genuine economic wonder, and other strange feelings about the confusions we face.
Featuring:
the Miami premiere of Jeremy Dean’s horse-drawn Humvee (a contemporized Hoover Cart) circling the Fairs of Wynwood, courtesy of the 21c Museum Hotel Collection,
of Louisville, KY
and Including:
Jonathon Keats, Oliver Laric, Michael Mandiberg, Mike Ross,
Ryan C. Doyle, Nellie Appleby, Adriane Colburn & Stephan von Muehlen,
Julia Samuels & Paula Z. Segal, hacker Dan Kaminsky, economic historian
Stephen Mihm ("Nation of Counterfeiters"), authors Howard Bloom ("Lucifer Principle"),
Robin Kahn ("Dining in Refugee Camps"), & Zachary Mexico ("China Underground"), Philip Tinari (founding editor of artforum.com.cn & LEAP), photographers Cheryl Dunn, Tod Seelie, Janine Gordon, Stacy Kranitz, Lupara Bianca, Lopi LaRoe,
Olivia Wyatt, & Julia Solis, Miami firefighter Myles Kaplan, holographer
Mark Diamond, psychic economist Eva Destruction, artist/activist Ben Sisto, 'missed connections' curator Gillian Sneed, consumer advocate Dewey LLC, and others

Wynwood Arts District, December 2-5, 2010
Bonus: Only in Miami
Featuring samples from the recently discovered collection of eccentric Chasidic rabbi Aryeh Wuensch, who has been obsessively purchasing and hoarding - though never cataloguing - artwork dating from the post war period to the present day. Most of these pieces - including lithographs by Marc Chagall, tapestries by Max Ernst, drawings by Keith Haring, photos by Christian Boltanski and Marina Abramovic, metal sculpture by Beverly Pepper, a book of original collaborations between artist Not Vital and various Italian poets including
Pier Paolo Pasolini, among other works too numerous to mention - have not been shown publicly since their respective openings, if at all.
SCHEDULE: http://spectrevision.tumblr.com/miami2010
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