In Städsbørough to present a paper on The Master’s influence upon their practice, two workers attempt to make multiple rendezvous throughout the week from 27 Apr to 03 May 2009. Both newbies in the city and armed with incomplete and nonobjective maps, the workers schedule meetings at what would be a city’s archetypal points of interest:
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prepare to empty your wallet or max out your credit card in support in philadelphia’s city kitties: “On Friday, May 30 from 7pm – 10pm, City Kittiesand Project SAFE will hold a silent art auction and opening party at Studio 34 in West Philadelphia.” more details are available here.

the work.group has made available one hot piece for auction at the fund raiser to benefit the urban cat rescue organization:

the print - limited to a run of three (3) - is a product of some unbound photoshop gimp tennis taking place over 10 days in may of 2008, hand placed within the finest extruded aluminum frame available at value village in 2004. a gallery for each step of the process is available for viewing.

ashley wrote:
what do you think about this?

http://www.artclash.com/

jt wrote:
looks like fun, can i pretend that the stuff i have been spending years on was done in a month?

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this is a sketch i cooked up over the weekend embellished with some things that perhaps you had read my mind about?

hail! a public action has been planned by party workers sean caffrey and john trefry in the project of a rival squadron at 752 moreland, atlanta. features include tag-teamed 2-dimensional work, bric-a-brac house, and dr. frankenstein’s dinette set.

as you know, i care very much about the endeavours of the wrk.grp and i want it to persist and grow and become more fruitful. i would like to initiate a discussion through the lens of roosevelt, which is not complete yet, about why the first phase of this project failed, which it clearly did, and how our working methods, our communications, and our expectations of one another can be tailored to make our productions satisfying to us and productive to the community we are seeking to contribute a different voice to. i know you all have both concerns and goals, share them.

this is meant to approach a subject matter for the abstract, not necessarily a character or tone.
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a faction of the workgroup will be participating in an upcoming symposium on electronic art that is to take place on a ferry in the baltic sea during august, 2004. our involvement is based on a found relationship with one tjaeger [sample work] that developed over the p2p network of slsk and spawned a collaborative musical piece in june, 2003. our presence in the symposium will be a remote one in which we will endeavour to discuss our thoughts on exactly this remoteness in the production of the diaphanous artifacts of contemporary culture and possibly create some realtime synergism.

presumably we are agreed that every endeavour undertaken by a member of the wrk.grp is not an endeavour of the group. the group’s mission involves a collaborative process; does this preclude any discussion of independent work? can discussion amongst the members take place without altering the scope of the projekt? If you bring a projekt before the group for feedback, i would say that it remains your work until you declare that you choose collaboration instead of comments. for instance, a suggestion that you place your screen door in a direct path to your steps does not cast the wrk.grp umbrella over your porch.
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our im discussion earlier today, coupled with my recent thoughts on my closing statements in the upcoming copyright lawsuit, rekindled my interest in crafting some form of constitution for the work.group. beyond the current manifesto, it would be a framework for the production of the work, rather than a declaration of its intent. i had originally intended to hack something together from the ideas behind the open source movement, as codified in the gpl, by exchanging ’software’ for ‘architecture’. however, not only is this forbidden, but my late dalliances in wiki have revealed to me that the gpl may already apply to creative endeavors as well. indeed, software is creative, as well, but i am thinking in terms of photographs, bitmaps, porch cd’s, etc. by looking over open source graphics, we find the creative commons has tackled this issue; there is even the ability to customize the license that fits our goals (my first notions). would this be something you would be interested in pursuing? Should we craft our own constitution? Should new workers have to ratify it? Should we maintain full control of the work, which seems impossible and detrimental to the field? Should things remain undefined?