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“Wishbones and Bows” © new work in progress
wishbones and bows
I’m tired of my own reflection
I’m tired of
the sound of my guitar
to the best of my recollection
I’ve never crawled out this far
I’m an architect kickin out windows,
a gardener who’s gone colorblind,
a bookend on a park bench sighin’
out memories of our skin
and breath entwined
Is love a circle forever,
or just some words on a page
is it granite or gold or never,
old wishbones and bows tied on a cage
i need the full moon to feel
I need to know my heart is real
I’m a grown man in a candy store cryin’
theres nothing left here to steal
the shape of your body’s lyin’
across somebody’s else’s big brass bed
i just had to give up tryin
and finish our song instead
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Owen Plotkin ©2016
recorded July 30 2021
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wrote this for my girlfriend when I was 16, around the time this photo was taken. :) recorded on a crappy portable cassette, years later. ©Owen Plotkin
Near the end of May, 2016, after a long illness, she suffered a hip fracture. I sat by her bed in the pleasant, well-staffed, hospice we’d been lucky to get her into. I sang “Summertime,” and “Over the Rainbow,” to her while she slept, songs from her childhood. Her breaths came farther apart for hours, until they stopped.
The Center for Hope Hospice in Scotch Plains, New Jersey, is a ten-minute drive from the shady sidewalk in Linden, where I imagine she’d played jacks with her older sister Anita, while her baby brother Mike and their little cousin Sheldon had politely, reverentially watched until they all were called in for dinner.
(From A PERSISTENT ACT OF IMAGINATION by Owen Plotkin)
When we dance
in the very large ballroom
like planets gone
haywire
and the court
is pleased
our orbits in
agreement
tell me again
all is well
as you pass
and the path
is open
the universe
knows my name
and it is wide open
what is permanent?
a house may survive it’s family.
and it’s family again
for how many generations
infants taken home
and then the backhoe takes it down
what is permanent?
a grandchild a grandmother
a staircase
a swing
a garden
what is permanent?
love
souls?
a universe?
a hand offered
a hand taken and held
a heart filled
and broken
what is permanent?
a vow
an oath
a promise
a lie
a moment relived
and relived again
what is permanent?
a naked swim
the ocean
a graveyard
a smile
eyes filling with tears
a dizzy rush of anticipation
what is permanent?
a leaf on the wind
a fading rose on old wood
what is permanent
a wish
desire
loss
endings
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First no step taken
first see the rescue
first see the path away
from rescue
the path to
breath. unfettered
slack jaw’d intelligence.
undumb.
open mouth heart breathing. breath.
To air, taken and deserved.
– on having recently begun singing lessons
mixed media, canvas plaster steel twine acrylic © owen plotkin
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My little garden
here I am
my dear little garden
be mine.
you are quiet and
you are patient
you ask little,
just room to grow
my little garden
in a little space
your green, delights
your color, magnetic.
your fragrance,
is subtle, seductive
to bees.
You live and bloom
bloom again and die
and live again.
Each day, with sleeping
and coming awake, we live
like a garden. Only, finite.
my little garden digital video Owen Plotkin
Daily practice
A faulty instrument
behind a door propped up in a broom closet
a clarinet with bad posture
singing like Rauschenberg’s goat
shamed,splattered with paint,decaying
and humiliated by an old tire.
And celebrated? A prize in the
permanent collection. A shadow
phantom earlier self, circles the antique
modern self of now. What song is this?
What rough soulful sound?
When I was a kid my friend’s Mom would hand us each a big paper bag of peapods to shell, we’d sit on his front step and pop round green peas into a big metal bowl and pass a summer afternoon, talking and joking about stuff 8 year old kids would talk and joke about in those days. I loved my street and my friend and his Mom and Dad and his two older brothers too. I’d say I was lucky, wasn’t I.
A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost-Story of Christmas
I attended a performance of “A Christmas Carol” this evening. My son sings in the high school chorus that accompanied the reading. As I sat listening I thought, “What if THAT MAN had been here tonight and heard these words – this old story told a hundred different ways and a thousand thousand times – read so vigorously by the Minister? What if he had listened to these carols, these accomplished young voices are singing? Would he have been moved as I was by the sound of the organ and voices filling that old chapel – its cornerstone laid on December 20, 1866 – in The First Baptist Church on Elm Street? Would he find the lesson in Dickens’ story as stirring as I did tonight? Would the inspiration that opens the heart, open his? This story-published December 19, 1843-moves me, a Jewish man, as I suspect it moves Christians,Muslims,Hindus,Buddhists and Atheists alike. Would this deceptively simple story of reflection and redemption have reached and changed him tonight? Could it? Oh that it could! Let us pray. All who wish to take this old tale’s lesson to heart. Let us try, at least,to take this lesson to heart. I think you may agree, this is not so simple a task, for any of us.
“He was not alone, but sat by the side of a fair young girl in a mourning-dress: in whose eyes there were tears, which sparkled in the light that shone out of the Ghost of Christmas Past.
“It matters little,” she said, softly. “To you, very little. Another idol has displaced me; and if it can cheer and comfort you in time to come, as I would have tried to do, I have no just cause to grieve.”
“What Idol has displaced you?” he rejoined.
“A golden one.”
“This is the even-handed dealing of the world!” he said. “There is nothing on which it is so hard as poverty; and there is nothing it professes to condemn with such severity as the pursuit of wealth!”
“You fear the world too much,” she answered, gently. “All your other hopes have merged into the hope of being beyond the chance of its sordid reproach. I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off one by one, until the master-passion, Gain, engrosses you. Have I not?”
Seen a lot in my time in New York City. Saw the rise of CBGB’s and I’ve seen the end of it. Stood next to Joey Ramone playing pinball. Walked down Joey Ramone Place cursing cancer. Watched the South Tower fall in silence with my bare eyes from across the river in Jersey City. Saw my next door neighbor’s grief, knowing her son would not return from Cantor Fitzgerald that day. I lost family, I lost friends and I lost coworkers to the monster named AIDS in the 80’s and 90’s. Thousands of New Yorkers were murdered by that monster. Saw my hero walking down the street just like any average New Yorker. Felt proud he chose to make this town, his town. He was gunned down right in front of the love of his life, at the Dakota. New York City. Full of bluster,full of bombast,full of pride and covered in filth. I celebrated our empathy and loathed our apathy. It’s a tough place, filled with pricks,assholes and kind souls. I’m not special. I’ve just walked around here for a while and I just don’t want to forget. Did you see me around? I saw you.
there’s an AIDS memorial being built in NYC. At a place that used to be St Vincent’s Hospital. “The New York City AIDS Memorial Park at St. Vincent’s Triangle.”
http://nycaidsmemorial.org/ #911 #CBGB # Joey Ramone #JohnLennon #ActUp
audio montage and collage by Owen Plotkin
I was in Jersey City trying to get to work. I pulled off US Rt 1 and made it to a hill overlooking the river. I got out of my car and joined a group of old men and school children with their teacher. We stood together behind a chain link fence and watched the burning tower silently collapse. The smell of burning plastic in the air. I got into my car, the streets of Jersey City were empty, frozen, silent and numb. I headed back home to get Shawn and the kids. Then we drove the hour south to my Mom’s house. The unthinkable image burned into my retina. The sun trapped in a clear blue bright sky.
“The attack occurred, I stood and watched the buildings fall with my own eyes, smelled the burning plastic from across the river,later at home, my eyes and ears were unnerved by the television as it became an unrelenting fear machine.” #911
Pity the warrior, he lives in the worst of us
When you’ve seen the face of man
what the fuck is left to us?
In places where death is the meager mercy offered
to spit in the dust like a cowboy movie maestro
no spurs jinglejangle just a bowl of bullets and powdered milk
marchin’ straight and stoic solemn faces shambling minds.
Hail the Chief, hands painted white to hide the stains
a fistful of dollars tossed onto his salad plate
truffle oil to help make the paper go down
shame in the back of his mind faded by the sun like
a lopsided sofa on a sidewalk sale,
the family mourning their possessions
with an eye to their fortunate future.
The mobster spits on the medals he bestows
and shines them with his white cuff just to gaze at the
reflection of his expensive dental work in the brass,
the casualties sliding to the floor from the printer
and caught under his shoe.
Parades where Mothers tell children to wave,
have you ever seen waves of grain?
there is no diving and swimming among them.
only dirt.
thank them for their service with a sigh of relief
you do not know their grief,
as you send them to face the face of man.
As we send them to face the face of man.
As we send them to face the face of man.
stone and glass © Owen Plotkin
We are all of stone and glass composed,
the stone is gray and rough as rock,
the glass is clear and fragile as glass,
when we let light pass through the glass it rainbows the stone,
light is love, love is light
the dorian gray experiment drawings 2014-2015 ©op 2015
https://owen-plotkin.com/my-drawings-2014-2015-op-2015/
“Follow back.Follow me.I search my phone for a tree.” If There Is A Tree Left On Earth – © owen plotkin
Allen Ginsberg Reads His Poem “Plutonian Ode”
flower time
#tbt the first generation iPhone went on sale and we were there handing out free buttons and talking to people on the lines about hunger in America. I was in the Hungrr costume, hijacking G4’s shot. Support your local foodbanks. Thanks to Mark Frauenfelder and Farhad Manjoo we got some NICE PRESS in SALON !
And in 2007 student/journalist Alex Rosenblatt interviewed me..
1. What is your name and title?
Owen Plotkin, founder, Hungrr, LLC.
2. What do you believe are the root causes of hunger and food insecurity in America?
Illiteracy. Poor public education. Loss of manufacturing jobs in the US. Low minimum wages in most states. Food stamp rules and application requirements that are too complicated for many uneducated, elderly and handicapped individuals. The general public’s lack of awareness of the facts surrounding hunger in America. An unwillingness on the part of politicians and corporations to acknowledge the facts surrounding hunger in America. And sadly, unrealistic yet rampant materialism, corporate greed and a growing meanness in our culture.
3. Does the term food insecurity differ from hunger and if so, how?
“Food insecurity” includes hunger and the specter of impending hunger, but the term is also used by the current administration to remove the politically dangerous word “hunger” from the discussion of poverty in America.
4. What part of the population would you say is most vulnerable to food insecurity or poverty?
Low income workers and their children, single parent households, minorities, the elderly, handicapped and disabled people.
5. Hunger in America does not manifest it self in the same way as it does in other nations (distended bellies and starvation). Is it as a serious of a problem?
It is not about starvation. Sadly, the problem is often hidden malnutrition, and that especially effects children, their normal development and ability to learn. There is the problem of obesity caused by people filling up on cheap junk and fast foods rather than eating more expensive healthy foods including fruits and vegetables. It is very serious because of the growing disparity between the rich and the poor and the disappearing middle class in this, the richest nation on Earth.
6. Do you believe that U.S. food assistance programs such as food stamps and the school breakfast program are effective at abating hunger?
Every little bit helps. Weekend and summer programs – where available – help too.
7. Are food banks effective at abating hunger?
Yes, but there is a growing need for assistance.
8. Some people say that food banks create a situation of dependency do you think that this is possible?
I think it is much more likely that a lack manufacturing jobs, career opportunities, training and adequate public education in poorer urban and rural areas, create real need.
9. Do you believe there are programs the government should implement in order to encourage food self sufficiency?
I think there are many ways government can help overcome hunger in America. And I don’t think it is necessary to create more programs or bureaucracies or “throw money at the problem” to do so.
10. Do you believe that empowering low income urban residents with the ability to grow their own food would be an effective way of solving food insecurity?
Yes, but another public garden was destroyed just a month ago in NYC. Skyrocketing rents and housing values in many cities are making urban gardens more and more difficult to sustain.
11. How important is increasing the awareness of the public?
In my opinion, awareness is more important than anything else.
12. Is there anything else that you believe is important concerning the situation of hunger?
I think there is a socially destructive dearth of civic responsibility on the part of businesses in America and the world. I think that business must take responsibility for the society that allows it – by providing an open marketplace – to thrive.
Cage Lennon Ruggles Glass Babbitt Dylan Hendrix Moog Ives Parker Cohen Verlaine Whitman Williams Ibsen Stevens Picasso Duchamp Mitchell Carson Chekov Kafka Hemingway Fellini Antonioni Bergman Coppola Plath Ginsberg Kerouac
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Description :
The file COLORX uses static color fields in a way that is similar to Chris Ashley’s work, but pushes the block style in order to formalize a representation of firelight.
Owen Plotkin has chosen a subject that is ephemeral, changing, and hard to capture in a static image.
As a result, his mathematical and systematic geometricization of such an infinitely nuanced phenomena abstracts it beyond any visual likeness.
This piece is selected from Plotkin’s series, Colorbots
a set of works that further point to the automated and often homogenous look of computer visualizations of natural phenomena.
Origine : Etats Unis
Date : 2003
American Rocking Chair (welded steel) by Owen Plotkin 1980
© Owen Plotkin 1980
acrylic canvas steel twine and spring clamp ©️owenplotkin 1980 #mixedmedia #SpiritsOfTheEarth #Engineofreasontheseatofthesoul #Thesoulscode #TheMahabharata #thinkingcreativelyinturbulenttimes #ZenMindBeginnersMind #TechnologyandMansfuture #TheOutlineOfHistory #ThePhilosophyOfHistoryInFragments
we made a Hungrr cookies ad starring np and rp , clarinet by np,
– owen plotkin
At the time America’s Second Harvest had very little of the public’s attention. I used some bad boy action to
see if they could get a little more attention. Understandably they were not happy. Got a cease and desist letter. I revised to image to feature Jeff Bridges’ hunger non profit. End Network. Second Harvest changed the org’s name to Feeding America not too long after. Nowadays they have a very good marketing and pr team and lot’s of awareness now.
owen plotkin hijacked an ad for hunger awareness stunt
bad boy
https://owen-plotkin.com/s-o-u-n-d-l-a-b-collection-sonic-art-projects-2004-2018-interview-owen-plotkin/
Owen Plotkin
artist biography
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Interview : 10 questions
1. When did you start making music, what is/was your motivation to do it?
I was 14. I wanted to make music. I was surrounded by music. My Father loved Opera and played it incessantly.
He gave me his classical guitar. I taught myself to play it. My Mother loved jazz and often played me her records.
There was rock and roll on the radio waves.
2. Tell me something about your living environment and the musical education.
See answer to question one.
3. Is making music your profession? What is the context in which you practice music nowadays?
I have never made more than a few hundred dollars from music. I practice music every day. Music is inside me,
just like it’s inside you.
4. How do you compose or create music or sound? Have you certain principles, use certain styles etc?
Trust intuition. Open the door. Find a thread, let it lead the way. Music has nothing to do with style.
5. Tell me something about the instruments, technical equipment or tools you use?
Voice. Acoustic stringed instruments. Software synths. Electric guitars. Toys. Samplers. Software recording and editing systems. Tape based recording devices. Air. Solids. Liquids.
6. What are the chances of New Media for the music production in general and you personally?
Chance plays an important role is all creation. Very important. Choosing to contact one person. Deciding to walk
down a particular street. Answering an email. Sending one. Uploading something. Downloading something.
The chances are very good something will happen.
7. How about producing and financing your musical productions?
Try not to spend any money. But, if time is money, spend a lot. Don’t wait for money.
8. Do you work individually as a musician/soundartist or in a group or collaborative? If you have experience in both, what is the difference, what do you prefer?
Both are good. Alone.
9. Is there any group, composer, style or movement which has a lasting influence on making music?
Cage Lennon Ruggles Glass Babbitt Dylan Hendrix Moog Ives Parker Cohen Verlaine Whitman Williams Ibsen Stevens Picasso Duchamp Mitchell Carson Chekov Hemingway Fellini Antonioni Bergman Coppola Plath Ginsberg Kerouac
10. What are your future plans or dreams as a soundartist or musician?
Make more music. Have it listened to.
Info on this avant garde experimental film series I founded and curated; The Electrical Retrospectacle 1998-2006
A film series that presented avant garde (experimental,underground,personal and poetic) films projected in 16mm and selected from the extensive catalogues of the Museum of Modern Art Circulating Film and Video Library,the Film makers Cooperative NYC,Canyon Cinema, The Pacific Film Archive (now the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive Library), The Donnell Library Center at 53rd Street (sadly closed in 2008) and private collections.
The Electrical Retrospectacle
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One of the series:
G R E E T I N G S :
OWEN PLOTKIN’S THE ELECTRICAL RETROSPECTACLE #17 On tour !
FRIDAY, JULY 19th, 9pm, Short films for the nervous system * 60’s 70’s
Projected 16mm avantgardeexperimentalunderground FILMS
projected at GALAPALOS 70 N 6th St., Brooklyn, N.Y. 718.782.5188
9pm, $10
AFTER THE FILMS SEE and HEAR
242.PILOTS live video computer art improv ensemble. Acclaimed throughout Europe and Canada. Featuring:
Kurt Ralske – (ex ultra vivid scene) genius at large, (http://www.miau-miau.com/), HC Gilje, and Lukasz Lysakowski.
MUSIC by – Keith Fullerton Whitman and Greg Davis renowned experimental electronic music composer/performers.
and RADICAL LOW, a modern dance / live video / live electronic music performance, featuring Belgian dancer/choreographer Chantal Yzermans. “A compelling, intriguing alliance of sound and motion” – NY Times
>>>>>>OWEN PLOTKIN’S THE ELECTRICAL RETROSPECTACLE #17 <<<<<<<<<<<<< T H E F I L M S : T H E F I L M S Matrix, James Whitney (1968) color, sound, 6 min. "Visionary filmmaker plumbs the depths of percepconscienceness. All circuits are GO ! " - Plotkin Aparatus sum- Hollis Frampton (1972) color, silent, 2-1/2 min. "Hollis Frampton meditates on what remains."- Plotkin Thanatopsis , Ed Emshwiller (1962) B+W, sound, 5 min. "The moment one's mortality is revealed to be a brilliant gem, fearsome and enchanting."- Plotkin Serpent , Scott Bartlett (1971)15 min.(sound)color "This film - 31 years old - is as now as CNN 31 years from tommorow. Bartlett = genius"-- Plotkin Windowmobile, James Broughton with Joel Singer, 1977, 7-1/2 min., B+W, "Poet James Broughton is always true to his wise, his innocent soul."-Plotkin Straight and Narrow, 1970, 10 min., Beverly and Tony Conrad w/music by Terry Riley and John Cale. "A flickeringly refreshing eyeopener. Pow! "-Plotkin Arabesque for Kenneth Anger, Marie Menken ,(196?) color, sound, 4 min. music by Teiji Ito "Marie Menken's delicate hand leads one to one's own beauty. Behold."-Plotkin Time of the locust-Peter Gessner (1966) b&w, sound, 12 min. "The sky is black with bombers, the grass is crying for man."-Plotkin AND MORE! Astounding pioneering bold personal open poetic film works. Projected 16mm prints at GALAPALOS Films curated by owen plotkin info at www.colorbot.com
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Ginsberg blog – “Owen Plotkin’s film on and of Allen’s 1978 poem, Plutonian Ode, remains, regrettably, cautionary and timely.
B.L. Ochman What’s next blog -“Memory and dream collide in this Martin Luther King tribute video by Owen Plotkin”
2002 242.PILOTS live computer art improv ensemble
featuring Kurt Ralske and Owen Plotkin The Electrical Retrospectacle at GALAPAGOS williamsburg NYC
Hungrr LLC, a hunger awareness company
Faceblockd, how to f*k with a social network logo
Owen Plotkin interview via SoundLAB, part of “Le Musee di-visioniste – the new museum of networked art”the cyber kitchen
Owen Plotkin’s colorbot.com featured in rhizome and the new museum’s html colour exhibit”
Owen Plotkin colorbot.com exhibited at FILE 2006 Electronic Language International Festival in São Paulo
multi media performance project “Love,Love Barbara”
AND – Artists Network Database
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Apple Store iPhone Incident – @ owen plotkin 3:18
the day the original iphone was released I put on the orange Hungrr suit and this happened..
We were surprised they let us into the museum that day
and not surprised when they asked me to leave the garden…
Museum of Modern Art hungrr in the garden – owen plotkin (1:50)
Psynk (5:48)
images and sound and music ©owen plotkin
warning: flashing light could cause seizure in epilepsy
TOO CLOSE • A 2001 REACTION (3:48) © owen plotkin
“The attack occurred, I stood and watched
the buildings fall with my own eyes, smelled
the burning plastic from across the river,
later at home, my eyes and ears were unnerved
by the television as it became an unrelenting fear machine.
A Prayer in May. instrumental improvisation – owen plotkin 2008 (1:35)
Oh Great Machine – a song about Google censorship and China (1:13)
Jan ’06, when Google censored China’s Google search engine,
I wrote and recorded this song. – owen plotkin
Plutonian Ode (12:14) by owen plotkin
The images and audio in this film are public domain and/or
offered by creative commons and are available for download and reproduction
at the internet archive, the Prelinger archives, C.E. Price
and from the U.S. Department of Energy
National Nuclear Security Administration Nevada Site Office
Allen Ginsberg recorded Naropa Inst.
dont grow old
you will be lost
dont grow old
you will be lost
Your time has come
stand up and be seen
The summer sun
loves only green.
Through Autumn’s gasping colors
In Winter’s insistent gray
Whether Spring brings rain or romance
I will watch you sing
I will watch you dance.
Dreams must be charged
in youth
not delayed
nor silenced
by reason
nor circumstance.
Owen Plotkin earned an MFA from NYU Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television,Studied coding at NYU Center for Advanced Technology in Multimedia.Attended Hartford School of the Arts, The Hartt School, western and contemporary music history.Co-Founded film editing company – the now corporation in 2003 and serves as chief officer. Plotkin’s tv and radio commercial voiceover work led to his membership in SAG AFTRA.
Plotkin apprenticed with sculptor/welder Meyers Rohowsky and studied painting with Emily Sturkie. A self taught guitarist, he writes songs, sings and writes poetry. He studies voice with renowned composer and voice teacher Marisa Michelson. Plotkin practices TM. However he does not levitate.
Plotkin collaborated on film/art performances with Mary Jordan and Tony Conrad at Performa 1999 and Jordan’s Parthenogenesis at the Box and Canal Room
He founded Hungrr,LLC in 2005 to help raise awareness to the facts and issues surrounding hunger in the USA.
Plotkin’s net art has been exhibited:
Cyber Kitchen 2002
FILE Festival 2004 in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Electronic Language International Festival.
HTML Color Codes, September, 2009,Curated by Carolyn Kane for Rhizome/New Museum
Soundlab New Media Fest 2010,
Related links:
Hungrr LLC, a hunger awareness company
Faceblockd, how to f*k with a social network logo
Owen Plotkin’s colorbot.com featured in rhizome and the new museum’s html colour exhibit”
multi media performance project “Love,Love Barbara”
AND – Artists Network Database
Performa 1999 film and art performances with mary jordan
hungrr activist performance films:
hungrr video
hungrr video
hungrr video
Owen Plotkin founded and curated The Electrical Retrospectacle 1998-2006
A film series that presented avant garde (experimental,underground,personal and poetic) films projected in 16mm and selected from the extensive catalogues of the Museum of Modern Art Circulating Film and Video Library,the Film makers Cooperative NYC,Canyon Cinema, The Pacific Film Archive (now the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive Library), The Donnell Library Center at 53rd Street (sadly closed in 2008) and private collections.
Owen Plotkin collaborated on film/art performances with Mary Jordan and Tony Conrad at Performa 1999 and Jordan’s Parthenogenesis at the Box and Canal Room in 2005.
Owen Plotkin apprenticed with sculptor/welder Meyers Rohowsky and studied painting with Emily Sturkie. A self taught guitarist, he writes songs, sings and writes poetry. He studies voice with renowned composer singer and voice teacher Marisa Michelson. Plotkin practices TM. However he does not levitate.
Owen Plotkin founded Hungrr,LLC in 2005 to help raise awareness to the facts and issues surrounding hunger in the USA.
Owen Plotkin’s net art exhibited:
Cyber Kitchen 2002 and
FILE Festival 2004 in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Electronic Language International Festival. and
HTML Color Codes, September, 2009,Curated by Carolyn Kane for Rhizome/New Museum and
Soundlab New Media Fest 2010
Owen Plotkin earned an MFA from NYU Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television,Studied coding at NYU Center for Advanced Technology in Multimedia.Attended Hartford School of the Arts, The Hartt School, western and contemporary music history.
Co-Founded film editing company – the now corporation in 2003 and serves as chief officer.
Owen Plotkin’s tv and radio commercial voiceover work led to his membership in SAG AFTRA.
Related links:
Owen Plotkin’s colorbot.com featured in rhizome and the new museum’s html colour exhibit”
Owen Plotkin interview via SoundLAB, part of “Le Musee di-visioniste – the new museum of networked art”
multi media performance project “Love,Love Barbara”
Owen Plotkin colorbot.com exhibited at FILE 2006 Electronic Language International Festival in São Paulo
2002 242.PILOTS live computer art improv ensemble
featuring Kurt Ralske and Owen Plotkin The Electrical Retrospectacle at GALAPAGOS williamsburg NYC
Ginsberg blog – “Owen Plotkin’s film on and of Allen’s 1978 poem, Plutonian Ode, remains, regrettably, cautionary and timely.
B.L. Ochman What’s next blog.com -“Memory and dream collide in this Martin Luther King tribute video by Owen Plotkin”
the cyber kitchen
AND – Artists Network Database
Performa 1999 film and art performances with mary jordan
hungrr activist performance films:
hungrr video
hungrr video
hungrr video
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