The opening reception is March 3, 3-5pm.

University Gallery, UML

• ‘K’ from The Orange Diary blogged about my artist talk in her post Kaunas Photo ‘09 : day two
• Photo Kudra posts a portrait of Charismatic Bostonian Jeffu Warmouth
• Another Lithuanian blogger on the Spudnik Video. Read in English (Google Translation)

Breakfast on the Cereal Reef was mentioned in a couple blogs recently, based on my inclusion in Eat the Art at Bunker Hill Community College.

Food Art: ‘Eat the Art’ Group Exhibit at BHCC in Boston , Eat Me Daily, October 20, 2009
Breafast on the Cereal Reef, Cakehead Loves Evil, October 20, 2009

JeffuBurger

JeffuBurger was mentioned alongside 19 other pieces of very inspiring junk food art to celebrate National Junk Food Day:
20 Pieces of Junk Food Art, Listicles, July 21, 2009

Other inspirational food art

Just some other great, delicious, ridiculous projects that make me chuckle:
The United Steaks of America, a brilliant project by Dominic Episcopo
The food diorama photos of Pierre Javelle and Akiko Ida
Incredible Sushi Art and Amazing Food Art
And of course Bent Objects, the work of Terry Border

• Soterios Johnson and Carolina Miranda, Can Bravo Pick the Next Top Artist?, WNYC-FM (New York’s NPR station), July 20, 2009. Great radio segment. I chat about my reasons for wanting to audition, then Carolina Miranda gives a run down of Art Show Down

• Carolina Miranda, Casting Bravo’s Untitled Art Reality Show, WNYC Blogs, July 20, 2009. This is the culture article that accompanies the radio segment
• Sarah Douglas, Taking a Shot at Reality, ArtInfo.com, July 20, 2009. Article on the casting process, Jeffu featured in the Photo Gallery section
• Aneta Glinkowska, Sara Jessica Parker’s Untitled Art Project NY Casting, NY Art Beat, July 18, 2009. There’s me, at 1:18 on the video, in my Art Show Down t-shirt

Warmouth’s video installation is a satiric face-off between McDonald’s and Kentucky Fried Chicken joints. You order off interactive computer menus that feature a mix of conceptual and absurdist gags. One restaurant prepares your order (which often seems to involve Warmouth dumping a bucket of chickenish stuff on his head) while the other heckles (that guy will put anything in his burgers). A serious-silly joke about fast food and conceptual art, it’s a hoot.

Fun, interactive art
Puns, parodies, and jokes have always been Jeffu Warmouth’s mainstay. Warmouth’s interactive video installation brings the viewer into the middle of a fast-food war between “Jeffu Burger” and “JFC.” Life-size videos of Warmouth in uniform, ready to serve up the shakes and fries, stand at the ready as the viewer uses a touch screen to order. One or the other will prepare the meal, as his adversary complains. The food is crazy – one server dons onion-ring chain mail to protect himself from the slings and arrows of his business – but usually there’s sly social commentary at work. It’s a whopper of an installation.

My contributions are JeffuBurger and JFC: competing fast-food franchises as room-sized interactive video installations. The show is high-tech, lo-fi, and slapstick — quite a spectacle.

(photo by Fred Levy)