December 4th through
December 10th - Moscow
The First Moscow Artistamp Exhibition opens
at ART-MANEGE '98 on December 4th. This International Art Fair
aims at promoting the expansion of the art market in Russia and the former
Soviet republics. Art-Manege also lends its support to
co-operative between Russian artists and foreign institutions as well as to
new trends in contemporary art. Calling the Canadian virtual museum (JCM
- Jas Cyberspace Museum) and its Artistamp Gallery - "one of the most
well-known conceptual NEW MEDIA ART projects in the world.", the organizing
committee for Art-Manege'98 invited Canadian artist Jas W Felter and
Russian artists Lamana Wooman and Kholopov Trouser to organize The
First Moscow Artistamp Exhibition
from the collection of works available to JCM.
December 1st through
12th - Barcelona
Jas contributes to the project Pròpia Còpia, a
project of the Côclea Association in collaboration with Merz Mail, the
Orchestra of Chaos and the Association of Electroacústica Music of
Spain. It is designed to review the concept of author in various artistic
scopes: visual, literature, and sonorous art. Documentation on file.
November 20th -
Spain
The IM 98 JAS/CÉSAR (Incongruous Meetings 98) is the subject
of a full page comic strip in the national newspaper El PAÍS. It is
found on page 47 in the section Las Tentaciones. Document on file.
November 14 through
December 15 - Buenos Aires
One of Jas' artistamp works is included in the
exhibition ARTISTAMPS - Muestra colectiva internacional de sellos de
artista in the bar Barbara Ann, Taquíigrofo Garriga
163. Documentation on file.
November 5th -
Tarragona, Spain
Traveling south by train, Jas arrives in Tarragona to
collect cigarette packs and visit to El Taller del Sol's Archivo museo de
"mail-art" (AMMA). The world's only mail art museum open to the
public. Outside AMMA Jas meets the Museum's coordinator, César
Reglero. After an extensive tour of the Museum and its collection, César
takes Jas on a tour of Tarragona - the city that supplied the stone to build
Rome. At the train station César collects empty cigarette packs from the
trash bins and presents them to Jas for his Millennium Project.
The meeting is registered as one the IM 98 JAS/CÉSAR (Incongruous
Meetings 98) with the Ethereal Open Network in Italy.
October 20th through
November 7th - Spain
Jas is in Barcelona continuing his expedition to
collect empty cigarette packs and continue his research of tiles and their use
in decorating buildings, rooms, and hallways. He receives large
donations of cigarette packs from Charlie & Doli Williams, Pere Souso, and
Jose Carlos Soto.
October 8th through
20th - Portugal
Jas is in Portugal on an expedition to collect discarded,
empty cigarette packs. He explores and collects in Belé Sintra,
Carcavelos, Oeiras and Estoril, as well as Lisboa, where he makes a special
visit to the Museu Nacional do Azulejo (National Tile Museum) as part
of his research for the Jas Millennium Project.
October 6th through
10th - Manizales, Columbia
Jas Cyberspace Museum is presented at
the Segundo Festival Internacional de la imagen at the Universidad de
Caldas.
June 20th, 1998
through January 3, 1999 - Vancouver
The Non Smoking Table by Jas is
presented in the HELLO AGAIN! A new wave in recycled art and design
exhibit curated by Susan Subtle at the Vancouver Museum. The
table is covered with gold and silver foil from used cigarette packages.
Its top is a mosaic pattern made from 192 different cigarette packs from
23 countries, the EU and the EEC surrounding a central mandala made from 88
health warnings taken from Canadian cigarette packs. More information and
photos of this work can be seen in the JCM Library's documentation of the Cigarette Pack and
Foil Collection (cc). Documentation on file.
June 14th - Vancouver
A donated painting by Jas is sold at the Art Auction at the Westin
Bayshore to Support Prevention Services for Women. The event is
sponsored by the Canadian PID Society with proceeds to Pelvic
Inflammatory Disease Society. Documentation on file.
May 23rd through
September 27 - Luxembourg
The Codex
Almada (cc), a miniature artist's book by Jas is exhibited and sold at
Minimal Art Discount Exposition at Du Vague à l'Art-collectif S.à r.l.,
19, rue St. Ulrich Luxembourg-Grund. Catalogue on file.
May 3rd through June
10th - Spain
Jas travel to Spain to begin an extensive expedition to
collect empty used cigarette packs for his Jas Millennium Project - The Non
Smoking Room, a Memorial to the 20th Century. He lands in Madrid
and takes the train to Huelva. After collecting many cigarette packs
he travels by bus to Sevilla on May 8th. On May 11th he rents a
car and drives to Cadiz, stopping in Los Arcos de La Fronteria
for lunch. On May 13th he returns to Sevilla and takes the train to
Cordoba. By the 15th of May he has collected 54 empty cigarette packs.
He travels by train to Barcelona on the 16th. By the end of the
expedition he has a suitcase full of close to 1,300 cigarette packs.
May 1st through 31st -
Vancouver
Many Hands - Collaborative Collage Works Central
Visual Artists Association (CVAA) (cc), including Jas, Anna Banana, Jeannie
Kamins, Shirley Lum, Khadejha McCall, Henri Robideau, Barbara Seamon, Peter
Small, Bill Thompson Ed Varney and Jane Wolsak is presented at A WALK
IS ... Gallery, 976 Denman Street. The Opening takes place on
Friday, May 1st at 8pm. The Gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday from 12
noon to 8pm and Sunday from 12 noon to 6pm. Docmentation on file.
April 26th through May
21st - Vancouver
A little new ink-on-paper work by Jas entitled
Manuscript Leaf #57 from the Codex Derval (cc) is included in
the exhibit small: the art of the miniature, an exhibition of
miniature works of art by 79 contemporary British Columbian artists at the
Vancouver East Cultural Centre Gallery. A friend and fellow member of
the CVAA,
Barbara Seamon (cc), walked away with a first prize. The exhibit is
produced and curated by Avenue for/des Arts, the resident visual arts
group at the VECC. An
opening reception (cc) took place on Sunday, April 26th from 3 to 6pm. Catalogue
and invitation on file.
April 20th - USA
Six
of Jas' Cyberstamps are featured in the April 20th issue of the US publication
STAMP COLLECTOR. The article, Cyberstamps
are cinderellas of the internet (cc) by Roger and Bonnie
Riga, introduces and discusses cyberstamps as collectable cinderellas in
the age of computers and e-mail. Original copy on file.
April 4th - 19th -
Vercelli, Italy
Jas' art work is exhibited in the Electric Mind
Project: Works and themes of digital art curated by Gian Piero Prassi.
The exhibition is held at Studio 10 and examines the ../../photos
of the 'linguaggio globale'. The catalogue, reproducing three of Jas
digital art works is on file.
March 4th through 20th
- Sechelt, British Columbia
Five Artistamp editions and the Mraurovian
Artistamp Dispensor by Jas are included in the exhibition
ARTISTAMPS OF THE INTERNATIONAL MAIL-ART NETWORK (cc) at
the Sunshine Coast Art Centre. This unique exhibition, curated by
Canadian artist
Anna Banana (cc), includes the work of more than 40 artists from around the
world. The majority of the works exhibited are from the collection of
Anna Banana. Special guests at a reception held on Saturday evening,
March 7th, were Sandy
Jackson (cc) of Seattle & San Diego, Carl
Chew (cc) of Seattle, Ed
Varney (cc) of Vancouver and Jas. Catalogue on file.
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