When the lease was up at Carmacazzi Dub Plates at the end of May, I had to find a new place to work. 911 Media Arts Center was looking for a curator to fill a hole in their exhibition schedule and I needed a base of operations. So kit and caboodle, VroomJournal.com and Art Radio Seattle have moved into the Arts Center located on 9th and Harrison in the up and coming South Lake Union district. SLU, as I like to call it, hosts not only 911 Media but CoCA and ConWorks. Patricia Cameron and Woodside/Braeseth Galleries are also located in this area making the case for an alternative epicenter for experimental arts away from Pioneer Square.

Over the past few weeks, I have excavated the New Media Gallery, removing scrap lumber, carpets, and various sundries to make it usable for exhibitions. In the course of my cleaning, I found several 4th generation i-macs sitting on the shelf and decided to use the technology available to present an digital exhibition that will leave no physical artifacts within the gallery itself. I thought I would have to insert a VGA Y splitter into the video cards of the computers but discovered that several had a conceal second VGA out port right beneath the access panel.

Documentation Cube #1 is a new exhibit documenting local art. With the advance of digital technology and the ease of digital photography, artists have been faced with a mountain of documentation. Documentation Cube is an experiment in presenting these images in a non-linear format to the public in a surround environment. The four walls of the media arts gallery will have four video projections displaying the five years of sculptural installation work by the artistic trio of SuttonBeresCuller. From their early experiments in the now defunct Cornish Westlake Studios in the vanished Trick and Murray building to their more recent works, Documentation Cube will present the digital images used to chronicle their artistic endeavors that first appeared on several different web-sties over the years. This exhibition is not art it is simply documentation of their works.

The Cube represents a departure from the traditional documentary methods of presenting an artist's body of work. Projections replace printed matter and will leave no visible trace in the gallery after the exhibition. Most of the images will have already appeared in various forms on the Internet with additional materials coming from the digital archive of VroomJournal.com.

SuttonBeresCuller met at Cornish College of the Arts in the Sculpture Lab. Since 2001 they have been exploring the process of installation through collaboration and performance art. In 2005, they received The Stranger's "Genius Award" for the visual arts category. Earlier they completed a residency at the Bemis Center in Omaha Nebraska producing many site specific works. Their floating island off the 520 bridge was reported on from Bellevue to Bombay India. Many people will remember their recent work "There goes the Neighborhood", a portable living room trailer which toured King County with a grant from 4Culture.

SuttonBeresCuller are currently showing at Lawrimore Projects at 831 Airport Way South in Seattle. Gallery Hours are Tuesday through Saturday 11:00 am to 6:00 pm For further information visit the gallery on the web HERE!.

Documentation Cube #1 opened June 21 and will run through July 7, at 911 Media Arts Center [9th and Harrison] . Gallery Hours are Noon to 6 pm Monday through Friday or by appointment. View the Video Documentation of the exhibition here.