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backscratch

2011-08-14T22:11:00.000-07:00

"backscratch" pen and water colour 13x13cm 2011 Matt Mincoff

superimposition updated

2011-08-11T10:00:00.000-07:00

got a lot new photos up over on my photo Tumblr
click the image to take a look

..the ever so occasional internet hiatus

2011-08-11T08:50:00.000-07:00

Hey Internet! I'm Back!

Every so often it happens, the internet takes a backseat to regular old "real life".

So while i was gone I was touring eastern Canada in search of adventure, some whales and lots of nature. It was one of the funnest trips i've ever been on. The excitment of traveling to a new place everyday was movitating and exhausting, but 3 weeks of living in a van are now past and now i've got a pretty good idea of what lays between my home in Ontario and the Atlantic Ocean.

While on the road I tried to post updates on Twitter to keep my memories in chronological order which is nice when all the moment turn into a mixed up slosh of fun times.

In the next while expect some inevitable "ketchup" posts, but also there are some exciting new projects in the works that i am excited to share once they are ready.

Fallen Friend

2011-06-10T08:54:00.000-07:00

Missing you big time homie.
Beez 1990-2011

RE: Guess What!?

2011-06-07T21:38:00.000-07:00

My Guess What artist talk at The White House Studio Project was amazing with a great turn out and a lot of interest about the concepts i've been working on. People sure get excited by the unknown.
There may be an audio or video recording of the lecture, but i am not sure if the internet is ready for that. In the meantime here is a photo from the evening.

My mind was in Kurdistan

2011-06-07T21:12:00.000-07:00

I was approached by one of my friends from RMIT Rushdi Anwar earlier this year to participate in a group show when he visited Kurdistan during the spring. For the the past month my sculpture my mind was on display at Sadram Gallery in Kurdistan. Pretty awesome. Here's some pictures and details.

KURDISTAN REGIONAL GOVERNMENT
MINISTRY OF CULTURE AND YOUTH

GENERAL DIRECTOR OF ART IN SULEMANI
DIRECTOR OF THE FINE ARTS IN SULEMANI
www.kcaic.com

Group Exhibition " Untitled "
The essential quality of art inherited in its international language. It can find its own ‘home’ wherever it goes. Thereby, the boundaries are crossed and there artists, coming from different parts of the world, meet in Sulemani- Kurdistan. It presents its own authentic form.

Arlene Amaler Raviv
Caroline Kennedy - McCracken
Elmedin Zunic
Fernando Garcia Vasquez
Hua Cun Chen
Kavin Viasuwan
Krishnamurti Suparka
Matt Mincoff
Melanie Jayne Taylor
Polly Stanton
Rushdi Anwar
Steph Bolt
Trudy Moor

new superimposition

2011-06-07T20:54:00.000-07:00

Updates are happening over at my phototumblr superimposition.
There is a lot of focus on landscapes going on at the moment which i am really excited about
. click below and have a look for yourself

#mindmelt

2011-06-07T19:44:00.000-07:00

Lately I've been kicking back watching the world knitting itself into synchromystic sticky web. Well my reality at least.

Dundas Valley School of Art Annual Auction

2011-04-25T16:22:00.000-07:00

If you are interested in acquiring some of my original artwork this is a great opportunity to win a couple of acrylic paintings. Good Luck!

follow DVSA via http://dvsarenovationproject.blogspot.com/ and @DVSA2010

Guess What!!??

2011-04-25T15:41:00.000-07:00

I've got an artist talk going on this Thursday 28 April 2011 at the White House Studio Project Located at #277.5 Augusta Ave. Toronto, Ont. come out and listen to me talk about fantastic and strange interactions where science and art make contemporary culture.

Matt Mincoff is an artist/sculptor from Hamilton Ontario and has studied at OCAD (BFA 2007) and RMIT Melbourne (MFA 2010). His practice is an exploration of what is unknown and how can we communicate what should be unexplainable. With this focus on the unknown he has worked with the concepts of the mind, ghosts, identity, invisibility, spirit, relationships and n-dimensional geometry through various approaches to objects, installation, images, sounds and video.
The workshop will discuss various topics that Mincoff has been recently working on through his art practice with slide presentations of his work and relevant media to support the concepts under the title “seeing beyond looking through”.
(website: http://mattmincoff.blogspot.com/)
Doors @ 7pm
Lecture starts at 7:30 sharp
PWYC!
Click here for Facebook event page.

books!!

2011-04-25T08:07:00.000-07:00

Yesterday Maple homie Brad showed up to the skatepark with a truck load of books.

I traveled by bike and didn't have a bag so this was all i grabbed.
Had to leave behind some Gems.
Treasure!!

Beezer.

2011-04-19T08:35:00.000-07:00

We lost one of the raddest dudes ever at the beginning of this year.
Bryan we all miss you. Thank you for all the motivation. Everyday.

art things

2011-04-09T08:23:00.000-07:00

while out on the James North Art Crawl last night I enjoyed these Dorreen Veri sculptures at the James North art collective. go have a look at them.

on a sort of unrelated note i also enjoyed this video this morning.

especially this

more me myself and maple

2011-04-08T09:45:00.000-07:00

Kelly Rowland motivates me

2011-04-06T19:50:00.000-07:00

to make a clip of one mediocre trick. swag

skate mail

2011-03-28T22:00:00.000-07:00

Got a message today from the great and mighty OZNAK with this single trick he shot on his iphone of me behind the RMIT gallery on a lazy afternoon after an art opening. Thanks dude!

speaking of collaborating

2011-03-28T21:48:00.000-07:00

Like i mentioned in the previous post I enjoy working on various projects with different people that I know. This morning i received an email from Australia sent by my pal and partner in crimes Bec. She is a jewlery maker and fellow creator and connoisseur of stuff. I left a few unfinished sculptures with her in hopes that she could help finish them. I was pretty stoked to hear that this is already happening! Bec sent me these photos of what she had added to a simple square base i left with her.

I really like these gumnut monsters she has made on top of a base that i had made with no idea what to do with. Look at how cute and funny they are! Its really exciting to me to see how things can grow so unexpectedly when you work with someone else. I can't wait to see what else gets made in this collaboration!

Steamboat Opera Album Cover

2011-03-28T14:44:00.000-07:00

A childhood friend of mine Chris Martin recently contacted me about doing some cover art for his new music project Steamboat Opera. What i made for him is a digital collage of images of the Apollo 11 launch and recovery juxtaposed with the sinking of the steamboat Cheslakee and the area surrounding where it sank off of Texada Island B.C. Here is a sample of that collage without the titling and track info.

and if you are wondering what Steamboat Opera will sound like have a listen below

Steamboat Opera by SteamboatOpera

It's always fun to do projects with different people and for different projects. i am looking forward to seeing how these turn out after the text and logos go on them. I'll be sure to post the final product when it surfaces.
Also be sure to check out Steamboat Opera on Facebook

Welcome back to Canada

2011-03-17T12:03:00.000-07:00

I have returned home to the great white north and the little village I grew up in.
It's good to be back, there is so much I missed.
Just trying to take it all in, spending time with friends and family and planning out what will be the next step for me while I get acclimatized to the temperature

canv.as

2011-03-02T20:04:00.000-08:00

so i don't want to explain what this website CANV.AS is, but since i got an invitation yesterday it has taken over my life and i can not stop posting. i have decided i am going to share some of the crap i post on can.vs here. since most of it has been posted as anonymous you'll have to take my word that i created it, but i'm sure you'll be able to tell anyway. anyone interested in an invite?

some of my posting from
the first twenty hours

some highlights

riding out the last of my australian adventure

2011-03-02T19:48:00.000-08:00

I'm not sure what to say about my time in Australia with just about a week left. i think it is still to soon to know how it was, so in the mean time i am trying to soak in as much sun and fun as i can. this past weekend i went camping with some new friends to Wilsons Promontory and finally got to see a little more Australian nature.

got some chillin' beach time in as well as some swimming

every time i took out the camera it got full of sand so unfortunately i don't have any photos of wombats, jellyfish, roos or the amazing marine phosphorescences we swam with in the tidal river at night. the phosphorescence was truely unforgettable. When will i get another chance to swim in warm water of flashing little creatures lighting up with my every movement!?? "what are yous?" "there's so many of them!" "i just really want to drink them!!!"

making memories

upgraded

2011-02-16T03:44:00.000-08:00

I realized today I needed to update my online presence a little, clean up the layout a bit here on the blog and get some content i've been meaning to uploaded posted. Taken care of.
With the ever growing amount of content i am producing and posting i have created a new portal page to more easily navigate my all of my projects both present and past.
click below to check it out

the plan was to keep the page clean/simple and basic screen captures suited the job nicely. I am planning on updating them from time to time as pages progress or just as i like. also be sure to check out the two new projects: still pending title 2011 and superimposition for new images of artworks.

add it to your bookmarks
http://mattmincoff.blogspot.com/

thank you if you read through this redundant blog about blogging (TL;DR)

hot tub capybaras!

2011-02-12T01:24:00.000-08:00

Capybaras are awesome!

obviously i like this

2011-02-10T04:09:00.000-08:00

Kevin Vanaelst
Tesseract, 2009, tape measure, 12 x 12 x 12

this clip makes me want to go skateboarding

2011-02-10T03:44:00.000-08:00

even though i certainly can't skate like this, it still gets me stoked to go outside
Mike Manzoori skate videos always do.

2011-02-08T15:59:00.000-08:00

Thanatos

2011-02-05T07:31:00.000-08:00

"And there the children of dark Night have their dwellings, Sleep and Death, awful gods. The glowing Sun never looks upon them with his beams, neither as he goes up into heaven, nor as he comes down from heaven. And the former of them roams peacefully over the earth and the sea's broad back and is kindly to men; but the other has a heart of iron, and his spirit within him is pitiless as bronze: whomsoever of men he has once seized he holds fast: and he is hateful even to the deathless gods." -Hesiod

loose lips sink ships

2011-02-05T07:05:00.000-08:00

"Most people don't care: you be stressin me
So no talking! Plead the 5th often" - lil b

Why Man Creates (1968) by Saul Bass

2011-02-01T01:22:00.000-08:00

2011-01-26T18:05:00.000-08:00

Understanding: looking through (2011)

Learning is an equilibrium of constructive and destructive thoughts. The processes of Learning facilitate change similar to the additive and subtractive processes that transform this notebook into an abstract identity. Leaning is a holistic process, it can not be understood as a sum of it's parts, it is like a window one chooses to peer through into somewhere else. - Matt Mincoff

the future is virtual

2011-01-26T17:22:00.000-08:00

a tune for the moment

2011-01-26T16:56:00.001-08:00

souvenirs from the internet

2011-01-16T21:05:00.000-08:00

just gonna repost some stuff i've saved while surfing because why not.

Crystal Castles - Not In Love from Video Marsh on Vimeo.

Fistmas 2010

2011-01-16T20:49:00.000-08:00

i was lucky enough to be invited to this crazy christmas celebration in Northcote.
jelly wrestling was the game and this is how it went down

this is some kind of wonderful life that i'm living

2011-01-16T19:31:00.000-08:00

Fiend featuring Curren$y - Luvin Life by Hypetrak

been lazy on the blogging

2011-01-16T19:09:00.001-08:00

had some life stuff to sort out
time to get posting about what i've been up to
here is a music in consolation

Best Coast - When You Wake Up by weallwantsome1

Chris Burden

2010-12-20T22:33:00.000-08:00

lazy sunday music post.

2010-12-11T17:39:00.000-08:00

i make art

2010-11-24T21:00:00.000-08:00

click to enlarge

at a Master level now . cool beans. all finished the RMIT MFA program and graduation will be over the next couple of weeks. give me a holler and we'll tip some glasses in celebration.

2010 RMIT MFA graduation show

2010-11-19T16:51:00.001-08:00

come celebrate the opening of the graduate show wed. 1 december @ 5:30
i've been working towards this show this whole year and can't wait to introduce my art to Melbourne.

have a look at what i've been making this year in RMIT's MFA studios at external interior
or click the image below

the "something" nothin'

2010-11-19T16:39:00.000-08:00

click image to enlarge

there's so much to say and no words. just my foot in my mouth.

Captain Beeheart

2010-10-31T19:45:00.000-07:00

currently i'm spending the day in the studio by myself listening to Beefheart's discography album through album.. so i thought i'd post this and share

" i just want to play, i want things to change, like the patterns and shadows that fall from the sun" _Don Van Vliet (part 6)

part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6

*update

I found out this morning that Don Van Vliet passed away (Dec 17 2010). how very sad.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/dec/17/captain-beefheart-died-aged-69

Madness

2010-10-08T18:51:00.001-07:00

click for enlarge

Matt Mincoff - 2010

new work up

2010-10-08T18:47:00.000-07:00

i have a few new sculptures up over at my Art blog "External Interior"

click the image to check it out

R. Crum knows

2010-10-08T18:33:00.001-07:00

Serena Williams.

new Yelawolf

2010-10-08T18:29:00.000-07:00

Yelawolf & Gucci Mane - I Just Wanna Party

Video Provided by DatPiff.com
Yelawolf - threeflips

Yelawolf Tre Flips at Tompkins from RB Umali on Vimeo.

new Killa

2010-10-08T17:49:00.000-07:00

true story. *updated

2010-09-29T07:50:00.000-07:00

i really like these Lindsay Lohan Court illustrations. glad more popped up on the interweb

Drunk History: Telsa

2010-09-29T06:35:00.000-07:00

the Electric Jesus.

ESPO. love letters - the lecture

2010-09-29T05:44:00.000-07:00

there really isn't much more to say that hasn't already been said.

2010-09-28T23:31:00.000-07:00

After three thousand years of explosion, by means of fragmentary and mechanical technologies, the Western world is imploding. Today, after more than a century of electronic technology, we have extended our central nervous system itself in a global embrace, abolishing both time and space as far as our planet is concerned. Rapidly, we approach the final phase of the extensions of man-the technological simulation of consciousness, when the creative process of knowing will be collectively and corporately extended to the whole of human society, much as we have already extended out senses and our nerves by the various media. (McLuhan, Understanding Media 3-4)

Kurt Vonnegut

2010-09-26T22:58:00.001-07:00

this is the best i could do for finding this documentary about the legend Kurt Vonnegut

couldn't find part 2..

Tomorrow Night

2010-09-15T03:24:00.001-07:00

is my first Art opening in Australia
its part of the re-opening of the Vic Bar 281 Victoria street Abbostford

hopefully friday morning will have photos to share!

advice

2010-09-15T03:13:00.000-07:00

sometimes we need a little..

"..sometimes a dumbass drops a clever turd.." - Fabolous (exhibit F)

Cassetteboy vs. Dragon's Den

2010-09-06T00:21:00.000-07:00

i've always thought Cassetteboy was funny. this is quite.

Spooky Astronauts

2010-09-05T08:29:00.000-07:00

Over on the home side of the planet my great friends The Spooky Astronauts have staged an Earth landing to deliver prints for ocular mass consumption.
I've been excited about Spooky Astronauts since their founding shortly after i left to come to Australia. The Astronauts are a group of friends who make digital collages of drawings that are drawn by the members. This show will be the first time prints of the images will be available.
I'm really proud to be contributing to this project, it's great to be able to work with friends while abroad.
here is the flyer and info:

SPOOKY ASTRONAUT POSTER ART SHOW @ 195 Main Street Gallery
September 3, 2010 - October 3, 2010
Astronauts in attendance Friday, September 3rd, 2010
*more info to follow
195 Main Street Port Stanley, ON, N5L 1H6
Phone:519-777-9481
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Port-Stanley-ON/Erie-Shores-Art/103420036378169?v=info&ref=ts

Second Stop: SPOOKY ASTRONAUT LIGHT UP ART SHOW @ Project 165
1st two weeks of April, 2011
*more info to follow
Email:methinkspresents@gmail.com
Website:http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmethinkspresents.org%2Fproject165&h=ddc91Office:PROJECT 165
Location:165 Augusta Ave, Kensington Market
Toronto, ON

FOLLOW THE SPOOKIES ON THE FBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=214778&id=703913155

Good Morning Mr. Mountain departure time 9:00 am

2010-09-05T01:59:00.000-07:00

classic

contemporary

D O O M

2010-09-02T19:54:00.000-07:00

skateboarding

2010-09-02T18:13:00.000-07:00

click for large images

Sheep : life of leisure 1996

2010-08-29T22:41:00.001-07:00

the world around you

2010-08-28T20:03:00.001-07:00

Manufacturing Consent - Noam Chomsky/Edward Herman

in heavy rotation

2010-08-27T17:30:00.000-07:00

slumming in on the internet

2010-08-20T22:29:00.000-07:00

special.

2010-08-12T07:01:00.000-07:00

here is a version of one of my warning signs which ended up looking quite different

check out the whole installation over on my tumblr: external interior

just Gucci, like it's nothing

2010-08-12T06:55:00.000-07:00

RMIT MFA fight club

2010-08-01T06:46:00.000-07:00

this is why people don't stay at school after midnight sunday nights (monday mornings)

studio life

2010-08-01T04:26:00.001-07:00

staying productive..

Mr. Cat

2010-08-01T01:29:00.000-07:00

this is Mr. Cat of Fitzroy. he greets me most mornings when i walk by his home.
[click thumbnail for maximum cuteness/resolution]

been busy in the studio

2010-08-01T01:08:00.001-07:00

to see more of this installation and other artwork check out my MFA tumblr: External Interior here...

2010-07-19T07:37:00.000-07:00

we're always watching

2010-07-19T07:12:00.000-07:00

mattmincoff2010

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i like this

2010-07-19T06:56:00.000-07:00

Circulus from machine project on Vimeo.

2010-07-19T06:36:00.000-07:00

mattmincoff2010

Victorian Morning

2010-07-04T05:32:00.000-07:00

snapped these this morning; didn't sleep at Ruffy Fest and decided to stay up and adventure around. [click for fullsize]

Flags for Police State Nations

2010-06-28T03:02:00.000-07:00

"Where the law is subject to some other authority and has none of its
own, the collapse of the state, in my view, is not far off; but if law
is the master of the government and the government is its slave, then
the situation is full of promise and men enjoy all the blessings that
the gods shower on a state." -Plato

Peaceful G20 protest at Queen & Spadina from Meghann Millard on Vimeo.

click image for full size

everything is relative

2010-06-18T02:06:00.000-07:00

The Huber Experiments - Vol. 1 from The Upthink Lab on Vimeo.

Geomantic Canberra

2010-06-18T01:54:00.000-07:00

Terence McKenna -- Riding Range with Marshall McLuhan

2010-06-18T01:01:00.001-07:00

part 2
part 3
part 4
part 5

so… that oil spill.

2010-06-18T00:48:00.000-07:00

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

R. Crumb

2010-06-07T00:38:00.000-07:00

Antwan

2010-06-06T05:49:00.001-07:00

FASTWURMS - 'Ice Station Isis'

2010-06-06T05:19:00.000-07:00

Tom Sachs

2010-06-06T05:12:00.000-07:00

richard serra

2010-06-06T05:06:00.001-07:00

2010-05-31T01:32:00.000-07:00

i feel ya.

2010-05-28T23:56:00.001-07:00

2010-05-18T06:34:00.000-07:00

shameless post is shameless

2010-05-18T05:47:00.000-07:00

i was posting over on the Villains Blog and realized i don't think i had let everyone know i'm a blogger over there so check out http://wearevillains.com

...so yeah, i was posting on the Villain's blog that i've started a Tumblr of the artwork i am creating here in Melbourne for my MFA program called external interior and i realized i don't think i had posted about that on here either, so go there and check that out too!

i just gotta post this

2010-05-18T05:46:00.000-07:00

Big Gucci fresh out the junt..

2010-05-14T23:18:00.001-07:00

if that's not motivating enough these dropped this week:
Cam'Ron - Boss of all Bosses 2.5
Young Jeezy - Trap or die 2

this all got me excited enough to get back to posting.
sorry it's been a while but it's booming in the MFA studio right now and priority is where it is. stay posted

Up There

2010-04-21T17:04:00.000-07:00

UP THERE from Jon on Vimeo.

a documentary about the pros who hand paint wall adverts. rad stuff

Steve Powers is a HERO!

2010-03-29T19:30:00.000-07:00

[click for Selby studio tour]

A Love Letter for You

A Love Letter For You from Megawords Magazine on Vimeo.

past awesomeness.

Street Market (2000)

2010-03-29T19:16:00.000-07:00

ESPO, TWIST, REAS

Roy Ascott

2010-03-28T20:27:00.000-07:00

OCAD president 1969-70
restructuring Arts Education

just browsing...

2010-03-22T06:12:00.000-07:00

been on the internet

home is where ever i'm with you..

2010-03-21T17:56:00.000-07:00

i'm looking forward to see them live on wednesday

on Vandalism

2010-03-20T20:14:00.000-07:00

Oliver Payne on Graffiti from Rollo Jackson on Vimeo.

i like this perspective on graffiti as vandalism. it's a more progressive outlook on the act of mark making and motivation at the origin of graffiti. since i moved out to melbourne there has been a drastic increase in the amount of graffiti i am exposed to on a daily basis. different than toronto there is a lot more visual space owned by vandalism than advertising. i find it not only refreshing, but in some way or another inspiring, not to involve myself in the act of graffiti, but rather in thinking about it in a cultural context.

here's a quick news story about Tox if you want some more insight into his work (click image)

Beautiful Losers

2010-03-20T00:06:00.001-07:00

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pwbc - pwbc38 on MUZU