In a city constantly moving forward and erasing its relationship with the past, this video installation flips that experience on its ear byre-inserting the past into the present. Comprised of two video monitors in two storefronts directly across the street from one other, each displaying synchronized surveillance camera views recorded from the previous 7 days, the piece creates the experience of seeing the recent history of where the viewer is standing but not the present. The work creates a perceptual trip wire into the past, intended to reawaken our senses to the randomness and ritual in our daily environment.

Scenes from Last Week: LEX/47 is a new work by media artist Andrew Demirjian in collaboration with The Roger Smith Hotel, Beekman Liquors and Eyebeam Art + Technology Center where he is currently an artist in residence. The project continues inside lobby of the Roger Smith Hotel where video monitors display live-edited camera footage from both sides of the street. A computer program written by the artist creates rhythms with the synchronized footage inspired by musical compositions. In this work, surveillance is a constant yet hidden aspect of daily life in New York City, which is made apparent, uncovering the archeology of the everyday.

Inspired by traditional painting genres like portraiture and landscape, Andrew Demirjian’s work explores boundaries between psychological and physical environments using contemporary technology, like surveillance video, motion tracking, and data gathering. His work has been exhibited widely including international exhibitions in Belgium, England, France, Germany, Korea, the Netherlands, Poland, and Russia as well as many galleries in New York City. He is currently an artist in residence at the Eyebeam Art + Technology Center and has been awarded a Puffin Foundation Grant, an Artslink grant, and a 2006 Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. His current work involves creating computer programs to delay, synchronize and juxtapose multiple long-term video streams to reveal hidden patterns in the everyday. www.andrewdemirjian.com

Roger Smith Arts is a multi-disciplinary arts-production company providing cultural entertainment as a way to promote dialogue within and between the leading disciplines of the New York and global art worlds. The company’s mission is to establish itself as a pre-eminent and sought-after cultural institution to the city of New York. Recognizing dialogue as the backbone of any cultural organization, RSA embraces variety as a means to foster the exchange of creative ideas. RSA produces concerts, readings, performances, installations, and lectures, all with leading creative intellectuals. www.rogersmithlife.com

Eyebeam is an art and technology center that provides a fertile context and state-of-the-art tools for digital research and experimentation. It is a lively incubator of creativity and thought, where artists and technologists actively engage with culture, addressing the issues and concerns of our time. Eyebeam challenges convention, celebrates the hack, educates the next generation, encourages collaboration, freely offers its contributions to the community, and invites the public to share in a spirit of openness: open source, open content and open distribution. www.eyebeam.org

For more information, or to schedule an interview with the artist, please contact Danika Druttman at rogersmitharts@rogersmith.com or 212.339.2092

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Second Sundays Classical Guitar Concert Series: Lynn McGrath

Sunday, May 8, 2011, at 4:00 PM
Co-Sponsored by New York City Classical Guitar Society and The Roger Smith Hotel
Frank Wallace and John Olson, series co-curators

Roger Smith Hotel
501 Lexington Avenue at East 47th Street
New York City (see map)

Tickets $15, cash only at the door. For reservations, email rogersmitharts@rogersmith.com or call (212) 755-1400.

Lynn McGrath has performed and given masterclasses for prominent guitar programs including the University of Veracruz (Mexico) and Oberlin Conservatory, and has appeared on a number of arts series and for colleges across the United States. In 2008, she completed a 6-concert tour of Peru, and has been an outreach artist for organizations such as the Austin Classical Guitar Society and the Da Camera Society (Los Angeles). She has appeared as a soloist with the Northern New York, has adjudicated a number of international competitions, and in 2009 was selected as the clinician and conductor of the Albuquerque Honors Guitar Group.

After having received degrees in Spanish Language and Literature, Education, and Music, Lynn received her Master and Doctorate of Musical Arts Degree from the University of Southern California. She has studied with some of today’s most prominent guitarists, including William Kanengiser, Pepe Romero, James Smith, and Douglas Rubio. Lynn McGrath is a former faculty member of the Crane School of Music, State University of New York at Potsdam, where she received a Student Choice Award in 2006. She serves as the Tour Director for the Guitar Foundation of America and presently lives and teaches in Albuquerque, NM.

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Fred Czarra is an international education consultant and Adjunct Professor of World Geography and World History at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. He is the author or co-author of seven books, including Spices: A Global History. For more information, visit SpicesinWorldHIstory.com

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Audrey Flack

Painter, Banjo Player, Lyricist. Her “The History of Art

String Band” will play music dedicated to Krassner,

Sargeant, Gauguin, Pollack, and others.

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Elaine Grove

Painter and (widow of Dan Christensen) recently shown

at Spaneirman Modern and Sideshow, will talk

about her art and toys.

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http://www.myspace.com/theheyrube

http://www.rogersmithlife.com

http://www.rslilys.com

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Roger Smith vs Warwick (a friendly game of ping pong)

Monday November 29th 6:30pm EST

Watch it LIVE here on rogersmithlife.com

http://www.rogersmith.com

http://www.warwickhotelny.com/

shot and edited by John Birdsong

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CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE WEEK OF RUNWAY EVENTS: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/panmanprod-official-channel

See PICS at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/48284866@N05/sets/72157624928682732/

Main Event:

The week was filled with 5 days of daily fashion installations in the Lab Gallery in conjunction with selected items for sale at RS POP Shop. At 2pm and 6pm daily, the Lab Gallery acted as a runway and live billboard, including seats inside the gallery space available by invite only for VIP’s, press and sponsors. The 2pm show were followed by a live interview by RS POP Co-Founder Melissa Gonzalez with the designer presentations projecting out into the intersection at 47^th Street and Lexington Avenue. You can see current videos at: http://www.rspopshop.com/designers.

Designers of both women and menswear whose styles incorporate versatility, sensuality and the true spirit of fostering entrepreneurship participated in the week look event, stopping traffic each day. Viewers were captivated by the designs and hurried over the RS POP Shop immediately following the presentations to see what they could scoup of from the featured designers current collections.

Here was the Lineup!

September 10th- Fashion Night Out with Ricardo Rojas Salon & Makeup by Mojica featuring Animated Closet

September 13th- Tribal Couture & Modalistas.com at 2pm & 6pm

September 14th- Sandra Baquero & Sohung Designs at 2pm & 6pm

September 15th- CEOLA and Blynk by Dominique Sade Sponsored byModalistas.com at 2pm & 6pm

September 16th- ECO Gir Sustainable Style Sponsored by Bagir at 2pm & 6pm

The Week’s Events were Sponsored by:

The Roger Smith Hotel, Lily’s, POP Chips , IZZE Sparkling Juice, Mapflex, Makeup by Mojica with Jing Ai Natural and Organic Cosmetics and Alaa of ZIBA Salon

All runways shows were seated by Invite Only

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About the event
In conjunction with the Roger Smith Hotel and Blip TV will be hosting a Live Round Table Discussion in the Starlight Ballroom at the Roger Smith Hotel hosted by Jesse Cowell. Following the round table we will host a networking cocktail hour and world premier screening of Status Kill a new web series that will be released in the Fall of 2010.

When; September 1, 2010

Roger Smith Round Table with Jesse Cowell ; 5:30 – 6
Networking Cocktail Hour 6 – 7
Screening of Status Kill and Discussion 7 – 8
Networking 8 – 9

Where;
The Starlight Ballroom at the Roger Smith Hotel
501 Lexington Avenue at 47th Street
New York, NY 10017

About Status Kill
I go to my favorite social networks everyday. Every hour. I can’t stop. Follow my Twitter.  Become my Facebook friend.  Like me! This is the world we now live in. We are all stars in each other lives via sites “like” Facebook, Twitter, and many others.  We comment to impress and love to know we are heard.  You love/hate these things, and so do we.  You find the ever changing rules of communication maddening and so do we. You wish you had more time to do it (and more will power to quit it) and so do we.

http://www.statuskill.com/?page_id=2

Join us! Follow us! Become part of the conversation!

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