{"id":6732,"date":"2011-09-12T21:51:21","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T02:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/?p=6732"},"modified":"2011-09-22T13:47:21","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T18:47:21","slug":"far-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2011\/09\/12\/far-out\/","title":{"rendered":"~FAR OUT . . . JOSH HARRIS"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘WE LIVE IN PUBLIC’ – WHERE ARE WE NOW: JOSH HARRIS<\/p>\n

JOSH HARRIS – the HEAD HONCHO. JUPITER COMMUNICATIONS.COM, PSEUDO.COM, QUIET the MILLENNIUM PARTY TO END ALL PARTIES, and WE LIVE IN PUBLIC – the first 24\/7 wired surveillance live streaming interactive web project that defined a new generation, not to forget . . the still unfolding WIRED CITY . . . ALL HIS BABIES !! <\/p>\n

the film ‘WE LIVE IN PUBLIC’ – is his story. as director ONDI TIMONER put it: “this is the story of the greatest internet entrepreneur – you never heard of . . . ”<\/p>\n

see: ‘WE LIVE IN PUBLIC’ – the film’s official website . . .<\/a><\/p>\n

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\ntop floor, the old industrial building at the corner of N. 10th and Berry – in WiIliamsburg – was home to JOSH HARRIS for about a year. from pretty much about the time ALFREDO MARTINEZ was rescued from CHINA. by Josh . . . with some (diplomatic) help from writer BYRON HAWES.
\nsee: ALFREDO\/ LOST & FOUND<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nbut the Brooklyn gig’s up – and Josh is on the move . . . whereabouts: unknown.<\/p>\n

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\nthe day before he split, he just managed to intersect with JEFF GOMPERTZ – a close artist associate of his from the Pseudo glory days . . . Jeff had flown in from Bangkok to clear up some business, Josh has packed up and is taking off. . . these are Jeff’s shaped canvas ‘boards’ on the floor . . . m\/m encaustic wax-coated – canvas paintings – stretched over sono tubes. <\/p>\n

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\ndetail: JEFF GOMPERTZ ‘board’.
\nit was Josh who set up the photo shoot. as anybody who has spent any time hanging around with him, can tell you . . . if he hadn’t been a visionary internet entrepreneur – he would have made for a great magazine creative director . . .
\nthe down side ? the legend goes that hanging out with artists – is what pulled him too far to the other side – he got so distracted . . . he didn’t keep his eye on the color of the ink in the ledger books – to make a long story, short. but the reality is: what Josh claimed all along, while he was being hailed as a web guru and new age tech geek in the mainstream media . . that he was really – an artist. and you know what, he was.<\/p>\n

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\nthe last NYC sighting: JOSH HARRIS. . . AUGUST 12, 2011.
\nhe said he was off to fish in Connecticut, and then on to URUGUAY, where there were developers who were gonna work on . . . THE WIRED CITY.
\nthen came a cryptic sighting in upstate NY on AUGUST 20th – that placed him in LORDVILLE, a small rural town where Gavin, that’s Gavin Brown to you, has a cabin . . the message:
\n“gavin’s generator got soaked in the rain . . now all he has is solar power.”
\nand that was before Hurricane Irene hit !! where Josh is now – is anybody’s guess. <\/p>\n

I guess we’re back to that to that old artlovers game – WANTED: $10 for the first new sighting of JOSH HARRIS. or:
\nWHERE IN THE WORLD – IS – JOSH ?<\/p>\n

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\noh oh . . speak of the devil. lordy, lordy – artlovers on the screen.
\nRAY’S A LAUGH !! <\/p>\n

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\nJEFF was getting some work ready to hang in the KCDC skate shop\/gallery around the corner . . . <\/p>\n

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\nnice. real nice.<\/p>\n

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\nthe works had been in storage . . .
\nlong time, no see . . and still had the original provenance tags from Jeff’s earliest forays into the New York City art world: ca. 1989 . . . ANNINA NOSEI GALLERY – 100 PRINCE ST. (!!)
\nsince Annina was Basquiat’s first dealer – Josh seemed to get a big kick out of that.
\nto Jeff it was: been there done that. don’t remind me.<\/p>\n

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\nJeff had pretty much soured on that scene and forgot about it by the 90’s – when he was swept up by Josh’s dot com $$ bubble – and ended up making that iconic pod hotel for QUIET . . . face it: he was just a little too smart for the art scene per se. alot of the ‘underground’ artists of the 80s and 90s found refuge, not to mention fast-paced thinking – with Josh. Alfredo and me, included. <\/p>\n

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\nand that’s why Josh has often been termed the web’s Andy Warhol . . . he had a real boiler room going, funded by his web ventures, big time. oh yeah. those were<\/em> the dot.com days !!
\nPseudo ruled. Josh aka LUVVY was the master of ceremonies. and it was a wild wild time. just flat out wild. <\/p>\n

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\nlike I said, quelle funny how our hardcore mayhem – paved a trail – spun a web ? – to the ‘social networking’ . . of the very public interconnected dot world – we live in today.
\nconnecting the dots. the digital dots. the very definition of art – in a nutshell. <\/p>\n

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\nthe book cover says:
\n“What Chess Can Teach You About BUSINESS Even If You Never Played”.<\/p>\n

PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH, all art work by JEFF GOMPERTZ<\/p>\n

posted on the 10th anniversary of 9\/11, NYC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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