Naturally I think my own list (see the previous post) would have made a better show, but I’m a biased observer. At least we got a DC piece and an Arahan piece in, even if they weren’t my personal favorites, as well as what I considered the most important works of the year.

My short list for the most important works would include Dekka’s 8 Platforms, Ichibot and Arahan’s Beyond Human, Ichibot’s episodic.atomized, and Nebulosus’s I’m Sorry Dad. My strongest response is to art that is both visually and emotionally powerful and those works score on both counts. If I were one of the members of the Top 5 jury I think those would be four of them, and then I’d think hard about #5. I’m not so worried about influencing them; they’re experts and so they’re used to ignoring everybody else’s opinions

My most notable omission is Tuna Oddfellow’s visual show; I guess not enough of the voters have seen one. Even though he’s not an official Top 30 contestant, we should invite him over to do a special show during the retrospective. Honorable mentions for omissions go to Shellina Winkler (any of her nominated pieces; she just missed out in the popular vote because of the strong block voting for the favorite artists), Ally Aeon’s Virtual Formalism, and the luntsberg candy castle by CickMy Lunt.

Left by Shirley Marquez on July 5th, 2009

Whoops, I posted my list of works that I voted for under a previous post (Shirley’s “My Picks…”) when actually this might have been the better place to put it.

Very surprised that ClickMy Lunt didn’t make it, but so it goes. It will be very hard judging this.

Left by Amy Freelunch on July 5th, 2009

oooOOOoo. Lovely to see such a great selection made it through (and honored to be included .

I’m particularly happy to see Bryn Oh’s Rabicorn Environment made it in as I just stumbled across:
http://brynoh.blogspot.com/2009/07/rabbicorn-story-opens-july-10th-at-ibm3.html

It seems Bryn has been busy turning the work into something rather more ambitious

Left by Pavig Lok on July 6th, 2009

Congratulations to all the finalists! Yay!

Jay, a few of four Yip’s works can be seen currently (haphazardly) at Soup, in the Magritte room, in the Nameless Cellars, on the rooftop, and scattered around.

Left by Mab MacMoragh on July 6th, 2009

First Congrats to ALL!!! Mega claps! The difficulty in selecting top 20 works certainly speaks volumes about the quality of work appearing on BIW. And I trust that the voting process will be even MORE difficult next year! I do hope the competition is healthy and inspires and fuels work, and gives artists the opportunity to assess directions, formally/conceptually, that they have been moving in. I too struggled with what qualified as “best” or “important” work (as mentioned by Shirley), against my own aesthetic biases, as well as naming double nominees versus including more artists. I was even bargaining with myself in establishing my picks, how silly, trying to keep myself in critical check!! Being a “newbie” and all, the wiki was really a great record, and catch-up on artist’s developing bodies of work. I myself had several double nominees on my list, including via collaboration, signaling some pretty distinct voices. Arahan Claveau, Ichibot Nishi, Dekka Raymaker, Selavy Oh, Juria Yoshikawa and DanCoyote Antonelli all received double nods, in one form or another. I was personally more in agreement with the top 20, than with what eventually surfaced as the people’s picks. I think Gazira Babeli’s Second Soup, was robbed, but oh well, can’t win ‘em all!!!! Viva la Bunnyken!!!!

Left by MonCherrie Afterthought on July 6th, 2009

[...] Voting finished: The 30 best list [...]

Left by Brooklyn is Watching » Blog Archive » 30 best show nearly there on July 7th, 2009

MonCherrie, Gazira’s Second Soup can be seen (and experienced) here:

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Locusolus/136/103/51

Left by Mab MacMoragh on July 8th, 2009

OK, I’m feeling sort of foolish, but can someone please help me find Lonetorus’s Garden of Color in the exhibition? I’ve searched undersea, in the sky…

Left by rowan on July 11th, 2009

Glad to know I’m not just blind. I’ll eagerly await the 30th. Thanks, Jay!

Left by rowan on July 11th, 2009

[...] Voting finished: The 30 best list [...]

Left by Brooklyn is Watching » Blog Archive » RIW on July 14th, 2009

[...] the web. However, I think instead of doing it like we did the web-based portion of the pick of the 30 best, we’ll do it with a blog post. This will make it a little more of a pain in the neck to tally [...]

Left by Brooklyn is Watching » Blog Archive » The Golden Eyeball and The People’s Choice Award on July 17th, 2009

[...] the judges mentioned to me how hard it was to choose an how the over-all quality of the work in the 30 best show that they were choosing from was [...]

Left by Brooklyn is Watching » Blog Archive » The Final Five on July 22nd, 2009

[...] argument for who should have gotten into the final five on the individual pages about each work (get to them from this list) , and post your vote for who should win the people’s choice award on the official voting [...]

Left by Brooklyn is Watching » Blog Archive » Tribute to Ichibot on July 23rd, 2009