I’m very pleased to announce the opening tonight of Game Change: Videogames as Art Medium and inspiration, part of the Pulse Festival at the Telfair Museum in Savannah, GA. My silkscreened poster series, There’s No One There, are a featured part of the exhibition.  This is the first time they will be shown in public, and are a kind of preview to the show they’ll have in New York in May.

If you’re in the Savannah area, please go check it out!

This is just a quick post to excitedly show off some very preliminary work I’m doing with my old Crazy Boat collaborator, Gabe Smedresman, on our new game, Tower of Memory. I’m not going to say too much about it, for fear of ruining the surprise, but… damn.

It is going to *awesome*.

I’m very pleased to announce two upcoming venues for my poster series There’s No One There.

In the month of April, the five posters have been invited to be a part of Telfair Museums’s annual Pulse Arts + Tecnhology  Festival, in Savannah, GA. It’s the first time my work has been associated with a museum, and it’s very exciting.

Then, in May, the posters come back up to NYC to be featured in a show at Studio-X, co-hosted with Ninth Letter, for the release of their new issue, of which the posters will also be a part of. It should be an amazing show and a great time. Thanks to both Studio X’s Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley, and editor Scott Geiger, for all the support.

Stay tuned for additional details for both events. Excitement, she wrote!

Above is a quick comic I did for N+1′s #ows gazette, Occupy! It’s edited by my friend Astra, and she asked me to do a comic, about pretty much anything. Life here in New York as the Occupy madness gets bigger and badder is surreal; suddenly, idealistic rhetoric is plastered on telephones and on the front of tabloids. It’s a heady time, and I tried to reflect that.

You can see a bigger one here.

My most recent #OWS poster, completed on Black Friday. I found that somehow appropriate.

Download the full here.

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Just a quick note to inform that the piece I made (above) for David Huyck’s fantastic project, Cloudy Collection, will be debuting at a Cloudy Co. show at the Pink Hobo Gallery in Minneapolis. The reception is at the gallery (507 E. Hennepin, for those in the area) on November 4th starting at 7pm. The event also kicks off MIX (http://mplsindiexpo.com/ ).

Go stand near my piece and talk about what a genius I am. Go!

Like a majority of Americans polled, I support the Occupy Wall Street protests, occasional muddled message be damned. The main complaint by the media coverage seems to be that it’s too disjointed to be a forceful argument in favor of anything, which I think misses the point a little bit. At base, the OWS movement is a group primal scream against a system that many middle-class Americans feel is rigged against them, and I think you’d have to be pretty intransigent to see it otherwise. Sure, it’s a little goofy sometimes, but statements of anger and rage often are. It will coalesce around a core group of ideals within time. The fact that those folks are out there in the snow to the service of a cause, all while keeping non-violent, is something to support, in my humble opinion.

While I’ve been down there several times, and  participated in a OWS group show (showing this little lovely), my family obligations prevent me from being out there on front lines. But I can lend what I do know: graphics, and my love of 30s era poster stylings.

Above is the first of several posters I plan to make, and then print out and drop off to the OWS people when I have a spare moment.

In the meantime, you can download a full print-ready version PDF here (13.7 MB): http://www.joealterio.com/Clients/OWSPoster1.pdf

It’s sized to be 12 x 18, but will scale down to a tabloid nicely. Enjoy, and stay tuned.

Are you someone who actually listens to music legally? Good for you, citizen! In that case, this post is for you!

Grooveshark, erstewhile internet radio and online jukebox, is doing something very cool: it’s reaching out to visual artists and asking them to design wallpapers for their online players. I was honored to be one of the artists they asked. Above are the two I made for ‘em, both a bit reappropriated from previous work, but still stand-up in their own right. You can only access them by being a member, but I recommend it; it’s really cool, and has less lawsuits against than other new services. Wheeeee!

I’m really pleased to officially release the final art for the EFF teeshirt I’ve been working on for their DEFCON offering this year. Check out the glow in the dark action here. From their press release:

Say hello to EFF’s second, limited-edition, DEF CON membership t-shirt! Only 340 premium-level donors who attend this year’s DEF CON 19 in Las Vegas will be able to get these new “ENCRYPTION SAVES” shirts, specially designed by Joe Alterio of the creative charity Robots & Monsters.

The folks down at EFF are not only templars for the righteous in my opinion, but they’re really, really nice folks, to boot. I’m so happy I got to do this for them. If you’re at DEFCON, pick up the teeshirt; and if you’re not, watch this space, I’ll be auctioning a few teeshirts from this site, get ‘em while they’re very hot!

UPDATE! Boinged! And Laughing Squid called me a ‘charity demigod’. Oh, you!