Alison Malone Work from the series The Anonymous Everywhere of Nowhere in Particular. “This series was originally inspired by my commute home to NE Minneapolis, more specifically, the care-worn sites of heavy processing and antiquated shipping industry minutes away from the freeway. In the midst of what might be construed as an isolated, cold or even […]
Archives for the Month of February, 2009
Causality Labs
Tuesday, 17 February 2009
Causality Labs Work from the pieces (top to bottom) Reasonable Expectation of Privacy, Clock, The Now, no…now, no…now, no…wait, So Far I do not Know, and Shortlived Moments Causality Labs is a collaboration between Galo Moncayo and Andy Holtin whose work is generally interactive/mechanized sculpture that functions based on (intentional or not) audience participation. Awesome […]
Roger Cremers
Monday, 16 February 2009
Roger Cremers Work from the aptly named Auschwitz Tourism project. This is another great photographically referrential project and a commentary on tourism and photography. Found on Conscientious, an amazing blog.
Marisa Olson
Monday, 16 February 2009
Marisa Olson trains to be on American Idol in 2005. Check out her audition tape and training blog
Guy Ben-Ner
Monday, 16 February 2009
Guy Ben-Ner, Stealing Beauty, 2007 From UBU Web A boy comes home from school with a note indicating he was caught stealing money from his peer at school. His family is put to the challenge to educate him about the meaning and border lines separating private property from its “other”. The movie starts as a TV […]
Jill Magid
Monday, 16 February 2009
In Jill Magid’s “One Cycle of Memory in the City of L“, the artist contacts and becomes friends with the public surveillance camera (CCTV) operators for the city of Liverpool. They guide her over cell phone as she moves through the city, readily visible by the distinctive red trench coat that she wears. At one […]
Christina Seely
Monday, 16 February 2009
Christina Seely Work from the series Lux. “Lux documents the artificial glow produced by major cities in the 3 brightest regions as seen on a NASA map of the world at night” “In a time when it is argued that no aspect of nature is unaffected by human impact, my work reflects on a lifestyle […]
Nora Herting
Sunday, 15 February 2009
Nora Herting Work from Free Sitting and new work from Portraits. Herting makes work in which “the currency of the studio portrait is examined.” They are a conceptual departure and a critical examination of the studio portrait. “My photographs maybe characterized as portraits, although I am not interested in capturing the uniqueness of an individual. […]
Jane Tam
Saturday, 14 February 2009
Jane Tam Work from the series Can I Come Home With You and To the fun House. Thanks to The Exposure Project (which is crazy awesome by the way) for bringing her work to my attention.