Archives for the Month of February, 2011

Aaron Gustafson

Aaron Gustafson Work from Bonus Baby “I cut out my likeness from each photo as a way of reimagining the moments and to reconcile unremembered or painful past moments with my present self…The photographs are open-ended, ambiguous, and dishonest.” – Aaron Gustafson

Jon Rafman and Tabor Robak

Jon Rafman and Tabor Robak Work from BNJP.exe. “After a rough week at work you contact an acquaintance who can get you Rhodopas M60A for a good price. The acquaintance gives you an eight-digit phone number that connects you to the shrill baud of a fax machine. Within a quarter-hour your phone rings, a low-toned […]

Riyo Nemeth

Riyo Nemeth Work from her oeuvre. “My work is often based around an interest in people’s perception of, and reaction to,  archetypes, associations and cultural memory – and how they might try to relate their previous experiences to something they’ve never seen. ‘Suspension of disbelief’ is the phrase I’m interested in – which is to […]

Nils Völker

Nils Völker Work from One Hundred and Eight. “One Hundred and Eight is an interactive wall-mounted Installation mainly made out of ordinary garbage bags. Controlled by a microcontroller each of them is selectively inflated and deflated in turn by two cooling fans. Although each plastic bag is mounted stationary the sequences of inflation and deflation […]

David Semeniuk

David Semeniuk Work from Landscape Permutations “Landscape Permutations is a series of imaginative recombinations of specific sites within my hometown – Red Deer, Alberta. In it, I investigate the relationship between a place and the specific sites that make up its (sub)urban landscape. I began this series by asking, what does it mean when different […]

Kristen Kay Thoen

Kristen Kay Thoen Work from her oeuvre. “The words of the self-proclaimed ‘para-photographer’ evoke the grounds for my formal explorations with photography. My creative process is largely informed by my concern with the impact of accelerating technologies on human perceptions of and relationships to nature. My relationship to photography is a transformative one. The images […]

Ethan Greenbaum

Ethan Greenbaum Work from his oeuvre. “For the concrete block piece, I substituted colored plasticine for mortar. In this position, the plasticine becomes filler that describes and embellishes the in-between spaces of the wall. Permanent Fern is made with a plastic plant and a cast generated from the cardboard shipping box it arrived in. Primer […]

Isabella Rossellini

Isabella Rossellini Work from Green Porno. “When I first saw Blue Velvet back in 1986, I actually felt kind of bad for Isabella Rossellini. Her performance was brilliant, but I always suspected that she was the sole sane person in a cast and crew of perverts and sociopaths. Maybe she didn’t know exactly what she was […]