Bean Gilsdorf Work from her oeuvre. “My practice mines the ideology of images. I appropriate pictures of historical and cultural moments to make collages, flags, installations, and videos. By reshaping images from mass-market books and popular films, I explore the legacy of an archived, public narrative. Using popular and accessible images that transmit a codified and [...]
Archives for posts tagged ‘appropriation’
Doug Rickard
Saturday, 28 May 2011
Doug Rickard Work from A New American Picture. The older notions of photographers physically exploring their world may have in some ways come to pass. The Egglestons, Shores, Levitts, Winogrands ventured out with perhaps only the loosest intentions or framework of a “project” and allowed the world to provide. It is common now for artists [...]
Hassan Rahim
Friday, 20 May 2011
Hassan Rahim Work from Let it Fall. “A design experiment focusing on the way in which images, through juxtaposition and context, lose, gain, and shift meaning. Restricted to one folder of randomly selected JPEGS and one standard font, an album cover was created for each individual track of an iTunes playlist, with time spent on [...]
Jasper Elings
Thursday, 14 April 2011
Jasper Elings Work from his oeuvre. “…With sources originating from digital readymades or appropriated video, each artist modifies, redirects and redistributes the footage using a wide array of alterations, from simple editing to more detailed and complex reconstructions. The digital realm casts a dark shadow over the initial intent of images and our preconceptions of their [...]
Christian Marclay
Sunday, 27 March 2011
Christian Marclay Work from The Clock “‘The Clock’ is constructed out of moments in cinema when time is expressed or when a character interacts with a clock, watch or just a particular time of day. Marclay has excerpted thousands of these fragments and edited them so that they flow in real time. While ‘The Clock’ [...]
Erik Berglin
Wednesday, 9 February 2011
Erik Berglin Work from Everything is Borrowed. “The work Everything Is Borrowed consist of a selection of collages made from my ever-growing collection of found images, the collection is constantly undergoing structuring, categorizing, organizing and reorganizing. I’m interested in the connections and similarities I find between famous works of art and pictures made by anonymous people. [...]
Aaron Gustafson
Tuesday, 8 February 2011
Benjamin Gaulon
Thursday, 20 January 2011
Benjamin Gaulon Work from 2.4GHz “The 2.4Ghz project uses a wireless video receiver to hack into wireless surveillance cameras. This device (which is now part of consumers popular products), can be used for wireless surveillance cameras, but it can also be used for parents to monitor their children. Such systems are becoming more popular as [...]
Florian Freier
Tuesday, 18 January 2011
Florian Freier Work from Copy-Paste” – Recreating Andreas Gursky (Google Earth Remix) “As many young photographers, I always dreamt about flying around the world, visiting spectacular spots and places, just like Superstar Andreas Gursky does. So finally I decided to stop dreaming and just do It …in Google Earth.” – text via Flachware
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