Sara Angelucci Work from Regular 8. “For the past ten years, my practice has encompassed photography and video, examining vernacular archival materials, including snapshots and home movies. Investigating the relationship between the still and moving image, my work has considered the limits of indexical media to translate lived experience, underlining the fragmented, ephemeral nature of […]
Archives for the Month of December, 2009
Joe McKay
Wednesday, 30 December 2009
Joe McKay Work from his oeuvre. “… Operating at the edges of what we think this consumer technology should and should not do, McKay’s art leads us into the gap between expectation and evidence, challenging the viewer to consider what one sees and how the technology works. But unlike the Wizard of Oz behind his […]
Jennilee Marigomen
Tuesday, 29 December 2009
Jennilee Marigomen Work from Absent and From the See. “Jennilee’s Marigomen’s work investigates everyday urban phenomenon. The tension between the natural world and urban intervention permeate her images with a playful undertone. Her visceral and sedative environments highlight the fleeting extraordinary.” – Jennilee Marigomen
Helen Mirra
Monday, 28 December 2009
Helen Mirra Work from her oeuvre. “My work can perhaps be described as conceptual ecology, or pragmatist artmaking. My disparate though generally minimalist practice occurs in varied scrap media. In various ways, moreover, I’ve been thinking in my making life about the relationships between scale, time spans, modesty and bluntness. I build in a simple […]
Tara Kelton
Monday, 28 December 2009
Tara Kelton Work from Hypnotic Consumption, Weather Shifts, and Human Filter. Hypnotic Consumption is a recontextualization of animated GIFs. Link here. Weather Shifts – “Applies current temperature and wind conditions to Google satellite images at any zip code input by user. The wind speed determines how far the images are ‘blown’, and the temperature determines […]
David Maljkovic
Saturday, 26 December 2009
David Maljkovic Work from his oeuvre. “Maljkovic’s art is open and fluid: the narrative structure of the episodes from which it is composed can be manipulated and reordered. At the CAPC, he underscored this ability to reinvent his approach through a careful dialogue with the museum’s architecture, by dividing a wing of the building into […]
Tanya Johnston
Friday, 25 December 2009
Tanya Johnston Work from her oeuvre. “Drawing from symbolism, semiotics, psychology, science and culture, my process of creation attempts to synthesize linear and non-linear thinking. Through my work I explore the realms of reality as illusion, and illusion as reality. I seek to bridge the gap between two hemispheres – both literally and metaphorically – […]
Finnbogi Pétursson
Thursday, 24 December 2009
Radio transmition from two car ferries in Fjordane in Norway, 8 microphones on each ferry brings you live sound, fading in or out, depending on the location of the ferries. A radio broadcast over Reykjavik during the Sequences festival 2006. The piece delivers 24hour silence, the only guaranty silence you can get in modern […]
Alana Celii
Wednesday, 23 December 2009
Alana Celii Work from her oeuvre. “A lot of my ideas come about through happenstance. I typically shoot first without thinking too much about my ideas, and edit later. Editing is a large part of my process. I saw Jason Fulford speak a long time ago, and he said that he cut up his contact […]
Lieko Shiga
Tuesday, 22 December 2009
Lieko Shiga Work from Lilly. “Her stunningly eerie images from the series Lilly manages to create an unreal sensation of being in viewers. Drawing inspiration from paranormal photographs popular in the early days of photography, Lieko shot these images of residents staying in a block of council flats in East London, where she was pursuing […]