Archives for the Month of January, 2010

Nicola Bergström Hansen

Nicola Bergström Hansen Work from Boids and Stockholm City SMS. “Basic models of flocking behavior are controlled by three simple rules: •Separation (behavior) – avoid crowding neighbors (short range repulsion)•Alignment (behavior) – steer towards average heading of neighbors•Cohesion (behavior) – steer towards average position of neighbors (long range attraction) In 1986 Craig Reynolds created ‘Boids’ […]

Caroline Devries

Caroline Devries Work from Unknown Known and Templates. “My practice has evolved and is now principally focused on questioning the nature of the photograph, especially the photographic portrait, its physicality and its power of representation in the public as in the private sphere. I wish to explore the complexity and ability of the medium to deliver […]

Thomas Mailaender

Thomas Mailaender Work from Extreme Tourism and Sponsoring. “Documentation marks the starting point for his work. Using a slightly scientific way of working, he registers insignificant, incidentatlly grotesque moments that possess an abruptand unexepted monumentatlity. For the past years his work mainly focused on playing with the concept of typology. A recently Dead famous french […]

Jaap Scheeren

Jaap Scheeren Work from his oeuvre. I also recommend the process-related work fake flowers in full colour. “well.. nijmegen raised, after breda and rotterdam, now amsterdam based. I don’t know but people always have a certain idea about me when they see me live. Especially in my youth they told me I looked lazy and […]

Jacob Broms

Jacob Broms Work from Facebook Intense, a bit of space wandering in space, paths to enlightenment, and walk in the park. The images above are mostly replications and screen captures, I highly recommend you follow the links to experience the full piece.  “Jacob Broms Englom is an artist based in Stockholm, Sweden. His work is […]

Vik Muniz

Vik Muniz Work from his oeuvre. Lecture on TED Talks. “Here’s the art history quiz for the day: What connects Leonardo da Vinci to Bosco chocolate syrup? Answer: Vik Muniz, an artist who specializes in unlikely means of not quite fooling the eye and calls the results ”photographic delusions.” Mr. Muniz has copied Leonardo’s ”Last […]

Mark Boellaard

Mark Boellaard Work from Collage. I received an email from Mark this morning with this work, enjoy. “By juxtaposing elements from a wide and unusual range of resources I attempt to create original works that invoke a sense of shock, wonder and delight upon the spectator. Works that are very much open to interpretation and […]

Sascha Weidner

Sascha Weidner Work from Beauty Remains. “Sascha Weidner looks for the Beautiful amongst the Everyday. His large-and small-format, spontaneous or staged, colour photographs present landscapes, still lives and people. At first glance, these motifs may appear banal: thickets, shrubs, flowerbeds, lakes, gravel, house walls, empty spaces, curtains, cloths, tarpaulins, and rubbish. People are shown in […]

Hubert Blanz

Hubert Blanz Work from Vergina Sun. “While related light processes are fundamental to every form of photographic representation, they are also among the most distinctive aspects of filmic production. Where there is no light, no image whatsoever can be generated; the absence of a light source makes it necessary to introduce or to produce one. […]

Brea Souders

Brea Souders Work from Islands and Streams. “My work is concerned with private and individual psychologies, and with the human desire to deconstruct others in an attempt to understand them. I find the never-ending search for meaning to be a confusing and exhilarating experience. With each failed attempt, the world expands. In this project, I […]