DIS Magazine Work from DIS Spring Trends and DIS Summer Trends. The art and design behind DIS Magazine is unlike any other fashion publication to date. Its contributors eschew the standard conventions of print publication to create an ever evolving series of related threads, organized around categories such as distaste, dystopia, discover, and dysmorphia. DIS […]
Archives for the Month of August, 2010
Robert Barta
Monday, 9 August 2010
Robert Barta Work from his oeuvre. Barta’s work is an playful recontextualization of commonly used objects that one would expect is intended to increase our awareness of our daily interactions with technology. These installations are works that rely on defied expectations and the existence of pre-formed relationships with these objects in order for the viewer […]
Pablo Valbuena
Sunday, 8 August 2010
Pablo Valbuena Work from the Augmented Sculpture Project. “The Augmented Sculpture Project, by Pablo Valbuena, focuses on the temporary quality of space, investigating space-time not only as a three dimensional environment, but as space in transformation. For this purpose two layers are produced that explore different aspects of the space-time reality. On the one hand the […]
Tanner America
Saturday, 7 August 2010
Tanner America “Tanner America is critical satire in the form of a Tumblr blog. The site is updated several times a week with “snapshot” style images and brief accompanying captions. Each image depicts a moment from the daily lives of the Tanner family of Colorado Springs, CO: the kids’ science projects, camping trips, remodeling the […]
Mel Bochner
Friday, 6 August 2010
Mel Bochner Works from Misunderstandings (A Theory of Photography) and a few extras. “HANS ULRICH OBRIST: And transgenerational too. Before we were talking about misunderstandings, (and I was curious about this in relation to science and engineering) there can sometimes be productive misunderstandings, and this was just at the moment that you made the amazing […]
William Wegman
Thursday, 5 August 2010
William Wegman Work from his oeuvre. While some of the shorts may be duplicates due to the nature of various compilations, they are all well worth watching. “As he describes such influences — Nauman, Allen Ruppersberg, Ed Ruscha — his tone is measured, respectful, sort of Wall Street Journal meets Artforum. He really lets go […]
Tom Verbruggen
Wednesday, 4 August 2010
Tom Verbruggen Work from Crackle-canvas. “The Crackle-canvas is a painting that produces sound. It contains a circuitboard, speaker, knobs, switches, wood and canvas. Each one makes sounds by itself but can be connected thrue cables (patched) with other Crackle-canvasses. This way the paintings start to react on eachother. Each patch creates a different sound and […]
Krist Wood
Tuesday, 3 August 2010
Krist Wood Work from his oeuvre. Krist Wood is a scientist, musician and artist currently working at the department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology at Yale University. His PhD work involved the genetic engineering of nanomotors; molecular devices capable of converting energy into movement. As an artist, his work challenges the bounds of technology, […]
Hellicar and Lewis
Monday, 2 August 2010
Hellicar and Lewis Work from Mirror Mirror. “We were invited by the Victoria and Albert Museum’s Learning & Interpretation department to create an installation to engage people of all ages over their Baroque weekend, in support of the recent Baroque exhibition. Using the departments existing range of iMacs, we made an installation that would create […]
Aslak Vibæk and Peter Døssing
Monday, 2 August 2010
Aslak Vibæk and Peter Døssing (AVPD) Work from their oeuvre. “Only by the use of semi-transparent PVC foil mounted in several layers in different combinations this series of works examines the perception of how the light penetrates the layered transparency film creating vibrant light differentiated surfaces/tones The visibility of the works depends on the light angle […]