Archives for the Month of January, 2011

Ralf Baecker

Ralf Baecker Work from Nowhere. Be sure to check out the video on his website. “Nowhere is a three-dimensional milling machine that carves a landscape relief on a 70x70x10cm large block of hard foam. The machine receives a stream of live search requests from the german search engines metager and metager2 (www.metager.de) via the internet. […]

Mark Essen

Mark Essen Work from all-games. “Game designer and artist Mark Essen started producing games for Adult Swim, and boy, are they cool. Take Pipedreamz, which features a hungry ghost who must secretly binge on meat in order to advance to the next level, which involves surfing for condiments like ketchup and relish. Or the comically masculine Turbo Turbo Turbo, […]

Bas Princen

Bas Princen Work from Refuge. “Bas Princen brings together five cities from a region which over the past fifty years has experienced dramatic development. The five cities portrayed are Istanbul, Beirut, Amman, Cairo and Dubai. The images of Princen constitute architectural research and visual poetry at the same time. This survey has been commissioned and […]

Tatiana Grigorenko

Tatiana Grigorenko Work from The Disappeared. “an anti-portrait of a missing protagonist. inspired by soviet-era images that were manipulated to make individuals ‘disappear’ from history. the project is an exploration of memory, presence, invisibility and historical revision. blowing up my family’s snapshots to the point that their grain structure started to fall apart, i meticulously removed […]

Duncan Malashock

Duncan Malashock Work from his oeuvre. “I’m interested in our relationship with technology, specifically within the context of the Internet as a day-to-day activity, and in light of the history of the use of technology as a way of representing ideals. I make analog videos that are concerned with the history of creative technology, and in exploring what I understand […]

Carlee Fernandez

Carlee Fernandez Work from Man. “…In her newest work entitled “Man,” Fernandez probes the power, aggressiveness, and macho beauty of the men who have been influential in her life and her art-making through contemporary self-portraiture. By juxtaposing her body next to or entwined with images of masculinity through photographs, video, and sculpture, the work is […]

Steven Brahms

Steven Brahms Work from The Survival Project. “Over the past year and a half I have been engaged in an investigation of contemporary man’s relationship with nature and himself, and how acts of imagination are tools for remembering our forgotten knowledge.” – Steven Brahms “Each image is a demonstration, an investigation, an experiment of skills and […]

Caroline Heider

Caroline Heider Work from her oeuvre. Caroline Heider bases her work on existing pictures, on a public world of images which is conveyed in magazines, for example. Media-related images are a reality of their own and have their reflexive effect on the world. The artist’s interests focus on this process and the social and cultural […]

Laura Bell

Laura Bell Work from The Alba Series. “Bell’s absorption in her adopted country’s rich history is palpable in her work; the series reads as a celebration and perhaps even romanticization of a country with a much older past than her own homeland, with its own distinct sense of mythology and magic—something that could be perceived […]

Andrey Bogush

Andrey Bogush Work from the Rainbow Project. “My current interests in photography are linked with perception of objects and Gestalt theory. These are very formalistic studies of still life and pseudo still life through the medium of photography with moments of interference from editing software. In the Rainbow project, I digitally overlaid standard rainbow gradients […]