Jim Sanborn Work from The Topographic Projections and Implied Geometries Series. “These images were produced by direct, large format, light projection. The projector, powered by a mobile generator, was moved from site to site. All of the pieces were photographed at night using long exposures. On moonless nights, the landscape was lit with searchlights. The landforms […]
Archives for the Month of December, 2011
Olia Lialina & Dragan Espenschied
Friday, 9 December 2011
Olia Lialina & Dragan Espenschied “Once Upon are three important contemporary web sites, recreated with technology and spirit of late 1997, according to the memories of Olia Lialina & Dragan Espenschied. They created a 1997 version of Google+, YouTube and facebook, all optimized for Netscape Navigator 4.03, running under Windows 95. Of course you can view them with a browser that still […]
Eric Veit
Thursday, 8 December 2011
Eric Veit Work from his oeuvre. “The photos are really very much about representation and the history of representation; about materiality and visuality. Many of the the ‘viewed’ objects are themselves ‘viewers’: a lens, a display case, a camera, glasses, a mirror. The paintings and collage are subtle, and the photos more direct about the […]
Ali Hossaini
Wednesday, 7 December 2011
Ali Hossaini Work from 4Monkeys Blue room – (See animated GIF) White room – (See animated GIF) Red room – (See animated GIF) Yellow room – (See animated GIF) “The installation realizes Jorge Luis Borges’ utopian concept of the universal library, as it will eventually express every piece of knowledge, every work of literature and every mundane conversation – […]
Nina Beier
Tuesday, 6 December 2011
Nina Beier Work from her exhibition at Standard (Oslo). “STANDARD (OSLO) is proud to announce its frst solo exhibition with Berlin-based artist Nina Beier. Entitled “Bleeding Clothes, Drowning Coins”, the exhibition is comprised of framed works and sculptures from her recent series, “Portrait Mode” and “The Demonstrators”. Making the claim that one must kill an […]
Irena Knezevic
Monday, 5 December 2011
Irena Knezevic Work from Here Comes the Darkness. The video is available here. “On September 25 2008, George Bush and Barack Obama gave an emergency speech after the American stock markets crashed. Broadcasters, like CNN, had to break out of the regular TV format to accommodate for the length of the speech(the 2 extra minutes). […]
Michael Morris
Sunday, 4 December 2011
Michael Morris Work from Colour Research. “Colour Research is an ongoing pursuit of over 35 years and represents a significant holding of the Morris/Trasov Archive. The colour bars are part of this research and at present are in the archive. … Endless Painting. The existing system of monochrome and spectrum variations can be deployed formally, […]
Mirko Martin
Saturday, 3 December 2011
Mirko Martin Work from Noir – video (here). “The video documents a night in my Los Angeles neighborhood during a half-year stay in 2008. Monitoring gang activity, police helicopters circled the neighborhood on a regular basis. On a particularly noisy night, I went out to capture some sound. Within minutes, I heard gunshots. Over a black […]
Laurie Chareyre and Mathieu Courbier
Friday, 2 December 2011
Laurie Chareyre and Mathieu Courbier Work from their oeuvre. “Laurie Chareyre and Mathieu Courbier try to rehabilitate elements, objects or spaces discredited in sensitive installations. A work that focuses on differents mediums and various scales. Detailed miniatures, raw installations, sculpture, photography or still painting and sewing become the accessories of the expression of a nostalgia, […]
Nicolas Maigret and Nicolas Montgermont
Thursday, 1 December 2011
Nicolas Maigret and Nicolas Montgermont Work from In Internet Topography. “LAPS is an audio and visual installation that uses Internet as an imaginary space where sound echoes, reverberates throughout the Web. Based on transmission errors, the sound material is shaped by the virtual acoustic space of the network. Sound streams broadcasted within the installation structure gradually […]