Andrew Neuman

Work from his oeuvre

“This work deals with issues concerning the use of technology, language and transmission of power in both its various corporeal and elusive modes. These works, what I call “Constructures,” re-contextualize the technologically derived icons and place them in a new environment that allows one to question their original use and see the possibilities of organizing these icons/objects, into a new language with completely re-defined hierarchy.” – Andrew Neuman

Caleb Larsen

Work from A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter

“Combining Robert Morris’ Box With the Sound of Its Own Making with Baudrillard’s writing on the art auction this sculpture exists in eternal transactional flux. It is a physical sculpture that is perptually attempting to auction itself on eBay. Every ten minutes the black box pings a server on the internet via the ethernet connection to check if it is for sale on the eBay. If its auction has ended or it has sold, it automatically creates a new auction of itself. If a person buys it on eBay, the current owner is required to send it to the new owner. The new owner must then plug it into ethernet, and the cycle repeats itself.” – Caleb Larsen

Follow the current auction here: http://atooltodeceiveandslaughter.com

Katja Novitskova

Work from sunny n shiiite.

“Sunny n shiiite is a one week long live stream. I will be making arrangements of found and created objects in a geographically unlocated and thus ‘virtual’ space. With irregular intervals I will be coming in and developing the setup further, about once a day. The breaks in the stream will only be caused by possible technical problems, and the scene will most of the time appear to be a static image.

A philosophical quote will be added to this text after the stream stops on the 16th of March.” – Katja Novitskova

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“Object” is an interesting word, for in Hebrew it means “will” (chefetz—similar to “having an objective” in English). “Piece” is also common in this context, as it introduces a maker, a master of that piece, suggesting the thing to be passive and transparent, a mere projection of its maker’s intention. “Thing” is used mainly in relation to a mute presence that calls for contextualization. “Product” refers to a process of creation, bringing with it an impression of finality, a fait accompli. And “artifact” relates to an outcome or a residue. “Commodity” is used primarily in the context of a critique of the market, but I believe that this term should include all of the terms mentioned above. In a world where everything is already a commodity, “object” and “thing” are in this respect terms that attempt to cleanse the commodity of the chains of its birth, thus hiding its history and the means by which it appears in the world.” – Joshua Simon, Neo-Materialism, Part One: The Commodity and the Exhibition, E-flux journal

“In this respect, the artist appears to be a hunter-gatherer roaming a much more advanced civilization of commodities.” – Joshua Simon, Neo-Materialism, Part Two: The Unreadymade, E-flux journal

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Arend deGruyter-Helfer

Work from his oeuvre.

Also check out his screensaver 3 and Untitled Window.

“the two best compliments i’ve received recently, paraphrased:

1. ‘your work is really like a screensaver.’

2. ‘it’s really nice watching you use the internet. you’re so efficient.'” – Arend deGruyter-Helfer

Florent Meng

Work from Wanderer’s Sculptures.

“The Sculptures of the Walker represent a photographic suite presented as digital prints and published in a set of 12 booklets. The images are meant as short sequences circling around their subjects. They indeed propose several viewpoints of undefined places and objects occupying a position of transitional disuse. These forms as close to sculpture as to the photographic subject are registered in the course of long walks. They thus involve an extrapolation of the concept of sculpture, beginning with the subject, the city, precisely an object or architecture, which is extracted and registered by the photographic eye. Differing from the usual one-shot viewpoint, the photo-set tends to shape the sculpture of the walker, while giving several viewpoints it is creating a sculpture in the round, the camera thus replacing the hand or tool. Also, this project of “democratic walking” tends to define the urban space as studio space. According to Michel de Certeau, walking is connected to the urban environment in terms of enunciation: “The act of walking is to the urban system what the act of speech is to language or to the statements uttered.“. Following this idea, we can further consider the “sculptures of the walker” as an enunication, a language, a disclosure related to the system of walking and to the urban system. Moreover, it is essential to consider here the notion of encounter, as a non-intervention turning photography into a simple mean to frame and preserve a “given piece”, turning it into a conspicuous sculpture. In this project, the image builts itself in a whole. A urban still-life, uncluttered fossil, the autonomous image defines itself among its whole, as observation element. This whole suggests a past or future movement, setting the issue of the context surrounding the subject, that is, the sculptural space.Through a resonance set, these photographs of objects involve the imagination of the viewer, as possibilities of mental sculpture. ” – Julia Guillon, 2010

Steven Baldi

Work from his oeuvre.

“Steven Baldi’s work attempts to examine the multifaceted nature of visual language by taking on overburdened material forms of representation such as painting, 16mm film and photography, thus re-establishing meaning through process method and proximity.  Baldi utilizes cascading sign systems inherent in the photographic medium to evaluate how the making and experience of objects relate to their exhibition and subsequent cataloging.  Taking into consideration how the past, present and future documentation play a role in the making, recording and distributing of exhibitions, Baldi uses the historical, be it the immediate historical of his own exhibition history or working methods established by figures of Modernity, to reorient ones relationship to meaning and re-cognition.” – Andrew Kreps

Mark Beasley

Work from ICEMELT

“ICEMELT is an arduino and CRT monitor powered off of a 12vdc car battery.  The arudino measures the voltage of the battery as it entropies and draws a corresponding ice cube on the CRT.  As the battery dies the ice cube melts until the battery looses the capacity to power either device.  (Duration 4-8 hours)” – Mark Beasley

Colin Doyle

Work from his oeuvre.

“I am an artist. I make pictures of commonplace objects—a diaper, a skyscraper, dirt.

My days are spent in an image-saturated culture and a densely populated city. I often feel like I am in over my head, as if my actions, my existence, and my work are of little importance.

My pictures explore and try to come to terms with insignificance, randomness, and the perception of reality.” – Colin Doyle

Karin Lehmann

Work from lunar farside goes offspaces.

“In the beginning was an ordinary A4 sheet. It was, no one knows more and why, to a spitzkegligen form when folded. As a small umbrella-shaped object is moved a long time through my studio, always new relationships to other objects braiding. One day I built this object in the same proportions of sheet steel to 10x greater. 120 kg and larger than life had the steel object, but still light as a folded piece of paper. Now it was a place in the installation “Lunar Farside” , an abstract moonscape. As a piece of a spaceship traveling “steel” along with the moon rocks and meteorites to the Kunsthaus Langenthal, a hayloft in Habstetten and finally in the Kunsthalle Bern.

A crumpled piece of paper is often at some time during the course of his life. So it was for steel. Half a minute in the car and press while it was still hard, but now much smaller. Crumpled, folded, and now it fits in a box. After a brief stopover at Marks Blond is “steel” to travel to America to NASA and fly the next shuttle into space. Destination: graveyard orbit, the extra-terrestrial landfill. There, finally, it will lose its weight and drag on forever in zero gravity to circle around the earth.” – Karin Lehmann translated by Google.

Kori Newkirk

Work from his oeuvre.

“Newkirk’s work often explores and questions the meanings of material and how this meaning is influenced and transformed by the form that it ultimately takes. With Mayday, worn white t-shirts have been used to speak about not only the recent past but also the very real present. Located directly on the floor, the work fluctuates between desire, despair and detritus, the gestures of erasure and addition, armor and adornment, the heavens and or ‘hell’as well as the body domestic.” – via Country Club