Bernhard Leitner Work from Soundcube. There are some other fantastic projects on his website that are well worth the visit. “Bernhard Leitner is considered a pioneer of the art form generally referred to as “sound installation.” He introduced sound to the installation space, allowing the installation space to emerge through the sound. Leitner, who actually […]

Florian and Michael Quistrebert Work from their oeuvre. “For their solo exhibition Brothers of the Shadow, Florian and Michaël Quistrebert present a series of small-format paintings and a video that invoke incisive geometrical forms, architectural structures and experimental imagery. In the Quistrebert brothers’ oil-based paintings, the black surface of the canvas is slightly scratched in […]

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 […]

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). […]

Martin Kohout 1984, Prague (Czech Republic). Based in Berlin and Frankfurt am Main (Germany). Represented by Exile, Berlin. The works below are from Watching Martin Kohout (2010-2011) with a really solid essay by Gene McHugh from Post Internet. “Watching Martin Kohout, a work by Martin Kohout recently exhibited on jstchillin.org’s year-long “Serial Chillers in Paradise” […]

Bruce Conner Work from Mea Culpa. “Bruce Conner, legendary avant-garde films are well known for their pioneering use of found footage: mixing old newsreels, training, educational, and science films, cartoons, 16-mm condensed versions of Hollywood westerns and other kinds of B movies that were sold for home entertainment, he transformed and rearranged these images, pixelating some, […]

Bea Fremderman Work from her oeuvre. “The suburban nightmare pertains to placelessness. It is within subdivisions where individuality, desire and freedom homogenize to form a synthetic reality. As one dwells in this maze, a false sense of freedom delineates all that is true. From the confines of the office cubicle to the sovereignty of the […]

Jeremiah Johnson Work from Void Gaze. “VOID GAZE is an interactive text experience with an accompanying series of computer drawings by Jeremiah Johnson. In the style of early text adventure games, the player uses words to interact with the gameworld by entering them at a command prompt. Themes related to vision and sight run throughout […]

Notes on a New Nature Curated by Nicholas O’Brien @ 319 Scholes, opens November 10. Images : Chris Collins – Strange Situation Joe Hamilton – Hypergeography Garrett Lynch – Netscapes Sara Ludy – Projection Monitor Kate Steciw – Depth Mapping (The Mountain) “Notes on a New Nature is a physical manifestation of an ongoing research project conducted by […]