Archives for posts tagged ‘installation’

Julian Oliver

Julian Oliver Work from Remote Install “A remote install in the media-arts world refers to the artist not being physically present at the gallery during the installation process. Rather, they send a link to download the software and work with a local team to set it up on hardware already provided. Remote Install is a work of network-dependent […]

United Visual Artists

United Visual Artists Work from Vanishing Point “Vanishing Point employs perspective as both tool and visual outcome to reshape, redefine and represent a space. Inspired by sketches of Leon Battista Alberti, Leonardo DaVinci and Albrecht Dürer, UVA sends lines into space from an arbitrary vanishing point, creating different volumes, divisions and rooms to be explored by […]

Pascale Marthine Tayou

Pascale Marthine Tayou Work from his oeuvre. “Jean Apollinaire Tayou was born in Cameroon. In the middle of the 1990s he changed name, declining it in the feminine form to become Pascal(e) Marthin(e) Tayou. This marked the beginning of an unceasing artistic, geographic and cultural nomadism that has brought Tayou to prominence on the contemporary […]

Douglas Gordon

Douglas Gordon Work from Sharpening Fantasy at Blain Southern. “Blain|Southern Berlin is delighted to present a new group of video works by Douglas Gordon during the 63rd Film Berlinale, 2013. Gordon is one of the most important and influential artists of his generation. In addition to films and video installations, his work embraces photography, the […]

Marget Long

Marget Long Work from You Were Driftng. “You Were Drifting is a two-channel video installation composed of clips from twenty films that depict the advent of a mirage. The stacked monitors create a secondary mirage effect; the inverted lower monitor “refracts” the scene in the upper monitor. Presence and absence, desire and impossibility, delirium and […]

Clemens Behr

Clemens Behr Work from his oeuvre. “My work is complicated, inexpensive and improvised…My process all begins with the space, which acts as a basis for planning. The space defines the colors and shapes, as well as any fixing or mounting possibilities and the dimensions of the piece.  I can’t plan that much in advance, because […]

Florence To

Florence To Work from Fovea. “Working on the positioning and distance of light, sectioned on multiple reflective surfaces, the installation is focused on the idea of dark adaptation and how the contrast with light movements and illumination can heighten our senses. Sound will reflect on the repositioning of light on each reflected panel to create […]

Florence To

Florence To Work from Fovea by Florence To “”Providing a constant background upon which a stimulus can be superimposed: an absolute threshold upon the dark-adapted state, a differential threshold upon the light-adapted state. Hecht had written equations for the steady state; and by assuming that the visual threshold, absolute or differential, corresponds to a constant increment […]

Jon Kessler

Jon Kessler Work from his ouvre. “The Web is an immersive installation that addresses the significance of the Internet and mobile devices in our lives while simultaneously examining the role of the viewer. The idea for the piece came to Jon Kessler on a New York subway ride when he realized that at least half […]

DIS Magazine

DIS Magazine Work from DISimages “DIS Images marks a significant shift in the way artists approach stock photography. Onlines image databases proliferated in the early part of the last decade, and artists searched them and plundered them. Their aggregated findings reflected the multiplicity of potential meanings in both the images and the keywords that index […]