zaterdag 21 augustus 2010
François Morellet
Gregorio Vardanega
Couleurs sonores n° 3.
Gregorio Vardanega, born 1923 in Venice; † 2007 in Paris) studied at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires and be came a member of the Asociación Arte Concreto Invención in 1946. In 1955 he was one of the founders of the Asociación Arte Nuevo and in 1956 of Artistes Non Figuratifs Argentins. Together with his wife Martha Boto he moved to Paris in 1959. In the late fifties his interests led him to kinetic art and to the exploration of electronics, light and reflection. He made works consisting of superimposed plates of glass and plexiglass in different colours.
alisa andrasek | biothing
Alisa Andrasek is an experimental practitioner and research based educator of architecture and computational processes in design. In 2001 she founded biothing, a cross-disciplinary laboratory that focuses on the generative potential of computational systems for design.
Irma Boom
Irma Boom (Lochem, The Netherlands, December 15, 1960) is an Amsterdam-based graphic designer specialising in book making. With her use of unfamiliar formats, materials, colors, structures, and typography she makes the book into a visual and haptic experience.
Gloria Friedmann
Gloria Friedman, who has been living in France since 1977, started working as a photographer, presenting herself in disused and abandoned places. Her sculptures made outdoors from 1985 onward steered her towards a line of thinking about ‘Natural Beauty’. By actually combining the use of materials taken from nature and the adoption of a minimal language, the artist focuses on the nature/culture relations which constitute the major problem-set of her work.
Atsuko Tanaka
Atsuko Tanaka (田中 敦子, Tanaka Atsuko) (1932–2005) was a pioneering Japanese avant-garde artist.
Yto Barrada
Yto Barrada was born in Paris in 1971 and educated in Tangier. She later studied history and political science at the Sorbonne, Paris and photography at the International Centre of Photography, New York. Her recent exhibitions of photography and video include Art Dubai, the Fowler Museum (Los Angeles), the MoMA (San Francisco and New York), Jeu de Paume (Paris), and the 2007 Venice Biennale.
donderdag 18 maart 2010
woensdag 17 maart 2010
Morton Heilig
was a thought-leader in Virtual Reality. He applied his cinematographer experience with the help of his partner developed the Sensorama over several years from 1957, patenting it in 1962.
dinsdag 16 maart 2010
Char Davies
Char Davies (1954) is an artist who creates artworks using the technologies of immersive virtual reality.
Originally a painter, Davies transitioned to digital media in the late-80s, becoming a founding director of the 3-D software company Softimage. New mediahistorians Frank Popper and Oliver Grau point out that her immersive virtual reality environment Osmose (1995) is a landmark work in the history of new media art.
donderdag 11 maart 2010
Joseph Nechvatal
He developed his concept of the viractual, which strives to create an interface between the biological and the virtual. It is central to Nechvatal’s work as an artist.
The basis of the viractual conception is that virtual producing computer technology has become a noteworthy means for making and understanding contemporary art and that this brings artists to a place where one finds the emerging of the computed (the virtual) with the uncomputed corporeal (the actual). This amalgamate — which tends to contradict some central techno clichés of our time - is what Nechvatal calls the viractual. Digitization is a key metaphor for viractuality in the sense that it is the elementary translating procedure today. Nechvatal thinks that in every era the attempt must be made anew to wrest the art practice away from conformisms that are about to overcome it.
Thorsten Fleisch
Kosmos [2004]
16mm, 5:11 minutes
16mm, 5:11 minutes
The mystery of the crystals under closer examination. What is it that makes them possess magic powers as claimed by mystics of all ages? Through growing crystals directly on film their mystical qualities shine straight to the screen. Unfiltered, only aided by light which gracefully breaks its rays into rich visual textures.
Thorsten Fleisch, 1972
donderdag 4 maart 2010
Mariko Mori
Mariko Mori, 1967
is a Japanese video and photographic artist. While studying at Bunka Fashion College, she worked as a fashion model in the late 1980s. This strongly influenced her early works, such as Play with Me, in which she takes control of her role in the image, becoming an exotic, alien creature in everyday scenes. In 1989, she moved to London to study at the Chelsea College of Art and Design.
dinsdag 9 februari 2010
maandag 1 februari 2010
Elmgreen & Dragset
Elmgreen & Dragset, ‘How are you today?’ (2002)
A ladder was installed inside the gallery, which the visitor was encouraged to climb.
Once up, the visitor could have a peek into the private life of the gallerist.
Once up, the visitor could have a peek into the private life of the gallerist.
Simon Starling
Simon Starling (1967)
is an English conceptual artist and was the winner of the 2005 Turner Prize.
He studied photography at Trent Polytechnic Nottingham and then attended Glasgow School of Art.
The idea of efficiency is a theme that informs much of his work, including Tabernas Desert Run (2004), featuring a bicycle fuelled by hydrogen and oxygen that he rode 66 kilometres across Spain's Tabernas Desert. The only waste product was water, which he then used to paint a watercolour of a cactus that he had seen on his trip.
Thomas Wilfred
Thomas Wilfred (1889 - 1968)
was a musician and inventor. He is best known for his visual music he named Lumia and his designs for color organs called Clavilux. Wilfred was not fond of the term "Color Organ", and coined the word "Clavilux" from Latin meaning "Light played by Key".
Wilfred's mechanisms were often complex designs that have been described as from the "Rube Goldberg" school. He was a trained Artist, but had little mechanical schooling, thus he was an "Outsider Engineer." That said, his devices were very sturdy, and many still function with most of the original parts.
In 1919, Wilfred constructed the Clavilux Model A in his Long Island Studio (located on the Brice Estate). The first public recital came in 1922 and featured performances on the Clavilux Model B for audiences at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York. The press was highly receptive. In the audience that first night was Leopold Stokowski.
The Clavilux was a complex instrument which allowed a person to create and perform Lumia compositions. Later models B-H were touring and lecture models, the last one being built prior to WWII.
woensdag 20 januari 2010
dinsdag 5 januari 2010
Arthur Elsenaar
Arthur Elsenaar is an artist and an electrical engineer from Groningen. He completed his studies at the Academie Minerva.
His works mainly deal about the relation between our bodies, electricity and electronic devices.
Robert Barry
Robert Barry (1936)
is an American artist. Since 1967, Barry has produced non-material works of art, installations, and performance art using a variety of otherwise invisible media. In 1968, Robert Barry is quoted as saying "Nothing seems to me the most potent thing in the world."
Viking Eggeling
Viking Eggeling (1880 - 1925)
was a Swedish artist and filmmaker.[1] His work is of significance in the area of experimental film, and has been described as absolute film and Visual Music.
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