contemporary art
-
[an excerpt from] Assembling the Morrow by Sandra Huber photos by Lee Wei Swee: of Sandra; of bed in laboratory
there are no windows in this room of walls: 6:22:52 to 6:23:01 a.m. [an excerpt from] Assembling the Morrow by Sandra Huber photos by Lee Wei Swee: of Sandra; of bed in laboratory This is a zoom in on Stage 3 sleep from the long poem Assembling the Morrow, which swaps the interface of brainwaves for the interface of words in order, in part, to open up and explore the possibilities of our most mysterious quotidian act: sleep. This project is ongoing. It was initially made possible via Artists-in-Labs Switzerland and involved a nine-month residency at the Franken / Tafti sleep labs at the Centre for Integrative Genomics in Lausanne.…
-
Home is where the ideal is? Alana Lawley’s construction and disorientation
Ideal Home I, 2010, Digital Print on aluminium, 30 x 30 cm Ideal Home I, is a construction made from found advertising images of idealised, fetishised space. Using medium format with digital processing the work engages with the physical, disorientating properties of domestic environments, objecthood, and the spatiality of photography. Stuck: Zwischen den Wänden, 2012, Mixed media construction, dimensions variable (file that begins will 0112_overview…) Lawley’s dominating, four-panel construction, suspended using commercial display equipment, montages scans from interior design catalogs. Scaled to seduce, confront, and disorient the viewer who must negotiate multiple vantage points, her installation exposes the falsity of these fetishised interiors. The latest news in contemporary and modern…
-
Translate Landscapes “Dam Nation” Julia Soler
THE IMAGES This two pictures are from the series “dam nation”. It is an on-going project where I try to translate landscapes that I see in my dreams when I’m sleeping into real places. I usually find myself in unknown vast landscapes and I’m usually the only human/animal being around. Water, trees and paths are always very present in my dreams with this certain feeling of mistery, meditation and solitude. Both pictures where taken in Canada. The first one is at Lake Huron. I had never seen such a big lake before. Being born in the Mediterranen sea, this was very impressive, because the lake was so vast, it seemed…
-
Jacob Dahlstrup Jensen Calculated Spontaneity
Artist Statement. Key to my practice is a process of calculated spontaneity and pre planned coincidence through which I work primarily with a combination of drawing and installation. I aim to engage physically in the process of mark making which have led me to develop a technique of hand embossing paper with a tattoo needle. Through merging of material and context I seek to communicate through the visual language of nautical folklore and traditional tattooing. With the pencil as my rudder and a needle as my compass I navigate through the tides and rogue waves of the human condition in our struggle to reach the non-existing point in the horizon.…
-
Deconstructing Animation with Digital by Stephen Tompkins
My new works focus less on actual painting and more on animation and digitally constructed imagery which involve a process of deconstructing numerous drawings and parts of drawings by using digital means. While I’m a huge fan of old school cartoons and appreciate the hand-drawn qualities of using a light-table and I love the intensity and tone and hand-painted colors of Looney Tunes for example, I also think that one nowadays can achieve some interesting effects with current technology. I’m experimenting with a combination of hand-drawn elements that I scan and assemble using digital means and I’m really excited about this direction because it allows me more ways to rapidly…
-
Darkness by Samuel Dodson
Words fall over themselves in the darkness, tumbling, as they are spoken. In a torrent they merge with each other with the ease that comes from knowing they have all been said before, each one written a thousand times thousand million times in every possible order and or conjunction. And in the darkness there are no images. Can these words exist there, then? Alone, lonely, so lonely without the meaning of an image to illuminate the shadows. Without even the faintest outline, the words lie in the umbra. If they cannot see celestial bodies, do they exist? Can they exist? Can words see? Cosmic thought lies restless in words shrouded…
-
Studio Physics – A Photographic Exploration Into the Nature of Time Light Space and Gravity By John Chervinsky
I am fascinated by the concept of time. I can measure it, account for it in an experiment in the lab, and live my life in it, but I still don’t know what it is, exactly. The idea behind this, my latest project, is to extend the image capture interval from the standard click of the shutter to a period lasting for weeks. I shoot a straight still life and crop the resultant image. I then email a jpeg of the cropped section to a painting factory in China and have them make it into a painting. Meanwhile, my studio setup sits there, but change to it is occurring, the…
-
Indoro in Cebu City: Art collective: Modern Culture and Old Sayings
A contemporary design and art collective based in Cebu City, Philippines, we are a scattered but firmly bonded union of designers, headed by PJ Ong and Yasunari Taguchi. Since 2003, we’ve managed to infuse art and graphic design in different areas of design implementation and utilization, mixing the basic and the complex into our works. From print, to online designs, we mix high and low, classic and modern, experiments and established standards into what we do, all to successfully convey THAT singular message, which everyone aims to deliver. Firm believers in collaboration and concept-driven executions, we strive to explore, all to benefit the successful operation of a given project. Words…
-
‘All the Pieces matter’, Garbagea’s place in the Blue Marble – An Interview with Asher Jay
http://www.garbagea.com/ As 2011 draws to a close, and the final year of the Mayan Calendar approaches (read into that what you will) what will our motto of the year be? What have we gleaned from events such as the Arab Spring; the Japanese Tsunami; The ‘Occupy’ Movements; the Eurozone crisis; riots in London and other UK cities; The Last Harry Potter Movie (shock horror) and an ever deepening economic and ecological crisis? How we interpret these events, and the course of action we choose to take over the coming months and years is crucial. We stand at a crux. Recents events have shown…
-
Toby Cohen: Burning Bush סנה
… יהוה אלהי אבתיכם… זה־שמי לעלם… אהיה אשר אהיה ויאמר כה תאמר לבני ישראל אהיה שלחני אליכם׃ thanks to Mark M. Whelan The latest news in contemporary and modern art in New York, London, Paris and Berlin