art

“Un chassé-croisé de lieux, en trois mouvements de caméra qui révèlent le détail de ces lieux et les actions qui s’y déroulent, mais aussi qui démantèle la logique avec laquelle nous les percevons.”

Protrude, Flow (2001) (Detail), in collaboration with Minako Takeno

Zimoun : Sound Sculptures & Installations | Compilation Video V1.5

zimoun.ch



3D architectural projection mapping



from here to ear (2007-09) : a flock of zebra finches with electric guitars


watch on youtube

auto suggestion is a screen based, real-time visualization of the processing of a database of paintings. The work incorporates the full text of Baudelaire’s one surviving notebook “Journaux Intimes”1, 65 hi-resolution scans of paintings that I made during the decade 1989-1999 (at which point I stopped making paintings) …The system takes as its seed Baudelaires prose and runs it through text analysis in turn determining the selection of various areas of color and shape, then recombines them in infinite variations and iterations.”


“You put a record on, and it’s like all the edges disappear. You’re in a psychological space. You don’t sit there thinking about the music, you’re listening to the music. You’re inside that space that the music’s making for you.” Jim Lambie @ SMFA, Boston


Strövtåg i tid och rum, 2009
(Strolls through time and space)
Armchair, books, bags, boxes, radio, clock, etc.
Dimensions: 0.55 x 0.85 x 0,6 m.



viva la utopia


1996
Metal switch, wig tape

‘The switch was worn day and night for close to a month.’

“… practice-led research [which] enables practitioners to initiate and then pursue their research through practice….conforms to the broad protocols of all research …”

The Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT) is a small group of artivists engaged in developing the theory and practice of
Electronic Civil Disobedience (ECD)


Papierballfall. 2008. HD video (2’00 loop)



Smoke and hot air animates my response to the relentless threats against Iran by a myriad of more fortunate countries in recent years. Sentences that include “attack Iran” are scavenged from Google News and spoken using a text-to-speech synthesizer. The voice is then picked up by a microphone, analyzed, and translated into rhythmically corresponding smoke rings from a quartet of smoke ring makers.”


(photo by yhancik)


gamer-face film using errol morris’ interrotron

branding films for newborn hybrid art-ad babies

Book Art Backgrounders at Deeplinking

Robert The: “I kinda blew a fuse in my senior year—something very strange happened—and I lost my ability to read for a period of a month or two. This sharpened my interest regarding what was actually going on with the symbols that convey meaning on a concrete level.”


Murmur Study (2009) is an installation that examines the rise of micro-messaging technologies



still from “#37″ (35mm cinemascope, 31 min, 2009)

interview on utube



Victoria Reynolds. Reindeer Vision (Gievvot), 2008
44 x 32 Inches , Oil on panel


@ Gladstone Gallery


“I don’t have any ideas myself; I have a vacant mind, in order to do exactly what the inspiration calls for… Art is responded to with emotion… art is not intellectual at all. … I guess I am rather extreme. I think we don’t deserve any credit. The inspiration comes to me and tells me exactly what to do… I gave up all of theory… so that leaves me with a clear mind. … An empty mind, so when something comes into it, you can see it… “

Abu Said ibn Abil-Khair :

“What’s in your head —
throw it away!
What’s in your hand —
give it up!
Whatever happens —
don’t turn away from it.”

“Cessez le travail à la chaîne! Enchaînez les idées, les images et le mouvement! Artisans des médias de partout dans le monde, un moment historique est advenu: du temps reculé des scribes jusqu’aux blogueurs, du cinématographe des Lumière jusqu’au dernier cri des cellulaires-caméra, les moyens de production et de distribution sont de nouveau à portée de tous! “

“…an expansive look at text-based art practices, inspired by the concrete poetry movement of the 60s which explored both the literary and graphic potential of language.”
17 Jun – 23 Aug 2009 @ ICA


Lilian Lijn, Sky Never Stops, 1965, Collection V&A Museum



Moonmeme: “A word is projected onto the surface of the moon. The meaning of this word is gradually transformed over the 29.5 day lunation period by the relative motions of Moon, Earth and Sun.”

“The Artvertiser is an urban, hand-held, augmented-reality project exploring on-site substitution of advertising content for the purposes of exhibiting art. The project was initiated by Julian Oliver in February 2008 and is being developed in collaboration with artists Clara Boj and Diego Diaz.”


Bart Hess

“Bart Hess is working for himself exploring several fields that straddle textile, fashion and animation, these fall within the commercial and art world.”

Communication #1: Computers, Slavery and Making Art

Jean Piché: “…virtuosity. Not as in pyrotechnics but as in transcendence. The ultimate, and for me desirable, absence of technical reference.” (1997)


No.60 | N 70°26’36.5“ E 27°53’27.1“,Tanafjorden, Finnmark, Norway, 2007

March 26–July 7, 2008, MOMA

Featuring works that transform books through a variety of mediums, Book/Shelf stresses an expanded notion of the illustrated book. The exhibition begins with a documentation of Marcel Duchamp’s Unhappy Readymade (1919)—a work created when the artist, while traveling, asked his sister back home to hang a geometry book on his balcony in order to let the wind flip and tear the pages. It continues with works in which artists appropriate books by others, such as a sculpture by Martin Kippenberger made partly of books, and a copy of Duchamp’s catalogue raisonné rebound by David Hammons under the title Holy Bible. Artists who tackle the idea of books in film (William Wegman), sound works (On Kawara), prints (Edward Ruscha), and drawings (Steve Wolfe) are represented as well. Finally, the exhibition surveys a number of artists who have created installations that display books in public contexts, including Brian Belott, Allen Ruppersberg, Josh Smith, and Lawrence Weiner.




Holding a miniature video camera, on one side of each suitcase in Carry On is mounted a two axis robotic arm. The live video feed from this camera is displayed on a LCD screen mounted on the other side of the suitcase. Every couple of minutes, the robots change the position of the cameras, thus changing what is being displayed in the LCD screens. Lacking image analysis of any kind or other sensory capability, these suitcases blindly look about, never understanding what they see.



“…by participatory means, for whoever wants to start right now”



“The technology of the modern media has produced new possibilities of interaction. (…) What is needed is a wider view encompassing the coming rewards in the context of the treasures left us by the past experiences, possessions and insights.”

Media Art History. Summer 2000, RUDOLF ARNHEIM (b. 1904 – d. 2007)


helnwein

Helnwein
The Disasters of War 3 2007
200 cm x 293 cm. mixed media (oil and acrylic on canvas).
In memory of Francisco de Goya.



“M1 explores the cusp between visible and invisible performance, between scripted and chance events and emergent social patterns.

M1 can be performed by anyone, anywhere. The first iteration of M1 by sponge took place at Tressider Plaza, Stanford University, Palo Alto, Califonia during the spring of 1997.

M1 is a barely perceptible anomaly that does not emerge into the visible during one cycle of viewing. It makes a slow and cumulative imprint.”

VAGUS : online interactive video art


MoMA.org | Exhibitions | 2005 | OWLS AT NOON Prelude: The Hollow Men

“Chris Marker combs a vast beach of images to create an echo chamber in which the viewer can either remember or witness for the first time the reality of a civilization’s self-slaughter.”


Regen Projects


at Guild & Greyshkul

Chris Jordan — Jet Trails, 2007

“Depicts 11,000 jet trails, equal to the number of commercial flights in the US every eight hours.”

Fake concept – Chymer’s Artworks


VVORK
…. a list like meanderings ….

Eno at Pop Start:
“…what Darwin did for life, we need to do for culture…”
“…culture is the way we look at ourselves, with which we can surrender…and try out different ways of being and feeling…”

Shane Brennan — States


“States is a set of 200 words drawn from scientific and corporate language. Organized into separate, randomly shuffled columns, these word sets combine to produce over 6.2 million potential phrases (or “states”) suggestive of planetary changes either reflective of, or causally related to, human intervention in the climate.”

Light Tracer | Interactive Drawing System | Karl D.D. Willis





“…an interactive installation which invites the participant to write, draw and trace images in real physical space using a series of light sources.”

daniel shiffman




Richard Rorty (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)


“Explaining rationality and epistemic authority by reference to what society lets us say, rather than the latter by the former, is the essence of what I shall call ‘epistemological behaviorism,’ an attitude common to Dewey and Wittgenstein.” [Richard Rorty, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979).p.174]




Justine Ashbee


E Y E B E A M

Mark Tansey

Working Papers in Art and Design

res-Qualia

Le DETAIL / The DETAIL / Series / Incident.net / 2006

Clemens Kogler – Le Grand Content

Shawn Lani


Very Small Objects

“Every once-living object collected by me for the purposes of this taxonomic study was dead when I discovered it.”

Benedikt Groß

Public

“The computer as confessional, storytelling machine.”

Bill Viola : Artists “detoxify and transform” technology.

interview pt2: “…it is up to the artist to understand the inner technology of their own thought, and make sure it’s as pure and honest and direct as it can be…”


Fischerspooner – Never Win

Critical Art Ensemble

Barbara Kruger

Sartorial Contemporary Art – Gavin Nolan – British Contemporary Art Gallery – Unnateral Selection

“Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.), founded in New York in 1967 by artists Robert Whitman and Robert Rauschenberg and engineers Billy Kluver and Fred Waldhauer, was the premier art-and-science organization of its time.”

Piet Zwart Institute – Words Made Flesh

WORDS MADE FLESH
Code, Culture, Imagination
Florian Cramer

A b s t r a c t: Executable code existed centuries before the invention of the computer in magic, Kabbalah, musical composition and experimental poetry. These practices are often neglected as a historical pretext of contemporary software culture and electronic arts. Above all, they link computations to a vast speculative imagination that encompasses art, language, technology, philosophy and religion. These speculations in turn inscribe themselves into the technology. Since even the most simple formalism requires symbols with which it can be expressed, and symbols have cultural connotations, any code is loaded with meaning. This booklet writes a small cultural history of imaginative computation, reconstructing both the obsessive persistence and contradictory mutations of the phantasm that symbols turn physical, and words are made flesh.