Mark Booth

Just when you thought you couldn’t take another piece of art with an amusing remark written across its front, or any more gallery walls peppered with unframed drawings, this talented Chicago artist, Mark Booth, equally at ease with abstract painting and poetry, makes his New York debut. The words may conjure up a world of their own. And you may find yourself looking longer than you initially expected to.
source: Roberta Smith - The New York Times. December 14, 2007


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Mié-Journaldecorps

Mié-Journaldecorps
Smaranda Olcèse-Trifan
Journal de corps explore la relation entre image et danse à travers l’énigme que pose notre corporéité. L’attestation de soi est le corps. Le corps est l’espace que nous partageons tous et l’espace le plus individuel. À la foi lieu commun et unique, il est un monde en constante transformation, un état de sensations et de perceptions, un terrain de jeu à explorer, à connaître, à reconnaître, à vivre et à danser. Le corps est un journal intime à la logique compilatrice, au parcours déconcertant qui met en jeu les corps pour révéler un entier pluriel, contrasté – vivant comme « soi ». Tout est surprenant dans ce corps où l’on ne cesse de vivre.
source: paris-art


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Jake Longstreth

Jake Longstreth's paintings interrogate the expansive space of a largely exurban landscape. His work explores both the industrial and the pastoral –– revealing their blurred dialogue. Longstreth reduces his images to their basic elements. His flat, light-filled paintings stray liberally from the photographs they are based on, inhabiting a middle ground of painterly subjectivity.
source: gregorylindgallery

How to Use a Vacuum Cleaner

How to Use a Vacuum Cleaner







Expert: Travis Waak
Bio: Travis' experience with bonfires began early with boyscouts and carried on into his wilderness training when in his 20's. He is an active outdoorsman with fire safety certifications.
Filmmaker: Travis Waack

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Ofer Wolberger

Photography has been a vehicle with which Ofer Wolberger examines notions of beauty and identity, conflicts of self perception and representation, and the role that visual culture plays in both. This exploration is expanded in his latest series (Life with) Maggie.

Maggie is a fictional character who seems transported from another time and place, one presumably set in the past.
source: michaelhoppengallery

Ergül Cengiz

Ergül Cengiz setzt sich in ihren Bildern – so sagt sie selbst – mit „kollektiven und persönlichen Urbildern“ der Erinnerung auseinander, in denen sich die verschiedenen Kulturen ihrer Herkunft vermischen. Als Material für ihre Arbeit verwendet sie vertraute Motive und ordnet sie in ihren Bildern neu an. Tiere, Menschen, Landschaften, Architekturen kommen zum Einsatz, die in einen emotionalen, symbolischen oder kunstgeschichtlichen Zusammenhang gestellt werden. Durch die Verfremdung sollen vertraute Sehgewohnheiten und Ansichten unstimmig gemacht oder negiert werden. So wird etwa die abendländische Symbolik mit der orientalischen kombiniert, wobei Ähnlichkeiten und Unterschiede eine Spannung im Bild erzeugen.
source: artnet magazine

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here's your meal

LastSuppers
Food as metaphor and other strategies of consumption

The meal is life given to the body, the execution is life taken from the body. The meals register the juxtaposition between and/or confusion over what is given and what is taken away.-Celia A. Shapiro on her "Last Supper" series, photographs of last meals requested by executed U.S. prisoners, re-created by the artist.
source: rhode island roads magazine

Hospital Food
Dear hungry patient, submit your "delicious" hospital food here !

Mark Mulroney

Mark Mulroney's ever-changing imaginary world is a recollection of stories that, to him, reflect traditional American life. His formative experiences as an alter boy, his love of Polaroid pictures, and his grandmother's wish to attend as many Padres' games as possible, all combine to create artwork that conveys his unique perspective. Viewers encounter works as varied as large-scale ink drawings of religious figures, Rembrandt etchings, cowboys and nude women; paintings with familiar compositions inspired by a Kodak manual on how to take a good picture; books and pamphlets containing sketches and musings; and even Dolly Parton, ready to tell their fortunes
source: mixedgreens

Het Komies Realisties Produkzie Team '76

promotiefilm voor de KNBRD, gemaakt door het Het Komies Realisties Produkzie Team '76 van de Rietveld Academie. De film laat aan de hand van geanimeerde beelden, kenmerkend voor de Rietveld Academie uit die tijd, zien dat het allemaal makkelijk zou kunnen gaan met het redden van mensen in nood maar dat het helaas niet zo is.


Het Komies Realisties Produkzie Team '76 van de Rietveld Academie - promotiefilm voor de KNBRD (10:13)

Cathy Watkins

In order to escape the weighty artistic legacy of St Ives and the seductive landscapes of Cornwall, Catharine Watkins has been studying childrens’ toys. In particular, females from the Bratz TM series of sexualised dolls, masks of the Overlord, weapons of the Underworld, toys produced with a theme for Halloween and the ubiquitous BarbieTM. Based in St Ives and Penzance, Watkins finds a plethora of subjects to study, draw and paint, in the two local Woolworth stores. Barbie is an ‘icon’ and powerful presence in her personal childhood and is remembered as an object of compelling desirability. Barbie also happens to be one of the most successful brands of the twentieth century.
source: Tate Catalogue

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Hayley A. Silverman

Hayley A. Silverman
Maryland Institute College of Art : Baltimore Maryland (BFA) Interdisciplinary Sculptural Studies with a concentration in Interactive Media

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The Treasury of Ornament

The Treasury of Ornament - Heinrich Dolmetsch 1898
via: bibliodyssey
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This book, first published in English in 1898, is one of the great 19th century studies in pattern and design. This is a superbly illustrated edition, the first to be published in English since 1912. The very extensive plates are accompanied by a detailed text and the volume is encyclopaedic in scope from Ancient Egyptian and Grecian Art to 17th and 18th century Baroque and rococo motifs.
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Robertina Šebjanic

In her art projects, Robertina Šebjanic explores and works with various media such as video and spatial/ambiental installations and more broadly conceived cross-media projects. She had previously been featured as an independent author as well as in collaboration at many exhibitions and festivals in Slovenia and abroad.
source: HAIP Festival



Niro - Robertina Šebjanic (02:15)
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This video dissects, hides and reveals intimacy and its place in contemporary world. In our time impersonality of social relations is higly valued, yet we simultaneously desperately aspire to authenticity and immediacy of simple personal contact.

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Michelle Jezierski

Ich versuche mich in das Bild hineinzuversetzen und Orte, die es nicht geben kann, erfahrbar zu machen – wie z.B. eine schwebende Rennbahn.

Michelle Jezierski’s Bildwelten fordern unser Verständnis von Zeit, Raum und Perspektive heraus. Es wird ein Vokabular von Symbolik neu verknüpft, wodurch das Vertraute befremdlich wirkt. Schwebende Häuser in Höhlen treffen auf Läufer im Boxring wie in einer unbekannten Welt. Die Gegensätze von Innen- und Außenräumen, Schwere und Schwerelosigkeit, Bewegung und Stillstand werden miteinander verschachtelt und neu kombiniert. Dies wirkt gleichzeitig anziehend und fremdartig.
source: pool-gallery


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Martin Stiefel

Ein Ausgangspunkt meiner Arbeiten sind Sammelstücke von Gebrauchsgegenständen, vor allem aus dem häuslichen Alltag, Flohmarkt. Mein zweites zentrales Anliegen ist die Bewegung, die mich seit Mitte der 90-iger begleitet. Wurde bis 2006 die Bewegung mittels Haushaltsgeräten, also Maschinen, initiiert, habe ich seither Wasser als Antriebsquelle für Bewegung verwendet. Der spielerische Umgang mit den und die experimentelle Kombinatorik der eingesetzten Gegenstände mit den Antriebsquellen ist ein drittes Kennzeichen meiner künstlerischen Arbeit. Die Antriebsquellen (Mixer, Föhn, Waschmaschinen, Wasserräder) sind nicht als funktionales Beiwerk untergeordnet im Verborgenen tätig, sondern werden den von Ihnen bewegten Gegenständen als eigenständige Objekte im Gesamtgebilde gleichberechtigt sichtbar eingesetzt.
source: kineticus.com - Martin Stiefel

Vipers, The (1955) - Shinkichi Tajiri

"Ik wilde het ritueel in beeld brengen van een 'joint' rollen en opsteken, en vervolgens een reeks ogenschijnlijk loshangende beelden naast elkaar zetten om het gevoel van 'high zijn' weer te geven. Toen de film klaar was gingen we ermee naar het festival voor 16 mm-films in Cannes en kregen we de Gouden Leeuw voor het 'Beste Gebruik van Filmtaal'." (Shinkichi Tajiri, Tajiri, 1993)
filminnederland - Vipers, The (1955)

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Adriana Czernin

Adriana Czernin spielt mit den Klischeebilder vom Weiblichkeit. Ihre Figuren wirken anziehend und metaphysisch. Es sind vornehmlich gekrümmte Frauenkörper, wobei unsicher ist ob sie sich aus Lust oder Leid zusammenkauern. Das Betrachten der Bilder von Adriana Czernin bereitet optischen und sinnlichen Genuß. Einen Genuß, der über das Ästhetische weit hinausgeht.
source: basis-wien

Adriana Czernin / “Gang (Walk)”

Todd Vanderlin

Todd Vanderlin is an experimenter - constantly tinkering and learning. His focus is in computer vision technology, software development, sensory design, physical computing and real-time motion graphics. He blends the worlds of advanced technology and interactive design to create new experiences for people to learn as they interact.
source: flashbelt

Todd Vanderlin on Vimeo

Milkmen

Breastfeeding Men (06:21)
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Milkmen: Fathers Who Breastfeed

Noel McKenna

Noel McKenna's offbeat paintings are as different from mainstream figuration as South Park is from classic Disney. He's weird. Most artists painting a cat would place it on a fireside mat. McKenna paints it as a missing moggie on a poster tied to a pole with tear-off strips of telephone numbers. Owls are conventionally painted wisely gripping the bare branches of a tree. McKenna's owl perches on a McDonald's sign. It's like a Gary Larson cartoon without having to second-guess the punchline. There is no punchline; there is only weirdness.
source: College of Fine Arts COFA

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The League of Imaginary Scientists

About the League's Process of Experimentation

By conflating imagined and real space, inventing characters and concocting science, the collaborative research by the League of Imaginary Scientists can be characterized as a series of dream experiments. The League’s über project is a science and technology extravaganza based on engineering achieved through play, with genuine doctors running naked and artists donning lab coats, all in the hybridized name of science/art.

Alan Bigelow

Originally a fiction writer in traditional text genres, Alan Bigelow started working in Flash in 2000. He quickly recognized the potential within this application for creating stories as multimedia events, and the Web as the best place to publish them. With hard copy fiction increasingly difficult to publish, and many writers moving to vanity presses and desktop publishing, it appeared that the Web offered a free market of new genres and, within digital fiction, a relatively undiscovered area of exploration.
source: AND - Artists Network Database

The Adventure of a Good Citizen

Franciszka and Stefan Themerson
A rare pre-war film Przygoda czlowieka poczciwego (The Adventure of a Good Citizen, 1937) is a compendium of visual devices which shows what Stefan Themerson called his "urge to create visions," the title of his most influential essay. The war forced the Themersons to England where they continued to make films
source: Avant-garde Film and Video in Poland - ce-review


Przygoda czlowieka poczciwego (The Adventure of a Good Citizen, 1937)(08:18)
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Julie Roberts

Julie Roberts became known by the paintings that revise the imaginary thing connected with the medicine and with the psychoanalysis in the beginning of the century XX. If in the beginning his figures were standing out on a monochromatic bottom, more recently the artist fills out the whole pictorial field with prepared scenes of interiors. The obsessive attention to the details and the fascination for the representation of the human body in different situations they are the constant one, demonstrating like the social mechanisms they can determine characteristic anatomical certainties.
source: Galeria Fortes Vilaça

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Daniel Joseph Martinez

Daniel Joseph Martinez was born in Los Angeles and lives in Los Angeles, USA. He has been considered one of the most important and articulate artists of his generation and is noted for his controversial and provocative public art projects. He first made a name for himself in the so-called culture wars of the nineties (most famously with his "I can't imagine ever wanting to be white" intervention at the 1993 Whitney Biennial. In his art making of the last two decades, Martinez has embraced the role of a catalyst through installation, visual arts, performance, public art, writing and curating.
source: Dublin Docklands



Shock Treatment, Without Anesthesia, or: This Isn't A Nice Neighborhood
Recent Work by Daniel Joseph Martinez, SF Camerawork
Oct. 29 - Nov. 30, 2002, reviewed by David Buuck

Paul Slocum

Paul Slocum’s obsessive output projects the best of a savvy DIY programmer, while simultaneously attaining a slightly caustic tone that speaks insightfully about our cultural milieu. The artist holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science, and this training defines his work. But he also brings a heavy dose of adolescent verve and humor to the table, presenting pieces that reveal technical dexterity, yet are engaging enough to seduce even the staunchest of luddites.
source: artlies - Garland Fielder



You're Not My Father (04:06)
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Warren Neidich

Warren Neidich: Artist produce objects and relations which provide a form of gymnastics for the brain. All though it sounds quite romantic I still believe artists little the cultural landscape, lets say visual, with new forms of objects, object relations, spaces, null spaces, performances and actions that produce new possibilities for the configuration of the matter of the brain. This is a continual project with objects and object relations being recycled in the context of cultural conditions. The boundaries and forms of visual culture are in flux. This flux activates the virtual, Deleuzian Virtual, potentials of the brain unlocking them. The brain undergoes transformation along with the mind. Art is a sacred space where research on the margins of what an object or relation is is still possible using alternative methodologies and systems. This in the end unlocks the neuralbiodiversity we are born with
source: digimag 25

Blind Man's Bluff

Deconstructing The Infotainment Machine

Juhana Moisander

The elements in my works refer to matters and creatures that we tend to move to the periphery of creating social values. I'm interested in loosening the border between the space and the work, and my aim is to make these two meet and create unexpected feelings. In addition to contents, my strategy includes the size of elements on display, their proportions, and how they are placed in relation to each other and the premises.
source: juhana moisander - galleriahuuto

Eric Ku

Eric Ku has been working on Mission Redefinition, a series of exercises each exploring the idea of redefinition to a series of subjects through the application of graphic design.
source: itsnicethat

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Mission No.5
City Shark