Roger Arquer

Variacions is Roger Arquer´s first solo exhibition, organized by H2O Gallery in Barcelona.
Roger has selected three projects with a common pattern: all three present a collection of pieces based on the idea of variations. Birdland, FishBowls, and MouseTraps are a compilation of birdhouses, fish bowls and mousetraps respectively. Each piece has it’s own identity, while together create a family.
source: H2O Gallery

17lifefables

Arguably the world´s first fully interactive, live-action film. Using a multi-lineal narrative structure inspired by the "choose your own adventure" juvenile books, we believe this project experiments with a format of filmmaking that should be in vogue in a near future, as medias converge more and more. - 17lifefables

interactive storytelling in
entertaining - Mate Tomin/Jaden Liu (PDF)

Christian Holtmann

Der Maler Christian Holtmann arbeitet mit Motiven der Kindheit und der Medien. Die Infantilität virtueller Kunstwelten droht heutzutage den Raum für die Erfahrung des Authentischen und des Eigenen einzuengen. In seinen farbstarken Gemälden erkämpft Holtmann auf dem Felde dieser Bildwelten einen Freiraum für das eigene Sehen und Denken.
source: kunsthalle-wilhelmshaven

kuenstlerhausbremen

Wayne Gonzales

Wayne Gonzales investigates the physical and historical act of spectatorship in both his technique and content. For this exhibition, the artist presents a series of large crowd scene paintings. Based on a small number of original source photographs, one of the series shows a concentrated, seated audience at what may be a historical political rally. By contrast another series of paintings depicts a standing, cheering crowd watching a sporting event. Gonzales repeats these individual motifs over and over, even accumulating them in triptychs, making visible the slightest differences between each rendering.
source: stephenfriedman

rux-werx-here - Velodrum

Rux (a.k.a. Rui Pereira)
Velodrum is a human-powered sequencer inspired by bycicles, the 'piano mecanique' and the classic Techno sequencer Roland-808.
For this project I explored and researched sequencing and percursion and how the instruments and interfaces changed the music creation: from manual input to the first mechanically automated instruments stepping up to electronic music and electronic hardware interfaces. Also the evolution of scoring and score visualization techniques were extremely influential in my research (Music Animation Machine, piano roll, timelines, etc..)
What do bycicles have to do with rhythm?!..everything! the more steady one keeps the pace (rhythm) the longer you can go on a bycicle! Sometimes, litle sticks or dried pieces of grass get in between the wheel spokes, other times we voluntarily stick pieces of cardboard to produce rhythmic sounds by hitting the spokes.
source: rux-werx-here


The Velodrum (02:51)
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digitalkitchen

Don't call me crazy on the 4th of July

don't call me crazy on the 4th of july is both biography and history, as the film explores Lansberry's collision with the government's Cold War research into techniques of mind control, and his claims of being an unwitting subject of these experiments.

It begins with a central enigma: why would a sporadically homeless man toting a two-sided sandwich board in downtown Pittsburgh be the matter of a 400 page FBI file? In rare interview footage, we hear Lansberry's own vindication of his remarkable saga, leading up to the unlikeliest of all Congressional campaigns. Filling in with supporting commentary are interviews with witnesses and experts from various fields, among them, Gilbert Marhoefer, member of the Apes of God whose spoken word song "Why Can't Lansberry Get His Mail?" is played over the credits.
source: oracularlab


Don't call me crazy on the 4th of July - (2004)Richard Pell (29:33)
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Diana Al-Hadid

Inspired by notions of the Tower of Babel and the new Large Hadron Collider's search for the "God particle," Diana Al-Hadid constructs huge, scorched conglomerations of wax-coated cardboard tubes that perhaps envision future ruins.
The shattered honeycomb walls and melted footings of her labyrinthine towers offer the desolately beautiful remains of some unknowable disaster.
source: villagevoice


galeriemichaeljanssen

priskajuschkafineart

perryrubenstein

Pink Floyd "Moonhead" -1969-

We [Pink Floyd] were in a BBC TV studio jamming to the landing. It was a live broadcast, and there was a panel of scientists on one side of the studio, with us on the other. I was 23.

The programming was a little looser in those days, and if a producer of a late-night programme felt like it, they would do something a bit off the wall. Funnily enough I've never really heard it since, but it is on YouTube. They were broadcasting the moon landing and they thought that to provide a bit of a break they would show us jamming. It was only about five minutes long. The song was called Moonhead - it's a nice, atmospheric, spacey, 12-bar blues.
I also remember at the time being in my flat in London, gazing up at the moon, and thinking, "There are actually people standing up there right now." It brought it home to me powerfully, that you could be looking up at the moon and there would be people standing on it.
At the time, Pink Floyd had been doing rather well. For a while, the band had been somewhat erratic and its reputation was sinking. I joined in 1968, 18 months before the moon landing. By then we were beginning to climb back up again.
It was fantastic to be thinking that we were in there making up a piece of music, while the astronauts were standing on the moon. It doesn't seem conceivable that that would happen on the BBC nowadays.
source: guardian (via:nerdcore)


Pink Floyd "Moonhead" -1969- Unreleased Pink Floyd Material (05:32)
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Gil Heitor Cortesão

To construct his paintings, Gil Heitor Cortesão appropriates photographic images from various origins including magazines, postcards, books on architecture, and his own photographs. Based on a structure defined by these images, he deconstructs outlines and surfaces, creating new planes and situations in urban landscapes and imaginary places. By using oil paint under Plexiglass sheets, he benefits from the transparency of the material to build his images from front to back.
source: fortesvilaca


pedrocera

Cuts in movies, and their impact on memory

Cuts in movies:Cognitive Daily
reports nearly every day on fascinating peer-reviewed developments in cognition from the most respected scientists in the field.



Movie Spoilers: Oscar Edition (04:43)
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Created by Benny & Rafi Fine

Erik Johansson

abduzeedo :
Your manipulations are pretty unique and full of creativity. Where does your inspiration come from? How do you come up with the ideas?
Erik Johansson :
That is a hard question because I can't really tell. The inspiration is everywhere in the daily life, but I also look a lot at photos and drawings on the web. I think the most important thing is to make a note of every idea, otherwise it will might be gone in a few seconds.

Before I die I want to...

Hearing hundreds of different answers to this question from hundreds of different people makes one wonder: What make some people more aware of their own mortality than others? What motivates people to take action in their lives? What values do we hold as a society? And what values do other societies around the world find important?
"Before I Die I want to..."

Noam Toran - Desire Management

Noam Toran - Desire Management is a film comprising five sequences in which objects are used as vehicles for dissident behaviour. In the film, the domestic space is defined as the last private frontier, a place where bespoke appliances provide unorthodox experiences for alienated people: An airline hostess with a unique relationship to turbulence, the owner of a mysterious box which men ritually visit to look inside, an elderly man who enjoys being vacuumed, a couple who engage in baseball driven fantasies, a man who is forced by his partner to cry into a strange device.

Noam Toran - Desire Management (11:14)
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Marion Eichmann

Die Künstlerin Marion Eichmann hat mit den Installationen 16 324 800 Maschen (2002), Ping Pong (2003) und Tokio mono (2004) bereits international Aufsehen erregt. In ihrem letzten Projekt NY TO GO (2005) legte sie den Schwerpunkt auf Zeichnungen. Typisch für ihre Herangehensweise ist die Perfektion und Konsequenz in Idee, Technik und Ausführung. Jedes Projekt ist in sich geschlossen ohne die Korrespondenz zu verlieren.
Erstmals werden aus zwei Projekten Arbeiten gegenüber und zusammengestellt. Die unübertroffen ausgefeilten Zeichnungen, die auf dem 3 monatigen Aufenthalt in New York basieren, werden mit den Collagen aus Tokio kombiniert. Beeindruckend sind immer die Räumlichkeit der Farben und Liniengeflechte. Marion Eichmann zeigt dem Betrachter auf eine konzentrierte und leichte Art und Weise ihren Blick auf die Welt.
source: deartis (pdf)

galerie-geiger

biesenthal.org

Sophie Jodoin

Sophie Jodoin's newer body of work, including the Hanging Series, mainly draws its source from the Bathroom Series where a few of the images ambiguously suggested a body slumped in the tub. Also, the ongoing War Series provoked research into new ways to work with the body and to examine the collateral damages of accidental, political and personal violence.
source: newzones


Sophie Jodoin - Rencontre (03:56)
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edwarddaygallery

Daria Martin

Daria Martin's films act as expanded tableaux vivant, staging relationships between performers in particular situations borrowed from dance, sports and entertainment. Her use of low-tech materials for costumes and props exposes the artifice of the fantasy world created in the work.
source: tate triennial 2006

Loneliness and the Modern Pentathlon

maureenpaley

Fernanda Chieco

Fernanda Chieco borrows the poses and the foreshortenings portrayed in her drawings from photographs of models, friends who pose for the artist with no detailed instructions. The artist usually asks a friend to do any pose and from the position the body adopted in the photograph, she begins to imagine and build up a support system for the body in that specific situation. The practice mounts up to Fernanda’s own experience as a live model during the period she studied in London.

These are layers of eroticism that superpose as the drawings are observed. The objectified body, the abject, the subtle memory of a voyeuristic game between the model and the artist. A cold eroticism that echoes the cynical state of contemporary sexuality, mediated by technology or excessively calculated and protected. Finally, there’s also something erotic in drawing as a language, in the sheer fact that the drawing is drawn, in other words, inscribed in a raw and direct form onto a paper surface, following a principle of transparency and non-erasibility. "The drawn line is always raw, on permanent view. It has no mantle of invisibility to conceal its emergence into the world," states the art historian Norman Bryson. The drawing is explicit. In the works of Chieco, drawing is performance.
source: nyartsmagazine


galerialeme

lodeveanscollection

Linda Dement

Linda Dement has worked in film, video and photo-media since 1984. She is one of the first Australian artists to explore feminist reading and use of technology.
In her work, Dement has used striking, confronting still and animated images, combined with texts sourced from personal diaries, philosophical, scientific and medical writing, and embellished with sound grabs of intimate expressions.
"Dement's gift is to turn polymorphous perversity to aesthetic ends, let it run free and enjoy itself. The sacred and the savage, sexuality and abuse, are her private square of opposition." – George Alexander, Art Monthly
source: novamedia

Salva López

Soy Diseñador Gráfico e Ilustrador podriamos decir que de professión, nací en Barcelona y actualmente vivo allí.

Hace más o menos año y medio me compre mi primera cámara réflex digital, ello me llevo a una apasionamiento instantáneo por la fotografía. Desde entonces llevo una busqueda personal para ir creciendo cada dia, sobretodo junto a mi pareja Ana.
Desde Octubre que estudio Fotografía Publicitaria en la escuela GrisArt de Barcelona, sobretodo para adquirir la técnica necesaria para poder “vivir” de ésto.
source: Salva López


Salva López Diary

Foutaises

Foutaises - Jean-Pierre Jeunet (1990 eng sub)(06:53)
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Dominique Pinon talks to the camera describing his likes and dislikes, ranging from the simple such as "I hate men with a beard but no moustache" to the more touching, "I like to think that after death can't be worse than before birth." Each of his examples is accompanied by a visual demonstration.
source: wikipedia

IMDb

Simon Vinkenoog 1928 - 2009.

Simon's webstek


TING-TING-TING (vinkenoog/spinvis) (02:17)

123comics

Wir sind eine Berliner Comicgruppe, die versucht, das Medium Comic immer wieder in neue Kontexte zu bewegen.
Dabei untersuchen wir die Schnittstellen zu anderen künstlerischen Ausrducksformen wie dem Theater oder experimentieren mit der Ausstellbarkeit des klassischen "Heftchengenres".
In Comicshows inszenieren wir Comics auf der Bühne, "Comics nach Maß" ist eine Dienstleistungs-Performance, bei der Geschichten von Besucherinnen in Auftrag gegeben werden können.
source: 123comics


jobTV (07:28) (2006)
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A live drawn interactive comic show with elements of impro theatre, live drawing comedy and education from the berlin comic group 123comics

WordPerhect

Tomoko Takahashi’s Word Perhect is a website that neatly juxtaposes the real world with the never-never land of supposedly labour-saving usefulness of the macro-filled, bloated software that spawns from Silicon Valley and fills up your hard drive in a matter of seconds.

Word Perhect gets straight to the point. Using bits and pieces gleaned from the artist’s (presumably messy) studio, pocket, it invites you to re-think your approach to writing a letter. Writing a letter on a computer, at any rate. Select something to write on – let’s try a torn off strip of cardboard backpack (although tantalisingly, you’re offered numerous items you can’t actually write on – a cassette tape, for example) – and you’re ready to go.
source: thingsmagazine

Alison Yip

Alison Yip makes small, spontaneous drawings in graphite pencil, coloured chalk, and pencil crayon. Her subjects are as varied as her choice of media, culled from frequent trips to the U.S.A. and Europe. The best are quick studies of urban strangers and architectural details: A woman gazes off into space in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, lost in a moment of private reverie. A dog walker marshals their charges in London's Hyde Park.
source: straight.com


monteclarkgallery

You and Me and the Sea

Marc Johns

Marc Johns creates whimsical drawings filled with dry wit and humour. Whether it’s a man with branches growing out of his head that need pruning, or a pipe that’s trying to quit smoking, his characters are simply, sparsely drawn, yet speak volumes with just a few strokes of the pen.
source: artist site

Ove Kvavik

Ove Kvavik is an American photographer and artist at the Trondheim Academy of Fine Art. He has been involved in The Rest of Now, part of the manifestation of 7, and the Character Biennale 2008, with the work Erasing institution showing façade of Kunstnernes House (where the exhibition took place) in the form of a pencil drawing, as the visitors were invited to rub out.
source: translated from wikipedia

flyingpizzakitty

Blurring the line between webcomic, animation, and 8-bit video game is Flying Pizza Kitty, a series of animated GIFs from the prolific Ben Ross.
source: drawn


flying pizza kitty music video!
by ben ross (03:33)

Human Dollz

Human Dollz is a content, form and function collective established in 2008, making Music, Video, Performance & Fashion.
They relate to and are inspired by the Bauhaus, re-giving every day properties to its historical sites, going back to their fundamental function, reworking the basic forms, and giving them a new content.
Human Dollz are currently working on their first EP titled „Crash! Boom! Bau!“ which is due to be released by May 2009.
source: bauhauslab


Human Dollz - CBB (2009)(03:56)
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David Fullarton

To create his vibrant and humorous paintings, David Fullarton mines the notebooks he has filled with odd words, catch phrases, numbered parking lot receipts, warnings, and instructions in foreign languages. Collaging text, numbers, and images onto brightly colored grounds, Fullarton delights in lifting phrases and images from their contexts and placing them in new surroundings that amend and redirect their meaning. With decidedly adult humor, the work celebrates the strangeness of daily life, memorializes events from his own past, and gently mocks common human foibles.
source: hangart


via: my love for you is a stampede of horses

Safety Gear for Small Animals

The more polluted everything gets, the more obvious that small animals need safety gear as much as loggers and miners do. That’s why Canadian artist Bill Burns invented a line of "safety gear for small animals" (SGSA) several years ago. There are dust masks for birds (pictured at right), gloves for monkeys, hard hats for bunnies, and life vests for lizards. Need to know more about gas masks for squirrels? Well it’s too late to see Burns’ New York MoMa show, but you can visit the SGSA website, which includes his watercolors of animals interacting with the gear as well as information on boiler suits for primates.
source: wired 2006

Andrea Geyer

Andrea Geyer stages social interactions or navigations through (urban) spaces as sites of the production of culture and sources of our experience. Fictional elements and theoretical references, interviews and extensive research flow into her works, which pursue an interest in interpretingidentities not as static, fixed images, but rather as flexible configurations. Her installations are intended to intervene in diverse mechanisms of verbal and visual control and regulation.
source: ok-centrum.