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Gloria Chung
Posted in Multimedia/Photo/Video Tagged Chicago, Gloria Chung, November, photography, United States Comments closed
Luis Vidal
Posted in Peinture/Sculpture/Mix media, Performance/Installation/street Tagged Barcelona, Luis Vidal, Pig, Spain Comments closed
Lina Scheynius
Posted in Multimedia/Photo/Video Tagged Lina Scheynius, photography, Stockholm, Sweden Comments closed
Rainer Gamsjäger
Trifter Serie (VIDEO 2007, 720p HD, 8:27 min)
A slow pan along a forest that breaks off at a small terrace in the foreground of the picture: Slender conifers stretch upwards over cut and fallen trunks, dead branches and roots, churned soil and dry grass, and parade past one another, structuring the space to impenetrable depths. The apparent naturalism does not hold up for long. Something is not quite right with this picture, this movement. In the background the trunks begin to stretch out horizontally. Has the image been digitally altered? Have artificial effects been applied to the idyllic scene? Not at all. Instead, the image as a whole turns out to be artificial, its realism the result of elaborate reconstruction. TRIFTER 1 strains at the synapses. Training for the digital. (Thomas Korschil)
Michael Guidetti
Posted in Multimedia/Photo/Video Tagged Byte to Mass Conversion Calculator, internet, Michael Guidetti, net.art, San-francisco, United States Comments closed
Ivars Gravlejs
Hot girls
Useful advices for photographers
Kaspars and Laura is dancing in Riga
Posted in Multimedia/Photo/Video Tagged Czech Republic, Hot girls, Ivars Gravlejs, Kaspars and Laura is dancing in Riga, photography, Prague, Riga, Useful advices for photographers Comments closed
Michael Landy
Semi-detached
Posted in Performance/Installation/street Tagged Break Down, English, London, Michael Landy, Semi-detached, Tate Comments closed
gelitin
Hase / Rabbit / Coniglio, Artesina, Piemont, Italy, 2005
The things one finds wandering in a landscape: familiar things and utterly unknown, like a flower one has never seen before, or, as Columbus discovered, an inexplicable continent;
and then, behind a hill, as if knitted by giant grandmothers, lies this vast rabbit, to make you feel as small as a daisy.
The toilet-paper-pink creature lies on its back: a rabbit-mountain like Gulliver in Lilliput. Happy you feel as you climb up along its ears, almost falling into its cavernous mouth, to the belly-summit and look out over the pink woolen landscape of the rabbitÌs body, a country dropped from the sky;
ears and limbs sneaking into the distance; from its side flowing heart, liver and intestines.
Happily in love you step down the decaying corpse, through the wound, now small like a maggot, over woolen kidney and bowel.
Happy you leave like the larva that gets its wings from an innocent carcass at the roadside.
Such is the happiness which made this rabbit.
i love the rabbit the rabbit loves me.
After almost 5 years of knitting the rabbit found its final place in the italian alps (close to Cuneo). It waits there to be visited by you. You might even take your time or check back every now and then as the rabbit will wait for you 20 years from now on.
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Antonio Gonzales Paucar
Zapatos que rompen el silencio
Posted in Multimedia/Photo/Video, Performance/Installation/street Tagged Antonio Gonzales Paucar, berlin, Germany, Huancayo, Peru, Zapatos que rompen el silencio Comments closed
HeHe
Posted in Performance/Installation/street Tagged French, HeHe, Heiko Hansen, Helen Evans, Nuage vert, paris Comments closed
Serkan Özkaya
Bring me the head
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Posted in Performance/Installation/street Tagged Bring me the head, Istanbul, Serkan Özkaya, Turkey Comments closed
Joel Holmberg
woman eating grapes google image search
Posted in Multimedia/Photo/Video Tagged Google, internet, Joel Holmberg, net.art, random, United States, woman eating grapes google image search Comments closed
Robin Hewlett & Ben Kinsley
Street With A View introduces fiction, both subtle and spectacular, into the doppelganger world of Google Street View.
On May 3rd 2008, artists Robin Hewlett and Ben Kinsley invited the Google Inc. Street View team and residents of Pittsburgh’s Northside to collaborate on a series of tableaux along Sampsonia Way. Neighbors, and other participants from around the city, staged scenes ranging from a parade and a marathon, to a garage band practice, a seventeenth century sword fight, a heroic rescue and much more…
Street with a view
Jürgen Bergbauer
substitute no.2
substitute no.6
substitute no.8
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Nikolaus Gansterer
The Bureau of Found Appropriations / Département des Sourires
“The Bureau of Found Appropriations / Département des Sourires” is a work which is part of a long-term study on strategies of appropriation and forms of production (and reproduction) in Asia. My main attention is directed towards differences, misinterpretation and errors committed in the process of translating and copying cultural commodities. How can an image be read, used, interpreted, unterstood without knowing its cultural context?
In 2008 I stayed with Matthias Meinharter for three months in southern China working on the art/film project Chinese Whispers in Dafen – the copy capital of art. There, approximately up to 10,000 painters live, work and are specialized in copying work in specific styles by a wide range of masters of historical and contemporary oil-painting. Annually, more than five million paintings are produced at assembly lines, usually copies of masterpieces.
The reason why this use of imitations strikes western societies as a serious cultural difference has to do with a strong historical correlation between painting and calligraphy: in China a good copy is often considered as a reward and honour to the technical and compositional skills of the initial inventor and master. Memorization is taught as the manually repeated imitation of an original; hence gaining knowledge is based on a culture of transcription. Therefore the terms of originality and authorship are culturally coded. By regarding these gaps with their potential shifts of meaning as a source of inspiration I started compiling a growing collection of images reflecting on cultural practices, identities and authenticities.
Concept & photos: Nikolaus Gansterer
Materials: Found images and paintings, reproduced as a limited edition of postcards
Venue: Vooruit, Ghent. Curated by Eva de Groote.
Year: Since 2008
The Eden Experiment
The work is a form of re-installation according to experiments conducted mainly in the 60ties and 70ties to examine the influence of music on the growth of plants. In an intricate test arrangemnet the experiment is started to raise an ‘evil’ and a ‘good’ plant only by sonic irrigation. Two identical model organism (Arabidopsis thaliana) are confroted with a cantata by Johann Sebsatian Bach and a song by the death metal band the Peversists.
The mouse ear cress (Arabidopsis thaliana) is a small flowering plant that – due to fact that its genetic sequence is completely deciphered – is world widely used in life science. By listening to the sound piece the visitors become part of the experiment and part of complex relational system on the edge of art, life science and cultural studies. Large wall maps display crosslinks between the evolution theories and the cultural development of heavy metall music.
The visitors are invited to directly experience the experiment by entering the set up and listening to the acoustic process. The ‘Eden Experiment’ confronts us with a dubious complex system of scientific theories about the influences of sound on living organism and ironically addresses issues of genetic manipulation and reproductive technologies by questioning the imaginary threshold between nature and culture, religion, art and civilization.
Watch video of the performance lecture: Harvesting the Tree of Knowledge (12:00), 2008
Year: Since 2007
Material: Arabidopsis thaliana, wall maps, sound piece (death metal, classic music), lighting and irrigation system, timer, fertilizer,…
Dimensions: ca. 600 x 400 cm
Aram Bartholl
Google Portrait Series
Four Google self-portraits commissioned by Microwave Festival, Hong Kong, 2009.
Each code represents a visual enryption of a search on ‘Aram Bartholl’ in a specific language on Google.
A Google Portrait is a drawing which contains the Google URL search string of the portrayed person in encoded form. Any camera smart phone is capable to decode the matrix-code with the help of barcode reader like software. The result points the mobile phone browser to a search on the portrayed person’s name at Google.
A large number of people can be found by name on Google today. Everyone who is working on a computer and uses the internet regularly can be found on Google. Even people who don’t use computers can be found sometimes because their names appear in ‘old’ media (i.e. books) on the net.
‘Egosurfing’ is a popular way for a user to find out what websites and information Google returns on his/her name search.
How many hits does Google show on my name? Am I popular? Do I want to be found at all? Who writes about me? What do people find out about me when they google my name? Am I in concurrence to other persons with the same name? Do I rely on the results Google shows me on a person’s name? In which way do I relate to someone which I only known by Google results?
Tweet Bubble Series ‘Loud Tweets’ from aram bartholl on Vimeo.
Posted in Multimedia/Photo/Video Tagged Aram Bartholl, berlin, Germany, Google, Google Portrait Series, internet, net.art, twitter Leave a comment
Martijn Hendriks
2009
Reconstruction of a leaked cellphone video of Saddam Hussein’s execution
using found comments on the video posted on web forums
on the first day of the video’s appearance
8 mins 34 seconds
Single channel video projected on black painted surface
Black and white, no sound
Installation view (see documentation video)
This is where we’ll do it #5, 2008
YouTube video that was downloaded, partially erased
and uploaded to YouTube again
18 sec loop, black and white, no sound
From This is where we’ll do it, series of YouTube videos
from which the performing people were erased
XXXXXXXXX in the Expanded Field, 2008
Downloaded copy of Rosalind Krauss’ essay ‘Sculpture in the Expanded Field’
from which all references to art were removed using standard methods of redaction
Redistributed pdf, unlimited laser prints
Posted in Multimedia/Photo/Video, Peinture/Sculpture/Mix media Tagged Amsterdam, internet, Martijn Hendriks, net.art, Netherlands, youtube Leave a comment
Johannes Vogl
Five Moons 2008
Five Moons 2007
Fünf Monde (Five Moons)
Four lightboxes with drawings of a moon mounted
on tower cranes at a construction site
Installed in Vienna (AT) 2007/08
South Tyrol (IT) 2008/09
Tower cranes, lightboxes, scratch drawings
Dimensions variable (lightboxes: 200 x 200 x 25 cm)
Posted in Performance/Installation/street Tagged berlin, Full Moons, Germany, Johannes Vogl, Vienna Leave a comment
Lorna Mills
Posted in Multimedia/Photo/Video Tagged Animated gif, Google, internet, La petite mort de l'art Video, Lorna Mills, net.art Leave a comment
Kim Ji-Hye
Menstrual Cycle
Posted in Multimedia/Photo/Video Tagged Kim Ji-Hye, Korea, Menstrual Cycle, photography, teenage Leave a comment
Beni Bischof
Handicaped Cars
Posted in Peinture/Sculpture/Mix media Tagged Beni Bischof, Handicaped Cars, St.Gallen, switzerland Leave a comment
Aaron Gustafson
Bonus baby
Moments of great significance
Alex Delany
Walking Crowd from Alex Delany on Vimeo.
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Martin Arnold
piece touchee (1989) is a brief exegesis of a woman reading and a man coming to visit her. This footage comes from an unidentified movie from the 1940s, and opens innocently enough with the woman sitting in a chair enjoying her book. There’s no movement at first, but this is deceptive; an almost imperceptible motion starts to happen with her hand moving slightly up and down, a sign of the slight agitation that eventually explodes as something attempts to open the door. Suddenly this homely scene takes on the feel of a horror film, with what may be a monster repeatedly, terrifyingly straining at the door. Arnold builds on this arid atmosphere of entrapment and incipient chaos to the point where a kind of vertigo sets in. In a literally dizzying sequence, Arnold introduces maniacal flash-cuts and repeatedly replays and interrupts a scene in which the camera pans across the woman rising and the man walking; this will have some viewers holding their chairs.
Baptiste Debombourg
Polybric