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I’m a famous artist
David Kramer, “Impressive Resume,” 2010.
Currently on view at Galerie Laurent Godin, Paris
“We live in this time where everything is in the present tense. Memories are simply the source materials for “tonight’s act.” Any film clip or historical document can be summoned by surfing the web, and entire TV networks are devised to trot out re-runs of Westerns and cartoons, all juxtaposed against the backdrop of people downloading what just happened, off of their telephones for public consumption. Through this, I am a storyteller. An archivist and an entertainer. And most importantly an artist.”
Topologies
“A moving picture is a real thing and as a real thing it is not imitation. It does not reflect on life, it embodies the life of the mind.” -Ernie Gehr
Spectacular tv sculptures by Antoine Catala (on view at AVA, New York, until November 4th).
[via triangulation blog]
Photo Sculptures
Photomutations
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Conflict Kitchen
Conflict Kitchen is a take-out restaurant that only serves cuisine from countries that the United States is in conflict with.
After Muybridge
Cassandra Jones takes photographs she finds online and stiches them together to form animations like this Eadweard Muybridge homage:
“After Muybridge” is a loop made from 12 stock photographs that are sequenced to re-create the locomotion of a galloping horse. The animation was modeled after one of Eadweard Muybridge’s most famous motion studies called “Daisy”. I sifted through over 5,000 digital images to find 12 that matched his original photos.
The Internet allows me to access the over-abundance of everyday photographs, taken of everyday things, in every possible position. By collecting enough images of any one thing, including a running horse, I can place them in an order to re-invent or re-animate life.”
[via kottke]
Exhibition One: a computer rendered group show
Gentili Apri is teaming up with Chrystal Gallery to present Exhibition One. A computer rendered group show with works by Kari Altmann, Charles Broskoski, Lindsay Lawson, Billy Rennekamp, Maxwell Simmer, and Harm Van Den Dorpel – curated and rendered by Timur Si-Qin.
Extracting a parallel instance of the work as a three-dimensional representation of geometric data, Exhibition One offers an opportunity to present an alternate framework that posits the questions: Where does an artwork stop and its documentation begin? What is the function of a prospective image that is decisively not-a-model?
Oscillating
The work of Louis Durado…
“The author’s work is never loyal to any specific technic. Although oscillating in between digital an analogue method in different series, the works talk with each other and share several references.”
Object Stories
Rune Guneriussen shot some ironic and poetic photos of domestic objects in natural environments…
“The work on objects such as tables, lamps and chairs started in 2005, and has been photographed on location all over Norway. The objects are implemented mainly in scenes cast in appropriate landscapes, and here they are subject to a certain carachter carefully laying out a story. It is an approach to the balance between nature and culture, but also a multiple reading of stories.”
Open Seas
Left-handed Rietveld Chair
Left-handed Rietveld Chair is a work by Julien Berthier:
“Red and Blue Chair” by Gerrit Rietveld (1918) drawn with my left hand, and built by scrupulously following the resulting drawing. The prototype was then given to a carpenter who produced a serie of five identical copies.”
[via butdoesitfloat]
Off
Off is a photo series by Johan Rosenmunthe:
“In ’Off’ the persons are only visible through a digital representation, while the surroundings are as analog as possible. These pixelated persons are isolated from the rest of the world and often find themselves in foggy, strange milieus.”
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Plan C
Ryan Doyle, Eva and Franco Mattes aka 0100101110101101.ORG, Jeff Stark, Todd Chandler, Tod Seelie, and Steve Valdez went on a secret mission. For now, we have just one clue: the Zone…
“In the Summer 2010 a group of six artists who barely knew each other embarked on a journey to Chernobyl, to develop a secretive Plan C. The story is not clear at all, and it will probably never be.
They came from different parts of Europe and the US, and they had an appointment. Nobody knew about their final destination, nobody knew about Plan C. They told friends vague stories about “entering The Zone” and “throwing metal nuts”. They had one thing in common: an obsession for Tarkovsky’s 1979 movie Stalker.
What happened after is still a secret.
Follow http://www.PlanC.cc It will be as close as you’’ll ever get to the truth behind Plan C.”
Crossroads
The video installation “Crossroads (what to do)“, by Garvin Nolte, deals with the influence of others onto one’s own path of life in an abstract way…
crossroads (what to do) from Garvin Nolte on Vimeo.
Re-constructed realities
Matthew Albanese constructs small-scale meticulously detailed models using various materials and objects to create emotive landscapes. The real-fake aestethic that results is strangely attractive…
You, the World and I
You, the World and I: new video work by Jon Rafman. A voice over essay about love, memory, photography, technology, and our experience of the world.
“In this modern day Orphean tale, an anonymous narrator also desperately searches for a lost love. Rather than the charms of the lyre, contemporary technological tools, Google Street View and Google Earth, beckon as the pathway for our narrator to regain memories and recapture traces of his lost love. In the film, they are as captivating and enthralling as charming as any lyre in retrieving the other: at first they might seem an open retort to critics of new technology who bemoan the lack of the tangible presence of the other in our interactions on the Internet.” (full statement here).
[p.s. this is another work that will be shown in Maps and Legends, my forthcoming exhibition during FotoGrafia Festival. Come and have a look if you’re in Rome from September 23th to October 24th]
