Pulse is a live visualisation of the recent emotional expressions written on the private weblogs of blogger.com. These emotional expressions are parsed according to a list of synonyms and transform a physical shapeshifting object, which was created analogous to Robert Plutchik‘s psychoevolutionary theory of emotion.
pulse by Markus Kison
"NATURA TUBES / BETWEEN TREES 3 alberi legati da dei fili come se fossero un unico elemento. Fili in metallo che vibrano, connettono, mettono in comunicazione forme di vita, creano relazioni, le modificano. BETWEEN TREES e' un'installazione interattiva che vuoleenfatizzare le forme e le luci che le piante e gli alberi creano,facendo da filtro alla luce del sole, suonando le proprie foglieusando il vento come strumento. Un parallelo con la vita umana, la necessita' di esistereper stare con gli altri,per dare agli altri.
Attraverso l'utilizzo di Max/Msp BETWEEN TREES reagira' al contatto dei fili che connettono gli alberi, una reazione sonora e cromatica. BETWEEN TREES fa parte del ciclo di installazioni NATURA TUBES. www.leonardoworx.com www.behance.net/leonardoworx"
GINGER ZONE Scandicci - Libero Spazio:
15 x 15 uses Andy Warhol's famous statement 'in the future, everyone will be famous for five minutes', and advances it into the 21st century with new media technology. Anyone can contribute to the work with a mobile phone and be famous, for 15 seconds.
15x15 - Be Famous"In the summer and fall of 2009 a group of New Mexico arts organizations will join together to present LAND/ART, which will explore relationships of land, art, and community through exhibitions, site-specific art works, lectures, and a culminating book. Focusing on “environmental” or “land” art, the collaboration seeks to address our changing relationship to nature, and to offer a new or previously unconsidered understanding of the place in which we live.
Historically, New Mexico has been a place where the intersection of nature and culture is at issue. In the 1960s and ‘70s, the American Southwest was the location of the first generation of Land Art or Earthworks, including such major projects as Walter De Maria’s The Lightning Field and Charles Ross’ Star Axis in New Mexico, Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty and Nancy Holt’s Sun Tunnels in Utah, and James Turrell’s Roden Crater in Arizona. Since then, the Land Art genre has been subsumed under the more general term “environmental art” which is a highly diverse and vital feature of contemporary art around the world. This new genre recognizes that what we now think of as the “environment” has broadened to include the global community, the microscopic world, and cyber space as well as wilderness, the urban environment and suburban sprawl. It includes ecological activ"
LAND/ART New Mexico
"EQUATION: a balanced state?
August 1 – September 19, 2009
One project at three locations:
516 ARTS, THE LAND/an art site in Mountainair and THE LAND/gallery in Albuquerque
Equation: a balanced state? is an exhibition at 516 ARTS featuring the work of artists Katherine Bash, Paula Castillo, Ted Laredo, David Niec and Mayumi Nishida with a series of art installations that reflect a world where the environment is as much about ourselves and our creations as the natural world with which we struggle to strike a balance."
LAND/ART New Mexico
February 14, 2009 – May 10, 2009
Pretty is as Pretty Does
Members opening – February 12, 2009
The phrase “pretty is as pretty does” is an idiom typically used to describe a beautiful girl with a nasty disposition—she may look pretty, but it doesn’t follow that she acts pretty. Pretty Is As Pretty Does, a group exhibition organized by Phillips Director Laura Steward Heon, takes its inspiration from this phrase and features work that suffuse base, provocative content in otherworldly beauty. The artists whose works are included in this exhibition have, with exquisite care and cunning charm, made objects that glitter with unsettling appeal. In all of the works, an effervescent prettiness and sneering nastiness circle around each other, and both qualities are magnified by their combination. The works were brought together for their peculiar aesthetic dialectic. For example, in the heart of the show, ceramic objects made by Kathy Butterly share space with Tanyth Berkeley’s photographs of an albino model named Grace and other improbably beautiful women.
SITE Santa Fe - a contemporary art space
The Arts and the Senses; Intermediality and the Multisensorial
The Research School of Aesthetics Campus Conference at Stockholm University,
Feb. 19.-20. 2009=
The interplay of various media and their relations to the senses are central subjects within the aesthetic sciences – art history, philosophy, film studies, literary studies, theatre and dance studies. This conference offers a wide range of perspectives on how the senses are activated, engaged and regulated by our surrounding constellations of media. During the last decades the relations between the arts and the senses have been approached from different theoretical outlooks – technological, historical, cognitive or cultural, for example. This multitude of perspectives is reflected in the ongoing research among the group of Ph. D. students at the Research School of Aesthetics at Stockholm University, as well as in the research of the directors of this school. The two-day Campus Conference will consist of a series of presentations from international scholars and two two-hour workshops with presentations from the students of the school.
http://www.foest.su.se/
Aneta in three incarnations and some more pieces. Body: head and its other parts. The latest film of Aneta Grzeszykowska begins with an explosion, which tears her body apart into some loose parts, and after that, in accordance with Hitchcock's classic rule, the tension gradually rises.
RASTER - Aneta Grzeszykowska - Bol Glowy
"Call for works / projects: “Stand-up”. Art about Human Rights"
“Stand-up”. Art about Human Rights project will respond to the growing needs for acceptance and respect to diversity, dialog and social reflection. We believe that art is a right medium to communicate with local community. We want also create opportunity for young, active art-makers to expresses their selves and equally contribute to a more conscious and creative society which will be able to hear and speak about Human Rights problems.
STAND-UP. Art about Human Rights
PASSWORDS 6: Embodied enactments
Feminist video performance in Canada, 1974-2008
Curated by Renee Baert
From 06-February to 31-May-2009
Lisa Steele, Kate Craig, Sara Diamond, Cathy Sisler, Nikki Forrest, Manon De Pauw , Jin-me Yoon, Jillian McDonald.
From the outset of the launch of the Portapak, Canadian artists began experimenting with this emergent video technology. The influences of the growing women’s movement was quickly evident in the work of women artists in this new, then-alternative medium. As such, there is a long history and cross-influence of feminist video in Canada, that is also in dialogue with other art practices and with theoretical and historical currents here and elsewhere.
These performance works, produced over a span of 33 years, don’t proceed from the same critical framework or pursuits. Yet in the very multiplicity of their critical engagements they convey the abiding and paramount importance that issues of embodied subjectivity have retained within women’s art practices. This may be accounted in part because the body is a principal vector through which power and resistance are enacted, through which agency and desire are made manifest and through which the representation of the multiple differentials of identity are articulated, or destabilized.
Centro Cultural Montehermoso Kulturunea | Vitoria - Gasteiz
Media Art Scoping Study Symposium
call for entries
Vital Signs II
Media art education at the intersection of science, technology and culture.
Call For Papers – Deadline 27th March 2009
Date: July 4th - 5th 2009
Location: Victorian College of the Arts
The media/electronic art scoping symposium seeks to explore the current pioneering educators, artists and scientists who have brought about the dissolution of boundaries that have traditionally existed between the artistic and technological disciplines. The symposium will survey the work of media art educators who have developed new interdisciplinary curricula, facilities and information technologies.
The symposium aims to add to the media art scoping study via collaborating between leading universities in Australia currently conducting research and academic teaching and learning programs in new media/electronic arts.
NOMAD // Home
"The Media Arts Council (MAC) of Media, Pennsylvania, held its first Film Festival in February, 2008. Owing to its great success, we are continuing it a second year. The Call for Entries will be expanded to a larger field locally and opened to international entrants. A new venue will provide increased accessibility for larger audiences. We have set the date and are now calling for entries from local and other filmmakers."
Media Arts Council Film Festival
SLOW MOVEMENT ODER: Das Halbe und das Ganze · 30.01. - 22.03.2009
Adam Avikainen, Becky Beasley, Gerard Byrne, Michaela Frühwirth, Fernanda Gomes, Judith Hopf, Guillaume Leblon,Gabriel Lester, Kerry James Marschall, Nashashibi/Skaer, Abraham Palatnik, Avery Preesman, Eileen Quinlan, Markus Raetz, Jimmy Robert, Sancho Silva
Movement is the first prerequisite for a story; the second one is the perception of movement. The exhibition “Slow Movement or: Half and whole” focuses on stories that arise and are enabled as a process of deceleration sets in – in movement itself as well as in its perception.
The term “deceleration” indicates temporality and might consequently suggest an interpretation such as “the same process unfolds over a longer period of time”. However, as soon as perception is slowed down, other pieces of information are introduced and meanings change; the process cannot be said to remain the same. The decelerated movement opens up a parallel world.
The exhibition “Slow Movement or: Half and whole” is dedicated to works of art that direct their attention to all that is missed by the quick movement. Thus, they tell completely different stories than a purely functional digitalisation does.
read all Kunsthalle Bern - SLOW MOVEMENT OR: Half and Whole
16 January - 22 February 2009
Private View: Thursday 15 January, 6.30 - 8.30pm
Anima(l) is the second solo exhibition at the gallery by artist Olivier Richon. Since the 1980s, Richon has continued an ongoing investigation into the artifice of the represented image, primarily through photography, using a highly individual technique which has combined a painterly aesthetic with a pin-sharp, almost hyperrealistic attention to detail. Influential to a generation of practitioners, his work can be seen as an ongoing form of research. He has been head of the Department of Photography at the Royal College of Art, London since 1997.
IBID PROJECTS Contemporary Art
This website content links a mobile phone to the internet in real time, and proposes a new use for communication technology in the form of fishing. The user can catch fish in virtual water located at the website. The caught fishes can even be named and kept in a water tank, where they are observed. We expect this idea will be expanded in many different forms.
Gyorol
Andy Warhol - Motion Pictures
This exhibition was organized by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, in cooperation with The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh. It takes place under the auspices of The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art.
curator: Klaus Biesenbach (MoMA, New York)
30. 1. 2009 - 5. 4. 2009
Andy Warhol: Motion Pictures focuses on the artist's screen tests and non-narrative films from 1963-73. Within it we see sequences of his “most beautiful women” - screen tests featuring “Baby” Jane Holzer, Ivy Nicholson, Edie Sedgwick - and other works that showcase a parade of friends, actors, and models - Dennis Hopper, James Rosenquist, and Walter Burn to name just a few. This collection of tests is followed by the artist’s non-narrative films including Eat, Sleep, Kiss, and Blow Job. His films and videos capture the rich and raw texture of the fertile cultural milieu in which he lived and worked, and are crucial to the understanding of Warhol's work in other media. Prolific, mercurial, thought-provoking, charming, engaging, dynamic, confusing - just like the artist himself, Andy Warhol’s films explore the gamut of human emotion. The exhibition is a unique collection of twenty experimental silent, black and white films from the 1960s, which we can only see on a larger scale today thanks to digitalisation in large-screen projection, in the form of suspended tableaux. This exhibition enables the viewer to essentially view the films, most of which have never been displayed alongside their counterparts.
GALERIE RUDOLFINUM"Jos De Gruyter & Harald Thys
exhibition until13.03.09"
Current - Dependance
SUPERSTORIES – 2ND TRIENNIAL OF CONTEMPORARY ART, FASHION AND DESIGN
A compelling tour of five fascinating exhibitions
The triennial programme, presents a gripping selection of works by national and international artists, fashion designers & designers, and responds to the use of narrative and documentary elements within expressive art, fashion and design.
The stage for the triennial is the city itself, consisting of a course along different culture houses, all on walking distance from one another and spread throughout the centre of Hasselt. These houses are Cultuurcentrum Hasselt, Kunstencentrum Z33, Modemuseum Hasselt, Nationaal Jenevermuseum and Ciap.
All this results in a dynamic project which does not limit itself to just presenting the work. The artists and (fashion) designers are actively involved in the event.
Super Stories
Object Rotterdam is the platform in the world, where you can find the latest developments of unique, or limited edition functional objects of international designers. In short: the place where the cutting edge between art and design becomes evident.
Participants will present themselves to an international audience of art and design collectors and professionals from the world of design. Because of the collaboration with Art Rotterdam, the international art fair for contemporary art in the Netherlands, there will be a unique opportunity for invited guests to visit both fairs.
Object Rotterdam
Jeppe HEIN "Kuru Kuru" 2009.1.16(Fri)－2.28(Sat)
Born in Denmark in 1974, Jeppe Hein works out of Berlin and Copenhagen.
Jeppe Hein’s works are fun. One of his installations is a labyrinth made from mirrors that confuse the viewer's visual and spatial perception, transforming the surrounding scenery through mirrored reflections while at the same time melting into it as the reflections provide camouflage. Another work is made from variously shaped benches that resemble playground equipment, some slanted, others twisted. Yet another presents the mysterious spectacle of a flame crowning a jet of water. In another water sculpture, water columns form labyrinths. When people enter, the walls of water sense their movements and react by rising and falling, luring them from one room to another and trapping them within the fountain.
SCAI THE BATHHOUSE
Tokyo Art Beat - Tokyo's Art and Design Events Calendar
"Amateure im Web 2.0. Medien, Praktiken, Technologien
Call for paper: 20.02.2009
Weblogs, Community-Seiten, Wikis, Pod- und Videocasts sind ein Phänomen Alltagskultureller Kommunikation. Die exponentielle Verbreitung moderner Informationstechnologien und die neuen Vernetzungsstrukturen im Internet erlauben kollektive Beziehungen, die vorher unmöglich waren. Damit einhergehend ist eine spezifische Medienkultur der Selbstpraktiken entstanden, die vielfach die Form von Selbstführung und Bekenntnis, von Buchführung und akribischem Leistungsvergleich, von experimentellem Selbstverhältnis und Selbstinszenierung als ästhetische Praxis, annimmt. Die Diskurse der Selbstaufmerksamkeit und Selbstbeobachtung sind tief in den Alltag eingedrungen und haben dazu geführt, dass es heute alltäglich und selbstverständlich ist, wenn die unterschiedlichsten Menschen in Medienöffentlichkeiten bereitwillig über sich selbst Auskunft geben und sich damit als Objekt der Betrachtung in Szene setzen.
Kunstuniversitat Linz: Amateure im Web 2.0. Medien, Praktiken, Technologien
Ein Eisblock, als Inhalt eine stillstehende Situation. Ein Fisch, eine Pflanze und Steine zusammengehalten in einem Block aus gefrorenem Wasser. Ein Objekt, das an die Natur denken lässt, doch dessen Form an ein Aquarium erinnert. Von der Natur oder vom Mensch erzeugte Produkte? Natürliche Situation oder künstliche Komposition? Lebendig oder tot?
Kunstuniversit Linz: Eisobjekt"People, goods and information continue to collide as globalization spreads across the planet. Since the colonial era ended after World War Two, many artists have left Asia to live in Europe or the United States. Their stories vary, from those who have sought a new creative climate, to those fleeing political situations or those born and raised abroad. This exhibition casts a light on artists with an Asian identity and a Western home, presenting a collection of works dating from postwar to the present. Beyond boundaries of nation, race and gender, these works might lead the question 'What is Asia?' or 'What is Asian Art?'."
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum
We Love Asbæk has selected 5 incredible artists to launch "we went to the future and it did not look like this", the first of the nine OCHO group exhibitions scheduled to take place this year, in nine different cities around the world. More than 120 artists are to be part of this ®artspace network world group show, that will run through nine world class galleries until end of July 2009.
Artists: HRVRK, Clean, Jakob Tolstrup, Theis Wendt, Mambo.
.: ROJO artspace global network :.
via Computerlove™ | Connecting Creative Talents.
" « A perpetual way to stay in the puzzle play »
« Avant de commencer, faites une sélection du plus grand nombre d'objets usuels que vous voulez utliser, en tenant compte du fait que les objets choisis influenceront la finalité dans sa forme, sa couleur et sa dimension. Vous pouvez utliser n'importe quel matériel pour fabriquer ce puzzle, la seule contrainte est de pouvoir le façonner en une forme. L'espace de montage choisi pour cette pièce doit être appréhendé telle une surface de jeu à 3 dimensions. Peignez-la en blanc afin de créer une base neutre, les objets relèveront l'apparence des pièces du puzzle. Il vous faut au moins un ami pour vous aider à la préparation et pour partager le plaisir de jouer. Soyez conscient du fait qu'il vous faut un point de marquage permettant de percevoir le puzzle, et placez les objets en fonction de la perspective d'où ils seront observés. Maintenant vous pouvez commencer. »"
OUTLANDISH PRESENTS: FREDERIK HEYMAN & DIETER DESWARTE
Recyclart
"UNTITLED - THE BEST OF GALLERIA CARDI /
presso GREY GOOSE “Contemporary Art Gallery”
via Tocqueville 11, Milano
UNTITLED
THE BEST OF GALLERIA CARDI
Electa
e della galleria temporanea
GREY GOOSE “Contemporary Art Gallery”
che ha ospitato una selezione di opere degli artisti di cui la Galleria Cardi si e' fatta promotrice negli ultimi 10 anni, fra cui Mimmo Paladino, Vik Muniz, Graham Gillmore, Tom Sachs, David Salle…"
UNTITLED - THE BEST OF GALLERIA CARDI - Electa
