Venus 2.0 (2009, 8 MB, 30 sec.)
[DAM]Berlin Gallery will exhibit new software works by artist
Mark Napier from 5th of December 2009 to 27th of January 2010.
Category Archives: exhibition
42 New Briggate – a film & a call for work
Untitled 1, 2 and 3 (Bullet Series) (2007, 4 MB, 40 secs)
Rather splendid film by Steven Allbutt shown as part of a film showcase
in 2007 at the 42 New Briggate Gallery in Leeds, UK.
Apart from the piece’s intrinsic merits I had said to curator Yvonne Carmichael
we’d post her call for short films to be projected in the gallery window
Dec 2009 -Feb 2010 if she sent me a nice QuickTime we could also post here.
She did & so here it is – please consider submitting something!
Mobile Research Station no.1
10366629 (2009, 7 MB, 1:26 min)
Here’s the blurb:
In a wilderness at the heart of Berlin a strange apparition has landed. Simon Faithfull
Dom Cheverti – Throwing Chamberlains
Bowl/Glass (2009, 2 MB, 1:01 min)
Bowl/Flower/Vase (2009, 3 MB, 57 secs)
Little River (2009, 2 MB, 1:00 min)
Recommended to us by the sublime Sam Renseiw who,
when he speaks, we listen.
Nonetheless I had some difficulties in coming to grips with this.
Sam tells me it relates to some current You Tube thing whereby people
throw ping-pong balls into various receptacles with a high degree of accuracy.
Clearly I should stay in more.
So…in this case the balls are substituted by a species of cookie, apparently
known in Denmark as ‘chamberlains’.
(I asked Sam exactly what a chamberlain was.
He says:
“Chamberlains is an odd translation of ‘kammerjunker’ that
can both be a chamberlain and danish cookie/biscuit.
It is usually consumed in summer with “koldsk
Frames Per Second – Exhibition in Salon Projektionist – Vienna
Frames Per Second (2008, 27 MB, 3:26 min)
Video and photo installation by VJs Bopa and Bruno Tait.
The exhibition is based on the idea of using video and slide projectors to
capture a random moment in time from animations on photographic paper,
foregoing the simple system ‘screen shot’ and projecting light onto ILFORD
photo print paper.
Oliver Laric – Versions
Versions (2009, 57 MB, 6:25 min)
By Oliver Laric.
From The Internet Pavilion of La Biennale di Venezia.
Warhol TV at La Maison Rouge
Warhol TV (2009, 40MB, 3:35 min.)
La Maison Rouge in Paris presents an exhibition about Andy Warhol
Bj
More Strangeness from Joan Healy
Beautiful Katamari Royal Rainbow (2008, 17MB 5:08 min)
Mad as a box of badgers but also very smart & winning, Joan Healy is a one-off.
We’ve featured her before, here’re some new vids of her work.
Even more here…
Claudia Hart: 2005-2008 3-D Animated Installations
Claudia Hart Animated Installations (2005-2008, 39MB, 8:19 min.)
“Claudia Hart creates sublime landscape gardens that often contain
expressive and sensual female bodies that are meant to interject
emotional subjectivity into what is typically the overly-determined
Cartesian world of digital design. This video compilation includes
excepts from recent 3-D animated installations.”
from bitforms gallery NY.
Pussy Weevil – Marina Zurkow and Julian Bleeker
Pussy Weevil (2003, 4.5MB, 1 min.)
Pussy Weevil is a screen-based 2D animated
character, that responds to the viewer
Jessica Meuninck-Ganger and Nathaniel Stern
At Sea (2009, 2.8MB, 20 secs, silent)
Floating Worlds (2009, 4.6MB, 20 secs, silent)
Meninas (2009, 3MB, 20 secs, silent)
Floating Worlds (2009, 6.3MB, 19 secs, silent)
Documentation of work of surpassing loveliness & smarts both, from Jessica Meuninck-Ganger
& Nathaniel Stern*** as they meld digital photo frames, printing and drawing into a hybrid form
which probably has no right to work but so does.
Says Nathaniel:
“These works premiered at the Armoury Gallery in Milwaukee, on a show called Night Work.
Some will be at Elaine Erickson gallery in June, at the Museum of Wisconsin Art in July, and 10-15 from the series will be on a large show at Gallery AOP in Johannesburg in Jan/Feb 2010.
***”The Nathaniel Stern?” I hear you gasp, “He of the infamous Wikipedia Art affair?”
None but, gentle viewer, none but…
Jennifer Steinkamp – Documentation from 1993-2008
Documentation from 1993-2008 (2008, 220MB, 35:12 min.)
This video is kind of long but worth every penny of it.
Best of the show, Daisy Bell (2008) at the end of the reel.
From the impressive and beautiful Jennifer Steinkamp.
Two from cinematicfilm.com
Sondheim in Second Life
Beam Me Up #1 (2009, 34.3MB, 1:50 min)
Beam Me Up #2 (2009, 9.5MB, 31 secs)
Beam Me Up #3 (2009, 12.4MB, 25secs)
unique blah blah blah genius blah blah blah nonpareil blah
inimitable blah matchless blah blah sui generis blah blah
nonesuch blah peerless blah blah blah sondheim
Winds Across the Inner Sea – John F. Simon
threshold (2007, 4.4MB, 2:56 min.)
This body of work by John F. Simon was shown in September 2007
in a solo show at the Gering & Lopez Gallery in New York City.
Playing between instinct and idea, this series of large-scale compositions
combine laser cut Formica and LCD screens with endlessly changing software.
Each composition merges the physicality of the material world with the fluid
inner world of code. The LCD screen functions simultaneously as a visual element
of the surface and a window into the system’s evolution.
DVblog’s Doron & Michael at HTTP Gallery, London
West of the Great Altar of Zeus (Doron, 2009, 27MB, 1:51 min)
9 Third Avenue Haiku (Michael, 2008, 52.7MB, 4:32 min)
We normally avoid posting our own work but this
time we’re going to make an exception.
Doron & I have a joint show at HTTP gallery & we’d like to
invite any DVblog readers in the area to come
along to the private view, this Friday, 16th January.
(Details on the HTTP site linked above)
I’ve posted a piece by each of us (which should
give you a feel for whether you’d love or hate us) but the HTTP
show is going to be a little different from our usual work
so please come along, have a drink, take a look & say hello…
Sally – by Roel Wouters and Luna Maurer
Sally is a project by Poly-Xelor (collaboration between Roel Wouters
and Luna Maurer). Sally is a movie for the project ‘Grote kunst voor kleine mensen‘
and has been be presentend at cinekid 2005, @ the Stedelijk museum.
The movie shows marbles in a room. The gravitation of the room is variable
therefore the marbles will dance over the floor, walls and ceiling.
The Blackest Spot by Jody Zellen
Blackest Spot (2008, 18MB, 2:17 min.)
A new installation by Jody Zellen at LA’s Fringe gallery.
The Blackest Spot is an interactive installation that uses Elias Canetti’s
seminal text “Crowds and Power” as its point of departure. Viewers step
on floor mounted triggers to change images and sounds within the space.
Johannes Nyholm – Puppetboy
Puppet Boy (clip) (2008, 5MB, 1:04 min.)
For more than a decade, the artist and music video director Johannes Nyholm
has been working on animated films about the little clay figure, Puppet Boy.
In a claustrophobic chamber drama, the frustrated puppet is engaged in an endless
battle against the agonies of everyday life. Nyholm
Barry McGee at Deitch Projects
Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries
Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries at the New Museum (2008, 62.5MB, 2:48 min)
If you don’t know them, you should; Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries
have been responsible for some of the most spine tingling & evocative work
on the net in the last ten years,
This documentary, lifted from the indispensable Rhizome, gives a good bares bones historical
account of them in the context of a show earlier this year at the New Museum.
I didn’t see the show & whilst I’m pleased they’re getting this wider exposure I wonder
if there isn’t something quite particular about the way their work presents in a browser
(preferably, in my view, with headphones on, ie. as submerged in these delicious
& fractured quasi narratives as only the net experience will allow).
Then, it is visceral and immediate.
On the evidence here, there seems to have been something
a little more diffuse about this multiple screen installation.
I don’t know; it’s a surmise; I’d be happy to be told I’m wrong.
It raises interesting questions, though, about the transplanting of work
from browser to gallery.
‘Embedded’ – Alan Sondheim in Santa Monica
restart (2006, 9KB, 4 min. loop)
We’re Alan Sondheim fans here at dvblog.
When so much work on the web is banal & lacking in ambition
he is an antidote, a tonic, a reason to hope.
His restless energy & intelligence transmute everything
he engages with into art (remember Picasso & those handlebars?)
Those living in the Santa Monica area might have seen his installation
‘embedded’ (also including work by filmmaker Leslie Thornton)
at the Track 16 gallery in 2006.
Hack.it.art
what the hack it art (2005, 33.5MB, 3:22 min.)
Hack.it.art was an exhibition and event about hacktivism in Italy.
Video of the opening night by Florian Cramer.
Nigel Ayers – Soul Zodiac
Soul Zodiac (2007, 6.4MB, 2:12 min)
Interesting documentation of a piece recently shown at
Newlyn Art Gallery by Cornish based artist Nigel Ayers.
The zodiacal stuff leaves me a bit cold but the sound is utterly wonderful,
and the simple yet elegant & effective presentation is great too.
Going Places Sitting Down – Hiraki Sawa
Going Places Sitting Down (2006, 14.8MB, 2:34 min)
Images from Hiraki Sawa solo exhibition in 2006
at the New York James Cohan Gallery.
‘Going Places Sitting Down’ is a triptych video projection.
(video by Doron Golan)
The Art of Digital Show 2007
The Art of Digital Show (2007, 43MB, 4:18 min.)
Trailer for an international exhibition of digital art
at the Lyceum Theatre Gallery in San Diego.
October 6 – November 11, 2007
Edward Hopper at the National Gallery of Art
Edward Hopper at NGA (2007, 37MB, 3:36 min.)
In conjunction with the exhibition Edward Hopper, the National Gallery of Art
has released a new video podcast about the artist and his work and influence.
Narrated by actor and art collector Steve Martin.
Mark Napier at bitforms gallery nyc
smoke (excerpt) (2007, 7MB, 56 sec.)
‘A symbol of the human desire to monumentalize ideas in physical form,
the Empire State Building is a subject of Mark Napier‘s artwork in the past four years.
This icon of American hegemony is key to exploring shifting structures of power,
specifically the transition from steel to software as the medium of power in our time.’
In Smoke, a generative software installation projected on the bitforms gallery wall.
Images from the show –here.
Josef Müller-Brockmann
Josef Müller-Brockmann (2006, 30MB, 1:57 min.)
Wicked little animated tribute by Gary Butcher for the
Swiss graphic design legend Josef Müller-Brockmann.
The movie was made for the forty-eight posters exhibition
being held at the Image Now gallery in Dublin.
Treehouse Kit – Guy Ben-Ner
Treehouse Kit (excerpt) (2005, 2.3MB, 1 min.)
Excerpt from a single channel video installation and sculpture by Guy Ben-Ner.
“Treehouse Kit” consists of a large wooden tree created from recombined, generic furniture.
The sculpture is presented along with an instructional style video in which Ben-Ner
(in swim trunks and a huge beard, a cross between Robinson Crusoe and an archetypical Israeli settler) converts the pre-fab tree back into a rudimentary home.
Originally commissioned for the Israeli Pavilion at the 51st Venice Biennale 2005.
Eyebeam: open city
Open City (2007, 26.2 MB, 4:27 min)
Open City: Tools for Public Action was an exhibition and series of public programs
at Eyebeam that focus on the ingenuity of graffiti writers, artists, protesters,
pranksters & hackers attempting to reclaim the public realm.
Here’s work from 11 of the artists featured in the exhibition.
From the Graffiti Research Lab.
Film to Fiber
Knitpro (2005, 19.7MB, 3:18 min.)
Cat Mazza and Sabrina Gschwandtner speak about their piece
at the exhibition We Are All Together at Artist’s Space.
part of Performa 05.
BONUS VIDEO! –
Enclose (2005, 9.21MB, 2:27min.)
Artist Bea Camacho knits herself in.
From PresentSpace.
By Mica Scalin.
The Human Browser – Christopher Bruno
The Human Browser (2006, 29.7MB, 8:18 min)
Documentation recorded at last year’s transmediale in Berlin
of a quite marvellous project by Christopher Bruno which
just won the share festival & most deservedly too.
It’s a fantastic blend of technology, performance & a kind of ‘information poetry’.
In many hands it could have been smart but dullish, but this is joyous stuff.
There’s a whole load of videos up on the human browser site
& they all have their particular delights.
Bruno’s short project description goes:
Human Browser is a series of wireless Internet performances
based on a Wi-Fi Google hack.
Thanks to its headset, the actor hears a text-to-speech
audio that comes directly from the Internet in real-time.
The actor repeats the text as he hears it.
The textual flow is actually fetched by a program
(set up on a Wi-Fi laptop) that hijacks Google,
diverting it from its utilitarian functions.
Depending on the context in which the actor is,
keywords are sent to the program and used as
search strings in Google (thanks to a Wi-Fi PDA)
so that the content of the textual flow is always
related to the context.
The performer in this video is Manon Kahle.
A good deal of the charm of this project
is due to the “performances” of the actors which are
highly professional but also very human too.
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Great stuff!