Wednesday Post (04/08/2009)

Title: World of Awe

Description: A body of works concerned with digital culture, storytelling, and language. The works are based on a traveler in search of lost treasure in a parallel world.

Artist: Yael Kanarek

Location: June 2009 exhibition at Nelly Aman gallery in Tel Aviv

Date: Concieved in 1995, The following 2 images are separate works from 2007.

Link: http://www.worldofawe.net/

Monday Post (04/06/2009)

Title: Noplace

Description: A video Net Art project on notions of Paradise and Utopia.  Visitors enter the site and enter a sentence about their current desire or future goal.  This is then converted using sound and images from the Internet into a movie.

Artists: Marek Walczak and Martin Wattenberg, with Jonathan Feinberg, Rory Solomon & Johanna Kindvall

Location: Tate Online

Date: September 2008

Link: http://www.tate.org.uk/intermediaart/noplace.shtm

April Fool's Day Post (04/01/2009)

Title: Synthetic Times - Media Art China 2008

Description: An exhibition of young Chinese artists, curators and organizations. Over 50 installations from thirty countries on display as well as workshops, presentations, and debates.

Artist: Installations by Dutch artists Edwin van der Heide, Marnix de Nijs, Mateusz Herczka and Blendid (collective)

Location: National Art Museum of China, Beijing

Date: June 10, 2008; July 3 2008

Link: http://www.mediartchina.org/

Monday Post (03/30/2009)

Title: The Battle of Algiers

Description: A recomposition of scenes from the original film with the same name. It is a pyramidal structure of self-organized cells which trigger video cells when different camps intersect.

Artists: Marc Lafia and Fang-Yu Lin

Location: Tate Online

Date: March 1, 2006

Link: http://artport.whitney.org/commissions/battleofalgiers/BattleofAlgiers.shtml#

Wednesday Post (03/25/2009)

Title: {Software} Structures

Description: Reas created three unique structures which were then implemented as 26 pieces of software. The software structures develop in a vague domain of image and then mature in the more defined structures of natural language.

Artist: Casey Reas (with Robert Hodgin, William Ngan, Jared Tarbell)

Location: Twenty-six pieces of software viewed with Java and Flash (ONLINE)

Date: June 3, 2004

Link: http://artport.whitney.org/commissions/softwarestructures/map.html

(Site where I took the screenshot: http://artport.whitney.org/commissions/softwarestructures/s3_process_10/index.html )

Monday Post (03/23/2009)

Title: Unprojectable: Projection and Perspective

Description: Using projection and long durations, Tony Conrad mixes the sound of various tools and musical instruments while simultaneously projecting huge silhouettes. Much of Conrad's work involves projection and performance. This commission is no exception to his usual take in Early Minimalism.

Artists: Tony Conrad

Location: Tate Modern's Turbine Hall

Date: July 2008

Link: http://www.tate.org.uk/intermediaart/tony_conrad.shtm

Wednesday Post (03/18/2009)

Title: Test_Lab: Better than Reality

Description: Technology has made several advances ever since the first discoveries of Virtual Reality. Attention has now shifted from virtual reality to a hybrid experience present in Augmented Reality. How are we effected with our latest advances? Are we still pursuing experience out of our grasp? Are we attempting to create reality better or is the new technology we seek "Better than Reality"?

Artists: Marnix de Nijs, Boris Debackere, and Jonas Hielscher

Featuring: CREW (Eric Joris and Vincent Jacobs), Joachim Rotteveel, Marnix de Nijs, Boris Debackere, and Jonas Hielscher

Location: V2_ Ground floor, Eendrachtsstraat 10, Rotterdam

Date: December 11, 2008

Site Link: http://www.v2.nl/