zondag 28 februari 2010
Bananas Exploding on Face vs. baby owls by jwz
The XX - A Sculpture of an Album
The sculpture is the brainchild of Partizan director Saam Farahmand, who is keen to push the boundaries of what music videos can offer. “Music videos are a 2D visual interpretation of a song,” he explains. “We are interested in creating spaces that exist as a 3D physical interpretation of a song or an album, and that is what we have created for the album xx.”
The piece consists of three large audio-visual units that are displayed in the space, appearing somewhat like giant iPods. Each contains a film of one of the three members of The xx, shot by Farahmand (the director), as they play through their eponymous debut album. Alongside displaying the beautiful films, the units also emit a lightshow that reacts to the music. The overall affect is simple yet compelling.
“It shares sensibilities with art installations, but it should not be considered in this context,” continues Farahmand. “It is in essence a physical music video, a looping shrine to the album that you cannot compress, send or turn off. We have to understand that these pop-up ‘rooms’ and ‘spaces’ should and will become as commonplace as music videos, bridging the gap until we have the technology to ‘stream’ a 3D experience through our home computer as if it was a YouTube clip. The xx are the perfect ambassadors for the medium. Their music is mesmerising, and deeply physically affecting.”
Jeff Mills Metropolis
Jeff Mills Vertonüng of Fritz Langs Metropolis.He did also Buster Keatons Three Ages inna Detroit-Techno-Stylee.What a romance!
dark side of the rainbow
zaterdag 27 februari 2010
"Puke In My Mouth" - MsTaken.com
comes related to zef side by die antwoord, who by now are up 800+ thousands clicks from 300+ thousands from some weeeks ago.... zef side
Graffiti wars Banksy vs Robbo
ROBBO's original piece
BANKSY’s coverup and instigation….
ROBBO’s reply and incorporation of BANKSY’s piece!
There's a video here
Fucking With Perception - Hirst's "For The Love of God" Diamond Skull
Placed outside of the White Cube Gallery Masons yard at 3.30 am on Sunday night in response to the Damien Hirst's "For The Love of God" diamond skull exhibition.
The "For the Love of God" prank was created using 6522 Swarovski crystals and took Laura, the artist, a month to create.
vrijdag 26 februari 2010
donderdag 25 februari 2010
woensdag 24 februari 2010
dinsdag 23 februari 2010
ChinChinMan/ Japanese soft pop/ bad duck L
The above song is track # 19 from project Cincinman by Starwingartists and I can also warmly recommend track # 4.
Till now there are 45 covers made. And yes I have to proudly add I am part of the project! Get to know more, more HERE!
“Cin Cin Man” is a music composition created on the train in China on a Nokia mobile phone composer tool.
“Cin Cin Man” was COPYRIGHTED and promptly COPYLEFTED (anybody is free to use it, improve, change, mutilate, but with NO commercial purposes/ www.creativecommons.org).
The IDEA is to create a project where 1000 COVERS of “Cin Cin Man” song will be composed and published.
maandag 22 februari 2010
Tempelhof, a responsive sculpture
Sculpture, performed by seba, in response to the space and history of the former Nazi airport.
dinsdag 16 februari 2010
Keynote: Bruce Sterling on Atemporality
Keynote at transmediale 10.
"transmediale is an international festival for contemporary art and digital culture. Located in Berlin, it presents advanced artistic positions reflecting on the socio-cultural impact of new technologies. It seeks out artistic practices that not only respond to scientific or technical developments, but that try to shape the way in which we think about and experience these technologies. transmediale understands media technologies as cultural techniques which need to be embraced in order to comprehend, critique, and shape our contemporary society."
I chose this bit from the speech because he very succinctly points to problems inherent to the 2 methodologies he mentions. The 2nd methodology, that is his network culture list, I could call priceless since it provides an overview just by its mere statement. The whole speech is much less clear I must add.
The whole speech is here.
"transmediale is an international festival for contemporary art and digital culture. Located in Berlin, it presents advanced artistic positions reflecting on the socio-cultural impact of new technologies. It seeks out artistic practices that not only respond to scientific or technical developments, but that try to shape the way in which we think about and experience these technologies. transmediale understands media technologies as cultural techniques which need to be embraced in order to comprehend, critique, and shape our contemporary society."
I chose this bit from the speech because he very succinctly points to problems inherent to the 2 methodologies he mentions. The 2nd methodology, that is his network culture list, I could call priceless since it provides an overview just by its mere statement. The whole speech is much less clear I must add.
The whole speech is here.
maandag 15 februari 2010
but - iput
a very dear friend's text about rock & roll... when he does it live it is better but here we go:
zondag 14 februari 2010
zaterdag 13 februari 2010
donderdag 11 februari 2010
woensdag 10 februari 2010
crimes of imagery
re-enactments, using found forensic pathology archive images. immediately, i think of how Renaissance painters used cadavers to draw figures accurately. what is accuracy anyway? i suppose it depends on the perception of the viewer and translation of the image. isn't it more interesting to look for discrepancies rather than accuracies?
hence, the images i chose previously. investigation scenes within our contemporary context could be viewed as art works within themselves. the composition of the painterly photographic images, the comparative aspects, aesthetic sensations, questions of reality versus illusion and of course our favorite topic in art, death, or rather now, the filmic enactment of death, to which we no longer question whether something is real, as everything appears staged. Thank you Guy Dubord.
hence, the images i chose previously. investigation scenes within our contemporary context could be viewed as art works within themselves. the composition of the painterly photographic images, the comparative aspects, aesthetic sensations, questions of reality versus illusion and of course our favorite topic in art, death, or rather now, the filmic enactment of death, to which we no longer question whether something is real, as everything appears staged. Thank you Guy Dubord.
dinsdag 9 februari 2010
Les mademoiselles d'avignon de Google
A collection of images of the painting of picasso, provided by google. A text follows later.
Take care of yourself
After Ken's class I went home thinking of the role of texts in work, or should I say the role of a story, and more important, about getting personal. Work that is in your face or hiding something. Interesting, or boring. An afterthough : It is not important to me that the viewer would know if texts are my true lines, or if I made them up.It is important to me.
Why would I want to make it up, if I have the real.The writings I have are mysource material. What is the difference for some one else? What I have written can be surreal. Not true. Mindgames. Totally by chance. I am looking what to do with it (next) .
Why would I want to make it up, if I have the real.The writings I have are mysource material. What is the difference for some one else? What I have written can be surreal. Not true. Mindgames. Totally by chance. I am looking what to do with it (next) .
maandag 8 februari 2010
Terre Thaemlitz
Hello, this is a work by Terre Thaemlitz.it was shown as part of the becoming-minority lecture series at the rietveld. i must say one of the best lectures i attended last year.i filmed a part of it. the whole lecture and all texts appearing in that video are available here .
he is very critical, talks about gender issues and he goes a lot against guattari and deleuze, religion and art schools. enjoy!
zondag 7 februari 2010
Rock My Religion - Dan Graham
Rock My Religion (1982-84)
1982-84, 55:27 min, b&w and color, sound
Rock My Religion is a provocative thesis on the relation between religion and rock music in contemporary culture.
zaterdag 6 februari 2010
A Tool To Deceive and Slaughter - Caleb Larsen
you can see on blog.makezine.com a nice example of what a blog can do: there is suggestion to look further into what the artist is doing by posting and it happens some do. there are comments, what is more: feedback both ways bloggers to artist and artist to bloggers…
blog, blog blog (or blablabla spoken) as freedom put it.
the first text we get is a quote from here.
(ok, you might not agree but here i go with a quote from the promotional material of the piece:
Combining Robert Morris' Box With the Sound of Its Own Making with Baudrillard's writing on the art auction this sculpture exists in eternal transactional flux. It is a physical sculpture that is perptually attempting to auction itself on eBay.
(i will do a little reshuffling, 1st i would get rid of the art historical contextualization at least i'd certainly not start with that!!! we can discuss this later.
It is a physical sculpture that is perpetually attempting to auction itself on eBay since this sculpture exists in eternal transactional flux of an art auction. (direct attention on what the thing is doing unless i am to admire another shiny black box.
note: i used "it" at the very beginning because i have great problems with the title. why? because deception and slaughter of whom or what? deceive the owner (owner to be or whom? the very same person who is to enter an unusual contractual agreement? let alone that me as a viewer should be perceived in the 1st place as a potential buyer! so affording me a position of innocence meaning there is an "i" that is only looking as art audience is false or not? is not the first and foremost aim of the piece to keep the auction going as the base condition of its existence? or it hopes to get into the big hall of fame of dead shiny black boxes?)
tricky, tricky nevertheless do look at it...
vrijdag 5 februari 2010
grasping and portraying time
Hanne Darboven (1941-2009) her work is about that. Like Schreibzeit.
Portraits by Angelika Platen.
dead pixel on Google Earth
Since we talked so much about what we can do in public space like Google earth is, in a way, came across this one of Helmut Smits, Rotterdam artist. Genius.
DCO2008 - Le Blog Manifesto
Some of us are here
attached to it.
the thought
should be virtualized.
A lot of phenomena
needs discussion
or formulas.
blog,blog,blog.
thoughts
and even worse.
we should be attached to it
and emotional.
Playing with sublime
rupture.
we are searching for balance
between eternity and rubish.
partly magic, partly childish play.
whats depending on us
is appeal,
expression,
precision,
opinion,
contents,
appearing,
and language.
Some success,
some misunderstanding.
We try to link,
what there is!
Soon after we reject
everything.
failure,
but no gesture.
attention but no
mimic.
Light,Sound,Signs.
We must not miss its emotional potentialities.
What a chance!
feels like 4 a.m.?
Poet Rives does 8 minutes of lyrical origami, folding history into a series of coincidences surrounding that most surreal of hours, 4 o'clock in the morning.
TED is great! Tons of stuff there.
just crossed my mind
on reading martien's email with crying songs to mention this page: with it's list of download tools.
donderdag 4 februari 2010
Y0UNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES PRESENTS SAMSUNG MEANS T0 C0ME!
"Distance, homelessness, anonymity, and insignificance are all part of the Internet literary voice, and we welcome them."
URL
"...Marc Voge discusses the problem of political art and praises Chang young-hai for her artfulness and prudence in walking the tight rope. We commonly do think of works of art as controlled by their makers with some assistance perhaps from their publishers and critics, but another perspective is possible and attractive for Web art, which often is usually self-published, as is the case with YHCHI. Such work increasingly finds its viewers through blogs and news group listings and such hybrids as MetaFilter (a "community blog"). Someone posts a link and commendation to the web art and others comment on the art after they have viewed it. These comments can be criticism or requests for clarification and relevant information, comments on other comments, and so on. Reading the postings on an active blog like MetaFilter, one does have the impression of a community negotiating a response to the work, and I would suggest that we see in such blogs a force beyond that of the individual author that is even more powerful than the reviewing of professional, institution-based critics which it replaces..."
i could have chosen other parts of this text but maybe this part has somethings to consider for now.
a thought about over and over and over again
what if we think of hundertwassers theory of the "third skin"? according to hundertwasser there is a first skin or the one which covers our bodies. the second one are clothes. and the third one he claims, are houses and buildings we inhabit. now when we look at graffitti and especially at the example shown below, we see the "third skin" being renewed over and over again by Banksy and others. i'm just flippin, but think of the wall as a organic self organizing system. what does it consists of? smaller parts of course, something like the skin is made of. i think of cells.
now, we all know what cell division is. first of all its one of the major conditions of organic life. our skin renews itself constantly within a certain time period: the famous 4 stages of cell devision! remember? i had to learn about it in school. anyway, lets put these two thoughts together: hundertwasser's third skin theroy and cell devision. the wall would be then the skin. and the graffiti we see is the constant change of it.
Banksy heerin would be only a provider, a condition that guarantees the renewment of the skin, the wall. so he and all the other graffity artists cant help themselves they are the mitosis or a motor of the different stages of renewing the skin. the wall would be a system demanding by "natural" laws for renewment/reproduction. maybe we could even look at them (the sprayers) as cell cores who are parts of the fabric which produces an organic system made visble with spraycans, paint or other tools, whatsoever.
i can go even further now, being cell cores they would act from the inside of the system and hundertwasser would be wrong because we dont only inhabit theses skins, but we can also choose our "point of view" (inside/ouside). and graffity being very messy sometimes, looks like real organic parts that are inside of our body: ugly! thats also why grafitty in its own nature is so unsexy, comes "clean" or never obscene enough! like cell devision its a asexual reproducing system. we see the street as a blood line (f.e.gang wars, car accidents) the wall as blood vessel and the sprayers as chromosomes/genes...??
Hundertwasser - "Automobil mit roten Regentropfen"
graphic of an animal cell:
now, we all know what cell division is. first of all its one of the major conditions of organic life. our skin renews itself constantly within a certain time period: the famous 4 stages of cell devision! remember? i had to learn about it in school. anyway, lets put these two thoughts together: hundertwasser's third skin theroy and cell devision. the wall would be then the skin. and the graffiti we see is the constant change of it.
Banksy heerin would be only a provider, a condition that guarantees the renewment of the skin, the wall. so he and all the other graffity artists cant help themselves they are the mitosis or a motor of the different stages of renewing the skin. the wall would be a system demanding by "natural" laws for renewment/reproduction. maybe we could even look at them (the sprayers) as cell cores who are parts of the fabric which produces an organic system made visble with spraycans, paint or other tools, whatsoever.
i can go even further now, being cell cores they would act from the inside of the system and hundertwasser would be wrong because we dont only inhabit theses skins, but we can also choose our "point of view" (inside/ouside). and graffity being very messy sometimes, looks like real organic parts that are inside of our body: ugly! thats also why grafitty in its own nature is so unsexy, comes "clean" or never obscene enough! like cell devision its a asexual reproducing system. we see the street as a blood line (f.e.gang wars, car accidents) the wall as blood vessel and the sprayers as chromosomes/genes...??
Hundertwasser - "Automobil mit roten Regentropfen"
graphic of an animal cell:
woensdag 3 februari 2010
over and over and over again
short storyline on this here
would somebody care to comment on the (ab)uses and (dis)continuities of public space?
Setter
this tag here is about 15 years old. its placed on a wall in zweibruecken/germany, where i went to boarding school for about 7 hard years. it says "setter" and its done by a good old friend of mine: jonathan. he lives now in israel. last time being there, i was so much impressed to see his sign after all these years. i hope nobody but time will remove it!
dinsdag 2 februari 2010
non profit organization (NSFW!)
Familie van n a t h a l i e
from left to right: my mother gerda, my father milton, my sister isabelle, my grand mother helen, my uncle brother of my grand mother leo, my favorite uncle also brother of my grand mother boepi.
nice memory, a picture can not erase the image of the deceased
maandag 1 februari 2010
The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal (FULL)
a bit long!
"Graffiti removal: the act of removing tags and graffiti by painting over them. Subconscious art: a product of artistic merit that was created without conscious artistic intentions. It is no coincidence that funding for "anti-graffiti" campaigns often outweighs funding for the arts. Graffiti removal has subverted the common obstacles blocking creative expression and become one of the more intriguing and important art movements of our time. Emerging from the human psyche and showing characteristics of abstract expressionism, minimalism and Russian constructivism, graffiti removal has secured its place in the history of modern art while being created by artists who are unconscious of their artistic achievements." (IMDb)
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