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Sunday, December 13, 2009
Saturday, November 14, 2009
artists who have recieved MacArthur Fellows (2006-2009)
As I spend time here at the Watermill Center in long Island, I was inspired tonight to read about artists that have received MacArthur Fellowships. I was curious to research the last three years of artists who received this honor.. I love and have previously posted about Tara Donovan's work, which is amazing. I have posted below about a few others - the ones that are starred. I had heard of Camille Utterback from my Parson's coursework.
2006
**Josiah McElheny, sculptor
Anna Schuleit, commemorative artist
Shahzia Sikander, painter
2007
Joan Snyder, painter
Whitfield Lovell, painter/installation artist
2008
Tara Donovan, artist
Mary Jackson, weaver and sculptor
**Camille Utterback, digital artist
**Mark Bradford, mixed media artist
wikipedia says this, for those not familiar with the award:
The MacArthur Fellows Program or MacArthur Fellowship (nicknamed the Genius Award) is an award given by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation each year to typically 20 to 40 United States citizens or residents, of any age and working in any field, who "show exceptional merit and promise for continued and enhanced creative work."
According to the Foundation's website, "the fellowship is not a reward for past accomplishment, but rather an investment in a person's originality, insight, and potential." The current amount of the award is $500,000, paid as quarterly installments over five years. As of 2007, there have been 756 recipients who have received a total of more than $350 million.[update]
The Fellowship has no application. People are nominated anonymously by a body of nominators who submit recommendations to a small selection committee of about a dozen people, also anonymous.Camille Utterback, digital artist
I first heard about her from my second year thesis class with yury gitman - computation08. we learned processing and heard about camille's work.
| Text Rain Camille Utterback & Romy Achituv, 1999 |
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| Text Rain is a playful interactive installation that blurs the boundary between the familiar and the magical. Participants in the Text Rain installation use the familiar instrument of their bodies, to do what seems magical - to lift and play with falling letters that do not really exist. In the Text Rain installation participants stand or move in front of a large projection screen. On the screen they see a mirrored video projection of themselves in black and white, combined with a color animation of falling text. Like rain or snow, the text appears to land on participants' heads and arms. The text responds to the participants' motions and can be caught, lifted, and then let fall again. The falling text will land on anything darker than a certain threshold, and "fall" whenever that obstacle is removed. |
| Abundance Camille Utterback, 2007 |
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| Abundance is a temporary public installation commissioned for the City of San Jose, California by ZER01 – the Art and Technology Network. At night, Abundace transforms the city hall plaza into an interactive social space. A video camera mounted on the City Hall captures the movements of people in the plaza below. A dynamic animation generated in response to this movement is projected onto the 3-story cylindrical rotunda. Utterback’s colorful, fluid and delicate imagery creates a subtle subversion of the bold geometry of architect Richard Meier’s building – warming and humanizing its surface. | ||
| Alluvial Camille Utterback, 2007 |
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| Alluvial is a dual-channel interactive installation commissioned for a private home. Two overhead video cameras track people’s movements in the entryway below while Utterback’s software outputs two dynamic animations to the projection screens. A person’s body adds visual information to one screen, while subtracting from the other, and this interplay of positive and negative, additive and subtractive qualities builds as more and more people enter the space. This process of simultaneous accumulation and disintegration creates a temporary beauty, where the buildup of delicate grains of sand (or points of light), can easily be disturbed by the bolder graphics indicating another person’s presence in the space. |
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| Untitled 6 Camille Utterback, 2005 |
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| Untitled 6 is the sixth piece in Utterback’s External Measures Series. The series began with Utterback’s attempts to create interactive paintings, and has evolved as she continues to experiment with the possibilities for hinging digital aesthetic systems to human movement. Utterback’s installations are generated by a set of software rules she writes. These rules react visually to movement in the installation space, and interact with each other to create dynamic live animations. While Utterback’s work is computer generated and detects movement in the space via a video camera, it shares a lineage with analog works like mobiles and kinetic sculptures, where artists create a framework for various possibilities to occur through the physical relationships between parts of the sculpture. | ||
Mark BradfordThe Devil Is Beating His Wife
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Mark Bradford’s abstractions unite high art and popular culture as unorthodox tableaux of unequivocal beauty. Working in both paint and collage, Bradford incorporates elements from his daily life into his canvases: remnants of found posters and billboards, graffitied stencils and logos, and hairdresser’s permanent endpapers he’s collected from his other profession as a stylist. In The Devil is Beating His Wife, Bradford consolidates all these materials into a pixelised eruption of cultural cross-referencing. Built up on plywood in sensuous layers ranging from silky and skin-like to oily and singed, Bradford offers abstraction with an urban flair that’s explosively contemporary.
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Mark BradfordKryptonite2006
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Using collage and paint on paper, Mark Bradford’s Kryptonite possesses an organic quality in its grid-like composition. Its convoluted architecture and overlapping details radiate as a megalopolissprawl, a seething microcosm of activity. Often compared to Piet Mondrian, Bradford gives modernism’s vision of an ordered utopia a lethal reality check as hard-edged borders and harmonious planes are exchanged for independent non-defined forms engaging in unruly turf-war. Evolving his surface as a highly textured topography, Bradford uses gesture and mark-making to encapsulate the dissonance and excitement of a metropolitan landscape. Josiah McElheny, sculptor An End to Modernity
2005 Nickel plated aluminum, electric lighting, hand-blown glass, steel cable and rigging Approximately 180 x 180 x 150 inches
Island Universe 2008Chromed aluminum, handblown glass, electric lights. Consisting of five elements arranged in a grid at specific heights Dimensions variable, largest element is approximately 12' in diameter, smallest is approximately 7' in diameter Installation view: White Cube, London "Island Universe" October 14 - November 15, 2008  Twentieth Century Modernism, Mirrored and Reflected Infinitely 2006Detail Hand blown mirrored glass, display structure, transparent mirror and electric lighting 31 1/4 x 188 x 18 3/4 inches (79.4 x 477.5 x 47.6 cm)
Twentieth Century Modernism, Mirrored and Reflected Infinitely 2006Hand blown mirrored glass, display structure, transparent mirror and electric lighting 31 1/4 x 188 x 18 3/4 inches
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Sunday, November 08, 2009
weird + clever (digital) faces
Such simple yet engaging use of materials + technology + artistry = very refreshing photos. I found these images in the gallery section of one of my FAVORITE WEBSITES OF ALL TIME - SPACECOLLECTIVE.ORG - such an awesome awesome collection of digitally stimulating substance.
From his website: Levi van Veluw
The images that I make consist of often unlogical combination of materials, patterns, colors, forms, with my head as the only constant factor. Each element is consciously chosen so as to affect a pre-determined transformation. By playing with the value of the each material and by using them for a purpose that was not originally intended for them, I construct within the image, in a very small way, a different perspective on the world.
In most cases it is my head that is the carrier of these transformations and combination. The expressionless, and almost universal face, allows the viewer to project himself onto the work. Because the works have really existed and have not been digitally manipulated, each image contains a short history of a performance.
Repetition is a theme I find very interesting as you can use it for different ends. By for example using the same head and facial expression, the person slowly becomes of secondary importance to the form. The elements that remain constant lose their value and the elements that change, become the subject of the work. In this way I create a shift in the hierarchy of values.
The commonplace notion of the ‘aesthetic’ image is that which is free of unsatisfactory characteristics and general human imperfections. This in my opinion is the most superficial form of beauty. In my work I attempt to create a different form of aesthetic.
The unusual and unimpressive materials, traces of glue and other imperfections that exist in the production of the work are what form the aesthetic value in my image. This revaluation of these normally insignificant elements only occurs because they now exist in a new context that distances them from their original circumstances and associations.
Sunday, November 01, 2009
Friday, October 09, 2009
Thursday, October 08, 2009
IGNITE NYC (this Friday Oct 9, 2009)
I will be speaking at this event tomorrow evening - about my agave armor, haute couture sculpture series!
Ignite NYC this Friday, October 9th.
We are hosting the event as part of the Yahoo!'s Open Hack festivities!
Ignite will take place at the historic Hudson Theater (145 West 44th Street) from 8 PM - 9:30 PM.
RSVP on Eventbrite or Facebook to reserve your seat!
Speakers:
Jay Rosen (NYU School of Journalism),
Michael Malice (Overheard in New York),
Bre Pettis (Makerbot Industries),
Dan Patterson (ABC News),
Fred Benenson (Creative Commons),
Spaceman From Outer Space (Space),
Evan Sandhaus (The New York Times),
Tania Dudina (Surprise Industries),
Micah Laaker (Yahoo!),
Ben Woosley (OurMTA.org),
Jared Klett (Blip.TV),
Carrie Mae Kreyche (Parsons),
Ben Moskowitz (Open Video Alliance),
Kunal Kandekar (Concert Technology),
Jonah Brucker-Cohen (ITP, Scrapyard Challenge),
Cynthia Lawson Jaramillo (ITP, Parsons).
Thursday, October 01, 2009
Make Out by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
I love this man's work. I just read about this one below from his website.
Description
"Make Out" is the
eight piece in the Shadow Box series of interactive
displays with a built-in
computerized tracking system. This piece shows thousands
of internet videos of couples looking at each other:
as soon as someone stands in front of the display
his or her silhouette is shown and all the couples
within it begin to kiss. The massive array of make-out
sessions continues for as long as someone is in front
of the work, --as he or she moves away all the kissing
ends.
The collector can choose what proportion of the videos are man-woman, woman-woman or man-man. The default state is the statistically faithful proportion of the videos that are online: 50 per cent woman-woman, 30 per cent man-man and 20 per cent man-woman.
Year of creation
2009
Technique
High resolution interactive
display with built-in computerized surveillance system.
Dimensions
104.5 x 80 x 12 cm
http://www.lozano-hemmer.com/english/projects/makeout.htm
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I am also again struck by the genius of Pulse Park.
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Pulse Park |
"Pulse Park" is comprised of a matrix of light beams that graze the central oval field of Madison Square Park. Their intensity is entirely modulated by a sensor that measures the heart rate of participants and the resulting effect is the visualization of vital signs, arguably our most symbolic biometric, in an urban scale. |
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Friday, September 04, 2009
DANIEL ARSHAM
interesting concepts...
I especially like these two.
you can see more of his work at www.danielarsham.com
"Hammock" 2007: EPS foam, plaster gauze: 45.25 in x 9.10 ft x 67 in
"Corner Knot" 2008: EPS, plaster, paint, joint compound: 18 x 64 x 20 in
Sunday, June 28, 2009
NEObama
silly t-shirt I saw in Union Square in NYC
spencer tunick
Spencer Tunick was in Montauk last monday morning at 4 am - shooting a photo called Eternal Sunrise. I almost drove out to participate.. I looked up his photos and was intrigued - this one above is in Mexico City. My moving and settling took precedent... but my friend Kelli participated. See full article here: Naked and on the Rocks at Montauk Point
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Ran Some Ransom at Come Out and Play NYC
Come Out and Play in New York City
We have a game in Come Out & Play 2009 in New York June June 12-14, 2009
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Ran Some, Ransom
Run some, walk some and decode some ransom letters in Time Square to find the hostage first. Hurry, the clock is ticking!
Start Time: Pick up and play throughout the weekend
Location: Festival HQ at the The Tank
# of players: 2 player teams. Any number of teams can play at once.
Duration: 30-90 minutes...but it's a race! beat the fastest time to be number 1 on the leader board!
URL: http://ransomeransom.tumblr.com/
Designers: Erik Burke, Carrie Mae Kreyche, Lynn Maharas
Come run around New York City some to discover and unscramble the ransom note hidden in the signage of Times Square. Gather a small team of friends and spend time finding the letters for the ransom note and win by being the fastest team to figure out the note and find the hostage. When playing RSR, your team gets a packet of special transparencies and an incomplete ransom note. Your job is to strategically align the images with the architecture and signs to decode the message to find the hostage. Your team races against the fastest time score with the goal of unraveling the mystery and finding the hostage in the least amount of time possible.
The Rules
- The clock begins when the team receives the file and ends when the team uploads the image of the released hostage.
- Teams may split up or stay together to solve the ransom note.
- In order to 'release' the hostage teams must take a photo of the hostage and upload the image (via MMS) to the website in the file.
- Participants must obey all traffic rules and all NYC laws.
- Have fun!
Goal
The team that reaches & releases the hostage with the fastest overall time wins!
Bio: Erik Burke, Carrie Mae Kreyche, Lynn Maharas
Erik Burke: www.eriktburke.com
Erik
Burke is a fifth generation Nevadan born in Reno. He recently received
his MFA in Design and Technology from Parsons The New School of Design
where he focused on preserving endangered languages through historical
reenactments. He is an advocate of painting in the public space and his
work can be found in the streets of Rio de Janerio, Copenhagen, Berlin,
Paris, Brooklyn, Minneapolis, and many an alley in between. His latest
work can be seen in the book Mural Art, Greece (2009), the exhibition
400ml, Maison Metallos, Paris (2008) or on site at the McCarran
International Airport, Las Vegas (2008).
Carrie Mae Kreyche: www.carriemae.com
Carrie
Mae Kreyche greatly enjoys her new life in the playground of New York
City. In the moments when Carrie Mae is not entranced by the world wide
web, she regularly makes scupltures and wearable art from agave leaves
and scissors confiscated from airport security. She makes neat stuff
that can be viewed at carriemae.com
Lynn Maharas: www.lynnwashere.com
Lynn
is a New York via Colorado based artist / cartographer. A constant
student of interaction design and data visualizations Lynn is inspired
to make new mappings of systems for others to use and enjoy. Whether
they be interactive installations, big urban games (BUGs) or
information designs, her maps invite others to find new ways to view
the ordinary happenings within the world. Her favorite games include
Twister, Four Square (no cherry bombs!) & Pin the Tail on the Donky
(sometimes it's fun to be dizzy).
P.P.O.W. gallery & mixed greens gallery .nyc
This is a NYC gallery who has numerous artist I immediately appreciate. Bill Smith, Portia Munson, Judy Fox, Karen Arm and - one of my very favorite artists - Julie Heffernan.
His work reminds me of the newer works of Lee Bontecou and guitar wire & screen sculptures made by Diane Gilbert.
Lee Bontecou
Diane Gilbert
Another use of twist ties.... alive and well in the NYC art world at Mixed Greens Gallery.
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Mixed Greens is thrilled to announce Brian Jobe’s first project with
Mixed Greens and his first solo project in New York City. Since the
fall of 2008, Mixed Greens’ exterior windows have functioned as a
project space. This time the installation will move beyond the windows,
to highlight the fire escape. | |||||
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
foley gallery nyc
I saw these everyday objects transformed by this artist CAL LANE. They are quite spectacular!
Shovels, 2005
28 x 12 x 9.5 inches
Plasma cut steel
Untitled (Wheel Barrel), 2007
6 cubit feet
Plasma cut steel
| FOLEYgallery is open Tuesday - Saturday from 11am - 6pm. 547 W 27th Street, 5th floor New York, NY 10001 212.244.9081 p |
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Friday, May 08, 2009
PARSONS SYMPOSIUM EXHIBIT PHOTOS (MAY 1,2,3 2009)
Here are the visuals from my thesis display exhibit at Parsons Design + Technology 09.
(just in case someone is seeing this work for the first time - it is all made with confiscated scissors from airport security measures. I purchased them from ebay from someone who bought that them at an airport auction...)
I re-post statement here:
What brings people a feeling of safety and protection? Do security measures at airports or spiritual connection?
Confiscated weapons of mass construction questions how protection manifests in our current cultural epoch.
Sculptures, wearable art, and large-scale installations (proposed for exhibition in an airport) are constructed with thousands of scissors recycled from confiscated airport security procedures.
Just like a pure resonant note shatters a glass, a visual imprint of beauty and perfection changes a viewer.
These circular sculptures hold an essence of the macrocosm and microcosm bringing harmony on an archetypal level.
more images coming soon of my classmates.. some amazing and inspiring work!
MFA DT symposium postcard
Email me your address and I will send you one .. I have extras!
the front
the text
What brings people a feeling of safety and protection? Do security measures at airports or spiritual connection?
Confiscated weapons of mass construction questions how protection manifests in our current cultural epoch.
Sculptures, wearable art, and large-scale installations (proposed for exhibition in an airport) are constructed with thousands of scissors recycled from confiscated airport security procedures.
Just like a pure resonant note shatters a glass, a visual imprint of beauty and perfection changes a viewer.
These circular sculptures hold an essence of the macrocosm and microcosm bringing harmony on an archetypal level.
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