GH avisualagency was asked by Israel Kandarian of Field of Grey to contribute a poster for a weekly updated poster series on exhibition at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center & agnès b. during Warm Up 2007Teethcut: We set up a voice mail phone number (718.690.7672) for viewers to be able to call and leave us a messages. The concept for this poster was inspired by kitchen dentists in LA.OH NO… I LOST MY iPHONE: The notion that having a $600 phone in general is ridiculous, but the thought of losing that phone could be, to some, tragic. We wanted to juxtapose a true image of tragedy with the notion of the worlds ever growing lust for technology to point out just how ludicrous things have become. Contributors work on exhibition during the following dates:00 27.06.07 Field of Grey01 30.06.07 Manuel Miranda02 07.07.07 Jiminie Ha03 14.07.07 Linked by Air04 21.07.07 Glen Cummings & Hannah Purdy05 28.07.07 GH avisualagency06 04.08.07 Yoonjai Choi07 11.08.07 Project Projects08 18.08.07 Alexander Strube09 25.08.07 Village10 01.09.07 Dexter SinisterSee more on Flickr
In 1998, Jonathan Keller of Detroit began taking pictures of his own face. Two years later, Noah Kalina started “Noah K. Everyday”.
Noah Kalina is a Brooklyn-based photographer that has photographed his face everyday from January 11, 2000 and is still a work in progress. He says in the FAQ on his site that, “I will take a photo today, and tomorrow and until the day I die”. In an April 15th LA Times article I read that “Arno Klein, a neuroscientist at the New School, has been taking similar pictures of his daughter every day since she was born, and if things go according to plan, she may be the first to lay claim to a genuine whole-life portrait.”
I think it’s interesting to watch the things Noah likes to consistentally wear and the facial transformation that happens after being in NY for a while. Truly lifelogging gone mad turned to art. Will be interesting to watch as he ages.
Art, Film — Derek Lerner on July 29, 2007 at 5:30 pm
From the press release: “This summer at Fuse gallery, an uncanny mix of artists will proffer their vision of apocalyptic literature from the last canonical book of the New Testament. Curator ERIK FOSS, who was raised a strict Catholic, selected these artists to share what he feels is the darkest story in God’s creation”.
Fuse Gallery
93 2nd Ave (between 5th & 6th Sts, 2nd Ave stop on the F), NYC, NY.
v: 212.777.798
Metaverse 2007 Digital video 04:39:00 minutes 640 x 360 pixels
Soundtrack: La Muchacha de Los Suenos Dorados composed by Harold Budd, Daniel Lentz, and Ruben Garcia
For the last year I have been heavily involved in virtual worlds, primarily Second Life. This has prompted many thoughts about the concept of virtual space in general as well as blurring lines between simulation and real.
Mixing of realities, infinite space, multi-user online 3D collaborative environments, and time travel.
When asked to contribute work to the NOKIA Trends Lab project I immediately started to think about the level of connectivity and immersive experience handheld wireless hybridized multifunction devices offer, resulting in a type of virtual space. The sense I get when walking down the street taking photos, listening to the radio, & then uploading images to a server is of a disjointed reality where one’s mind is in another place but body is walking down the street.Inspired by this, I used a NOKIA N93 to film video feedback loops creating abstract video drawings as a metaphor for 3D immersive virtual space. Infinite syndicated regurgitated communicative white noise evoking feelings of becoming so intertwined with digital communications that the grayness of life as we currently know it is a blurry place of virtual and real.
[...]YouTube will soon be encoding videos in the H.264 streaming-efficient compression format preferred by Apple TV, and that all new videos submitted to YouTube as of the mid-June launch of the AppleTV update will be playable by the device. From then until fall, YouTube will be encoding its entire back-catalog in H.264 format, adding videos in chunks until everything is accessible to Apple TV users.[...] See full article at Ilounge.comAs of today, only some You Tube content is available on the Iphone which works similarly to the content on Apple TV. Does this mean that the H.264 codec is the future of mobile video content?
[...]The wait has been a long one, but Flickr superpowers have finally arrived for Photoshop in the form of FlickrShop. As you can see, most of the basics are all available, such as tagging, adding to existing photosets or creating new ones, setting privacy and even specifying dimensions so you don’t have to do any of that heavy lifting with the Photoshop file itself. The plug-in seems to work pretty well, though you can only upload one image at a time due to Photoshop’s single document UI.[...] See Full Article at Tuaw (The Unofficial Apple Webpage)
Richard Box, artist-in-residence at Bristol University’s physics department, Field (2004) of 1,301 fluorescent tubes powered by the electric fields generated by low overhead powerlines. Box denies that he aimed to draw attention to the potential dangers of powerlines, ‘For me, it was just the amazement of taking something that’s invisible and making it visible,’ he says.
The Archegram: Iterations are a series of video projects centered around the audio/visual collaboration of James Elliot (Ateleia) and Sadek Bazaraa. They first started collaborating at the end of 2004 for the Netmage digital arts festival in Italy. Their good friend Paul Duncan happened to catch some snippets of the 1st Iteration at Tonic. The 3rd Iteration of Archegram is a work in progress slated to be released as a DVD on the Table of the Elements filmworks label.
Brian Eno in Second Life next to live video projection of him at the
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.
Brian Eno’s avatar sculpture created by Annie Ok (Xantherus Halberd in SL).
Photo by Rik Pangiban
Alexander Rose, executive director of the Long Now Foundation being
given a tour of the 77 Million Paintings installation at Art Center
by Xantherus Halberd and Angrybeth Shortbread.
Art Center presents the Second Life premiere of 77 Million Paintings by Brian Eno, in partnership with The Long Now Foundation and blueair.tv. This exhibition will be happening concurrently with the real life one at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco and take place throughout various locations in Second Life, each with their own unique installation, as well as a different 77 Million Paintings collectible gift at each spot.
Conceived by Brian Eno as “visual music”, his latest artwork, 77 Million Paintings is a constantly evolving sound and imagescape which continues his exploration into light as an artist’s medium and the aesthetic possibilities of “generative software”.
He first created 77 Million Paintings to bring art to the increasing number of flat panel TV’s and monitors that often sit darkened and underutilized. Now Eno is also showing large installations of this work, recently at the Venice Bienniale and Milan Triennale, and in Tokyo, London and South Africa. The installation will be the Second Life premiere of his work to dovetail the North American premiere in San Francisco.
77 Million Paintings installation in Second Life developed by Annabeth Robinson, known virtually as AngryBeth Shortbread.
