What Is Contemporary Anyways.

Parissah Lin Gallatin '15 Art of Now

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OMO VALLEY TRIBES IN SOUTH-WESTERN ETHIOPIA

Chile, San Pedro de Atacama-based freelance photographer Ralph Bennett Crignola - “The Lower Omo River in south west Ethiopia is home to eight different tribes whose population is about 200,000. They have lived there for centuries. However, the future of these tribes lies in the balance. A massive hydro-electric dam, Gibe III, is under construction on the Omo and when completed it will destroy a fragile environment and the livelihoods of the tribes, which are closely linked to the river and its annual flood.”

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Ralph Bennet Crignola 

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Lebbeus Woods, Architect is currently on view at SFMOMA, and throughout the run of the exhibition, we’ll be using Tumblr as a place to sequentially share Woods’s wonderful sketchbooks, since only a fraction of the pages can be on view in the galleries. See all of the pages we’ve shared so far here.

Image: Lebbeus Woods, Sketchbook, 2000; Courtesy of Aleksandra Wagner; © Estate of Lebbeus Woods

[arpeggia]

Rudolf Schwarzkogler - 3rd Action, 1965

“Rudolf Schwarzkogler was an Austrian performance artist best known today for photographs depicting his series of closely controlled “Aktionen” featuring such iconography as a dead fish, a dead chicken, bare light bulbs, colored liquids, bound objects, and a man wrapped in gauze. The enduring themes of Schwarzkogler’s works involved experience of pain and mutilation, often in an incongruous clinical context, such as 3rd Action (1965) in which a patient’s head swathed in bandages is being pierced by what appears to be a corkscrew, producing a bloodstain under the bandages. They reflect a message of despair at the disappointments and hurtfulness of the world.”

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Riitta Ikonen and Karoline Hjorth, Hallvar II, 2011. Digital C-print. Courtesy the artists.

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Masha Krashnova-Shabaeva.

Illustrations by Masha Krashnova-Shabaeva:

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[hyperallergic]

Visakh Menon, “Bonus Level 12” (2013) Size: 22 X 30” Medium: Double sided Tape, Colored Charcoal

Created using a unique process of rubbing clear double sided tape on colored charcoal / pastels and then collaging several layers of the now colored translucent tape to create subtle effects of pixellation & hue shifts. This series of drawings are inspired from level maps of 8-bit video games and paying homage to the traditions of geometric abstraction and color field paintings.  

Please visit: www.visakhmenon.com/tagged/levels to see more drawings from this series

http://visakhmenon.com/image/45769796535

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www.visakhmenon.com

[erasing]

Want | Siobhán Hapaska

Photo by Petter Lehto

[artnotart]

“Drum and Bass 2”, 2002 by Mathieu Mercier.

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Barbara Brietenfellner: Fake Shooting

The media landscape of the present day is a map in search of a territory. A huge volume of sensational and often toxic imagery inundates our minds, much of it fictional in content. How do we make sense of this ceaseless flow of advertising and publicity, news and entertainment, where presidential campaigns and moon voyages are presented in terms indistinguishable from the launch of a new candy bar or deodorant? What actually happens on the level of our unconscious minds when, within minutes on the same TV screen, a prime minister is assassinated, an actress makes love, an injured child is carried from a car crash? Faced with these charged events, prepackaged emotions already in place, we can only stitch together a set of emergency scenarios, just as our sleeping minds extemporize a narrative from the unrelated memories that veer through the cortical night. In the waking dream that now constitutes everyday reality, images of a blood-spattered widow, the chromium trim of a limousine windshield, the stylised glamour of a motorcade, fuse together to provide a secondary narrative with very different meanings." (J.G. Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition)

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Fanny  Schlichter

(via We Find Wildness)

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Harland Miller : Overcoming Optimism

For Harland Miller’s first exhibition in Scotland, Ingleby Gallery presents a group of new paintings alongside a selected survey of the artist’s work across several years. Common to all of these paintings is a basic structure of shape borrowed from decades of Penguin paperbacks: a motif that automatically suggests a very British kind of nostalgia, but which Miller turns back on itself with invented titles that prove the dictum that you can’t judge a book, or a painting at least, by its cover.

[artnotart]

gravity is overrated. Li Wei

Beijing-based photographer and performance artist Li Wei boggles the mind with his gravity-defying photography. We we entertained by the multifaceted artist’s work from 2011 and he continues to draw our attention with his latest compositions in 2012. Without using any photo manipulating magic with editing tools like Photoshop, Wei presents an impressive portfolio of clever in-camera illusions by expertly utilizing wires for his steady subjects to balance on.

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Sara-Lena Maierhofer : #Dear Clark

Foam Article

DEAR CLARK is a practical and theoretical study of the figure of the impostor. It consists of their own and found photographs and documents and attempts to use different approaches to describe the impostor as a phenomenon. Divided into seven chapters, I examine his behavior, appearance and development. Doppelganger Zwilllinge and split personalities and a Zebroid and an impostor toast to be a part of the study.

Practical research object is the conman Clark Rockefeller, born Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter in Bavaria. He lived for 30 years under various identities in the United States, until he was finally taken in 2008 by the FBI. I followed in his footsteps, had visited people and places in the United States that were part of his life different.

"Christian Karl, something ordinary and unimpressive. He designed beautiful and klingendere name: Christopher Crowe, Clark Rockefeller.He created his own reality, and you believed him. With each new name, he left his old life behind as it would have never happened. Almost without a trace. »

The work, like the imposter work through the tension between fact and fiction, reminiscent of how the medium of photography. To capture the character of the impostor, I had to beat him at his own game: I had to be even an impostor. Found and fabricated documents hang alongside photographs of real and fake impostors and fact and fiction combine.(Sara-Lena Maierhofer)

Full Book 

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Works from Masood Kamanday : Superpositional

“This project uses computer software I developed to combine many images into single images. It is influenced by historical practices of chronophotography which developed soon after the invention of photography, and also aleatory art practices like the work of John Cage. This process has the ability to show the movement of my body, the movement of my subject and the passage of time. It also shows how subjects occupy space.

The photographs are installed in rhizomatic configurations, a nod to the way that the images were generated using layers.”

This project uses computer software I developed to combine many images into single images. It is influenced by historical practices of chronophotography which developed soon after the invention of photography, and also aleatory art practices like the work of John Cage. This process has the ability to show the movement of my body, the movement of my subject and the passage of time. It also shows how subjects occupy space. The photographs are installed in rhizomatic configurations, a nod to the way that the images were generated using layers.

This project uses computer software I developed to combine many images into single images. It is influenced by historical practices of chronophotography which developed soon after the invention of photography, and also aleatory art practices like the work of John Cage. This process has the ability to show the movement of my body, the movement of my subject and the passage of time. It also shows how subjects occupy space. The photographs are installed in rhizomatic configurations, a nod to the way that the images were generated using layers.

This project uses computer software I developed to combine many images into single images. It is influenced by historical practices of chronophotography which developed soon after the invention of photography, and also aleatory art practices like the work of John Cage. This process has the ability to show the movement of my body, the movement of my subject and the passage of time. It also shows how subjects occupy space. The photographs are installed in rhizomatic configurations, a nod to the way that the images were generated using layers.

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Félix Luque Sánchez

“Different ways to infinity” is a science fiction artwork using a variety of media. The installation proposes a collection of archives from an imaginary scientific laboratory. It is composed of 3 parts: parts 1 and 2 are inspired by chaos theory and approach infinity through complexity; part 3 is an "infinite space filling" generative sculpture. 1. A synthesizer with oscilloscopes and audio system The synthesizer is based on Chua's circuit, one of the first physical demonstrations of the existence of chaos. Its output signals are visualized through oscilloscopes and heard through loudspeakers. The synthesizer is controlled by motorized potentiometers, which changes the modulation parameters in real time in order to force it to enter and exit chaos in an infinite loop. Every time chaos is reached, fractal shapes known as 'Lorentz attractors' appear on the oscilloscopes. 2. A set of 3d animations and large prints These large digital prints and 3d animations are generated by software simulating strange experiments in computational fluid dynamics. 3. A modular sculpture The sculpture is composed of rhombic dodecahedrons, geometrical objects part of the family of «Space-filling polyhedra» : shapes which can be assembled to completely fill the space, to generate a tessellation of an infinite space. These forms act as the building blocks for a sculpture generator, with a high combinatorial potential for the assembly of any geometry. These dodecahedra express complex reactive behaviours through their luminous edges. The artist designed for the exhibition one specific geometrical configuration, a closed shape assembly exploiting at their best the formal and dramatic qualities of this sculpture generator. By programming complex behaviours in the dodecahedra, i.e. controlling the light flowing in their edges from random to ordered patterns and contours, the perception of this geometrical shape is first blurred: from nothing to the chaos of its potentially infinite geometrical configurations, its perfect designed geometry slowly reveals itself through the interactions of the visitors with the sculpture

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Maxime Guyon

“This is a personal study and interpretation about Landscaping in swiss mountain environment. I wanted first to start in discovering my visual feels on the field (especially in Rhône Glacier), then bring back at the studio all the details that gave me sense to my research.

I found answers and results in taking pictures of Geneva climbing walls and in composing rocks still life.” – Maxime Guyon

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Yayoi Kusama Look Now, See Forever