Vacuum Mag

Vacuum mag is a place where everyone can talk about life, death, magic, sublime, beauty, art . . . and everything you breathe. One word, interpreted by various artists with different media. Next issue: Fade. Deadline: December, 31th. Out in January 2014.

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"He remembers those vanished years. As though looking through a dusty window pane, the past is something he could see, but not touch. And everything he sees is blurred and indistinct."

In the Mood for Love

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Ophelya, Digital Photograph by ylenia

  http://nelia-photo.tumblr.com/

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I took this picture of my brother in Italy this summer. He symbolises peace to me.

Sonya

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Mario Giacomelli, La notte lava la mente

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Autoportrait by Kourtney Roy http://goo.gl/SNCxWD

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Photo Opportunities, Corinne Vionnet, 2005-2013 "We travel, we see a monument, we take a picture. Framing sites of mass tourism in our viewfinders, we create photographic souvenirs that are integral to the touristic experience. Conducting keyword searches of famed monuments in photo sharing web sites, Swiss /French artist Corinne Vionnet culled thousands of tourists’ snapshots for her series Photo Opportunities. Weaving together numerous photographic perspectives and experiences, the artist builds her own impressionistic interpretations – ethereal structures which float gently in a dream-like haze of blue sky." http://www.corinnevionnet.com/site/1-photo-opportunities.html

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Nhu Xuan Hua

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Depeche Mode, Never Let me down http://youtu.be/snILjFUkk_A

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Oh Sister, Where Art Thou? by Aaron Feaver

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1.Your bio_ .akamoi. is: degenerative sounds noises,cuts,clicks and tunes outside the waves. 2.FLOAT: what comes to your mind? absence of gravity, a space where the body becomes weightless and ceases to be a mean for movement. In such a space any movement is possible, everything is lightness. I might say it's like being underwater, but without actually feeling the body...

3.FLOAT on another media by another artist - can you point me a work you like? Laszlo Moholy Nagy "Wie bleibe ich jung und schon"Laszlo Moholy Nagy (below)

4.Some hints about your work on FLOAT_  #9 is a track from my work "Espaces morts", my intent was to generate an empty space for listening to distant sounds and noises.

» .akamoi. on Vacuum Mag issue 3

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1.Your bio_ graphic / urban explorer / painter in Genoa. 2.FLOAT: what comes to your mind? Be able to stay afloat in this world full of contradictions.

3.FLOAT on another media by another artist - can you point me a work you like? Old ship transformed in a floating forest in Australia. (above) 4.Some hints about your work on FLOAT_  past, present, future: together.

» Claudio Reliclover on Vacuum Mag issue 3

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1.Your bio_ Taiwan born, Vancouver and Taiwan based photographer Ryan Chen is armed with passion, creativity strong spatial concept, and a unique combination of photography and videography. Fascinated by beauty, colors and motion, His photography often contains the vividness and dynamics of motion pictures. His experience in film directing nourished the smooth process of directing and communicating with his subjects, with the result laying in the perfect expression or emotion captured in Ryan’s shots.

2.FLOAT: what comes to your mind? The first thing that comes to mind is my deepest thought: flying. I wish I could fly, but I can only do it with my soul. Life is a struggle. You are always fighting with reality, but never give up, never stop dreaming. You can always soar through the sky.

http://www.thisistomorrow.info/viewArticle.aspx?artId=392

3.Some hints about your work on FLOAT_   I created a story for the model to absorb herself into the atmosphere. I tried to capture the realistic moment and the feeling when she was dreaming to fly, struggling with her soul and at the end soaring through the sky.

» Ryan Chen on Vacuum Mag issue 3

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1.Your bio_ After finishing the Scientific High School I attended the course in Fashion Design at Istituto Marangoni graduating in June 2013. 2.FLOAT: what comes to your mind? Antinomy. In the real world, everything exists and coexists: opposites coexist with each other until they merge.

3.FLOAT on another media by another artist - can you point me a work you like? “Nothing is opposite, nothing is the same but everything meets in a single point and then detach and meet again at the same point, thus continuing the infinite” M. Sallustio 4.Some hints about your work on FLOAT_  This outfit was born from the manipulation of materials. I worked with a printing company to recreate in a big size a reflection of light on the fabric. With the help of expert hands, I quilted and padded of feathers the fabric piece and then I draped it to make it into a skirt of feathers.

» Stefania Bassini on Vacuum Mag issue 3

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1.Your bio_ Currently living and working in Zurich, the Swiss artist and photographer Esther Mathis (*1985, Switzerland) was a student of the Istituto Europeo di Design in Milan where Mathis was awarded a scholarship for The School of Visual Arts in New York, and is currently doing her Master's at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste in Zurich. With photography playing a central role to her work, Mathis has been branching out to include video, installation, as well as sculpture in her oeuvre, resulting in an exciting combination or perspectives.Her work has already been included in numerous group exhibitions such as SCOPE in Basel (2010) and was furthermore selected for a show at the Raiffeisen Benefiz Auction (2010) and for both the 2011 and 2012 December Exhibition at the Kunstmueum Winterthur. 2012 the artist was selected to contribute to "Präparat Bergsturz - Konservierte Bewegung", at the Churer Kunstmuseum, a large group exhibition where her work was shown alongside that of Roman Signer, Robert Smithson, Daniel Spoerri and Naoya Hatakeyama to name but a few. And this summer she was included in "Alt +1000", in Rossinière (Switzerland), curated by Nathalie Herschdorfer. 

2.FLOAT: what comes to your mind? Last year I went to Israel and during my trip I spent one day at the dead sea. The water had the same color like the sky and there was a little fog in the air that from time to time made the horizon disappear. In the water I would lay on my back, and the amount of salt in the water would make me float exactly on a hight where my ears would be under water, but the rest of my face over it. so I could just let go and be - with my eyes looking at the milky - grey- rose - blue color of the water and the sky with no beginning and no end, and my ears under water where all the sounds were fluid and softened. 

3.FLOAT on another media by another artist - can you point me a work you like? Olafur Eliasson, Notion Motion, 2005. Wood, rubber, lamps, water, cm 3240 x 1034

http://www.thisistomorrow.info/viewArticle.aspx?artId=392

4.Some hints about your work on FLOAT_ I work a lot with simple physical rules. I try to replicate them in order to understand them better. that's how I started to work on the floating egg. (the idea came from that day in Israel). 

the wave installation had a different approach. It is a site specific installation in an exhibition space in Zürich, where I wanted to use the shape of a window-showcase room to create waves by circulating air. I used 170 little transparent glass test tubes that are floating inside these waves, but at the same time influencing each other's movements. each one has an effect to the one next to it. The Window is meant to look through, so I used only transparent little things in order to keep its purpose, but changing the view by waves.

» Esther Mathis on Vacuum Mag issue 3

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1.Your bio_ I'm Michael Sobel, I write music because it makes me feel good, and I share it in hopes it will make others feel the same. 2) A euphoric state of mind free of the pressure of everyday life. It's a mindset free of social pressure and filled with calm.

2.FLOAT: what comes to your mind? A euphoric state of mind free of the pressure of everyday life. It's a mindset free of social pressure and filled with calm.

3.FLOAT on another media by another artist - can you point me a work you like? Dale Chihuly is my favorite artist. I've been to his exhibits and he creates his own worlds with glass, it's quite surreal.

4.Some hints about your work on FLOAT_ Float On, Mythical River was inspired when I found the mesmerizing guitar sound, and fueled by whatever was hidden in my subconscious. I may or may not have been in a euphoric state of mind, but it's a solo jam session I did, no editing or anything fancy, I just hit record and played for twelve minutes.

>>> Mike Sobel - Float on mythical river on Vacuum Mag issue 3

Artwork by Carl-Magnus Dumell

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Sneak peek from our issue 3 FLOAT! Ryan Chen .Fascinated by beauty, colors and motion, His photography often contains the vividness and dynamics of motion pictures. .Float: The first thing that comes to mind is my deepest thought: flying. I wish I could fly, but I can only do it with my soul. Life is a struggle. You are always fighting with reality, but never give up, never stop dreaming. You can always soar through the sky. .I created a story for the model to absorb herself into the atmosphere. I tried to capture the realistic moment and the feeling when she was dreaming to fly, struggling with her soul and at the end soaring through the sky.

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Geometric KOGI Lamp by Studio Joa Herrenknecht - Design Milk http://bit.ly/12u02AY