Culte

The video represents the contrasts and similarities between the mysticism of the natural world (that is clearly visible through technology) and the comparative devotion of a shared belief, whether it is in God or a team, or the community that those institutions encourage.

Collection

Rirkrit Tiravanija has continuously proven himself to be at the forefront of modern conceptual art. Extremely social in nature, Tiravanija's exhibitions range from feeding gallery-goers to recording footage of a road trip and displaying it, along with the car that made the journey, for everyone to see. In this video, Cool Hunting talks to the artist about his current project as part of Absolut's 365 Days initiative in Mexico and the culture's attitudes towards art.

Love his work!

"rebel" preview

A preview of the new Harmony Korine / James Franco Venice Biennale piece. I am not quite sure what it is but we'll get an update I'm sure.

Jesse McClean

The Relation

DRIFT

Magic Wand

Bushwick gallery visit

Went to visit Tom at Interstate projects on Friday. Bushwick is no longer what it used to be!

This piece from Jesse MClean was my favorite.

Climbing (excerpt)

The Moving Image Fair

Hiroshi Sawa

Hiroshi Sawa's video creates a dreamlike universe inside his mundane apartment.
Dwelling 2002, courtesy of James Cohan Gallery. You see additional works by Sawa's at James Cohan until March 26.

James Campbell Courtesy of Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery

Janet Biggs courtesy of Winkleman Gallery. This piece titled Airs Above the Ground, 2007 examines the performance of youth, equating age with pagentry and masquerade.

Leslie Thornton courtesy of Winkleman Gallery

Maider Fortune

Miguel Angel Rios

Miranda Lichtenstein

Simon Gush

Sophie Lisa Beresford

Krogerian Gun Commercial

Krogerian Gun Commercial from CITIZEN KROGER on Vimeo.

Yuken Teruya @ Josee Bienvenu Gallery

Josée Bienvenu Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition featuring a video installation, new sculptures, and photographs by Yuken Teruya, continuing the artist's poetic investigation into the meaning of nationality and the fluid boundaries between cultures and objects. The 5 channel video installation Earn A Lot of Money; No Need Send Any Letter; Send Money Home First, is a maze of overturned cardboard moving boxes, some containing video projections, some housing projectors and speakers. As one navigates this Hooverville, the videos document the journey of small paper boats, fitted with Japanese, Puerto Rican, Mexican, and American flags, as they travel along the gutter of a street in Brooklyn’s low-rent melting pot of Bushwick. The title of the piece references a common early 20th century colloquial farewell at the Okinawa docks as ships carried family members away to South America in search of a better life.

The exhibition also features new sculptural work from his Dawn series as well as his paperbag cut-out sculptures.

For more information on the artist and the exhibition, click here

Video Art progam at the New Museum

H BOX
Feb 1-27, 2010
The New Museum

The H BOX program was initiated in 2006, directed by Benjamin Weil. Each year, four artists are invited to produce a single-channel work in video. A changing selection of eight to ten of those short films have been presented since the late fall of 2007 in a roaming screening hall designed by Paris-based architect/artist Didier Fiuza Faustino. Having launched at Centre Pompidou (Paris), H BOX has since travelled to such European museums as MUSAC, Leon, Spain; MUDAM, Luxembourg; and the Tate Modern in London; before arriving in Yokohama for the 2008 Triennale, and the United States in 2009 (Orange County Museum and Cinema Arts Festival Houston).

The New Museum’s “out-of-the box” presentation of H BOX marks the first time that all sixteen H BOX films will be presented together. There will be a short break at the middle of each screening session.

For more information on the program, click here

Kinetica Art Fair

Beacon

Chris O'Shea and Cinimod Studio

Homos Luninosos (Holographic Light Sculptures)

Roseline de Thelin

The Kinetica Art Fair provides collectors, curators, museums and the public with a unique opportunity to view and purchase artworks from leading international galleries, artist's collectives, curatorial groups and organisations specialising in kinetic, electronic and new media art.

Kinetica's aim through the fair is to popularise artists and organisations working in these genres and to provide a new platform for the commercial enterprise of this field.

For more information, click here!

Very Slow Scan Television

VSSTV - Very Slow Scan Television

by Gebhard Sengmüller, in collaboration with Jakob Edlbacher, Johannes Obermayr, Gerhard Proksch-Weilguni, Ludwig Ertl and Andreas Konecky.

Very Slow Scan Television (VSSTV) is a new television format that we have developed building upon Slow Scan Television (SSTV), an image transmission system used by Ham Radio amateurs. VSSTV uses broadcasts from this historic public domain television system and regular bubble wrap to construct an analogous system: Just as a Cathode Ray Tube mixes the three primary colors to create various hues, VSSTV utilizes a plotter-like machine to fill the individual bubbles with one of the three primary CRT colors, turning them into pixels on the VSSTV “screen”. Large television images with a frame rate of one per day are the result, images that take the idea of slow scan to the extreme.

For more information regarding the project and artist, click here

Hungry Hungry Eat Head

Hungry Hungry Eat Head

A site-specific play experience by Hudson-Powell & Joel Gethin Lewis for the Big Screen Edinburgh, produced by Bren O'Callaghan. Commissioned by City of Edinburgh Council with further development (phase 2) made possible by AND: Abandon Normal Devices Festival of New Cinema and Digital Culture.

Drawings

William Powhida

Brooklyn, NY, based William Powhida satirizes the art world from the perspective of an insider. He is blatant about dichotomies in society, and the contribution of celebrity worship. Powhida's work supports the belief that Pop culture and the avant-garde have melded.

In this detail from "ABMB Hooverville" (printed in The New York Times), he compares Art Basel Miami Beach, to a Hooverville. It was exhibited at Pulse Art, Miami, a satellite to the destination art fair.

Dan Perjovschi

Dan Perjovschi, Postcards from the World is at Lombard-Freid Projects through February 20th.

Perjovschi captures a multitude of expression with a minimum of line. He sums up poignant social and political commentaries into humorous cartoon-like sketches. Born in an autocratic Romania, now a renowned artist on the international circuit, these postcard sized drawings arranged in grids, are a narrative of his travels.

William Kentridge

Master draftsman William Kentridge uses alter egos Felix Teitlebaum and Soho Eckstein to explore issues of post-apartheid politics in his native South Africa. In this film, the reworking and erasure of charcoal drawings is documented with stop animation. While the characters survey and re-chart abused land, Kentridge defines a figurative role for the artist in society, that of healer.

Bodies of Light

Bill Viola is considered a pioneer in video art. Applies the medium to reveal the elements of human emotion, life and death. He uses both 1970's low budget surveillance camera and the latest High Def Camera marrying the technological gap between the ages. Showing until December 19- at James Cohan Gallery 533 West 26th Street New York NY 10001

Similar work from Venice Bienale 2007 called 'An Ocean without a shore'