Lorenzo Durantini embraces old hardware and uses it to create impressive pieces of art. His works 2,216 VHS Tapes and 445,368 meters use old VHS and audio tapes to build towers, flood rooms with meters of tape or simply make a comment on the fast pace of the digital era we live in. In other words, he simply turns what
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(So here I am, another Grateful Grapefruit poster. I’m Peter and I hail originally from Burlington, Vermont, but I study New Media outside of NYC at SUNY Purchase. Expect posts from me regarding local NYC artists, happenings, and other things.) This past week I attended a very interesting new media art show at Chelsea gallery Postmasters on the corner of
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I came across Jaime’s videos maybe a week or two ago, when my good friend Pino showed me a video of a struggling musician in an over-dramatized music video showing a bearded guy with a guitar wonder the streets, collecting coins from the ground and playing in an empty venue. Of course Pino was drooling over the guy, however I
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This Friday Prosume This! opens from 5 till 7 PM – the Product is the Medium, at the electronics store BEKO at Kottbusser str 9 in Berlin. Beko is a typical mid sized electronic retail chain that will lend the organizers some of their corporate space. Prosume This will use 30 of their in-store high definition screens to show works
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Brian Donnelly’s creatures exist in a perpetual state of encroachment and human-animal cross-breeding. And somehow, some of them arouse me. Brian Donnelly is a Canadian born painter working in Toronto. A graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design’s painting program in 2003, Brian has actively been questioning the role of the figure in contemporary painting for the last
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Because appearance is everything, you should buy S. T VALENTIN. At least that’s what the slogan of the sophisticated store in Aarhus, Denmark. In the small city with almost 250 thousand citizens, there seem to be a lot of picky gentleman with fine taste, since the shop is calling out to a very special breed of clientele. S. T VALENTIN is
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Wonwei and Shanghai-based design studio Super Nature Design collaborated on an interactive art installation for the 2011 International Science and Art Exhibition in Shanghai. The installation, named PRISMA 1666, focuses on the light refraction properties of a prism, allowing the user to experience these properties by interacting with various colors, angles, and shapes being projected onto a group of prisms. The installation
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Christian Straub is back and this time he brings many things into motion, however on a metaphysical level. Things talk relationships. This is the premise for THE GAME OF THINGS, Cristian Straub’s latest fashion short film for German fashion label Ethel Vaughn. A woman is haunted by her past, by things and moments she once shared with someone. As the film unfolds we get
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Baden Pailthorpe is an Australian interdisciplinary artist currently based in Paris, France. Situated broadly in the field of new media, his work explores technologies and their political, cultural and conceptual potential. Baden Pailthorpe holds masters degrees from the Université Paris VIII, Vincennes—Saint Denis, France, and the College of Fine Arts, UNSW, Sydney, Australia. Pailthorpe has recently received funding from the Australia Council for
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Maurizio Cattelan – one of the most influential art pranksters and agent provocateurs today – has turned the Guggenheim’s rotunda into a floating labyrinth with his hanging exhibition featuring effigies, surrogates and taxidermy animals. Nancy Spector, the chief curator of the Guggenheim Museum in New York, worked with Cattelan in putting the show All together. She is reassuring that all animals in the
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Luca Mantovanelli is not your usual new artsy kid on the blog. He’s not obsessed with himself; he didn’t invest in an old Polaroid camera and hoped to get rich and famous overnight; and most of all – he’s got real, raw talent. Luca is born June 11 1984 somewhere around Brescia. He lived there until the end of high school,
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This is a little disturbing. No, this is big time disturbing. I hope Josh Keyes doesn’t have the crazy ability of seeing the future and painting it (Heroes reference, anyone?) As a kid I always collected different types of encyclopedia but always loved and preferred those with pictures in them in stead of those with photographic images. Somehow it gave
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