MOMA show

I went to see the MOMA show Design and the Elastic Mind, I found it overall quite a good show, although I did feel that as the MOMA tends to do they lumped art and design together based on something random in this case technology.  My favorite pieces were Troika piece titled Newton Virus, in which a virus is inserted into a laptop and it causes the Mac user’s interface to fall down and be subjected to Newton’s theory of gravity.  It’s almost a one liner but it’s funny so it gets away with a lot in my book.  On the other hand I felt Simon Haldane Lightweeds was more of a commentary how we experience nature these days and how little of it is real. Lightweeds is a living piece of art they grow indoors but rely on the sun and rain in the real world to do so.  I also enjoyed Flight Patterns by Aaron Koblin it’s an animated piece which documents the flight pattern for domestic flights in a 24-hour span.

Show opening

If anyone happens to be in Bloomington, IN this summer I’m in a group show at the Kinsey Institute.

The Most Wanted Paintings

Komar & Melamid: The Most Wanted Paintings

http://www.diacenter.org/km/painting.html

http://www.diacenter.org/km/index.html

the getty

Sorry I missed class last week I was in LA on business but I did get a chance to go to the Getty, which was amazing.  I saw two shows there that I thought everyone might enjoy in context of this class.

The first is a video piece by Nicole Cohen, which reminds me of the Telematic Dreaming piece we saw in class.  See the link and a few stills I took while there.

http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/nicole_cohen/

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The second is a Bill Viola video see some stills and a video (although it’s on it’s side)

http://www.getty.edu/news/press/center/viola_release_110807.html

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mash up

i made two mash ups one is a pictogram have a look

http://www.jumpcut.com/view?id=C81713F0DCE311DCBA24000423CF0184

the other is sorta a mash up of photos of conversations i’ve have on skype with a friend living in iceland

http://www.jumpcut.com/view?id=05BAD12EDCC611DCA316000423CEF5B0

toby

Interesting Panel discussion tonight

I can’t make it tonight to this but I thought maybe someone else might be able to

Confounding Expectations: Photography in Context
“Parallel Worlds: Explorations in Second Life”

Wednesday, February 13, 2008 – 7:00 p.m.
The New School, Tishman Auditorium
66 West 12th Street
New York City
Free Admission

Related to a series of articles in Aperture magazine wherein Fred Ritchin explores postphotographic media and emerging technologies, this discussion focuses on the 3D virtual world Second Life, created entirely online by its residents.

Panelists:
Richard Minsky, founder of SLART magazine, a critical review and journal of Second Life Art
Fred Ritchin, New York University professor and a contributing editor of Aperture
Michael Van Horn, curator, the Joseph Monsen Collection, Seattle

funny but is it art?

In the piece entitled “hit em’ up” the artist xtina1693, or better known as Kristina Williamson, uses you tube as a sounding board. This is by no means a finished project but rather a sketch of a larger idea she is interested in. I received this as part of her weekly email in which she asks her community of artists to critic her work. The video starts with a slight move of a red blanket on a bed of similar color. Music starts and what happens next is what you imagine the original video to look like; bopping and gesturing but instead of Tupac it’s the artist covered in the blanket making these gestures and dancing performing as if channeling Tupac. It’s a funny sight. The video goes on and you notice the movements get more indignant, at the same time you get glimpses of a naked knee and behind the figure you notice a drawing of a women on the wall and a sun drenched window with plants and you begin to ask; who is underneath? is she naked? The end of the song quells our question and out emerges a woman in underwear to turn off the video camera, and at that point you wonder is this art or just an average 14 year old playing on a sunny Saturday. In that respect you tube provides a sea of information that can be and will be interpreted in so many ways. As easily as this can be read as deconstructing rap videos to their base form of the music and posturing you can also clam it to be an American’s funniest home video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYiBs4-3KRs