Sonia Andrade – video artist

This is a video of Sonia Andrade’s work. This is her showing in Rio de Janeiro Brazil at Galeria Tempo.    

“The Art of Sleep”

The title of this piece stood out from the rest of the artwork to me. The thumbnail was just a blank box as opposed to all the other colorful eye-catching pieces. The piece is simple; comprised of a plain blank canvas with changing big black font that is synchronized to a catchy soundtrack. The artist, Young-Hae Chang, does a great job of pacing the sentences to keep the viewer interested enough to keep reading, well, at least for me. I felt like he was trying to be a little too artsy with it (maybe trying to prove his “art”work), but overall, I thought his presentation and concept were simple and intriguing. It’s kind of long.. http://www.tate.org.uk/netart/artofsleep/ It’s not letting me link the Gif/thumbnail to link to the website so please copy and paste the address.

East Art Map

http://www.eastartmap.org/

this is a really nice little interface of a map of a history of art in Eastern Europe from 1945-2004, it is broken down into country, artists, time period and movements. And it’s open access so one could submit artists to add or even suggest replacement artists, you have to submit an argument as to why… and then a panel reviews it. An entirely malleable history of art in Eastern Europe that is in support of connecting movements and idea flows of artists with their influence and the consequential networking of specific geographies.

‘history is not given, please help to construct it.’