See Lars Vikks’ answer to the question in five parts on Youtube:
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sUE68stj6g
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3ZjpDwY8BQ
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Agn9PngjmI8
Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_Xw0alXkU0
Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HgZSFoNENo
NB: Recommended for discursive purposes! What do YOU think?
While going through my inbox (long story!! weird behavior!! strange fusions going on!!) I found this link to a project that might be interesting for Kristian and Anja and anybody else interested in robotic creatures for that matter.
/mattias
For those of you looking for archives of text, video, photography and so on, here a couple of good resources:
Internet Archive:
“The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public.”
For those looking for old film/tv footage for download, got to the Prelinger Archive.
URL: http://www.archive.org/index.php
UbuWeb:
Open Art Archive
URL: http://www.ubu.com/
Thinking about the piece Richardo is setting up at the moment, I remembered this project by among others Hans-Christoph Steiner a NY based sound artist that I had the pleasure of meeting last year in Montreal.
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(Particularly for Anja, and Kristian)
Charlie White is a Los Angeles photographer, or rather he constructs hyperreal photographs.
IMG: Friday Night by Charlie White (from his website)
URL: http://www.charliewhite.info/sub/work/2001/Joshua/fridaymed.jpg
“Using a combination of fiction, artifice, and make-believe to represent the human condition, many of White’s photographs explore America’s social fictions and the tensions in identity and perception they generate. White shares a relationship with the directorial forms of photography practised by such artists as Gregory Crewdson and Jeff Wall. Applying cinematic techniques, his set-up photographs are directed and staged narrative stills. This narrative focus can be perceived in his previous photographic series like In a Matter of Days (1999) or Understanding Joshua (2001) which employ a pictorial play between reality and fiction, occasionally taken to grotesque extremes. Understanding Joshua is a series of photos of a puppet meant to represent “complete fragility manifest in a body,” placed in various situations related to human relationships.”
[from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_White_(artist) ]
URLS:
A couple of links to sites and projects that I like and use regularly:
http://createdigitalmotion.com/
http://createdigitalmusic.com/
http://www.oswalt.de/en/text/txt/xenakis.html
(For Anja’s attention)
Here’s a link to a bio art project by Eduardo Kac – GFP (the green flourescent protein bunny)
“My transgenic artwork “GFP Bunny” comprises the creation of a green fluorescent rabbit, the public dialogue generated by the project, and the social integration of the rabbit. GFP stands for green fluorescent protein. “GFP Bunny” was realized in 2000 and first presented publicly in Avignon, France. Transgenic art, I proposed elsewhere [1], is a new art form based on the use of genetic engineering to transfer natural or synthetic genes to an organism, to create unique living beings. This must be done with great care, with acknowledgment of the complex issues thus raised and, above all, with a commitment to respect, nurture, and love the life thus created.” [from Kac's website]
Alba, the fluorescent bunny.
Photo: Chrystelle Fontaine
(An artist for Bettina!)
Check out Alfredo Jaar’s project called The Skoghall Konsthall, 2000, in which he built an art space with paper walls for the small community of Skoghall, Sweden, and then burnt it down again just 24 hours after it was opened.
Of particular interest to Karen and Janna:
Bernie Lubell is an artist living in San Francisco, CA.
I make interactive installations that focus on the intersection of science and the arts — but my work is adamantly low -tech. These installations use no computers or video or motors and are entirely powered by visitors to the show.
(read more of his artist statement here)
(Photo: Per Platou)
This picture is of me at Lubell’s exhibition at the Pasadena Art Gallery, LA, May 2008, cranking myself into one of his works. It’s very noisy inside the coffin, with sounds generated by the springs you can see in the photo, as well as other parts of his exhibition. Once you’ve had enough of being inside, you can simply crank yourself back to the world of the living! The man on the right is media archaeologist, Erkki Huhtamo, and curator of the exhibition. Google him. It’s worth it!
URLS
Bernie Lubell’s website
The Etiology of Innocence. (Streaming video). Bernie Lubell speaks at the UCLA Graduate Lecture Series — March 3, 2008.
