24,000 LED Dress! Technology meets Fashion in the Galaxy Dress

 Attention fashionistas and technological junkies; finally something that utilize the fantastic power of LED technology and the desire for women to express themselves through fashion. This dress is on permanent display at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago Uses the same electricity as two household light bulbs and can run continuously for about a half hour. 

Watch a video of what this dress can do!

Shozo Shimamoto : Gutai Performance Recreated in Italy

A recreation of a Gutai performance by Shozu Shimamoto. He creates a painting by throwing bottles of paint. Gutai art from Japan was highly influenced by the works of Jackson Pollack. Paintings are considered the result or remnant of the performance that entails the artist coming into contact with the medium or materials used.

 Another member of the Gutai group was female artist Atsuko Tanaka who created and wore a dress made entirely of hand painted light bulbs. She risked electrocution every time she wore it.

Do-Ho Suh : Artist to Watch

Transportable environments made entirely of fabric! The idea of site-specific installation is really challenged here because the works of Do-Ho require us to relate to the temporary environment in a similar manner to the way we inhabit every day spaces. Do-Ho Suh is a Korean born artist. Read an interview about his House Project here. Below are some more images of his other works just to give you a taste of the talents he brings in his artistic visions.

And Some of His other work

Kinetica Art Fair 2011 : London

Check out these works and artists that fuse the difference between technology and art. Kinetica Museum hosts an exhibition space in London that features kinetic, technological, and electronic artworks. Links to artists web pages are below!

Neon Works by Diane Harris

Diane Harris 

Photo By Alex Robertson

Dianne Harris is co-founder and artistic director of Kinetica Museum.

                                Whistling Sea 2009 by Jun Ga Yung at the Kinetica Art Fair 2011

Jun Ga Young

Photo by Alex Robertson

Jun Ga Young

I take motifs and principles for my work from music. I produce visible music and audible colour by visualizing the sense of hearing and auralising the sense of sight. I combine sound with colour, creating conditions by which music and colour can communicate. The squares filling The Whistling Sea installation refer to musical measure. When the colour changes, notes can be heard, and melodies bring forth harmony when these notes link together.

Ga Young Jun, South Korea 2010

Fiber Optic Drawing By Carlo Bernardini

Progressive Code 2010

Paper is simply paper as long as it is white, but once you draw on it, it becomes ‘a drawing’. A design in light is a mental drawing that uses dark space.

Fibre optic drawings are in harmony with the place itself, the light creating an interrelation by overcoming the physical walls and transforming the environment in a deceptive way, pushing it to the limits of an illusionary dimension.

An imaginary drawing, executed with the light of optical fibre, can go beyond the walls, where the wholeness can only be reconstructed as a puzzle in the viewer’s mind. The installation takes over the space and incorporates it.

Spatial forms develop a challenging relationship within the space as the optical fibre line passes from room to room piercing the walls and the floors, combining the external environment with the internal one: ‘Permeable space’, the place where light generates space.

Carlo Bernardini, Milan 2009

Tape Installation in Berlin - Sit Specific Work by Numen/For Use

An incredible site-specific work done in Berlin in the summer of 2010. The work is a remnant of dancers movements as they stretch hundreds of rolls of packing tape for several days within a scaffolding structure. Works such as these invite viewers to participate by entering the work and exploring it physically instead of in strictly optical manner. 

Tape Installation Story

And Another Installation inside Odeon in Vienna

Odeon Installation Story

E.V. Day - Artist to Watch

E.V. Day's work is highly inspiring to me.. check her out!  http://www.evday.net/

I like to think of what I do as deconstruction-positive, and a completed piece as usually realized thorough some transformation 

of a sexual or feminized trope into a statement of power and independence. – E.V. Day, P.S. 1 Newspaper, Fall 2006

http://www.evday.net/

A Beginning For Everything

Okay,

So here we go. It's time to start a blog. Type some things, try to choose from a wide array of unsatisfactory images as a temporary background...until one can figure out how to resize her own images the right size for  blogspots demands! Next is arranging the layout so it won't offend anyone for not making sense. I suppose the point might remain not to annoy myself first and foremost. Next is adjusting some lame excuse for what seems to sum one up in a "profile" so that anyone and all can peruse my self-portraits mid-nighting as art to their hearts content. Next.. I guess we start typing, and by we; I of course mean I.  There is no one else here to type this blog. Well occasionally there will be another type of self typing this blog in the middle of the night when I need to avoid reading T.J. Clark or finalizing my senior thesis topic..And here we go, enough blabber, I must speak my truth about why the hell you are here, or why you might be considering leaving this page before I even get to the point...

So welcome to my blog. A blog about art. A blog about inspiration. A blog about whatever art pisses me off.

A blog about art like it is.