Showing posts with label Technology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Technology. Show all posts

Monday, February 25, 2013

MOAH: Museum of Art & History, Lancaster, CA

 Over the weekend I went to MOAH for the first time for an artist talk and had the pleasure of encountering work by several artists whom I adore. Below is an installation by Megan Geckler, whose site-specific installations are created with materials not intended for art making. I was thrilled to finally see a work in person. The layout of the museum allowed for viewers to see the piece from the ground floor and from the second floor of the atrium. Rewritten by Machine on New Technology  is on view from January 26th, 2013- March 10, 2013.

Megan Geckler. Rewritten by Machine on New Technology, 2013.


 Also on view were some colorful PODS by Gisela Colon, a fantastic interactive installation Nervous Structure by Cuppetelli/Mendoza and a fiber installation by Nike Schroder, 34˚N 118˚W which was especially wonderful but very difficult to photograph due to its size and position in the entry Atrium.



 
 Cuppetelli/Mendoza, Nervous Structure
Cuppetelli/Mendoza, Nervous Structure





 Overall, I was incredibly impressed with the space and the selection of contemporary works on view and despite the lengthy drive from Los Angeles, I will definitely return.


Wednesday, February 16, 2011

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.

Sunday, February 13, 2011

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
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