Image copied from www.limbicnutrition.com
While Wodiczko is best known for his outdoor projections, especially his 1985 projection of a swastika on the South African embassy, he also constructed a number of “Homeless Vehicles”, produced as the outcome of a design process that involved input from homeless individuals in NYC. The Homeless Vehicles are designed to provide [...]
Cerith Wyn Evans’ wide-ranging opus is not easily categorized. His work often draws source material from literature, history, and philosophy, and might be described as focusing around questions of language, communication, and perception. Wyn Evans aims to create what he calls “a catalyst or reservoir of possible meanings that, for the view, could unravel many [...]
Swoon (Caledonia Curry) makes life-sized paper cutout and wheatpaste murals that she installs in urban environments. She is also known for her floating cities. One such project, the Swimming Cities of Serenissima, crashed the Venice Biannale in 2009.
Upper image linked from http://www.swimmingcities.org/the-rafts/
Lower image linked from jacknifestyle.wordpress.com/2009/03/13/swoon/
I first stumbled across Bakhurin’s Scary-Dolls videos a couple years ago, when looking for a quirky birthday image/video to send a British friend. I found the video “Happy Birthday,” which is described on the website as a “thriller inspired by David Lynch movies in a way.” I was also impressed by the coincidence that Bakhurin animated [...]
Susan Danis is a maker of uncanny objects. She specializes in reliquaries and other unsettling assemblages, such as the “Octopus Egg” pictured above. Here is her contribution to a San Francisco Bay Area Day of the Dead exhibition:
She says:
“I embrace the physical stuff of the world and love using it to create new vocabularies of form and [...]
copied from source: http://www.sustainablepractice.org/
FEATURED ARTIST: DIANNA COHEN
from Miranda Wright | January 25, 2010 | No Comments | Print | Email
as published in the Fall 2009 issue of the CSPA Quarterly
Los Angeles-based multi-media visual artist, painter and curator Dianna Cohen is best known for her two-dimensional and three-dimensional works using recycled plastic bags – sewn together [...]
Chris Jordan on the Colbert Report
Chris Jordan is a photographer/digital artist creating public awareness pieces about mass consumption and waste. His images for a series called, “Running the Numbers,” have just been published in the book, “Running the Numbers. an American self-portrait.” For these pieces he uses multiple iterations of an image (or a few images) to [...]
Thinking Chair
2007 painted wood/mixed media, 26×30×30″
Image copied from www.arthurganson.com; click here for video
Arthur Ganson, self-described combo of “mechanical engineer and choreographer” creates intricate kinetic sculpture (incidentally, he also invented the children’s toy Toobers & Zots). In the work above, Thinking Chair, the machine slowly walks the yellow chair around the top of the stone.
What’s interests [...]
The Animal, Vegetable, Mineralness of Everything
2004 silicone, fiberglass, steel, software, electronics, computers, approx. 48×60×60″
Image copied from www.kenfeingold.com; click here for video
Ken Feingold makes interactive, computer-controlled animatronic sculpture and installations. His recent work features animatronic heads that carry on conversations which are neither completely scripted or totally random, but somewhere between. In Feingold’s words “the software [...]
“Ben Turnbull is fascinated by the global dominance of American culture, and his works unsettling effects result from re-presenting the toys of our innocent youth in symbolic forms that reveal theshocking truths about war, death and guns in the world’s most powerful country.” copied from http://www.whokilledbambi.co.uk/2009/10/ben-turnbull/