Tag Archives: Installation and Site Works

Esther Shalev-Gerz

Over three decades Esther Shalev-Gerz has consistently performed a process of unravelling particularities in order to reflect on the ways in which the generalities of history and memory are constructed. Working with a specific place, a certain moment in history, an urgent question, or a shared experience that resonates through history, Shalev-Gerz mines the personal [...]

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Kirstine Roepstorff

Kirstine Roepstorff belongs to a young generation of artists who are working in a novel way with the technique of collage. Using this medium she has developed an unusual visual language, which she transposes into space-consuming installations, objects and sculptures in order to investigate cultural contexts and trigger new narratives. In a manner that is [...]

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Lynne Hull, Creating Tran-species Art and Sculpture for Wildlife

Environmental Artist and Sculpture:
I discovered Lynne’s work while doing some searching on Nature and Art recently. Her work is very in tune with working with the natural environment. Her work truly integrats with nature and the biological and animal interaction with it is intended.  A link to her website is at the bottom of this [...]

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Alsyon Shotz

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Robert Smithson

 Robert Smithson
Essay:
Cultural Confinement by Robert Smithson

 

Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition , rather than asking an artist to set his limits. Artists are expected to fit into fraudulent categories. Some artists imagine they’ve got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got a hold [...]

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Duke Riley

I found Duke Riley in the most recent edition of ARTnews among a group of artists labeled “artists to watch”. I will bring the magazine to class tonight for any and all interested in reading the article, ARTnews does not have a digital version of it. He is credited to have done multiple “madcap” aquatic [...]

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Shahzia Sikander on the Practice of Art

Speed of Life
Studio notes from the contemporary painter Gregg Chadwick

Tuesday, June 21, 2005

Shahzia Sikander on the Practice of Art

In this exchange between Shahzia Sikander and Art:21 on the nature of art practice, the conversation touches on the place of spirituality in contemporary art. Art:21 defines spirituality as follows:
Spirituality
A [...]

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Brian Eno

still from 77 Million Paintings
image copied from www.longnow.org
Though best known as an innovative and influential composer of experimental and ambient music, Brian Eno has a history of working with a wide range of media, and was a founding member of the Long Now Foundation, an organization that aims to “creatively foster long-term thinking and responsibility [...]

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Buzz Spector

Buzz Spector is an artist and critical writer whose artwork has been shown in such museums and galleries as the Art Institute of Chicago, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, and the Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA. Spector’s work makes frequent use of the book, [...]

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David Rokeby

Cloud, kinetic installation, 2007
Image copied from homepage.mac.com/davidrokeby/
David Rokeby is one of the pioneers of interactive art.  His works explore digital surveillance, artificial perception systems, and kinetic sculpture.
Links:
http://homepage.mac.com/davidrokeby/cloud.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Rokeby
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/3.03/rokeby.html

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