from New Scientist via Arthur Magazine [http://www.arthurmag.com/2010/02/10/new-black-hole-simulator/]
Thursday 25 February 2010
Monday 22 February 2010
Live Jasmine - Depressing Conversation #1 [Porn Negative Space]
- Text: A copy/paste from a Live Jasmine chat, mostly between YouWithMe the "host" and aks000.
- Video: Peripheries of user YouWithMe's adult webcam show hosted by Live Jasmine.
- Audio: Techno/trance-type song playing in background, recorded and molested.
- Sofa: Abstract Expressionist Ikea
Porn Copyright Violation [Porn Negative Space]
Television and fan playing hide and seek.
Text-to-Speech taken from advert posted on Freelancer.com requesting someone to monitor illegal uploads and filesharing of porn.
Video: Porn Negative Space of clip entitled "5062_Von_Halbschwester_entjungfert"
Saturday 20 February 2010
Friday 19 February 2010
Campbell's Neuro-Warhol Soup
Food label designed by "neurological and bodily responses"
From the Wall Street Journal via Good: Campbell's Soup redesigns a label using "neuromarketing" techniques.
Crash: Homage to JG Ballard - Gagosian Gallery London
Crash: Homage to JG Ballard
Author: Simon Sellars • Feb 12th, 2010 •
Ed Ruscha. Fountain of Crystal, 2009. Acrylic on canvas. 30 1/8 x 36 1/8 inches (76.5 x 91.8 cm).
Press Release
Gagosian Gallery
6-24 Britannia St London WC1X 9JD
t. 020.7841.9960 f. 020.7841.9961
Gallery hours: Tue – Sat: 10:00am– 6:00pm
Thursday, 11 February – Thursday, 1 April 2010
Opening reception: Thursday, February 11th from 6 to 8pm
I have used the car not only as a sexual image, but as a total metaphor for man’s life in today’s society.
JG Ballard
Gagosian Gallery London will present “Crash,” a major group exhibition opening on 11 February 2010, which takes its title from the famous novel by JG Ballard.
Ballard’s novels stand among the most visionary, provocative literature of the twentieth century, with his ominous predictions regarding the fate of Western culture and his insights into the dark psychopathology of the human race. This exhibition is a response to the enormous impact and enduring cultural significance of his work, following his death in spring 2009. Highlighting Ballard’s great passion for the surreal and his engagement with the artists of his own generation, “Crash” includes examples of his specific inspirations as well as works by contemporary artists who have, in turn, been inspired by his vision.
Ballard’s first published short story “Prima Belladonna” appeared in 1956, the same year as the celebrated Independent Group’s exhibition “This is Tomorrow” at the Whitechapel Gallery, which marked the birth of Pop Art in Britain. It was here, and in the work of Surrealists such as Salvador Dali and Paul Delvaux, that Ballard found the seeds of what he called a “fiction for the present day”. With its dystopian depictions of the present and future, its bleak, man-made landscapes and the recounting of the psychological effects of technological, social and environmental developments on humans, his work has resonated strongly among other writers, filmmakers and visual artists. The exhibition “Crash” brings together works by artists tuned to the Ballardian universe, from his contemporaries such as Ed Ruscha, Richard Hamilton, Andy Warhol and Helmut Newton, to younger artists such as Tacita Dean, Jenny Saville, Glenn Brown and Mike Nelson.
The exhibition is organised in association with the Estate of JG Ballard.
List of artists: Richard Artschwager, Francis Bacon, JG Ballard, Hans Bellmer, Glenn Brown, Chris Burden, Jake & Dinos Chapman, John Currin, Salvador Dalí, Giorgio de Chirico, Tacita Dean, Jeremy Deller, Paul Delvaux, Cyprien Gaillard, Douglas Gordon, Loris Gréaud, Richard Hamilton, John Hilliard and Jemima Stehli, Roger Hiorns, Damien Hirst, Dan Holdsworth, Carsten Höller, Edward Hopper, Allen Jones, Mike Kelley, Jeff Koons, Roy Lichtenstein, Vera Lutter, Florian Maier-Aichen, Paul McCarthy, Adam McEwen, Dan Mitchell, Malcolm Morley, Mike Nelson, Helmut Newton, Cady Noland, Claes Oldenburg, Eduardo Paolozzi, Steven Parrino, Richard Prince, Robert Rauschenberg, Gerhard Richter, Ed Ruscha, Jenny Saville, George Shaw, Cindy Sherman, Piotr Uklański, Andy Warhol, Rachel Whiteread, Christopher Williams, Jane and Louise Wilson, Christopher Wool and Cerith Wyn Evans.
For further inquiries please contact the gallery at london@gagosian.com or at +44.207.841.9960.
More information here.
Thursday 18 February 2010
Exploded Images of Everyday Objects
via Boing Boing:
“Artist Adam Voorhes has created a series of exploded images of everyday objects, including an Etch-a-Sketch, a handgun, a frog, and a rotary phone (my favorite, pictured here. Man, that thing is a tank).”
Wednesday 17 February 2010
A Thousand Windows
Found these from a series called "A Thousand Windows" - Ben Hartschuh via a YouTube message.
A similar aesthetic I have been attempting with Porn Negative Space
From the Artist's Statement section of website:
"I saw this one where a couple was just sleeping. The lights were on and they were sleeping.No sound though, you couldn’t hear him snore. One hundred and sixty-seven viewers,watching them sleep. Maybe if I wait long enough they’ll start having sex. A friend saw. “I couldn’t have this, I wouldn’t leave the house,” she said. A thousand windows and each have their own story. In another, a man in a garter belt and panty hose stood in front of his television. I couldn’t see what was playing, it was distorted in the darkness of the background. It’s the depths that get me. The distance, male and female, planes of focus. Separation. Another, the girl in the back undresses, coolly, and without much effort or excitement rubs her breasts. Fifteen more viewers. The man turns; maybe it’s his encouraging words or her impatience, only time will tell. Sixty more then, they’re in the triple digits now. Playing to hundreds of homes. They’re active participants, exhibitionists and voyeurs, feeding off each other. What makes us so curious about what goes on in others homes, yet so shocked to see it? Why do the lives of others seem much more interesting than our own? If a camera watched you who would look through from the other side? How would they view you? This work presents life seen only by those who choose to seek, or desire to be sought. Set up by the subjects themselves, cameras broadcast the alluring, the boring, the playful, the disturbing, the demure, and the insatiable. I’ve chosen to show you only pieces of the whole, moments frozen. If we can ponder the instant does it become more real? It is up to you to decide right or wrong, to be turned on or mortified, curious or condemning. They are playing for you."
Please Rob Me
From Brand Republic: Quite scary - Why you REALLY shouldn't broadcast your location on social media sites
SurveillanceSaver
Link: http://code.google.com/p/surveillancesaver/
“SurveillanceSaver is a screensaver for OS X and Windows that shows live images of over 400 network surveillance cameras worldwide. A haunting live soap opera.”
Tuesday 16 February 2010
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