HUNTING IN THE DARK

  • Solace (2011, kinetic light installation) « Nicky Assmann

    Solace is a cinematic installation that explores the mental process and physical activity of seeing. At regular intervals a handcrafted apparatus creates a soap film as a spatial intervention. Through precise lighting the inner movement of the soap film is revealed, showing a turbulent choreography of iridescent color and fluid motion. As gravity slowly gets a hold of the membrane the viewer can be fascinated with the phenomenon, until inevitably the fragile film bursts.

    via Solace (2011, kinetic light installation) « Nicky Assmann.

  • Lawrence Malstaf

    Lawrence Malstaf / Galerie Fortlaan 17 /

    The work of Lawrence Malstaf can be situated on the borderline between the visual and the theatrical. After having studied industrial design, Lawrence Malstaf starts of in theatre. He designs scenographies for choreographers and directors as Benoît Lachambre, Meg Stuart and Kirsten Delholm. Soon he develops more into installation and performance-art with a strong focus on movement, coincidence, order and chaos. In 2000 he makes a series of sensorial rooms for individual visitors (Nemo Observatorium, Mirror, Pericope/Horizon Machine). Later he creates larger mobile environments dealing with space and orientation often using the visitor as a co-actor (Orbit, Nevel, Compass, Boreas, Transporter). His projects often involve advanced technology as a point of departure or inspiration but also to activate the installations. Lawrence Malstaf is exhibiting internationally and in 2008 he wins the Witteveen + Bos – prize for Art + Technology (NL), in 2009 he receives the Golden Nica at Prix Ars Electronica (A) an in 2010 he is the winner of the Excellence Prize at The 13th Japan Media Arts Festival in Tokyo (JP).

    via Lawrence Malstaf / Galerie Fortlaan 17 /.

  • Radical Autonomy @ Netwerk, Aalst

    More and more art is supposed to serve a(n) (art)theoretical or a political discourse, to cause an effect, to ‘do something’. Radical Autonomy counters this tendency by showing that art is capable of proposing an alternative and possibly better society, precisely because of its autonomous position. The participating artists share a conceptual approach and a minimalist design, while influenced by conceptual art, Fluxus and Zero. Their works are a radically autonomous: they are intimate, condensed, referring to themselves and force the beholder to focus.

    via Netwerk

  • The Colors of Black & White by Gábor Ősz

    The basic idea for this project came from my earlier work based on the principle of camera obscura. Similarly to transparency, the Ciba chrome paper produces a direct, positive picture in color. By contrast, the direct exposure of black-and-white photographic paper yields a negative image. On black-and-white paper the only way to circumvent this and to make sure that the resulting picture is in positive, reality should be transformed to negative.

    Gábor Ősz.

  • Roger Scruton – Why Beauty Matters (2009) – BBC documentary

    http://youtu.be/RiajXQUppYY

  • New York Stereoscopic Society

  • Exquisite corpse

    Exquisite corpse, also known as exquisite cadaver from the original French term cadavre exquis or rotating corpse, is a method by which a collection of words or images is collectively assembled. Each collaborator adds to a composition in sequence, either by following a rule e.g. “The adjective noun adverb verb the adjective noun” or by being allowed to see the end of what the previous person contributed.

    via Exquisite corpse – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

  • Muur – Reinaart Vanhoe

  • Birdwatching / Benjamin van de Walle

    [vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/10725723 w=600&]

    Birdwatching extract 1 from Benjamin Vandewalle on Vimeo.

  • smartgeometry 2012: manta – acoustically responsive sculpture

    designers guillermo bernal, zackery belanger, eric ameres, and seth edwards have sent designboom their project ‘manta’, an acoustically reactivesuspended sculpture developed as part of smartgeometry 2012 a four-day workshop and symposium in troy, new york, USA.the interdisciplinary project is a dynamic manifestation displaying the incorporation of architecture, fabrication, interactive technologyand research in acoustics into an actualized form. ‘manta’ is formed from a system of CNC machined panels and connectors comprisedof high-density polyethylene while it’s shape results from bending stiffness and triangulation. the hanging piece makes use of its rigging,infrastructure and home in an acoustically inert environment in order to become a truly kinetic sculptural work.

    via smartgeometry 2012: manta – acoustically responsive sculpture.

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