Jakob Hunosøe

Jakob Hunosøe is a Danish photographer. more from the series On Things Ordinary.

BEX & ARTS :RUDY DECELIÈRE

RUDY DECELIÈRE is a Swiss artist working mainly with sound. His artwork consists of sound installations in public spaces or exhibition spaces. He also practises as a soundman and film editor for the cinema.

Video and more Info after the jump

Smallest White Cube on earth

Now you can explore the Museum of Drawers online under:

http://www.schubladenmuseum.com/

Headquaters alternate by Nicholas Sassoon

Nicholas Sassoon produced and released an architectural proposal for the online art collective Computers Club.  See the alternate b&w version for ”STREET SHOW: The Things Between US”.
Soundtrack by Sara Ludy.

SEMICONDUCTOR at FACT Liverpool

Inferno Observatory from Semiconductor on Vimeo.

In the work, these films have been re-contextualised to emphasise and examine three distinct relationships; the erupting volcano as all-powerful and humbling the spectacle as people gather to watch in collective amazement, photograph and be photographed and the taming of the volcano through scientific probing, measurement and human endeavour.
We’re really playing with the idea of the science documentary. Everyone is very familiar now with the very standard format of creating a narrative and a way of documenting science, and hopefully we’re challenging this.- SEMICONDUCTOR

Lorena Turner: Made in China

For this project, items made and packaged in China were purchased in US department stores and bodegas. They remained in their original packaging until they were dusted for fingerprints and then photographed under black lights. This process allowed for the evidence of another's touch, quite possibly the person involved in constructing and packaging the item, to be revealed.
Made in China highlights the human factor and invisible history in each object's production, and forces us to reconsider the relationship those who are leaving their fingerprints on each item may have with it.

 more after the jump

Electroland: Skate 1.0 at A+D Museum, LA

SKATE 1.0 is a sound and light installation by Electroland. It is installed at the A+D Museum in Los Angeles as part of the COME IN! 2: SURF.SKATE.BIKE exhibition. The exhibition dates are from June 14-July 24, 2011.

Link to the Exhibition 
Link to Electroland 

German after the jump

Far an Pretty

Other Worlds by Nicolas Sassoon

Visit somewhere far and pretty

Nicos Livesey: a different clay-stop-motion

Train Logger from Nicos Livesey on Vimeo.

PreBook: cyclo.id by Carsten Nicolai

A decade since its inception on Raster Noton, Ryoji Ikeda and Carsten Nicolai are relaunching their collaborative project, cyclo., a project that focuses on the visualisation of sound and seeks to create a new hybrid of visual art and music. In their shared work, they generate new hybrid forms of audiovisual art and expand the possibilities of digital technology.

Book:

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Essentially the sounds on 'Id' are inextricable from their visual corollary. They're the unmastered sonic illustrations of detailed graphical data, and vice versa, developed from a database of sounds composed to produce visual responses when analysed in real time with the help of stereo image monitoring equipment. Most importantly, the sounds are subservient to the image, hence the record remains purposefully unmastered in order to retain the waveform's original integrity when visualized through an XY phase scope, transcending the usual sound>image dynamic. Release Date: September 2011 Format: 18,5 x 23 cm Features: 328 pages, b/w, hardcover, incl. CD-Rom Language: English Publisher: Gestalten

Gestalten: Link

Carsten Nicolai: http://www.carstennicolai.de/

Vinyl and CD:

Raster Noton: http://www.raster-noton.net/

Maria Fischer: Traumgedanken

Das Buch »Traumgedanken« beinhaltet eine Sammlung an literarischen, philosophischen, psychologischen und wissenschaftlichen Texten, die einen Einblick in verschiedene Sichtweisen rund um das Träumen liefern.

Die Grafik Designerin Maria Fischer aus Augsburg hat 2010 ihr Kommunikationsdesign-Studium abgeschlossen. Momentan arbeite sie bei »Rose Pistola« in München.

Mehr Bilder, mehr Text:/more pictures and english Version below:

Samuel Bianchini: all over

I love this one! strongly recommended to watch it here

All Over is an online artwork based on a series of images composed of typographic characters in the manner of ASCII art, that is using the display techniques of the first computers. In this case, however, the figures and letters composing the images are dynamic and keep changing: they are generated in real time following the rise and fall of stock market indexes around the world. The originally still images change according to the volume of financial transactions, which simultaneously feed and disrupt the photographs. The images are destabilized by the display system, and their meaning in turn becomes unstable. Caught between the digital and the financial, and between two forms of representation, these pictures without captions seem to be constantly struggling for their visibility and their uncertain reality. What is it that they show us? A demonstration, traders, supporters, a religious or political rally...?

New Book: Switching Codes

Switching Codes

Thinking Through Digital Technology in the Humanities and the Art

"At a moment when culture’s digital makeover seems to have induced epistemological vertigo in many, Switching Codes offers a timely and well-targeted intervention…. Bartscherer, Coover, and their authors take up the challenges posed by the digital arts and humanities, mapping their new contexts, defining their analytic repertoire, and compelling a fresh set of insights. More than a portrait of our times, Switching Codes exemplifies the very logics that it explicates."
William Uricchio, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

via: The University of Chicago Press

Interactive art with wooden mirrors

Untitled (Hello World)

The Untitled (Hello World) sign by Valentin Ruhry is an enormous grid of 5,000 orange rocker switches that illuminate when switched on. The piece is currently on display as part of the Fünf Räume (five rooms) exhibition at the Austrian Cultural Forum NYC through September 5. I can only hope they might let you flick a few of these awesomely tactile switches. (via triangulation)

Design Miami: Jean Prouvé

For the first time in public, the Galerie Patrick Seguin will present live, every day, the set up of a Jean Prouvé 6 × 6 meter demountable bungalow, created for the war victims in Lorraine.

6x6 Dismountable house
Jean Prouvé
Metal and wood
6x6m
Courtesy of: Galerie Patrick Seguin

A very nice book about Jean Prouvés teaching at CNAM: "Prouve : Cours du CNAM, 1957-1970"

For more Info visit Galerie Patrick Seguin here.

Hacking the City

Hacking the City took place on the occasion of the “European Capital of Culture RUHR.2010.”
Participants were artists, web designers, practitioners of guerrilla communication, street artists, performers, and musicians. Among these are: Boran Burchhardt, Peter Bux, Brad Downey, San Keller, Knowbotic Research, Christin Lahr, M+M, !Mediengruppe Bitnik, Richard Reynolds, Jörg Steinmann, Michelle Teran, Stefanie Trojan, Annette Wehrmann, V2A.net, Georg Winter. Further projects will be presented at the “Base Station” in the museum and on the website: www.hackingthecity.org.

The reader includes a richly illustrated documentation about all activities and text contributions by artists and theorists.

Bestellen über: Museum Folkwang

Edition Folkwang / Steidl
Herausgeber: Museum Folkwang, Sabine Maria Schmidt
Grafik: V2A.Net, Essen
englisch / deutsch
288 Seiten, zahlreiche Abbildungen
Erste Auflage 2011
ISBN 978-3-86930-187-7

RYOJI IKEDA: The Transfinite

Ryoji Ikeda
A Japanese sound and visual artist who lives and works in Paris, Ikeda has collaborated with such artists as choreographer William Forsythe, architect Toyo Ito, musician and visual artist Carsten Nicolai, and photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto. Shown widely in Europe and Japan, this is his first major installation in the United States.

Best of Art Basel the 42nd so far

The Earth turns without me.

Work by swiss artist Christian Waldvogel. to fully understand this great project visit:
The Earth turns without me.

The Earth turns about one degree of longitude every 4 minutes. In Switzerland, this amounts to 1158km/h, supersonic at altitudes above 4'000m AMSL.
Flying westward at said speed in a Swiss Air Force Tiger F–5, we didn't turn with the Earth from Glarus to Lucerne. We documented the standstill by taking a picture of the Sun during those four minutes, which resulted in a point.

Portrait of the artist not turning with the Earth

The standstill point
(4 minute exposure not turning with the Earth)

Diagram showing the pinhole camera built into the rear cockpit