Author Archives: jolanta
Matt Forrest
Searching for a way to develop cross cultural spiritualized imagery and applying it to current concerns in contemporary printmaking Searching for a way to develop cross cultural spiritualized imagery and applying it to current concerns in contemporary printmaking, I am driven to link historical and mythological iconography with the free play of recent art discourse […]
My Affair With Graphic Design – Julie Joliat
Can we call graphic design “art”? There are two approaches: one is when I work to express myself, the other is when clients come with a request and I have to find a solution. But, in both cases, there is a similitude: creation. It feels sometimes like graphic design consists of solving problems. I have […]
Deng Guo Yuan – Laurens Tan
On September 26th, last year, the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts celebrated its Centenary Anniversary. The Academy may be seen as Tianjin’s key contemporary cultural agency in promoting new visions and technologies within the Fine Arts—both traditional and synthesis practices are offered in its courses. Deng Guo Yuan – Laurens Tan Guo Yuan, […]
Civic Culture Spotting: Tainjin – Laurens Tan
My proposal to research the civic role of public sculpture in China was the basis for the Australia-China Council artist in residency in Beijing. This research was to inform my new work for “Critical Mass,” an Australia-China exhibition to be held in Sydney and Beijing during the Olympics in 2008 (curated by Binghui Huangfu, of […]
Sibylle Hauert & Daniel Reichmuth
Sibylle Hauert and Daniel Reichmuth work together as artists and performer in the field of new media art and research… Sibylle Hauert and Daniel Reichmuth work together as artists and performer in the field of new media art and research with an educational and training background in theatre, music and electrical engineering. They work on […]
Isabelle Radtke
Isabelle Radtke tackles poetry. Helmeted, protected, she attacks the iron… The surrounds resonates from her hammering, the grinder’s whistles. Isabelle Radtke tackles poetry. Helmeted, protected, she attacks the iron… The surrounds resonates from her hammering, the grinder’s whistles. Arranging fixtures and supports, little by little, she gives the sheet of steel a volume; puts it […]
Ruth Rintel Noy
As an artist, I am concerned with the various aspects of space as well as with the different layers of perception and consciousness. As an artist, I am concerned with the various aspects of space as well as with the different layers of perception and consciousness. I often try to explore non-traditional ways of dealing […]
Can Someone Please Feed the Cat – Stephane Tartelin
I don’t know exactly when I started drawing. As far back as I can remember, I always had a pen in my hand and ideas inside my mind. Then I started exploring computer graphics at 15 years of age and I never stopped enjoying this mix of drawing and technology. After five years of professional […]
Returning Debt – Qiu Zhijie on time and bricks of Zhang Hui
Zhang Hui once acted the lead role in a movie called Soap Opera, by Wu Ershan. The plot revolved around a middle-aged man who was tortured by the racket of everyday life, constantly struggling in the intermediary space between normal and abnormal. The expression of the man’s face was always that of numbness, like a […]
The Architecture of Risk – Laurens Tan
As a platform for my findings and proposals, octomat.com was formed in 1996 as entrepreneurial design research model. Octomat works to link the disciplines of industrial design, sculpture, multimedia, animation and cultural studies with a broad interest in game theories in order to contemplate the game as metaphor. The octomat logo is a brand-figuration of […]
