Author Archives: jolanta
DADA Deconstructed & Resurrected by MoMA – Valery Oisteanu
Once upon a time, in a faraway land, there was Dada whose light burned briefly but brightly. What was Dada? As Tristan Tzara put it, “Dada is a state of mind. Dada is a supreme religion of truth and true feelings, feelings that can be communicated through ‘wireless telepathy.’ Dada is the collective power of […]
The Wolkowitz Aesthetic: Pulsating Futures – Andrea Liu
Upon entering the Bryce Wolkowitz gallery in Chelsea, New York, one often feels an uncanny sensation of skating the rims of a futuristic otherworldiness: a cryptic hollowed-out future void of human meaning, oddly detached yet doomed in its aura of absence of human-motivated intentionality. The pieces in Wolkowitz’s exhibitions often seem to coalesce into a […]
At the Beach with Dellamarie Parilli and Thomas Nuzum – Ann Landi and Edward Rubin
Marijana Bego, the ebullient director of the Ezair Gallery at the beach community of Southampton, could not have selected a more refreshing pairing for their August summer show than that of painters Dellamarie Parilli and Thomas Nuzum. Nor could the artists, both of whom live overlooking water in their home states, have asked for a […]
Transcending Physicality through Materials – Camilla Belchoir
A silent, scentless, slick and sinuous column of smoke travels 36 meters upward from the ground into the oculus of the rotunda above it at the speed of 120 kilometers per hour, continuously disappearing into a void. That which is deemed immaterial is here material. The impact of this blurring of boundaries and certainties is […]
Andrew Lewandowski
My work is intuitive in nature. I seek to allow the subconscious to lead as a work progresses. My work is intuitive in nature. I seek to allow the subconscious to lead as a work progresses. The result of this is a constant dialog between the media and mind. I use line an color to […]
Lovely Beads and Things – Leah Oates
Leah Oates: Please describe your work in terms of your processes, themes and content?Gae Savannah: Currently I am working with Chinese bamboo plant stands, benches and other furniture. I’m stacking the benches, creating towers with light inside some of the tiers. The work references a bunch of things such as the excessive decoration and simultaneous […]
Digital Landfill – Matilde Digmann talks with Mark Napier
As a pioneer in digital art, Mark Napier started the potatoland.org site in 1995 and made the interactive piece Digital Landfill in 1998. I had a talk with Mark about his view on the position of new media arts, the dissapperance of the object in art and the new role of the artist.Matilde Digmann: Can […]
Who Resists Big Brother? – Rodrigo Tisi
El Colectivo de Arte la Vitrina was granted a FONDART grant (governmental funds for the development of the arts in Chile) during 2004 and 2005. The project “Status Quo,” recognized in the category of “excellence,” proposed a trilogy to comment on issues of power as a result of the political and economical structures we live […]
Storylines: Narrative in Drawing – Curator Frank Verpoorten
From a theoretical and linguistic point of view, one could argue that, since its inception, drawing as a medium has undergone a transformation from syntagm to paradigm, or from a primary form of communication to a refined, optional carrier of embedded narration. The basic human impulse to formulate information into a story has always figured […]
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
For more than a decade, I have been developing interactive art installations that seek to create connective, social and performative experiences. Contrary to most multimedia work, which is designed for individual participation, my pieces are normally conceived for group interaction, establishing new relationships between local or remote participants. My work involves the concept of “relational […]
