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    October 7 – November 6, 2016

    About the Project

    Doom•oc•ra•cy (dü-ˈmä-krə-sē), n.

    1. A form of government in which the supreme power is vested in a tyrant by a terrified general electorate. 2. The esoteric arithmetic that makes the electoral process malleable. 3. A corporate coup d’état in slow motion. 4. Permanent global war waged in the name of freedom. 5. A house of political horrors at the Brooklyn Army Terminal from October 7 to November 6.

     

    Exchanging political fights for political frights, Creative Time and Pedro Reyes will take over the Brooklyn Army Terminal this October in an exciting new collaboration. Doomocracy, a major new immersive installation by Reyes, will mark the confluence of two events haunting the American cultural imagination: Halloween and the presidential election.

     

    How much surveillance are we willing to accept? How much pollution? How much corporate malfeasance? Provoking what Reyes calls “political catharsis,” this immersive artwork will distill the horrors of our political landscape into the form of a haunted house, inviting us to navigate a maze of near apocalyptic torments, from climate change to pandemic gun violence to GMOs. Visitors to Doomocracy will work their way through a labyrinth of rooms, exploring the depth and breadth of American political anxieties.

    Opening to the public Oct. 7, running through Halloween, and concluding just days before November’s election, Doomocracy will occupy a vital moment in US history, offering the perfect platform and location to create real dialogue around the contemporary state of global and US politics. Doomocracy is curated by Nato Thompson and directed by Meghan Finn, and is free and open to the public, although tickets are limited and must be reserved in advance. Tickets will go live in mid-September, but early bird tickets are available now by supporting the project’s Kickstarter campaign here.

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    CANADA is pleased to announce Bricks are Heavy, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Elizabeth McIntosh.

    Known for her bold, colorful abstraction, Vancouver-based artist Elizabeth McIntosh has exhibited widely across Canada. Her paintings reside in the collections of the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Art Gallery of Ontario, The National Gallery of Canada and the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal.

    In the process of making this work the artist developed a new system that combines her longtime interests in pattern and geometry with personal narrative and elements from historical painting. Reminiscent of paper dolls in their state of unfolding, the paintings reference figuration through abstract sensibilities.

    Composed intuitively, they evoke forms from nature, like a late summer sunset or bites taken out of a leaf. Pictures are mirrored and flipped, a series of snapshots experienced vividly with the benefit of imagination, blown out colors, holes punched in realities and tents pitched in histories both recent and long ago. McIntosh positions painting on the edge of language, her exploration is a celebration of the medium and its lasting impact. Bricks are Heavy is McIntosh’s first solo exhibition in New York.

    McIntosh holds a an MFA from Chelsea College of Art, London and a BFA from York University, Toronto. Her work has been included in exhibitions at VENUS, Los Angeles (2016); the Logan Centre, University of Chicago (2014); MOCCA, Toronto (2012) and the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver(2010).  She is featured in Vitamin P3: New Perspectives In Painting (Phaidon Books, 2016), a monograph of her work was published by ECU Press (2010), was the recipient of the 2013 VIVA Award and has been granted the Fogo Island Residency in 2017. Her works are held in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, Museé d’art Contemporain, Montreal, the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto and the Vancouver Art Gallery. McIntosh is an Associate Professor at Emily Carr University of Art and Design.

    For more than 20 years, Doug Aitken has shifted the perception and location of images and narratives. His multichannel video installations, sculptures, photographs, publications, happenings, and architectural works demonstrate the nature and structure of our ever-mobile, ever-changing, image-based contemporary condition. With a profound knowledge and understanding of the history of 20th-century avant-gardes, experimental music, and cinema, and an intimate kinship with the protest movements of the late 1960s, Aitken has invented a unique immersive aesthetic. Rooted in interdisciplinary collaborations, and the broad availability of images and the vulnerability of individuals, his work accounts for the cool but relentless human, industrial, urban, and environmental entropy that defines 21st-century existence.

    ​Doug Aitken: Electric Earth, Aitken’s first North American survey, is organized as a full collaboration and dialogue with the artist. From his breakthrough installation diamond sea (1997) to his most recent event-based work Black Mirror (2011), the exhibition unfolds around the major moving-image installations that articulate his thematic interest in environmental and post-industrial decay, urban abandonment, and the exhaustion of linear time. Conceptualized as an entropic landscape suspended between city, broadcasting machine, and labyrinth, the exhibition is punctuated by the signs, sculptures, photographic images, and altered furniture—all unbound from vernacular language and culture—that Aitken has conceived over the years. The exhibition will also include Aitken’s less exhibited collages and drawings, as well as his work with architecture, printed matter, artist’s books, and graphic design. The exhibition’s logic incorporates that of the nomadic cultural incubator, cross-continental happening and moving earthwork Station to Station (2013), which, like so many of Aitken’s works, embraces a collaborative spirit across disciplines and beyond walls to reimagine the nature of what a work of art can be and of what an art experience can achieve.

    Doug Aitken: Electric Earth is organized by MOCA Director Philippe Vergne, with Wendy Stark Curatorial Fellow Anna Katz.

    Lead support is provided by the Annenberg Foundation, The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation, Aileen Getty Foundation, Eugenio Lopez, LUMA Foundation, Maurice Marciano, Carolyn Powers, and Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo.

    Major support is provided by Mandy and Cliff Einstein, Mimi and Peter Haas Fund, and Panasonic.

    Generous support is provided by Jill and Peter Kraus, the National Endowment for the Arts, Maria Seferian, and Julia Stoschek Foundation e. V., Düsseldorf.

    Additional support is provided by Juliet McIver, Eileen and Peter Michael, and David and Angella Nazarian.

    Supporters of the exhibition catalogue include 303 Gallery, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Regen Projects, and Victoria Miro Gallery.

    Exhibitions at MOCA are supported by the MOCA Fund for Exhibitions with lead annual support provided by Delta Air Lines, Shari Glazer, Hästens, and Sydney Holland, founder of the Sydney D. Holland Foundation. Generous funding is also provided by Jerri and Dr. Steven Nagelberg, and Thao Nguyen and Andreas Krainer.

    In-kind media support is provided by KCETLink, KCRW 89.9 FM, and Los Angeles magazine.

    Courtesy of MOCA

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    York, NY… Now entering its third year, the New Museum’s incubator NEW INC today announces its incoming class of new and returning members. The incubator program brings together a cross-disciplinary community of artists, designers, filmmakers, curators, computer scientists, data scientists, and entrepreneurs working at the intersection of art, design, and technology to experiment with new models and modes of cultural production. While this new class continues to produce creative work and products inspired by, responding to, or leveraging the tools of emerging technologies like 3-D printing, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence, among others, they are distinguished by doing so with a greater focus on social impact.

    Projects this year tackle a range of pressing issues related to pressing social issues such as income inequality, privacy, diversity, the refugee crisis, climate change, and disability, among others. Many of the new ventures take the form of social enterprises, non-profits, and public benefit corporations, and several have a strong focus on serving communities through education.

    NEW INC has also introduced a new residency program designed to bring additional expertise to the community and engender a culture of peer-to-peer mentorship. Residents are seasoned artists, entrepreneurs, and researchers who are embedded within the NEW INC cohort. While they develop ventures of their own, they will also serve as in-house mentors and community catalysts, hosting office hours, organizing programs, and contributing content to NEW INC’s digital channels.

    NEW INC, the first museum-led incubator, was conceived by the New Museum in 2013 and launched in September 2014. NEW INC’s aim is to support innovation, collaboration, and entrepreneurship by offering a 12-month professional development program, mentorship, shared resources, and an 8,000 square foot shared workspace on the Bowery, next door to the New Museum.

    Over the past two years, NEW INC has incubated 70 creative practitioners, studios, and start-ups who have launched new initiatives in such fields as wearable technology, blockchain systems, countersurveillance, virtual reality, augmented reality, 3-D printing, experiential design, new musical interfaces, and much more. Their companies have raised more than eight million dollars in funding from venture capital, crowdfunding, and grants, and have created more than 160 new jobs in the local creative economy.

    Learn more about the 2016–17 NEW INC Members 

    2016–17 NEW INC RESIDENTS
    Anand Agarawala, Entrepreneur-in-Residence
    Anand Agarawala is an interface designer, software developer, inventor, and nerdcore hip-hopper. He is the founder of BumpTop, a 3-D desktop user interface inspired by real desks that uses multi-touch gestures to drive towards a more expressive, human vision for computing.

    Anders Sandell, Entrepreneur-in-Residence
    A world traveler, designer, storyteller, and entrepreneur, Anders Sendall is the founder and CEO of TANK & BEAR and the creator of Aiko. He is passionate about using play as a vehicle for learning and creativity, and he has over a decade’s worth of experience designing products for mobile devices and the web.

    Danielle Strle, Entrepreneur-in-Residence
    A child of the internet, Danielle Strle is a senior technology and creative professional, as well as a producer, investor, and adviser to a diverse array of creative projects and businesses. She likes building new things and working on many projects simultaneously.

    DIS, Artists-in-Residence
    DIS is a New York-based collective composed of Lauren Boyle, Solomon Chase, Marco Roso, and David Toro. Its cultural interventions are manifest across a range of media and platforms, and it explores the tension between popular culture and institutional critique, while facilitating projects for the most public and democratic of all forums—the Internet.

    Ida C. Benedetto, Researcher-in-Residence
    Ida C. Benedetto is an experience designer and strategist who works on real world adventures, game design, and digital media. She is often at the helm of a fair bit of creative chaos, and she is currently researching the design of transformative social experiences through encounters with primal risks.

    Public Science, Researchers-in-Residence
    Founded by Francis Tseng and Fei Liu, Public Science is a loose interdisciplinary conglomeration that uses storytelling, games, and satire to reconfigure new technologies for social and political purposes. Their current work is centered around building tools to encourage counterfactual systems of thinking and the cognitive mapping of the complex world.

    Siren, Entrepreneurs-in-Residence
    Founded by Susie Lee and Katrina Hess, Siren is the only personality-centric dating app designed to spark real connections through conversation—created by women and founded on core principles of comfort, privacy, and mutual respect.

    Stephanie Dinkins, Artist-in-Residence
    Stephanie Dinkins is an interdisciplinary artist and associate professor whose art employs lens-based practices, the manipulation of space, and technology to grapple with notions of consciousness, agency, perception, and social equity. She teaches digital art and interactive media at Stony Brook University.

    Taeyoon Choi, Artist-in-Residence
    Taeyoon Choi’s art practice involves performance, electronics, drawings, and storytelling, often leading to intervention in public spaces. He collaborates with fellow artists, activists, and professionals from other fields to realize socially engaged projects and alternative pedagogy. Choi cofounded the School for Poetic Computation in 2013, where he continues to organize and teach.
    2016-17 FULL TIME MEMBERS
    Andrew Chepaitis
    Andrew Chepaitis leads ELIA Life Technology, which develops assistive products for people with visual impairments. The company is developing a suite of products that will enable its consumers to achieve greater levels of education, employment, literacy, and independence.

    ARTIPHON
    Artiphon is a creative technologies company designing adaptive instruments for everyday music-making. Their first product, the INSTRUMENT 1, launched on Kickstarter, where it became the #1 highest-crowdfunded musical instrument. The INSTRUMENT 1 was named one of TIME’s 25 best inventions of the year, and is available at artiphon.com and MoMA Design Stores.

    A Ü T O/M Ö T O R
    A Ü T O/M Ö T O R is an album of music and exhibition of tactile artwork that combines sound, technology, digital art, and immersive participatory installation.

    Carbon Pictures
    Carbon Pictures is a New York–based virtual reality company specializing in virtual reality and large-scale immersive experiential installations, co-founded by Milica Zec, a director, editor, and screenwriter, and Winslow Turner Porter III, a director, producer, and creative technologist. They create cutting-edge experiences, including Giant, a virtual reality experience inspired by real events.

    Christian Rocha
    Christian Rocha explores the ever-increasing intersection of art, design, and technology. He believes visual and technical disciplines by nature go hand-in-hand. Rocha is keenly interested in video games as an emerging art form and in integrating video game-like concepts, interactions, and mechanics into non-video game products and situations—both digital and physical.

    DATA X
    DATA X is a creative studio that works at the intersection of data, society, and education. They believe in information transparency, online consumer protection, and the democratization of the internet. Their work blurs the lines between art, social critique, and consumer products.

    Ekene Ijeoma
    Ekene Ijeoma is a designer, artist, and programmer whose work explores the artistic and humanistic properties of data and algorithms through media, objects, and installations.

    Eliza McNitt
    Eliza McNitt found filmmaking through science, and her unique voice as a director fuses science with narrative storytelling. McNitt’s first film, Requiem for the Honeybee (2009), was inspired by a desire to communicate the devastating impact of vanishing honeybees.

    Erica L. Bernhard
    Erica L. Bernhard is a bicoastal experiential architect and multimedia artist who connects people using space and technology in high-production environments. Constantly on the forefront of new trends, Bernhard cultivates a vision for the positive potential within emerging technologies such as augmented reality, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence.

    Faris Al-Shathir
    Faris Al-Shathir is an interior designer, architect, and co-founder of BOFFO, a nonprofit organization that presents innovative and experimental art, architecture, and design.

    HAWRAF INTL.
    HAWRAF INTL. is a concept-focused studio founded by Andrew Herzog, Carly Ayres, Pedro Sanches, and Nicky Tesla. They are designers, writers, strategists, artists, and creative coders. The studio’s work deals with creative accessibility and interaction, and involves experimenting across a range of mediums and disciplines to create work that challenges expectations.

    Jonathan Bobrow
    Jonathan Bobrow is an artist, designer, and developer. Strongly informed by the idea that our minds are shaped by the toys and tools we grow up with, and our design spaces are limited by the coordinate systems with which we are most comfortable, his work offers new tools and perspectives to address these limitations.

    Maria Stanisheva
    Maria Stanisheva is a Bulgarian director and producer of documentary and animated films. Her recent work includes the award-winning document Father (2012). In 2016, she founded ANIMADOCS, a production company that creates media content specializing in education and human rights.

    Marquee
    Marquee is a premium quality subscription service for arts and culture audiences. It combines the teams of London-based Maidthorn Partners and New York-based TenduTV, and will extend beyond content into commerce to become a complete companion for arts-engaged consumers—packaging rich content together with bookings, mobile payments, and loyalty and social programs.

    Micromuseums
    Micromuseums is creating a new model for institutions that aligns with a culturally decentralized future. They create vending machine-sized museums that travel to unexpected places, such as the DMV or a hospital waiting room. Each museum explores the small things that play a big part in our world.

    Penelope Jagessar Chaffer                    
    Penelope Jagessar Chaffer is an award-winning filmmaker, writer, artist, and environmentalist. She is the first black female director to have been nominated for a British Academy Film Award. She is the director, producer, and technologist behind Toxic Baby (2016) and the Detoxed Project, the world’s first customized interactive documentary app and digital health platform.

    Vincent Houzé
    Vincent Houzé uses modern computer graphics techniques to create interactive art, performances, and large-scale multimedia installations. His practice centers on dynamic simulations and systems in which simple rules give rise to complexity, richness, and realistic motion.

    Wallplay
    Wallplay is a matchmaking platform for experiential brand collaborations. It pairs artists, technologists, and creative professionals with brands and agencies for special projects.

    WE DESIGNS
    WE is a generative creative agency that delivers branded designs, installations, and interactive experiences through a new technology- and research-led approach. As a design practice, WE believes that the future of collaborative work should include engaging design beyond architectural space and into various fields and practices, such as digital media, advertising, software, and design fabrication.

    Whitney Falk
    Whitney Falk founded the design startup ZZ Driggs with a curious eye and a vision for reimagining how we furnish our homes, offices, and the places we dwell for a new economy. ZZ Driggs is an online marketplace featuring sustainably-produced contemporary furniture available via a subscription platform when you want and for as long as you need.

    2016–17 PART TIME MEMBERS
    Afripedia
    Founded by Teddy Goitom and Senay Berhe, Afripedia is a platform and a visual guide to art, film, photography, fashion, design, music, and contemporary culture from African creatives worldwide.

    Alice Sheppard
    Alice Sheppard’s work emphasizes the movement that arises from her particular physicality and her curiosity about line, form, and dance as a craft. She is passionate about virtuosity, strength, simplicity, and beauty, and is drawn to moments in which her personal aesthetics collide with societal and cultural norms.

    Amani Olu
    Amani Olu is an artist, writer, curator, and entrepreneur. He is the founder of Humble Arts Foundation, a 501c3 organization that supports and promotes new photography, as well as Olu & Company, a marketing agency for the arts and beyond. Olu is currently developing a platform for content creators.

    Andrea Wolf
    Andrea Wolf is a Chilean-born interdisciplinary artist living and working in New York. Her work consists of ongoing research into the relationship between personal memory and cultural practices of remembering. She produces multimedia installations that explore how technology, media, and memory affect and transform each other, creating models of remembrance that are culturally shaped.

    The Argus Project
    Rich in content, storytelling, and myth, the Argus Project addresses citizen videography, countersurveillance, and police accountability, creating a space that brings together many points of view for a much-needed conversation on racial and economic inequality within our fractured democracy.

    BFAMFAPhD
    BFAMFAPhD is a collective that works at the intersection of art, technology, and political economy. They create reports, pedagogical tools, and movement syllabi, and at NEW INC select members of the collective will be developing Of Supply Chains, a card game, text, and interactive teaching tool that traces the life cycle of a business project.

    Bhold
    Bhold, founded by designer Susan Taing, creates engaging, functional design that is rapid prototyped with 3-D printing and beta tested by the first-of-its-kind Bhold Labs community. The company’s unique approach ensures each product is as thoughtfully designed as can be.

    Carla Cisno
    Carla Cisno is an Italian sound and live media artist who works at the intersection of art, music, design, and technology. Focusing on immersive and interactive projects, she develops animate environmental forms that intentionally confuse touch, hearing, and vision in favor of generating more indeterminate means of perception.

    Dahkil Hausif
    Dahkil Hausif began his craft as a voiceover talent, filmmaker, writer, and editor while he was a student at Syracuse University. He is the voice of ESPN Film’s 30 for 30 documentary series and has created three award-winning short films with partner Daoud Abeid. Their next feature will be a narrative film shot in the Blue Mountains of Jamaica.

    Graham Sack
    Graham Sack is an award-winning screenwriter, director, and academic whose work focuses on the intersection of science, technology, and storytelling. While at NEW INC he is writing and directing a virtual reality cinematic experience commissioned by NYT VR and Penguin Random House to accompany the release of George Saunders’s debut novel, Lincoln in the Bardo.

    Hammerstep
    The Hammerstep Initiative aims to elevate dance to a new level, to act as a platform for personal and collective empowerment, and to spark social progress in the process. Hammerstep is an organized arsenal of stage performance, public ambush dance, guerrilla street marketing, community organizing and action, outreach initiatives, and alternative media coverage.

    HE+HU
    HE+HU is an interdisciplinary art and consulting collective founded by He Wei and Hu Naishu. The duo creates whimsical and participatory art events as a means of facilitating a dialogue between East and West. They work to bridge the two cultures through food, art, and design practices that are deeply rooted in Chinese culture.

    Hello Velocity
    Hello Velocity is a creative studio whose practice includes marketing, branding, commerce, and art. Coming from both artistic and technical backgrounds, its team understands the creative community, as well as brands’ need to engage with it.

    Jason Shin
    Jason Shin is the founder of Wonderspaces, a touring arts exhibition. Along with teammates Patrick Charles and Tony Lim, he is creating traveling pop-up museums that make art, tech, and design from cultural hub cities, festivals, and industry conferences accessible and affordable to local audiences for eight weeks at a time. The team is currently based in Phoenix, where they are working on the company’s first exhibition.

    Jessica Ann Peavy
    Jessica Ann Peavy is a video and performance artist whose work focuses on the art of storytelling and perceptions of truth. Since completing her BFA degree in Film at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, and her MFA degree at the School of Visual Arts, Peavy has shown her work across the country and internationally.

    John Soat
    John Soat is a multidisciplinary artist, designer, and musician with a passion for elevating the human experience. Inspired by his personal journey with sound and transcendental meditation, Soat leverages technology to allow individuals to be more present with themselves and enhance their immediate experience.

    Jojo Abot
    Jojo Abot is a Ghanaian multimedia artist exploring sound, visual art, fashion, and literature using technology as a tool for enhancing experience and performance. A nomad and a citizen of the world, Abot is touring America, Europe, and Africa while preparing to officially release her first EP, entitled FYFYA WOTO.

    Karolina Ziulkoski
    Karolina Ziulkoski is an interactive designer from Porto Alegre, Brazil. She uses technological applications to create immersive experiences that allow for a deeper participatory exchange between stories and audiences.

    Katrina Neumann
    Katrina Neumann is the founder and executive director of Rate My Artist Residency. Founded in 2013, this growing resource provides a platform for artists worldwide to socially and critically engage in conversation about artist residencies. Neumann is also a visual artist, curator, and the director of Kent Fine Art.

    Kira Simon-Kennedy
    Kira Simon-Kennedy is the co-founder and executive director of China Residencies, a nonprofit directory of opportunities and resources for artists and the people who host them in mainland China and Hong Kong. She also produces independent documentary films, and occasionally translates French and Mandarin.

    Matter-Mind Studio
    Matter-Mind translates intelligence emerging from the fields of psychology, anthropology, sociology, and ecology into emotionally supportive products and services. They aim to bridge the gap between the physical, practical, and functional and the psychological, sentimental, and emotional.

    Nick Fox-Gieg
    Nick Fox-Gieg is an animator and creative technologist based in New York and Toronto. His films have screened worldwide, and his work The Orange (2009) won the jury prize for Best Animated Short at South by Southwest in 2010. He has most recently been working on virtual reality projects at Framestore and Google Creative Lab.

    Niio
    Niio is the home for new media art. It provides a comprehensive set of professional tools for managing, preserving, securely distributing, and displaying multi-format artistic content, all of which are available for free through a proprietary cloud-based platform.

    Noa Raviv
    Noa Raviv is an Israeli fashion designer and artist who creates high-end garments that address her unique vision and artistic approach to fashion. She is fascinated by the tensions between beauty and ugliness, harmony and chaos, and tradition and innovation, and constantly seeks the perfect balance between these concepts.

    Powrplnt
    Powrplnt is a network of artists and creatives who come together to provide free classes for teens on the digital art tools needed to thrive in today’s world. Powrplnt aims to inspire young entrepreneurs and artists, primarily of underserved populations, to utilize available technology to pursue their dreams.

    Ramulas Burgess
    Ramulas Burgess is an American photographer and cinematographer who uses his craft to represent the dignity, love, contrast, and symmetry of his subjects. Born and raised in Philadelphia and currently residing in Brooklyn, Burgess is a traveler by nature and has followed his photography to Africa, Asia, Europe, the Caribbean, and Central America.

    Sacha Wynne
    Sacha Wynne is a writer, artistic adventurer, and entrepreneur. Inspired by the potential for artists and culture bearers to transform technology, business innovation, and contemporary workplace culture in human-centered ways, she launched the company WӔRK in 2015.

    Sebastien Sanz de Santamaria
    Sebastien Sanz de Santamaria is the co-founder and director of operations of Residency Unlimited, an artist-centered organization dedicated to producing customized residency structures to support the creation, presentation, and dissemination of contemporary art.

    Sensorium Works
    Sensorium Works is a creative studio operating at the intersection of art, new media, and technology. When it’s not producing photographic, cinematic, and virtual reality content for a range of clients and exhibitions, it focuses on independent documentary projects in cooperation with the MIT Center for Advanced Urbanism, the Cyborg Foundation, and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.

    S U N B U N K E R  
    S U N B U N K E R is a progressive research-based architecture and design studio offering a broad spectrum of capabilities, utilizing innovative techniques and building systems that are tactile, visceral, pragmatic, and engaging.

    Tahir Hemphill
    Tahir Hemphill is an award-winning advertising creative and multimedia artist working in interdisciplinary collaboration, thought, and research. His practice investigates the role systems play in the generation of form—he produces art with tools that remove his hand from the process. Currently, Hemphill manages the Hip-Hop Word Count and oversees the Rap Research Lab’s media arts education program.

    Victor Vina
    Victor is a designer and educator interested in the applications and implications of computational systems in diverse sociocultural contexts. Vina teaches at Pratt Institute and holds an MA from the Royal College of Art. At NEW INC, he is developing Teleobjects, a brand introducing a new generation of everyday connected products for the home.

    VolvoxLabs
    VolvoxLabs uses dynamic motion graphics, lighting, fabrication, and new media technologies to help artists and brands connect with audiences through creative innovation. From creating high-end cinematic content for music festivals to new media responsive environments, the team combines video, sound, architecture, and visual effects within dynamic custom-built physical spaces.

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    ROBERT BIRMELIN

    the end of certainty

    Since 1960 Robert Birmelin has observed, worked, and exhibited his provocative
    paintings and drawings in New York City.

    In the end of certainty, Birmelin’s scenes feel specific yet carry a universal unease. The
    confusion and chaos of protests and uprisings, as well as the plight and
    disappearance of blue-collar work, provide his subject matter. The tension that exists
    between those who act and those who watch from afar is palpable. Birmelin is
    depicting people, caught in a tide of change they are incapable of riding and helpless
    to prevent. These changes ensnare us all.

    Grounded in basic, but very real fear of a world rendered strange, nothing is a given,
    and there is no higher power to protect us. While Birmelin’s paintings do at times
    imply that there is someone in control, this thought is not reassuring.

    Dates: 17 September – 29 October 2016
    Reception: Saturday 17 September 3 – 5 pm
    www.luiserossgallery.com

    The artist MANUELLA MUERNER MARIONI will be in permanent Exhibition with her well known artwork Fright.

    Opening to the public Saturday, September 3rd, 2016, from 1 PM to 5 PM

    AT EUROPEAN ART MUSEUM 

    Founder: Leif Nielsen
    Adresse: Arresodalvej 4
    3300 Frederiksvaerk
    Denmark
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    Fright 2014 Acrylic with Mixed-Media on Canvas 15.75 x 11.85 x 2 inches © Manuella Muerner Marioni

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    Institut Kunst HGK FHNW / Art Institute Basel
    Every Contact Leaves a Trace: an exhibition in two venues
    September 2–11, 2106

    Opening: Thursday, September 1, 6pm

    Kaskadenkondensator
    Burgweg 7
    4058 Basel

    Kunsthalle Basel
    Steinenberg 7
    4051 Basel

    www.institut-kunst.ch

    Anna Balint, Christelle Besson, Oliver Falk, Rebecca Feldmann, Klara Frick, Tomaz Gnus, Raphaela Grolimund, Lara Gysi, Simon Hofmann, Marc Hörler, Monika Iseli, Fanny Jemmely, Andreas Jenni, Nici Jost, Anastasija Kadisa, Jemima Läubli, Ji Su Lee, Céline Liebi, Fabio Luks, Marisa Meier, Ephraim Meister, Yolanda Natsch, Elia Navarro, Dawn Nilo, Daniela Petrini, Maeva Rosset, Lea Rüegg, Rebeka Schiessl, Şebnem Seçkin, Yanik Soland, Fidel Stadelmann, Sandra Steiner-Strütt, Paul Takács, Paula Thiel, Yota Tsotra, Isadora Vogt, Sean Völlmin, Karin Würmli

    Curated by Chus Martínez and Lysann König

    Every contact leaves a trace. The phrase expresses an enormous confidence in experience. All that is known departs from experience; the mind needs the senses. The senses are there not only for adaptive reasons but also as a way to create a force that both allows us to be part of the inanimate world and to understand that there is no such thing as a “cut” between us and the rest, the whole, the inner self and the outside. This thought seems harmless, but we’ve mostly opposed it for the last 500 years. From religion to capitalism(s), all these systems have been constructing a different architecture, an architecture of a self that can exist independently of all the traces, of all the experiences; a self that can even make it alone or with just a few others, and survive “outside” the flow of events and experiences that others might feel. We’ve been building walls, hard skins, and filters to maintain the fiction that experience is good, but that it is also the enemy of our autonomy and autonomy is the key to our identity and identity is the key to our culture. It is still always strange when people ask why art is there, or what art is for. Hegel may have been right. Art isn’t there just for the obvious reason to continue this hard education on the major importance of the senses. He might as well have been right when he said that art might just be a placeholder, since it is not unthinkable to dream of an even better tool to expose ourselves continuously to abstraction (thinking) and materiality in such a way to understand that our major duty is not a moral one; it is instead to open up as wide as we can to complexity.

    Of all exhibitions that one might curate, this one, curated together with artist, activist, and former student of the Art Institute, Lysann König, is the most complex to introduce. Or the reverse: this exhibition is put together simply by the will to develop a project in order to come to terms with the notion, “I am an artist.” There’s no subject running through the show, yet one can identify certain concerns that are part of the mindset of these artists. These works seem to move away from any form of calculated language, from modernist nostalgia to conceptualism in all its forms. Many are not concerned in the first place with the materials or the media, but with the sensations that materials and media are able to produce when put to work to examine something that runs through many of the works: a restorative mimesis. What does this mean? If pushed to find words to convey to you what this generation of artists has in common, I would say an investigation of our current anxiety and the way art is able to capture this growing feeling, to demystify the causes, and to re-enchant our experience of life with a new trust. Anxiety is no longer a personal feeling, but a peculiar energy. Anxiety is an alteration and, in return, it deeply alters the way we sense and understand our sense of being in the world. We are trained to think in historical terms, to project our pasts onto our futures, and to produce mechanisms that ensure stability in the transmission of knowledge within the theatrical way of understanding our “civilization.”

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    The Second Affordable Art Fair Seoul is going to take place in Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP) showcasing over 70 local and international galleries on 09-11 September 2016. Artworks including paintings, prints, photography and sculptures will be all priced between ￦500,000 and ￦10,000,000.

    Seoul is a perfect city for an Affordable Art Fair, and we are South Korea’s first global art fair in the city. With so many different styles of art works – presented by galleries from South Korea, and around the world – we hope to bring a fresh new vibe to the city’s art scene and provide a platform to develop the next generation of art collectors and young artistic talents.

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    Until 6 November 2016

    Explore the extraordinary paintings of this key figure in modern Indian art

    Renowned for his unique figurative style and incisive observations of class and sexuality, Bhupen Khakhar (1934-2003) played a central role in modern Indian art and was a key international figure in 20th century painting. This landmark exhibition showcases vivid works on canvas, luminous watercolour paintings and experimental ceramics.

    An accountant-turned-artist, Bhupen Khakhar demonstrated a commitment to representing his world with unflinching honesty. High and low merged in narrative paintings with influences ranging from devotional aesthetics and street culture to European painting and pop art. He confronted provocative themes, particularly his sexuality, with rare sensitivity and wit. Haunting portraits of ordinary men and last works describing his struggle with cancer express a rare humanity.

    Bringing together Khakhar’s work from across five decades and collections around the world for the first time since his death, this is a unique opportunity to discover his extraordinary work and inspirational story.

    Join the conversation #Khakhar

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    New event in Soviet relic casts an eye beyond Polish borders

    by Julia Michalska

    Warsaw’s thriving contemporary art scene has often faced criticism for its lack of internationalism. If you want to discover the next Miroslaw Balka or Wilhelm Sasnal, the city’s numerous galleries offer ample opportunity; but beyond the country’s home-grown talent, little else is available. This is about to change with a new contemporary art fair that wants to bring foreign galleries and artists to the Polish capital.

    Not Fair, scheduled to open next month (22-25 September), will be held in one of the city’s most recognisable buildings, the Palace of Culture and Science, a Stalinist skyscraper that Warsawites love to hate. “It’s a spectacular venue and is located right in the centre of the city and its cultural life,” says the fair’s founder Michal Wolinski, who also runs the Warsaw-based gallery Piktogram. The idea behind Not Fair, Wolinski says, is to “merge the mood and quality of an art exhibition with the opportunities that art fairs provide for cutting-edge galleries and young artists”.

    The time is also ripe to shift the tastes of local collectors from “Modern to contemporary, and from local to international”, Wolinski says. So he invited Warsaw galleries with the most international programmes such as Foksal Gallery Foundation and Galeria Stereo to the fair, as well as international galleries, including Jan Kaps and Galerie Tobias Naehring from Germany; Galerie Bernhard from Zurich; and Schloss from Oslo.

    Each of the 23 participating galleries will present a solo show by one of the artists they represent. A prerequisite, however, is that the galleries take into account the “special character” of the venue.

    Not Fair will run alongside Warsaw Gallery Weekend, which Wolinski organised in its first four years.

    The Soviet Union offered the Palace of Culture and Science as a gift to the people of Poland. It was constructed between 1952 and 1955 by 3,500 Soviet workers.

    • Not Fair, Palace of Culture and Science, Warsaw, 22-25 September

    Source (c): theartnewspaper.com

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