Friday, April 25, 2008
Monday, April 21, 2008
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Collabrative Project
Jeffery Shaw and Bruce Nauman
Boundaries and Limits: An Exploration of Space within the Digital World
The aim of this exhibition is to bring light to a new way of viewing artists Jeffrey Shaw and Bruce Nauman and how they deal with the relationship between the physical and digital world. As the curators of this exhibition we were interested in the idea that these digital artists were compelled to create artwork that exists within the actual world (which is limited by forces of natural law) by using a boundless medium. We hope that the exhibition by the nature of the work will engage the viewer to interact with it and in doing so will bridge the digital and physical world. Through engagement, the viewer becomes the actual bridge between the two worlds. Without such a bridge, there would be no connection between the two; therefore the person engaging in the artwork is vital to the piece. Without the viewer, the two worlds would never meet and the piece would never be complete. For this reason, we have found that much of both Nauman’s and Shaw’s work forces the viewer to interact and in doing so inhabits both worlds while becoming a temporary part of the artwork.
http://www.jeffrey-shaw.net/html_main/show_work.php3?record_id=83
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Friday, April 18, 2008
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Parable of the Garden
Going into the gallery, I don't feel that I really knew a lot about Iranian art. Now that I think about it, I don't think I ever really thought there were people making art there very much as digital art. I think a guided tour by the curator of the gallery was helpful to my understand of the work. Not knowing much about Iran, her guidance helped me to understand the cultural undertones of the work. The one piece that really sticks out in my mind would have to be the one entitled Happy Meal. Happy Meal is an important piece because its length and portrayal of the the main character allows the the viewer to forget that they are watching someone with a veil, but rather that they are watching a child. I also liked that she has to struggle to open her toy due to her veiling because it speaks to the struggles, what ever they may be. Although I still do not know much a whole lot about Iranian culture, I feel that this exhibition helped me to better understand the people and their culture.
Dia: Beacon
The Artist that i found most intriguing would have to be Bruce Nauman who was being exhibited in Dia:Beacon's lower level. The entire level had a certain dark and creepy feel to it as soon as you stepped out of the elevator. I found that I was pretty nervous to be down in the basement, which i think added to to why I liked Nauman's work. The site it was in helped the work in my opinion. The piece that I liked the most at this exhibition was a digital piece that was set up with in a room on 8 different large projectors which showed different rooms being filmed on night vision. It seemed that you would stare at one screen long enough and in the corner of your eye, something would pass by another screen and catch your attention. It had a sort of haunted house feeling. It was almost like the documentation or an exploration into a haunting. As strange as it seems, this is really cool to me because i love being scared as well as the idea of a paranormal world.
Thursday, February 21, 2008
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