SPAC New Pictures

The Strongest Man in the World

2011-12-26T08:15:00.000-08:00

WATCH new music video by SPAC grad, Ben Rowe. Paintings below also by Ben.

Save Paper Save Animals

2011-12-26T08:06:00.000-08:00

See more pics from the endangered species graphic design competition on designboom.

Margaret Kilgallen

2011-11-04T07:03:00.000-07:00

Excerpt from Art 21on Margaret Kilgallen

Artists Take Civic Action

2011-11-02T07:51:00.000-07:00

Civic Action: A Vision for Long Island City

For videos about Civic Action, see vimeo.com/noguchimuseum
The Noguchi Museum http://www.noguchi.org/
Visit designboom's feature on the project

Pictorial Truths

2011-10-28T09:18:00.000-07:00

Watch Art 21
Kara Walker Gone with the Wind

Forest of Signs

2011-10-28T08:49:00.000-07:00

A Forest of Signs: Art in the Crisis of Representation
More about the 1989 exhibition at MOCA
Arttsts whose work relate to this topic:
Barbara Krugar
Jenny Holzer
Art & Language
Joseph Kosuth

Geoff McFetridge

2011-10-28T08:42:00.000-07:00

See more of his work at Champion Studio

Pictorial Texts

2011-10-28T08:36:00.000-07:00

Ryan McGinnes
~watch him at work

Minding Others Business

2011-09-20T06:24:00.000-07:00

Cardboard bed by Leaf Supply

Sweet Parliament Home

2011-09-13T06:58:00.000-07:00

Sweet Parliament Home (documentary film on the project provided by Vimeo)

is a research and product-making project by Andres Jaque Architects for the Gwangji Design Biennale 2011. Domesticity in Seoul Korea is no longer something that happens in a single space. Have a look at the complete design process on the blog AFASIA.

Iconography and Iconology

2011-09-11T07:23:00.001-07:00

Andy Warhol Last Supper Paintings

Iconography and Iconology - this link on youtube provides an overview on the two methodological processes and an introduction to the philosophy of Erwin Panofsky.

Cute and Creepy

2011-09-10T12:39:00.000-07:00

Cute and Creepy features artworks inspired by the grotesque from the Pop Surreal (or New Contemporary) art scene. Opening Friday, October 14, 2011 in the Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts. Pictured here is work by artist, Lori Hogan.

Ronald Van Der Meijs

2011-09-05T07:01:00.000-07:00

Ronald Van Der Meijs

"Each work is a metaphorical and conceptual treatment of sound, space, and material."

Tiny World In a Bottle

2011-08-18T07:44:00.001-07:00

Akinobu Izumi, Tiny World in a Bottle on designboom

Lisa Swirling

2011-08-06T07:45:00.000-07:00

Lisa Swirling's Glass Cathedral's are a series of artboxes containing brilliant tiny worlds.

D.O.T.S.

2011-07-23T06:49:00.000-07:00

Design firm, D.O.T.S. created Massimals to serve as prototypes that examine how the physical form can engage the public realm. The apparition like Massimal is made from zip ties! See documentation of the complete design process on designboom.

Photographs by GLINTstudios.

Lorenzo Duran

2011-07-15T06:31:00.000-07:00

Lorenzo Duran, NATURAYARTE

Janet Echelman

2011-06-21T06:01:00.000-07:00

Janet Echleman talks about her work at the Ted Conference 2011.

More Signs of Mending

2011-06-13T06:46:00.000-07:00

Design Boom posted this temporary shelter by Japanese architect, Hidemi Nishida.

Otherworldly: Optical Delusions and Small Realities

2011-06-09T07:56:00.000-07:00

To see more teeny tiny worlds visit MAD.

John Lurie

2011-06-09T07:39:00.000-07:00

Delightful bunny painting by actor, artist, and musician, John Lurie.

Bunnies

2011-06-03T08:11:00.000-07:00

Shauna Richardson

creates the most beautiful hand crafted Crochetdermy sculptures.

Kevin Cyr

2011-05-27T08:25:00.000-07:00

brooklyn-based designer / artist kevin cyr has sent designboom images of his latest work from a solo exhibition at 941 geary in san francisco on now until june 4th, 2011.

Robert Schwartz

2010-12-23T21:54:00.000-08:00

Global Tree Project

2010-12-20T08:13:00.000-08:00

Have a look Shinji Turner-Yamamoto's beautiful installation, HANGING GARDEN.

WATCH

The Re-Enchanment of Art

2010-11-05T08:22:00.000-07:00

Tim Hawkinson (sculpture above)

Going West where books come to life. A film by Anderson M Studio
Awesome World by Dallas Cayton

Chris Berens

2010-11-05T07:54:00.000-07:00

Web site: http://www.chrisberens.com/

See this artist talk about his painting technique.

Chewing Gum Artist

2010-11-04T07:52:00.000-07:00

Watch Ben Wilson paint his miniature masterpieces on the streets of London.

Portraits

2010-11-03T08:28:00.000-07:00

LauraLasworthwebsite

New Pictures: Portraits

James Mollison

2010-11-03T08:17:00.000-07:00

JAMES MOLLISON Where Children Sleep

See Slide Show

Lori Field

2010-10-26T21:00:00.000-07:00

Lori Field

Make:Craft

2010-10-25T16:19:00.000-07:00

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MAKE:CRAFT Ben Maltz Gallery

A survey of artists who combine hand making and building techniques to create, engineer and hack unique, mostly functional devices, objects, machines and accessories; making either a social/political statement, creating new markets for individual styled products, or creating inventive ways to experience the tactile world, non-virtual, the “real.” Artists in the exhibition: Kim Abeles, Jonah Brucker-Cohen, Frau Fiber, Garnet Hertz, Justseeds Artists' Cooperative, Seth Kinmont, Liza Lou, David Prince, Mark Newport, Alyce Santoro, Shada/Jahn (Steve Shada and Marisa Jahn), Eddo Stern

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Waste Land

2010-10-24T11:09:00.000-07:00

Filmed over nearly three years, WASTE LAND follows renowned artist Vik Muniz as he journeys from his home base in Brooklyn to his native Brazil and the world's largest garbage dump, Jardim Gramacho, located on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. There he photographs an eclectic band of "catadores" -- or self-designated pickers of recyclable materials. Muniz's initial objective was to "paint" the catadores with garbage. However, his collaboration with these inspiring characters as they recreate photographic images of themselves out of garbage reveals both dignity and despair as the catadores begin to re-imagine their lives. Walker (Devil's Playground, Blindsight) has great access to the entire process and, in the end, offers stirring evidence of the transformative power of art and the alchemy of the human spirit. View Trailer

From Adams to Lace

2010-10-24T09:31:00.001-07:00

This exhibition explored the intriguing creations of the Festival Pattern Group - a unique project at the 1951 Festival of Britain involving X-ray crystallographers, designers and manufacturers. At the instigation of Dr Helen Megaw, a leading Cambridge scientist, diagrams of atomic structures inspired an eclectic array of patterns on curtains, wallpapers, carpets, lace, dress fabrics, ties, plates and ashtrays.

Watch Georgina Ferry give a talk on X-ray crystallography.

Darren Waterston

2010-10-22T07:40:00.000-07:00

To see more of Darren Waterston's work visit his website.

Lynd Ward

2010-10-19T05:52:00.000-07:00

America's First Wordless Novelist

Why are Lynd Ward's amazing woodcut books so bleak?

On the Head of A Pin

2010-10-16T10:31:00.000-07:00

TOM FRIEDMAN

This teeny sculpture titled, 'Headache' by Tom Friedman is carved out of an aspirin tablet.

WATCH VIDEO

of Katherine Vetne, senior from BU talk about her microscopic subject matter.

MYKOLA SYADRIS

Mykola Syadris, sculptor from the Ukraine whose little carvings can fit through the eye of a needle.

NICHOLAS SISTLER
Nicholas Sistler's little gouache paintings of interiors are massive at 3 inches in any one direction.

JIN. Y. H.
Jin. Y. H. paints micro portraits less than one half inch in length.
LAURIE SIMMONS

Do Ho Suh

2010-10-16T10:25:00.000-07:00

DO HO SUH @ Lehmann Maupin Gallery

Journey Around My Skull

2010-10-10T08:13:00.000-07:00

Visit this blog to explore design & illustration border crossers.

http://ajourneyroundmyskull.blogspot.com/

Interactive Art

2010-10-08T09:10:00.000-07:00

Tim Hawkinson

Emoter

Uberorgan

Camille Utterback (McArthur Grant Recipient)

Introduction

Playing with Light

Daniel Rozin

Mirrors Mirr or, Motoristic Responsiv Sculpture 2008

www.youtube.com

Disembodied Communities

2010-10-08T09:06:00.001-07:00

Vigils: The Night Watch

Lauds: The Coming of Light

Prime: Deliberate Beginning

Terce: Blessing

Sext: Fervor and Commitment

None: Shadows Grow Longer

Vespers: Lighting the Lamps

Compline: Completing the Circle

Monks singing Gregorian Chant

Monastery Podcast

The Communion of Saints wiki overview

Saint of the Day
Gallery of Saints

Spontaneous Combustion

2010-10-08T09:04:00.000-07:00

LA 1992 Riots

LA Riots news clips

LA Riots - a summary

Contagion

Rene Girard, Violence & the Sacred

Rene Girard, Memetic Desire

Laura's NOTE: Aftermath of the LA Riots

FLASH MOBS BEFORE THE INTERNET

I was in living in Los Angeles in 1992 and experienced the violence and mayhem of the Riots up close and personal. Buildings in my neighborhood went up in flames, caravans of looters broke into stores, mass law breaking and violence was constant, and at least 50 people were killed. The media aired the violence and destruction 24 hours a day for two straight days. Numerous video records of it all are easily findable on the net today. But what you won't find looking through videos on youtube, is any documentation about how people came together in South Central LA in the days following the riots to help clean up and help out. These flash mobs were driven purely by memetic contagion toward the good - and being part of them was among the most powerful experiences of my life. The question I had asked myself over and again in 1992 was, what might have happened if the media had aired these events in equal measure to the violence? That question remains with me today - unanswered.

Art & Action

2010-10-08T09:03:00.001-07:00

Following are links to various artists, designers, & groups whose work engages community.

Tim Rollins & K.O.S. click here for details

Mel Chin - New Orleans Project

Mel Chin - Art21 Overview

Light for the Homeless

Blog4change

Contemplative Moment Flash Mob

Rebuilding Haiti

Harrel Fletcher website

Bradley McCallum & Jacqueline Tarry

Rirkrit Tiravana

Born Into Brothels

Mobile Homeless Shelters

Inhabitat Design

MIT Students build homeless shelters

Dean Kamen on Colbert Nation

Dean Kamen Breakout Artist

Remix Theory

2010-10-08T09:02:00.001-07:00

Andy Warhol on Remix Theory

Christian Marclay

Remix Theory

Blog: Lawrence Lessig

Lawrence Lessig on Charlie Rose

The Mashing of Christ

Johan Soderberg

Henry Darger

2010-10-08T09:00:00.000-07:00

Here's an introduction to the captivating world of Henry Darger & The Vivian Girls. Click on link: In The Realms of the Unreal

The Art of the Steal

2010-10-08T08:59:00.001-07:00

The Art of the Steal

A fascinating behind the scenes documentary film about how the Barnes Collection (worth 25 billion dollars) is being moved from its original home to a new building located on Benjamin Franklin Pkwy in Philadelphia.

A Message From the Honey Bees

2010-10-08T08:58:00.001-07:00

a better world' 10 by design

ANIL GUPTA: A Message From the Honey Bees (wait for the bicycles!!)

Ted Conference 2010 Here are some videos from last year's conference including Emeka Okafor of TED, and TEDsters John Maeda and Jaime Lerner.

A.I. & Everlasting Life

2010-10-08T08:56:00.000-07:00

Sufjian Stevens

Bill Viola: an ocean without a shore

Bill Viola: the crossing

Bill Viola: the messenger

Bill Viola: website

Jym Davis

Stanley Spencer Memorial Chapel

Resurrecting Stanley Spencer

Signs of Mending

2010-10-08T08:55:00.001-07:00

Here are a few pictures from just two of the many deeply moving memorial monuments at YAD VASHEM in Israel, The Hall of Names & The Children's Museum .

White Cube

2010-10-08T08:54:00.001-07:00

Artists

Ethan Ham

2010-10-08T08:52:00.000-07:00

Blog: ETHAN HAM Electronic Art

Read about how this artist made night lights for the homeless.

Incarnation

2010-10-08T08:50:00.000-07:00

Lynn Aldrich

Tim Hawkinson

The Reverend Ethan Acres

People Matter

2010-10-08T08:45:00.000-07:00

Last April, 99 works of bloggers, media personalities, and infolebrities will be given away to those in attendence. To learn how this project was organized visit the web site of NICK RAD.

People Matter: Art and the Gift Economy

William Kentridge

2010-10-08T08:18:00.000-07:00

WILLIAM KENTRIDGE

See new documentary film about this prolific artist at the Henry on October 18. AND attend an animation workshop following the film. HERE is an example of how he employs animation into his artwork.

Material / Immaterial

2010-10-03T07:25:00.000-07:00

ShoshanaWayne Gallery is pleased to present a group show featuring work by: Nicole Cohen, Jonah Groeneboer, Dinh Q. Lê, Izhar Patkin, Elaine Reichek, James Richards, Michal Rovner, Arlene Shechet, KikiSmith, BRAD SPENCE (pictured here), Yuken Teruya, Shirley Tse, and Angela White.

Material/Immaterial features artists whose work embodies the indiscernible yet indissoluble link between the grand, abstract illusions and ideals of human culture and their basis in humble material conditions. In an age when subsistence-level survival is dependent on the weightless flow of digital information and global capital, these artists use the material properties of their work to give that contradiction a tangible presence.

Meara O'Reilly

2010-05-22T06:47:00.000-07:00

SINGING SEEN

Meara O'Reilly is a sound designer, instrument builder, and singer interested in auditory perception and heirloom science demonstrations.

She tests projects and writes for MAKE magazine and Craftzine.com, and has blogged for the SFMOMA. In the past she toured internationally as a solo musician (and in the bands Feathers and Brightblack Morning Light), playing shows with Deerhoof, Michael Hurley, Lucky Dragons, Vetiver, Bill Callahan, White Magic, Akron Family, and Dinosaur Jr.

Meara currently resides in a yurt-dome tent in Northern California.

Mark Ryden

2010-04-23T07:40:00.000-07:00

MARK RYDEN is truly a modern 'Master'. Explore his work to see the range and beauty of a simple dyadic pallet. You will notice in numerous paintings, the particular use of a red/green pallet with its wide range of tints, tones, shades, and temperatures.

VIDEO of the MARK RYDEN painting process.

Come On Up To The House

2009-11-21T06:45:00.000-08:00

TOM WAITES song - interesting ANIMATION

Sergio Palleroni

2009-11-17T20:22:00.000-08:00

Architect & Activist, Sergio Palleroni's design is helping mend the world.

Tim Rollins & K.O.S.

2009-11-12T11:55:00.000-08:00

TIM ROLLINS and KOS (Kids of Survival) origins and early years.

KOS Art from reading 'ANIMAL FARM' by George Orwell

Bradley McCallum

2009-11-11T15:28:00.000-08:00

To see more of the art of BRADLEY McCALLUM

Zhi Lin

2009-11-11T15:19:00.000-08:00

A NEW OLD MASTER
See more and listen to podcast about ZHI LIN work

Teeny Tiny Small Encounters

2009-10-29T10:09:00.001-07:00

TIM HAWKINSON

How Man is Knit

Tim Hawkinson

2009-10-29T10:09:00.000-07:00

Tim Hawkinson

How Man is Knit 2007

Miniatures & The Poetic Imagination

2009-10-29T10:00:00.001-07:00

DARIO ROBLETO

See little film of Dario Robleto talking about the poetic imagination.

More Dario Robleto

Dario Robelo: Alloy of Love (Heaven is Being a Memory to Others)

Art review: Dario Robleto, LA Times October 21, 2010

Miniatures

2009-10-29T06:54:00.000-07:00

CHARLES LeDREY

The Rhetoric of the Image

2009-10-10T07:27:00.000-07:00

ROLAND BARTHES IMAGE MISIC TEXT, ‘The Rhetoric of the Image’ - Notes Three messages:

1^st: LINGUISTIC / written language, caption, emblem, code What language? What is significant there?

2^nd: ICONIC / pure image Denotation/connotation: Ask what are the signifiers (objects, props, etc.)? What are they denotation / connotating?

3^rd: NON CODED ICONICMESSAGE / relation between signifiers
video: Barthes and a quick description of the deconstructive system

video: Semiotics Slot Machine

video: Barthes and the Philosophy of Image
video: Signification by Kyle Harmon

signs of a hippie

SOCIAL CODES  [In a broader sense all semiotic codes are social codes']

1. verbal language (phonological, syntactical, lexical, prosodic and paralinguistic subcodes);
2. bodily codes (bodily contact, proximity, physical orientation, appearance, facial expression, gaze, head nods, gestures and posture);
3.commodity codes (fashions, clothing, cars);
4. behavioural codes (protocols, rituals, role-playing, games).

more on Signs or Symbols

Semiotics: Denotation, Connotation, Myth

2009-10-10T06:40:00.000-07:00

Panzanni Advertisement discussed in our reading from Roland Barthes, IMAGE MISIC TEXT, ‘The Rhetoric of the Image. Three messages:

Semiotics Start Post

2009-10-10T06:24:00.000-07:00

SEMIOTICS (study of signs, logos, & and; pictograms)

General theories of signs are called semiotics. Semiotics is the investigation of apprehension,prediction and meaning: how it is that we apprehend the world, make predictions, and develop meaning. Chandler's book & web link above gives a very thorough overview of the study of signs & symbols and their use or interpretation.
Semiotics for Beginners

Semiotics explained by wikipedia

Bruce Metcalf's Little Sculptures

2009-10-03T07:46:00.000-07:00

BRUCE METCALF

The Poetics of Space

2009-09-26T07:20:00.000-07:00

The Poetics of Space was written by philosopher, Gaston Bachelard.

Read quotes from this gentle thinker
LEARN MORE about his work

SPAC New Pictures

The Strongest Man in the World

Save Paper Save Animals

Margaret Kilgallen

Artists Take Civic Action

Pictorial Truths

Forest of Signs

Geoff McFetridge

Pictorial Texts

Minding Others Business

Sweet Parliament Home

Iconography and Iconology

Cute and Creepy

Ronald Van Der Meijs

Tiny World In a Bottle

Lisa Swirling

D.O.T.S.

Lorenzo Duran

Janet Echelman

More Signs of Mending

Otherworldly: Optical Delusions and Small Realities

John Lurie

Bunnies

Kevin Cyr

Robert Schwartz

Global Tree Project

The Re-Enchanment of Art

Chris Berens

Chewing Gum Artist

Portraits

James Mollison

Lori Field

Make:Craft

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MAKE:CRAFT Ben Maltz Gallery

en Maltz Gallery

Watch

Waste Land

From Adams to Lace

Darren Waterston

Lynd Ward

On the Head of A Pin

Do Ho Suh

Journey Around My Skull

Interactive Art

Disembodied Communities

Spontaneous Combustion

Art & Action

Remix Theory

Henry Darger

The Art of the Steal

A Message From the Honey Bees

A.I. & Everlasting Life

Signs of Mending

White Cube

Ethan Ham

Incarnation

People Matter

William Kentridge

Material / Immaterial

Meara O'Reilly

Mark Ryden

Come On Up To The House

Sergio Palleroni

Tim Rollins & K.O.S.

Bradley McCallum

Zhi Lin

Teeny Tiny Small Encounters

Tim Hawkinson

Miniatures & The Poetic Imagination

Miniatures

The Rhetoric of the Image

Semiotics: Denotation, Connotation, Myth

Semiotics Start Post

Bruce Metcalf's Little Sculptures

The Poetics of Space