Ian E Claussen
Mar 31, 2011
Mar 30, 2011
Mar 24, 2011
Mar 21, 2011
Mitch Trale - Commissioning
Commissioning is a digital gallery which explores art patronage as an act of collaborative commerce.
Selected artists are provided with a set of constraints, the first of which is a fixed budget, within which they must produce a piece of original work. All artists featured in this round of commissions were paid the same amount of money.
Additional constraints, ranging from formal elements to thematic or emotional postures, are also provided. Where possible, no additional direction or feedback is provided to the artists, and their resultant work is accepted with pleasure.
Each artist is also asked to produce a Certificate of Authenticity to accompany their piece. This document can take any form or shape the artist desires.
As with any gallery, the sovereignty of selection is a crucial consideration. Commissioning exists to support the creation of the kind of art I want to see: I'm interested in progressive aesthetics, technical chops, contemporary culture, and true humor.
Mitch Trale, 2010
Blind Mist debut
Blind Mist is a live-streaming aggregator that works by taking all of the images from the URLs you enter into its database. All images function as links to their place of origin and will eventually expire from public rotation. To be included in the rotation of images, add your own URLs to Blind Mist by entering them roll over menu at the top Blind Mist's page. The more URLs you add, the greater the chance your images will have to be seen. Made in collaboration with Jon Vingiano.
View Blind Mist here.
Mar 15, 2011
Mar 14, 2011
Mar 11, 2011
Mar 8, 2011
Christodoulos Panayiotou
WONDERLAND
2008, 80 color slides, realized with the collaboration of the Municipal Archives of the City of Limassol, Cyprus.
Wonder Land is the outcome of extensive research in the historical archives of the city of Limassol pointing out the “obsession” of limassolians to disguise into Disney's characters during the annual carnival parade. The work covers the period from the late 70s up to present and renegotiates the historic and political narrative of this important social event.
Mar 6, 2011
PWR 4
PWR 4
57 x 76 cm double sided poster. 1000 copies.
Winter, 2011
Contributers:
Joel Evey
Ida Lehtonen
Iain Ball
Paint FX
Jack Latham
Katja Novitskova
Daniel Swan
Edited by Rasmus & Hanna Terese
Mar 3, 2011
Untitled (Woof)
Untitled (Woof)
AM2PŁ (Andreas Meinich 2 Piotr Łakomy)
475 x 615 mm
Fullcolor offset print + mixed media on Arctica 300g paper.
Edition of 15 (+9AP)
Morava Books
Mar 2, 2011
Obsession with Compression (an essay about GIFs)
Excerpt:
The GIF’s straightforward looping mechanism revels in its own simplicity and the manner in which it professes to be nothing more profound than what 3~ seconds of your time can possibly allow for as a work of visual art. In an online environment that exalts immediacy and ease of use, the GIF is not a fetishization of the past or Web 1.0 culture– as many have argued– but a fetishization of the internet’s propensity for compressing information to the furthest degree possible. In a world of Macbook Airs, external hard drives the size of a thumb, and 140 character limits on textual communication, the GIF is a suitable alternative for those who can’t quite make it through a 2 minute Youtube video without advancing forward to the 1:00 and 1:30 minute markers after the first 10 seconds prove too dull for viewing. The most crucial question for artists to ask in response to the GIF’s obsession with compression is whether the GIF is a true harbinger of conceptual efficiency or an ornamental novelty of its own lightness?Read full essay here
Mar 1, 2011
Gregory Fong - xoxo, 2010
"For a group exhibition in New York featuring many young artists, I invited 23 teenagers from well-respected Manhattan private schools to network and socialize at the opening. Inspired by the urban savviness of the teen-aged characters on the TV drama ‘Gossip Girl’, my hope was that the teens would gain a greater knowledge of what it means to be a pre-career artist.
Beyond the curator, only the teens themselves were aware of their status as an artwork."
Artist's website.
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