Thursday, April 8, 2010
Toni Dove lives and works in New York. Since the early 1990s, she has produced unique, highly imaginative, embodied hybrids of film, installation art and experimental theater. In her work, performers and participants interact with an unfolding narrative, using interface technologies such as motion sensing and laser harp to ѰerformѠon-screen avatars.
Lina Maria Giraldo attended the Fine Arts program at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogota, Colombia. She later moved to Boston, where she studied English, while actively working as an artist in the local scene. She was awarded the Tsongas Scholarship, while finishing her BFA at Mass College of Art, where she majored in Studio of interrelated Media (SIM). She graduated with Departmental Honors and Academic Distinction. She was then selected as a finalist for the Stephen D. Paine Scholarship Fund and received an honorable mention. She was included as a featured artist of the President’s Report of Massachusetts College of Art.
Brian Knep
Brian Knep is a new-media artist who uses science and technology to explore change, healing, struggle, and acceptance. Often his works are dynamic and respond to changes in their environment. Some are simply aware of the passage of time while others are interactive, sensing and reacting to the people around them. Knep has had solo shows at the New Britain Museum of American Art, the University of Massachusetts, Lowell and Arizona State University and has been part of group shows at the Milwaukee Art Museum, Laval Virtual in France, MobileArt in Sweden, and the Insa Art Center in Korea, among others. His works have won awards from Ars Electronica, Americans for the Arts, AICA/New England and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. In 2005 Knep became the first artist-in-residence at Harvard Medical School in a program co-sponsored by Harvard's Office for the Arts. Knep lives and works in Boston and is represented by Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, NY and Judi Rotenberg Gallery, Boston.
Liz Nofziger
http://www.nofzilla.com/html/core.html
Working with the physical space of the gallery, its myriad past and present uses, and its architecturally significant beginnings, Core presents an abstracted “core sample” of architect William LeBaron Jenney’s Ludington Building, disrupting conventional expectations of architecture. Viewer exploration will complete the work, revealing reflections of the building's past, from the vibration of printing presses to toothpaste and auto-parts.
Working with the physical space of the gallery, its myriad past and present uses, and its architecturally significant beginnings, Core presents an abstracted “core sample” of architect William LeBaron Jenney’s Ludington Building, disrupting conventional expectations of architecture. Viewer exploration will complete the work, revealing reflections of the building's past, from the vibration of printing presses to toothpaste and auto-parts.
Douglas Weathersby
Douglas Weathersby, whose site-specific installations are the result of everyday rituals like cleaning and home repair, has been chosen as this year's recipient of the Institute of Contemporary Art's Artist Prize. The ICA Artist Prize is given annually to a Boston artist in recognition of exceptional work produced in the last year.
Most of Weathersby's work--not unlike the cleaning he performs--is extremely impermanent, living on only as long as the optimal conditions allow or until the dust is swept up or disturbed. Because of its ephemeral nature, many of his works are documented and mediated through a variety of photographic and digital means. His exhibition at the ICA included a combination of video and live-feed images of works that Weathersby created in the museum workrooms in addition to a dust drawing created in the gallery space.
Most of Weathersby's work--not unlike the cleaning he performs--is extremely impermanent, living on only as long as the optimal conditions allow or until the dust is swept up or disturbed. Because of its ephemeral nature, many of his works are documented and mediated through a variety of photographic and digital means. His exhibition at the ICA included a combination of video and live-feed images of works that Weathersby created in the museum workrooms in addition to a dust drawing created in the gallery space.
Sunday, April 4, 2010
Whitney Biennial
Marianne Vitalie's new media video called Patron was one I had never experienced before. Her brave and demanding voice and commands were what attracted the viewers attention and kept it there for such an extended period of time. She told the viewer what to do and say and how to address the world. She called on certain people in the back of the room who were not paying full attention to her and employed almost embarrassment to make them follow her rules.
She wears lipstick and makeup on her face but uses unflattering colors and application. She bears her teath when she yells and speaks to the viewers, almost snarling at them in a dog-like manner. Her voice in snot in a screaming tone but rather, a stern almost barking tone that commands the people watching the video.
Her directions however where not taken very well, which was her point. She wanted to belittle you and beat you down, so that when she told you what to do and say, it was easy for her to control you. She was showing the way society and media influences a viewer and how it is almost impossible to resist such said things. To be personally picked on is what happens everyday in society, where people who don't follow the rules or fit the stereotype of what is acceptable. Her belittling is what brain washes someone into following orders without question or objection.
She wears lipstick and makeup on her face but uses unflattering colors and application. She bears her teath when she yells and speaks to the viewers, almost snarling at them in a dog-like manner. Her voice in snot in a screaming tone but rather, a stern almost barking tone that commands the people watching the video.
Her directions however where not taken very well, which was her point. She wanted to belittle you and beat you down, so that when she told you what to do and say, it was easy for her to control you. She was showing the way society and media influences a viewer and how it is almost impossible to resist such said things. To be personally picked on is what happens everyday in society, where people who don't follow the rules or fit the stereotype of what is acceptable. Her belittling is what brain washes someone into following orders without question or objection.
Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present
Marina Abramović's exhibition at the MoMa, was by far one of the most interesting and thought provoking things I've been to. Her videos and photograph were raw and inviting. I found it interesting that nothing she did, she kept secret. Every part of her life was shown in images on a screen, printed on a wall, or enacted by models.
She begins her work in her 20s and documents most of her life from then on, including when she first meets a greta influence and partner in life, to when they break up and her representation of it. His inclusion in the piece and the easy body language between the two show some of the inside of their relationship. The video of them running towards each other on the Great Wall is a very emotional and understandable turmoil of how she feels between the two of them and the relationship that once was, but is no longer.
I personally, connected with her piece called "Freeing the Body", in which she dances and jumps around with her face covered in a black cloth bag. Her nude body is the image of vulnerability and the objectification of the body in its purest form. Her covered face can be seen as allowing the dancing body to be associated or identified with by any viewer.
Her artwork, it seems in an inviting and questioning experience for the artist and the viewer and how the two can interact with one another without even meeting. In The Artist is Present, her interaction with the person across from her was one, in which the video documented. There was no verbal interaction but rather just eye and emotional connection by the long period of time in which they stared at one another.
She begins her work in her 20s and documents most of her life from then on, including when she first meets a greta influence and partner in life, to when they break up and her representation of it. His inclusion in the piece and the easy body language between the two show some of the inside of their relationship. The video of them running towards each other on the Great Wall is a very emotional and understandable turmoil of how she feels between the two of them and the relationship that once was, but is no longer.
I personally, connected with her piece called "Freeing the Body", in which she dances and jumps around with her face covered in a black cloth bag. Her nude body is the image of vulnerability and the objectification of the body in its purest form. Her covered face can be seen as allowing the dancing body to be associated or identified with by any viewer.
Her artwork, it seems in an inviting and questioning experience for the artist and the viewer and how the two can interact with one another without even meeting. In The Artist is Present, her interaction with the person across from her was one, in which the video documented. There was no verbal interaction but rather just eye and emotional connection by the long period of time in which they stared at one another.
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