Derek Lerner Asvirus 30, 26 & 31 2011 Ink on paper various sizes

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Derek Lerner
January 26 - February 26, 2012

RHV fine art is pleased to announce an exhibition of drawings by New York based artist Derek Lerner

Please join us for the opening reception on
Thursday, January 26 from 6-8pm.

Cocktails and after-party at Lot 2

See more of Derek’s work »

Derek Lerner layers countless well refined marks, lines, and shapes to create complex systems that look as if we are peering through a microscope and a telescope at the same time. After 15 years of working, this group of 10 ink on paper drawings (all 2011) constitute Lerner’s latest body of work, stemming from his contradictory feelings about urban sprawl, over-development and humanity as a virus.

As Lerner’s fictional landscapes meander across the paper, growing outward as layer upon layer is applied, they depict a co-mingling of human-made and natural systems and the tensions between those forces. The elements of each composition multiply and attach themselves to one another or consume others like fungi or suburbs encroaching on open land. He coalesces questions about how complex systems work, about parasites, pesticides and poisons, genetically modified foods, over-consumption and over-population into ironically beautiful visual metaphors that reference mapping, satellite photography, microscopic imagery, radial irrigation systems as well as signs, symbols and the random marks, scrapes and scratches found on the streets of major metropolitan areas.

Looking both biological and man-made, his lyrical compositions embody dualities that reflect Lerner’s conflicted feelings about his own role and impact on our environment,
“…while in many ways my work is a reaction to over-consumption and environmental politics, the drawings themselves are yet another “thing” added to the world, made no less with materials that are potentially damaging to the environment.” Although Lerner’s work emphasizes the destructive nature of man his work is evidence that beauty can be found in what humans make as well as what we destroy; and that it is perhaps unavoidable for humans to create without consuming at the same time.

Derek Lerner was raised in Jacksonville, FL and earned his BFA from the Atlanta College of Art in 1995. He lives in New York City and maintains his studio in Brooklyn, NY. His work has been exhibited around the world including the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, IL, Museo de la Ciudad de Mexico in Mexico City and the Centre d’Exposition de Val-d’Or in Quebec, Canada among others. This is his first exhibition with RHV Fine Art.

RHV fine art presents the compelling work of emerging and established local and national artists. We feature work that is both conceptually challenging and visually engaging, focusing on but not limited to minimal and conceptual abstraction.

RHV fine art
683 6th Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11215

Hours:
Thursday through Sunday
2pm – 7pm
and by appointment

Directions: R train to Prospect Ave. or F and G trains to 7th Ave.

For more information, please contact:
Henry Chung or Robert Walden
(718) 473-0819 or visit our web site

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Derek Lerner, “Asvirus 9 through 12”  2011 35.56 x 27.94 cm (14 x 11 in) ea.

Derek Lerner, “Asvirus 12 through 18”  2011 45.72 x 30.48 cm (18 x 12 in) ea.

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Our good friend Jordan Crane from Wolff Olins called us in when they were beginning to work on the new Current TV identity. In the early meetings GHAVA helped to mold and develop logo possibilities by testing out different motion experiments and options for multiple concepts. Early on it was obvious that the flag captured the existing, and future brand of Current TV. Once the final direction was decided upon by Wolff Olins and the client, GHAVA worked closely with Wolff Olins on further development of the brand look and feel.

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  Derek Lerner Show&Tell Figs. A-C 2002-3 Diazo bluelines, Each 187.96 x 106.68 cm (74 x 42 in) in editions of 8

Select Media Festival 9 opens December 9th and runs through december 12th at the experimental cultural center, the Co-Prosperity Sphere and spaces in Bridgeport, Chicago. The ninth annual festival will feature video programs, a group exhibition, performances and presentations in conjunction with live music and action.

The group exhibition, Infoporn II, was inspired by artists and designers who use available analog and digital tools to communicate complex data from the everyday to the very obscure. A selection of works from around the world take form in installations, a publication library, interactive projects, and infographics. The show will be viewable for TWO DAYS only. (Friday Dec 10 8pm – 1am and Saturday Dec. 11 2-9pm)

Featuring works by:
Tom Burtonwood, Dayton Castleman, Caleb Charland, Jeremiah Chiu, The Center for Urban Pedagogy, Column Five Media, Theodore Darst, David A. Garcia, Firebelly Design, Francesco Franchi, Cody Hudson, Gary Kachadourian,   Derek Lerner, The New City Reader Classifieds project by Kazys Varnelis and Joseph Grima & others, MaTeVoS, Serifcan Ozcan, The Present Group, The PMIRL library Infoporn Collection, Adam Lonczynski, Adam Lonczynski & Joshua Clarfelt.

Performances by:
J+J+J, Aleks Eva, Lord of the Yum Yum, Michael Perkins

After party Dj Set by Joe Bryl LSD Soundsystem at Maria’s (960 W 31st St)

Co-Prosperity Sphere
3219 S Morgan Street
Chicago, IL

Map & Directions

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Read full description about this series of drawings here.

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For the 2010 Conflux Festival, I’m installing within a five block radius surrounding NYU’s Barney Building, at 34 Stuyvesant St. NY, NY multiples of three pieces (Recycled Spacetime, Waste, and Refracted Spacetime) which are part of an ongoing body of work entitled Telepresence.

Conflux, the art and technology festival for the creative exploration of urban public space, presents 75+ interactive art and technology events over the weekend of October 08–10, 2010 in the East Village. Participants will transform the neighborhood into a street-based laboratory with art installations, interactive performances, games, guided expeditions and more. Indoor events, headquartered at NYU’s Barney Building (34 Stuyvesant St.), include a keynote address by renowned urban explorer Steve Duncan, evening performances and the Conflux Café series of artist-led talks and workshops. As a leading venue for cutting-edge work by public-space artists, technologists, scholars and practitioners of contemporary psychogeography (the study of the geographic environment’s effects on our emotions and behavior), Conflux provides an open framework for the examination, celebration and (re)construction of everyday city life. Outdoor Conflux events are free; a one-day pass for the Conflux Café is $5 ($3/students). Purchase tickets now.

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Driven to create public artworks that occupy mobile space, I decided to use QR Codes as a gateway. A QR Code (Quick Response Code) is a two-dimensional bar code that can be decrypted by camera-phones equipped with a reader application such as Barcodes for the iPhone. I am interested in using cell phones and other mobile devices as a venue for exhibiting art. I view this venue as a virtual space. This concept is eloquently described by Jonathan Steuer in his article “Defining virtual realities: Dimensions determining telepresence”.

How can one explain the seemingly bizarre ability to speak to someone who is not present by means of talking into a piece of plastic? Of course, this process can be conceived in terms of senders, receivers, and messages. However, such an explanation fails to account for the odd experience of speaking to someone who is not actually there. Where does such a conversation take place? The most plausible conceptual model is that both parties, by means of the telephone, are electronically present in the same virtual reality created by the telephone system.

Toying with the idea of artworks as virtual goods within virtual space that are digitally decaying, disposable and somewhat fictional objects which contain “value” in their instant-gratification experience, I chose in contrast to create QR codes printed on aluminum as more permanent tangible objects acting as a bridge between real and virtual spaces. The QR Codes are installed on street sign posts.

Conceptually these public mobile art pieces range in topic from mixed-reality, simulations, consciousness, and presence to the technological singularity, feedback loops, and black holes.

The first piece I have created for this “space” entitled Recycled Spacetime is a sound based artwork. Using a camera-phone “viewers” can take a photograph of the QR Code and then using a reader application, the QR Code resolves to a webpage with instructions on how to interact with the work. To listen to and interact with the piece “viewers” can call a Google Voice phone number to listen to mixed/layered field recordings comprised from all of the locations where the QR Codes have been installed. After listening to the current piece they are able to leave their own recording which will then be mixed into the artwork. Over time the sound will become compressed into a chaotic aural documentation of time and space.

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Asvirus 7 2010 Ink, enamel, and gesso on paper mounted to panel 35.56 x 27.94 cm (14 x 11 in)

Asvirus 6 2010 Ink and gesso on paper mounted to panel 35.56 x 27.94 cm (14 x 11 in)

Asvirus 5 2010 Ink and gesso on paper mounted to panel 35.56 x 27.94 cm (14 x 11 in)

Asvirus 4 2010 Ink and gesso on paper mounted to panel 35.56 x 27.94 cm (14 x 11 in)

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GHAVA was commissioned by Wolff Olins to create a series of art and videos for AOL’s new brand identity which launched December 2009. I had the chance to get messy making art for few of these and shot stop-frame animations of the art being created. Check out more of the work GHAVA did for this project here.

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I did this a while ago an am just now getting around to posting about it. My thinking with this was that it was in such a high-traffic area and bound to be added too quickly, I never thought of the piece as being finished. Skulphone had previously put up a poster, “SMILE YOU’RE IN NYC”,  that I ultimately worked around. You can see more photos here.

Derek Lerner  Unfinished & Skullphone SMILE YOU’RE IN NYC
mixed media on sheetrock 2009

Site-specific work at Fuse Gallery
93 2nd Ave, NYC, 10003

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Now I need some bandages for my telomeres.

...scientists are showing just how measurable — and dangerous — prolonged exposure to stress can be. Stanford University neurobiologist, MacArthur “genius” grant recipient, and renowned author Robert Sapolsky reveals new answers to why and how chronic stress is threatening our lives in Killer Stress, a National Geographic Special. The hour-long co-production of National Geographic Television and Stanford University was produced exclusively for public television.

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“Captcha codes are omnipresent on the web since a while and I loved them from the beginning. In a certain way they tell a lot about our relation to the machine world. And btw, I am waiting for the day when they will be extinct.”

CAPTCHA codes are publicly available, and each is uniquely generated by a computer program which “knows” the correct response. Although current software is unable to accurately read and understand the codes most humans can. Getting up with CAPTCHA cracks me up. I’ve heard of graff writers flipping tags in reverse to add some confusion to the game, but bombing with a challenge-response test is a new one for sure. Abstract conceptual public art? I also find the reCAPTCHA project very interesting.

Aram Bartholl has been working in Berlin since 1995. In his art work he thematizes the relationships between net data space and every day life. “In which form does the network data world manifest itself in our everyday life? What returns from cyberspace into physical space? How do digital innovations influence our everyday actions?”

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Thought these were nice and wanted to quickly post. Read an inverview with the Ebon @ yatzer.

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Creative Time TV is a new online program from Creative Time, presenting video works and series.

Creative Time is a nonprofit organization that commissions and presents public arts projects of all disciplines. They strive to commission, produce and present the most important, ground-breaking, challenging and exceptional art of our times; art that infiltrates the public realm and engages millions of people in NYC and across the globe.

Our submission was one of two runners-up and was featured on Creative Time’s YouTube Channel.

See a few more versions here.

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Looks as if some 733t /b/tards are in it FTW! moot, 4chan founder, currently ranked #1 in TIME’s World’s Most Influential People of 2009.

via: Jimmy Ruska’s Blog
The methods, scripts and programs posted to upvote moot in most threads often didn’t include the ‘key’ query string variable which is some kind of md5 dependent on the score. It looks like voting without the key variable doesn’t work anymore even though it had before. They probably wiped out all the votes that didn’t have a key or that had an incorrect key. In the mean time people are randomly speculating they wiped votes that were exactly 100 or 1. Changing the number to something random without updating the authentication key just causes the query to fail. There’s also speculation you will be blocked for voting faster than every x seconds. It looks like it logs the votes and runs some kind of cron job every minute adding people who have voted too much to the blocked list. Within that span, you can vote as many times as you want. It also seems to have some kind of requirement, eg if the log has over 5000 votes flush it and check for repeats to block.

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Please join us to celebrate our latest publication:

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11 Rivington St. between Chrystie and Bowery, NYC

MTA Subway stations: F and V to 2nd Ave or 6 to Spring St.

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Signed books will be available for purchase

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FREE STATE III,PEELED PHOTOGRAPH, 127X161CM

Richard Galpin intricately scores and peels away emulsion from the surface of his photographs producing a radical revision of the urban form. The artist allows himself no collaging, or additions of any kind - each piece is unique and made entirely by the erasure of photographic information.

In 2008 Hales Gallery published “Surface to Surface”, a book that documents the development of Galpin’s work - from the early works based on snapshots of London shop signs, to the latest large scale works with New York and Sao Paulo cityscapes. The essay by writer and curator David Thorp contextualises Galpin’s practice within a 20th Century art-historical discourse, exploring the various references in the work to early modernist movements.

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From the website

This image is 100 meters long. There are 178 people in the picture, all shot in the course of 20 days from the same spot on a railroad bridge on Warschauer Strasse in Berlin in the summer 2007.

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1stfans is a socially networked Brooklyn Museum membership.

from the website
A 1stfans Membership is an interactive relationship with the Museum that will happen in the building and online. We call it a “socially networked” Museum Membership, but what does that mean? The word has two meanings, which is why we picked it: it means developing face-to-face relationship with Museum staff and other Museum Members (literal social networking), and a strong, exclusive online relationship through social networking sites (you know them as Facebook, Flickr, and Twitter).

The artist for the Twitter Art Feed will be announced in the middle of each month for the following month, so keep a close eye on this blog in the next two weeks for the announcement of the January artist.

Joseph Kosuth, one of the founders of the conceptual art movement in the 1960s is 1stfans Twitter Art Feed Artist for March.

This month, Currency by artist Mary Temple is featured in the 1stfans Twitter Art Feed. Brooklyn Museum developed a way to display Mary’s drawings in calendar-format, so the virtual presentation mirrored the layout in Pittsburgh at the Mattress Factory with an added Twitter twist. 1stfans have been able to follow day-by-day, and everyone will be able to see the work firsthand as it will be installed for one night only at the March 7th Target First Saturday.

The title, of the piece, Currency, most obviously references my desire and attempt to keep current of world events, to try to understand some of what is happening in the world. It also refers to something that fascinates me about an industry that trades in a product that is only valuable until the moment it is heard, at which time it instantly loses its value. Yesterdays news is an artifact which no longer has currency or power as a trade worthy item. The title Currency also refers to the scale of the portraits themselves, which might evoke a bank note or dollar bill portrait, the image of power and money entwined. -Mary Temple

Read more about this piece here.

1stfans brought their own paper on Saturday January 3, 2009 and artists from Swoon‘s studio printed Swoon’s work for any member of 1stfans.

Join 1stfans for $20 per year and get access to exclusive events at Target First Saturday, skip the movie line, updates via social networks and access contemporary artists Tweeting on our 1stfans Twitter Art Feed.

It’s really great to start seeing more artists using Twitter in creative ways. I’ve dipped my toes into this concept with RobinAstro.txt and would love to spend more time exploring Twitter as an arts “space”.

Derek Lerner RobinAstroTxt, Twitter Current Hack the Debate 00001 2008 variable media

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Magnetic Movie from Semiconductor on Vimeo.

The secret lives of invisible magnetic fields are revealed as chaotic ever-changing geometries . All action takes place around NASA’s Space Sciences Laboratories, UC Berkeley, to recordings of space scientists describing their discoveries . Actual VLF audio recordings control the evolution of the fields as they delve into our inaudible surroundings, revealing recurrent ‘whistlers’ produced by fleeting electrons . Are we observing a series of scientific experiments, the universe in flux, or a documentary of a fictional world?



More info here http://www.semiconductorfilms.com/root/Magnetic_Movie/Magnetic.htm



An Animate Projects commission for Channel 4 in association with Arts Council England.

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Derek Lerner showandtellfiga.com 2009 website

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Best watched full screen in HD on Vimeo.

A visualization of people who’ve contributed to the Barack Obama page on Wikipedia. Created by Jamie Wilkinson using code_swarm and his Wikipedia page history parser Wikiswarm (Ruby), which uses the Wikipedia API to convert page edit histories into the code_swarm activity log format. Jamie also points out that there is experimental support for visualizing individual users’ contributions.

Reminded me of this dark but beautifully interesting time laps video by fitzbuhnwallow which documents the first 12 hours of edits to the VT Massacre Wikipedia article.

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[...] NYC artist + vigilante, Poster Boy explains the vision behind this persona, the importance of regaining control of your environment and generating change through creative expression. [...]

via: Friends we Love
Thanks to Annie Ok for sharing this video w/ me

Poster Boy NYC on Flickr

Poster Boy’s version of Rauschenberg

update: Poster Boy Is Caught, or Is It a Stand-In?

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Derek Lerner, Absolute Horizon, 2008

Derek Lerner, Apparent Horizon, 2008

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