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ART REFERENCE (BOOKS), PEELED PHOTOGRAPH, 113x185CM, 2001

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.

Crossposted from Derek Lerner : syndication + aggregation

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.

Crossposted from Derek Lerner : syndication + aggregation

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

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.

Derek Lerner showandtellfiga.com 2009 website

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.

[...] 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

Derek Lerner, Absolute Horizon, 2008

Derek Lerner, Apparent Horizon, 2008

From point to line to plane, into the air, over time. Four known dimensions. Connection, tension, illumination. A small attempt at an impossible representation.

Opening Reception
Friday, December 12, 2008

Featuring GHAVA

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Over the last two weeks I have had difficulty dealing with multiple Apple products/services. More specifically continued problems with MobileMe Sync. The fact that there is absolutely no phone support for MobileMe sucks. Typically I find myself walking away from these situations unhappy and still frustrated. Just like any big tech company there are definitely issues with the level of support and customer service I have received from Apple over the years. Most recently after hours of troubleshooting and complaining, the folks at Apple have treated me right. Yesterday I felt good about the service I received and then I saw the commercial for the new MacBook last night and was like HELL YEA. Apple killed it. Hopefully the trend will catch on and become commonplace.

and yup…. YouTube @ 16x9!

and as a related side note… Tell EPA to protect our health and climate. Friday is the last day to voice your opinion.

Robbie Cooper 2008 Jessica Hardy, Tekken, Dark Ressurection

I just learned via @swissmiss about a really great body of work created by NY based photographer and video artist Robbie Cooper along with Andrew Wiggins (camera man) and Charly Smith (First AD).

Immersion is a project that records video of people “through the screen” as they play games, use the internet and watch TV. In 2009 they will be working with the Media Center at Bournemouth University, on an 18 month study called “War and Leisure”, of teenagers and war in the media. Using the Facial Action Coding System, developed by Paul Ekman, we’ll be analysing the reactions of teenagers to war in video games, movies, news footage, documentaries and online video. Outside of this study they are also filming people consuming a range of media- everything from the shopping channel, porn, sports, to programming created for babies.

Watch the video on The New York Times Video Library

update:

Game Boys by Shauna Frischkorn. on right Matthew (Playing SSX2) on left Todd (playing Test Drive) C-Prints 40 x 30 inches

Annie Ok just pointed out to me the portrait series titled Game Boys dating back to 2003 by Shauna Frischkorn.
It’s too bad the NY times did not cover this photographers work back then or even now.

From http://www.shaunafrischkorn.com

Game Boys is an ongoing portrait series of young men engaged in a familiar pastime—they are playing video games. For the past three years, I have been photographing video game players who come to my studio, sit in the dark, and play for hours while I quietly watch and shoot. The studio setting lends a theatrical quality to this commonplace activity. Sometimes, I watch the game to see a particularly interesting sequence, but mostly I just watch the game players. I seek to explore the popular culture phenomenon of video games by examining the “gamers” who play them. Because my work is rooted in the tradition of portrait photography, I look beyond the hype surrounding video games and focus on the players themselves. Traditionally, the belief has been that a portrait could tell us a great deal about a subject: a window into a person’s inner character could be found through facial expressions. Although the expressions on my subjects may appear to be passive, the gamers in these photographs are actually performing fast-paced maneuvers and executing split-second decisions, making these portraits of intense concentration.