Author Archives: jolanta
Lovely Beads and Things – Leah Oates
Leah Oates: Please describe your work in terms of your processes, themes and content?Gae Savannah: Currently I am working with Chinese bamboo plant stands, benches and other furniture. I’m stacking the benches, creating towers with light inside some of the tiers. The work references a bunch of things such as the excessive decoration and simultaneous […]
Digital Landfill – Matilde Digmann talks with Mark Napier
As a pioneer in digital art, Mark Napier started the potatoland.org site in 1995 and made the interactive piece Digital Landfill in 1998. I had a talk with Mark about his view on the position of new media arts, the dissapperance of the object in art and the new role of the artist.Matilde Digmann: Can […]
Who Resists Big Brother? – Rodrigo Tisi
El Colectivo de Arte la Vitrina was granted a FONDART grant (governmental funds for the development of the arts in Chile) during 2004 and 2005. The project “Status Quo,” recognized in the category of “excellence,” proposed a trilogy to comment on issues of power as a result of the political and economical structures we live […]
Storylines: Narrative in Drawing – Curator Frank Verpoorten
From a theoretical and linguistic point of view, one could argue that, since its inception, drawing as a medium has undergone a transformation from syntagm to paradigm, or from a primary form of communication to a refined, optional carrier of embedded narration. The basic human impulse to formulate information into a story has always figured […]
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
For more than a decade, I have been developing interactive art installations that seek to create connective, social and performative experiences. Contrary to most multimedia work, which is designed for individual participation, my pieces are normally conceived for group interaction, establishing new relationships between local or remote participants. My work involves the concept of “relational […]
Fumi Nakamura
I make art to express myself. All the creations I have made are based on my experiences, thoughts and memories. English isn’t my first language and moving to the United States when I was eleven was the toughest part of my life. I didn’t know the language and I also didn’t know anyone. Not being […]
Dancing with Lamps – Tina Kesting
Ten years after the foundation of her dance company cie.toula limnaios, chorographer, interpreter and dancer Toula Limnaios celebrates this event in the form of a three-week jubilee program. She shows pieces from several periods ranging in style from solo to quintet. This wouldn’t seem to be anything of importance, but, these days, it is very […]
Barbara Streiff
Primal geometry – ten symbols found in Nature – has been a spiritual awakening and an unending source of inspiration for the artist. Primal geometry – ten symbols found in Nature – has been a spiritual awakening and an unending source of inspiration for the artist. Empowered by the symbolic energy in primal geometry, Barbara […]
Hope Grows in Chelsea – D. Dominick Lombardi
Emergency Arts, a complex of studios, non-profit charitiy spaces and galleries on 11th Avenue in Chelsea opened this past September. Not such big news in itself, sure, but, in this case, and in the approach taken here with the recyclable materials construction and communal feel of its dwellers, you see something closer to the heyday […]
(Not) Curated by Doug Harvey and Christian Cummings – Kim Bockus
Word went out on the internet ten days before the show opened—an invitation to artists to pack up some art and head down to High Energy Constructs in LA’s Chinatown arts district. This was no ordinary invitation, but an online chain letter. Each person who got the email was to forward it to ten others, […]
