I have been working graphics and a visual identity/world for the new movie by Mika Ronkainen. It’s a funny story about finnish Rugby team!
Check out the site for more information: http://www.freetimemachos.com
“A comedy about the most northern and third lousiest rugby team in the world.”
Performing at NYPL event, Concept Korea, for an emerging Korean fashion designer collective, with art installations by Rosemary Trockel and Curtis Anderson, photography by Jack Pierson, amuse bouche by Da Silvano and Jean-georges Vongerichten
MWM : Crystals & Lasers. Exhibition & Artwork Photos. My month in Paris, things seen and places been, behind the scenes in my painting laboratory, the mural, the awesome opening reception, and the 17 new canvas paintings.
I am very pleased with how the canvases turned out. A clear evolution from my Parallel Universe Series (June 2009 : Sao Paulo, Brazil) but still with the scrambled vision, hypercolors, and op-art zing. All I do is daydream about where to go next with this style. No Ceilings!
Show runs through March 12th. Swing through and please pass the word to friends in France and beyond. View Slideshow.
Social Object: Sculpture and Software
The Project Room for New Media at Chelsea Art Museum presents
Social Object: sculpture and software by Michael Rees
Discussion: 6-8PM 01.21.10
Exhibition through 01.23.10
Link: http://www.michaelrees.com/Michael_Rees/sui_press.html
http://chelseaartmuseum.org/exhibits/2009/rees/index.html
Social Object: sculpture and software is an interactive software installation by Michael Rees that includes correlated physical objects with virtual objects. Interacting with artist authored software creates screen based experiences that construct virtual objects from which physical objects can be derived. The work explores the relationship between language and form and creates a framework for virtual and physical play.
The exhibition includes the Sculptural User Interface (SUI) application, along with objects made from the SUI using contemporary automated sculpting processes. The SUI is a language to form synthesizer. The software generates 3D forms by typing letters on the keyboard. Many letters, words, sentences, turn into many kinds of shapes can be combined in multiple ways to create a rich user experience.
I think not once I had this question and every time I discuss this topic with any of my friends we are getting over excited and started to fight. One day a good friend of mine link me to this article of Craig A Elimeliah (producer at Firstborn Multimedia) from AIGA. I read it and seems to be fair but still doesn’t convince me, and I feel that Craig himself is not 100% convinced about it too. Is this a hard topic? Yes it is. Why? Because I think it depends of every person; it depend of how you feel it…I feel like a designer, is that wrong? People tell me that I am an artist, even if I try with all my heart to stay away from artistic field. What makes you designer, the fact that you are hired by ? The fact that you are dressing like a designer, think like a designer act like one…what makes you a designer? Same questions for artist; what makes you and artist? I want to be an artist, where do I start? What makes me an artist, or even better – WHO?
Aurora is the goddess of the dawn, the name for the scintillating polar light phenomenon and the title for this remarkable suspended light sculpture. Combining state of the art lighting technology with available studio materials, the artist conjures the ethereal and evanescent properties of light in a piece that virtually dematerializes through her skillful orchestration of translucency, airiness, and illumination.
The anatomy and physiology of vision is still being researched but the current understanding of vision is of an assembled sense collated by the visual cortex (V1-V6), collating color, movement, form and depth. Before Descartes, debates occurred whether the eyes emitted or just received light. One belief was that the eyes projected beams of light that illuminated what the person was then able to see.
The title of the exhibition was used to interrogate the terms, “Seeing is Believing” and “I can’t believe my eyes” and the essential issue of visual truth. In the age of manipulated digital information, Photoshop, and CGI, we view the term photodocumentation with valid skepticism and as a potential oxymoron.
This exhibition examines a type of non event: the perception of light in the absence of any light entering the eye, termed a phosphene: an entoptic (within the eye) phenomenon caused by mechanical, electrical, pharmacologic, pathologic, or magnetic stimulation of the retina, visual cortex, or cells in the visual system. (The aural analog to this is tinnitus, the perception of a near constant ringing sound in the ears in the absence of external sound.) It has also been termed “prisoner’s cinema.” The exhibition includes works that creatively interprets these issues on literal, metaphorical, and lyrical levels through paintings, drawings, videos, sculpture, and photo-based works.
Koan Jeff Baysa, M.D.
Medical Curator
Originally from South Africa, Mustafa fairly recently moved with his family from Berlin and now lives and works in Turku, Finland. His wife, Amina, is Finnish and they are well connected with music communities throughout the world. They have two lovely daughters: Leyah and Badiah. His large paintings are often portraits of multiethnic individuals and reflect his own mixed heritages. I’ve exhibited his work in New York as well. Mustafa was in the most recent Sao Paulo Biennial.
Hanging Fire, the idiom used to suggest a critical delay, is an appropriate title for the first museum show in America of contemporary art from Pakistan, a country created by partition in 1947 that constitutes the second largest Muslim population in the world. Subject to ongoing complex shearing forces that result in a tenuous daily existence, frequently marked by violence, it fosters a critical mass of outstanding creative individuals in the visual arts whose work reflects or alludes to the coping with and negotiations of that existence.
Arif Mahmood’s Young and the Fearless (2004), gelatin silver print, 16 x 16 in. is a chilling image, prescient of the issues raised in Sikandar, the current film about an adolescent Kashmiri soccer player who comes upon a gun, and emblematic of the false bravado and empowerment issues felt by young men who find themselves in the unfitting position of possessing and handling a firearm. The Karachi-based street photographer states, “I document what I see, but I also give a small part of myself to the image.”
This highly recommended show, curated by the esteemed Salim Hashmi, includes other photo-based works, as well as painting, video, and sculpture by Hamra Abbas, Bani Abidi, Zahoor ul Akhlaq, Faiza Butt, Ayaz Jokhio, Naiza Khan, Huma Mulji, Asma Mundrawala, Imran Qureshi, Rashid Rana, Ali Raza, Answar Saeed, Adeela Suleman, and Mahreen Zuberi.
In Second Skin (2009) Oil on canvas, 84″ x 60″ the Manila-based artist paints a shirtless youth wearing his t-shirt like a doo-rag, shroud, or the Veil of Veronica. The term second skin can be read as a coverup, disguise, or as scar tissue. From the Tagalog saying, “you’re like a t-shirt, always changing” Ventura gives a nod to the current commodification of tatooage by the brand Don Ed Hardy by Christian Audigier, and with the jarring juxtapositions for which he is known, the artist has drawn three cartoon mice playing baseball atop the bound head.
te veo .mi ultima expo en solitario
una serie de telas y objetos intervenidos.
aqui me encuentro pintando de manera primitiva, sin pensar demasiado, investigando la oscuridad y el poder de los colores.
Very excited to share news of my latest product collaboration: MWM X Almond : The 4 Elements Series. We’ve been working all Summer on this set of Almond Lumberjack Long Surfboards. When the boards arrived last week I was floored, they look and feel amazing. *More Info on this Project & More Recent MWM Endeavors : MWM NEWS BLOG.
