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The brand SENSEIGHT is concerned with the organisation of collaborative interactive educational commercial events that foreground the primacy of the chemosenses of smell and taste; research investigating the beneficial roles of smell and taste in health and aesthetics; product design and creation that promote these concepts.
The name SENSEIGHT is conflated from several sources: A) the word, sensei, in Japanese, means teacher, that is also the definition for the word, doctor; B) the number eight is considered an auspicious number; C) memory is considered human sense number eight; D) sensate, the homophone for senseight, connotes the appreciation of the world through the senses.
Kóan Jeff Baysa, M.D. is an international curatorial advisor who builds new audiences and markets through innovative contexts. He bridges art and science with credentials as a physician, fragrance researcher, medical suspense and nonfiction writer, Whitney Museum Independent Study Program - Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Fellow, and member of AICA, the association of international art critics. Dr. Baysa has curated shows for the London Biennale, LA International Biennial, Chinese Biennial, Whitney Museum, Canon Corporation, The United Nations, and has organised and participated in art events throughout the US and in Paris, Cork, London, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Beijing, Bandung, Hong Kong, Manila, Santiago, Singapore, Cologne, Seoul, St. Petersburg, Hanoi, Chennai, Mexico City, and Yokohama. He has organised art events in parallel with Art Basel Miami and the Frieze Art Fair.
On the boards of the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School University and the Art Omi International Artist Colony, he has presented lectures at NextMed in California, Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, and MoMA in New York. He is on the special advisory board for the Chelsea Art Museum and is a creative advisor for 3 Legged dog, a media and theater group, both in New York, and is an associate of The Daily Brand, a multi-disciplinary communications agency based in Los Angeles.
He has written for Flavorpill and Art Asia Pacific, is the Pacific editor for d'Art International (Toronto), and is a contributing writer and art editor for the contemporary culture periodical aRUde (New York), contributing writer for THE magazine (Los Angeles), guest curator for the online publication Ctrl+P Journal of Contemporary Art (Asia) and critic-reviewer for the online art journal ArtSlant (International). He has recently lectured at the Phillips Collection in Washington DC and the Anthenaeum in La Jolla, California, and has been invited to lecture at the Carnegie Institute in Washington DC, and universities in Hanoi, Vietnam, Bodrum, Turkey, and Poznan, Poland.
The critic-in residence for the 2006 Art Omi International Artist Colony in Ghent, New York, in 2007 he received a Ford Foundation grant to lecture on contemporary curatorial practice at the Hanoi University of Culture in Vietnam and conducted a survey of contemporary art in south and north Vietnam. In March 2009, he presented lectures and conducted workshops on the curatorial process from his unique perspective as a physician-curator, at Zayed University campuses in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Born and raised in Hawaii and completing his medical training at UCSF with a fellowship in allergy and clinical immunology, Dr. Baysa divides his time between New York and Los Angeles. While practising medicine in Hawaii he was an assistant clinical professor of pediatrics at the John A. Burns School of Medicine. With a special interest in the role of the sense of smell in health and aesthetics, he is a member of the Fragrance Advisory Board. Still an active physician, Dr. Baysa has shifted from a clinical practice to focus on independent clinical research investigating olfactory stimuli and their potential beneficial effects on memory disorders in diseases such as Alzheimer's and PTSD.
Della Chuang’s Kyoteau is the first in a series of fragrance-containing books, entitled with the suffix -eau, that trace sea changes in her career trajectory after her positions as senior designer for Ralph Lauren and Tom Ford, to the artist behind the packaging and distillation of Kyoto sensations framed within the character: simplicity.
The scent was made in collaboration with renegade perfumer Christophe Laudamiel, with a review pending from New York Times fragrance critic Chandler Burr.
Chuang’s photography and design work, as well as her writings and sketches featured in the book, will debut in her solo show during fashion week in September 2010 at Elizabeth Moore Fine Art in Manhattan’s Upper East Side.
A group art exhibition that touches on the key role that the olfactory sense plays in healing and illness; at the Smith Farm Center for Arts and Healing whose mission is to provide creative and wellness resources for people living with cancer and other illnesses. Participants were chosen from widely varied backgrounds, including physicists, perfumers, designers, and an explorer: Anne McClain , Jiayi and Shih-wen Young, Josee Lepage and Tobi Wong, Peter Hopkins, Gayil Nalls, Mathias Kessler, and Carrie Paterson (her The Golden Record depicted).
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
Lead Singer of Seb Leon, Sebastien Agneesens and Alex Katz model Mie Iwatsuki at Kiki De Montparnasse’s reception for One eskimO’s live session on 9 February
One eskimO singer/songwriter Kristian Leontiou, with guitarist Peter Rinaldi, drummer Adam Falkner, and bassist Jamie Sefton
Contemporary cuisine and modern art! An exquisite lunch at The Modern with Collectrium President, Boris Pevzner, overlooking MoMA’s sculpture garden dusted in snow: Pheasant Soup with Black Truffle Gelée and Pomegranate followed by the Red Beet Risotto with Flounder Carpaccio and Gold Leaf (depicted), finished with the Baba Grand Marnier, Roasted Mango, Vanilla Ice Cream and Lime Sabayon.
KJ Baysa presents Ali Hossaini and SWEATSHOPPE (Bruno Levy/Blake Shaw) at the
Ise Cultural Foundation, 555 Broadway below Prince, Thursday 18 March, 6-8PM.
An after blockparty ensues to benefit nearby White Box at 329 Broome below Delancey, 9-2AM.
An American Self-Portrait Series
~chris jordan, Seattle, 2008
“Running the Numbers looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something . . . and so on. My hope is that images representing these quantities might have a different effect than the raw numbers alone, such as we find daily in articles and books. Statistics can feel abstract and anesthetizing, making it difficult to connect with and make meaning of [them].
This project visually examines these vast and bizarre measures of our society, in large intricately detailed prints assembled from thousands of smaller photographs. Employing themes such as the near versus the far, and the one versus the many, I hope to raise some questions about the roles and responsibilities we each play as individuals in a collective that is increasingly enormous, incomprehensible, and overwhelming.”
Barbie Dolls, 2008
60″ x 80″
Depicts 32,000 Barbies, equal to the number of elective breast augmentation surgeries performed monthly in the US in 2006.
Detail at actual print size
The LAB (for installation + performance art), in association with SLAG Gallery, has been converted by Grimanesa Amorós into ”LA INCUBADORA”, which will be featuring “You Cannot Feel It…I Wish You Could” a sculpture installation arising out of her personal experiences during and immediately following her pregnancy with her daughter Shammiel. The installation explores the interplay between biology and society and particularly the concept of male pregnancy.
BTW, statistics have it that on the average, 25,000 people pass by this corner of Lexington Avenue and 47th Street each day.
If you’re even thinking of going to LA, make your reservations NOW for El Bulli pedigreed Jose Andres’ The Bazaar at SLS!
Although people are raving about the cotton candy surrounded foie gras on a stick and the Moss design store in the dessert area . . . my favorites were the liquid nitrogen tableside prepared caipirinha and the not your usual Caprese salad with the burst of combined flavors from a small ball of sphericized mozzarella (with a liquid center), cherry tomato, and pesto, taken together on a single spoon.
Curating the 3D multisensory show Ouroboros by artist Ali Hossaini with Sweatshoppe’s Bruno Levy and Blake Shaw. Ise Cultural Foundation reception on 18 March 6-8PM. At 9PM, we’re taking over the streets with a block party surrounding nearby White Box.
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.
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
