Remembrancer (2009) is the title of a new installation at the Taubman Museum of Art‘s Media Lab created by Alberto Gaitan. For the exhibition, the artist has created three robotic painters that are programed to apply paint to a surface according to information gathered using non-stop sources of Internet news feeds from around the globe. The machines are searching for the frequency of keywords within[…..]
The artist/composer duo Jeff Shore and Jon Fisher create complex electro-mechanical sculptures that often incorporate video, robotics and motorized dioramas. Once the piece is activated by a viewer, elements come to life and begin to glow and pulsate, while images project on the screen and Fisher’s audio compositions begin to play. The sculptures reveal a sense of discovery as the viewer negotiates reality with the[…..]
Currently on view at Simon Preston Gallery in New York is a solo show of three new works by Brooklyn based artist Michelle Lopez. The exhibition, entitled The Violent Bear It Away, directly references Flannery O’Connor’s eponymously titled 1960 novel, which deals achingly and complexly with theological themes. O’Connor’s title, in turn, references the Bible verse Matthew 11:12 (Douay-Rheims). The theme of baptism imbues Lopez’s[…..]
Simon Preston Gallery in the Lower East is currently presenting two impressive new media works by John Gerrard in his first New York solo exhibition. Oil Stick Work is a virtual sculpture that manifests itself as a projection on the main wall of the gallery. This projection depicts an aluminum corn silo which was digitized based on several photographs taken at the building’s physical site[…..]
Opening this week at the relatively new Chicago space Thrones Gallery is a solo exhibition entitled Brink: The Intersection of Play and Intention, with new work by Southern California native and Chicago-based artist Matt Nichols. For Nichols’ first solo show at the gallery, he has created an ambitious installation of highly conceptual and playful nature. Dealing with the idea of “play”, Nichols’ work explores “the[…..]
The Chicago-based Austrian artist Kurt Hentschlager’s installation ZEE, which just closed at Wood Street Galleries in Pittsburgh, is impossible to accurately document or describe. In this exhibition, Hentschlager creates an immersive environment of sight and sound reflecting on the nature of human perception and the accelerated impact of new technologies on both individual and collective consciousness. The installation is comprised of a room of an[…..]
