Dev Harlan

Dev Harlan – “Parmenides I”, 2011
Foam, wood, plaster, video projection
Dimensions approx 8′ diameter

Light sculpture at Christopher Henry Gallery, NY. Presented as part of Dev Harlan’s solo exhibition “The Astral Flight Hangar”

Videographer: Dustin Cohen
Audio: USMILEAMBIENT by Shamantis

via Laughing Squid

 

Barry McGee

twist.

Barry McGee

Fus­ing together found and invented imagery, tags and assorted objects Barry McGee draws on a range of influ­ences includ­ing the Mex­i­can mural­ists, tramp art, the graf­fiti artists of the 70’s and 80’s and the San Fran­cisco Beat poets to cre­ate a unique visual lan­guage. The work has the strong imme­di­ately rec­og­niz­able visual sig­na­ture of the best graf­fiti art, but is also enor­mously poetic and evoca­tive. It com­mu­ni­cates the artist’s strong empa­thy with peo­ple who have been left behind by con­tem­po­rary soci­ety. Also known by his street name, twist, Barry McGee has a large fol­low­ing in the street art community.

via Curbs and Stoops + ratio3

Tokujin Yoshioka

Tokujin Yoshioka

via Sachiko + Memory + Venus

Darren Harvey-Regan

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Darren Harvey-Regan

at HotShoe Gallery

via Marjan Zahed-Kindersley

Tele-Present Water by David Bowen

Tele-Present Water by David Bowen.

This installation draws information from the intensity and movement of the water in a remote location. Wave data is being collected in real-time from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration data buoy Station 46246 (49°59’7″ N 145°5’20″ W) on the Pacific Ocean. The wave intensity and frequency is scaled and transferred to the mechanical grid structure installed at The National Museum in Wroclaw, Poland. The result was a simulation of the physical effects caused by the movement of water from this distant location.

 

via today and tomorrow | creativeapplications.net

Melvin the Magical Mixed Media Machine

Melvin the Magical Mixed Media Machine (or just Melvin the Machine) can be described as a Rube Goldberg machine with a twist. Besides doing what Rube Goldberg’s do best – performing a simple task as inefficiently as possible, often in the form of a chain reaction – Melvin has an identity. Actually, the only purpose of this machine is promoting its own identity.

Melvin takes pictures and makes video’s of his audience which he instantly uploads to his website, facebook and twitter account. Besides that he makes his own merchandise. All of this within 4 minutes of craziness which you just have to witness yourself.

melvinthemachine.com

Concept & art direction: HEYHEYHEY | Designteam De Ploeg: HEYHEYHEY, Frank Winnubst, Bas van Hout, Bart Bekker, Jeroen Hezemans, Wouter Corvers, Bram de Vries, Dick Lafeber | Directed & produced by: HEYHEYHEY | Steadicam operator: Joost van Poppel | Focuspuller: Adriaan van de Polder | Boom operator: Andre Philips | Sound mixed by: Bram Meindersma | Editing by: Sander van der Aa | Music: Woody & Paul | Sponsors: MU, The Cre8ion.Lab, De Ploeg, Municipality of Eindhoven.

Gentle Giants

Gentle Giants at Strychnin Gallery

Beginning on 15 July 2011 Strychnin Gallery will dedicate its upcoming exhibition ‘Gentle Giants’ to robots.

Participating artists include Nemo Gould, Himatic, Doktor A, Mike Libby, Skeleton Heart or Seymour, and Michael Salter whose “Giant Styrobot” installation is pictured below. (the largest styrobot I have ever made.)

Previews here and here

Origin of the Beginning

Ron Mandos Amsterdam is excited to announce thelatest solo exhibition of Levi van Veluw. 

Levi van Veluw will showcase new work from a series of new installations, photographs and videos in which he draws from his own childhood memories to thematically and narratively develop his own brand of self-portraiture.

The artist has created 3 “rooms” covered with more then 30.000 wooden blocks, balls and slats respectively.  Each“room” is executed as a life-size installation (4m x 2.5m x 2.5m) and will be presented at the gallery together with photographs and videos.  Portrayed in one piece is a desk, a table lamp, a bookcase. The edge of the table is burned by Levi van Veluw as he had an obsessionfor fire. All of these objects including every inch of the floor, walls and ceiling is covered in the same material: 14.000 4 cm2 dark brown wooden blocks. The blocks are made by the artist and glued on the wall one by one. The works suggest a narrative world behind the abstractportraits.

On the one hand these works present themselves as a continuation of van Veluw’s formal approach to self-portraiture, with their preoccupation for materiality, pattern and texture. Yet they are simultaneously very personal pieces. The repetitive structures seemingly express a ‘horrorvacui’ and recall van Veluw the youth and his obsessive attempts to gain control on his life by gaining control of his surroundings. Dimly light and dark in colour the overriding tone of these pieces are claustrophobic and sombre, exuding a sense of loneliness. The meticulous craftsmanship and high quality material with which every last knock and cranny is covered, result in a series of works that are also highly aesthetic.

These installations are inspired by different aspects of van Veluw’s boyhood bedroom, where he spent many solitary hours between the ages of 8 and 14: Origin of the Beginning.  

Prinsengracht 282 // 1016 HJ Amsterdam // +31 20 3207036
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via Levi van Veluw | Behance

hat tip: crazykidthatsme.tumblr.com

Lisa Donovan: Voice of God installation

via youtube.com

 

Fluorescent Minerals Collection at University of Richmond

These fluorescent specimens display the variety of colors under shortwave ultraviolet light. Calcite will fluoresce red, willemite fluoresces green, while franklinite does not fluoresce. © Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature, University of Richmond Museums. Photograph by Katherine Wetzel.

RICHMOND, VA.- The Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature, one of the University of Richmond Museums, will open the reinstallation of the permanent exhibition Fluorescent Minerals: From the Permanent Collection on January 12, 2011. This new display contains more than 300 specimens and more than 40 different mineral species from North America and beyond, and it explores the science behind these minerals’ ability to fluoresce. Highlights of the installation include numerous bright reddish-orange and green rocks of calcite and willemite from New Jersey, yellow-green hyalite opal slabs from North Carolina, and deep red rubies from India.  A majority of these specimens originate from the famous Franklin-Sterling Hill mining district in Sussex County, New Jersey. These mines boast a world-record variety of minerals with more than 340 named species, and more than 80 fluorescent mineral types found in the area. Examples of minerals from this quarry that are featured in the collection are willemite, wollastonite, calcite, and hardystonite.  What makes a rock fluoresce? When atoms within a mineral are exposed to ultraviolet light, they are filled with energy and become unstable. The atoms then eject this newly acquired energy and return to a more stable state. However, instead of ejecting this energy as ultraviolet light, the atoms eject it as light, or color. This light is responsible for the “glowing” colors emitted by the fluorescent minerals.  Within the new installation, a push of a button turns on 28 new ultraviolet shortwave and longwave lamps that agitate the minerals’ internal atomic structure, causing the rocks to fluoresce brightly. Since the minerals glow differently under the two different wavelengths of ultraviolet light, the lamps run on a timed sequence that exposes the specimens first to longwave ultraviolet light, then shortwave ultraviolet light, and finally both long and shortwave light together to produce a unique and dazzling color show.  (…) via artdaily