Light Illusions Using Highly Complex Pyrotechnics
In this photography series Explosion by Joschi Herczeg and Daniele Kaehr, the artistic duo create light illusions using highly complex pyrotechnics. They built a custom-made detonator, which is connected to the cameras and synchronized to snap a photo at the very moment of the explosion. Their bio describes, “In this way, they were able to [...]
Are You Really My Friend?
Photographer Tanja Hollander is interested in how we define friendship and who we let into our private yet very public online lives. So she’s set out to make portraits of all of her Facebook friends (626 when she started the project) in their homes, which are scattered around the country and the world. What started [...]
I Come Back in 5 Minutes, I’m Going To Put Silicone
This video is the last action of Yolanda Dominguez in Brazil, which presents the viewer in a very “everyday” excessive use and the normalization of cosmetic surgery, surprising him as always in the most unexpected places … I Come Back In 5 Minutes is a series of actions in Brazil, within the NOVA Contemporary Culture [...]
Henrik Vibskov – How To Fashion Art
“If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.” – Albert Einstein I just rediscovered the wonderful works of art of Henrik Vibskov (Gestalten, ISBN 978-3-89955-435-9, $60). To describe Henrik Vibskov as merely a fashion designer would be a vast understatement. As an artist, passionate musician, innovative stage designer, and [...]
Three-Dimensional Sculptures By Hong Sung Chul
1969 born Korean artist Hong Sung Chul, represented by HADA Contemporary in London, is using various media and modern technology. Hong’s current body of work revives his string concept – a visual representation of what ties humans together from the earliest stage of life – the umbilical chord. Gallery owner Tom Woo and Tony Pontone [...]
Blackskate – Special Skateboard Photography
Skateboardphotos are just everywhere, on magazine covers, billboards, single shot or as a series, with flash or natural light, fisheye, wide-angle or tele. Theres a wide variety on how a photographer can shoot someone doing a trick. But in nearly every picture you have somekind of background in it, somehow distracting from the trick and [...]
“The Closest I Ever Came To You” By John Isaacs
The closest I ever came to you by John Isaacs is meant as a way into disparate works which deal with themes of doubt, belief, love and hope. A amputated and colored Elephant leg, a gold plated megaphone, a chunk of rusted monument, an ethnic sculpture with guts spilling from it, a chariot powered by [...]
Single Rooms – Space For Imagined Structure, Context And Meaning
Single Rooms by Toronto photo-based artist Steven Beckly is a series of images exploring the interdependent relationship between home and identity. Blending documentary and cinematographic approaches, this work predominantly employs portraiture infused with biographical elements and idealized fiction, creating space for imagined structure, context, and meaning. Beckly says that the series is “stemming from my [...]
Contemplation And Reflection
In recent years the Friederike von Rauch has made a name for herself with her approach to spaces and landscapes that is characterized by reduction and concentration. Following her training as a silversmith Friederike von Rauch studied Industrial Design at the Universität der Künste, Berlin (Berlin University of the Arts). She developed an interest in [...]
Photographic Installation Using Forced Perspective
Tex Jernigan produces photographic social artworks using forced perspective, illusion, and ingenuity in the tradition of John Pfahl and his Altered Landscapes. In his outdoor installation in Redlake, Arizona, a project done in collaboration with Dominique Karwoski, Jernigan goes back to a keystone of human understanding, to the recognition that man at certain points synthesize [...]
The Free Universal Construction Kit
Ever wanted to connect your Legos and Tinkertoys together? Now you can — and much more. The Free Universal Construction Kit by F.A.T. Lab and Sy-Lab is a matrix of nearly 80 adapter bricks that enable complete interoperability between 10 popular construction toys. By allowing any piece to join to any other, the Kit encourages [...]
Project Paperclip – Photography Exhibit With Augmented Reality
Project Paperclip is the first photographic exhibition to use Augmented Reality. The concept was imagined by the Portuguese creative Nuno Serrão, and by including the auditory canal, it tries to transport visitors to a state that gives them a more profound interpretation of the photographs. The experience is unique each time it is activated as [...]
Errors In Production
Errors in Production by German artist Heike Bollig is an ongoing collection of a variety of products with individual manufacturing errors. Bollig explains, “Although I actively seek these objects, I mostly come across them accidentally or friends and salesclerks pass them on to me. In the attempt to further develop the collection and to keep [...]
Multi-Touch Finger Paintings
Evan Roth is an artist and researcher based in Paris who explores the intersection of free culture and popular culture, making work simultaneously for the contemporary art world and the bored at work network. Evan Roth’s multi-touch paintings are created by performing routine tasks on multi-touch hand held computing devices. The video is showcasing the [...]
The Art On Snow Show in Bad Gastein
Nearly 1000 thrilled visitors have come to the biggest arts festival of the Alps with respect to winter sports. Over 30 international artists on 1200 squaremeters of exhibition space helped the ARt on Snow to uphold its reputation as summit meeting of snow arts … What a colourful, diversified and multisided week full of paintings, [...]
Still Mountains By Michael Schnabel
“Photographing the Alps in my own vision was a creative process that developed over years,”says Michael Schnabel. These images by Michael Schnabel show the mountains and lakes of the Alps set in darkness. The series, titled “Stille Berge” (German for “still mountains”), uses one-hour exposures as a way to explore photography without lights; a sharp [...]
Unless You Will Have A Slightly Different Perspective Of The World
Unless You Will, curated and founded by German born photographer Heidi Romano, is an online journal that showcases a vision within photo-based art. 20 issues, more than 24 months and 130 artists presented in UYW. Romano says, “I still have big dreams of where I would like to take UYW.” This year there are a [...]
Current State: Snowboarding
Current State: Snowboarding (ISBN – 978-3-00-036349-8, €89,00) is a book that compiles some of the most prominent individuals and images of snowboarding’s past three decades. Made up of two interconnected fullsize books, it features interviews with 23 of the culture’s most influential and original characters, assembled in an attempt to create an overall – if [...]
Digital Enhancement – Interactive Sound Installation
“Since my childhood, I have always been fascinated in automata and other complex devices. Having a background in electronics and art, it was just a matter of time for me to modernise an antique musical box. It’s old rattling mechanical workings in combination with it’s pretty yet sometimes clanking sound has always been charming me. [...]
Compelling One-Of-A-Kind Products
Partners & Spade, established in 2008 by Andy Spade and Anthony Sperduti, is a storefront and studio on Great Jones Street in the NoHo neighborhood of lower Manhattan. The studio produces films, books, apparel and conceptual products as well as marketing and branding projects for select corporate clients. The storefront, open on weekends to the [...]
Excerpt Magazine – Visual Pressed Against Visual
Some time ago I have been writing about Excerpt magazine, a free quarterly online photo-based magazine that challenges the archetypal magazine structure by constructing new formats. Now there’s Issue 2 (PDF 8.2 MB) online, in this special issue 30 people have responded to the cover image by Izabela Pluta with an image or moving image [...]
Department Of Urban Betterment
John Locke is a New York based artist and his last project DUB 002 is an attempt for urban betterment. Locke provided some telephone booths with an individual book library, where he encouraged the people in sharing the initial selection of books. He concentrated mainly on pay phones as they are both anachronistic and quotidian. [...]
Wooden Popsicle – These Look Good Enough To Eat
Inspired by a simple piece of wood, the Wooden Popsicle project is the result of a deep sense of aesthetic reinterpretation of materials–their use and re-use. Each wooden work is inspired by the magic of multi-colored ice. It was handmade in an edition of 150 by artist Johnny Hermann, all unique and numbered. Yum. These [...]
Glitch Textiles – Seemingly Endless Flood Of Images
“56. What makes good glitch art good is that, amidst a seemingly endless flood of images, it maintains a sense of the wilderness within the computer.”— Hugh S. Manon and Daniel Temkin, Notes on Glitch These textiles by Phillip Stearns are a collection of woven and knit blankets produced using images generated from short circuited [...]
