Keyword Index
Selected keyword: visual culture
Work: 1000 Platitudes
Artist: Lozano-Hemmer, Rafael
Comment: 1000 PLATITUDES consists of large photomontages and one video documentary, which is shown on a plasma screen. Words commonly used to describe the generic globalized city; --each letter of the...
Work: ADA - Anarquitetura do Afeto (Anarchitecture of Affection)
Artist: Michelin, Simone
Comment: ADA consists in a device that captures sounds and images from every day activities of Itaú Cultural Center processes this data and give it back to the street. The most visible interface of ADA is a...
Work: Advent
Artist: Gillman, Clive
Comment: Advent is an interactive journey into the 25 days preceding the birth of something messianic. The journey is set in and around the shoreline of a mythic river and takes the form of a fictional...
Work: Air-Liquid Display Sculpture
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: Between two sheets of perspex, 32 channels have been woven out of a transparent plastic tubing. Extending approx. 30m, these channels run from the outside of the building, over and through te front...
Work: All you can see
Artist: Katastrofsky, Carlos
Comment: With common video formats, almost 17 million different colours can theoretically be represented on the screen today. If these are shown all at once, a condensation in pure white is generated in the...
Work: Arcs21
Artist: Lia
Comment: Continuing in the tradition of free online distribution of netart in the 90s, Arcs21 offers the user the possibilities of research, playing and co-creation: browserspace is translated into a realtime...
Work: Beyond
Artist: Beloff, Zoe
Comment: In a playful spirit of philosophical inquiry, Beyond explores the paradoxes of technology, desire and the paranormal posed since the birth of mechanical reproduction: the phonograph severing the...
Work: Continuous Sound and Image Moments
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: Continuous Sound and Image Moments is a hand-drawn black-and-white animated film loop with no beginning or end. Conceived as a cinematic expansion of pictorial means, the process of making thousands...
Work: Corrida - Logique de la Perception
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: The event took place in two adjacent rooms. In the first Shusaku gave a Buto performance on the edge of a raised circular steel construction within which the image of a black bull was painted on the...
Work: Diadrama
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: The Diadrama was an audio-visual performance with over 2000 slides being projected onto a large wide screen by three pairs of synchronised slide projectors. The main themes explored in this work were...
Work: did you read the east
Artist: Beiguelman, Giselle
Comment: did you read the east? was a teleintervention conceived the 4th Arte/Cidade edition_ Artecidadezonaleste_ that linked an electronic billboard of São Paulo with any computer connected to the Web....
Work: Disappearance
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: In this work the movement of a large video monitor mounted on an industrial fork-lift truck creates a virtual representation of a larger than life size ballerina. As the forklift moves the monitor up...
Work: Eddie Murphy and Mae West: Return to Bushwick
Artist: Thiel, Tamiko
Comment: Both Eddie Murphy and Mae West were born in Bushwick and went on to nation wide fame as actors. This artwork brings the two actors back to their ‘hood. The format is an hommage to Magritte’s...
Work: Emergences of Continuous Forms
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: Emergences of Continuous Forms was one of a series of performances and installations in this period which explored various methods of extending the cinematic image into the space of the viewers and...
Work: EVE Extended Virtual Environment
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: EVE is a research and development project initiated at the ZKM Karlsruhe in cooperation with the Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe. It encompasses the conceptual and technical development of a new form of...
Work: Golden Calf
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: This work is constituted by a white pedestal on which there stands an LCD colour monitor connected to computing machinery by a cable running through the pedestal. The viewer of this work picks up and...
Work: Hayward Gallery Projects
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: Three proposals for sculptures on the Hayward Gallery in London: a heap of giant inflatable potatoes on the terrace, an inflatable dome covered with a film projection which constituted a sphere of...
Work: Heavens Gate - Interactive
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: Heavens Gate as a video installation was first shown in the neoclassical stairwell of Felix Meritis. In other exhibition spaces the work usually occupies a specially constructed completely dark room....
Work: Infinity Divided by Sixteen
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: In this interactive installation the visual and auditory components of the work were interconnected and closely related. A finely perforated projection screen was visibly divided into sixteen...
Work: Inter Caetera Divina
Artist: Goldberg, Ken
Comment: Throughout the 5-day show, the robot arm drew world maps taken from the time of Columbus up through World War II. The title refers to the 1493 proclamation by Pope Alexander VI that divided the New...
Work: Inventer la Terre
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: In this work a chrome-plated column stands on a round black terrazzo base inlaid with brass signs representing a Hebraic astrological map. This column has a viewing aperture, two controlling handles,...
Work: Kinetic Light and Mirror Sculpture
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: This sculpture enabled beams of light to be dynamically moved over Genesis's entire stage as well as out into the auditorium. It was constituted by six large mirrors which were all pivoted on two...
Work: Logo.Hallucination
Artist: Bruno, Christophe
Comment: Artworks
Logo.Hallucination
November, 2006
Is the economic dynamics of the collective hallucination leading us towards a privatization of the glance?
Logo.Hallucination continuously...
Work: Nano-Scape
Artist: Sommerer / Mignonneau, (collective)
Comment: This nano-scale sculpture is invisible, just like the Nano-world it comments about. While science and media try to capture images of these tiniest of particles in order to understand their...
Work: Narrative Landscape
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: In this installation images are projected onto a large screen lying flat on the floor of the exhibition space. The spectators stand on a surrounding balcony where a joystick enables any one of them...
Work: Net.Art Browser
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: The Net.Art Browser is a means of conjoining information space with the museum space and hybridizing the interactivity of surfing the Internet with the museum tradition of wall mounted images. While...
Work: No Thing
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: A monumental sculpture proposed for the Schouwburgplein in Rotterdam and constituted by massive letters forming the words NO THING.
Work: Pikapika
Artist: Bahn, Curtis
Comment: Meet Pikapika--a character influenced by anime and manga; Japanese pop animation and comics. Pikapika embodies movements from bunraku (puppet theater), a movement vocabulary Tomie Hahn studied while...
Work: Pixelwelle
Artist: Schiessl, Simon
Comment: The Pixel Wave welcomes visitors in the Pixelpark Berlin lobby. The peppier somebody walks along the four-meter-long virtual wave, the more it undulates each pixel. If the viewer pauses in front of...
Work: Pneu-Written
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: Elements of the MovieMovie (1966) were merged with a performance scenography made by John Lantham.
Work: Points of View I
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: Points of View was a 'theatre of signs' with both stage and protagonists being provided by a three-dimensional computer graphics simulation that was video projected onto a large screen in front of a...
Work: Points of View II - Babel
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: Points of View II - Babel addressed issues relating to the Falklands War. It was made using the same functional and iconographic structures as Points of View I, but with a differing content.In BABEL...
Work: Post Brands
Artist: Cirio, Paolo
Comment: "This is a triptych of three street art pieces that starred in a poster campaign that took place over several years in a number of European cities. The artworks were printed in black and white on...
Work: reconFIGURING the CAVE
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: Jeffrey Shaw. Agnes Hegedues and Bernd Lintermann, 1996
Work: reconstructed Points of View
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: Faced with the occasion to show Points of View 16 years after its creation, it became clear that the restitution of the original hardware and software would be much more difficult than simply...
Work: Remote Impressionist Art
Artist: Katastrofsky, Carlos
Comment: Generative art "en plain air": In four squares appearing on the computer screen the viewers of remote impressionist art (2006) see cutouts from heaven above not closer defined places on this world:...
Work: rePLACEd in EVE
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: The projection environment of PLACE consists of a cylindrical projection screen and a
rotating platform in the center that carries a wide-angle three-projector system fed by
an SGI-Onyx computer....
Work: ReVisioning the Virtual Wall
Artist: Thiel, Tamiko
Comment: The digital collages (3 shown here by Tamiko Thiel, and 3 others by Teresa Reuter/Sabe Wunsch) show scenographies of the Berlin Wall that are conceived as associative spaces of memories - by mixing...
Work: Shades of Absence: Public Voids
Artist: Thiel, Tamiko
Comment: This augmented reality installation creates "pavilions of absence" in which images of contemporary artists, whose works in public space have been censored, are reduced to gold silhouettes and placed...
Work: SOLAR
Artist: Leonardo Crescenti, Rejane Cantoni
Comment: Imagine entering a machine, supplying the co-ordinates of a city and a specific moment in time and as a response you receive the direction, the intensity and the sensation of heat and light that the...
Work: Staircase
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: A sequence of photographs was taken of people using the central staircase in the Stedelijk Museum. This scene was then virtually re-constructed by projecting these images full-scale onto two...
Work: Sustainable Cinema No. 4: Shadow Play
Artist: Hessels, Scott
Comment: The silhouettes of the ancient art of Shadow Play are achieved by light penetrating a translucent screen, and this sculpture uses the rotation of the windmill as the power to generate the backlight...
Work: Sustainable Cinema No. 5: Dual Windmill
Artist: Hessels, Scott
Comment: The Dual is an optical illusion in which two disks rotate in opposite directions; the front disk is black with slits that act as a shutter, the rear disk contains the animation frames. When the disks...
Work: The Moon is a Mirror
Artist: Hessels, Scott
Comment: This series of artworks contemplates the screen and its origins. My time in the villages of Southeast Asia has shown me an array of organic resources that can be formed into papers. I've researched...
Work: T_Visionarium
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: T_Visionarium, by Neil Brown, Dennis Del Favero, Matt McGinity, Jeffrey Shaw, Peter Weibel, is an experimental new media work that offers the means to capture and re-present televisual information,...
Work: Video Narcissus
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: A video monitor on the floor faces upwards and over its screen there is a transparent container filled with water. At the center of this container is an opening through which a bubble of air can be...
Work: Virtual Museum
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: The Virtual Museum is a three-dimensional computer-generated museum constituted by an immaterial constellation of rooms and exhibits. A round, motorised rotating platform is furnished with a large...
Work: What will come (Has already come)
Artist: Kentridge, William
Comment: This installation features the debut of an important new addition to the SCMA collection, “What Will Come” (2006), a major film by the South African artist William Kentridge. One of the most...
