Filed under: Exhibition Space, Screenings, Visual Resistance | Tags: blu, grafitti, movement, mural, muto, street art, vimeo
Filed under: Observations, Visual Resistance | Tags: America, artists, Ben Templesmith, Brazilian, flag, flags, Icaro Doria, socart, social art, statistical data, USA, worldwide
Filed under: Screenings, Visual Resistance | Tags: Holocaust, human history, Jews, mistakes of humanity, Schindler's List
For young generations, Holocaust is almost like a fairytale. Schindler’s List has a great visual potential within. Imagery that is shown there, is very graphic, very real, containing the truth about the past. Despite of the fact that I’m not the biggest fan of Steven Spielberg, I admire the work he did on Schindler’s List. It couldn’t be done better. It couldn’t be shown better.
Filed under: Screenings, Visual Resistance | Tags: archive, chill out, music
Filed under: Be The Tool, Toolbox, Visual Resistance | Tags: DIY, presentation, stencil
Filed under: Exhibition Space, Infopipes, Visual Resistance | Tags: ANZAC, army, Australia, Ben Templesmith, horror, imagery, war, wartime
Ben Templesmith made a wonderful poster for ANZAC day in Australia, which is on April 25th. A day not for glorifying victories but for remembering the futility and waste of life that is war.
“How well I remember that terrible day
How the blood stained the sand and the water
And how in that hell that they called Suvia Bay
We were butchered like the lambs at the slaughter
Johnny Turk he was ready, he primed himself well
He chassed us with bullets, he rained us with shells
And in five minutes flat he’d blown us all to hell
Nearly blew us right back to Australia
But the band played Waltzing Matilda
As we stopped to bury our slain
We buried ours and Turks buried theirs
Then we started all over again”
And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda
by Eric Bogle
Filed under: Exhibition Space, Screenings, Visual Resistance | Tags: Aberdeen scene, experimental, Screenings, short films, vidart, video art
The results of two-week work were turned into a massive feast for the eyes showing from almost music videos, through inspirational slideshows and catchy ad-style videos, to psychedelic art.
Videos will be exhibitioned soon in two places around Garthdee campus: on the business school LCD screen in the main hall and on a projector in Grays School of Art itself.
More information will be available later on.
Filed under: Technologization, Visual Resistance | Tags: bodymods, cybernetics, cyberpunk, cyberspace, implants, technology, virtual reality, VR
“Adorned in titanium, latex, silicone, and electronic apparatus, isa becomes Psymbiote to place herself in the eye of the storm: the conceptual terrain at the collision of bodies and machines, the mutation of her own identity through transformation of the body. Ultimately the project seeks to fully transform the artist into a seductively organic yet entirely unfamiliar hybrid organism, a human/machine chimera with fully integrated control systems. Psymbiote’s costume currently includes custom visual LED displays of heart rate and voice, and has been occasionally augmented with a full wearable system and HMD. A new version of the titanium glove is being redesigned so it can be outfitted as a 5DT data input device. A variety of devices are in development to animate this techno-body with movement, sound, and light as an expressive personal medium activated by manual triggers, automatic body processes, or remote control. As her evolution progresses, Psymbiote appears in public spaces to stimulate dialogue regarding the future of technological enhancements to the human body. She has already been sighted at a number of universities, art shows, international conferences, and as host of the SIGGRAPH CyberFashion Show. The Psymbiote Project brings issues raised by the ongoing redefinition of our bodies into a public forum, highlighting some of the contemporary critical discourse surrounding cyborgs and all forms of human/technology integration.”
Filed under: Screenings, Technologization, Visual Resistance | Tags: bodymods, engineering, implants, industrial, innovation, piercings, under the skin
“My name is Jesse Jarrel. I’m a sculptor, a body designer. Most of my art tends to be attached to human body.”
“I really think that human body is not finished.”
“We are sort of a first spieces that is capable of altering our physical form with own free will.”
Feature about body modifications by Jesse Jarrel.
Jesse Jarrel creates or rather engineers his art in form of body implants made out of Polytetrafluorethylen (teflon) and silicon.
He adds an extensive structural meaning to his under-skin modifications by actually making structures that can contract and expand along with the moving muscles.
Filed under: Exhibition Space, Toolbox, Visual Resistance | Tags: against reality, anit-reality, art, beginning, experimental, manifesto, statement, struggle, world of reason
Being in a state of constant struggle with your art is one of the most valuable situations you can be in. Unless it lasts, make good use of it trying to clear out what you actually would like to convey. That is the lesson I am learning about now and is one of the reasons for creating this virtual space.
In fact, this particular blog is a multiple complex statement of mine in accordance with my lifetime project called Dreaming Toolbox, which is ongoing since year 2007, and consists of all kinds of different artistic activities I am involved in.
The actual aim of the blog is to question, point out, gather, analyse, develop and exhibit issues that are important to me. In the meantime you can call me The Observer.
