Selavy Oh's construct revisited

This is a wonderful unfolding conceptual art piece in the virtual world of Second Life® growing and changing from day to day- with the passage of time its complexity comes to resemble neurons and is never the same experience from visitor to visitor- just as our perceptions of the real world can never be made to mirror one another's except in theory. Outside of theory, our connections are mysterious in nature.

As Horatio exclaims in Shakespeare's Hamlet: 'O day and night, but this is wondrous strange!'

remembering the future
imagining the past


day 62

Selavy Oh's construct

remembering the future
imagining the past


day 1

Field Trip: Tara Donovan

Tara Donovan: Drawings (Pins)
The Pace Gallery 510 W 25th St, NYC
Feb 12, 2011 - Mar 19, 2011

See website for images from this current exhibition: The Pace Gallery

In her latest series, "Drawings (Pins)", on view this month at the Pace Gallery in Chelsea, shimmering metallic "canvases" are composed of dressmaker pins — tens of thousands of them. The cumulative effect is almost painterly. While these works are two-dimensional, they deal with the same issues as her "site-responsive" sculptures, as she calls them: "It’s all about perceiving this material from a distance and close up and how the light interacts with it."

-- Julia Curtin amarcordian (more)

The new series, which in fact arose from a stretch of print-making, is a perceptual delight, with light striking the pins in such a way that some clusters appear as inky black, others as gray, still others as shimmery silver, like a lake glancing in the setting winter sun.

-- ARTINFO (more)

While the majority of the drawings on view are visual fields that radiate from different light sources (determined by the density of pins on the surface area), two of the earliest works in the show depict clusters of circular organic shapes evoking cellular or molecular forms.

-- The Pace Gallery | Pace Press Release (more- pdf)



Tara Donovan.mov (Video: PacePrints)

Tara Donovan builds large, labor-intensive, and site-specific installations out of everyday materials such as scotch tape, drinking straws, paper plates, roofing paper and Styrofoam cups. Donovan takes these materials and grows them through accumulation. The results are large-scale abstract floor and wall works suggestive of landscapes, clouds, cellular structures and even mold or fungus. In her words, "it is not like I'm trying to simulate nature. It's more of a mimicking of the way of nature, the way things actually grow."

-- Pace Prints Tara Donovan Artist Portfolio (more)

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What appeared to be a question of object/non-object has turned out to be a question of seeing and not seeing, of how it is we actually perceive or fail to perceive “things” in their real contexts. Now we are presented and challenged with the infinite, everyday richness of “phenomenal” perception (and the potential for a corresponding “phenomenal art,” with none of the customary abstract limitations as to form, place, materials and so forth) – one which seeks to discover and value the potential for experiencing beauty in everything.


-- Robert Irwin, Being and Circumstance: Notes Toward a Confidential Art

Nicole/There's no bible in here?

Virtual Art filmed in Second Life® at Soup:Magoo
Lovers Lane Studios

Best viewed full-screen, and with headphones to capture the environmental soundscape

There's no bible in here? Virtual Art Installation by Dekka Raymaker and Penumbra Carter (2010)

"Nicole" Music composed and performed by Norman Lamont

Machinima Cast: Amy Freelunch, Cinco Pizzicato, Mab MacMoragh, and Solo Mornington

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This "Nicole" is an alternate version of the song found on Norman Lamont's Romantic Fiction 2 (2007)

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Soup Radio January 2011 Schedule

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Soup Radio's new schedule begins on Saturday, January 1st 2011
(12pm PDT, 3pm EDT, 8pm GMT).

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Arahan and Khamudy discuss what 2011 has in store for Second Life, the New Year resolutions people have been making regarding their online activities, the ongoing difficulties of funding for virtual arts and humanities projects, the arrival of Rod Humble from Electronic Arts as the new CEO of Second Life, the teengrid merger, the end of licensed Frank Lloyd Wright content in SL and the amusing developments of Xbox Kinect hacks.

Amy Freelunch talks about the real-life art market, and ways for artists to use the internet and crowd-sourcing to support their work. She also talks about a few different art sites and what works about them and what doesn't.

Penumbra Carter is joined by guest Chantal Harvey. Chantal talks about her past, present and future machinima and the role music has played in their production. Also discussed are their experiences with the 48 Hour Film Project and Chantal's participation within the Linden Endowment for the Arts (LEA).

Soup Radio is an independent non-profit non-commercial collaborative sound art project.

Field Trip: Patti Smith and Michael Stipe celebrate Jean Genet's 100th birthday at MoMA

The movies–among other games–teach the natural, a natural made up completely of artifices ...

-- Jean Genet Our Lady of the Flowers

On Sunday, December 19, MoMA visitors were treated to a “walk-in performance” by artist and musician Patti Smith, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of prominent and challenging French writer and political activist Jean Genet. The performance, in MoMA’s Marron Atrium, could not have been better. (more at MoMA Inside/Out)

Jean Genet

Soup Radio December 2010

Today: Arahan Claveau presents new December 2010 programming Soup Radio (click for info)

Soup Radio November

Mab's been sleeping a lot lately in between juggling projects, so some important blog balls have been dropped amongst the dust bunnies! Argh!

Arahan Claveau's fantastic Soup Radio returned with an all new programming lineup for November earlier this month, featuring shows by Arahan (Steve Millar) with Khamudy Mannonen, Jane Vippond, and Allan Stanley Taylor; Amy Freelunch; and Penumbra Carter with Molly Cybertar- see Soup Radio blog for full details and listen inworld at Soup sims (Eryri and Magoo), or in your media player.

November 2010 Show Notes

Soup Radio blog

Soup Radio stream

Thanks to New World Notes for blogging Soup Radio!

Grazie Roxelo for streaming Soup Radio at Museo del Metaverso on OpenSim world Craft!

Soup Radio launches Saturday 9 October 12PM SLT

Soup and Lovers Lane Studios are excited to see the launch of Arahan Claveau's Soup Radio!

See Soup Radio Blog for details

Tune in with your media player (iTunes, VLC, Winamp etc.) via this link:

http://87.117.202.31:8206/listen.pls

or listen at the ::: Soup ::: Eryri and ArtNation Push sims in Second Life®.

Garrett Lynch: There, Now

Garrett Lynch's There, Now at ArtNation on Push

27 September 2010

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Penumbra Carter's 'Nihilist'

Penumbra Carter's Nihilist

I wanted to make a cinema of ideas, not plots, and to try to use the same aesthetics as painting which has always paid great attention to formal devices of structure, composition and framing, and most important, insisted on attention to metaphor. Since film is not painting–and not simply because one moves and the other doesn't–I wanted to explore their connections and differences–stretching the formal interests to questions of editing, pacing, studying the formal properties of time intervals, repetitions, variations on a theme, and so on.


-- Peter Greenaway, quoted in Peter Greenaway's Postmodern/Poststructuralist Cinema by Paula Willoquet-Maricondi

It is one of the most important formal qualities of film that every object that is reproduced appears simultaneously in two entirely different frames of reference, namely the two-dimensional and the three-dimensional, and that as one identical object it fulfills two different functions in the two contexts.


-- Rudolf Arnheim Film as Art