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Darryll Schiff: The Barrage of the Digital World
We were embedded with a strong technical craftsmanship because of the school’s New Bauhaus origins, yet at the same time we were led to be forward-thinking artists. This could not have fit any better with my psyche and belief that as an artist, the tools we use are simply gateways to share our vision. Many […]
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The Liberation of the Video Medium: Katja Loher at VOLTA NY
Through my work I want to stimulate our dreams, experimentation and humor. I evoke the magic and reveal perspectives that we all too often lack in everyday life. I constantly seek my own realities in order to invent and then discard systems and structures. Art allows me to forge spaces that create sensuality, to explore […]
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Technological Parameters: Adam Mysock at VOLTA NY
In this piece, Andrew Wyeth’s model Christina Olson—who suffered from a degenerative muscular disorder in real life—sits, inactively staring out onto the soft landscape, finding solace on the boundary between the internal and the external. Because of Olson’s dormancy and comfort in the serenity of this moment, technology serves little purpose. The robot is given […]
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Experience the Performance of Marco Donnarumma
Marco Donnarumma pushes boundaries. The performer uses his body to express thoughts, sentiments and fears. What your body can do? It can breathe, sweat, pulsate, bleed, cry, jump, walk and run, stay still, wait, think, feel and perceive, see, touch, smell, read, write and learn, communicate, surprise, seduce, entertain, love, die and become ashes. Action, sensation, […]
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Antonin Fourneau Imagines Water Light Graffiti
Inspired by the fluidity and possibility of water, Antonin Fourneau conceived and created Water Light Graffiti. The installation celebrates the matter that we are all made up of and embraces the possibilities that lie within nature. I am an artist or designer or inventor. I’m an electronic enthusiast and I like to play Dr. Frankenstein with […]
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Tony Taj’s Ambient Media Portal (AMP) Fuses Painting and Technology
Tony Taj fuses art and technological application. His practice reconsiders the traditional artist tools and along with acrylic paint and canvas, Taj has introduced the Ambient Media Portal, a technology that activates painting into an immersive experience. Implementing acrylics encrypted with a QR code, the viewer can now lose himself inside the dimensionality of the […]