When John West picks up a camera, his eyes light up with a charming childlike innocence and wonderment.  Installation was invited inside West’s Los Angeles home to explore his extensive collection of stunning cameras including six Leicas, vintage flash bulbs, original user manuals sealed in Ziplock bags and unexposed film preserved in its original packaging. […]

Issue 08 marks the conclusion of our collaboration with TurningArt.  This week we focus the TurningArt spotlight on Gavin Bunner. Installation Magazine: How did your journey as an artist begin? Gavin Bunner: As a child, I was really into newspaper comic strips, especially Calvin and Hobbes and The Far Side, so I started to draw my own […]

Garet Field-Sells, Creative Director and Co-Founder of Installation Media and Magazine asks museum institutions to rethink their presence in the mobile marketplace.  When the museum has every opportunity to connect with their audience, why do they fall short? While the opportunity for exploration in the way communities share knowledge in a constantly evolving digital age […]

Joan Jett once said, that “My guitar is not a thing.  It is an extension of myself. It is who I am.” 
For New York based guitar collector, enthusiast and musician Errol Antzis , guitars are three dimensional, playable works of art.  Spending his days as a financial advisor in digital and entertainment media and […]

Imagine if your Google searches existed as physical objects.  Suddenly these searches wouldn’t just occupy a virtual queue but would become enlivened with a material presence.  New York based artist and RISD professor Kevin Zucker considers how image and meaning change in their metamorphosis from the digital to the concrete. Installation Magazine: How do you […]

TurningArtist spotlight on Ray Sell. Installation Magazine: As a multi-media artist working with collage and painting, what source material do you tend to gravitate toward? Are there publications or advertisements from a certain decade that inspire you? Where do you find your source material? Ray Sell: The majority of my imagery is from the 1940’s to […]