Ulrich Vogl

Ulrich Vogl experiments with different concepts of time, the altering nature of objects, the use of everyday materials and the physical interaction with people and with space. See more;

O.T., 2010

Radion, 2011

Observatorium, 2010

Insel, 2010

Kubus | Dia, 2010

Meer | Dia, 2009

Kosmos, 2011

Pool, Large, 2011

Strich, 2010

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Rain Room by rAndom

Rain Room, 2012 by rAndom, is a hundred square metre field of falling water through which it is possible to walk, trusting that a path can be navigated, without being drenched in the process. As you progress through The Curve, the sound of water and a suggestion of moisture fill the air, before you are confronted by this carefully choreographed downpour that responds to your movements and presence. See more;

Rain Room will be at The Curve, Barbican, London until next 03 March 2013. More details here.

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Seascapes by Hiroshi Sugimoto

Seascapes by Hiroshi Sugimoto are a beautiful abstract monochromatic photograph series exhibited through gelatin silver prints. They are part of an ongoing exhibition called "Rothko/Sugimoto" at Pace London until next  November 17. If you attend the exhibition, you will find eight acrylic paintings by Rothko and eight gelatin silver prints by Sugimoto.

"These artworks reveal two different artistic approaches that arrive at similar conclusions. Rothko's use of medium as pure abstraction communes with the work of Hiroshi Sugimoto who, decades later, used the medium itself to reconsider photography's relationship to his viewers’ perception of the world. In addition to exploring the visual dialogue between Rothko’s dark paintings and Sugimoto’s photographs—both characterized by a binary format of black and grey rectangular elements—the pairings mine the philosophical affinities between the two artists, each offering a meditation on universal and cosmological concerns." See more;

"Sugimoto’s Seascapes (begun in 1980) depict bodies of water from the English Channel to the Bay of Sagami, each photographed in the same stark composition of a horizon line dividing the sky and sea. Divided into two rectangles—one dark, one light—the relationship between sea and sky takes on an almost abstract geometry that carries from image to image and ocean to ocean around the world. Like Rothko, Sugimoto conveys a startling range of emotions within a limited vocabulary of black and white tones and a fixed format. Focusing on water and air—the substances that gave rise to life—the works evoke primordial seas and the origins of human consciousness." - Pace London.

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Interconnected by Sabrina Ratté

"Interconnected" is the title for a new beautiful work by Sabrina Ratté who has collaborated this time with the electronic musician Steve Hauschildt whose new album "Sequitur" will be launched next November via Kranky.  

As Sabrina told us, the images are originally video feedback refilmed and then transformed digitally to make that diamond effect, she was looking for a digital look reminiscent of the late 80s early 90s for this particular video. 

"Steve's music has this beautiful and honest emotion to it and I tried to translate it the best I could through the choice of colours and slow movements. The title was also very inspiring to me, "Interconnected". It has a mathematical aspect to it, like the geometry of the images, as well as it can be seen in a spiritual way" Sabrina Ratté. See more;

Google Error by Marco Cadioli

"Google Error is the last of a series of Google Earth variations of Marco Cadioli, where the virtual globe is transformed in something else. Far from his original goal of 3d World representation, Google Earth is turned in a playground where experimenting with images overlaid on the surface of the earth, errors and quotations. Taking advantage of a program error in rendering surfaces in this case it becomes a machine to generate Op Art." - See more

Google Error by Marco Cadioli is being part of LA FIN DU MONDE at LaFiac.com, an online group exhibition curated by Caroline Delieutraz and Julien Levesque. I highly recommend to attend it, here.

See previous works by Marco Cadioli using Google Earth such as Google Melon and Abstract Journeys.

The Sound of the earth by Yuri Suzuki

"The Sound of the Earth is a content of Yuri Suzuki`s spherical record project, the grooves representing the outlines of the geographic land mass. Each country on the disc is engraved with a different sound, as the needle passes over it plays field recordings collected by Yuri Suzuki from around the world over the course of four years; traditional folk music, national anthems, popular music and spoken word broadcasts." - See more;

"When the needle moves along its metal arc it plays sounds from the grooves cut into the sphere, much like a traditional vinyl record player. Suzuki has been working on The Sound of the Earth since 2009 and has now unveiled a prototype, although the design doesn’t work perfectly yet – as the movie below shows, the music skips as the globe turns." - Dezeen

An aural journey around the world in 30 minutes.

Photos by Hitomi Kai Yoda
Video by Alice Masters

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Black Zenith

"Black Zenith are Darren Moore & Brian O’Reilly. The duo performs using analog modular synthesizers & moving images. They produce dense sonic textures that generate live visuals through the transformation of audio signals into images. Black Zenith draws as much influence from noise music & the electroacoustic music tradition as they do from the foundations of abstract video art." - See more;

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Jason Lescalleet

Photo by wfw

"Jason Lescalleet uses reel-to-reel tape decks to explore the textures of low fidelity analog sounds and the natural phenomena of old tape and obsolete technology. He is one of a growing list of master producer/musicians, whose skill lies as much in reworking, assembling and mastering the material available as in creating it in the first place. He has worked with such wide-ranging artists as Ron Lessard, Joe Colley and Phill Niblock, and has released a string of superb solo discs in Mattresslessness (CUT), Electronic Music (rrr) and The Pilgrim (Glistening Examples)." See more;

Forlorn Green by Jason Lescalleet/ Greg Kelley, 2000

Jason Lescalleet at TEMPLE, Jamaica Plain, MA in October 2010.

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Zachary Davis

Installations by Zachary Davis.

"Zachary Davis is concerned with the limits and difficulties of human cognition, evolved long ago as a “learning and pattern recognition machine.” An active member of Portland-based artist collective Appendix Project Space, which is known as much for intellectual engagement as physical practice, his current research explores the resonance of new visual technologies with deep-rooted neurological processes. A broader interest in the collision of the natural and the synthetic also informs his project. While this sounds dryly conceptual, Davis’s study finds appealing material form in an interrelated and carefully curated body of sculpture, moving image, and photography." - Becky Hunter. See more;

See all the installation here, read about the project here.

Rovers, 2011

Lowbeam, 2011

See all the installation here, and read about the project here.

Wendigo, 2012

See website based work here.

Projection by Johan Rosenmunthe

Projection, 2012 by Johan Rosenmunthe. It shows an interesting minimal optical effect through a framed mirror which seen through a camera, the primary frame is completely rectangular but seen through the naked eye it is trapezoidal. See more;

Frames, acryl, mirrors, cardboard, paint.