W-H-A-T-E-V-E-R.NET by Emilie Gervais

w-h-a-t-e-v-e-r.net is a project created by Emilie Gervais working through a simple but great concept, consisting in a website where you can upload your HTML pages as girl or boy art. A gendered HTML collection which was launched last week and there are already some interesting pieces from both sides, you can see some of them into the post. It seems the boys are being a bit more participative so far. 

So you can upload whatever you want as whatever you are but you should know that the website only upload the HTML file and doesn't host any other file from the HTML, such as images, videos.. if it's the case make sure you use online source. See more;

Some HTML pages uploaded at w-h-a-t-e-v-e-r.net

Girl art http://w-h-a-t-e-v-e-r.net/girl/girlieart.html


Boy art http://w-h-a-t-e-v-e-r.net/boy/dhrubo.html


Girl art http://w-h-a-t-e-v-e-r.net/girl/naomi2.html


Boy art http://w-h-a-t-e-v-e-r.net/boy/pixels.html


Boy art http://w-h-a-t-e-v-e-r.net/boy/SUPERCAMELTOE.html

Borna Sammak

"Borna Sammak collects and manipulates videos primarily by deleting colors of the composition that don’t relate to him as much as others that do. This is why most of Borna’s videos are so recognizable, his color palette is unique to his taste—the same taste that guides him through the web or influences any choice for that matter. The deconstructed images weave in and out of one another so that there is no longer an image above nor an image below but instead a sort of hermetic structure flowing within itself. Flowing but at the same time not entirely changing any more than an eye follows the compostion of a static image.

Borna’s main inspiration however isn’t the shit content he finds online. Instead he is inspired mostly by camouflage—which is evident in the patterns he constructs—a pattern, as a native Philadelphian, he first encountered on cargo shorts." - Jasmin Tsou at Vox Populi Gallery. See more;

Gray Water, 2013

Untitled Video Painting 07, 2009

Untitled Video Painting 05, 2009

Untitled Video Painting 02, 2009

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I'm Google by Dina Kelberman

Impressive research based works by Dina Kelberman. Im featuring one of her ongoing projects called "I'm Google" which presents a great organized image and video research by many different factors. But I highly recommend to check out also her other similar ongoing projects featuring a huge variety of imagery source such as found image, photographs, cartoons.. like the one at her start page called "smoke and fire" also presented at the New Museum as online exhibition.

"My work comes out of my natural tendency to spend long hours collecting and organizing imagery from the internet, television, and other commonplace surroundings of my everyday life. I make things as I am compelled to make them and consider why later, often making connections I didn’t consciously set out to realize. I gravitate towards things that are simple, colorful, industrial, and mundane. I am also interested in using materials that are easily accessible and familiar to the everyday person. My work elevates the familiar and transforms brief moments into infinite stretches of time. In close examination of the simple or the seemingly insignificant the viewer may bring their own limitless associations." - Dina Kelberman. See more;

I'm Google

http://dinakelberman.tumblr.com/

"I’m Google is an ongoing tumblr blog in which batches of images and videos that I cull from the internet are compiled into a long stream-of-consciousness. The batches move seamlessly from one subject to the next based on similarities in form, composition, color, and theme. This results visually in a colorful grid that slowly changes as the viewer scrolls through it. Images of houses being demolished transition into images of buildings on fire, to forest fires, to billowing smoke, to geysers, to bursting fire hydrants, to fire hoses, to spools of thread. The site is constantly updated week after week, batch by batch, sometimes in bursts, sometimes very slowly.

The blog came out of my natural tendency to spend long hours obsessing over Google Image searches, collecting photos I found beautiful and storing them by theme. Often the images that interest me are of industrial or municipal materials or everyday photo snapshots. I do not select images or videos that appear to be intentionally artistic. Happily, the process of researching various themes in this way has lead to unintentionally learning about topics I might never have otherwise, including structural drying, bale feeders, B2P, VAWTs, screw turbines, the cleveland pack, and powder coating.

I feel that my experience wandering through Google Image Search and YouTube hunting for obscure information and encountering unexpected results is a very common one. My blog serves as a visual representation of this phenomenon. This ability to endlessly drift from one topic to the next is the inherently fascinating quality that makes the internet so amazing." - Dina Kelberman. 

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cyclo.id

"Ryoji Ikeda and Carsten Nicolai both work at the cutting-edge of contemporary electronic music and sound art. In 1999, the two artists initiated the joint project cyclo., which is devoted to the visualization of sound. In their shared work, they generate new hybrid forms of audiovisual art and expand the possibilities of digital technology.

The project's first publication is cyclo.id, a book and included CD-ROM that offer a multimedia and interactive documentation of the audiovisual material that Nicolai and Ikeda have collected, researched, and created since they began working together. The featured images are formed by the metering of sound bits that have been selected by the artists with meticulous care according to their acoustic and illustrative potential." -  Gestalten. See more;

It's posible to buy cyclo.id at Gestalten

Images from the book courtesy Gestalten, click on them to enlarge.

This is a nice video/talk where Carsten Nicolai speak about his work and about another previous good book he made while ago, called Grid Index, the first comprehensive visual lexicon of patterns and grid systems.

Colorful Colorado Revisited by Yoshi Sodeoka

Colorful Colorado Revisited, 2013, is a new great work by Yoshi Sodeoka. The piece it's a a remix of "Colorful Colorado (1974)" by video pioneer Phil Morton. It was made for REMIX-IT-RIGHT: Rediscoveries in the Phil Morton Archive, commissioned by Jon Cates. See more;

Modulate 5.1

I'm discovering good stuff by renting some video art lately. I will post here my favorites still images or videos if they are also online. This one called Modulate 5.1 is a collection of sonic visual pieces, exploring movement, colour, shape, non-verbal expression, internal journeys and spatial awareness. A collaborative project released in 2006 between Mark Bunegar, Mark Harris, Scylla Magda, Bobby Bird and Joseph Potts. 

It is great that all the pieces from this project are online, I put all of them in order into the post, anyway they still sell the DVD by contacting with Modulate. See more;

01 wave

02 red

03 motion

04 twist

05 embroidery

06 green

07 sunblind

08 create

09 blue

10 temple garden

FERÉSTEC

I like Feréstec works and how he combines painting, footage and other media with graphic user interface to compose the final layout or generate numerous patterns of details of the same piece. Here is some new work since I published his work last year. See more;

Clemens Behr

Clemens Behr's work is based on abstract installations and sculptures built in both public and interior environments. These three-dimensional and volumetric collages which usually are dimensionally huge are made of found recycled ephemera as well as basic building materials such as cardboard, wood, paint, tape and found materials. Into the post there are some works from 2012 but I recommended to see his great portfolio.

“My work is complicated, inexpensive and improvised…My process all begins with the space, which acts as a basis for planning. The space defines the colors and shapes, as well as any fixing or mounting possibilities and the dimensions of the piece.  I can’t plan that much in advance, because I can never be certain which possibilities and machinery will be available for me to use. Once I have the composition or an idea of the finished piece visualized in my head, I usually begin to paint the cardboard. Then a wooden frame is screwed together onto which the cardboard will be fixed. This occurs very haphazardly. Before I travel to cities like Delhi or Marrakech I do no preparation before. I just look at the city’s colors and shapes and try to adopt it in to my work. In general, the way I work should be a kind of transformation of the architecture. It pulls everything apart and assembles it in a new geometrical disorder. The source of my inspiration can definitely be traced back to the work of Marcel Duchamp and Kurt Schwitters, and I would name Gordon Matta-Clark as my favorite artist.” - Clemens Behr for Futurism 2.0. See more;

Suspended Bins & Broken Windows, 2012 

Seize Marseille, 2012  

The image below is from a duo show by Clemens Behr and Nural Moser called Rauminstallation mit Pumpe (und andere Sachen), curated by Open Walls Gallery and will open at Stattbad, on April 13th. 

"The artists will present a large-scale sculptural piece inside one of Stattbad’s large empty swimming pools. The two artists' collaboration is a moving four-dimensional installation combining Behr’s trademark improvised abstract work and Moser’s sound piece. The sculpture is set in motion through the water being pumped from the pool triggering small mechanisms articulating and animating the whole piece. The show will also introduce the viewer to different types of works by Clemens Behr: paintings, silkprints, objects, as well as some of Nural Moser’s architectural printed collages."