GOD KNOX by KOKOFREAKBEAN

KOKOFREAKBEAN tells us about his new chaotic work;
"GOD KNOX is my gentle, fart-like blitz of a myth revolving around the creation of divinities. It begins with a zesty summoning ritual betwixt several tranny shamans and ends with a personal nirvana. After becoming increasingly dissatisfied with the 2D jigsaw flatness of my previous work, I intended this project to feature more three-dimensional environments and slightly more protracted pacing. This new emphasis allowed me to dwell on compositions and apply more new techniques than ever before. I must declare that I am tempted to disown, mutilate, hambone, and honor kill most of my previous video work due to the healthily robust quality of the mental boner induced by my buxom new video animal, but I will resist that urge as long as infanticide strikes me as distasteful. Please enjoy and spread my sweet beast to the farthest corners of this diseased multiverse so that it may heave and splinter towards something approximating infinity. And blah blah blah." See more;

See his previous post 1, 2.

Jeremy Couillard

Jeremy Couillard makes vibrant, hard-edged, acrylic paintings that incorporate video and sculptural elements, imagining new spaces and objects that out-of-control technology might create. His world is one of colorful and disorienting spaces filled with strange gadgetry and furniture that summon a bygone idea of possibilities and hopes we once had for technology. See more;

"My most recent work combines painting, video and sculpture to create an exaggerated, maximalist view of contemporary spaces and imagined technological wonderlands. The bright colors, taped-off edges and interactive surfaces of the paintings are amalgams of landscape and interior images as well as geometric designs that exist at some intersection of biology and technology. The viewer is often invited to interact with the artworks by turning knobs, pressing buttons, listening to sounds and watching embedded videos on digital screens." 

"In my past life, when i was a conquistadora, I got lost in the amazon down tiputini river, on a canoe with shamanic hepatoligitists who used estrous cycles to predict the future. We capsized and were rescued on the backs of alligators and ended up in a florescent village that was run by deranged cartographers who were mapping out elements that Mendeleev would never know about. Topological quantum computing with jungle potions,  panther bones and protein receptors. The cartographers told me: “You have the most incredible cellular structure we’ve ever seen.” They mixed my hair with the reddish bark of a yew tree  to make a phosphorescent wax. With the wax they constructed an idol. It had wires in its mouth. I connected the wires to my arm and received an infusion of a mitotic poison that sent me on a vision quest 500 years in the future where i was selling homemade healing machines and Tibetan ceremony daggers on Amazon, making viral videos of kittens sleeping with lions, lost in a crowded city of restaurants and atheists. When I came back I spent several weeks with the shamans and cartographers We discovered a cave of microscopic transistors and used them to build a canoe. We set it in the water, said our goodbyes and continued the journey downriver." - Jeremy Couillard

OVER AND OVER AGAIN

The Secret Adventure of Franz Mesmer

This is What I Thought The Internet Would Be Like

TAXUS BREVIFOLA

Lifeshape by Norman Leto

Lifeshape of Michael Jackson

Lifeshape by Norman Leto_

"The Lifeshape – or simply a portrait, or rather a specific type of a portrait; It is an image (or better: a visualization) of a given person in the 3D technique. The creation of such portrait is divided into several stages and assumes close cooperation between the artist and the person having his or her portrait made. The result is a portrait which is abstract with respect to the form but very personalized when it comes to the content. The clash of these two seemingly contradictory orders (a portrait, by theory, assumes the closest possible reproduction of the traits of the person being the subject of the portrait) results in a very forceful visual and intellectual effect." See more;

"First, the person having his or her portrait made receives a detailed questionnaire from the artist (over 100 questions), which covers nearly all “parameters” of human life: health, age, interests, professional career, personal life, sexual life, education, travels, etc. Then he / she marks the answers as precisely as possible on a scale, after which he / she sends the questionnaire back to the artist. Norman Leto applies some sort of “doctor-patient privilege” here – he does not share the data received with anyone.

Then, the artist introduces the data received to a specially created program, functioning on the basis of an algorithm. The computer processes the terms of the questionnaire, transforming digital data into spatial forms. This is a relatively time-consuming process: depending on the level of complication, the computer may process the data received from several to several dozen hours.

The end result is the title Lifeshape – abstract but organic form with delicate, characteristic features. The last stage of creating such portrait is printout on high quality form and framing [the suggested minimal dimensions are 90 x 90 cm – the Lifeshape has a considerable amount of detail]. The artist has also created portraits of public and historical personages, basing on data provided in books and on the Internet.

The Lifeshape is a unique portrait: on the one hand, it is “dehumanized”, and, on the other hand, it is developed according to detailed data regarding the life of the person in the painting; on the one hand, it is extravert to the maximum, exposing the details of the client’s life, and on the other hand, it is “veiled”, invisible, covered behind an abstract figure – clear only for the interested parties; it is made by a computer, but basing on “human” data; it is always individual and unique with respect to the form – just as every single life is unique. It is a specific sculpture arranged in virtual space.

All of this makes the Lifeshape acquire an existential overtone; it is a very real image, an “internal portrait” in its strict sense. It does not have any artificial ornaments, hence it does not include falsity. Is this not the purpose of a good portrait? Norman Leto has created a cycle of Lifeshapes, including inter alia the lifeshapes of private clients, a former prisoner, actress Geraldine Chaplin, Polish artist Edward Krasiński, and Larry Page, the co-creator of Google."

Lifeshape is also part of a huge project called Sailor, it consists in a book written by Karolina Felberg and a film, see here the trailer.

See more projects by Norman here.

Text and pictures courtesy Norman Leto.

Click images to enlarge / recommended.

Lifeshape of Michail Chodorkowski

Lifeshape of Geraldine Chaplin

Lifeshape of Geraldine Chaplin, detail

Lifeshape of an average housewife (aunt Irena)

Lifeshape of a dog (dog atos)

Lifeshape of Larry Page

Sensual Objects by Chris Timms

While ago I published one GIF by Chris Timms I found on tumblr, this one. I was mesmerized about the flow, colors and forms. Then I started to follow his work through his tumblr called sensualobjects.tumblr.com where he only publish work made by him, it is a world full of organic objects who live and move according to the rhythm of the internet. 

One week ago Chris has just launched a new visual work, a 01.55 min video piece which follows the same aesthetics of that previously named GIF. See more;

Chris Timms tells us more about this piece_

"I was experimenting making these quite sexualised and stylised gif's, and the ones that stood out for me always had this kind of submerged sensual quality, beyond the intented aesthetic ascribed to their surface. Practically, Tumblr's size restrictions quickly pushed me on to make a video, but I became really interested in the way video is still the primary form of distribution for trailers or introductions to bigger projects, in that they are the primary (and often only) encounter with the work. So I worked somewhat backwards, presenting this as a completely self-contained promo."  

Sensual Object is being part of the great monthly exhibition called Astral Projection Abduction Fantasy curated by Standard Features at Monster Truck Gallery in Dublin, Ireland. The screening dates: 23 February – 22 March 2012; 5pm-12pm daily. I highly recommend to attend, see more info here.