Enjoy this podcast, which has a rather silly tone. It's just feel awfully self conscious when recording my voice.
Monday, March 28, 2011
Rousse
Georges Rousse is an installation artist/photographer whom I have long admired.
As a young artist he made paintings and drawings on the walls of derelict buildings. At some point he began to integrate the drawings with physical elements in the space. It is easy enough to call his work a simple trompe d'oeil, but I think that such a statement completely misses the point. Rousse creates 3-dimensional sculptures with color, installations that can be appreciated from all viewpoints, but whose rhetoric is intensified from a single point in space. He transforms the mundane and forgotten into places of wonder. Though essentially impermanent (their permanence is the photographic document), these installations are often left in place to be enjoyed by the public, until they crumble or are dismantled.
As a young artist he made paintings and drawings on the walls of derelict buildings. At some point he began to integrate the drawings with physical elements in the space. It is easy enough to call his work a simple trompe d'oeil, but I think that such a statement completely misses the point. Rousse creates 3-dimensional sculptures with color, installations that can be appreciated from all viewpoints, but whose rhetoric is intensified from a single point in space. He transforms the mundane and forgotten into places of wonder. Though essentially impermanent (their permanence is the photographic document), these installations are often left in place to be enjoyed by the public, until they crumble or are dismantled.
Friday, March 18, 2011
The Nine Eyes of Google Street View - Jon Rafman
The Nine Eyes of Google Street View
There are other people out there doing work about Google -- this one, an artist, Jon Rafman, is looking for more than the silly moments like what can be found here. Rafman uses Google Street View to capture a variety of subjects which can be categorized into common photographic archetypes. But that doesn't make his work mundane...au contraire...an interesting image is always interesting despite its provenance. The irony is that google, entirely passive regarding the capture of the images, becomes a kind of receptacle for exhibitionists. In a sense, subjects become the authors, or at the very least, collaborators. The rest of the images fall into another category entirely, the complete accident -- the ultimate decisive moment. Like the one below:
There are other people out there doing work about Google -- this one, an artist, Jon Rafman, is looking for more than the silly moments like what can be found here. Rafman uses Google Street View to capture a variety of subjects which can be categorized into common photographic archetypes. But that doesn't make his work mundane...au contraire...an interesting image is always interesting despite its provenance. The irony is that google, entirely passive regarding the capture of the images, becomes a kind of receptacle for exhibitionists. In a sense, subjects become the authors, or at the very least, collaborators. The rest of the images fall into another category entirely, the complete accident -- the ultimate decisive moment. Like the one below:
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
WPPD
World Pinhole Photography Day
April 24th (Easter Sunday)
I am planning an event...weather permitting. We will transform our house into a camera obscura. Open to whomever is interested. More info to follow.
April 24th (Easter Sunday)
I am planning an event...weather permitting. We will transform our house into a camera obscura. Open to whomever is interested. More info to follow.
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