Cunei Media

Aptekar explores 3-dimensionality with stacks of laser-cut paperboard. Her laser-cut sculpture-objects show no evidence of the artist’s hand. First designed as virtual 3D objects in CAD software, and then translated into 2D layers of laser-cut bristol board that the artist stacks, the emphasis is on clean design and perfect, machine-executed manufacture. The effect is a sculpting of space.

‘Que le Cheval Vive en Moi’ is a piece created by French experimental performance artists Art Orienté Objet jaywalk the intersection of medical research and performance art. With this performance the French duo Art Orienté objet calls for greater ecological responsibility from humans, whose technologies increasingly instrumentalize other animals and plants.

Willem van Weeghel’s kinetic art incorporates 32 moving components controlled by an integrated computersystem. Florian Jenett’s dynamic structure is a twenty four hour time lapse of a similar piece.

I met SF-based artist Travis Gire last week. Stunned by his art, I knew we needed to collaborate. We took some time to have a beer and chat about vinyl, boogie boarding in tsunamis and the SF art scene. Read all about it.

Kate’s compositions asks questions about the very nature of beauty. She’s intrigued by the possibility of envisaging beauty as something more complex than merely what delights the senses: beauty can be about a problem; it can be something that repels you or makes you question the status quo.

CHROMAtex.me is the new installation from SOFTlab installed at the Bridgegallery in Manhattan’s lower east side, a temporary installation which topology consists of 5,000 colourful laser cut panels which are held together by clips.

I don’t anything about Dan Slavinsky aside from the fact that this guy is one seriously ridiculous artist/architect.

Japanese artist Kumi Yamashita utilizes curious lighting techniques on still objects to portray “Shadow People.”

The focus of this years NODE10 is the investigation of cultural consequences of a post-industrialized, technological society.
The exhibition ‘abstrakt Abstrakt’ thus deepens the discourse surrounding technology and society. Participants look into the subjects through workshops and talks combined with subsequent symposiums and live performances.

French installation artist, Baptiste Debombourg recreates the myth of Icarus-the-pride utilizing a Mannerist pathos and 35,000 staples.