digital aesthetics » Featured http://www.asomatic.net tracing the zeitgeist of digital art & design aesthetics Fri, 14 May 2010 15:00:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Victoria Reynolds http://www.asomatic.net/2008/03/victoria-reynolds/ http://www.asomatic.net/2008/03/victoria-reynolds/#comments Sat, 15 Mar 2008 18:53:04 +0000 michael Victoria Reynolds

Victoria Reynolds takes the metaphor ‘meat curtains’ to a new level with her unnervingly photo-realistic portraits of flesh fresh from the butcher shop. Some have a cheeky yonic quality, while others are grotesquely beautiful. (more…)

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Victoria Reynolds takes the metaphor ‘meat curtains’ to a new level with her unnervingly photo-realistic portraits of flesh fresh from the butcher shop. Some have a cheeky yonic quality, while others are grotesquely beautiful. (more…)

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Originally from Lost At E Minor: Music, illustration, art, photography and more by Gerry Mak
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]]> http://www.asomatic.net/2008/03/victoria-reynolds/feed/ 0 Zhang Huan http://www.asomatic.net/2007/10/zhang-huan/ http://www.asomatic.net/2007/10/zhang-huan/#comments Tue, 16 Oct 2007 19:19:52 +0000 michael zhang huan

Before expatriating to New York City, performance artist Zhang Huan was one of the earliest and most influential icons of contemporary Chinese art. One of his most famous pieces consisted of him covering himself with honey and sitting naked in front of a fetid public restroom outside of Beijing; eventually flies envelope his body. He’s also made a muscle suit out of meat, created sculptures, drawings, public art, and installations, and has travelled the world shocking and mesmerizing people with his naked body and masochistic performances. [watch a short film about Zhang Huan and his art]

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Before expatriating to New York City, performance artist Zhang Huan was one of the earliest and most influential icons of contemporary Chinese art. One of his most famous pieces consisted of him covering himself with honey and sitting naked in front of a fetid public restroom outside of Beijing; eventually flies envelope his body. He’s also made a muscle suit out of meat, created sculptures, drawings, public art, and installations, and has travelled the world shocking and mesmerizing people with his naked body and masochistic performances. [watch a short film about Zhang Huan and his art]

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Originally from Lost At E Minor: Music, illustration, art, photography and more by Gerry Mak
reBlogged by michael on Oct 15, 2007, 10:29PM

]]> http://www.asomatic.net/2007/10/zhang-huan/feed/ 0 The Art of Sampling at MCASD, CA http://www.asomatic.net/2007/10/the-art-of-sampling-at-mcasd-ca/ http://www.asomatic.net/2007/10/the-art-of-sampling-at-mcasd-ca/#comments Tue, 09 Oct 2007 03:32:09 +0000 michael boursier_mougenot2_web.jpgSOUNDWAVES: THE ART OF SAMPLING :: MCASD LA JOLLA :: SEPTEMBER 23 - DECEMBER 30, 2007 :: Selections on view through May 4, 2008.

Sound has played a significant role in the development of modern and contemporary art, from the visual references of Wassily Kandinsky and Piet Mondrian in the early 20th-century to the aural experimentations of Nam June Paik and John Cage in the 1960s. Soundwaves: The Art of Sampling looks at a specifically late 20th-century manifestation of the conjunction of art and sound, and features artists in MCASD’s collection, such as Tim Bavington, Celeste Boursier-Mougenot, Sean Duffy, Julio Cesar Morales, Dario Robleto, and Steve Roden, who appropriate the musical process of sampling in their work, either through the incorporation of found sound or through visual and material references.

Download and listen to the Soundwaves audio tour on your MP3 player.

Image: Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, Untitled (series #3), 2001, set of 3 inflatable plastic pools, 3 pumps, water, 93 assorted bowls, water, 21 stem glasses, 3 immersion heaters, Clorox. Museum purchase, International and Contemporary Collectors Funds.

Thanks to Rhizome and William Hanley.

Originally from Networked Music Review by helen reBlogged by michael on Oct 8, 2007, 5:10PM

]]> boursier_mougenot2_web.jpgSOUNDWAVES: THE ART OF SAMPLING :: MCASD LA JOLLA :: SEPTEMBER 23 – DECEMBER 30, 2007 :: Selections on view through May 4, 2008.

Sound has played a significant role in the development of modern and contemporary art, from the visual references of Wassily Kandinsky and Piet Mondrian in the early 20th-century to the aural experimentations of Nam June Paik and John Cage in the 1960s. Soundwaves: The Art of Sampling looks at a specifically late 20th-century manifestation of the conjunction of art and sound, and features artists in MCASD’s collection, such as Tim Bavington, Celeste Boursier-Mougenot, Sean Duffy, Julio Cesar Morales, Dario Robleto, and Steve Roden, who appropriate the musical process of sampling in their work, either through the incorporation of found sound or through visual and material references.

Download and listen to the Soundwaves audio tour on your MP3 player.

Image: Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, Untitled (series #3), 2001, set of 3 inflatable plastic pools, 3 pumps, water, 93 assorted bowls, water, 21 stem glasses, 3 immersion heaters, Clorox. Museum purchase, International and Contemporary Collectors Funds.

Thanks to Rhizome and William Hanley.

Originally from Networked Music Review by helen
reBlogged by michael on Oct 8, 2007, 5:10PM

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