Archive for November, 2009
Terre Natale exhibition in Copenhagen
Stewdio is temporarily relocating to Copenhagen next week to install the newly augmented Terre Natale exhibition piece at the Kunsthal Charlottenborg. (Stewdio phone and email will be redirected to Copenhagen; regular meetings to be held via Skype.) Terre Natale opens on Friday, 4 December and will be on display through Sunday, 21 February 2010. See Terre Natale on Kunsthal Charlottenborg for more information.
Jed’s Other Poem in Brussels
The Jed’s Other Poem music video will appear in the Altered States segment of the Cinamatics Festival this Friday, November 20th. If you happen to be in Brussels at exactly 9:27pm you can see it for yourself. Check out the excellent selection of pieces playing throughout the evening here. Description from the Cimatics site:
Altered States: When Dreams Turn Into Data
With the digital invading every creative enterprise and form of expression, pencils have become pixels, dreams have turned into data. While cinema’s obsession with the ‘holy grail’ of photorealism has generated a blizzard of visual extravaganzas aimed at a suspension of the distinction between representation and simulation, a generation of DIY bricoleurs use ubiquitous ‘tools of vizuality’ (Kevin Kelly) to explore alternative viewings and readings of the familiar. Through processes of transference, translation and combination, they encode, reveal or impose layers of information and deceive expectations about visibility and availability. Poking the surfaces of various images, sounds and symbols, their renderings create poetic, playful and often melancholic environments that are both alien and familiar, questioning our relation to images and our imagination. (In collaboration with Courtisane.)
Stewart to lecture at EMPAC
Next Tuesday, November 17th, Stewart will deliver a brief lecture at the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) in Troy, New York. His topic will be the Terre Natale (Exits Two) exhibition piece created by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, et al. His lecture is just one part of an evening of lectures under the banner Full Immersion: Art and the 360-degree screen, lead off by artist and scientist Bernd Lintermann of the Institute for Visual Media at ZKM, Karlsruhe. Be sure to see Eric Ameres, highly accomplished video engineer, and Thomas Soetens and Kora Van Den Bulcke along with their piece They Watch. The evening begins at 7pm in Studio 2.
Description from the Full Immersion page: An exceptional panel of international artists, engineers, and producers representing the evolving field of works created for the 360° panoramic screen. The panelists in Full Immersion – Stewart Smith, Bernd Linterman, Eric Ameres, and Thomas Soetens and Kora Van Den Bulcke of Workspace Unlimited – come from the visual arts, film, and data presentation. Some specialize in grand gestures, some write code. What they have in common is expertise in realizing works that surround the viewer, with effects that may be subtle, spectacular, or unsettling. In addition to talking about their field, they’ll also be showing up-to-the-minute examples of what’s been accomplished in it. The result will boggle not just the mind, but the eye and ear.
Art Directors Club rebrand launches tonight
Tonight the Art Directors Club launches its new streamlined identity, designed by Trollbäck+Co. The new identity is solid and flexible at the same time. It serves as a strong mark in itself but also as a masthead for a variety of events—events that in some cases even have identities of their own.
See Death by Cyan for more information and images.
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