Claudia Hart’s current solo exhibition at bitforms, “Illuminations,” blends digital animation with iconography to explore cycles of time, embodiment, and mortality. In Hart’s vast vocabulary of signs and signifiers which come together in “animated paintings,” meaning is endlessly created, folding and unfolding on itself. IMPULSE writer Natasha Chuk analyzes and reflects on how Hart uses technology as a means to engage with repetitions of deferral, renewal, and vitality.
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Thank you to everyone who came to see Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s tandem presentations in the gallery and at The Armory Show. We appreciate the thoughtful responses to the interactive and conceptual artworks on view. @lozanohemmer ’s exhibit “Caressing the Circle” is on view through Oct 26 in the gallery.
#rafaellozanohemmer #surfacetension #thearmoryshow
Congratulations to @marcobrambillastudio on his Midnight Moment!Tuesday Evening, the artist celebrated “Approximations of Utopia” with @tsqarts , @queensmuseum , @artnet , and friends before a viewing in Times Square. Brambilla’s work appears across 95 screens each night in June from 11:57-Midnight.
“Approximations of Utopia” re-imagines a future World exposition made from archival imagery of past world expos using Al technology. This section features the centerpiece of Expo ‘58 Brussels, the Atomium.
@phicentre@dreaming_in_public@kforde@_jeanie_c@natothompson@themill_paris@dip_paris@qdept@luigihonorat #midnightmoment #timessquare
Casey Reas' "There's No Distance" drops on Dec 1 as part of the fxhash 2.0 launch. Iterations of the artwork are installed at bitforms gallery in "It Doesn't Exist (In Any Other Form)," on view through Jan 13.
"There's No Distance" takes its title from the 2016 exhibition that debuted @reas ’ "Still Life" series, a body of work that broadly considers how three-dimensional forms are depicted in flat images. The series, created between 2016–2023, has inspired a number of diverse projects, most recently @LACMA ’s 2023 presentation of "An Empty Room" (pictured here).
LACMA's Art + Technology Lab debuted "An Empty Room" as an homage to Victor Vasarely's unrealized proposal for LACMA's Art and Technology Program (1967–1971), which defined a machine composed of lights arranged in a grid that would generate millions of different visual patterns related to his paintings. "An Empty Room" consists of a software art homage to Vasarely, beginning with his ideas of a "binary plastic language" and continuing into unknown territory.
@fxhash@bitforms@reas
Heritage Post: Claudia Hart's “e” represents the condition of the contemporary woman in today's postindustrial, technological society. “e” can mutate her face and body, adapting it to coordinate to the style of her clothing, here all the designs of my own creation mixed with those of the most extreme idea-driven designers of contemporary fashion. “e” is beautiful, but she is nevertheless the ultimate fashion victim: her face is so mutable that its transformations render her actually faceless. Converging the potential of bioengineering with the contemporary reality of endless fashion-based marketing cycles, “e” is a metaphor of woman as the ultimate consumer product in a dystopic future world in which the artificial has uneasily crossed the boundary of the real.
Each by Claudia Hart, in order:
e" in Thierry Mugler's Sexy Robot Outfit, Vienna, 2003
"2xe" in John Galliano, Empire Plaza, 2004
"3e" in Warhol Paper Dress, Empire Plaza, 2004
e" in Paco Rabanne, Chinatown, 2003
"e" in Rei Kawakubo, Times Square, 2003
Ellie Pritts “In The Screen I Am Everything” is on view in NYC through August 5.
“I created these portraits that are these fantastical versions of myself… These are both previous versions of work I did for “Divine Recursions,” which is a project I started a year and a half ago. Before I had access to Stable Diffusion, I trained an AI model off of my own self portraits. These are 50% output from my model trained on me, plus 50% text-to-image input. I’m taking text from hundreds and hundreds of pages of journals that I’ve kept on Google Docs for like ten million years— since Google Docs was a thing— so I have a huge library to pull from… I took those outputs and painted over them. The texture along the edges aren’t from AI, they’re from me.” - @elliepritts
Ellie Pritts Oracular Recursion II, 2023 Giclée print on hahnemühle
30 x 40 in / 76.2 x 101.6 cm
#divinerecursions #elliepritts #aiart
Opening Tomorrow in SF: "EXCUSE YOU!" a selection of recent works from Rafael Lozano-Hemmer. A reception with the artist will be held between 5:00 - 7:00 PM. Congratulations to @lozanohemmer and @GrayAreaOrg on opening "TECHS-MECHS" yesterday!
Both presentations offer a unique opportunity to interact with an indoor installation of "Remote Pulse (indoor)" (2019). Works exhibited in "EXCUSE YOU!" engage machines to create active portraits of the human condition that depend on the human as the operational force, as in "Remote Pulse", an interactive installation of two identical pulse-sensing stations that uses the internet to connect the heartbeats of individuals divided by geography.
@minnesotastreetproject@habitualtruant@elainemellis #excuseyou #techsmechs #sfopening #remotepulse
Björn Schülke “Cosmos” is now on view in San Francisco @minnesotastreetproject . “Cosmos” presents a range of large-scale and intimate sculptural works created from 2008–2023 that are imbued with playful ardor, akin to a Dadaist attitude of irreverence. The artist references his works as absurdist apparatuses, devices that act but do not serve a function.
Some works in the show might look familiar to Bay-area residents: a model of Schülke’s “Space Observer” (2010) is on display. The full-size sculpture is permanently installed in the San Jose Airport.
@bjoern_schuelke #spaceobserver #sanjosecalifornia #cosmos
For this year's @unseenamsterdam , the gallery presents a solo booth of new work by @quayola . After the New York debut of his "Storms" series last fall, the artist created prints of the series that highlight the cinematic movement of generated seascapes. Also in the booth is a new series of work: "Pointillisme".
We're in Booth 34 with Quayola!
#unseenamsterdam #quayola #pointillisme #storms #photography #potd @marignanaarte
LaJuné McMillian @_lovelaja hosted their opening of "Embodied Metadata" last night, on view through July 30. The installation includes a VR experience, which debuted at @TriBeCa , as well as "Spirit and Child", a new work for collective meditation. After the formal opening, the artist continued to Times Square with their family, friends, and a group of supporters to experience their "Movement Portraits", presented with @TSQArts at 11:57 each night through June 30.
#LaJunéMcMillian #EmbodiedMetadata #midnightmoments #timessquare @tsqarts
With the rising interest in NFTs we want to share more entry points into the history and range of works our gallery program has been host to since its founding in 2001. We’re beggining this exploration with @garyhillstudio ’s “Liminal Objects.”
Gary Hill's "Liminal Objects" series began in 1995 as black-and-white works utilizing simple computer animation and continued into color in 2005. In these works, Hill has deprived the objects of the ability to produce shadows and from having color or texture; instead, they remain rigorously textual and playfully idiomatic. Each work in the series involves two objects that intersect with each other’s spatial borders in unpredictable ways. Within these video installations, one of the objects, typically but not always, sits in stillness while the other moves in, around, and through it in a repetitive interaction and circular logic that suggest different readings of these veritable micro scenes. Artworks in this series have been shown extensively throughout the US and Europe, including exhibitions at Art Basel, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, and bitforms gallery.
"Liminal Objects #2" deals with a brain and a house. The house is rendered with a simple rectangular solid and peaked roof. The seventeen lines of the house object are used as axial centers of rotation. The house rotates around each axis passing through the original position each time and never pausing. With each rotation the brain object, at first hidden, is revealed and then concealed within the house.
"Liminal Objects #6" consists of a pair of pants – looking as if an invisible person were wearing them – rotating very slowly while an oriental fan, unseen at first, opens, penetrating through the pants from the inside out and then closing again, becoming hidden. This happens every so often; the fan opening and penetrating the pants in many different ways.
In "Liminal Objects #7," an apple sits perfectly still while a gyroscope spins, moves around randomly, wobbling from time to time and every so often entering the apple. At one point the gyroscope finds the very center of the apple, and its axis, slightly off-centered, encircles the apple’s stem.
You can now visit @jonmonaghan ’s “Den of Wolves” without an appointment through 6/12. Check out the show in-person or online this summer! 🐺🌟
#jonathanmonaghan #denofwolves #animation #wolfpack #powerdynamics
