Monday, 16 July 2007

Ray Ceasar: Graphic Artist






http://www.raycaesar.com/pages/GalleryIndex.html

Uses 3d software and textures to create scenes.

http://www.raycaesar.com/pages/Methods.html

Diane



Heather Jansch: Bronze and Driftwood Sculpture

http://www.jansch.freeserve.co.uk/index.htm








Diane


Monday, 5 March 2007

Athena Tacha - Sculpture

Home Page
PublicWorks
Areas of work:
Public commissions (environmental art), sculptures, films, serial photographs of natural forms, conceptual art pieces, digital art and books on the works of other artists.


Materials of Public Works:
Brick, Concrete, Glass Blocks, Pavers, Steel

Characteristics of works:
steps or stepping in each piece has a symbolic meaning
works incorporate geometric shapes based on nature
works refer to or are connected to a scientific theory or principle












Vulnerability: New Fashions

Franklin Furnace Gallery, New York City, 1994




Small Wonders
American University Museum, Katzen Arts Center, Washington, D.C. 2006














Rainforest Diptych (1982)Drywall seam tape500 Sampsonia Way, 2nd floor
Athena TachaRainforest Diptych (1982)Drywall seam tape500 Sampsonia Way, 2nd floor
Yards of drywall seam tape twist, once, before joining ceiling to floor in crossed diagonal lines which fill each space. In one room, excess tape curls on the floor. In the other, tape ends dangle from the ceiling. The stark white of the tape is reflected in the highly polished wooden floors.

Tuesday, 27 February 2007

Greg Lynn-Architect

Visionaire 39
"American architect, philosopher, and science-fiction writer who advocates increased used of computer-aided design to produce irregular, biomorphic architectural forms. Lynn's New York Presbyterian Church in Queens, New York, with Douglas Garofalo and Michael McInturf is an early project which used vector-based animation software in its design conception. He is credited with coining the term 'blob architecture' based on his work with a design software known by the acronym BLOB, meaning 'Binary Large Objects'. He was profiled by Time Magazine in their projection of 21st century innovators in the field of architecture and design"
http://www.glform.com/
Official Website-hard to navigate but stick with it


Korean Presbyterian Church of NY



Imaginary Forces, NY & Eyebeam Museum Of Art&Technology,Comp



Predator Exhibition, 2000



Ark of the World & Beach Chrysalis

Cinncinatti Country Day School
Diane


Sunday, 18 February 2007

Stan Brakhage - Experimental Film Maker


"Among the most influential figures of the American avant-garde, he is a technical innovator and outspoken social observer...His experimental films, mostly short, have often been concerned with the manipulation of light...Overcoming limitations of funds and resources, Brakhage poured out an astonishingly large number of long and short films in a wide range of themes and style. A poet with a camera, he consistently endowed his prolific output with a pathfinder's zeal and innovate personal vision."
"He took light as his great subject, and his interest in light itself was tied to his interest in recovering that which he acknowledged no adult could ever recover, the pre-linguistic seeing of children ("How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of 'Green'?" he famously asked), an interest which transmuted itself into a desire to free objects and light from structures based on language."




His work can be divided into two main phases. The first centered on psychodramas like Dog Star Man (1961-1964,see left) and the second on the direct manipulation of the celluloid.




Window, Water, Baby, Moving (1959) 12 min 16mm












Mothlight 1963
This film was made without a camera by placing leaves, blades of grass and insect parts, moth wings in particular, on a strip the same width as a 16mm film. Although these objects form a single surface or continuous organic texture, once printed on celluloid the projector divides or breaks this down into film frames. For Brakhage, such fragmentation acts as a metaphor for our determination to classify and subdivide nature and it's species.









The Garden of Earthly Delights (1981) 2.5 min 16mm


Rage Net (1988) 30 sec 16mm

The Dark Tower (1999)
The Great Tower is death. The play of light and colour, the strong attraction this is capable of exerting. Some lines by Byron provided the metaphor. A delicate work of post production in the optical printer, the fantastic glimmers that play a part in teh movie.
http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-7956356648214765805&q=the+dark+tower%2B1999




Water for Maya (2000)

Diane

The Big Swallow (1901) - Silent Film

Director - James Williamson
35mm, Black and White, Silent



http://www.thoughtequity.com/video/clip/1656042_005.do?GCID=C15754x009



This early 'trick' film features a Victorian gentleman objecting to being photographed. As the man's head comes closer (with, for the time, a sophisticated adjustment of focus), he opens his mouth and engulfs the photographer. Many early films explored the point of view in similar playful ways.
The film refers in passing to the first gestures of discontent on the part of passer-by who were filmed without their consent.
Diane