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Hippie Modernism at the Walker Art Center
31 Oct
If you happen to be in Minneapolis, MN in the next few months, check out the new show, Hippie Modernism, at The Walker Art Center.
From The Walker Art Center website:
“Loosely organized around Timothy Leary’s famous mantra, “Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out,” the exhibition charts the evolution of the period, from pharmacological, technological, and spiritual means to expand consciousness and alter one’s perception of reality, to the foment of a publishing revolution that sought to create new networks of like-minded people and raise popular awareness to some of the era’s greatest social and political struggles, to new ways of refusing mainstream society in favor of ecological awareness, the democratization of tools and technologies, and a more communal survival.”
Bubbles Paradise Liquid Show
21 OctGuys from Marseille (France) tripping hard during their live performance /
And have a look to their Video Gallery on Facebook
Plataeux (2015)
3 Oct
Kaleidoscopic, generative projections mapped to laser cut layers by Australian media artist Kit Webster.
Night Soil / Fake Paradise Trailer
28 SepBrooklyn artist and film maker Melanie Bonajo speaks about ayahuasca in a trailer to her film “Night Soil / Fake Paradise”.
Thermal Aftermath
14 SepAn atmospheric and mesmerizing voyage through the statues of Sally Resnik Rockriver courtsey of rob Steinberg
Nicolas Schöffer /
9 SepNicolas Schöffer (1912-1992) was a Hungarian-born French artist. He can be considered as the father of cybernetic art. His career touched on painting, kinetic sculpture, architecture, urbanism, film, TV, and music. Indeed he collaborated on music with Pierre Henry. All of the artistic actions of Schöffer were done in the pursuit of a dynamism in art.
This interest in artistic dynamism was originally initiated by the Cubo-Futurists and then intensified and solidified by the Russian Constructivism artists, such as Naum Gabo, Anton Pevsner, Moholy-Nagy and Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack. All these artists were concerned with opening up the static three-dimensional sculptural form to a fourth dimension of time and motion. And this was the intention of Schöffer as well.
Schöffer however, coming well after, benefited from cybernetic theories (theories of feedback systems (interactivity) primarily based on the ideas of Norbert Wiener (1894–1964)) in that they suggested to him artistic processes in terms of the organization of the system manifesting it (e.g., the circular causality of feedback-loops). For Schöffer, this enabled cybernetics to elucidate complex artistic relationships from within the work itself.
His CYSP 1 (1956) is considered the first cybernetic sculpture in art history in that it made use of electronic computations as developed by the Philips Company. The sculpture is set on a base mounted on four rollers, which contains the mechanism and the electronic brain. The plates are operated by small motors located under their axis. Photo-electric cells and a microphone built into the sculpture catch all the variations in the fields of color, light intensity and sound intensity. All these changes occasion reactions on the part of the sculpture.
Consequently his kinetic sculptural compositions were able to parallel the work of Warren McCulloch and his adaptation of cybernetics in formulating a creative epistemology concerned with the self-communication within an observer’s psyche and between the psyche and the surrounding environment. This is the primary usefulness of cybernetics in studying the supposed subject/object polarity in terms of artistic experience.
Here is an excerpt of his work:
Galerie 47 – 20th century furniture and decorative arts
Sculpture: Nicolas Schöffer 1968
Music:Pierre Henry “spatiodynamisme I ” 1963
Nicolas Schöffer – Cyspe – 1959
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