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Danish art collective SUPERFLEX presents Free Beer version 3.0 at the Wattis Institute. The audience steals the display. This video is Part 1 of the short documentary Stealing Free Beer, which in 2007-2008 was an Official Selection at the Filmstock International Film Festival, the Digital Narrative Arts Film Festival, the Victoria Independent FIlm Festival, the Iowa City Documentary Film Festival, the Thin Line Film Festival, the Utopia Film Festival and others. Directed and Produced by Patrick Wilkinson www.patrickwilkinsonfilms.com
Danish art collective SUPERFLEX presents Free Beer version 3.0 at the Wattis Institute. The audience steals the display. This video is Part 1 of the short documentary Stealing Free Beer, which in 2007-2008 was an Official Selection at the Filmstock International Film Festival, the Digital Narrative Arts Film Festival, the Victoria Independent FIlm Festival, the Iowa City Documentary Film Festival, the Thin Line Film Festival, the Utopia Film Festival and others. Directed and Produced by Patrick Wilkinson www.patrickwilkinsonfilms.com
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APR 18/APR 23 Shawn Bailey and Jennifer Willet have dedicated themselves to mastering the techniques of tissue engineering. But they are not scientists. They are artists - and their art is raising profound and controversial questions. Bailey and Willet are Canada's leading practitioners of "Bio Art," an emerging form that uses the tools of biology to create works of art. The goal is to draw attention to the field of biotechnology and its impact on society. On its next edition, VisionTV's Gemini Award-nominated current affairs series 360 Vision takes a close look at the meaning and purpose of Bio Art, and the powerful reactions that it evokes.
APR 18/APR 23 Shawn Bailey and Jennifer Willet have dedicated themselves to mastering the techniques of tissue engineering. But they are not scientists. They are artists - and their art is raising profound and controversial questions. Bailey and Willet are Canada's leading practitioners of "Bio Art," an emerging form that uses the tools of biology to create works of art. The goal is to draw attention to the field of biotechnology and its impact on society. On its next edition, VisionTV's Gemini Award-nominated current affairs series 360 Vision takes a close look at the meaning and purpose of Bio Art, and the powerful reactions that it evokes.
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Screener for Stelarc - The Body is Obsolete distributed online worldwide by Contemporary Arts Media (http://www.artfilms.com.au). DVD & CD-ROM. Stelarc is an Australian artist who has performed extensively in Japan, Europe and the USA - including new music, dance festivals and experimental theatre. He has used medical instruments, prosthetics, robotics, Virtual Reality systems and the Internet to explore alternate, intimate and involuntary interfaces with the body. The DVD and accompanying CD-ROM feature an interview with Stelarc as well as descriptions and images of all his major artworks. He has acoustically and visually probed the body-having amplified brainwaves, blood-flow and muscle signals and filmed the inside of his lungs, stomach and colon, approximately two metres of internal space. He has done twenty-five body SUSPENSIONS with insertions into the skin, in different positions and varying situations in remote locations. He has performed with a THIRD HAND, a VIRTUAL ARM, a VIRTUAL BODY and a STOMACH SCULPTURE. For FRACTAL FLESH, as part of Telepolis, he developed a touch-screen interfaced Muscle Stimulation System, enabling remote access, actuation and choreography of the body. Performances such as PING BODY and PARASITE probe notions of telematic scaling and the engineering of external, extended and virtual nervous systems for the body using the Internet. In 1998 for Kampnagel, he completed EXOSKELETON - a pneumatically powered 6-legged walking machine actuated by arm gestures. Current projects include the EXTRA EAR - a surgically constructed ear as an additional facial feature that coupled with a modem and a wearable computer will act as an internet antenna, able to hear RealAudio sounds. And MOVATAR is an intelligent avatar that performs in the real world by possessing a physical body. It will have a sound feedback loop from the body giving the virtual entity an ear in the world. In 2000, he completed an EXTENDED ARM - a manipulator with eleven degrees-of-freedom that extends his arm to primate proportions and a MOTION PROSTHESIS - an intelligent, compliant servo-mechanism that enables the performance of precise, repetitive and accelerated prompting or programming of the arms in real-time. In 2002, with the collaboration of the Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems Group, COGs, University of Sussex and TNTU, the HEXAPOD robot prototype was developed. In 2003 the PROSTHETIC HEAD, an embodied conversational agent that speaks to the person who interrogates it, was completed for New Territories, Glasgow. It was also shown at the ICA in London and Interaccess in Toronto. This was realized with Tissue Culture and Art Project from Perth. The 6-legged MUSCLE MACHINE was constructed with the assistance of The Nottingham Trent University Engineering team, using fluidic rubber muscle actuators. 1/4 scale replicas of the artist's ear have been grown using mouse and human cells. These were exhibited at Galeria Kapelica in Ljubljana and for the Clemenger Contemporary Art Award at Ian Potter, NGV at Federation Square. In 1995 Stelarc received a three year Fellowship from The Visual Arts/ Craft Board, The Australia Council. In 1997 he was appointed Honorary Professor of Art and Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsurgh. He was Artist-In-Residence for Hamburg City in 1998. In 2000 he was awarded an Honorary Degree of Laws by Monash University. He completed an artist-in-residence position in Art and Technology, at the Faculty of Art and Design at Ohio State University in Columbus in March, 2003. He is Principal Research Fellow in the Performance Arts Digital Research Unit at The Nottingham Trent University. UK. His art is represented by the Sherman Galleries in Sydney. DVD 35mins, CD-ROM Windows/Mac 2005. More information and purchasing options available at http://www.artfilms.com.au/v2/education/detail.asp?catalogueNo=1358.
Screener for Stelarc - The Body is Obsolete distributed online worldwide by Contemporary Arts Media (http://www.artfilms.com.au). DVD & CD-ROM. Stelarc is an Australian artist who has performed extensively in Japan, Europe and the USA - including new music, dance festivals and experimental theatre. He has used medical instruments, prosthetics, robotics, Virtual Reality systems and the Internet to explore alternate, intimate and involuntary interfaces with the body. The DVD and accompanying CD-ROM feature an interview with Stelarc as well as descriptions and images of all his major artworks. He has acoustically and visually probed the body-having amplified brainwaves, blood-flow and muscle signals and filmed the inside of his lungs, stomach and colon, approximately two metres of internal space. He has done twenty-five body SUSPENSIONS with insertions into the skin, in different positions and varying situations in remote locations. He has performed with a THIRD HAND, a VIRTUAL ARM, a VIRTUAL BODY and a STOMACH SCULPTURE. For FRACTAL FLESH, as part of Telepolis, he developed a touch-screen interfaced Muscle Stimulation System, enabling remote access, actuation and choreography of the body. Performances such as PING BODY and PARASITE probe notions of telematic scaling and the engineering of external, extended and virtual nervous systems for the body using the Internet. In 1998 for Kampnagel, he completed EXOSKELETON - a pneumatically powered 6-legged walking machine actuated by arm gestures. Current projects include the EXTRA EAR - a surgically constructed ear as an additional facial feature that coupled with a modem and a wearable computer will act as an internet antenna, able to hear RealAudio sounds. And MOVATAR is an intelligent avatar that performs in the real world by possessing a physical body. It will have a sound feedback loop from the body giving the virtual entity an ear in the world. In 2000, he completed an EXTENDED ARM - a manipulator with eleven degrees-of-freedom that extends his arm to primate proportions and a MOTION PROSTHESIS - an intelligent, compliant servo-mechanism that enables the performance of precise, repetitive and accelerated prompting or programming of the arms in real-time. In 2002, with the collaboration of the Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems Group, COGs, University of Sussex and TNTU, the HEXAPOD robot prototype was developed. In 2003 the PROSTHETIC HEAD, an embodied conversational agent that speaks to the person who interrogates it, was completed for New Territories, Glasgow. It was also shown at the ICA in London and Interaccess in Toronto. This was realized with Tissue Culture and Art Project from Perth. The 6-legged MUSCLE MACHINE was constructed with the assistance of The Nottingham Trent University Engineering team, using fluidic rubber muscle actuators. 1/4 scale replicas of the artist's ear have been grown using mouse and human cells. These were exhibited at Galeria Kapelica in Ljubljana and for the Clemenger Contemporary Art Award at Ian Potter, NGV at Federation Square. In 1995 Stelarc received a three year Fellowship from The Visual Arts/ Craft Board, The Australia Council. In 1997 he was appointed Honorary Professor of Art and Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsurgh. He was Artist-In-Residence for Hamburg City in 1998. In 2000 he was awarded an Honorary Degree of Laws by Monash University. He completed an artist-in-residence position in Art and Technology, at the Faculty of Art and Design at Ohio State University in Columbus in March, 2003. He is Principal Research Fellow in the Performance Arts Digital Research Unit at The Nottingham Trent University. UK. His art is represented by the Sherman Galleries in Sydney. DVD 35mins, CD-ROM Windows/Mac 2005. More information and purchasing options available at http://www.artfilms.com.au/v2/education/detail.asp?catalogueNo=1358.
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A couple years ago, Hasbro comes out with a toy video player for kids. I hacked the player so that you can make your own customizable videos and asked a bunch of artists to make something.... The 'art discs' were distrubuted throughout toy stores in Los Angeles and sent in the mail all over the country.... this is what was shown.
A couple years ago, Hasbro comes out with a toy video player for kids. I hacked the player so that you can make your own customizable videos and asked a bunch of artists to make something.... The 'art discs' were distrubuted throughout toy stores in Los Angeles and sent in the mail all over the country.... this is what was shown.
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Last week I met up with Sylvia Ji to talk about her latest solo show at White Walls Gallery that went on display on June 9th, 2007. Sylvia, an SF Art Academy graduate, recently moved down to LA to take a job as a lingerie designer, but was spending the week leading up to her show at a friends place in the city to put the finishing touches on her 30+ paintings. I also visited the gallery to see what kind of work goes into the preparation for a new show. Andres Guerrero and Justin Giarla walked me through the process, and boy is it a lot of work. Just the repainting of walls alone is a significant undertaking, not to mention hanging the new show, pricing and dealing with promotion. The third step in my quest to better understand the gallery art world was to go to the opening and see how it all turned out, and see how the artist felt after months of non-stop painting.
Last week I met up with Sylvia Ji to talk about her latest solo show at White Walls Gallery that went on display on June 9th, 2007. Sylvia, an SF Art Academy graduate, recently moved down to LA to take a job as a lingerie designer, but was spending the week leading up to her show at a friends place in the city to put the finishing touches on her 30+ paintings. I also visited the gallery to see what kind of work goes into the preparation for a new show. Andres Guerrero and Justin Giarla walked me through the process, and boy is it a lot of work. Just the repainting of walls alone is a significant undertaking, not to mention hanging the new show, pricing and dealing with promotion. The third step in my quest to better understand the gallery art world was to go to the opening and see how it all turned out, and see how the artist felt after months of non-stop painting.

