Wrestling with the Blob Beast by Ezra Johnson :: April 17, 2008; 6 - 8 pm :: Dia Art Foundation, 535 West 22nd Street, 5th Floor, New York City.

In Wrestling with the Blob Beast, Johnson presents a collection of sixteen animated screensavers. Derived from painting, they cover a wide field, ranging from formal studies where color is a primary concern, to quiet nature scenes like a campfire at night, to vignettes where figure and abstraction appear to be in active battle, as in several pieces where hands appear to wrestle with paint which morphs into a dog’s face and then reverts to paint strokes. While the wrestling pieces serve as humorous metaphors for the sometimes arduous endeavor of painting, others suggest a more serene relationship, such as Fly, in which a tiny painted airplane inches across a wet, painted sky. Continue reading

TOSMItraining in open source, multimedia instruments at InterSpace. The 2008 training will cover the fields of 3D CGI, post-production, animation and special effects, media content for the web, web TV and e-marketing. The training is mainly based on open source software and provides skills in innovative and efficient tools and distribution channels allowing for achieving quality production and/or education process at low expenses. Therefore we believe the sessions can be of advantage to professionals, managers and trainers in the audiovisual production and marketing. Continue reading

Suna no Onna (Woman in the Dunes) - interactive dance performance from Dans Sans Joux :: March 14, 2008; 7:45 pm :: Watermans Theatre, 40 High Street, Brentford, London.

Suna no Onna, adapted from Hiroshi Teshigahara’s mysterious 1960s cult movie, is a dance installation that merges virtual and real images of a life of existential entrapment in an inhospitable habitat. The ominous sand dunes of Teshigahara’s desert are transformed into virtual realities that shape the unconscious ground where the Woman (Katsura Isobe) meets a scientist-foreigner who stumbles into her life to become a captive. Continue reading

How did you come up with the idea for making an animated geoglyph? Why did you choose to make a walking figure? What does it mean to you?

Last year I began my honors thesis, which is series of conceptually-based animations. As I investigated the history and process of animation, I decided to concentrate on animation as it is integrated with new technology. As a part of this series, inspired by a class called “computing in the wild”, I decided to use GPS technology. Continue reading

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Evolution of the Landscape Series by Christoph Kern. Sound: Jan Truetzschler. Continue reading

States of Exchange: Artists from Cuba - Iván Capote, Yoan Capote, Jeanette Chávez, Diana Fonseca, Wilfredo Prieto and Lázaro Saavedra :: January 23 - March 22, 2008 :: Iniva, Rivington Place, London :: Curated by Gerardo Mosquera and Cylena Simonds.

States of Exchange: Artists from Cuba provides a dynamic and thought-provoking exploration of the complexities of economic and information exchange in contemporary Cuba. At a time when borderless communication is assumed to be the global norm, Cuba is a country caught in flux. Continue reading

Lisa Roberts is researching ways of animating the Antarctic landscape as a communitarian response to its texts, working with the notion of animation in its broadest sense of bringing to life, or breathing life into (our understanding) of its changing nature. She believes that working on-line and in dialogue with Antarctic texts, the expeditioners who composed them, and other artists can be a way to imaginatively map Antarctica. Continue reading