Merce cunningham, John cage and others

E-motion is a software that incorporates videos and it carries effects that make projectional performances more easier to work with. So basically in the video the filmmakers are again experimenting with the projections effects and music. Well in the beginning, i was somehow trying make a connection to what Merce cunningham and John cage were doing in thier times. It was merging the sound and dance in a single piece. cage's work is itself a piece of great art and so were the cunningham school of performance. Watching the documentary in the class, many of our fellows found the sound and the dance as a contradiction to each an other in the particular piece. I think it is because we don't understand specifically whats cage's sounds wanted to say, or we may don't wana know about it. and if we do , may be dont have the certain level of understanding to absorb what he is trying to communicate. I remember the first time we saw cage performing the sound piece No.(something)...we were literally making fun out of his voices. I believe its just we dont understand it....and we dont have what it takes to understand cage, then one possesses no right to mark is at Not-art.
For those of you(including me) who dont know what merce and cage were doing...may be its just a first step to absorb this video, it works in the same pattern but with a diffrent agenda.Here the music is more understandable to understand the idea.

Here it is http://vimeo.com/9234516

Adrien M / Claire B

French filmmakers Adrien M / Claire B,

Please check these videos

http://vimeo.com/7878518
http://vimeo.com/3528787
http://vimeo.com/3300329

I found all of them really interesting and entertaining way of performance, the first is the one in which two subjects engage in a surreal but highly entertaining dance through the warped fabric of space and time, made all the more wonderful with music from Beirut. 

this is how they explain the effect
Just to explain : we have not invented this effect, we have just developed it to work on GPU at 60fps as a Quartz Composer plug in, it is based on sculpting of a 3D texture.
It's made with a custom Quartz Composer plug-in that transform a video stream in a 3D texture.
It can run at 60fps live at lower resolution (512x512)

AFAIK the effect was discovered accidentally by a photograph called Jacques Henri Lartigues at the beginning of the 20th century (in 1912 to be precise) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Henri_Lartigue, with this famous photo : bokeh.fr/blog/photographes/la-voiture-deformee-de-jacques-henri-lartigue/
After it's just technical evolutions : photography->video->realtime video
The funny part is that rolling shutter of many camera is not a feature, it's a pretty annoying effect...

And the rest of two videos are performing with the projection.....now this remind me of how joan jonas works with her projection, i remember when we were shown the documentary and i went crazy about the idea of performing with the projection itself. This guy is pretty much doing the same stuff but using an affective method. Its not that i am comparing the both, no no nooo its not possible as one can't compare Gaga with Merce. and so an artist like joan whose practice is such unique that it is not comparable with other artists...But its more like im making a link between the two.

Michael Grab

Land artist Michael Grab creates astonishing towers and orbs of balanced rocks using little more than patience and an astonishing sense of balance. Grab says the art of stone balancing has been practiced by various cultures around the world for centuries and that he personally finds the process of balancing to be meditative.
 For me balancing these stones look more than art to me, it was as if its a complete skill and acquire so much of patience...its so inspiring for me, its more like meditating ur self

Baptiste Debombourg AÉRIAL

AÉRIAL

The mind is everything. The material is the servant of spiritual

Aerial is a new site-specific installation by Baptiste Debombourg at an old Benedictine monastery called Brauweiler Abbey near Cologne, Germany. Debombourg used numerous sheets of shattered laminate glass to mimic a frothy flood of water rushing into a room. Remarkably beautiful work.

Sarah Frost works

Sarah Frost was born in Detroit and grew up in Rochester, NY. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting from Washington University in St. Louis and a Master of Fine Arts degree in sculpture from Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. Frost’s work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions regionally, and she has her first show in New York in 2010. She has also received numerous awards and grants, including the inaugural Riverfront Times’ Visual Arts Mastermind award in 2008 and grants from Arts in Transit and the Missouri Arts Council.  Most recently she won the Great Rivers Biennial 2010, a grant funded by the Gateway Foundation and solo exhibition at Contemporary Art Museum Saint Louis. She currently lives and works in St. Louis.

Sarah uses thousands of keys from discarded keyboards and compile all together to make abstract and images. Also the thing i liked about this particular work was that these installations are almost a physical form of Sudoku puzzles..Well i am not really sure if the artist had thinked or designed it in this particular fashion...But for me i couldn't resist to image standing in front of these works and try to make words out of these works...

Artist Bio taken from

http://www.sarahfrost.info

Brian Mock Animals

Portland, Oregon based sculptor, Brian Mock, creates elegantly crafted recycled metal sculptures. He welds materials like wing nuts, hinges, screws, nails, found sheet metal, car rotors, and more to create a variety of sculptural forms from figurative, to animal, to decorative, and functional. In out times scrap is always taken as a an object of no use, but Brian gives scrap a new life...

In his own words:
"I am intrigued by the challenge of creating an entirely unique piece from an eclectic collection of discarded objects. Giving these old, common items a new and extraordinary life as one sculpture is an artistically challenging yet gratifying process. This type of work is also designed to be highly interactive and prompt viewers to question the reality of what they see. Audience reactions fuel my motivation." 

I only select objects that have been used and discarded. My goal is for each object to transcend its origin by being integrated into an animal/ organic forms that are alive and in motion. This process of reclamation and regeneration is liberating to me as an artist.
Building these sculptures helps me understand the situations that surround me. It reminds me that even if there is a conflict right now, there is also a solution in which all the pieces can coexist peacefully. Though there are wide gaps in some areas and small holes in others, when seen from the distance there is great beauty and harmony in our community. Through my sculptures I transmit a message of hope.

Interview of him taken from

http://www.360seegallery.com/artists/brian-mock.html?p=2

Kumi Yamashita

Constellation is an ongoing series of portraits by New York artist Kumi Yamashita known most prominently for her innovative light and shadow sculptures which i  liked for my blog. Each image is constructed from a single unbroken black thread wound through a dense array of galvanized nails mounted on a painted white board, meaning that the darker areas within the portrait are formed solely from the density of the string. I am no stranger to artworks created with thread and nails, but these are certainly some of the most impressive and intricate works I’ve ever seen made using this method.

continue to Shawn Clover works

We as an artist today only read and look up to the images from the history and sometimes make artworks that narrate history in a way that it becomes more easier for the viewer to actually imagine what was happening around at that time, what were the conditions that surrounds people at that time....we the artists learn this technique from history itself..creating the history, by creating what is happening around us... This is what is being happening since the caves, the Egyptian times, the Romans, the West, and so and so.
In our times still artist narrate history in a very cleashe way by doing it the way it had been done again and again...
These images that use a very basic technique of cloning in Photoshop, but the way the artist has done is very creative manner.He merges old photographs from 1905 and merge them into photographs of current time, This makes the viewer to actually thing what was actually happening way back in that time. Because the very recent history told to us by our ansistors is that one we could imagine but could not actually live in those moments ..Here the artist make it so believable like its happening now...
I somehow connect it to our own religion of sub-continent, when the partition happened back in 1947, and when i  saw these photos, stories came up striking my mind that my grand mother use to tell me while i was a child, and i uses to imagine what was happening at that time.
I really admire the artist to use such a basic digital medium to create these amazing pieces that helps us connect to our past and pay respect to what we have now...
     

 Shawn clover created composite photographs that blend historical scenes from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and his own present-day captures of the same locations.