Rajorshi Ghosh solo show at Steve Turner Contemporary in LA
Exhibition: GHOSH: ORDINARY PARADISE
Dates: September 6 – October 4, 2008
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 6, 2008, 6 – 8 pm
‘Image will become an environment, an architecture’ – Gerhard Richter
Steve Turner Contemporary presents GHOSH: ORDINARY PARADISE, a video installation that explores the phenomenology of perception in relation to architecture and the projected image. Ghosh creates video installations that involve the projection of virtual spaces into a physical space, inviting the viewer to distinguish between image and architecture. Both the real and the virtual spaces are perceived in relation to one another, creating an in-between space that exists within the void between our perception and imagination. The current exhibition at Steve Turner Contemporary will be the artist’s first solo exhibition in an art gallery. Ordinary Paradise is a new site-specific work that consists of a one-inch wide frame that abuts the four edges of a gallery wall. The projected image is footage of the Pacific Ocean shot in Santa Monica, California, creating an intriguing sensation of the outside seeming to be inside.
Ghosh uses video projections and photography to explore ideas relating to perception, architecture and phenomenology. He is interested in perceptual experiences that stem from an intervention of the mundane, and has exhibited both nationally and internationally. His recent work Hallway Sculpture won the Jury’s Recommendation Award at the 11th Japan Media Arts Festival, 2008. His work has been selected by a jury of international curators for inclusion in Los Angeles Freewaves 11th Festival of New Media Arts, in October 2008 on Hollywood Blvd in Los Angeles. Ghosh holds an MFA from UCLA (2007) and a Bachelors in Visual Art form NID, India. He is currently a Visiting Artist at the Center for the Visual Arts at the University of Toledo.
Gallery hours are 11am to 6pm Tuesday through Saturday. Please contact the gallery for further information.
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Design | Media Arts Professor Erkki Huhtamo will speak at the 17th International Panorama Conference in Dresden, Germany, September 12-14, 2008. The title of Professor Huhtamo's talk is "'This New Kind of Merry-go-Around: The Rotating Saloon of the Diorama". Professor Huhtamo is at the final stage of his new book tentatively titled
Illusions in Motion: An Archaeology of the Moving Panorama and the Diorama (University of California Press).
Jennifer Steinkamp shows Daisy Bell at Lehmann Maupin, NYC
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The title, Daisy Bell, refers to a particular moment in the history of science and culture: in 1962, Bell Labs used the IBM 704 to synthesize the popular 19th-century English song of the same name. The song was also used in the climactic scene of the film 2001: A Space Odyssey in which the supercomputer HAL 9000 begins to sing it as his consciousness is degraded.
Steinkamp's Daisy Bell series is comprised of images of varieties of poisonous flowers that appear to cascade down the gallery walls. Much as Bell Lab's Daisy Bell consisted of a human application reinterpreting nature, Steinkamp reprises the idea, and defines this new series of artwork by its relationship to human innovations, at once a virtuous and potentially nefarious activity.
Victoria Vesna joins Filter Magazine Launch in Singapore
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endless process, scientific and surgical procedures with typography outside the computer one can explore the power of type in motion.
Nova Jiang, Michael Kontopoulos, Andres Colubri, Lustre and Jay Yan at GLOW
Nova Jiang, Michael Kontopoulos, Lustre ( Kalim Chan & Dmitry Klemnitsky ) and Jay Yan participate in GLOW the all-night event in Santa Monica, with media artists, performances, music and sculpture installations. Special Thanks to. Andres Colubri for helping us immensely with the programming.
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Pascual Sisto awarded Special Youth Council Of Spain Prize
The Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales (SECC), attached to the Ministry of Culture of Spain, presents the 2008 Culturas. Exhibition and Award competition for Intercultural Dialogue project, within the framework of the series of activities organized by the European Union countries on the occasion of the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue.
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Zach Blas and Xarene Eskandar will present new work at the International Symposium on Electronic Art in Singapore, hosted by National University of Singapore from July 25 – August 3, 2008. Blas will exhibit projects from Queer Technologies, an organization he developed that produces products for queer political organization and mobilization, and Xárene will give a presentation on her concept of Tentative Architecture.
Nova Jiang presents new work in Spain at Sonar and Interactivos 2008
Interactivos workshop-seminar takes place from May 30 to June 14, 2008. Nova's project 'Stage Fright' will be developed with the help of collaborators and exhibited at the Medialab-Prado until September. SonarMatica, presents Future Past Cinema, an exhibition project that creates links between the past and the future of Cinema under a single vision. Nova will also exhibit her work at SonarMatica.
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