Lucy McRae

Probes Programme at Philips Design

Collaboration between Lucy McRae and Bart Hess - lucyandbart

Lucyandbart sculpted their 'Evolution' silhouette for American Vogue in an article about age, youth and plastic surgery.

Lucy McRae

Newspeak: British Art Now - part 1 @ Saatchi Gallery

Yes I am bad and it really has taken me three months to remember to post up my photos from my visit to the Newspeak part 1 show.  Anyway here are my favorite bits from the exhibition...

Steven Claydon

Pablo Bronstein

Alastair Mackinven

And on the top floor of the Saatchi was an amazing selection of Korean art, including a beautiful piece by ...

Shin Meekyoung
(soap, oriental paint, varnish)

Gwon Osang

Bae Joon Sung

Francis Alys @ Tate Modern

Francis Alys's work is engaging and humorous. I was particularly drawn to his piece 'Re-enactment' which consisted of two videos shown side by side, on the left the original footage of Francis purchasing a gun and walking through the streets of Mexico until he is arrested, and on the right a sensationalised re-enactment of the event.

Much of Francis's work consists of video pieces, and despite my issues with motion sickness combined with his shaky camera footage I did really enjoy the exhibition even though much of the time was spent fighting the waves of nausea.

Re-enactment

Paradox of Praxis 1 (Sometimes-Making-Something-Leads-to-Nothing)

EXPOSED: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera @ Tate Modern

I absolutely loved Oliver Lutz's piece, The Lynching of Leo Frank. The viewer is presented with a black canvas printed with specialist inks, facing the canvas is a camera and monitor that exposes the true contents of the canvas and allows the viewer to interact with the artwork.

(monitor showing cctv video of underpainted image based on a photograph of the lynching of Leo Frank)

Helen Levitt

Sophie Calle

In order to execute her project The Hotel (1981), she was hired as a chambermaid at a hotel in Venice where she was able to explore the writings and objects of the hotel guests. Insight into her process and its resulting aesthetic can be gained through her account of this project: "I spent one year to find the hotel, I spent three months going through the text and writing it, I spent three months going through the photographs, and I spent one day deciding it would be this size and this frame...it's the last thought in the process." wikipedia

Laura Clarke

I recently viewed Laura Clarke's Punctum video piece at RCA show 1 (view video), which for me was the highlight of the whole graduate show.

Pascual Sisto

Pascual Sisto's manipulated videos are amazing!!! I particularly love 

'No Strings Attached' and the simplicity of his installation pieces from 

the Heavy Hues series are equally powerful and engaging.

G8 - from the series Heavy Hues

Bow - from the series Heavy Hues

No Strings Attached

28 Years in the Implicate Order

No Not Nothing Never

DECODE Digital Design Sensations @ V&A

The V&A have been putting on the most amazing exhibitions.  I absolutely loved the recent Telling Tales exhibition and now they've completely blown me away with their current exhibition - DECODE Digital Design Sensations.  After 6 years of educational training in textiles design and a further 4 years teaching, I have developed a little obsession with digital media.  My specialist areas are Adobe Photoshop and illustrator, but recently I did try to self teach myself a little bit of Flash.  I love the idea of pushing the idea of surface decoration further into something that interacts and engages more with the viewer, and this exhibition completely feeds my hunger for these contemporary ideas.

There was so much amazing work that it has taken me quite some time to compile the collected images.  And even longer to edit out all the audio of me gasping and wittering on about how incredible it all is to my work colleague in the background of the video footage.  I really haven't done it justice or documented the complete collection.  IT IS AN EXHIBITION THAT REALLY MUST BE SEEN, and I am definitely going to revisit it.

The work that really took my breath away were...

Daniel Brown

This amazing piece was created by Sennep and Yoke, it allows the participant to blow away the the seeds on the digital image of the dandelion clock with a hairdryer.  I find it so very exciting to see both technical wizardry and gorgeous aesthetics combined and complimenting each other gracefully to create a gorgeous finished product.

C.E.B. Reas

Joshua Davis

Troika

Karsten Schmidt

toxi.co.uk

postspectacular.com

Universal Everything

James Frost

zoofilm.net

academyfilms.com

This piece by Flight 404 was amazing, it the movement of the graphics responded to sound, the picture above the video shows how the graphics appears when it detects no sound.

roberthodgin.com

Simon Heijdens

Aaron Koblin

This piece by Mehmet Atken was absolutely breath taking, it enabled the viewer to create splashes/explosions of colour on the canvas by interacting with the screen.

msavisuals.com

memo.tv

A brilliant piece by Random International the viewer stands infront of the frame whilst it scans in a temporary image of their face onto the white screen.

An incredible piece by Daniel Rozin made up of woven panels to create a mechanical mirror, as the viewer walks around the interactive piece it mimics their shadows in the woven structure.

Glacier 60000 by Emma Wieslander

'In Glacier 60000, the indexical information versus the computer generated one forms the center of the work. Every time a jpg file is opened and closed it is decompressed and compressed. Hence the compression every time the file is opened and closed it looses some of its original information. Through automation I made the file open repetitiously several thousand times, saving a new copy each time. As an effect the recognizable photograph is transformed into an abstract almost map-like image before it is lost completely. All the images are then animated into a sequence. Here the instability of the digital information communicates a self-reflexive symbolism as it ‘melts’ the glacier into a field of grey tones becoming almost empty of the desired information.' (www.emmawieslander.com)

Kyle Bean

Kyle Bean's work is fantastic. He combines great model making craftmanship with brilliant concepts which are clever, humorous and very engaging.

Mobile Evolution

The Future of Books

Subversive Health and Safety Signs

Laundry Day

ShowStudio @ Somerset House

A brilliant exhibition which shows some great concepts and use of digital media creating some very visually and physically engaging ideas in fashion.

Forget Me Not by Julie Verhoeven Peter Saville. 

I've always loved Julie Verhoeven's illustrations so couldn't help include a number of photo's of her work from the ShowStudio exhibition.  I'm extremely jealous that she's already created this  interactive digital wallpaper work as it was something that I personally was very interested in doing, damn it! 

Dress me up/Dress me Down by Liberty Ross

A fun idea where the viewer can participate in changing the head, or torso, or legs on a large monitor by using the touch screen controls.

Heston Blumenthal is a genius! 'Blumenthal is interested in food being about much more than just how we see and experience it in all the conventional senses.'  Heston was commissioned to do a series of dishes for a fashion shoot, I love the photo below of his coke inspired dish.