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Qiu Zhijie is a Chinese contemporary artist and works with a diverse range of media including photography, video, calligraphy, painting, installation and performance, and combines writing and curatorial practice with his artistic explorations. (via)

For the first time, I used light to write the names of everybody related to me. In the following nights, I did the same thing. Writing always became more difficult later in the night, and also more evocative and sentimental, especially when I wrote the names of those who have died, who live at the other end of the world, or whom I might never meet again . (read more)

Sofia Ajram: relax, turn around and take my hand. (via)

Pakayla Biehn’s most recent body of work concerns her congenital vision disability, called Strabismus. Her eyesight consists of mutually exclusive images trying, unsuccessfully, to bond into a cohesive impression.

First Solo Show:
January 2010, Every Single Where, Gallery 6, San Francisco (Read More)

also take a look at Pakayla Biehn’s photorealistic paintings

Simone Lueck: Green-hued beasts jimmy-rigged with ancient computer parts and fantastically adorned like religious altars

Taлya: I frequently combine the techniques of drawing, painting and digital imaging to illustrate and communicate a non-linear vision of thought and space.

shirin: i started a new series entitled empty page. they are sketches made with light. the collection will grow over time.

view album

empty page on flickr

Hailing from their little tree house in Berlin, the Monkeymen are happy to announce the release of a new Experimental Animation Piece: SKINLINES.

Herr Schobel: A lot of time, effort and love has been put into this shiny little gem. We hope you enjoy watching it as much as we enjoyed making it. Feel free to comment, criticise or just show us some love. If you enjoy what you see, spread it around and help us to extend our monkey empire.

Make sure to turn HD on!

As a conceptual photographer often heavily invested in his process, Hiroshi Sugimoto has always been interested in photography’s ability to capture light as well as the medium’s capacity to frame and objectify its subject. In Lightning Fields, Sugimoto references the history of photography by pursuing two distinct projects related to William Henry Fox Talbot - inventor of the photographic negative. The first part is Sugimoto’s literal and meticulous reprinting of two of Talbot’s botanical photograms while the second is inspired by the pioneer’s explorations with electricity.

In Lightning Fields, Sugimoto plays with the tenuousness of positive and negative by purposefully incorporating electrical charges as part of the photographic process. Without a camera, Sugimoto applies a Van de Graaff 400,000-volt generator to his large negatives to create photogram-like records of transitory sparks and static electricity.

This richly layered process creates works that, in the tradition of Talbot before him, elegantly blur the boundary between science and photography. (read more at Shotgun)

see also 7 Days 7 Nights

wowlab 2009 - An installation where reality and imagination blends.

Factory and Fantasy is an experimental installation produced by architects, visual image composers, musicians and scientists. The project outline was to construct a work combining the technology and imagination of each field. The work occupies the space between fantasy and reality and explores the borderline itself.

This was the Trailer to the exhibition, very beautiful

Vesna Jovanovic is a contemporary visual artist whose work ranges from surreal drawings to pinhole photographs and double-walled ceramic vessels. Her creative process often involves a combination of chance and precision, reflecting interests in time, science, and the unity of opposites.

“My involvement in science caused a personal transformation that is reflected in my current artwork. During my pursuit of chemistry, moments and events gradually acquired names, and the world turned into a language of formulas. But once something could be named and broken down, it no longer contained its sublime, powerful anonymity. As a result, and despite my continued love of chemistry, I experienced anguish and a desire to find other ways to explore the enigmas of life.”

Instead of serving as a means of self-expression or communication, art now fulfills the same role that chemistry once did: it is an avenue of inquisition and discovery. Unlike chemistry however, art aims to reveal questions rather than answers. (via)

Benedetta Bonichi relies upon the collaboration of Italian and foreign important universities and scientific institutions, in order to realise her works; where she has been invited to deliver lectures and teach.

After years of research and studies (ranging from philosophy, ancient history and language philosophy to paleethnology and ethology) thanks to the President of the Italian Microbiology Society, she gets into contact with the School of Human Anthropology within the Biology Faculty in Florence and collaborates with some of the American teachers. In 1991 she leaves University dedicating herself to music, dance and mime and founds a theatre company, also beginning drawing, painting and sculpting. In 1995, by chance, she comes across the article “To see in the dark”, written in Germany in 1934.
In light of a Kantian reading of reality of Laurentian features, from 1995 to 1997 she creates approximately fifty sculptures illustrating the theme of shadows. Persuaded by the need to go beyond, “I do not know how to study, describe, nor draw this magnificent obsession that is reality…”, Benedetta Bonichi seeks a new type of language. After years of research going beyond aesthetics and ignoring light, in 1999 she creates the first X-ray images.

“Radiography is more than a technique. It is rather a teknè; that is the only possible means to read reality, through matter rather than light. Radiography, together with photography, digitalisation and fresco powders…” (via)

Herr Schobel , For the Love.

For his experimental short film „Energie!“, Thorsten Fleisch puts 30.000 Volt through photo paper. via nerdcore

William N. Jennings (b. England, lived in Philadelphia 1860-1946) has been credited as the first person to take photographs of lightning (1882). His photos show that lightning does not travel in a zigzag pattern, a once common notion. Nature is beautiful and Jennings captured the mystery and power of atmospheric electrical discharge. Jennings is an interesting person to read about: his experiments with photography aided the development of flash photography and x-ray photography. (via potatobenevolence)

Jennings’ pioneering work in photography coincided with the rise of print media and publication. The ability of scientists to publish their work sparked an intellectual discourse of sorts, as scientists from all over the globe began reading and responding in writing to the work of their colleagues. The publication of his work caused Jennings’ name to circulate among well-known scientists of his day, and many of these men sent congratulatory notes in response to his articles and photographs. Joseph Leidy, the father of American vertebrate paleontology, said of Jennings’ photography: “It is truly excellent, I had no idea such could be taken.”

Read more about William N. Jennings’ work and explore a number of his essays on the Franklin Institue’s - case files

http://www.vimeo.com/5676816
Long exposures of bugs under a street light. Excellent camera work and editing. Music by Telefon Tel Aviv - What’s The Use Of Feet If We Haven’t Got Legs

There has been a lot of growth in site-specific animation over the past few years, and artists like Blu and Pablo Valbuena are finding different ways to incorporate the built environment into animation. The video installation “Tetragram for Enlargement,” created by the Italian visual artist collective Apparati Effimeri, is set against a medieval castle, and it’s one of the trippiest marriages of architecture and animation I’ve seen to date. (via cartoonbrew)

i found this great post, at Niall de Buitlear - Visual Artist’s Blog:

I’ve been reading a catalogue of Terry Winters’ work covering the period 1994 - 2004. IMMA have a show covering the last 10 years of his work. The book includes some pages from Winter’s notebooks where he has pasted in found photos. One of the pages includes photographs of atomic bomb explosions (pictured above and below).

The photographs were taken by Harold Edgerton at night with an extremely fast a shutter speed and a special 10 feet long lens which was set up in a bunker 7 miles away. These 3 pictures show the first 3 milliseconds of an atomic bomb detonation.
The bomb was at the top of a steel gantry anchored to the desert floor.

Q : “You always think that the light, or the answer is around the corner. But then another void and true koan hits you. Only thing that I know is that I always return with more than what I arrived with.” (Dr Karanka via flickr )

DIADA ON FLICKR // ANTEPORTAS // MINDFIST

Oursler has been a pioneer of new media art since the mid-1970s, known for his video and installation works combining spoken text, moving image and sculptural objects.
For his new show,presented at metro picture gallery in new york last spring, Oursler  presented a variety of new works that take on technology, obsessive desires, phobias, socially acceptable addiction, and self-help culture.

Here a little interview of the artist:

Check his 90’s work with video projection over puppets, it’s surprising.

Auspices on flickr / Tumblr

Hans-Christian Schink works with  a phenomenon which was already described in 1857 by William Henry Jackson  - the solarization. Photograph the sun with a long exposure time and it will appear not white but black. H. C. Schink exposed different places around the globe for exactly one hour to create a grainy black and white image with a moment frozen in time.

You and Me, Music Clip for Anne Laplantine

Resfest Buenos Aires Opening

Amautalab on Youtube

Autokill™ by F. K. Alam

Lady Ryderz SUV club by Brigid Mason

Long exposure is one of the techniques that I find the most amazing. The way that the camera captures those few seconds and you’re able to see it, is really amazing. Pictures like that got a special feeling, somewhat magical. Check out the full set at abduzeedo.com

STAR CLUSTERS

Omega Over TSP

Ink Spot

Star Field

Snake Nebula Cloud

Snake Nebula Close Up