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AKT1, Aktionsart's nomadic shipping container, is currently spending some quality time at the DXARTS Ballard Fab Lab. Our first installation is a site-specific project by visiting Argentine artist Leo Nuñez. He has created a new version of DISPERSIONES.
Touchstone and USAA are offering a $350,000 budget for an artist to create a site-specific artwork for the Troy Block development in Seattle’s technology-centered neighborhood along South Lake Union.
A holiday gift from Video Data Bank - download the PDF of their free study guide, REWIND, a survey of video art and alternative media in the US from 1968 - 1980.
Is quasi-psychedelic crypto-Pop the new Pop art? Following the Surveillance & Privacy: Art, Law, and Social Practice Symposium hosted by the Henry Art Gallery and Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS) - a few thoughts on Warhol, Pop and surveillance art.
On view through February 15, 2015 at the Portland Art Museum is THE ENCLAVE (2013) - a video installation of six double-sided screens and series of still photographs by Richard Mosse. The work premiered at the 2013 Venice Biennale in the Irish Pavilion.
BLACK BOX is the first international festival in Seattle to showcase experimental film, video and new media art. It provides a global perspective on how contemporary artists use technology to push creative boundaries and expand the language of cinema. A program of significant scope, BLACK BOX transmits energetic ideas across industries - from film and music to design and technology.
Motion Study is a series profiling cultural pioneers and tastemakers in Seattle and beyond. Here Theo Downes-Le Guin, owner of Upfor in Portland, shares his perspective on the hurdles of running a gallery focused on new and digital media.
"For [Hall] the video medium was an unexplored territory for artists, its codes yet uncracked. He argued that video art was integral to television and not just its technical by-product. TV - and its subversion - was where video's vital core was located, well beyond the ghettos of film co-ops, arts labs and art galleries. This view opened an unusual space, somewhere between high art formalism (which it resembled) and the mass arts (which it didn't). Anti-aesthetic and anti-populist - conceptual art with a looser, dada streak."
-A L Rees
Four October exhibitions in London and New York:
Nam June Paik, Asia Society
Steve McQueen, Thomas Dane
Gillian Wearing, Maureen Paley
Cut to Swipe, MoMA
