Ellen Lesperance
January 1, 1984, Greenham Commons: She Strung Together a Giant Web Made of Yarn. Attached to Balloons Filled with Helium and Bits of Tinfoil, It Would Dismantle the Airbase’s Entire Radar System
2011
Gouache and graphite on tea stained paper, hand knit sweater
Painting: 27 x 35.63 in Sweater: Dimensions variable
Aleksandr Rodchenko - Linearism, 1920, oil on canvas, 110.5 x 78 cm © Courtesy the State Museum of Contemporary Art, Costakis Collection, Thessaloniki
Image source: Art Blart
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(via Jon Imber: Tangled Up in Hues)
ROCKPORT, Maine — It’s a late, sunny Wednesday afternoon in mid-June at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art (CMCA) and, aside from a docent at the front desk, I have the whole Jon Imber: Force of Nature show to myself. Checklist in hand, I start to make the circuit, starting with a group of Imber’s Maine coast paintings—riffs, really, on landscape elements, painted en plein air near his summer home in Stonington, that fishing village that has drawn the Zorachs, Muirs, John Marin, Stephen Pace and a host of other artists over the last century or so.
15. It is better to do nothing than to contribute to the invention of formal ways of rendering visible that which Empire already recognizes as existent.
ALAIN BADIOU - Fifteen Theses on Contemporary Art
AMAZING. INSPIRATIONAL. NOW WHAT?
The MASHine
Audio / Visual installation by Miles Polaski lets users mashup 42 pop songs (vocals / instrumentals), providing 441 different musical combinations, with a projection mapped audio visualizer - video embedded below:
This interactive audio and visual installation, utilizing the contemporary art of Mashups and Projection Mapping, features 42 songs (21 instrumental tracks and 21 vocal tracks) assigned to 42 buttons giving its user the opportunity for themselves to create over 400 unique combinations while the video before them pulses and moves along to the music. The MASHine was created by Barter Theatre’s resident sound and video designer, Miles Polaski, and is part of the William King Museum’s Artist by Trade exhibit in Abingdon, Virginia.
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with a demonstration, with an ambush in the night and with a star.
bimbo-butch