Carter Mull Sara VanDerBeek Walead Beshty Daniel Gordon New Photography 2009 is a thematic presentation of significant recent work in photography that examines and expands the conventional definitions of the medium. MOMA Opens Wednesday 16 September 2009
Is the internet changing the way we think? via the edge (the world question center)
1. REPLACING EXPERIENCE WITH FACSIMILE by ERIC FISCHL & APRIL GORNIK Visual Artists
As visual artists, we might rephrase the question as something like: How has the Internet changed the way we see?
For the visual artist, seeing is essential to thought. It organizes information and how we develop thoughts and feelings. It's how we connect.
So how has the Internet changed us visually? The changes are subtle yet profound. They did not start with the computer. The changes began with the camera and other film-based media, and the Internet has had an exponential effect on that change.
The result is a leveling of visual information, whereby it all assumes the same characteristics. One loss is a sense of scale. Another is a loss of differentiation between materials, and the process of making. All visual information "looks" the same, with film/photography being the common denominator.
Art objects contain a dynamism based on scale and physicality that produces a somatic response in the viewer. The powerful visual experience of art locates the viewer very precisely as an integrated self within the artist's vision. With the flattening of visual information and the randomness of size inherent in reproduction, the significance of scale is eroded. Visual information becomes based on image alone. Experience is replaced with facsimile.
As admittedly useful as the Internet is, easy access to images of everything and anything creates a false illusion of knowledge and experience. The world pictured as pictures does not deliver the experience of art seen and experienced physically. It is possible for an art-experienced person to "translate" what is seen online, but the experience is necessarily remote.
As John Berger pointed out, the nature of photography is a memory device that allows us to forget. Perhaps something similar can be said about the Internet. In terms of art, the Internet expands the network of reproduction that replaces the way we "know" something. It replaces experience with facsimile.
Between 1924 and 1930, Robert Mallet Stevens built a modern original villa for the Noailles in Hyères in the South of France. The interior decoration was intrusted to Pierre Chareau, Marcel Breuer and collaborators like Man Ray, Jean Cocteau, Luis Bunuel...Today, the villa de Noailles is a center for the arts, dedicated to support international creative works in architecture, design, fashion, photography. There will be 10 nominations only. Deadline march 31, 2009 Villa Noailles
Randy Bens architects recently finish a renovation project to add a new floor to an existing 1954 bungalow, which is situated in a post war suburban neighbourhood in the city of New Westminster, BC. The existing house was an L-shaped bungalow which was too small for clients. The new floor would be the domain of the parents, and the boys would acquire main floor bedrooms of a more suitable size. The addition would be composed of a studio, master suite, and a deck to take advantage of the view.The main floor interior was left largely in tact and the simple palette of hardwood floors, wood trims, and off-white walls was continued throughout the new second floor and serves as a neutral backdrop for the client’s art collection. The result is a warm interior punctuated by colour, and an intense play of light generated by the screen.A new steel stair unites the two floors, and the solid wood treads match the recycled fir flooring which is used throughout the second floor. New millwork is constructed from a mixture of Appleply and Plyboo bamboo plywood. The millwork in the ensuite has Paperstone (recycled paper) on the counter and tub tops, while the walls are clad in blue back-painted glass. A composite recycled tile is used on the floor and shower walls to complete the palette.The overall massing was influenced by the desire to stack new program on existing walls and by the creation of a new exterior space on the second floor with access to views and sunlight. To counter the vertical nature of the resulting mass and shade the south facing living room, a horizontal screen was introduced which gives the composition a more restful and balanced appearance. To further reinforce the horizontality of the screen, a concrete planter wall was introduced at the ground plane. The vertical cedar siding, gently sloping roofs, exposed glulam beams and rafters are all present, but contemporary in their composition. Bright rolled zinc panels were placed above and besides existing window openings, and then aligned with new openings above. A simple through-wall flashing detail serves as a datum for window heads, mullions and sills, and is present on all facades. (Refference : www.architeria.com) Architecture: Randy BensPhotographs: Roger Brooks Photography
House RA designed by Ana Reis architect, located in Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal. The 2-storey home is characterised by white, clean-cut volumes arranged around an internal courtyard.The building volume, shape and location are the result of different restrictions from the municipality in terms of height, distances from the street and surrounding buildings. The programme is articulated within the available limits and around an internal courtyard. This allows the house to turn its back to the busy street, and shield its inhabitants.Living room, dining room and kitchen as well as some storage areas and powder room are located on the ground floor and directly connected with the protected garden. Bedrooms, study and toilets are located on the upper floor. This internal separation of communal and private space is continuous with the buildings relationship with the public domain. The metal structure allows the absence of columns and big windows.Clients: José Reis and Sofia Armelim Architecture: Ana C Reis Structure: Gestedi Date: 2008 Area: 360sqm Location: Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal Photography: NG Photo
more information about House RA [via] modern house design
presented by Quentin Bajac, chief curator of photography at the MoMA, at 50 th Arles photographie, France 2014 7 july — 21 september.
