Last Thursday saw DATA – the Dublin Art and Technology Association – # 28 at our temporary venue, Dublin’s Science Gallery. It was a great and energetic night with a diverse crowd and lots of dialogue, plus a few beers afterwards just down the road. Thanks to everyone for coming! All photos by Ralph Borland [...]
Ireland: Figure, Face, Home Group show curated by Haydn Shaughnessy Nova Straaf Gallery on the SS Galaxy, Second Life opens Saturday 8th March 1- 3 pm SLT til 31 March For those not in the know: Nova Straaf Gallery is a gallery on a virtual cruise ship in SL! Haydn Shaughnessy / traveler Auer views [...]
Haydn and I gave very brief talks to the the Contemporary Irish Art Society last night, about my recent print work for Art on Paper Gallery (South Africa) and Haydn Shaughnessy Gallery (Ireland and in Second Life). It was really fun to be with an audience who knew nothing of the technologies I normally use [...]
LoVid gives one of their Hand-Cranked Luminescent Jewelery workshops Dublin’s new Science Gallery kicked off with HUGE crowds last Friday, and hosted international stars (and a few newcomers) of the media art scene, including the likes of LoVid, Graffiti Research Lab, portable palace and many others (these are just the ones I saw speak at [...]
Simulate Editions unique and authenticated virtual art objects Premiering at: Crossing the Void II Ten Cubed Gallery, Second Life opening receptions 31 January 7pm EST (1pm SLT) and 1 February 7pm GMT (8am SLT) SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/depo%20park%201/200/55/22 Artists Scott Kildall and Nathaniel Stern have each been exploring performance and performativity in their archival prints. Kildall restages [...]
I’m involved, via Haydn Shaugnessy (my Irish gallery) in a funky new project, where he’s hired a ‘Real World’ architect to build an astonishingly beautiful gallery out at sea in Second Life: Ten Cubed (pictured). Via some of Haydn’s blogging on the subject: About a year ago I decided to set up a real life [...]
If in Joburg, go see a great speaker and artist (and my classmate from ITP, peer in South Africa, and colleague in Dublin), Ralph Borland, next Friday. Ralph Borland Photographs by Pieter Hugo Suited for Subversion, 2002 Nylon-reinforced PVC, denim, padding, speaker, pulse-reader, circuitry Edition of 3 We are very pleased to kick off the [...]
Workshop by Benjamin Gaulon (Recyclism™), Lourens Rozema (Blue Melon), with the support of Tim Redfern (Eclectronics) for the Dublin Art and Technology Association the February 2nd-3rd at the Moxie Studio Dublin. Summary: Moore’s law dictates that the complexity of computer chips doubles each 18 months. This causes a rapid decrease in the value of existing [...]
Was part of a festival / party promoting Irish tourism in Dublin SL this past weekend (weird to be dancing and partying while sick in bed, but there you are). Below is a brief video with some of my prints (and my dancing avi) featured, and below that, a scan of the Irish Times feature [...]
Implicit Art, or as I more often call it, Implicit Body Art, is art that asks us to move in ways we normally wouldn’t, pushing the boundaries of performativity and affect. A different mode of thinking about interactive art – whether for critique or production or both – the Implicit Manifesto does not look to [...]
Howdy all. If you remember, early last year I developed a new WordPress theme as part of the launch of SAartsEmerging.org – promoting and critiquing emerging South African artists. That site is now maintained by Bronwyn Lace and Rat Western, and you should keep an eye out for upcoming changes. Given the popularity of this [...]
Got some pix up on a flickr set of some new friends and their work from the “Organic Motion: Kinetic and Interactive Sculpture” 2-week workshop at the Anderson Ranch out by the Rockies, Colorado. A fun time, and I hope to make it back. Also, click below for a li’l YouTube video of my first [...]
I went and updated the Compressionism documentation video a bit, and put it up on YouTube. These are performative prints made by strapping on a scanner, computer and battery pack, then traversing the landscape – sometimes printing digitally, other times transforming the images with hand-made / traditional techniques. The video shows some work, and how [...]
Not to again mention Winkleman’s appearance on the US telly about the big Warhol sale a few weeks ago, but there are quite a few good reads about the art market on the web as of late. Not gonna list all the ones I’ve seen (one reason being that it’s not really a focus of [...]
The Dublin Art and Technology Association, originally founded by Jonah Brucker-Cohen and Nicky Gogan, was re-launched after a year-long hiatus, as as part of this year’s Darklight Festival, last night. Featured works / artists included: Paul Makepeace, a technologist who donates much of his income to artists, and encourages others who make decent cash to [...]
For those if you still unfamiliar with Paddy Johnson and her fabulous blog, artfagcity – “As relevant as Eric Fischl. New York art news, reviews and gossip” – WAKE UP. She’s clever, plugged in, and a great, honest critic with a sometimes snarky and sometimes generous attitude: as a writer should be. And today, as [...]
blossom on the dodder, 220 x 300mm (2007), nathaniel stern & angel shoreditch, 780 x 100 mm (2007) Paul La Rocque My first Irish exhibition, a duo show entitled Landscapes and Icons, opened at the new Haydn Shaughnessy Gallery for Innovative Contemporary Artists in West Cork on Thursday evening, and it was a great party [...]
Haydn Shaughnessy Gallery (aka galleryICA – for Innovative Contemporary Artists) launches its website this week, and its first show (featuring me and Paul La Rocque) on 31 May: We open at 6.30 pm but the party goes on for as long as you wish, downstairs in the Pink Elephant. The women of the chorus of [...]
This past weekend, Haydn Shaughnessy (blogger and regular columnist for the Irish Times) invited me out to the beautiful countryside of West Cork to make some of my site-specific Compressionist prints; we hit the local pubs, beaches, foliage and his garden in order to produce new images. This new series, which also includes some scans [...]
Sorry for the lack of postings lately, but as promised before the move to Dublin, that’s just how it’s gonna be (until such time as Bronwyn and Rat do the regular blogging they tentatively offered here; like most Joburgers, they’re busy with more than a handful of things, so…). OK, catch-up spanning (and doing little [...]
