Brad Troemel and Jonathan Vingiano Work from Blind Mist “Blind Mist is a platform that relies on participants to submit their URL to an open database. From here, the website scrapes every image off the URLs participants offer and adds those images to another archive.There is no limit to the number of URLs/images a participant may [...]

24th Images Festival
March 31–April 9, 2011

Established in 1987, Toronto’s Images Festival is the largest festival in North America for experimental and independent moving image culture, showcasing the innovative edge of international contemporary media art both on and off the screen.

Regine Petersen Work from Find a Falling Star. “I use the process of taking photographs as a vehicle for thinking. When I set out to take pictures I usually have no fixed or pre-determined end-point. My method of working gives me the space to be constantly reflective and this in turn permits my work to develop [...]

Bonniers Konsthall
16 March–19 June 2011

One of the two films in Rineke Dijkstra’s exhibition I See A Woman Crying shows a group of children from a primary school who interpret Picasso’s painting Weeping Woman from 1937. Together, the children devise stories about the woman in the image—how she feels, where she has been and where she is going. We never get to see the painting, but the children’s imagination triggers our own.

A long stroll and purposefully slow visit to the Armory Show last week opened my eyes to quite a bit. In addition to being exposed to new artists (my main reason for attending) and a futile attempt at spotting gallery exhibition trends (Lots of neon? Painting is back? And besides large C-prints, could fine art [...]

Allora & Calzadilla Work from Back Fire. “The ‘Back Fire’ series are colour photographs of constellations, stars and galaxies, which have been set fire to from the back with matches. This action has generated a new space both physically and photographically. The burning of the photograph fires-back an unstable image, which has been re-photographed at [...]

Frankfurter Kunstverein
11 March–8 May 2011

The exhibition “IMAGE LEAKS – On the Image Politics of Resources” by Dierk Schmidt combines recent work and thematically related older pieces to create a focal image of contemporary economic-political relationships. A core question explored in Schmidt’s practice is how artistic images can address everyday political events and their historical legacy.

Since you can’t swing a cat without hitting a picture of Charlie Sheen at this point, I thought I’d choose a classic for today’s column. I mean, Art21 shouldn’t be left out of the fun, even though Charlie has nothing to do with today’s post. Today’s post is about teaching with, or perhaps about ambiguity. [...]

Brian Khek Work from his oeuvre. “Interpreting our relationship with information as a visual spectrum of didactic signifiers, the images in my work subjugate and expand physical experiences simultaneously. The fixed image inherently rephrases an experience. Documentation of this work is not interchangeable with the original object. It instead behaves as a different language through [...]

CUE’s popular Meet and Greet is back! In order to provide all participants with the maximum amount of time to meet with one another, we will be hosting a full night of our speed-dating style networking for artists. Be sure to bring business cards and s…

CUE’s popular Meet and Greet is back! In order to provide all participants with the maximum amount of time to meet with one another, we will be hosting a full night of our speed-dating style networking for artists. Be sure to bring business cards and s…

Just in time for VALENTINE’S DAY…Webyarns.com presents: “HE SAID, SHE SAID” is a lover’s conversation in text, image, and sound. The dialogue is random: he says one thing, she says another–the truth (and music) is someplace in between…URL of Story…

Michael Sherwin Work from Flux and Form Series “In this series of large format inkjet prints, I set the camera to automatically take pictures each minute as I walk along familiar paths. Then, the collection of photographs is brought into Photoshop, where I create a large canvas and randomly drop each image into the larger [...]

My mother’s desire to retrieve the vestiges of invisible human history is tinged with a certain melancholy. She manages, with only her small digital camera – and no PhotoShop distortions – to make the invisible visible. Water threatens to swallow the city of Venice in arrival (seen after the jump), the cityscape smeared with the [...]

A spectacular installation dealing with the theme of flying and falling between success and failure, at the very edge of that which is possible, stands at the center of the exhibition Eva Schlegel. In Between at the MAK Exhibition Hall. This installation represents an attempt to capture visually that which is fleeting, but will nonetheless be in the truest sense palpable and audible, confronting the viewer directly with projected images, image disturbances and wind sounds, and taking up the entire airspace (of the MAK).

Curator Talk: Guest Curator, George Fifield with Douglas Dodds, Senior Curator,Computer Art, Word & Image Department, Victoria & Albert Museum, London. Free with museum admission. Meet the curator of Drawing with Code: Works from the Anne and …

tatiana grigorenko’s ‘the disappeared’ project. “an anti-portrait of a missing protagonist. inspired by soviet-era images that were manipulated to make individuals ‘disappear’ from history. the project is an exploration of memory, presence, invisibility and historical revision. blowing up my family’s snapshots to the point that their grain structure started to fall apart, i meticulously removed [...]

As promised last week, let’s talk about the plight Mr. Curtis Acosta finds himself in. As a public school teacher in Arizona, obviously a state with its share of issues to sort through, Mr. Acosta was recently informed that his Latino literature class had been declared illegal. Tom Horne, Arizona’s newly elected attorney general, seems [...]

e-flux

Between January and May, we will continue to host regular screenings in our storefront on Essex Street. Considering the various modes of circulation and reception of the moving image, we have invited several exhibitors, distributors, independent collectives, and publications to program an evening of film and video in conjunction with their ongoing activities.

British film director Peter Greenaway interpreting Leonardo Da Vinci’s The Last Supper seemed a compelling combination. At least it piqued my curiosity. While the exhibited video work concluded its run at The Armory in NYC on January 6, I have been struggling to find the words to describe my disappointment and dissatisfaction (to put it [...]