Art

School of Visual Arts Art Criticism and Writing MFA Program – McKenzie Wark, Blue Ruin

Media theorist Wark is the author of The Hacker Manifesto, Gamer Theory, and The Beach Beneath the Street: The Everyday Life and Glorious Times of the Situationist International, and wrote two influential pieces on Occupy Wall Street. He will give the keynote address to the graduate student conference put together by our students, Critical Information: [...]

Book of Elements: Director-Artist – Roland Quelven

Roland Quelven is a still image/painter turned moving image artist whose work I find incomparable, exquisite and just wonderful to watch. This is just one example from a large and impressive body of work. For more information on Roland and his work, please visit: http://vip.newmediafest.org/?page_id=606 Audio | Luper’s theme by Sandra Chechik – Tulse Luper [...]

A Question of Aesthetics – What Is Beauty and How Does it Feel?

Designer Richard Seymour works on products with soul — from a curvy, swoopy iron to a swift and sleek city motorcycle. Seymourpowell is regarded as one of the world’s leading product and innovation design consultancies, with clients who include Ford, Virgin Galactic, Tefal, Casio, Nokia, Guinness, Samsung and Unilever. Seymour is also consultant global creative [...]

Locomotive – Place des Arts – Espace culturel – Teaser

“Locomotive”, the most recent addition to the mosaic screen installation in the foyer of Place des Arts, is a fantastical portrayal of a human machine. The context resembles an elaborate organic dominos game. It begins with a musical impulse and is accompanied by an inexorable advancement of light. Human flesh makes up a patchwork of [...]

AZUL Aλφάβητο Director, R. Quelven, Sound Design, Sofia Koubli

The fourth part of a polyptych in 4 acts: Two alphabets and two retables. Video: Isabel Perez Del Pulgar & Roland Quelven. Music The Song of Sirens: Sofia Koubli. Sofia Koubli-Music/Sound Design Vocal improvisation: Chrysa Tsaltampasi. Roland Quelven vimeo.com/rolandquelven mubi.com/garage/films?user_id=383715 Isabel Perez del Pulgar – La Dama Roja. vimeo.com/perezdelpulgar Chrysa Tsaltampasi myspace.com/chproject1 Vocal improvisation by Chrysa [...]

CREATIVE SPACE BARCELONA: Franz Ung

Director, Fernando Nikolic Website: Creative Space: Barcelona Every man starts at zero. That is what he told me. His lips trembled as he reached for the bottle on the table. When looking at him, I couldn’t disagree, but to be honest… if this man started at zero, he must have plunged deep into the abyss [...]