Four Visual Poems by John M. Bennett
August 2013
John M. Bennett has published over 400 books and chapbooks of poetry and other materials. He has published, exhibited and performed his word art worldwide in thousands of publications and venues. He was editor and publisher of Lost and Found Times (1975-2005), and is Curator of the Avant Writing Collection at The Ohio State University Libraries.
Ampersand Sutra
by mIEKAL aND, August 2013
mIEKAL aND lives outside the constraints of academia in the most lush and rural part of the unglaciated Driftless area of southwest Wisconsin. Choosing to focus on creating wilderness and abundance surrounded by the perfect setting for limitless imagination his course of action includes demonstrating alternatives to inbred aesthetics, delighting in the play of DIY culture, and making art and writing that is both anarchic and noisy.
Richard Sanchez
June 2013
"My inspiration comes from desperate hot days of youth! Comic books, punk rock, heavy metal, hesh skateboarding in someone's backyard to the dirty streets of Hollywood Boulevard or the Tenderloin with some dopehead nodding off in the courtyard of an apartment building. The 80s movies The Road Warrior and Conan the Barbarian were a huge inspiration to my art. But I have to say that Jesu Cristo and his rescuing grace inspire me most."
Deborah Valentine
June 2013
Deborah became interested in art at a very young age and studied at the California College of Art. She is well known on the Internet for her managing the TheExquisiteCorpse club on DeviantART.
Jim Andrews
June 2013
Jim Andrews is a poet-programmer who has published his site vispo.com as his main artistic output since 1996. Vispo.com is literary, programmerly, visual, interactive, sonic, and critical. Sometimes all of the above at once. He lives in Vancouver, Canada where he currently teaches mobile app creation at Emily Carr University of Art and Design.
Selections from RichtAR
curated by John Craig Freeman and Will Pappenheimer, June 2013
"Our project Hans RichtAR was designed to blur the line between the physical space of the Los Angeles County Museum of Modern Art, the objects and films in the Hans Richter: Encounters exhibition and the virtual space that occupies the same location, by filling that space with an alternative virtual exhibition. This can only be seen with the use of an iPad, using augmented reality technology."
Christine Wilks
June 2013
"Christine Wilks is a British writer and artist who creates electronic literature and art for the web at her site crissxross.net and engages in collaborative remixing at www.runran.net/remixworx/. Her digital fiction, Underbelly, won the MaMSIE Digital Media Competition 2011 and the New Media Writing Prize 2010."
selections from The Brown Suit Chronicles
by Davis & Davis, March 2013
"In their latest photographic series, The Brown Suit Chronicles, currently showing at L2Kontemporary in Los Angeles, Davis & Davis depict the intra-office antics of a fictional, brown-clad, Wall Street tycoon, circa 1929. Using antique dolls and period sets, they chronicle their character's bumbling, psychopathic behavior in 29 darkly humorous color photographs."
selections from We Are The Not Dead, Returning By The Road We Came
by Lalage Snow, March 2013
"A series of portraits of British soldiers taken over a period of 7 months, before, during and after their operational deployment to Afghanistan on Op Herrick 12. The portraits are captioned with the thoughts and feelings of each individual. They speak of fear, being injured, losing a brother soldier, missing home, excitement, coming home, and what life is like on the frontline. The title is an amalgamation of two lines of war poetry by Simon Armitage and Seigfried Sasson."
Seven Paintings by Moki
March 2013
Moki was born in 1982 in Brilon, Nord, France. She lives and works in Berlin. She attended the Academy of Fine Arts—Hamburg, graduating undergrad in 2007 and finishing graduate school in 2009. She has had solo exhibitions in Hamburg, Germany; Los Angeles, US; Prague, Czech Republic; Barcelona, Spain and Düsseldorf, Germany, and has won numerous German awards and grants for her work.
Five Drawings by Emily Elizabeth Hochman
February 2013
"I earned my BFA from CalArts in 1999. I was a depressed kid back then, but over the next few years it became clear I was bipolar 1: the one with psychoses, tin foil hats, the CIA, the second coming, the mafia. High octane brain chemistry feels like how I imagine a mixture of LSD and crack might, and the following depression is brutal. It's a huge aspect of my identity and impossible to talk about my work in any penetrative way without mentioning it."
"Four Dragons"
by Paul Brown, February 2013
"It continues my interest in real-time code & generative art and artificial life, fields I have been involved in since the early 1970's. Like most of my recent time-based works the image is composed of square tiles that have a number of symmetries and a cellular automaton—where each tile looks at its immediate neighbours—determines how these tiles change and morph into each other."
Four Drawings by Sean Gall
February 2013
"Rome, walking slowly, getting lost, observing, exploring all the different layers of the city both physically and historically. Working in the studio on a series of drawings on paper, which are abstracted landscapes and mindscapes. Walking has always been an integral part of my being. The act of walking provides a conceptual basis for my artistic production. Rome has provided an ideal foundation for this exploration."
"Discotrope: The Secret Nightlife of Solar Cells"
an audiovisual performance by Amy Alexander, Annina Rüst, and Cristyn Magnus, February 2013
"At the heart of Discotrope is an unconventional projection system: a disco ball that has been modified to use solar cells as mirrors. The ball rotates slower or faster according to how much light reaches the solar cells on the ball and creates fragmented projections on surrounding walls, floors, surfaces and people. We've written custom software to project videos onto the ball and have developed a live audiovisual performance around the system."
"Art Game"
by Pippin Barr, February 2013
"Experience the exhilaration of making art you really believe in! Experience the agony of rejection by the curatorial team! Consider selling out and just making what people seem to want! Change your mind again and follow your dreams! Be a star of the art world! Be a horrible failure! Be an artist!"
Four Paintings by Allison Schulnik
December 2012
Allison Schulnik is a painter, sculptor, and filmmaker who lives and works in Los Angeles. Born in 1978, she graduated CalArts in 2000 with a Bachelor's of Fine Arts in experimental animation. Her paintings have been exhibited in galleries internationally and at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, the Santa Monica Museum of Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. She was recently selected as one of the "Ones to Watch" by Art Review.
Four Graphic Notations by Stroud
December 2012
"The following pictures are musical scores, works of visual art teeming with evocative glyphs and densely arranged pictographs. The meaning of these visual figures is deliberately left undefined by the composer; each performer(s) is invited to make a sonic realization of the score by articulating its signs according to a personal interpretation. Interpretations may be made spontaneously or prepared in advance."
Three Images by Diana Magallön
the Interdependency Issue
Diana Magallön is an experimental artist: Author of "Del oiseau et del ogre", "Phellipa in wolf", "Oxygenation", etc. She designed the cover image for the Unlikely Stories: Episode IV Interdependency Issue.
Four Sculptures by Mick / Mtz
the Interdependency Issue
Mick / Mtz lives and works in Cuidad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico.
Four Paintings by Sana Arjumand
the Interdependency Issue
Sana Arjumand is a young, versatile and passionate visual artist who has gained worldwide recognition and captured a large audience in recent years. Conceptually she is a post modern artist who has created pieces employing the traditional skill of painting alongside contemporary techniques. Her impressive artistic vocabulary expresses a sophisticated grasp on the subtleties of life, bringing a new insight to the mundane.
Seven Images by Gui.ra.ga7
the Interdependency Issue
Guillermo Guiraga 7 is a multidisciplinary visual artist residing in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico. He is a founding member of Witch Hunters: Aquelarres and Animales de Poder Collectives.
"Abstracting the Self: A study in primaries, secondaries, and a computer's will"
by Pall Thayer, September 2012
This work explores an approach towards the artist's self-portrait within the context of contemporary digital culture and real-time media delivery. The artist's laptop computer has been programmed to take a picture of whatever happens to be before it every two minutes. These images are then randomly combined in a constantly changing, composite "painting" that never quite completes itself.
Seven Images by Mark Skwarek
September 2012
Mark Skwarek is new media artist working to bridge the gap between virtual reality and the physical world with augmented reality [AR]. He explores this intersection in his art practice as well as activist art-related projects...AR has the potential to help distant people understand one another and through shared telapresent experiences. Mark explores AR's potential to affect the global consensuses by social networks and the internet.
Ten Images by Angela Genusa
August 2012
"My series 'Mosh My Bitches Up' simultaneously takes Disney fairy tale princesses back to their Grimm roots, but also sends them forward into the post-millennial age of distorted media. The princesses are both pixelated and pixilated—moshed to bits that reveal the ugliness, beauty, eroticism, violence, madness, dark humor, and absurdity that lies just beneath their surfaces."
Five Drawings by Margie Schnibbe
August 2012
"I draw what I see... the psychopathology of everyday life. Fragments of order emerge from a seething chaos of smut, smog and the complications of language. A front of perverse decadence barely conceals a childlike innocence. In my work I am making a truce with the unconscious. The results are open to interpretation."
Six Paintings by Eric White
August 2012
Relying heavily on the dream-state, metaphysics, and 1940s era Hollywood for inspiration, Eric White examines the boundaries of human perception in conceptually complex and expertly rendered oil paintings. He has served as adjunct professor at The School of Visual Arts in New York City since 2006. In 2010 White received a Painting Fellowship from The New York Foundation for the Arts.
Six Paintings by Joy Garnett
July 2012
"My paintings are associated with the 'apocalyptic sublime', a metaphysical condition of astonishment and awe. Culling my source images from the Internet while referencing painterly tropes that include Abstraction, Op Art and the Luminist landscapes of the 19th century, my work continues to develop its own pictorial engagement with the vertiginous information explosion that defines our 21st century Technological Sublime Age."
Nine Paintings by Aimee Jones
July 2012
"My current work wrestles between painting, drawing and installation. Each piece demonstrates the everyday struggle of trying to keep it together. A controlled chaos of sorts, recording the internal battles of the good, the bad and the ugly."
Four Paintings by Jeffrey Vallance
July 2012
"Let me state that I have friends and associates in all extremes and walks of life, including politicians (on all sides of the fence), kings, queens, presidents, tribal chieftains, shamans, Zen monks, FUNdamentalist reverends... I've made it my work to infiltrate into various institutional systems including political, religious and museological. I would place my worldview as somewhere Left of Heretic."
Nine Pieces by Ron Koppelberger
June 2012
Ron Koppelberger is new to the field of art but began drawing about 12 years ago and has over four hundred pieces of art now. He has published 165 pieces at several magazines and web sites.
Nine Spraypaintings by Skeez181
June 2012
Skeez181 is an ex-graffiti writer/artist from Houston Texas who's been spray painting artworks for over eighteen years. His artistic styles are strongly influenced by ancient Aztec heiroglyphics, futuristic imagery and graffiti. He began painting canvases live at the Westheimer Street Festival in 1997, meeting countless admirers who've hired him throughout the years.
Experimental Images by Diana Magallôn
May 2012
Diana Magallôn is an experimental artist: Author of "Del oiseau et del ogre", "Phellipa in wolf", "Oxygenation", etc.
