VOLTA NY 2011 [dNASAb]

[dNASAb] and Frederieke Taylor Gallery collaborated on a wildly successful booth during NY's Armory Week, at Volta Ny 2011.

http://ny.voltashow.com/dNASAb.6620.0.html
[dNASAb] will participate in the next edition of VOLTA NY which will take place from Thursday, March 3 - Sunday, March 6, 2011.
VOLTA NY is an invitational show of solo artists’ projects and is the American incarnation of the successful young fair founded in Basel in 2005. VOLTA NY was conceived by art critic and fair director Amanda Coulson to continue the original mandate of a tightly-focused, boutique event that is a place for discovery. Both Basel and New York fairs provide a showcase for current art production and relevant contemporary positions regardless of the artist or gallery’s age.
By putting the focus back on artists through exclusively featuring solo projects, VOLTA NY promotes a deep exploration of the work of its selected projects, an opportunity for discoveries that move beyond those afforded by a traditional art fair. While many fairs provide a broader overview, with more represented artists in each booth, visitors to VOLTA NY compare the experience to a more focused series of intense studio visits.
A platform for challenging, often complimentary, sometimes competing ideas about contemporary art, the strictly solo format is what gives the New York fair its unique character.
“dataclysmic_MemoryObscuraMobilaria" 2010
LED’s, aluminum,resin, phosphorescent silicon, plastic, fiber optics, acrylic, dimensions variable

"SCIENCE FICTION": a group exhibition at the STOREFRONT gallery

Proud to be representing Bushwick in this group show that opens tonight "SCIENCE FICTION": a group exhibition featuring new work by Nancy Bowen,[dNASAb], Ben Godward. Meg Hitchcock, Jeff Hoppa, Linda Herritt,Marjorie Van Cura, and Letha Wilson. at the STOREFRONT gallery http://www.storefrontbk.com/exhibitions.html

This is an image of the piece I am exhibiting for "Science Fiction", a small free-hanging sculpture, from the series "dataclysmic", Opens at STOREFRONT gallery, tonight, 11.19.2010

“dataclysmic_FIOSprototype" 2010
LED’s, aluminuml,resin, phosphorescent silicon, plastic, fiber optics, acrylic, dimensions variable

Guggenheim/Youtube Creative Video Biennial "Play" submission by [dNASAb]

"Projecteurs de l'Homme" ("Human Projectors") 2010
HD Video, edition of 5 + 2 AP, 2.07 mins.
Guggenheim/Youtube Creative Video Biennial "Play" submission by [dNASAb]

Via the use of evolving technologies, we are projecting ourselves into a virtual, digital domain. It's a pivotal time in human creative history. We are evolving from merely consuming content to actually creating content. We are building our avatars, and online identities, broadcasting our lives, transmitting our gps coordinates, tweeting our thoughts, and uploading glimpses into the way we want our lives to be perceived by others.

We are also living a larger majority of our lives online, in the info-sphere. Many of us have more daily interactions with humans via technology than real-life human interactions, or more "online" friends than "real" friends that you have actually interfaced with face-to-face. We have begun "being digital", we have begun moving closer to traveling back in time, we have begun becoming immortal, we are populating virtual spaces. We are inhabiting the info-sphere.
This is not the future. This is now! It is a revolution! "We are human projectors"


[dNASAb]

[dNASAb]'s Studio Visit, P.S.1’s new web initiative that offers virtual presentations of artists’ studios.

http://ps1.org/studio-visit/artist/dnasab
Click through [dNASAb]'s "Studio Visit"

Welcome to Studio Visit, P.S.1’s new web initiative that offers virtual presentations of artists’ studios. Studio Visit will serve as an online artistic hub and provide viewers a look at the varied artistic practices located within one city; the five boroughs and greater New York area.
http://ps1.org/studio-visit/

[dNASAb] Art Basel, Miami 09', panel discussion "Contemporary Art and Social Media"

Art Basel, Miami 09', [dNASAb] speaks in panel discussion
"Contemporary Art and Social Media", part of the "Art Salon" program,Thursday Dec. 3rd at 6pm, in the Miami Beach Convention Center,Art Basel Miami 09', Pecha Kucha presentation format,curated by Carl Hilderbrand.

other speakers.Dylan Fareed, Ben Davis, Lori Faye Fischler, Leyden Rodriguez, Jody Turner..
click link to view full panel discussion.
http://www.artbaselmiamibeach.com/go/id/jdn

“dataclysmic_ LEDVHD” 2009-2010

“dataclysmic_ LEDVHD” 2009-2010
19” LED HD 720p screen, Digital Media Player, LED’s, welded steel,resin, phosphorescent silicon, plastic,fiber optics, 1 of 1 720P HD video

Frederieke Taylor Gallery presents "dataclysmic", new works by [dNASAb] Jan. 7th 2010

"dataclysmic"7 January - 20 February 2010
Opening Reception: Thursday, 7 January, 6-8pm

FREDERIEKE TAYLOR GALLERY
535 West 22nd Street, 6th Floor
New York, NY 10011
t. 646.230.0992
www.frederieketaylorgallery.com
www.frederieketaylorgallery.blogspot.com

Frederieke Taylor Gallery presents "dataclysmic", new works by [dNASAb] Jan. 7th 2010

"dataclysmic"7 January - 20 February 2010
Opening Reception: Thursday, 7 January, 6-8pm

In the Project Room, Frederieke Taylor Gallery presents dataclysmic, new works by [dNASAb]. [dNASAb] is known for creating new-media video work, utilizing consumer electronics and complex sculptural systems. The artist sees these technologies as raw materials for the creation of his work which have a distinct aesthetic, capturing velocity, direction, and evolutionary motion.

The video sculptures combine biomorphic forms with new technology to create a new living organism, using hand-blown glass, phosphorescent silicone and video optics. The new photographic works are energetic abstractions, created in nature in the transition zone between the surf and the shore. The photographs uniquely combine his mixed media sculpture with the unpredictable elements of the wind and ocean waves.

This is dNASAb’s first solo exhibition at the gallery. His works are exhibited frequently in the United States, and his work has been exhibited internationally in various locations including galleries in Paris, Basel Switzerland, South Korea, and Istanbul. His works are included in numerous private and corporate collections.-

FREDERIEKE TAYLOR GALLERY
535 West 22nd Street, 6th Floor
New York, NY 10011
t. 646.230.0992
www.frederieketaylorgallery.com
www.frederieketaylorgallery.blogspot.com

[dNASAb] participates in a panel discussion at Art Basel called, "Contemporary Art and Social Media"

[dNASAb] participates in a panel discussion at Art Basel called, "Contemporary Art and Social Media" part of the "Art Salon" program, Thursday Dec. 3rd at 6pm, in the Miami Beach Convention Center, Art Basel Miami 09', hope those of you in Miami for the week can make it by..best [dNASAb]

"LCDblossom_Phospherescent Polyp" 2009_by [dNASAb]

"LCDblossom_Phospherescent Polyp" 2009_9" LCD screen,hand-blown glass,fiber optics, plastics, resin, enamel, acrylic,phospherescent silicon,12v led's, custom audio/video dvd_dimensions variable

http://www.tc43.com/2009/dNASAb_PhospherescentPolyp.htm

"System: System" curated by Christina Vassallo Brooklyn,NY _October 23rd 2009 opening reception

system:system is a three-day event that reflects on the nature of associations between parts of a whole. The title is a play on the term “complex systems,” which are characterized by their connections and tendencies toward unpredictable behavior.A failing economy has decided the recent fate of 21 Monitor Street in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Formerly a nun’s convent, the grand three-story house now stands uninhabited due to the declining membership of St. Cecilia parish and its sister school.

Location: St. Cecilia’s Convent, 21 Monitor Street, Brooklyn, NY

Opening reception: Friday, Oct 23, 7pm – 10pm with performances by Matamoros and New Idea Society

"Emergent Ecological Technologies""2009 60 "w X 40"h photograph.lightjet print edition of 7 + 2 AP by [dNASAb] 09'

"Emergent Ecological Technologies #2""2009 60 "w X 40"h photograph.lightjet print edition of 7 + 2 AP

Inspired by the surf, the unpredictable elements of nature,and the energy of the ocean.As well, as the amount of "consumer plastics" needed by humans to enjoy the beach.I set out to create new images incorporating the waves, both light and ocean, wind, sand, explosives, and sculptures made of plastics, rubber and fiber optics.I created mini installations on the shoreline, with fiber optics driven by 9v volt batteries, that proved to be waterproof.It was extremely difficult to work in that changing environment in the middle of the night, half of the time I was knee deep in water with the waves crashing on my tripod.But some interesting and exciting new images were created, and spawned a ton of new thoughts about how to create works integrating nature.
[dNASAb]

[dNASAb] in "Tomorrow City" Robot video project Incheon, Korea

"Tomorrow City" Robot video project Incheon, Korea,Curated by Janet Oh Gallery, Seoul Korea. on view 2009-2010 pictured opposite video by [dNASAb] 2009

Microsoft is opening up a temporary art space this week in the Meatpacking District in NYC as part of Internet Week. I will be exhibiting a selection of video sculptures. The main reception will be on Tuesday, June 2nd, 7-10 pm. The gallery will be open everyday.June 1st - June 7th, 2009. 414 W.14th Street, NYC. The works are ON day and night, please check it out. [dNASAb]

"Future Genetic Anomalies" + "LCD_Blossom" video sculptures, filmed in [dNASAb]'s studio

video footage of [dNASAb] video sculptures
"Future Genetic Anomalies" + "LCD_Blossom"
in the studio 2009. 1.30 mins.

"Dark Science_video Singularity"2009 currently exhibited in "NEXT POST" 18 solo projects at Rupert Ravens Contemporary.

[dNASAb]
"Dark Science_video Singularity"2009

new Painting based video sculpture.
60"x53" acrylic on wood panel framed, plastics,fiber optics,resin, L.E.D's, 1 of 1 video, 3LCD Projector

currently exhibited in "NEXT POST" 18 solo projects at Rupert Ravens Contemporary.

"NEXT POST" Solo Projects Exhibition at Rupert Ravens Contemporary,February 28 - April 11, 2009

"NEXT POST" at Rupert Ravens Contemporary
Dates: February 28 - April 11, 2009
Opening reception February 28th, 6-till
Solo Projects Exhibition
"NEXT POST"... is a foray into the next paradigm of art. Blog posts dispense with rules and manners. Jettisoning traditional brushes and technique, each artist uses space, new materials, color, and light as vocabulary of a hybrid visual vernacular. These projects are all BIG, utilizing maximum amplitude to put the potential of art to the test. NEXT POST material and light divulge facets of emotion, the oblique language of the psyche. Here postmodern ruses, wit, and theory are present not as the entirety of a gimmicky one-liner, but as icing on the cake.

AK Airways Bradley Wester Cordy Ryman David Ellis dNASAb Donald Bruschi

Doreen McCarthy Elio Franceschelli Eric Michel Fred Gutzeit Gae Savannah miya ando

Regine Schumann Saya Woolfaulk Stephan Hendee Thomas Eller Tim White-Sobieski Zethray Peniston

[dNASAb] exhibits work in a show titled "CURRENTS IN CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY" at Flanders Art Gallery opening reception Jan. 30th

"CURRENTS IN CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY"
Opening Reception with pierogies & martinis Friday, Jan. 30th, 6 - 9pm

Over the past decades, photography has evolved into one of the predominant forms of contemporary art. Whether this growth is the result of a relatively youthful medium finally gaining the respect and legitimization of collectors or because the technological developments of the past century accelerated its potential, photography is not only a difficult field to summarize, but it offers almost limitless possibilities in both aesthetic and narrative exploration. more>>>>>>

Frederieke Taylor gallery will present a Solo Show of New Media Sculptures by (dNASAb) at the Bridge Miami Beach Art Fair: The Catalina Hotel

dNASAb "GeneticsLiteShow#3"2008 60"w X 40.2"h photograph.lightjet print edition of 7

Frederieke Taylor gallery will present a Solo Show of New Media Sculptures by [dNASAb] at the Bridge Miami Beach Art Fair: The Catalina Hotel 1732 Collins Avenue ROOM 103

Bridge Art Fair Hours:

Thursday, Dec 4, 11am - 6pm, VIP First Look Preview.
Opening Night Party: Thursday, Dec. 4, 6pm - 10pm

Friday, Dec 5: Noon - 8pm
Saturday, Dec 6 : Noon - 8pm
Sunday, Dec 7: Noon - 6pm

"Sculpture in the 21st Century" Sculpture Magazine review of [dNASAb] 2008

"Walking into [dNASAb]’s space felt like entering a control room out of control. Wall mounted sculptures resembling imploded iPods were arranged at an accessible height. Each abstract composition of colorful Styrofoam insulation, extruded plastic shreds, and resin pulsed with fiber optic life. A small, face like screen blinked out at the viewer from each piece, competing for attention with changing audio and video compositions. In addition to these “iPod ecosystems” the artist self styled as “disneyNASAborg” also programs LCD screens to create “video bursts” or “data bursts” Here, data not only come to life, but also burst out of the proscribed boundaries of a computer screen. By deconstructing the medium of transmission, [dNASAb] has outpaced video installation to create a new sculptural form. The most recent piece in the show, ”iPod Ecosystem, FIOS-JESUS”(2008), incorporates a crucifix and a sound recording of Christmas Mass in a Spanish Cathedral. Was this merely to introduce another form of spectacle? Or to underscore the fact that these pieces are standing at the intersection of the known and unknown? By incorporating religious mytho-history into his fantasy world of electronic technology, the artist signals that she/he is willing to enter that dialogue.

---Susan Knowles Sculpture Magazine “Sculpture in the 21st Century” November 2008, vol.27 no.9

"In/Formation at BRIC Rotunda Gallery,Opening Reception: Wed, November 5, 7 – 9 pm"

In/Formation at BRIC Rotunda Gallery

Image: [dNASAb], iPod Ecosystem #12, 2007

The artists in In/Formation employ widely varying media and representational approaches to examine the radically changing nature of information systems and vehicles in the digital era. Leslie Alfin, Louisa Bufardeci, [dNASAb], Penelope Umbrico, and Ward Shelley present works that express the effects of information overload brought about by such rapidly transforming websites Google and Wikipedia. In the current environment, information is ubiquitous but not necessarily stable or even accurate. Rather, it is literally in formation—relentlessly growing in quantity and endlessly mutable.
Opening Reception: Wed, November 5, 7 – 9 pm,On view through December 19, 2008
BRIC Rotunda Gallery
33 Clinton Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Tel 718.875.4047 fax 718.488.0609

"Dark Science" sculptural prototypes in process

"Dark Science"painting series, with its limited use of color, and mainly black/white mono-chromatic palette has influenced the use of subdued and dark color schemes for the new genetics inspired sculpture pieces.
"Dark Science_Trans-Neptunian Objects #2" 2008 49"w x 48"h acrylic paint on MDF

[dNASAb] unveils new Painting series "Dark Science_the Singularity" 2008

"Dark Science_the Singularity" 2008 49"w x 48"h acrylic paint on MDF by [dNASAb]
[dNASAb] unveils new Painting series "Dark Science_the Singularity" inspired by the most tumultuous and quickly changing times in the history of humanity and our near future obstacles."2012, planet X, molecular machines, grey goo, genetic engineering, transhuman intelligence, Nibiru flyby, the singularity....."

"Art Papers" Magazine review of "Infosphere Aesthetics" show

"Art Papers" Magazine reviews "Infosphere Aesthetics" show at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Written by Denise Sanabria. July-August issue 2008 pp. 56 click link, pdf. or jpg format.

http://www.tc43.com/2008/ArtPapers08.jpg
http://www.tc43.com/2008/ArtPapers08.pdf

[dNASAb] lecture at Cress Galleries,University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.2008

[dNASAb] lecture on solo show "Infosphere Aesthetics"
at Cress Galleries,University of Tennessee at Chattanooga,
part of the John and Diane Marek Visiting Artist Series.
28 mins. 2008

[dNASAb] 3 channel video sculpture in"Astral projections" at Secret Project Robot

ASTRAL PROJECTIONS
an Audio Visual Sculpture show and Installation

Secret Project Robot

"Astral Projections" an A/V sculpture show with installation by [dNASAb]

APRIL 12th- MAY 3rdASTRAL PROJECTIONS..... An Audio Visual Sculpture Show
Opening Party Saturday April 12th 8 to 10pm
Sculpture By:
Zach Layton,
Mighty Robot A/V
Sam Zimmerman-Jean Angel
[dNASAb]
Brock Munroe + Nick Hallet
Seth Kirby
Bradley Eros
Death by AudioWizard Smoke from Lights

www.secretprojectrobot.org

[_Sculpture in the 21st century "Infosphere Aesthetics" [dNASAb], University of Tennessee solo show 08'_]

FIOS_JESUS;expanded christianity v2.0" 2008
ipod,circuitboard,speakers,l.e.d's,fiber optic systems,plastics,airbrush paints,resin,styrofoam,religious icon,edition of 1 looping audio/video track

Three solo exhibitions that explore new trends in 21^st century sculpture to reference today’s sciences and the recent technologies of physics, computational mathematics and engineering, and digital systems as they interrelate with society’s philosophical discourse and the visual arts.

“Transcendence” the auto-catalytic sculpture of Mark Andreas
“Infosphere Aesthetics” the new media sculpture of [dNASAb]
"Field” the sculptural systems of Ryan Wolfe

Cress Gallery of Art
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
http://www.utc.edu/cressgallery

Feb. 6 – Mar 17, 2008
A John and Diane Marek Visiting Artist Lecture Series
Lecture and opening reception Feb. 5, 2008 5:30pm in room 356, Fine Arts Center.
Gallery hours M-F 9:30am – 7pm
For more information contact the curator at ruth-grover@utc.edu
Or call 423-304-9789

"FIOS_JESUS;expaned christianity v2.0” is the first piece created in 2008,and was inspired by my many trips to Spain, especially my interface with Christmas Mass 2008.Sitting in a cathedral that took over 300 years to construct is awe-inspiring and truly indicative of the Greatness men can achieve when working together/collaborating on epic levels and monumental scale. The sculpture is emblematic of MY views on Christianity. I believe in alternate realities ,infinity ,alien life-forms , evolution AND the ideas of Christianity. I am concerned that religion is fearful of the truths of science and technology. Through this first work of its kind I created. I am trying to propose the possibility that they can all be interrelated, and in harmony, and not working to disprove each other. The alter pieces and stained glass windows create a truly creative, immersive environment for men to explore the unseen spiritual world through AWE. The audio is already amplified, the cathedral electrified. Wouldn’t it seem fitting if creating a new cathedral to integrate plasma screens, lasers, projections, and video/audio compositions to create a place for AWE, in the same way as the ancient cathedrals but utilizing new technologies?
I was very concerned when making this piece. Firstly, I have purposefully not worked with the figure in art for well over a decade, and never worked with religion as a conceptual theme in my work at all. And the majority of the Master artists that I respect that worked with religion as a theme in art, did so at a much later stage in their lives. But feeling compelled to flesh out some of the ideas swirling in my head, I decided to create the piece and exhibit it at the University of Tennessee solo show titled “Infosphere Aesthetics” . To my surprise this piece brought about a lot of great feedback, dialog, interesting questions and excitement to the show and further hammered home, in my mind, the importance of asking difficult questions through the creation and exhibition of art made_that not always is created for a reason the artist even himself understands. [dNASAb] 2008

"PhotoMIAMI 07',The International Contemporary Art Fair for Photo based Art , Video and New Media"

PhotoMiami_The International Contemporary Art Fair
For Photo based Art, Video,and New Media
Tuesday, December 4th,- Sunday, December 9th
Marc dePuechredon Gallery
Wynwood Art District
NW 31st Street and North Miami Avenue
Miami, FL 33127

"Contemporary Istanbul" November 29th-December 2nd 2007,[dNASAb] exhibits new de-cased iPod sculptures"FIOS"series

__ A rising star in the world of art fairs, Contemporary Istanbul has established itself as one of the most dynamic and promising art events in the region. Scheduled to run between November 29 - December 2, this year's edition of Contemporary Istanbul, will host more than 70 galleries from across the globe, as well as a wide range of events, including roundtable discussions, concerts, and performance art, alongside cutting-edge contemporary art by more than 350 artists.Marc dePuechredon exhibits new works by [dNASAb], a series of new de-cased iPod sculptures. "iPod ECOsystems_d-5 ,FIOS" pictured above

PACE DIGITAL GALLERY is proud to present:"TELECULTURE"

PACE DIGITAL GALLERY is proud to present:TELECULTURE

November 13- December 14, 2007
Opening Reception Tuesday November 12, 5-7pm

Including artwork by:  Chris Borkowski,
Bethany Fancher, Gerald Förster,Taras Hrabowsky,
Jennifer Jacobs, Eric Payson, Second Front, Mark Tribe, and
[dNASAb]

Curated by Lee Wells

³Nothing including ourselves ­ can be defined
intrinsically; we are all in some sense extrinsic and
relational achievements, conflations of body,culture,
environment, technology.²Ingrid Richardson, Telebodies
& Televisions:Corporeality and Agency in Technoculture,
2003

TELECULTURE is a survey that brings together a diverse
group of new media artists, whose work - ranging from
photography to online virtual reality -embodies, a cross
section of thought that investigates perceptions of
identity in the early 21st century. Pace Digital Gallery
offers a unique and challenging public environment, where
as,through the sheer verticality of the space, the selected
artworks combine to visually communicate a sense of
claustrophobic post-millennial anxiety mixed with an
un-definable euphoria,liberation, and freedom.

For more information and directions please goto the website:
www.pace.edu/digitalgallery

Artists Talk - Tuesday November 13, 3-5pm
Artists will be present to discuss their work, in addition
members of the Second Front collective will be participating
remote via Second Life.Discussion will be streamed live via
the internet.Please check the gallery website closer to the
date for more information.

Directors: Francis T. Marchese, Jillian Mcdonald

PACE DIGITAL GALLERY
PACE University
163 William Street, New York, NY
www.pace.edu/digitalgallery
For additional information please contact us at:
digitalgallery@pace.edu

"Particulate" at Vox Populi Gallery in Philadelphia

"Particulate" is a show of ten diverse and internationally known artists who have packaged their visual inspections for playback on micro players. These mp4 players, often illegally labeled as ipods range from 1" to 2.5" diagonal, offer very affordable and intimate venues for these introspective works.

These thirteen particulate samples were gathered from across the US and Canada to settle briefly in Philadelphia. Packets blown about in the passing traffic of the tubes abandoned by DARPA. The dust of dangerous bodies and cultures are collected, appropriated, examined, codecs have been applied, solid state storage units feed Chinese liquid crystal micro displays, photons are filtered and scattered. To ensure public safety, all specimens are simulated in small form, isolated, and displayed behind glass.

Artist included in the show are Laleh Mehran, dNASAb, GARhodes & Chris Ernst of The Buffalo Super Friends, Adriane Little, Tom Bendtsen, Adam Weekley, Alexander Reyna, Colin Ives, Christopher Borkowski, and James Humphrey .

Vox Populi Gallery website

"Paris SHOWoff Contemporary Art Fair ,[dNASAb] de-cased iPod sculptures"

Show Off, an alternative art fair in Paris 7 to 22 october 2007.Marc dePuchredon exhibits de-cased i-Pod sculptures.

Show Off
Espace Pierre Cardin
Nearly 40 contemporary art galleries
from 17 to 22 october 2007
(opening on invitation 16 october 2007)

11 iPod ,'iPod sculpture' "iPodECOsystem_HybridEntertainmentMatrix"2007 exhibited at DePauw University solo show titled "Techno-etic"

"iPod ECOsystem, Hybrid Entertainment Matrix" 2007 [11 channel iPod video sculpture]
August 22, 2007, Greencastle, Ind. - "[dNASAb]: // techno_etic," an exhibition that visualizes the possible aesthetics of wireless data and the fetishization of technology, will be on view at the Richard E. Peeler Art Center at DePauw University from August 24 through September 23, 2007. You're invited to attend an opening reception with a talk by the artist on Thursday, August 23, at 4 p.m.

new 3 channel video installation "burndatareaddata"2007 1.54 min

"burndatareaddata"2007
1.54 min edition of 5 + 2 AP
3 channel video installation

click (pic) or link to view new 3 channel video installation.
"burndatatreaddata" is going to be exhibited in "Video art in the age of the internet"at the Chelsea Art Museum,curated by Nina Pelosi and the Perpetual Art Machine founders.show opens Aug. 11th.-Sept. 14th. 2007

[dNASAb] featured in Vague Terrain 07'" Sample Culture"

Announcing the launch of vague terrain 07: sample culture The latest edition of the Toronto based digital arts quarterly vagueterrain.net is now live. The issue, vague terrain 07: sample culture is a provocative exploration of contemporary sampling of sound, image and information. This body of work examines the remix as a critical practice while addressing broader issues of ownership and intellectual property.

Vague terrain 07: sample culture contains work from: brad collard, christian marc schmidt, defasten, des cailloux et du carbone, [dNASAb], eduardo navas, eskaei, freida abtan, jakob thiesen, jennifer a. machiorlatti, jeremy rotsztain, noah pred, ortiz, rebekah farrugia, and an interview with ezekiel honig conducted by evan saskin.

For more information please see http://www.vagueterrain.net

new [dNASAb] video exhibited"10 plus 10" Basel,Switzerland

View new video; web version. Hi -res, limited edition video exhibited in "10 plus 10" at Marc de Puechredon gallery. June 3rd- July 7th 2007. e-halle,Erlenstrasse 15 ,4058 Basel

"Wolfe Contemporary" exhibits a new "iPod ECOsystem" in the San Francisco Gallery.

Mark Wolfe of Wolfe Contemporary exhibits a new "iPod ECOsystem" (ipod sculpture) in his San Francisco Gallery.49 Geary Streeet, Suite 202 | San Francisco, CA 94108 | T 415.369.9404 click here to view the new video that loops continuously on the iPod ECOsystem.

"Meeting 2 of my favorite artists_BillViola & Tim Hawkinson"

What an amazing week of openings,on back to back nights I had the rare privilege to meet 2 of my favorite artists. On Wednesday May 2nd 07. at the NYEhaus gallery in Grammercy Park I got to meet Tim Hawkinson. I had the opportunity to tell him that in 1996,I was visiting NYC deciding to move to the city,and saw his solo show at the ACE gallery in Tribeca. It was a quintessential and defining moment of the trip to experience this show.The monumental scale, clever use of materials,and distinctly unique style of low-tech engineering for the purposes of art were awe-inspiring to me, and drove home the fact that without living here I would continually miss shows of such magnitude, I've lived in NY ever since.Although he did mention "but I am from L.A",which i found interesting. Moving from Florida to LA just wasn't a drastic enough change of lifestyle, but being bi-coastal now sounds fabulous,watch out Tim we might be interfacing more often in the future.
On Thursday May 3rd, at the James Cohan gallery opening for the "Works of the TRISTAN project" by Bill Viola I was excited to have the opportunity to meet Bill Viola. Thanks to artist/curator/PAM founder Lee Wells[pictured left w B.Viola], Chris Borkowski and I got a direct introduction to Bill. He was an incredibly sincere and warm man, it was instantly known he would rather have dialog with some artists than to be in dialog with the myriad of dealers circling him. He told us an interesting anectdote of an interface with Michael Snow, whom he had greatly admired,whilst installing a video piece with drips of water in the Kitchen when he was in his early to mid twenties. Bill Viola has a true talent of being able to add the spiritual properties of humanity to his video works. When I saw his piece where the dying mother is reflected on the screen of the newborn daughter, I was amazed. Television screens inherently have such a sterile quality,but Bill made them poignant, human,and conceptual_ dealing with the very nature of existence,life and death. In all the Hollywood graphic violence and death scenes on television and movies, not one of them compares even closely to the emotional effect this semi-low tech installation held within. Bill Viola truely shows us through the medium of video art, an artists ability to create works that transcend the medium and drive home important messages of sheer existence. I sincerely hope that in the future I will have time to have more in-depth dialog with Bill and maybe even collaborate on a work of art one day.

"[dNASAb] and a new series of iPod sculptures at Bridge Art Fair,Chicago April 26th-30th with Romo Gallery

Please visit at us at the Bridge Art Fair ,Chicago 07'.
The show runs from April 26th-30th. A new series of "iPod ECOsystems" will be exhibited with Sam Romo of the Romogallery.