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ArtistMarketingResources provides their artist readers with news and information about art careers, calls for art and exhibitions. Regular updates to the blog make the site a valuable tool for anyone looking to stay informed about calls for work and other art related news.

Check it out here: artistmarketingresources.com

Tell Me a Tale

Tell Me a Tale: An anthology of 20 short stories published by Fluster Magazine & Armida Publications Ltd.

As a celebration of the inspiration and creativity that went into the Tell us a Tale Short Story Competition, Fluster Magazine and Armida Publications put together a collection of the 20 best short stories submitted by authors (published and unpublished alike), the world over. The stories are diverse in scope and theme and were inspired by photographs in Fluster Magazine’s Flickr Pool.

For more information see: armidabooks.com or flustermagazine.com

11 questions with artist Adriana Mosquera

The 11 Question Interview Series continues with artist Adriana Mosquera sharing her thoughts photography and art. Learn more about the artist and visit pivotartgallery to see the featured portfolio.

Adriana Mosquera

Adriana Mosquera

 

1.How did you first become interested in photography?

Desde el comienzo de mi proceso artístico la fotografía ha estado presente, ya fuera como dato inicial, como apunte rápido en mis desplazamientos, como material dispuesto a ser intervenido manual o digitalmente, como pieza capaz de construir un lenguaje en movimiento cuando se utilizan imágenes en secuencia ó como instancia final funcionando como retazo, como fragmento de la presencia de un objeto, un pedazo de circunstancia, de realidad.

Photography has been present since the beginning of my artistic process. Either as an initial idea, as a quick sketch, as material ready to be modified manually or digitally, as part of the language when using moving images, or as the final work functioning as a fragment of the presence of an object, a piece of circumstance, of reality.

2. If you have artistic/creative role models, who are they and how do you relate to them?

Mi proceso artístico se ha basado en la fotografía como herramienta para el estudio de fenómenos naturales y culturales. En la que investigo el concepto de espacio y la relación entre objetos, borrando las fronteras de los espacios públicos y privados. En donde lo fotográfico puede darse como condensación de un hecho performativo o viceversa, o lo escultórico puede anteceder o promover lo fotográfico. Estrategias que permiten, dentro de las dinámicas urbanas,  desdibujar y replantear continuamente su concepto, en un diálogo siempre abierto de imágenes encontradas y construidas. Un encuentro absurdo entre  ready-mades y lugares comunes.

My artistic process has been based on photography as a tool for studying natural and cultural phenomena. In which I investigate the concept of space and the relationship between objects, erasing the borders of the public and private spaces. Where the photo can be seen as a condensation of a performative act or vice versa, or sculptural can precede or promote the photographic. I use strategies that permit, within urban dynamics, blur and continuous rethinking of concepts, in an always-open dialog of images both found and constructed. An absurd meeting between ready-mades and common places.

Adriana Mosquera

Adriana Mosquera

 

3. What is most satisfying to you about the creative process?

Dejarme sorprender por lo que descubro en el proceso, como las ideas se materializan y adquieren un carácter único, muchas veces indescifrable solo hasta el momento que se conciben.
Del mismo modo es impactante cuando las ideas se materializan tal como las imagine, y siento como libero mi mente luego de realizarlas, son retos pendientes que debo resolver antes de continuar y seguir creando.
Es emocionante como lo que creas puede afectar tu realidad inmediata y porque no decir permite crear nuevas realidades.

Allowing myself to be surprised by what I discover in the process, as the ideas materialize and acquire a unique character – they are often indecipherable until they are conceived.
Similarly satisfying is when ideas are materialized as I imagined them, and I feel like I can release my mind after making them – they are challenges that must be resolved before proceeding and creating more.
It is exciting because what you create can affect your immediate reality and why not create new realities?

4. What do you learn through your work?

Realizar mi trabajo, me permite no solo reflexionar sobre el modo en que el ser humano se enfrenta al mundo y las estrategias que construye para personalizar su habitar, sino como desde mi experiencia inmediata puedo catalizar mis propias vivencias y hacerlas comunes, reconocibles. Una especie de espejo donde el espectador, puede reflejar su existencia.

My job allows me to not only reflect upon the way in which human beings face the world and create strategies to personalize their habits, but also on my immediate experience that could make them common and recognizable. A kind of mirror where the viewer can reflect their existence.

5. Do you use tools other than photography for looking at various cultural phenomena?

La fotografía es una herramienta fundamental en mi trabajo, ocupando diferentes estancias e involucrándose simultáneamente con prácticas escultóricas y performativas donde el video y el stop motion han hecho parte de esta búsqueda dentro mi lenguaje artístico.

The photograph is a fundamental tool in my work, occupying different roles simultaneously with sculptural and performative practices. Video and stop motion have also played a role within my artistic language.

Adriana Mosquera

Adriana Mosquera

 

6. Your photography reveals different types of patterns in our urban environment – both in public and private spaces. Do you find that working in series helps you define those patterns? Do you always think in series as opposed to say, individual images?

Estos registros reflejan un interés marcado en lo serial, en lo reiterativo, a veces presente en una misma toma, en otras la serialidad se presenta en múltiples tomas buscando aprehender la temporalidad de los eventos y acontecimientos sencillos e inasibles, incidiendo constantemente en el comportamiento mudo de una cultura a través del rastreo minucioso de sus cuerpos, de sus muros desnudos, de su arquitectura oculta para muchos, visible para pocos.
Así mismo la serial se vincula simultáneamente a un problema de identidad, ser gemela es una historia propia, una realidad vigente y no contingente, donde se pone de manifiesto un ambiente homocigoto, donde la relaciones interpersonales, parten de un mundo compartido, dosificado en partes iguales, homogéneo y regular en sus formas, pero diverso en colores y texturas.

Some works reflect a strong interest in serial and reiterative phenomena, which can be present in the same shot. In other cases the seriality comes in multiple shots and describes the temporality of simple and ephemeral events. I constantly stress the dumb behavior of a culture – which is hidden for many, visible for a few – through careful tracking of bodies, bare walls, and architecture.
Also the seriality is linked to an identity issue. Being a twin is  its own history. It is a reality which reveals a homozygous environment where relationships that begin from a shared world, dosed in equal parts, homogeneous and regular in form, can be different in color and texture.

Adriana Mosquera

Adriana Mosquera

 

7. What is your process like? Do you start with an idea, or do you happen upon a scene that resonates with you and then begin to photograph it? How do you know when an idea is worth pursuing?

Los procesos de creación varían de acuerdo a las especificidades de cada obra y su contexto. La mayoría de las imágenes encontradas o construidas son producto, de encuentros fortuitos al caminar por la calle, puede ser un arrume de bultos de pasto, hombres uniformados en su rutina limpiando las calles que forman patrones, gestos, actos, inclusive mis propios sueños.
Analizo el día a día como si quisiera desmantelar lo que se esconde en los quehaceres comunes, para catalizar la vida y descifrar el comportamiento humano, porque hacemos lo que hacemos y como lo hacemos.
Algunas veces puedo mantener una idea en mi cabeza por mucho tiempo meses , a veces años antes de concebirla o materializarla. Lo comparo con el entrenamiento de una bailarina o un gimnasta que ensaya sus pasos en la cabeza, día tras día, hasta que llega el momento de hacerlo publico. Es un entrenamiento mental, que luego se materializa.

My creation processes vary according to the specifics of each project and its context. Most of the images, found or constructed, are the product of chance encounters while walking down the street; they can be masses of grass, uniformed men routinely cleaning streets that form patterns, gestures, acts, and my own dreams.
I analyze daily life and try to dismantle what is hidden behind the common chores, catalyzing life and deciphering human behavior, why we do what we do and how we do it.
Sometimes I keep an idea in my head for a long time, months, sometimes years, before fully conceiving or realizing it. I compare it to the training of a dancer or a gymnast who rehearse their steps in their mind, day after day, until it comes time to make it public. It is mental training, which is then materialized.

8. Can you talk about your time in Madrid and how it informs your work? Were there major differences to your experience in Colombia?

A diferencia del proceso y las dinámicas de creación un poco mas marcadas en la formación artística colombiana, donde se construye un marco teórico e investigativo al rededor del proyecto a construir, antes de concebir una imagen o en una obra. En Madrid encontré un campo de acción mas flexible, sin pautas establecidas donde la obra puede surgir de un proceso creativo mas espontaneo, menos pretenciosos, que puede confluir en una reflexión teórica o viceversa.

It was a different process with a different dynamic of creating. Colombian artistic training emphasizes a theoretical framework and research around a project to be built, before you conceive an image or a new art piece. In Madrid I found the scope more flexible, without established guidelines where the work can come from a creative spontaneous process – less pretentious, available to converge in a theoretical reflection, or viseceversa.

Adriana Mosquera

Adriana Mosquera

 

9. How do you feel about contemporary art and your contribution to it?

El acto de crear, inherente al ser humano, cualquiera que sea su disciplina y su rol en el mundo, equivale a un compromiso con la sociedad y su contexto inmediato. Ser artista es ser biógrafo de su época,
Es fundamental de acuerdo a los intereses de cada artista reconocer la época mediática en la que nos encontramos ya sea para trabajar desde allí o reflexionar desde la distancia anacrónica, siempre siendo conscientes del lugar geográfico y cultural en el que nos encontramos, somos artistas, somos biógrafos de nuestras épocas. la colectividad es sincera y es vital , la noción de autoría cada vez se diluye en una época en la que todo se copia, se edita, se transforma y en donde la “nuevas” ideas surgen de la reflexión de lo existente.

The act of creating, inherent to the human being, whatever  its discipline and its role in the world, is equivalent to a compromise with society and its immediate context. Being an artist is to be a biographer of time.
It is essential (according to the interests of each artist) to recognize the media age in which we find ourselves and either work from there or reflect it from an anachronistic distance. We always need to be aware of the geographical and cultural context in which we find ourselves: we are artists, we are biographers of our times. The collective is sincere and it is vital to have the notion of authorship which is increasingly diluted in an age where everything is copied, edited, transformed and where the “new” ideas come from reflection of what exists.

10. What is the most important thing you want viewers to come away from your work with?

Las lecturas pueden ser múltiples al contemplar mi obra, todas son validas, mi interés no es imponer un significado, pues no existe una sola manera de ver ni de vivir el mundo.
Para mi es vital todo lo que brota desde allí, desde ese primer encuentro, es allí donde la obra finalmente se completa, es el espectador quien le otorga un sentido propio desde su contexto, desde su experiencia. Lo que me impulse a crear es una reflexión sobre nuestra sociedad contemporánea y el comportamiento humano, la enajenación, la soledad, el sin propósito, el encubrimiento, la manipulación mediática y el espectáculo.

The interpretations of my work can be multiple; they all are valid. My interest is not to impose a meaning, because there is no one single way of seeing and experiencing the world. For me it is vital that everything which comes from there, from that first meeting, is there where the work finally is completed, when the spectator gains a proper sense from its context, from their experience. What drives me to create is a reflection on our contemporary society and human behavior, the alienation, loneliness, doing without purpose, concealment, media manipulation and strategies of the spectacle.

Adriana Mosquera

Adriana Mosquera

 

11.What can you add that would help us understand you and/or your work better?

Mi metodología no se aparta de lo onírico. Sin embargo son los espacios, el habitar colectivo, el comportamiento humano, la realidad latente y cotidiana lo que inspira mi trabajo.
Es una continua transacción con la realidad, para entender mi trabajo hace falta tan solo mirar a nuestro alrededor y reflexionar.

¡Girar un poco mas la cabeza de lo acostumbrado, detenerse unos minutos más, repetir y dudar.

My methodology does not depart from the dreamlike. However spaces, collective living, human behavior and everyday life inspires my work. It is a continuous transaction with reality – to understand my work it is necessary only to look around us and reflect. Turn the head a little more than usual, stop a few minutes longer, repeat, and doubt.

Fluster Magazine

a really great magazine/website that we have recently partnered with. Fluster is a creative project about personal expression, culture, and reportage from many different perspectives published in both English and Italian. It is a great site full of photography, interviews and art. check it out at: flustermagazine.com

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Souvenirs From Earth

SOUVENIRS FROM EARTH, founded by Marcus Kreiss and curated by Alec Crichton, is an international Cable TV station, broadcasting in France and Germany with a program showing art, video art, film, music, installations and performances. If you are not there, you can still check out excerpts from the curator and a list of the many artists who contribute online here: souvenirsfromearth.tv or watch in online here: playtv.fr/television/souvenirs-from-earth

Glibberings (Lloyd Fachman)

Callfor.org – new online resource

Callfor.org is an new initiative of the Tupajumi foundation that features 
international calls for art where no fees are needed to participate/enter. 
Currently featuring only arts but design & architectural calls will be 
coming soon, according to the site. Looks like it will become a great resource!
Search for calls or post your own open call here: Callfor.org

xs art gallery

very cool online art gallery showing work from artists around the world. check it out here: xs-artgallery.com

11 questions with artist Lillian Bayley Hoover

The 11 Question Interview Series continues with artist Lillian Bayley Hoover sharing her thoughts on art. Learn more about the artist and visit pivotartgallery to see her featured portfolio.

War TV

1. Could you please give a brief bio about how you became interested in the arts?

Art has always been part of my life. My sister and I drew as children and our parents kept us in steady supply of every sort of art material possible. Growing up, it seemed like everyone in my family was involved in some creative pursuit–art, writing, crafts, drama. My confidence to pursue art as a career came in large part from watching my father, the exceptional author Daniel Wallace, make a life writing. Being an artist never struck me as scary or impossible, the way it does some people. I knew it would be a lot of trying and failing, very little money, and an unconventional work schedule. But I also saw that it could be done, and was worth it.

 

2. Do you have artistic/creative role models? If so, who are they and how do you relate to them?

Clearly, my family has been an important source of inspiration for me, as have the amazing mentors I’ve had over the years. I’ve also been fortunate to have had mentors that modeled, in very different ways, approaches to making both smart and well-crafted work. One of my college professors, Virginia Derryberry, gave me a big push early on, and Peter Rostovsky made an impression on me in graduate school. Abstract painter Frances Barth, in both word and action, always emphasized the necessity of making work that would keep me excited about coming to my studio every day.

3. What is most satisfying to you about the creative process in general?

Creating and then solving problems, seeing the parts come together, weaving together the conceptual and aesthetic aspects of the work.

 4. What are your goals as an artist?

To provide an aesthetic experience that also makes the viewer slightly uncomfortable and asks her to reconcile these two phenomena.

Tanker

 5. You teach art at the college level, how does that impact your work and/or creative life?

That’s an interesting question, because I think the impact is on a couple of levels. First, that old cliche about not really knowing something until one has to teach it is really true. Explaining a skill or concept that has become completely internalized requires looking at it from a new perspective, which can be revealing. Also, watching someone “get” something is enormously satisfying and refreshing. The great designer Milton Glaser has spoken to this issue eloquently: one’s capacity for wonder diminishes over time without reminders to be open to it. Also, I put together a lot of slide lectures, and I always try to include something that is new to me–this helps me to keep my thinking fresh as a teacher and as an artist.

6. How has your work evolved since your own time as a student?

I’ve always cycled between different media fairly fluidly, but my recent output has primarily been painting. In terms of content, I think my current work is less didactic and more nuanced than the work I made in graduate school.

7. Your work engages questions of politics. Is there a specific reason that this became a central theme for you?

It really started with the Iraq war and my own feelings of impotent rage about what was being done in our country’s name. My art was the only platform I had, so it seemed natural to explore those issues, ask tough questions, and challenge a pervasive numb indifference. Hans Haacke, who has been a source of inspiration to me, exhorts us to “never leave politics to the politicians. Aside from the trouble this can get us into, such abdication would also be in conflict with generally held notions of democracy.” As an artist and a citizen, I feel I have an obligation to address power and politics with my work.

8. Your work generally starts with a photograph and is eventually transferred to a canvas. Can you describe the actual process and its importance to the final piece?

For some time, my work has engaged with issues of power, as manifested in the realms of war, politics and social experience. These are concerns that tend to make people uncomfortable, for obvious reasons. As a painter, I’ve pursued a strategy of establishing a certain distance between the viewer and the subject: this process has involved first constructing a model scenario, photographing it and, finally, painting from the resulting still image. I’m careful to include the telltale signs of the model’s inaccuracies and the camera’s eye, as these pictorial imperfections are the image’s tell and, consequently, are a key element of the work’s content.

The earlier series seen in this portfolio, entitled From Here, employed the naïve language of toys, models, and plastic dolls to investigate the unsettling realm of international political conflict. This work began as a response to the fatigue many felt watching war coverage on the news. The paintings re-present such imagery in a manner that—hopefully—doesn’t immediately call up one’s defenses. My goal is to visually “seduce” the viewer prior to revealing my hand. A viewer that is not predisposed to agree with the work might be more inclined to consider its message after having already committed a few moments to looking at the painting—it becomes just a little bit harder to reject.

In 2010, I photographed existing models at Miniaturk, a theme park housing miniature facsimiles of significant structures across Anatolia and the former Ottoman Empire. The photographs I made there form the basis of Sites of Power, the series on which I am currently working. These paintings continue to address issues of power—albeit in a more elliptical manner than did the previous work—and the distortion that occurs as imagery is translated from one medium to another remains significant. The “real” endures a repeated filtration process and the viewer’s relationship with the subject becomes estranged. These quasi-abstract paintings return the reified concept of power to an abstract state, denuding the structures of the power they once wielded. Further erosion occurs as moments of material imperfection are featured, revealing an element of human frailty and disintegration in an otherwise idyllic model.

Ataturk Airport

9. How do you feel about the contemporary art world in general?

Simultaneously depressed and excited. It seems one always has to wade through piles of poorly made or derivative works, but some really exciting things are happening. A lot of very smart work is being made right now, as is some interesting work that breaks the rigid separation between abstraction and representation. It seems we’re currently witnessing a synthesis of previously discordant conceptual and formal approaches to art-making; attention is being paid to the aesthetic experience, which I personally feel to be very important.

 

pivot online shop now open for business

pivot art gallery is very excitied to announce the grand  opening of its online shop.

Click here to browse availiable art for sale. From sound art, to photography, to fine art prints, there is lots to choose from. Plus new work from exciting emerging artists will be added on an ongoing basis.

John Maeda @ AMDM

John Maeda, current president of RISD, presents on the abc’s at the Adobe Museum of Digital Media.

recommended! see it here: adobemuseum.com

Arts Advocacy Day 2011

The annual Arts Advocacy Day is the only national event that brings together a broad cross section of America’s cultural and civic organizations, along with hundreds of grassroots advocates from across the country, to underscore the importance of developing strong public policies and appropriating increased public funding for the arts. More info here: Arts Advocacy Day 2011.

artist Bulisova featured on Burn

Gabriela Bulisova - Iraqi-Refugee

artist Gabriela Bulisova (featured on pivot Aug 2010) series on Iraqi refugees featured on Burn magazine.

Burn is an online journal for emerging photographers curated by magnum photographer david alan harvey

here is the link: burnmagazine.org

Google Art Project

 

The project can be found here: googleartproject.com

interesting reactions here:

Google Art Project on Art Daily - Google Offers Virtual Tours of 17 of the Top Museums Using Street View Technology.

Wall Street Journal - The Art of Technology

Boston Globe – Critics Notebook

unitednationsplaza

A special project of e-flux, unitednationsplaza was a temporary, experimental school in started in Berlin, moving to Mexico City (2008) and then New York City under the name Night School (2008-2009) at the New Museum.

Its program was organized around a number of public seminars, most of which are now available in the online archive.

This incredible archive, (more than two hundred hours of recordings of lectures and presentations) is organized into four chapters and can be found at: unitednationsplaza.org

toyeur

What is it? a site recently launched by Sarah McKinney to showcase and celebrate images taken with toy cameras, like the Holga.  there are some great images up already and I am looking forward to watching it grow. yes, submissions are being accepted – see the site for details and great images: toyeur.blogspot.com

Golden Gate Fields - (image courtesy toyeur - copyright 2010 Sarah McKinney)

the raw and the cooked

artist Rebecca Njadowski’s blog from Brazil while on a Fulbright grant: the raw and the cooked

she says her excellent name comes from the work of Claude Levi-Strauss, “…who proposed that it is the relationships, transformations, and connections between myths that hold the most importance.”

great explorations so far, I look forward to reading more

about the video remix, on networkedbook

read an excellent article about our re-mix media culture and art that can be read (and edited) at the Networked – (a networked book about networked art) site . It is a wiki type experiment on the future of mixing, video, and art in general. This project is pretty cool, worth checking out!

logo image used with cc license, more here

museum of digital art

coming soon – the Adobe Museum of Digital Art will present “groundbreaking” digital work that would not always be possible in a traditional museum.

Set to open in September of 2010.

iceberg with artwork starts to drift

the sculptor Ap Verheggen placed a series of sculptures called “The Dogsled Riders” on a section of ice in Uummannaq, Greenland with the prediction that it will eventually break free, drift, and disappear completely. On May 16 the iceberg started drifting. Follow the fascinating story and watch the mapping of the sculpture as it drifts here via Google Earth. The site has many real-time and multimedia resources being utilized in really relevant ways.

thanks to the always great artdaily.org for the reminder to check on the progress of this project

what is Flattr?

flattr is a new online resource designed so that a user can easily give and receive micropayments for things on the web. a possible great resource for creatives of all types.

find out more by watching the video or going here for your beta invite

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