Friday, April 15, 2011

Digital Folklore: A conversation with Olia Lialina and Dragan Espenschied at New Museum Tonight | Brooklyn

How is folk culture defined in the digital age? This is the question that renowned artists Olia Lialina and Dragan Espenschied set out to answer in their new book, Digital Folklore (2010), an anthology that examines an emergent kind of amateur, popular art: the kind made by computer users. The artists write: “Users’ endeavors, like glittering star backgrounds, kittens, and rainbow gradients, are mostly derided as kitsch or in the most extreme cases, postulated as the end of culture itself. In fact this evolving vernacular, created by users for users, is the most important, beautiful and misunderstood language of new media.” At this talk, part of the monthly New Silent Series, Lialina and Espenschied will present their groundbreaking book, and their new definition of contemporary folk art. -New Museum

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

David Maisel | San Francisco

David Maisel, History’s Shadow GM12, 2010, Archival Pigment Prints, 40" x 30", Ed. of 7 David Maisel, History’s Shadow AB1, 2010, C-print, 40" x 30", Ed. of 7

Through the x-ray, the artworks of origin become de-familiarized and de-contextualized, yet acutely alive and renewed. Culled from archives and re-photographed by the artist, the spectral qualities of these renderings are like transmissions from the distant past, conveying messages across time. -David Maisel