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Signe Vad in Black Box Gallery

Annette Finnsdottir — 2012-04-08T10:01:08Z

Signe Vad is one of my favourite Danish artists. Her minimalistic aesthetics combined with her razor sharp focus on our existential circumstances and relations is haunting and touching. At Black Box gallery she exhibits an installation of sculpture, video and photography which reflects on life's unpredictable conditions.

Opening Friday 13.th April 16- 19
Exhibition Period 13.th April - 19.th May 2012

Black Box Gallery">
http://www.blackboxgallery.dk
Fredericiagade 14
1310 Copenhagen K
Wednesday to Friday 12-17
Saturday 13-16

DVblog

Annette Finnsdottir — 2012-04-08T08:50:00Z

DVblog - Random Arts and Entertainment is an online resource for my favourite videoformat Quicktime. The blog has recently been hacked but is now online again. A lot of interesting movies in their archive. The people behind the blog are Doron Golan, Brittany Shoot & Michael Szpakowski, who are videoartists themselves. This is their statement for focusing on Quicktime.

Why QuickTime?

We like it. we like the openness of the format. We like it as a tool.
We like the fact it’s easy to share & remix work in QT.
We think being able to work with QT is a mark of being serious about making digital video.

http://dvblog.org/

Happy New Year

Annette Finnsdottir — 2012-01-01T16:10:00Z

Opening Performance "My Friends, There is No Friend."

Annette Finnsdottir — 2011-12-18T07:55:00Z

My Friends, There is no Friend

Annette Finnsdottir — 2011-11-26T19:44:49Z

Dear Friends

It is my pleasure to inform you that I will have a solo exhibition at Spanien 19C, an artist run space in Aarhus, Denmark, opening in December 3rd 2011. Annette Finnsdottir, creative director and curator of http://www.netfilmmakers.dk/, invited me to exhibit new work and it has been a great opportunity to plan an exhibition for one full year with support from Spanien 19C and through my fellowship at Eyebeam Art and Technology Center, New York City.

The title “My friends, there is no friend” is borrowed from Jacques Derrida’s essay ‘Politics of Friendship’ where he quotes it from Aristotle who called it to a ‘saying whose origin seems to lose itself in the anonymity of time immemorial’. The exhibition will unfold in three parts, the first part will be performances in the public spaces of New York City, Copenhagen and Aarhus, the second part will be an installation of objects, drawings and video documentations in Spanien 19C and the third part will be online. The exhibition revolves around two thematic axis, firstly the conditions of affinity and intimacy will be explored through new projects such as ‘Best Friend’ a pet substitute for various needs, ‘Instant Friend’ D.I.Y kit for a lonely person. On the other hand, the limits of community, collectivity and the phantom of democracy will be explored in two other projects ‘First World Problem’: a research diary about urbanization and ‘You Can Live Forever’: excerpts from a fiction I’m writing about twelve friends who become involved in an insurrection.

The online exhibition will be presented on http://IGetFriends.com in various file formats and instructional contents with participatory elements. The website and URL will be accessible online and continue to transform throughout the exhibition. In December 25th, the website will be available for sale through an internet auction. The bid starts at $1. This will be my first work to be sold online.

Thank you for your interest,

Your friend,

Taeyoon Choi

Links:
http://IGetFriends.com
http://taeyoonchoi.com/
http://www.spanien19C.dk
http://www.netfilmmakers.dk

Introducing: Morgan Wong Wing-Fat

Asta Gylfadottir — 2011-03-21T20:25:00Z

Morgan told us about his work n! at Netfilmmakers 21st Edition "The Order of Things"

The process of creating the work for Netfilmmakers is an interesting triangular relationship for me. Since there is a theme, The Order of Things, to work on; the artist also has to consider the work to be delivered with the medium of internet; and last but not the least to be coherent with the artist’s previous practice. This is not the first time for me to work on an idea on a performance basis, I have been exploring different expression of ideas by performances in my works “Untitled”, “Demolishing Rumor”, “Plus-Minus-Zero” and so forth.

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Introducing: Silas Fong

Asta Gylfadottir — 2011-03-21T20:00:00Z

Silas told us about his work Memory Disorder, created for Netfilmmakers 21st Edition "The Order of Things".

I would like to use both found footage from the web like Youtube and video shot by myself.
The work for the Netfilmmakers is a multi-channel video work created from footage that depict faces of different people from different times recorded in different formats and qualities.
The work is part of a larger work, that is to make a “video search engine” taking advantages of other engines that allow generating moving image experience determined by input keywords. For e.g., if the input word is “memories”, it randomly takes 10 related video clips from Google video search and generates 10 pop-up browsers of video in different dimensions. Since the time might not allow me to complete the whole idea, I have created a single video sequence in a working title “Memory Disorder” first.

Introducing: Chilai Howard

Asta Gylfadottir — 2011-03-21T16:35:00Z

Chilai told us a little about his inspiration and ideas behind the work Clockwork(s) for Netfilmmakers 21st Edition "The Order of Things"

Through a discussion a year ago, I started to get interested in the human mind, and experimenting with the relation between the viewer’s mind and video art. The work is inspired by a discussion I had years ago with a group of two females and four males about love relationships. I questioned if love is sex- oriented or purely based on love.
Through the discussion, we brought up various topics such as religion, morality and ideology to support each others’ statements. At first, they all believed that love-relationships are love-oriented but when it came to the end, they all agreed love relationships are sex-oriented. And we are restrained by our conscious mind to admit what we think we are/should be.

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