Klopfenstein's current artistic work involves the creation of tapestries and sculptural fiber work that reflects political/social concerns. She draws upon the richness of fiber art, decoration and traditional American craft techniques as a timeless means of cultural expression. Her works also reflect a dark humor-- Carpet Bombs, Macramé Machine Guns, Freedom Rugs. Karley Klopfenstein's work embodies many contradictions: the individual hand vs. mass production, beauty and destruction, male and female, domestic and foreign, occupation under the auspice of "freedom". By using labor-intensive craft techniques to create and decorate military weapons, she makes a statement about the pervasiveness of war in our everyday, domestic lives.
Artist and teacher who makes work about popular culture, technology, and traditional craft processes.
My most recent sculptural installations are constructed with discarded electronic materials: computer, telephone and electric cables, thousands of burnt-out bulbs, meters of videotape, old slot machines, celluloid, DVDs, etc. The installations explore the short life expectancy of the technologies we cast off and their relationship to organic mortality.
These installations also seek to reanimate the lifeless. Light animations projected onto the installations appear to free the energy stored in the electronic waste, awakening in it memories of its past.
Through my work I try to bring dead materials back to life, reveal their secrets, revive the collective memory they contain to construct an accurate portrait of a society and an age.
Daniel Canogar, January 2012
Recommended by Lawrence Lessig - Soderberg was responsible for the "Read My Lips" series and the remix showing George Bush & Tony Blair singing Endless Love.
Her artistic research is focused on video installations, photography and experimental films.
Strongly influenced by cinema, her language offers frequently traditional narrative elements and confronts them to other contemporary forms. Her artistic development has always been marked by the result of close collaborations with musicians and composers.
Tom Deininger is an assemblage artist who arranges bewilderingly large collections of odd plastic tchotchkes into gorgeous pieces, including this Monet-like masterpiece.
http://boingboing.net/2011/10/21/fine-art-recreated-with-plastic-tchotchke-assemblages.html
A collection of video by the artist Francis Alÿs
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Les installations de Sabrina Issa sont une alternative à la construction d'un sens, qui reste à faire. Son travail artistique se conçoit comme une scénographie des manières de dire allant des sciences mathématiques aux sciences humaines.
Stunning paper works from Los Angeles
Maurizio Cattelan Italian-born conceptual artist. Produced works that presents an absurd image of art and society.
For this video, produced by Blink Art and Colonel Blimp, he employed one of his favorite mediums, compiling the entire video using stock footage from Getty Images. The footage is entertaining enough in its fake generic way, http://moresoon.org/