Little People around the world

SLINKACHU's blog of little people world.
Link: http://little-people.blogspot.com/

http://www.zimoun.ch/

Zimoun + Hannes Zweifel : 200 prepared dc-motors, 2000 cardboard elements 70x70cm, 2011 from ZIMOUN VIDEO ARCHIVE on Vimeo.

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Shawn Smith

Shawn Smith was born in 1972 in Dallas, TX where he attended Arts Magnet High School and Brookhaven College before graduating from Washington University in St. Louis, MO with a BFA in Printmaking in 1995. Smith received his MFA in Sculpture from the California College of the Arts in San Francisco in 2005. He has received artist-in-residencies from the Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, CA and the Cite Internationale des Arts in Paris, France. In 1996, Smith was a recipient of the Clare Hart DeGolyer grant from the Dallas Museum of Art. Smith’s work has been exhibited throughout the United States including the Austin Museum of Art, Arthouse at the Jones Center (Austin), Galveston Art Center, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco), Southern Exposure (San Francisco), Oakland Arts Museum, Berkeley Art Center, Richmond Art Center, di Rosa Art and Nature Preserve (Napa), Dean Lesher Center for the Arts (California), Holter Museum of Art (Montana), Northwest Art Center (North Dakota), Kingston Gallery (Boston), Lawndale Art Center (Houston), the Armory Art Center (Florida), Guerilla Arts (Dallas), Wichita Falls Museum of Art, and the McKinney Avenue Contemporary (Dallas), among others. In 2006, he was commissioned to create a monumental public sculpture in San Francisco, CA. In 2012, his work will be included in "40 Under 40: Craft Futures" at the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Renwick Gallery. Smith currently resides in Austin, Texas.

The Cloud

The Cloud - from MIT Mobile Experience Lab on Vimeo.

Source from:

http://www.changethethought.com/category/technology/page/2/

“An organic sculptural landmark that responds to human interaction and expresses context awareness using hundreds of sensors and over 15,000 individually addressable optical fibers. Constructed of carbon glass, spanning over four meters, and containing more than 65 kilometers of fiber optics, the Cloud encourages visitors to touch and interact with information in new ways, manifesting emotions and behavior through sound and a dichotomy of luminescence and darkness.

Located in downtown Florence outside the Fortezza da Basso. the Cloud is part of the “Redesigning Fashion Trade Shows” project that Pitti Immagine launched with MIT Mobile Experience Lab in January 2007. It is a long-term project that will creatively rethink the trade show concept and will propose innovative technologies, perspectives and sensory experiences for fashion trade shows.”

Bodies in Urban Spaces - Willi Dorner

“Bodies in Urban Spaces, besides being a wonder of organization and stamina, was a model of public art: free, fun, and transformative.”—Philadelphia Inquirer

At sunrise and sunset, audiences will be led by performers through the streets around Wall Street. As they walk along narrow cobblestone streets, they will encounter dancers transforming themselves into “human sculptures” that extend seamlessly into the surrounding architecture. The performance trail has been determined by Willi Dorner, the work’s Vienna-based choreographer, with the goal of intensifying the experience of the neighborhood, its history, its present, and the relationship of urban design to the human form.

Willi Dorner Bio:
Willi Dorner is a choreographer, curator, and video artist who combines disciplines to subvert and question our perception of movement and dance. He has been active as a choreographer in Vienna since the late 1980s and is regarded as one of the most important choreographers working in Europe today. His pieces have appeared in festivals and venues in Europe, Africa, North, and South America and China. His recent work, Bodies in Urban Spaces was created in France and has since toured in Austria, England, France, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and the US. He has also worked as a guest choreographer for the Vienna State Opera Ballet, the Dance Theatre Ireland in Dublin, and the Scottish Dance Theatre.

From: http://acidolatte.blogspot.com/
Source: http://www.ciewdorner.at/
Movie clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-eBvR-YwY0&feature=player_embedded

(auto)critica by Marco Testini

" Irony and double meaning are the key operations Marco Testini which tends to play sometimes with the meaning of the word, adapting it to work and in some cases, adapt the work to the word. It is an ironic sarcasm then, that the artist decides to tackle this performance to analyze and critique of attitudes of the public art and everyday life. The artist wants to attract the attention of the viewer with a declared "provocation", making it participates directly and indirectly to the installation. From the walls leaving hundreds of white indices, pointing toward the audience. The fingers are plaster casts of indices "lent" by friends, artists, professors, journalists Testini involved in the operation. The same indices then pointing the finger at themselves and the artist involved on this occasion, Marco Testini, which will continue to scale indexes of all the people who will present the opening day come here to a (self-) critical..." from http://acidolatte.blogspot.com

Miranda July

from http://mirandajuly.com

Antony Gormley

Gormley describes his work as "an attempt to materialise the place at the other side of appearance where we all live." Many of his works are based on moulds taken from his own body, or "the closest experience of matter that I will ever have and the only part of the material world that I live inside." His work attempts to treat the body not as an object but a place and in making works that enclose the space of a particular body to identify a condition common to all human beings. The work is not symbolic but indexical — a trace of a real event of a real body in time.

information from www.antonygormley.com/#