René Maltête: looking for surprise in the everyday
Photographs by French photographer and poet René Maltête (1930-2000).
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Simon PerkinsSHARE
The 2013 Kinetica Art Fair: Illusion and Reality
Kinetica Art Fair 2013, February 28th - March 3rd 2013, Ambika P3, 35 Marylebone Road, NW1 5LS, London, UK
"The Kinetica feature exhibition and events programme is themed on 'Illusion and Reality' and the thin veil that divides what is real and perceived. The exhibition will focus on perceptions of reality, with works by 19 international artists exploring the many dimensions of illusion. The exhibition aims to challenge ideas on what is real, perceived or imagined, and focuses on transformation, metamorphism, visual paradox, vibration, nature, the subliminal and the subconscious.
The exhibition includes a huge interactive light sculpture from Dutch artist Titia Ex, an exoskeleton hybrid of man-animal-machine by Christiann Zwanniken and a giant three dimensional zoetrope by Greg Barsamian.
The boundaries between reality and illusion will be explored in a series of live performances using the Musion holographic projection system, and features an international line-up including the award-winning audiovisual collective Origamibiro ; a fusion of 3d imaging and quantum mechanics in danceroom Spectroscopy ; a hypnotic audiovisual experience from Simulacrum ; and multi-sensory Polish collective INIRE. The Musion Academy will present a further series of captivating performances including Analema Group, AV3, IEOIE and Paul Prudence.
Key figures and eminent pioneers in the fields of new media art and neurosciences have been invited to participate in a daily programme of Talks, which also features presentations by experimental artists exhibiting at the Fair."
(Kinetica Museum, UK)
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Simon PerkinsSHARE
Obliquity: Why our goals are best achieved indirectly
"Strange as it may seem, overcoming geographic obstacles, winning decisive battles or meeting global business targets are the type of goals often best achieved when pursued indirectly. This is the idea of Obliquity. Oblique approaches are most effective in difficult terrain, or where outcomes depend on interactions with other people.
If you want to go in one direction, the best route may involve going in the other. Paradoxical as it sounds, goals are more likely to be achieved when pursued indirectly. So the most profitable companies are not the most profit-oriented, and the happiest people are not those who make happiness their main aim. The name of this idea? Obliquity"
(John Kay)
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David RogersonSHARE
Practice-led research in Higher Arts Education
"For intelligent professional practice it is therefore better when theory is linked with practice. Already for years active experimentation has been carried out in forms of lessons in which theory and practice are linked to each other and which mutually stimulate each other. The sociology teacher helps the documentary photographer in his field research. The semiotics teacher helps the student in his reflection on designs in terms of the production of meaning. The art history teacher helps the illustrator to place his work in an art-historical perspective. Furthermore, reflection is the examination of a particular process, reflexion (the process of reflexivity) is the mutual reflection of theory in practice and of practice in theory."
(Anke Coumans, 2002)
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Simon PerkinsSHARE
No todo es lo que parece (everything is not what it seems)
"No todo es lo que parece, y Chema Madoz (Madrid,1958) se encarga de ponerlo en evidencia. Ocultos entre la cotidianeidad surgen nuevos mundos. Nuevas dimensiones que de la mano de la metáfora alteran la percepción de la realidad más inmediata. El absurdo, la paradoja, el humor -por qué no la gregería- se dan cita en el estudio del fotógrafo. La idea inicia su proceso de superación del objeto y establece una descontextualización Dadá. La ironía con la que Madoz asalta modelos reconocibles establece una relación con el espectador que le conduce por los caminos de un universo paralelo."
(Chema Madoz)
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The Constellations ProjectSHARE
