THE RIFT OF THE PANDIMENSIONAL UNDER-GODS:
COLOSSUS MEETS ANGRARON
2008 Performance and music video by Benjamin Kinsley and John Rubin
This video was filmed live on the street in front of the Mattress Factory's Annex Gallery during the opening reception for Illustrations of Catastrophe and Remote Times (January 18, 2008).
A video shot by leroykingofart of the whole thing going down:
Have a great weekend. And don't forget, City of Asylum/Pittsburgh's JAZZ/POETRY CONCERT is Saturday night. See you there.
Friday, September 12, 2008
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
ARTIST SPOTLIGHT :: Daniel Canogar
DANIEL CANOGAR
Midnight Plumber I, 2008
fiber optic cables, 24 zoom attachments, 24 slides, projector
Midnight Plumber II, 2008
scrap metal, fiber optic cables, 24 zoom attachments, 24 slides, projector
Working with fiber optic cable, photographs and projectors formed into spider-like sculptures that suspend from the gallery ceiling, Daniel Canogar projects slides onto the dark gallery walls. Fascinated by zero gravity and the experience of weightlessness, Canogar found the fiber optic medium to be perfect for projecting photographic slides of figures and forms that seem to float in a three-dimensional universe while on a two-dimensional wall.
Canogar’s work explores our contemporary journey in search of weightlessness and how our compulsive distancing from Earth has changed us forever. For these installations, he scoured local recycling centers around Pittsburgh to find metallic scrap for the installation. Canogar was drawn to the sculptural quality of the waste and also for its particular significance to Pittsburgh—a monument to the city’s great industrial past.
Canogar’s work reminds us of our place in the larger universe, and our responsibility to the planet. The works mean to connect literally and figuratively—engaging these connections through the photographic process. He invited Mattress Factory staff members, their families and friends, and an even larger network of participants—local dancers and acrobats—to be models in a photo shoot, hanging from harnesses.
In the first installation, the single fiber optic projector sits high in the small space, with cables cascading down, tethered and then projecting on the wall—24 images of figures from 24 tentacles. The figures look weightless wrapped in scrap metal. The whole ensemble of images seems as if pulled together by some strange gravitational force. It is a cluster of bodies and junk pulled together.
In the second installation, the work has exploded. The fiber optic cables snake through the floating scrap metal so that projections cast on the wall hit people’s bodies when walking through space. The gravitational pull in the first installation has let loose, and now there is a sense of an expansion of all of this—creating a virtual expansion of the actual room.
Friday, August 29, 2008
2008 ART AUCTION : Lots Now Viewable
The first wave of lots in the 2008 Benefit Art Auction have been uploaded and are now viewable online. Click the image above to view the first 59 lots. New lots are arriving daily, so check back often because we're regularly updating and posting new pieces.
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Thursday, August 14, 2008
Nathaniel Bartlett - 08.21.2008
THURSDAY THING AT THE MATTRESS FACTORY
Once a month on a Thursday, the BoxSpring Café at the Mattress Factory opens for dinner and presents an art-infused pairing of good food and great artists. Dinner is served between 5.00PM and 7.00PM, and the event begins at 7.00PM. Admission is $10 ($5 for members/students)
THURSDAY, AUGUST 21
Nathaniel Bartlett
solo marimba + three-dimensional, high-definition, computer-generated sound projection
As an integral part of being dedicated to instruments of our time (the modern marimba + computer), Nathaniel Bartlett is also dedicated to the music of our time — making a great effort to compose, commission, perform, and record new works. In particular, he is interested in works that utilize three-dimensional, high-definition (24bit/96kHz), computer-generated sound projection. He performs with a rig that seamlessly melds his instrument with electronics, computers, and an eight-channel cube (+ subwoofer) of loudspeakers — a performance concept that he calls modern marimba3. With this equipment, Nathaniel is able to project and move sound anywhere in the performance space, totally immersing the audience in the music. The computer-generated sounds relate quite well to the visual arts in that concepts of objecthood and spatial structure become a part of the musical fabric.
More information at www.nathanielbartlett.com
Once a month on a Thursday, the BoxSpring Café at the Mattress Factory opens for dinner and presents an art-infused pairing of good food and great artists. Dinner is served between 5.00PM and 7.00PM, and the event begins at 7.00PM. Admission is $10 ($5 for members/students)
THURSDAY, AUGUST 21
Nathaniel Bartlett
solo marimba + three-dimensional, high-definition, computer-generated sound projection
As an integral part of being dedicated to instruments of our time (the modern marimba + computer), Nathaniel Bartlett is also dedicated to the music of our time — making a great effort to compose, commission, perform, and record new works. In particular, he is interested in works that utilize three-dimensional, high-definition (24bit/96kHz), computer-generated sound projection. He performs with a rig that seamlessly melds his instrument with electronics, computers, and an eight-channel cube (+ subwoofer) of loudspeakers — a performance concept that he calls modern marimba3. With this equipment, Nathaniel is able to project and move sound anywhere in the performance space, totally immersing the audience in the music. The computer-generated sounds relate quite well to the visual arts in that concepts of objecthood and spatial structure become a part of the musical fabric.
More information at www.nathanielbartlett.com
Monday, August 11, 2008
Crickets & Chic Cityrats
Chic Cityrats, the wonderful French eZine, posted a great write-up about Meet the Made. Read the whole story by CLICKING HERE.
Continuing on the robot theme, today's Pittsburgh Tribune-Review includes a profile of artist Keny Marshall. Keny's Robot 250 BigBot, Crickets, is currently on display in the museum's Winifred Lutz Garden.
Continuing on the robot theme, today's Pittsburgh Tribune-Review includes a profile of artist Keny Marshall. Keny's Robot 250 BigBot, Crickets, is currently on display in the museum's Winifred Lutz Garden.
Thursday, August 7, 2008
Meet the Made Reviewed in the Tribune-Review
This morning's Pittsburgh Tribune-Review includes a review of Meet the Made, the eleventh installment of the Gestures Exhibition Series sponsored by Robot 250.
REVIEW: Mattress Factory's 'Gestures' exhibit lets visitors meet the robots
by Kurt Shaw (08.07.2008)
"Meet the Made," the 11th installment of the Mattress Factory's "Gestures" series, is unique among its predecessors because its focus is on robotic art.
Organized by Carl DiSalvo and Ian Ingram, the exhibit, on display in the museum's annex building along Monterey Street in the North Side, was conceived as part of a citywide community art and technology program known as Robot 250, which was designed in conjunction with Pittsburgh's 250th anniversary. | MORE |
Meet the Made runs through August 31, 2008.
REVIEW: Mattress Factory's 'Gestures' exhibit lets visitors meet the robots
by Kurt Shaw (08.07.2008)
"Meet the Made," the 11th installment of the Mattress Factory's "Gestures" series, is unique among its predecessors because its focus is on robotic art.
Organized by Carl DiSalvo and Ian Ingram, the exhibit, on display in the museum's annex building along Monterey Street in the North Side, was conceived as part of a citywide community art and technology program known as Robot 250, which was designed in conjunction with Pittsburgh's 250th anniversary. | MORE |
Meet the Made runs through August 31, 2008.
Friday, August 1, 2008
Nice R250 Post Over at Fallon and Rosof
Roberta Fallon just posted a nice article on Robot 250, the citywide robot extravaganza we're having here in Pittsburgh.
Robot 250 – an old fashioned art and community project with a techno-twist -- is a piece of the city’s 250th birthday celebration. I went to Pittsburgh to check out the artist-made “BigBots,” eleven monumental art works commissioned for Robot 250 that use robotic parts, and heard from the students who made robots in their schools or used the Mars Rover technology, the gigapan, to document and explore their communities. Everyone was high on the project. The artists, in spite of difficulties with their electronically-controlled pieces in outdoor environments, were uniformly enthusiastic. | MORE |
The Mattress Factory's Robot 250-related exhibitions, Meet the Made and a.k.a. Crickets, run through August 31 and August 10, respectively.
Robot 250 – an old fashioned art and community project with a techno-twist -- is a piece of the city’s 250th birthday celebration. I went to Pittsburgh to check out the artist-made “BigBots,” eleven monumental art works commissioned for Robot 250 that use robotic parts, and heard from the students who made robots in their schools or used the Mars Rover technology, the gigapan, to document and explore their communities. Everyone was high on the project. The artists, in spite of difficulties with their electronically-controlled pieces in outdoor environments, were uniformly enthusiastic. | MORE |
The Mattress Factory's Robot 250-related exhibitions, Meet the Made and a.k.a. Crickets, run through August 31 and August 10, respectively.
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