Graphic Design

Offf 2011. Year Zero, In Which Sense?

OFFF, the international festival for web design, graphic animation and post-digital culture, is back to Barcelona. It is not back because it has not reached its goals during its three years abroad, like Ivˆn de la Nuez, director of the the Department of Cultural Activities of the CCCB Center of Contemporary Culture , wants to point out. To claim the authorship of such a successful event is perfectly comprehensible, but it is also coherent with the politics of a city which tends always more to be a brand of industrial culture, disadvantaging in many cases the minor artistic trends, even if they are significant and committed.... READ MORE...

New Vienna Now

New Vienna Now is a multifaceted and sophisticated book for all those who have an interest in present-day creative Vienna. Designed by Stefan Sagmeister, the 384-page publication pictures and describes the wide range of Vienna's contemporary art and creativity against the background of cultural tradition.... READ MORE...

Paper Resistance: Graphic (r)existence

By reading in one go - as imposed by the absence of punctuation - this long periphrasis, one witness a superimposition of images, concepts and ideas that flash in mind like they do into Paper Resistance drawings. Its work of counterpoint and oxymoronic juxtaposition of figures and symbols of modern society, delineates in a biting manner all the contradictions and deformations of the present. Through a plain stroke, its composition defines clearly in frames and posters filled with alienating and unpredictable associations.... READ MORE...

Videozoom Japan. Re-framing The Daily

From December 7th to January 10th, Kenichi Kondo, curator of the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, presented a series of young Japanese artists at the Sala 1 - International Center for Contemporary Art in Rome, as part of the review Videozoom Japan. It was an overview of selected and formally interesting artistic production coming from the Rising Sun realized over the past decade, which focused on issues related to the re-framing of daily life (as suggested by the subtitle of this review).... READ MORE...

Mapping Maciunas & Exercise

Stendhal Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of two exhibitions, Mapping Maciunas and Exercise on February 3, 2011. Both exhibitions examine the work of Fluxus artist, George Maciunas, who blended his education in architecture, graphic design and musicology to produce new ways of thinking about the state of contemporary society.... READ MORE...

Mary Livingston Paint Objects

Luis De Jesus is very pleased to announce a solo exhibition of new work by Margie Livingston, titled Paint Objects, opening January 22 through February 26, 2011. An artist's reception will be held on Saturday, January 22nd, from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. This will be the artist's first solo presentation in Los Angeles.... READ MORE...

Creativity Day

Creativity Day is an event entirely dedicated to the digital creative community. The 2011 edition will start radically renewed in both spirit and content: we found new locations in Milan and Rome and guests from Europe and United States for a rich program of conferences and technical workshops.... READ MORE...

Direktorenhouse

Das Direktorenhaus is a new art space in Berlin, where a simulation of a temporary Gesamtkunstwerk, the total art work, will be explored. Here traditional art and craft methods will be coupled with analogue technology and digital media, however they will not just be limited to their aesthetic values instead this is an experimental directive with a social resonances.... READ MORE...

Order Number Two. Majakovskij And The Culture Of Machine

Vladimir Vladimirovič Majakovskij's works (1893-1930) contain traces of a new aesthetics. In some specific verses of his poems one can individuate the roots of a renewed conception of art and its relation with technique, serial production and reproducibility procedures. These matters have been immediately faced by the rising European and East-European design culture, expressed by heterogeneous experiences ranging from visual art, architecture, graphics, industry, in constant search of a balance between arts and trades, that played a key role in design.... READ MORE...

The Machine That Makes Art. Form+code In Art, Design And Architecture

A perfect candidate for this role is FORM + CODE, a book by Casey Reas, Chandler McWilliams and LUST, recently published by Princeton Architectural Press. Contents are clearly expressed through an historical overview on the code development in electronic art, and in some of its conceptual art natural language programming forerunners(based on instructions series set up not for the machines but for the public). The graphic layout is a well-kept and an inseparable part of the publishing project, including a selection of pieces of work and breathtaking images (at a very reasonable price, it must be said).... READ MORE...

The Power Plant Ian Wallace & Pae White

Fall 2010 at The Power Plant features the premiere of two new projects by two acclaimed artists as part of the gallery's annual Commissioning Program, which has seen the creation of new work by artists such as Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Simon Starling, Scott Lyall, Candice Breitz, and Lawrence Weiner. The 2010 Commissions have been awarded to senior Canadian artist Ian Wallace and mid-career Californian artist Pae White. Both artists' commissions act as the centrepieces of their respective solo exhibitions on view at The Power Plant.... READ MORE...

Rashid Rana Perpetual Paradox

The Musee Guimet presents Perpetuel Paradoxe, the first ever exhibition of Rashid Rana in Paris, to be seen until November 15, 2010. Born in Lahore in 1968, Rashid Rana is known to be Pakistan's leading contemporary visual artist thanks to his photography and digital imagery, and also works in sculpture.... READ MORE...