Megan Prelinger’s ( Prelinger Library ) new book, “Another Science Fiction: Advertising the Space Race 1957-1962” is due out on May 25 by Blast Books.
Prelinger’s book is inspired by a unique and potent period of space age art and graphic design featured in magazine ad campaigns of the 1950’s and 60’s and is very relevant to the current EKG exhibit, Brower Propulsion Laboratory: BPL-003, Moranic Mission To Montana.
Here is an excellent NYTimes book review with an accompanying slide show showing some of the original advertisements.
Artists who use social media for the inspiration, production or presentation of their work might want to check this exhibit out:
Twitter/Art+Social Media will be held at Diane Farris Gallery in Vancouver, BC between April 1-May 1, 2010. Open call deadline ends March 5, 2010.
is an exhibition of work by artists who use social media for the inspiration, production or presentation of their work. The exhibition, which includes an open call for artwork (on now until March 5, 2010) and related events,
eatART is an art lab in Vancouver
“We make audacious and improbable large-scale kinetic, robotic, and
mechanized sculptures that investigate our human relationship to energy use.”
Decode: Digital Design Sensations at the Victoria and Albert Museum features the latest developments in digital and interactive design, from small screen based graphics to large-scale installations.
Decode explores three themes:
1. Code – as a Raw Material will present pieces that use computer code to create new designs in the same way a sculptor works with materials such as clay or wood.
2. Interactivity – designs where the viewer directly influences the work.
3. The Network – work that comments on and utilises the digital traces left behind by everyday communications, from blogs in social media communities to mobile communications or satellite tracked GPS systems.
Opto-Isolator, 2007, Golan Levin with Greg Balthus, Photo: John Berens, courtesy bitforms gallery nyc
The FabShow and Locating Memory are two recent EKG exhibits that overlap with themes explored in the V&A’s Decode:
Deadline: Abstracts due 1 June 2010
Art in the age of pervasive data is a call for papers and artworks for a new issue of the Leonardo Electronic Almanac edited by FutureEverything.
Since 2006 Breadboard’s EKG has partnered with the Monell Center on a Scent as Art exhibition series. An interesting symposium is scheduled for March 26 at Parsons The New School for Design. HeadSpace: On Scent as Design will feature designers, scientists, artists, theorists, and fragrance industry professionals in a all-day program.
Here are some links to past scent-based exhibits @ EKG: Odor Limits (2008) & Scent is Life (2006)
HeadSpace On Scent as Design
Students of Stockholm’s two most prestigious design schools collaborated to produce fashionable 3D printed shoes. Read more at Core77 …
The below photo was taken using a remote php script by the MUNIN camera at the current EKG exhibit. 240 images are stitched together here. The newest wrinkle in the ever evolving project we know at EKG as ‘The Moranic Mission to Montana.” And did you know two crows from Norse mythology were named Hugin and Munin?
Here’s Steve Brower from BPL headquarters in Brooklyn:
“There is an open source stitching program, very appropriately named Hugin (Hugin and Munin are a pair of ravens that sit on the Norse mythological god Odin’s shoulders and report the news to him after collecting it all day), and this program is being used (along with another one called Calico) in conjunction with a php script for gathering the photos.
“That speed [the process takes about an hour] is kind of nice because it’s similar to that required by the original viking cameras, and it gives the aliens time to enter or exit the picture at different intervals.”
In his work Brower is always looking for ways to reintroduce subjectivity into seemingly objective means or processes.”
click the image below as a hyperlink to a larger version…
Polaroid used to give artists cameras. They saw it as a kind of outsourced R&D. A nice example of innovative collaboration between artists and industry. Part of the legendary collection of photographs amassed by Edwin H. Land (Polaroid founder) is going on the auction block to pay off creditors because the company that bought Polaroid (Petters Group Worldwide) was caught up in a $3.65 billion Ponzi scheme.
The collection stems from the “Artist Support Program, a project Mr. Land started after realizing how important artists’ input was in improving his products.”
Read the New York Times article here
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