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LEWIS BALTZ

Next to Bernd and Hilla Becher, Stephen Shore and Henry Wessel, Lewis Baltz is one of the most prominent representatives of the New Topographics movement, which was seminal to the development of conceptual photography.

Baltz's photo series document the side effects of industrial civilization on the landscape, focusing on places that lie outside the bounds of canonical reception: urban wastelands, abandoned industrial sites, warehouses. His photographs uncover the correspondences between spatial forms that occur in the everyday world and advanced forms found in art. Baltz's strategies imply a reflexive knowledge of the history of photography in that they deploy the photographer as a teacher of seeing who makes things visible through reductive gestures. He already turned in the mid-1960s towards a reduced, minimalist-style aesthetic, orienting himself on artists in the fields of painting, sculpture and Land Art.

http://www.galeriezander.com/en/artist/lewis_baltz

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Zorns Lemma (1970) - Hollis Frampton

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Strata #1

quayola.com/strata1

www.quayola.com

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Strata #4 - Site-Specific Installation

Strata #4 is a multi-channel immersive video-installation commissioned by Palais de Beaux Arts in Lille. The subject of this work is a series of iconic pieces from the museum’s Flemish collection, focusing specifically on Rubens’ and Van Dyck’s grand altarpieces. Strata #4 is the result of a study and exploration of the paintings themselves, delving beneath their figurative appearance and looking at the very rules behind the composition, colour schemes and proportions of each piece. It is a precise process aimed at creating new contemporary images based on universal rules of beauty and perfection. Documenting the improbable collisions between classical figuration and contemporary abstraction, Strata #4 aims to create an harmonious dialogue between worlds that may appear very distant from one another, but in fact share so much in common.

Strata #4 is part of the ongoing Strata Series

more info+pics: quayola.com

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Strata #2 - Excerpt

Strata #2 consist in a film and site-specific installation focusing on french gothic art and architecture (Notre Dame, St. Eustache). Commissioned and co-produced by Arcadi for Nemo Festival, Paris (2008/9)

Direction/Design: Quayola Sound: Mira Calix, Autobam Photography: James Medcraft Animation: Quayola, Labmeta Custom Software: Pedro Mari Producer: Elisa Scialpi, Julien Taib Assistants: E. Parousi, Y. Mokhtarzateh, M. Gil, G. Gremigni

The term Strata defines a geological formation made of multiple layers of rock. Each one of these layers has its own individual characteristics and history, which combined produce beautiful and unique formations… The Strata project consist in a series of films, prints and installations investigating improbable relationships between contemporary digital aesthetics and icons of classical art and architecture. Like in geological processes, layers belonging to different ages interact with one another producing new intriguing formations.

www.quayola.com

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Strata #3 - Excerpt

Strata #3 consist in a film, site-specific installation and series of prints focusing on neoclassical Grand Theatre of Bordeaux. Commissioned by Evento and Lumin for the Bordeaux Art&Architecture Biennale (2009).

Direction/Design: Quayola Sound: Plaid Photography: James Medcraft 3D Animation: Robin Lawrie Custom Software: Mauritius Seeger Assistants: Kieran Gee-Finch, Colin Johnson

The term Strata defines a geological formation made of multiple layers of rock. Each one of these layers has its own individual characteristics and history, which combined produce beautiful and unique formations… The Strata project consist in a series of films, prints and installations investigating improbable relationships between contemporary digital aesthetics and icons of classical art and architecture. Like in geological processes, layers belonging to different ages interact with one another producing new intriguing formations.

ww.quayola.com

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Flight patterns

from Charlie McCarthy

Long exposures of bugs under a street light. music: Telefon Tel Aviv - What's The Use Of Feet If We Haven't Got Legs

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Under The Surface : Installation

from TU+

At Siamese Connection : Rediscovery Annual Art Exhibition.

Location : The Invisible Dog Art Center, 51 Bergen St. Brooklyn, New York. Date : Jul 28th - 31st, 2011

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SURFACE : A film from underneath

Directed by: TU+// Varathit Uthaisri Sound: Plum// Napat Snidvongs DP: Jun Oshima Production: Tong// Thitawan Chaiwong

Original Set design idea : Richi Owaki (newclear.jp/?p=74)

Synopsis:

“What would the world be like from an underground perspective?”

SURFACE is an experimental film, exploring the emotional journey from an underground urban perspective. This 'urban symphony' transforms human actions and street objects into beats that harmoniously compose a grand audio and visual composition. The film emphasizes the ideas of ‘point of contact’, ‘human identity’ and notion of ‘live footprints’.

SURFACE is a part of UND-VIS, a thesis project for MFA Design and Technology, Parsons The New School for Design. UND-VIS : Under Vision Experiment; explores the new visual language of an unconventional perspective from below.

More info. + behind the scene : surfacefilm.com

http://www.varathit.com

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Yonder

A film by Emilia Forstreuter

Sound Design by Sam Spreckley

emiliaforstreuter.de

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Atelic

A motion control test film by DuckEye developed from 'Iatrogenesis' created for Rambert Dance Company's 'Season of New Choreography'

Choreography Alexander Whitley Dancers: Jonathan Goddard, Miguel Altunaga, Eryck Brahmania, Estela Merlos Music: Guy Connelly myspace.com/clockopera

Directed by Duckeye Produced by Rokkit

Director of Photography: Simon Paul Gaffer: Jono Yates Runner: Leonard Wilkinson

Clothing donated by Howies

shot using Canon D5 MKII with a manual 25mm Carl Zeiss lens.

http://www.duckeye.co.uk

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Nico in Chelsea Girls (Paul Morrisey and Andy Warhol - 1966)

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Enter the Void a film by Gaspar Noe’

Paz de la Huerta Nathaniel Brown Cyril Roy

music Thomas Bangalter cinematography Benoît Debie editing Marc Boucrot, Gaspar Noé, Jérôme Pesnel

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1191111/

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Varna Restaurant, Århus, Denmark, 1971 Designed by Verner Panton 

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Kanye West - All Of The Lights Director: Hype Williams

WARNING: This video has been identified by Epilepsy Action to potentially trigger seizures for people with photosensitive epilepsy. Viewer discretion is advised.

Features: Kanye West (Rihanna, Elton John, Fergie, John Legend, The-Dream, Ryan Leslie, Tony Williams, Charlie Wilson, La Roux’s Elly Jackson, Alicia Keys and Kid Cudi) Lead Editor & MoGFX: Hadaya Turner Release: 02.19.2011

2011 VMA Nominations: **Best Editing** Best Hip-Hop Video Best Male Video Best Collaboration

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Spring Breakers

James Franco Selena Gomez Vanessa Hudgens Ashley Benson Rachel Korine

written & directed by Harmony Korine

Cinematography Benoît Debie Editor Douglas Crise  Music Cliff Martinez   Skrillex Production design Elliott Hostetter   Art direction Almitra Corey

http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi3191842585

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2101441/?ref_=ttfc_fc_tt

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Megan Doherty

Hailing from Derry, Northern Ireland, 22-year-old Megan Doherty creates the bright lights of faraway cities for herself and her friends in a photographic alternate reality. Through saturated colour palettes bouncing off the walls of dingy bars and wet motorways framed by neon lights, Doherty constructs another world.

“I’m definitely someone who belongs in a big city,” she explains. “I get caught up in the aesthetics alone, big city lights, urban underground spots, more than anything though, the access to a never-ending string of strangers who I’ve yet to meet, photograph and begin adventures with is what excites me most.”

Her ongoing photo series is a form of escapism for everyone involved. “The monotony of living in the same, small town all your life, surrounded by the same faces every day takes its toll,” she says. “When you allow yourself to get lost in film, music, art, anything really that takes you to that sweet spot in your mind, it’s disappointing to deal with the reality outside of that.

Therefore, making work allows me to bring this fictional world to life, to communicate the world I see in my head. Blurring reality and fantasy, essentially.”

It’s easy to get lost in the hazy underworld Doherty has created, and feel the youthful freedom and spontaneity of her subjects. Having initially set out to create a conscious project based on her own previous experiences, she found the photographs “usually become about something else”. She explains: “They become much more documented than staged, and we end up creating a whole new story as we go, living and capturing that particular moment as opposed to recreating something that has already gone by.”

Pushing boundaries, Doherty’s work is cinematic: the threads of stories that capture an Irish youth splayed throughout the series. Her ambition to explore film, then, is unsurprising. “As well as photography, I hope to work with film,” she says. “To take each narrative beyond a still photograph and bring it to life through a lo-fi, youth-dominated, cinematic neon haze of moving image.”

http://www.dazeddigital.com/photography/article/28416/1/creating-a-new-subculture-in-a-corner-of-ireland

http://megandoherty.tumblr.com/