Sunday 29 April 2018

White Line Light

Carsten Nicolai and Olaf Bender’s light/sound installation White Line Light at Strachan Avenue Old Police Station from Toronto’s 2007 Nuit Blanche is still one of my best NB experiences.  (Sad that it's been all going downhill now year after year.)  Sorry I couldn't find a good clip of the Toronto installation online.  Here's a later iteration in the Hague:


Video from mediateletipos's Vimeo channel

Saturday 28 April 2018

Pythagorean primes

Fermat stated that an odd prime p can be expressed as a sum of two squares if and only if p leaves a remainder of 1 when divided by 4:

p = a2 + b2 ⇔ p  1 (mod 4),

where a and b are some positive integers.  Such primes are called Pythagorean primes.

If you are interested, the proof can be found in any elementary number theory textbooks.

Thursday 26 April 2018

Wednesday 25 April 2018

Tuesday 24 April 2018

Sunday 22 April 2018

Paterson's Earth-Moon-Earth

Been sick for a few days.  Here I'm back, still feeling a bit foggy though ...

I saw this at Toronto's Power Plant group exhibition Universal Code in 2009.  Katie Paterson's Earth-Moon-Earth is still one of my most favourite art installations of all time.  Here's Paterson in her own words about the very clever yet moving work:


Video from Jupiter Artland's Vimeo channel

Wednesday 18 April 2018

Tuesday 17 April 2018

Monday 16 April 2018

Conclusions And Transfers. Conclusions And Transpositions

From his solo exhibition Conclusions And Transfers Conclusions And TranspositionsRon Martin currently at Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto ...

Conclusions And Transpositions:




Conclusions And Transfers:



Sunday 15 April 2018

Llerk

Copepod's Llerk from his 2016 album Adrift:


From copepod's SoundCloud channel

Saturday 14 April 2018

Orlan + Stratigraphic Matrix

From the exhibition 1 Godley VC House currently at Griffin Gallery, London ...

Tim A Shaw's Orlan:



Rachael Champion's The Stratigraphic Matrix Of The Holocene Epoch: