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

Saraceno + Arakawa

From the group exhibition Invisible Cities: Architecture Of Line currently at Waddington Custot, London ...

Tomás Saraceno:




Shusaku Arakawa:



Wednesday, 25 April 2018

Tuesday, 24 April 2018

Monday, 23 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: