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I came upon this image in a student’s essay, no year was given but it is a sculpture by Louise Bourgeois, the title is also uncertain, perhaps it is “Do you love me? Do you love me?” because that is carved on the sculpture’s base. The significance of the work, for me, lies in a quotation related to the work which the student found and which, I believe, raises an interesting issue. (more…)

The video footage provided below consists of an extract from a major presentation given by Toshio Iwai at Ars Electronica: Simplicity the Art of Complexity, in 2006. In this segment he gives insight into the inspiration for his remarkable visual-musical interfaces such as his gallery-based interactive visual music installations, his compilation of such ideas into Electroplankton for the Nintendo DS and his invention of a new visual based musical instrument the Tenori-On, which Iwai developed in conjunction with Yamaha (link 1 [uk] link 2 [global]). (more…)

Where do we draw the distinction between vision and sound? To those of us not endowed with the gift of synaesthesia (although more, or even all, of us may have aspects of this talent at the level of unconscious cognition) that question might seem easy to answer but the distinction is becoming blurred. Note how some of the most outstanding pieces of “sculpture” at the Munster Sculpture Project 07 were actually sound pieces. I refer to Suchan Kinoshita’s Chinese Whispers installation and Susan Philipsz’s The Lost Reflection. (more…)

Pablo Valbuena’s Augmented Sculpture v. 1.2 is a remarkable synthesis of modernist-minimalist sculpture and video projection. Strangely this fascinating piece was not shown at the main Ars Electronica 2007 exhibition space in the OK Centrum Gallery but was instead relegated to a rather decrepit building on the streets of Linz. Fortunately we wandered around the town long enough to stumble upon it. (more…)

The German-Venezuelan musician Niobe’s (Yvonne Cornelius) performance at Ars Electronica in 2006 was a voluptuous combination of electronic music, video projection and soulful vocal prowess. The videoscape painted a sin city collage with casino signs and high rise buildings drifting by as one drove through the nightscape yearning for the next sensual fix. Niobe was a powerful presence on stage and pushed the theme of potentially fatal sensuality extremely well, dressed in black with an extravagant headdress that was reflected in the videoscape in the recurrent image of a silhouetted female dancer. (more…)