Getting Intimate – On/Off-Line, Distance Festival at STK International Airport | 20.06.10

June 18th, 2010

or-bits.com takes part in the discussion Getting Intimate – On/Off-Line convened by Cecilia Wee for Distance Festival, at STK International Airport (London) , on Sunday 24 June 2010 at 12 pm.

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Getting Intimate – On/Off-Line

A discussion exploring temporal, geographical and bodily notions of intimacy. Reflecting on their individual practices as well as the festival as a whole, visual cultures writer Dr. Stephanie Polsky, together with Distance festival artist Steven Ounanian and Marialaura Ghidini, curator of or-bits.com online art production and display platform, examine the value of intimacy today. The discussion looks at the social spaces and contexts made possible through new technologies and the ways in which art can allow us to engage in these issues with fresh eyes. Convened by Cecelia Wee.

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or-bits.com lands David Rule in DISTANCE | at STK International Airport

June 15th, 2010

19-20 JUNE 2010

or-bits.com lands David Rule in DISTANCE

At Stoke Newington International Airport, London, UK

The landing of David Rule’s work Street View into the festival marks the beginning of or-bits.com's exploration into presenting works in translations, moving between and across the online and offline.
The piece approaches the logistical rigour and helpless stasis of Google’ss Street View photography with a series of texts, recollections accounting for Google's voids, written with the imagined wisdom of both fore and hindsight. The reader's efforts to activate each text is accompanied by the unlikely task of entering the full web address by hand, so including the real possibility of getting lost and the real reward of a journeyed destination.

Image courtesy of James Bridle at booktwo.org

Download full programme of the festival here

And a review of Rule’s work by James Bridle at booktwo.org here

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IDDU, A 360° INSTALLATION BY ARTISTS JAMES P GRAHAM – [Issue 8]

March 9th, 2010

‘Iddu’, a 360° installation by artist James P Graham, depicting a volcano in the isle of Stromboli, lead me to an inmediate association and natural response to Francesca Anfossi video ‘Hanmade Machines’ when I bumped into
it by chance a few weeks ago in the a r t w a r s project space (Red Church St, London).
Graham takes in the volcano inside the gallery with a work that combines the naturalistic sublime with the mediated contemporary art space context.

Watch video – James P Graham, Searching for Empedocles (Iddu)

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UNTITLED (PERFECT LOVERS) BY FELIX GONZALEZ-TORRES (1987-1991) – [Issue 7]

February 14th, 2010

Two identical battery-operated clocks are placed in the gallery, side by side and initially set to the same time. With time, though, they inevitably fall out of sync: batteries running out and the ever-present drive towards entropy of things. Gonzalez-Torres made this piece shortly after the death of his partner, Ross Laycock, was diagnosed with AIDS.

Felix Gonzalez-Torres

Felix Gonzalez-Torres. (American, born Cuba. 1957-1996). Untitled (Perfect Lovers). 1991. Clocks, paint on wall. overall 14 x 28 x 2 3/4″ (35.6 x 71.2 x 7 cm).

 

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COMPLEXITY AND CONTRADICTION IN ARCHITECTURE BY ROBERT VENTURI – [Issue 4]

January 5th, 2010

In 1966 Robert Venturi put the first big nail in the Modernist coffin and opened the Pandora’s box that was Postmodernism. He did that with an essay called “Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (a gentle manifesto for a nonstraightforward architecture)”, where he criticised the functionalist school with the now famous pun “Less is a bore”. Venturi advocates for complexity, richness and ambiguity and deems the purity and clean lines of Modernists as puritanical, impersonal and, yes, boring. Another classic well worth reading. Read an extract here.

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