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Quoted: interview with fernando gutiérrez, whose award-winning installation crisálidas is on view at la boral in gijon (spain) until april 6. sketchy drawings and animations based on images from mass media are projected and layered in unpredictable ways, generating subjective associations and a parallel world for viewers to participate in.

quoted: Multiverse, the largest and most complex light sculpture created by American artist Leo Villareal, may be seen and experienced by visitors as they pass through the Concourse walkway between the East and West Buildings of the National Gallery of Art. Commissioned by the Gallery and on view until November 2009, the work features approximately 41,000 computer-programmed LED (light-emitting diode) nodes that run through channels along the entire 200-foot-long space. The development of this LED project began in 2005, and the installation created by Villareal specifically for this location began in September 2008.

interview with artist and computer programmer john f. simon jr. simon recently opened his show outside in at maramotti collection in italy. the exhibit looks back at 10 years of the artist’s research into software art up to his latest piece vision (2009).

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Quoted: Performance for a matrix of 64 gas balloons, lights, and sound by Christopher Bauder & Robert Henke (aka Monolake)

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on fred sandback's current at david zwirner. magical indeed.

Quoted: This refreshed attention to modernism’s potentials might be considered a classic generational response to a bequest of obsolete tools. Though increasingly prevalent in recent exhibitions – the Berlin Biennial, for example, which pointedly sited its contents in modernist venues – it has been swelling for some time.

art institute peeps, you may ditch the modernist guilt now

Quoted: It’s August 2007, and I’m outside an east London gallery at a rare summer opening. I talk to Nicolas Bourriaud and am struck by how unconcerned he is about the ongoing circus of critical reflections around his writing on 1990s relational practice. Bourriaud is researching the third Tate Triennial; extending his research, he speaks of an interest in migration linked to ideas around disconnected, dispossessed and transient lives without roots: a journeyform drawn in space and time.

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