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Tatsuo Miyajima's Mega Death (1999)
My second visit to Minimalism at the National Gallery was guided by head curator Silke Schmickl who brought character and insight to the seemingly simple artworks on display. I will be discussing Tatsuo Miyajima’s Mega Death (1999), the first piece she brought us to see and coincidently also the first piece I experienced on my previous trip there.
We began by stepping Read more →
Nature's Breath: Arokhayasala, and its Relation to Interactivity
What a familiar smell, I think, as I drift towards its source. Pillars which arch inwards, unite over an unfilled space. Something about that emptiness beckons me to come hither.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj-Z_hOptIg
Titled Nature’s Breath: Arokhayasala, this piece is heavily associated with ideas like death and illness. A Thai artist, Boonma himself stated that the purpose of this piece was “to cleanse Read more →
Minimalism: Oneness
“Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks of great art.”
—Richard Holloway
Minimalism is an intriguing concept for me. It leaves a lot of “blanks” in the interpretation that everyone can fill in the blanks however they like. There is no right or Read more →
MINIMALISM at the National Gallery
Minimalism, in my opinion, was one of the more difficult art movements to comprehend and appreciate. The artworks are highly conceptual. At the surface, the style is extremely simple with no visible value and many may cast it off as ‘too easy’. One thing that I noticed about Minimalism was that it had a lot to do with space and experience. Read more →
NfI: Minimalism and "Impenetrable"
Having attended the exhibition at the National Gallery titled Minimalism: Space. Light. Object, I must say that I did not like it very much.
In my opinion, the value of an art piece is directly tied to how much it connects with an audience, emotionally or intellectually. A work that touches the heart is much Read more →
Mono-ha & Wolfgang Laib's Milkstone
Simplicity and nought are frequent talking points when it comes to Minimalism and its related movements, they are a longstanding preoccupation of radical art forms. Yet, on this particular guided visit to the Minimalism exhibition at National Gallery (my third one and pre-eminently with the head curator Silke Shmickl), what gripped me was the unrelenting means of an artist to Read more →
My One Demand
Narratives for Interaction - Deconstruction of Narrative
Narratives are usually associated with the linear, from one singular output. However, contemporary interactive narratives involve the deconstruction of stories and their presentation, making the process of navigating and finding the narrative an interesting one.
Lynn Hershman – Lorna (1979-1984)
Lorna, the first interactive video art disc, was presented on a television screen within a installation space of various furniture and narrative-specific objects. Read more →
Maurice Benayoun's Tunnel Under the Atlantic
Maurice Benayoun is a French new media artist who dabbles with many forms of media in his work including video, immersive virtual reality, the web, wireless technology, performance, large-scale urban art installations and interactive exhibitions. (Benayoun, 2018)
One of Benayoun’s better known installations, The Tunnel under the Atlantic, 1995 was a televirtual event that linked the Pompidou center in Read more →
Assignment 3 " As We May Think" by Vannevar Bush
Chapter 2: As We May Think of the New Media Theory
Text from Atlantic Monthly (Jul 1945)
The article that I have read on is Chapter 2 of The News Media Reader. Vannevar Bush wrote this chapter “As we know it” in 1945 and there were some significant things that he mentioned in it. Despite how it is written in Read more →