Erwin Redl

http://www.paramedia.net/

Erwin Redl was born in 1963 in Austia and currently living in USA, New York.


He uses LEDs as an artistic medium. His work includes installations, videos, graphics, computer art and electronic music.


Working in both two and three dimensions, his works redefine interior and exterior spaces. 


Redl began his studies as a musician, receiving a BA in Composition and Diploma in Electronic Music at the Music Academy in Vienna, Austria. In 1995, he received an MFA in Computer Art at the School of Visual Arts in New York, where he now lives.


Redl's works have received attention both nationally and internationally. With his piece Matrix VI, he lit the face of New York's Whitney Museum of American Art for its 2002 Biennial Exhibit.

Works such as Matrix II, which was shown in New York, Germany, France, Austria, and Korea, and Fade I, which animated the Eglise Sainte-Marie Madeleine in Lille, France, explore volume and allow people to move through lit spaces.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8yGkZXxTVk


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The Washington State Arts Commission chose Redl to create a piece for the Paul G. Allen Center with funds from Washington State's Art in Public Places Program. Redl's work for the Allen Center, "Nocturnal Flow", uses the 85-foot brick column at the west end of the atrium.

El Anatsui

The sculptor El Anatsui, born in Ghana in 1944, merges personal, local, and global concerns in his visual creations. Weaving together discarded aluminum tops from Nigerian liquor bottles, Anatsui creates large-scale sculptures called gawu (“metal” or “fashioned cloth” in the artist’s first language) that demonstrate a fascinating interplay of color, shape, and fluidity.
Although Anatsui has exhibited a diverse and extraordinary body of work for more than thirty years, he came to international prominence in 2004, when his work was included in Africa Remix, the landmark exhibition presented in Düsseldorf, London, Paris, Tokyo, and Stockholm.

Josiah McElheny's works

Josiah McElheny

Josiah McElheny is a sculptor who draws from the decorative and functional traditions of glass to craft a new, multifaceted form of contemporary art. Often using narratives inspired by the histories of art, design, and glass as points of departure, McElheny creates objects of exceptional formal sophistication, exquisite craftsmanship, and conceptual rigor. While the beauty of his blown glass objects invite viewers into his installations, the narratives behind each piece encourage thoughtful reflection upon the objects’ significance.
His works have appeared in numerous solo and group exibitions in the U.S. and abroad, including the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, and the Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

25 October 2011

In last week's lecture we talked about the 19th century education, we watched a very interesting video on youtube. The video was made by college students in 2007, they all talked about how busy students are becoming nowadays and that sitting in class and listening to a lecture for two hours or so is not an effective way for learning anymore. We discussed visual literacy and visual language; for example, films, television, commercial advertising, political advertising, and photography. We are now in the 21st century and vision education is more important and more effective for students nowadays.
In addition we talked about stories, how important they are in creating cultures. Consequently, television is important; it is an electronic story teller. also, we learned how stories are of three kinds; some talk about how things are, and some how things work, and finally some talk about what do things do.
Finally, it was pretty interesting how long time ago people used friendster just like how people nowadays use facebook.
We also had four presentations to see..

Picasso!

Picasso's works

These are the paintings of Picasso. Amazing! and veryyy Artistic!!

Pablo Picasso

Born October 25, 1881, Malaga, Spain, Pablo Picasso, became one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century and the creator (with Georges Braque) of Cubism. A Spanish expatriate painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer, Picasso was considered radical in his work. After a long prolific career, he died April 8, 1973 in Mougins, France.

Pablo Ruiz Picasso was born on October 25, 1881. In 1892, Pablo entered the School of Fine Arts, but it was mostly his father who taught him painting. By 1894 Pablo’s works were so well executed for a boy of his age that his father recognized Pablo’s amazing talent, and, handing Pablo his brush and palette, declared that he would never paint again.
In 1895 his father got a professorship at “La Lonja”, the School of Fine Arts in Barcelona, and the family settled there. Pablo passed the entrance examination in an advanced course in classical art and still life at the same school. He was better than senior students doing their final exam projects.