Middle Mind Project does these great profiles and they recently talked to Nadine Nakanishi, one-half of Sonnenzimmer Studio, based in Chicago. She’s pretty awesome, but have a look for yourself:

David Pino, an Amsterdam based graphic designer and lead singer of El Pino & the Volunteers dropped a line to let us know about their new music video. You might enjoy this video if you’re a fan of 3D typography. I’m pretty impressed with the set production…must have taken a while to get all those letters to hang perfectly.

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An impressive animation combing inkjet graphics with watercolor and ink treatments for an 1m 30s abstraction. Direction and animation by Benjamin Ducroz, sound by Samuel Acres.

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Scion launches the sixth edition of its successful art tour, “Installation 6: Video” on January 23 in Los Angeles at Scion’s own 4,200 square foot Installation LA Space gallery in Culver City. The opening reception takes place on January 23, 7–10 PM and the exhibit will run until February 13. It will feature artist-created video installations that illustrate how each creative icon sees the world through vivid movement and color. Artists include Dust la Rock, Eric Nakamura, Saelee Oh, French, Ill-Studio, Josh Graham, Monihan Monihan, Mark Mothersbaugh, PMKFA, and Sage Vaughn. The traveling exhibit will also visit New York, Minneapolis, and Wichita, Kansas. Above image is by Dust La Rock.

Check out the amazingness that is Joshua Kirsch, whose kinetic sculptures are interactive and mind-boggling. Be sure to watch the accompanying videos for each piece.

“Sympathetic Resonance”
2009 dimensions vary african padauk, birch veneer plywood, aluminum, yarn mallets, rotary solenoids, brass, wires, magnets, boot lace, electronic components
Sympathetic Resonance is an interactive musical instrument sculpture that utilizes the keys of a marimba (a mallet-percussion instrument of african origin) to create four and a half playable octaves. The sculpture consists of 56 “units,” each containing a different note, as well as a yarn-wound mallet affixed to a rotary solenoid which allows the note to be triggered by a touch-sensitive aluminum keyboard played by the viewer. The sculpture’s modular design allows it to completely change configuration from installation to installation. Each unit can be either mounted or placed on the floor or mounted to a wall, and can be connected to the keyboard with a wire of any length.

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“The vinyl is dead. Good. Now listen to the beautiful noise of the earth.”

Harvest (2009) is a new art piece for the new instrument terrafon, traditional ensemble and cropland – by Olle Cornéer and Martin Lübcke.

In this performance Alunda Church Choir, conducted by Cantor Jan Hällgren, plays the soil of northern Uppland (in Sweden) on terrafon. Harvest by Alunda Kyrkokör was exhibited at the Volt Festival in Uppsala the 6th of June 2009. Terrafon is a large agricultural version of the horn gramophone, amplifying the sounds in the track it ploughs.

There is more to come. There are still many croplands still untouched by terrafon. The only thing needed is a powerful local musical ensemble that can sweat it out. This is indeed a demanding piece.

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I posted about Nicole’s work before, and I recently learned more about her process. She freezes paint and then her pieces are created as the ice melts.

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1000 DAYS, curated by Seth Curcio of DailyServing.com opens on May 23rd at Scion’s 4,500 square foot Installation LA Gallery Space in Culver City. The exhibition celebrates the upcoming 1000th feature for DailyServing.com, an online contemporary art publication that showcases some of the most innovative contemporary visual artists working today. 1000 DAYS will present seven emerging artists in the United States whose work represents the graphic aesthetic and innovative artistic process for which the publication’s features are known. These artists, all of whom have been previously featured on the site, work in a variety of mediums including painting, drawing, sculpture, photography and new media.

Where: Scion Installation LA Space, 3521 Helms Ave. (at National), Culver City, CA 90232.
Opening reception: May 23, 2009  7-10 PM

The show runs until June 13th.

More art images can be found on Flickr.

Handmade Nation is a film that documents a movement of artists, crafters and designers that imbue traditional handiwork techniques with a punky do-it-yourself ethos informed by modern aesthetics, politics, feminism and art. The San Francisco Film Society will be showing the film on March 11, 2009, 7:30 pm at Mezannine.

Julien Vallee is a graphic designer based in Montreal, Canada who emailed me his portfolio and I am blown away at the amazing videos and his presentation style. You have got to spend some time checking out his site.

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