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The moving image has become a powerful medium for the representation of designed worlds and revolutionized the abstraction of that which is designed.
While designers have become more open to the interests of cinema, cinema is expansively engaged with issues of design.
This third meeting of the series Design and Cinema is organized with the intention of bringing together scholars and practitioners for theorizing and rhetorizing the interpretation and production of those environments assumed to exist as real, hyper-real and/or virtual, embracing all hybrid forms.
"We believe that this theme will uncover those other far-reaching issues related to the realized and potential mise-en-scène designed.
The real covers issues of designing of objects and environments, and the experience of the designed, as in the staging of the setting including both the actors and the scenery.
Since what we understand from the hyper-real is an illusion whose effects are more real than the reality itself, the socio-political character of this phenomenon is expected to unravel itself in discussions dealing with the forces involved in the manipulation of reality and the blurring of the real for those who experience it in their daily lives."
The virtual understood as a parallel universe, the technology and know-how employed in its implementation, and all hybrid forms of existing parallel in the world of the real and the virtual are expected to be the focus of discussions here.
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Mark Rothko (1903-1970) is one of America's most significant post-war painters.
This exhibition will be an unprecedented exploration of his late series of work.
At the centre of the exhibition will be a group of 15 Seagram murals uniting for the first time Tate's group of nine murals - known as the Rothko room - with a selection of murals from the collections of Kawamura Memorial Art Museum, Japan and the National Gallery, Washington.
The exhibition will take these works as a starting point for a critical investigation into Rothko's approach to painting and the murals will be complemented by a group of related large-scale gouaches as well as archival material related to the inception of Tate's Rothko room.
The artist's so-called Blackform paintings, his large-scale works on paper and his final series of Black on Grey paintings from the late 1960s, will all feature prominently in the exhibition.
These works challenge standard preconceptions of Rothko as a painter focused primarily on the effect of colour.
This exhibition will come as a revelation even to those familiar with the artist's work.
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The key creative behind the now ubiquitous Ableton Live software, Robert Henke aka Monolake, presents crucial surround sound ambient works and debuts new pieces.
Under his alias, Monolake, Robert Henke is renowned for producing some of the most vibrant post-techno.
For the first time in Brisbane he will perform as Robert Henke, debuting work based on his recordings of the Chinese "Buddha machine", as well as a number of other key surround sound pieces.
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New work by contemporary French sculptor Ingrid Donat will be on view at Barry Friedman Ltd, February 21 through March 15, 2008.
The exhibition will feature Donat's richly textured, limited edition, cast bronze furniture.
An opening reception will be held on February 21st at the gallery's new Chelsea location at 515 West 26th Street.
Donat's aesthetic combines tribal, classical, and Modern sources, recalling the stylistic influences of colonial Africa, Central and South America, and Oceania on French artists and designers of the 1920s and 1930s.
Visible too, are the influences of mentors Sylvia Berndt, a sculptor and companion of Andre Arbus, and Diego Giacometti.
Donat, however, has her own distinctive artistic vocabulary.
"I draw inspiration from the everyday," said Donat. "This inspiration can be naturalistic, mechanistic, industrial, or cultural.
I am inspired by specific surfaces: reptile skin, Samurai armor, tattoos, etc.
My work represents a spiritual evolution, transforming an 'ordinary' object into something more artistic, sophisticated, and refined."
Donat's new furniture pieces are heavily textured and sensuously tactile.
The dark bronze surface of Commode Primitive (2007) recalls a rough, scaly reptilian skin, with rectangular areas of small organically shaped squares highlighting its two deep drawers.
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The 2008 winner of the Roswitha Haftmann Prize is the Scottish video artist Douglas Gordon.
The award ceremony will take place on 8 May in Kunsthaus Zürich.
The Board of the Roswitha Haftmann Foundation will award the 2008 Roswitha Haftmann Prize (valued at 150,000 Swiss francs) to the Scottish video artist Douglas Gordon.
Having started his artistic life as a photographer, Gordon has developed a unique mode of expression using video and film installations.
Gordon, like Doug Aitken and Stan Douglas, is one of the leading figures amongst the mid-generation video artists.
In 1996 he was awarded the Turner Prize.
Gordon has a predilection for dissecting, splintering and doubling images, or for turning them into their own opposites.
At the same time, however, doubt has been his constant companion on the road to artistic success.
He often plays a double game: by undermining the credibility of images created using modern media he unsettles the viewer's faculties of perception.
In his installations Gordon plays optical tricks on the viewer; existing film footage - with unexpected cuts - appears in completely new contexts and sound is used to arouse expectations that are either not fulfilled by the imagery or take on new associations.
Gordon uses his art to explore themes such as temptation and fear, life and death, guilt and innocence.
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