Dan Peterman’s sculptures are usually created by taking an existing object and modifying it, showing the existing function and the potential for something new. His work is not overly prescriptive, but references ecology and the ways in which it can intersect with art. A common theme in Peterman’s work is the idea of waste, and the conditions leading to a society which produces, consumes and discards.
Click through on the image for a link to Peterman’s page on the Andrea Rosen Gallery website.
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The Wiki
- 2035 - A research group in Wales create bacteria in the lab that form crystals which resonate with radio frequency.
- 2041 - The same group demonstrates that they can modify a percentage of the glia in a mouse brain to resonate with RF, opening up the possibility for biological radio receivers. These glia are dubbed “radiocytes”
- 2043 - Examining data, the researchers find proof that the mice can respond to RF as a sensory stimulus.
- 2047 - Transgenic mice pass genes for creating radiocytes on to offspring.
- 2059 - Researchers in India announce that they have a “grammar” of radio signals that mouse brains interpret as information. At the same time they show that these signals are only perceived by the areas of the brain nearest the radio receivers.
- 2060 - Radio transmitters are implanted in some of the mice. Within 1 week, the implanted mice are communicating with each other using the grammar discovered by the Indian team.
- 2112 - The first humans to be born with radiocytes enter school.
- 2128 - The Wiki, a human exomemory, is born when a radiocytotic teenager discovers how to store and encode knowledge in an external repository.
- 2131 - Radiocytotic people connected to the Wiki begin spontaneously sleeping only 3 hours a night. It is found that the presence of unlimited external storage radically improves the brain’s ability to reorganize and consolidate, reducing the need for sleep.
- 2201 - 98% of humanity alive has either been born with radiocytes or has had them implanted through stem cell therapy. Electronic devices can be controlled by a thought. Experience, perception, and emotion can now be encoded in The Wiki as humanity refines its new abilities. No-one remembers what it’s like to not have the sum-total of humanity’s knowledge on hand.
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This might be the greatest text-only Tumblr I’ve ever read.
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Atlas Cutouts by Claire Brewster - old maps and atlases are painstakingly manipulated with a scalpel to create intricate cut-outs.
Claire Brewster’s work is about retrieving the discarded, celebrating the unwanted and giving new life to the obsolete. Claire uses old and out of date maps and atlases as her fabric with which to create her intricate, delicate and detailed cut outs.
Continues through Feb 18:
Andrew Lenaghan: Recent Paintings
George Adams Gallery, 525 W26th St., NYC
In his new paintings of Brooklyn, Lenaghan returned to several sites he previously depicted, notably the once empty lots and abandoned piers around North 8th Street, now East River Park, as well as the streets and yards near his home in the Midwood section of Brooklyn. The exhibition includes 19 cityscapes, landscapes, and interiors (with figures), all painted from life.
Just Opened:
”Painting with Fiber: Florals”
Paula Chung
The Art Quilt Gallery, 133 W25th St., NYC
The Art Quilt Gallery is exclusively focused on a single art form: QUILTS
“My gardens provide a never-ending source of inspiration and solace. My pieces try to capture a blossoms’ essence, their energy and the awe I feel when experiencing their beauty. Their images express my thoughts on life and find they are a perfect metaphor for life’s processes of birth, aging and death. “ - Paula Chung
DIY project: Fold old maps into origami globes.
Other sheets of paper, such as magazine, catalog, book, or old sheet music pages, also could be used.
For this project, 5” square pieces of maps were folded into globes, then strung on twine. If you’d prefer to leave your globes loose, you could display a bunch of them in bowls, or group them on trays and add other items to make centerpieces (great for travel-themed parties). What other uses could you find for them?
For the how-to-fold-‘em details — Robbi Lindeman’s excellent tutorial and photos — visit poppytalk’s blog.
For other map reuse ideas, check the Unconsumption map-post archive here.
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