MONDKULTUR#1// A ROUND THE BLOCK

THE PARTY IS GOING TO HAPPEN HERE! NTHAT COOL?! MAKING THE BLOCK ROUND! COME! also check mondkultur!

Keywords

Homework

Dreams

The californian update 1 / Rubies / Flashes

Hi guys! Long time no write. I crossed the ocean last month and went to visit dear friends in California. Everything changed.
This trip was magic! Everything about California is. Still in transit in my mind, although back in Berlin.
My head is full of memories of dolphins, colours, nature, rainbow coloured food, palmtrees, beautiful sunsets and surf, friends, sparkles and hangs, burittos, and a crazy lovin vibe! Mixed up like a light lemon drink with mint on top, that you have at sunset time.
Just developed some Holga shots. Trip on those!

Woulda Coulda Shoulda!


hi.

photo by terri loewenthal

andreas söderström from sweden was also there:


lemon from the tree.


a northbay beach.


rubies hang



simone in a sudden hotel escapade, after midnight, 31th floor, san fran view, quick!


terri at this rad mexican place



more soon!

love to my girls.

Sun. Сън. Dream.

Sometimes my dreams end with an image or a tune. Sometimes i try to draw it or sing it right away when I open my eyes, kind of materialize it and bring it to "this" world. This is the picture I woke up with the other day. Sun. I drew it and wrote down in Bulgarian - СЪН - which you pronounce like "Sun" in English. But actually I wrote it, cause СЪН means "Dream".
Sun. Сън. Dream.
Isn't that trippy?

Organic Data

Two monsters of installations, that changed my day. Seen at Transmediale.

So there are these two completely different works. The one is operating with analog material, the other uses digital data as a source. The common thing - they both visualize information, although being constructed so differently, and even refer to eachother's aproaches. So amazing! I felt like dreams coming true - the analogue world refering to the possibilities of the digital vizualization, the digital work trying to materialize data!

The first installation is by Latvian Artist Žilvinas Kempinas, and consist of VHS Tape, light and air. It seems that this artist always uses tape and air. Simply beautiful!
For Transmediale he installed a work called "White Noise". Cant describe the galant movement of the tape and the flattery sound and the feeling when you stand in front of it. You can't believe it's real!






Second flash - Ryoji Ikeda's "Datatron". Amazing data vizualization and sound, projected with several beamers on a huuuge wall. The work is operating with data as a basic material, transforming and organizing it in a graphical way, trying to aproach the aesthetic of a barcode-defined futuristic society.


In both of the rooms I felt like being IN the visual information. As someone being occupied with thoughts about "analog or/vs/with/in digital" every day, seeing these works made me think about the connection of all ways of vizualization nowadays, in order to make things "clear". And proved that besides tape I find codes and data really beautiful.

I met a guy from London while waiting at the queue, who said he was an IT-Consultant and programmer, and that he doesn't actually have an art-point of view or knowledge about art, and that he came to the the exhibition to kill some time. At my question how he liked the tape-installation and the reference to the digital vizualization he said: "Yeah, very interesting, but when I look at things like that I am always like: why?".




* analogue shots from the works coming soon