Christina Kubisch - Electrical Walks

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"In 2003, Berlin-based sound artist Christina Kubisch began an ongoing project called “Electrical Walks.” This project employs specially built headphones that receive electromagnetic signals from the environment and convert them into sound. Kubisch maps a given territory, noting “hot spots” (ATM machines, security systems, electronic cash registers, subway systems, etc.) where the signals are particularly strong or interesting. She then loans the headphones to the public, allowing participants to undertake an auditory dérive through the invisible network of electromagnetic information."

Real Audio Samples:

http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/21/kubisch.php

Robert Wechsler Projects

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 Here are a couple of images of projects from Robert Wechsler's website 

Hamster Powered Music Box

 

Circular Bike

When browsing through his work I also found this image :

It's nearly identical to this piece by Milton F Stevenson V previously featured in this blog:

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Part of what I liked about the work was that it is  simple and in a way logical. I suppose the downside to this is that it is quite probable that someone else will have the same idea. I also found a drawing of my own in an old notebook featuring a circle of shopping trolleys (in my pictures the ring was on its side).

http://www.robertwechsler.com/projects.html

(art)TOURist

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(art)TOURist  is an event involving open studios at Flax Art and other artists' studio in Belfast.

(art)TOURbus is on Saturday 12th May 2007 (art)TOURist office 5th-12th May in the Cathederal Quarter

Take a free tour of the art studios and organisations of Belfast. Contact Jude Bennett at Queen Street Studios for more details:

Queen Street Studios|Belfast|BT1 6EA t: 02890 243145 or e: info@queenstreetstudios.net

http://www.arttouristbelfast.com

Keith McCann @ 4, Dublin

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"Four is pleased to present a solo show of new and developing works by Keith McCann. McCann's work develops through the exploration of materials. Through observation he extracts the generic from the reality of the physical world often considering their allusions. He questions the potential of fragmentation. Treating the fragmented as components through a process of accumulation he believes the possibile combinations are endless

Friday 2 March - Saturday 24 March 2007
Opening hours : Thursday 5-9pm, Friday & Saturday 1pm - 6pm and by appointment.

http://www.fourdublin.com/keithart.htm

Maria McKinney - Scape @ Old Museum Arts Centre, Belfast

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"Maria McKinney explores how the idealistic imagery found on a jigsaw puzzle echoes the escapist nature of its objective. Its construction requires time, and a visual awareness attuned to the specified image. With Scape, McKinney examines the relationship between the creation of the image and time and the displacement of the mind, continually looping and thinking about static image."

wed 07 mar - fri 06 apr

http://www.oldmuseumartscentre.org/now/123/

Michelle Allard

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Flourish II, Office Paper, File Boxes, 2006

Flourish, discarded neon office paper, 2005 

In Transit, Boxes, Palletwrap, Bubblewrap, 2006

Chair Slag, Cardboard, Packaging Foam, 2006

"I explore possible and fabricated conditions that evade notions of stability and constancy. Focus and negotiation is placed on progression and circulation through accumulating, layering, and reforming various quantities of common manufactured and household materials such as polystyrene, plastics, carpeting, cardboard and office paper. My work navigates around the ideas of production, 'making', material build-up, and flow. I consider the notion that everyday materials and systems, while appearing stable and knowable, often involve a vacillation of processes that defy stabilization."

http://www.re-title.com/artists/michelle-allard.asp

WINTER / HÖRBELT - Buildings Made From Plastic Crates

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LIGHTHOUSE, 2000
Material: green FTK, various materials, illumination
Size: ? 380 cm, height: 400 cm
Exhibition, venue: Permanent exhibition: North Sea, outside the Nordisk Akvarellmuseet in Skärhamn, Sweden

"The lighthouse measures four meters in height, it is a round construction whose foundations lie on a tiny island in the sea in front of the Nordisk Akvarellmuseet in Skärhamn, Sweden. The building is mint green in color, and is built of German mineral water crates. There are eight bright spotlights inside the lighthouse that light up the building so that it shows as a green emerald in the narrow channel between the Museum and the island Bockholmen with artist's studios.... In the summer when the water is quite warm and the height of the water is low, people can swim across the water to the lighthouse and climb up into it. In stormy evenings in the fall the water height has risen, and the tiny island is completely overwhelmed by the Sea; then, the lighthouse simply stands as if it had its foundations in the water."

http://www.winter-hoerbelt.de/