Olafur Eliasson is a Danish installation artist born in 1967. In contrast to Duchamp who used the gallery to transform the urinal into an art piece, Olafur Eliasson uses his installations to build an atmospheric heterotopia in the gallery or in the space. Especially, he focuses on natural phenomena such as fog or light effect. His notable exhibitions in London were the Weather Project (2003) in Tate Modern and Serpentine Pavilion in 2007.

Website   http://www.olafureliasson.net/index.html

Ted   http://www.ted.com/talks/olafur_eliasson_playing_with_space_and_light.html

Exhibition in MOMA Youtube

David Lynch (1946) is a film maker who also works within art, music, writing and directing.

Lynch is best known for his films ‘Eraserhead’ (1977) and ‘The Elephant Man’ (1980) along with the TV series ‘Twin Peaks’ (1990).

Videos:

Weather Report-

‘Catching The Big Fish’ (a semi-autobiographical audiobook in which Lynch describes how transcendental meditation aids his creative process)- 

Sean Pecknold is a director, animator, photographer and amateur scientist based in LA. He is directs a group of other creates called ‘Grand Children’ who work together to produce fabulous stop-motion animations. He has had his work shown at film festivals around the world, many being in the US last year. He’s produced works for the likes of BBC Knowledge, The New York Times Magazine, X Box and National Geographic, alongside producing animations as music videos for bands such as The Fleet Foxes (where I first came across his work) and has been shown on “It’s Nice That’. He has won awards for his animation such as the ADC Young Gun award for creative under 30 and Best Music Video award for his animation ‘The Shrine, An Argument’.

Pecknold was not trained as an animator, he took classes in Photography and Design, but has always love watching animations, so new somewhere this is exactly what he wanted to do. He loves being able to play around with objects and make them move, he states ‘it’s worth the painstaking process for the end result’. He mainly works with paper but sometimes emplys clay as he love the way the light falls onto it. He has begun using a multiplane camera technique, something seem in Disney animations and used to give a greater depth to 2D stop-motion. Multi-plane allows for pieces of the animation to appear far away or close up.

Even though Pecknold was never trained in animation, he appears to be a natural, to him he feels this is due to playing with toys as a child. If you watch a range of his earlier work compared to his recent work you can see a huge increase in quality and skill, his latest video was a whopping 8 minutes long and took him and his crew 7 months to create, but the result is beautiful! I think I love it so much because of the fluidity of the moving paper (it is hard to tell it is actually paper!), and the light sources he uses. He employs different colours to set encourage emotions. ‘The Shrine, An Arguement’ also involves the work of artist Stacey Rozich, who did the character design. The theme of the story is a painful breakup, the song has a dark narrative which inspired Pecknold’s animation, along with 70’s animation, Gods and Mythical Creatures.

Check out his website! http://seanpecknold.com/

“The ecosystem is severely disrupted, the financial system is increasingly uncontrollable, and the geopolitical structure has recently begun to appear as unstable as it has always been uneven. CEOs and politicians express their ‘‘desire for change’’ at every interview and voice a heartfelt ‘‘yes we can’’ at each photo-op. Planners and architects
increasingly replace their blueprints for environments with environmental ‘‘greenprints’’. And new generations of artists increasingly abandon the aesthetic precepts of deconstruction, parataxis, and pastiche in favor of aesth-ethical notions of reconstruction, myth, and metaxis. These trends and tendencies can no longer be explained in terms of the postmodern. They express a (often guarded) hopefulness and (at times feigned) sincerity that hint at another structure of feeling, intimating another discourse. … We will  argue that this modernism is characterized by the oscillation between a typically modern commitment and a markedly postmodern detachment. We will call this structure of feeling
metamodernism.” (from Notes on Metamodernism, 2010)

Metamodernism a new dominant paradigm in contemporary art and culture. As a structure of feeling (rather than a movement or manifesto) it is expressed in the form of sensibilities, and (specifically in cinema) one of these sensibilities is the quirky.

Notes on Metamodernism

Quirky, Tone and Metamodernism

Metamodernism, Quirky and Feminism

Films to watch:

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004, Michel Gondry)

American Splendor (2003, Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini)

Adaptation (2003, Spike Jonze)

Napoleon Dynamite (2004, Jared Hess)

The Royal Tenenbaums (2001, Wes Anderson)

Submarine (2010, Richard Ayoade)

Eagel vs. Shark (2007, Taika Waititi)

 

Australian photographer and filmmaker.

http://yannikronenberg.com/Mobile-Mobile

Autumn Story- Yanni Kronenberg and Lucinda Schreiber

http://yannikronenberg.com/Autumn-Story

 

 

Born in 1964 in Nagoya, Japan.

He loves children’s fantasies. His command of different techniques using his hand drawn pictures, clay, and sounds has made him one of the leading names in the animation world. Especially in the Japanese animation context, he stand out with his poetic quality and his capacity to provoke reflection through humor. Visually and Verbally pleasure.

<ep.1″The Pacusi Family”, ep.3″A Picture Book”, ep.4″Brushing Teeth”, ep.14″Vehicles”, ep.16″Soft Cream”>(1994)- Broad casted on NHK Children’s TV show

 

 

(1996)—on NHK children’s TV show

(2002) –Oscar Nomination

Links:

Yamamura Animation Website —Yamamura Koji- website

Animations

“Pacusi” (1994)—pacusi ep1,3,4,14,16

“Bavel’s Book” (1996)—

“Mt.Head” (2002)—

“A Country Doctor” (2007)—

“Pieces” (2003)—

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kent Rogowski is an artist and photographer living and working in Brooklyn, New York. His Love=Love project is a series of collages using 60 store bought puzzles and combining them to make new compositions, creating bright and surreal landscapes.

http://www.kentrogowski.com