Monday, November 3, 2008
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The show closed in Philly over the weekend. I now have some documentation.
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Finally posting some images of "A Video Game Playing Itself" from last year.
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Saturday, October 18, 2008
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In this video I have edited out all of the dialogue segments from the 1962 James Bond movie Dr No.
65minLabels: art video
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Tuesday, October 14, 2008
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This is a few things that I did in the Spring of 2008.
Three Remote Controlled cars set on an inclined plane. They try in vain to climb to the top (only to be met by hitting a wall) but get stuck in the middle and their tires spin fruitlessly. As their batteries wear down,their tires stop spinning and ultimately gravity carries them back to the bottom.
I attempted to contain the small explosion of a model rocket engine in an acrylic cube. The force exploded the cubes and the result is displayed.
The first iteration of Whose Life is it Anyway? A small LCD display listing my fabricated online life.
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The gallery was not fully cleaned up when I was installing the show in Philly so I was not able to get pre-show documentation, but a friendly person on flickr took some quick pics.
[note: The "fence" on the floor in the photos of the Monument piece is not part of the work. The gallery initially put that there for "safety" reasons without consulting me. We spoke and it has since been removed.]
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Wednesday, October 8, 2008
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Hi Folks, I am in a show at the new Chace Center at RISD. It is a beautiful new gallery and certainly worth a look if you are around. This show should be really nice. I have a new video in it.
Lapse of Time
Curated by Elizabeth Skadden
Openning Reception this Thursday October 9th 6-8pm
Gelman Gallery at Chace Center
20 Main St. 02903
“Life without editing, it seems, is just not that interesting.”–Bill Viola
Time in our lives flows unchecked. Art uses our memory and five senses to distill life down to the essentials. Memory within our lives condenses time for our consciousness. What we don’t remember is thrown away. What we do remember becomes all the more important. Within art, time lapse decides for the artist what they choose to show. The easiest sort of time-lapse to see is that associated with video or film. But other art methods can show a span of time as well through slow building processes and the display of a process of time. Lapse of Time includes work from several different artists in a wide range of departments. Through slow processes and broad temporal concepts, these artists collapse time, fold it over itself, and re-create new timelines that result in the following art pieces.
Work by these artists:
Alexander Field, Alison Roberts , Ted Yoon, Caleb Larsen, Emma Hogarth, Steve Silber, Kelley Goff, Nora Rabins, Evan Chamberlain, Noel O'Connell, Peter Wilson, Korakrit Arunanondcha, Johnny Adimando, Cooper Holoweski, Annabeth Marks, Dionne Yang
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Lapse of Time
Curated by Elizabeth Skadden
Openning Reception this Thursday October 9th 6-8pm
Gelman Gallery at Chace Center
20 Main St. 02903
“Life without editing, it seems, is just not that interesting.”–Bill Viola
Time in our lives flows unchecked. Art uses our memory and five senses to distill life down to the essentials. Memory within our lives condenses time for our consciousness. What we don’t remember is thrown away. What we do remember becomes all the more important. Within art, time lapse decides for the artist what they choose to show. The easiest sort of time-lapse to see is that associated with video or film. But other art methods can show a span of time as well through slow building processes and the display of a process of time. Lapse of Time includes work from several different artists in a wide range of departments. Through slow processes and broad temporal concepts, these artists collapse time, fold it over itself, and re-create new timelines that result in the following art pieces.
Work by these artists:
Alexander Field, Alison Roberts , Ted Yoon, Caleb Larsen, Emma Hogarth, Steve Silber, Kelley Goff, Nora Rabins, Evan Chamberlain, Noel O'Connell, Peter Wilson, Korakrit Arunanondcha, Johnny Adimando, Cooper Holoweski, Annabeth Marks, Dionne Yang
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I decided to post some pictures of my recent work. It has been a while and I keep promising to switch to a new website system. I will do that some day, but for now I will content myself with a blog post with images every once in a while.
Programmatically generated print from the complete works of William Shakespeare on Somerset Velvet.
Land Grab (2008)
Digital Photographic Print Diptych, each 20"x30"
The Safest Place on Earth (2008)
Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley, Andorra
(East 2.222156, North: 42.387712)
Geotagged Image, Digital Print
30"x37"
It is best to be prepared(2008)
FEMA emergency posters, 3 day survival kit
Over Protection(2008)
1,000 Condoms on wooden armature
Burn Out (2007)
Moped tire burnout on panel, series of 5, each 18"x22"
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare(2007)
44"x160"
Land Grab (2008)
Digital Photographic Print Diptych, each 20"x30"
The Safest Place on Earth (2008)
Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley, Andorra(East 2.222156, North: 42.387712)
Geotagged Image, Digital Print
30"x37"
It is best to be prepared(2008)
FEMA emergency posters, 3 day survival kit
Over Protection(2008)
1,000 Condoms on wooden armatureBurn Out (2007)
Moped tire burnout on panel, series of 5, each 18"x22"
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Wednesday, October 1, 2008
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The catalog from the Recoded exhibition I was in this spring in Aberdeen, Scotland is now available. I haven't got my hands on one yet (they are in the post I am told), but if you want you can get the catalog at Amazon.
Also,
Thanks to Marisa Olson for the nice write up on Rhizome on my exhibition currently up at the Ester M Klein Gallery in Philadelphia.
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Also,
Thanks to Marisa Olson for the nice write up on Rhizome on my exhibition currently up at the Ester M Klein Gallery in Philadelphia.
Labels: art update, exhibition
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008
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The Interval SeparatingI am having a show this September in Philadelphia at the Esther M Klein Gallery. If you are around, you should check it out. There will be some new work, some old work, and some reworked work. I think it will look really nice and be very interesting.
Here is the text from the Press Release:
AUGUST 12, 2008FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Dan Schimmel or David Clayton at 215.966.6188, kleinart@sciencecenter.org
THE INTERVAL SEPARATING
EXHIBITION DATES: SEPTEMBER 12 – NOVEMBER 1, 2008
OPENING RECEPTION: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12TH, FROM 5:00PM TO 8:00PM
The Interval Separating features work by artist, Caleb Larsen. The exhibition utilizes logic-based systems to explore the intersection and divide between digital and physical space.
Larsen approaches this topic obliquely through employment of installation, print, electronics, sculpture and multimedia. His work leverages the effects of language and mapping to translate life, media, and culture into transmedia experience. It is through distortion, reduction, and manipulation that Larsen is able to navigate this space. The diversity, interest and research reflected in his artwork seemingly make Larsen, as much engineer, geographer, or anthropologist as he is an artist.
"The wild toolbox of Caleb Larsen’s activities reveals a spirit much like that of an explorer looking for the unknown. … By extracting information from found sources, whether art, movies, or the web, Larsen is clueing us in to other things we should be noticing and be ready for." –Ian Berry
Larsen’s recent work has been exhibited at the Peacock Visual Arts in Scotland, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Detroit International Video Festival, Flux Factory in New York, 911 Media Arts Center in Seattle, and Tjaden Gallery at Cornell University. The artist lives and works in Seattle and Rhode Island.
The Esther M. Klein Art Gallery at the Science Center is a nonprofit exhibition venue that explores the intersection between art, science, and technology. The Esther M. Klein Art Gallery is located at 3600 Market Street. The gallery is opened Monday through Saturday from 9am to 5pm. For more information and exhibit updates, visit www.kleinartgallery.org
Download the PDF press release!
Press Release.pdf
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Monday, August 4, 2008
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So i have been a big out of touch lately.
I have been in Seattle for the summer, visiting friends, going to weddings, working on projects, and preparing for an exhibition in September. It has been fun and full.
I have been working on several projects and I will post documentation soon.
I am also hopping to transition to a new, more awesome, website that will make updates more frequent. My lack of activity on this blog is only because I have been too busy in the studio to post updates!
I will post the press release and info for the show soon.
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I have been in Seattle for the summer, visiting friends, going to weddings, working on projects, and preparing for an exhibition in September. It has been fun and full.
I have been working on several projects and I will post documentation soon.
I am also hopping to transition to a new, more awesome, website that will make updates more frequent. My lack of activity on this blog is only because I have been too busy in the studio to post updates!
I will post the press release and info for the show soon.
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Monday, April 28, 2008
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So this is the video that I submitted for the awards of excellence at RISD. It is about 2 minutes long and does a good job summing up the work that I have done, most of it from the first semester.
Click the image to see the full sized video.
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Saturday, April 19, 2008
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This year's Awards of Excellence at RISD heavily favored our Digital Media department, Lucas Roy, Nathaniel Katz, Jeanne Jo, Elizabeth Skadden, and I all got one. Yay!
The juror, Ian Berry said this about my work:
"The wild toolbox of Caleb Larsen’s activities reveals a spirit much like that of an explorer looking for the unknown. As he tries to fix problems of safety and security through exaggerated levels of preparedness, he helps us step back and see what is really going on around us. By extracting information from found sources, whether art, movies, or the web, Larsen is clueing us in to other things we should be noticing and be ready for. "
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The juror, Ian Berry said this about my work:
"The wild toolbox of Caleb Larsen’s activities reveals a spirit much like that of an explorer looking for the unknown. As he tries to fix problems of safety and security through exaggerated levels of preparedness, he helps us step back and see what is really going on around us. By extracting information from found sources, whether art, movies, or the web, Larsen is clueing us in to other things we should be noticing and be ready for. "
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Thursday, April 17, 2008
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This month I will be in a an exhibition in Aberdeen, Scotland. The show is called Recoded: Landscapes and Politics of New Media. Here is some text from the website:
Digital technologies have become an integral part of how we work and communicate, understand ourselves and the world. Transforming information and representation, digital media recode communication and representation and alter our experiences. Focusing on re-presentations, exchange and translation between embodied, spatial experience and coded information, the project aims to raise questions about the effects and meanings produced by contemporary digital landscapes.
The exhibition and series of events were developed by Peacock Visual Arts in collaboration with the Centre for Modern Thought at the University of Aberdeen.
Artists in the exhibition: Alexander Egger, skúta, Anna Jermolaewa, Caleb Larsen, Manu Luksch, MediaShed, Trevor Paglen, plan b, RYbN, Jens Strandberg
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Recoded
Preview Thursday 24 April 6 - 8pm / with performance 'Antidatamining' by RyBNDigital technologies have become an integral part of how we work and communicate, understand ourselves and the world. Transforming information and representation, digital media recode communication and representation and alter our experiences. Focusing on re-presentations, exchange and translation between embodied, spatial experience and coded information, the project aims to raise questions about the effects and meanings produced by contemporary digital landscapes.
The exhibition and series of events were developed by Peacock Visual Arts in collaboration with the Centre for Modern Thought at the University of Aberdeen.
Artists in the exhibition: Alexander Egger, skúta, Anna Jermolaewa, Caleb Larsen, Manu Luksch, MediaShed, Trevor Paglen, plan b, RYbN, Jens Strandberg
If you are around the Aberdeen, swing by and check it out.
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