Founded by Pavel Durov, creator of Russia's equivalent to Facebook, Telegram launched in 2013 as a lightweight messaging app to combine the speed of WhatsApp
with the ephemerality of Snapchat along with claimed enhanced privacy and security through its use of the MTProto protocol (Telegram has offered a $ 200,000 prize to any developer who can crack MTProto's security).
Whether it be Sekhukuni and his use of the Internet as medium, Mooney and her fascination
with ephemerality and the social notion of space or Adams and his interrogation of hybrid racial, sexual and religious identities, each are operating outside the stereotypical approaches canonized by South African art history, thanks to the possibilities / challenges presented to them by a new political and cultural climate.
expanding upon rhode's recurring use of visual and verbal puns, the exhibition juxtaposes the heritage of his home country
with the ephemerality of his artistic practice.
Since 2014, Yung Jake has developed a series of paintings that combine the permanence of steel
with the ephemerality of new media.
This «line», striking for its humanly warmth, exposes the fruitlessness of drawing borders and boundaries
with its ephemerality, and seems to foreshadow in some way his later «Boundless» thinking.
From the visually abstract meditations on mortality in Decasia (2002) to the haunting exploration of a historic natural disaster in The Great Flood (2012), his found - footage films are anchored by an abiding fascination
with the ephemerality of physical media and the beauty of its disintegration.
Not exact matches
And
with the need for more velocity comes the need for more
ephemerality: Each appearance by the celebrity on the smartphone screen must manage to be both instantly attention - grabbing and instantly forgettable, so as not to overtax the brain of the viewer while at the same time building up the «mental availability» that is crucial to selling brands, especially in highly fragmented, mass - market product categories like fragrances, mobile apps, and clothing where the Kardashians do especially well.
Your works at that time approach the limits of
ephemerality; they push the definition of sculpture away from its mythical involvement
with industrial production, away from the spectacular deployment of industrial materials and processes.
Work by local artists will be in conversation
with pieces that will be traveling from as far as Alaska and France for a truly transnational exploration of
ephemerality.
I'm really interested in your use of materials, which for me seem to play
with notions of weight and weightlessness,
ephemerality and permanence.
Instead, the careful selection of artists and works included in the exhibition encourage the visitor to reconsider the unique properties of the medium - primarily its
ephemerality, and the ease
with which it can be transformed into a variety of different objects - and, in doing so, Paper sheds a new light on this medium as both a raw material and a vehicle for artistic expression.
In her most recent work, she treats her own body as one might play
with their online avatar, given the
ephemerality and flexibility of its digital presentation.
In 1974 he founded, together
with a group of artists, writers, film - makers, performance artists and musicians, the Laboratoire Agit» Art, whose aim was to transform the nature of artistic practice from a formalist, object - bound sensibility to practices based on experimentation and agitation, process rather than product,
ephemerality rather than permanence.
Her work's
ephemerality is pivotal to its content, which speaks to the presence of impermanence in everyday life and the possibility of responding to it
with a sense of wonder and play rather than unease.
[1] The conversation that constitutes a Tino Sehgal sale consists of his talking to the buyer (usually a representative from a museum) before a notary and witnesses, generally
with about five legal stipulations of the purchase: that the work be installed only by someone whom Sehgal himself has authorized via training and prior collaboration; that the people enacting the piece be paid an agreed - upon minimum; that the work be shown over a minimum period of six weeks (in order to avoid allegations of
ephemerality); that the piece not be photographed; and that if the buyer resells the concept, he does so
with this same oral contract.
«
With its disappearance and the
ephemerality of the act, choreography has its own kind of economy,» stated Bokaer.
Kunitani's Spaceless Space in the back room explores the
ephemerality of the viewer's relationship
with artworks and space.
Ephemerality is sometimes lacking in most gallery exhibitions due to the market pressure in our current commercial climate, so I felt my approach could rekindle aspects of 60's and 70's avant - garde performances as well as engage
with the concept of sculpture as the medium, or starting point, for drawing.
The first iteration, Embodied Absence:
Ephemerality and Collectivity in Chilean Art of the 1970s (Sep 2015 — Jan 2016), was organized by Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende, Santiago, Chile
with its substantial support in research and production of works, in collaboration
with DRCLAS.
Contending
with issues of
ephemerality and loss within the geopolitical sphere of late - 20th century South America, the artworks on view in Embodied Absence: Chilean Art of the 1970s Now find deep resonance in the groundbreaking display next door at the Harvard Art Museums» exhibition Doris Salcedo: The Materiality of Mourning.
Munsell's latest exhibitions include Embodied Absence:
Ephemerality and Collectivity in Chilean Art of the 1970s, Museo de la Solidaridad, Santiago; Marilyn Arsem: 100 Ways to Consider Time, MFA Boston; Conversation Piece, MFA Boston, in collaboration
with Boston Ballet and Cultural Agents Initiative, Harvard University; Permission To Be Global / Prácticas Globales, CIFO Art Space, Miami, and MFA Boston; and Cuban Virtualities: New Media Art from the Island, Tufts University and School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Her work is in collaboration
with forgotten spaces, exploring our relationships to architecture and space, specifically our homes and how the possible
ephemerality of these spaces affects our psyche.
Among an ever expanding (and as Karen Barad might say, «entangled») list, I am inspired by the complex and contradictory city I live in (the city of Chicago) and the incredible community of hard working, sincere, talented artists who I am surround by and have the privilege of working alongside and in collaboration
with every day (too many and to diverse to name individually here) / / by mentors A. Laurie Palmer and Claire Pentecost and Anne Wilson and Ben Nicholson / / by Simon Starling and Andrea Zittel and Mark Dion and Sarah Sze and Phoebe Wasburn and Mierele Laderman Ukeles and Joseph Beuys and Eva Hesse and Hans Haacke and Robert Smithson / / by writers and philosophers Karen Barad and Jane Bennett and Rebecca Solnit and Italo Calvino and Steward Brand and the contributors to The Whole Earth Catalog (of which my father gave me his copies) and Ken Issacs and Carl Sagan and Neil deGrasse Tyson and William Cronon and Bruno Latour and Deluze and Guttari and Jack Burnham / / by ideas of radical intimacy and transformation and
ephemerality and experimentation and growth and agency and mobility and nomadicism and balance and maintenance and survival and change and subjectivity and hylozoism and living structures / / by mycelium and soil and terracotta and honey and mead and wild yeast and beeswax and fat and felt and salt and sulfur and bismuth and meteorites and microbes and algae and oil and carbon and tar and water and lightening and electricity and oak and maple / / by exploration and navigation and «the Age of Wonder» and the Mir Space Station and the Deep Tunnel Project / / by Lake Michigan and the Chicago River and waterways and canals and oceans and puddles... to name a few.
Combining an obsessive attention to detail
with a rigorous use of materials and a methodical approach, these artists transform light into an experience, meditating on the medium's
ephemerality.
Continuing the artist's engagement
with complex social and political issues, this exhibition also explores Rhode's notions of permanence and
ephemerality as seen through his unique marks and gestures.
Her work engages
with the notion of
ephemerality through gestural storytelling.
The Hirshhorn Museum's description for the show is very punctual and poetic at the same time: «In a world conditioned by the frantic, 24/7 flow of information and the
ephemerality of digital media, many moving - image artists are countering these tendencies
with works that emphasize slower, more meditative forms of perception.
Replete
with allusions to
ephemerality, destruction and transformation, Attia's video, and the material substances
with which it engages, elicits timely associations
with colonial and imperial legacies and their residual effects on the present.
Other notable booths included Almine Rech (inc witty young American Carrie Weiss), Supportico Lopez, Stevenson's persuasive 45 - year survey of new - to - me Penny Siopsis; and Chewdays» combination of Palaeolithic artefacts
with Gabriele Beveridge's meditations on
ephemerality.
Too often, activist art is charged
with an urgency its very
ephemerality bestows upon it, lingering only so long as its context permits, and doomed to an afterlife as dated social commentary.
In her practice, meyers grapples
with the philosophical aspects of uncertainty, materiality, and
ephemerality.
Simultaneously, the artist also presents Phasma (2017), a series of new drawings and poems, created in Japan these last few months, and dealing
with the feeling of suicide, life struggle and
ephemerality.
On his path of capturing the moments of nowness and
ephemerality, Stohead experimented
with vague shapes and bright colors creating enchanting pieces.
McCarty, who has been obsessed
with watercolor and its
ephemerality since a massive wildfire burned down her home and studio in 1993, creates her work
with wet - into - wet on loose sheets of watercolor paper.
Rasgado's works deal
with such natural phenomena as gravity, light and energy along
with their attendant results — time and
ephemerality.
Intuition — a group show curated by Axel Vervoordt and Daniela Ferretti around a theme resonating
with concepts of
ephemerality and invisibility — unravels throughout the Palazzo's 4 floors of unique architecture, masterfully interlacing Mariano Fortuny's (1871 - 1949) eccentric historic collection
with contemporary artwork.
With his unexpected passing in early 2014, Adkins left behind an expansive body of work, focused primarily around sculpture, while meditating on the medium's relation to
ephemerality and sound.
By playing
with both destruction and construction, Clemens Behr raises questions about
ephemerality and permanency.
Recently exhibited at Beijing Design Week, Hanna's curious device intersects the city's love for bicycles, along
with DIY technology and a long - held tradition of transforming any public space into poetic places, using the
ephemerality of water.
I chatted
with him to hear why he's bullish on
ephemerality, doesn't care that Snapchat hasn't courted him, and isn't interested in Discover.
Combining the
ephemerality of Snapchat
with the paint -
with - fingers simplicity of Draw Something, it's basically a way to sketch out simple pictures or handwritten text on your Apple Watch's touchscreen and send that to another Watch wearer.