OCD

My Obsesssive Collecting Disorder.

Stan Still show LOVE THAT @ bubblebyte.org

Cieron Magat (Stan Still) 

LOVE THAT08/06/2012 - 08/07/2012

Private view

07/06/2012

7 pm - 11 pm BST (2 - 6pm EDT / 11am – 3pm PDT)

bubblebyte.org is pleased to present LOVE THAT, an exhibition of Cieron Magat’s unique entrepreneurial project T-Shirt Party.

Magat is a polymorphic creative mind working in different fields. The intersection between video, music and sub-culture is at the centre of his work and emerges through the diversity of projects he consistently initiates and directs.

Every week, for one year (from March 2010 until March 2011), under the guise of Stan Still, he created a T-shirt and a video. The result was T-Shirt Party, a collection of contemporary culture and sub-culture, different visions and ideas presented by Stan Still (alongside a few guest participants) in a double visual format of moving image and artistic outfit. By fixing the terms of production to one year, each output becomes autonomous and exciting in its novelty. T-shirt Party projected some iconic imagery onto cotton with incredible regularity, proposing week after week a reflection on fashion and the extremely quick change in tastes and trends, while conceiving a new platform for artistic challenge and creative experimentation.Popular culture (and everyday scenes strongly influenced by music and MTV culture) are playfully used in each t-shirt / video. The project, an audio-visual clothing collection, uses its main features as objects of analysis, modes of display and inputs for experimentation. Optimism and emotion are at the base of the project, conceived as a celebration of art and creativity. Guests like Nina Manandhar, Tim and Barry, Lewis Teague Wright, Tyrone Lebon, Ferry Gouw, Raine Allen Miller, Shane Connolly, Rhys Coren, Boiler Room, William Wright, Oscar Godfrey, Jimmy Merris, Dan Szor and DDF expanded the artistic vision. For LOVE THAT, Magat will exhibit on bubblebyte.org the whole yearlong collection of fifty- five T-Shirt Party videos and fifty-two T-shirts. But, more than a show, LOVE THAT is considered as an artwork itself, inviting you to drift around, celebrate creativity and clearly join the Party.For the duration of the show, the first series of T-shirt Party TSP001-TSP052 will be exclusively on sale again at bubblebyte.org

Cieron Magat

Born 1982 Slough, UK 

Lives and works in London

The Internet in 1969

My new obsession | Danny McDonald

Danny McDonald, The End of a Dream Sequence, 2010,
still from a color video, 15 minutes.
Showing at the moment at Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin this video is astonishingly funny fast and and psychedelically mind blowing.

Hannah Perry | Keeping Time @ bubblebyte.org

Keeping Time

21/04/2012 - 30/05/2012

          

         

Private view

20/04/2012

7 pm - 11 pm BST (2 - 6pm EDT / 11am – 3pm PDT)

                   

bubblebyte.org is pleased to present Keeping Time, a solo exhibition by UK artist Hannah Perry.

Working across a variety of medium, including moving image, photography, collage and sculpture, Perry’s practice is mainly developed by mixing found VHS footage, YouTube videos and photos from the artist’s own, personal archive. This often transpires into a constellation of images taken from teenage pop icons and the Internet, reproducing a quick snapshot of the visual language of young, contemporary culture. Blossoming characters, often depicted in the moment of building their identity, quickly disappear on to the next image, creating a fast, polysensorial narration.

Keeping Time, the artist’s first solo show at bubblebyte.org, revolves around the topics of rhythmic time and its hypnotic power, transporting us into an acid dancy world populated by music and film references such as Steve Reich or David Cronenberg.

Untitled is an animated hyper-work leading to a series of different artworks and elements. Starting as a random composition of personal objects leaning on the floor, the user is invited to interact with Hannah’s world and be transported into new settings; artistic, musical or simply connected to the artist’s creative process. Old works and personal influences blend with tools used by the artist in her work, and constitute a conceptual cut and paste, interdependent to one another.

The works Extract 1 and Extract 2, from the work Wonderful While It Lasts, recently presented at the Zabludowicz Collection, are a vibrant concentration of quick images portraying youth culture. Music videos and TV programmes are collaged with family members’ interviews, fleetly developing through a sort of synthetic motion accompanied by a strongly immersive soundtrack.

Deeply influenced by music sampling from dance music to hip hop, the outcome of Perry’s work is a fresh, visual, rhythmic assemblage representative of an actual momentum.   

   

The private view attendees will receive a downloadable artifact exclusively created by the artist.

Hannah Perry

Born 1984, North West of England

lives and works in London

Hannah Perry holds a BA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths College, London and she is currently studying an MFA at the Royal Academy of Art, London.

Perry creates a miscellaneous world of internet images, house beats and young popular culture, cutting and pasting what surrounds her, friends, family and random web findings. Her work has been shown locally and internationally, and recently included in exhibitions at The Zabludowicz Collection, London, Hotel Palenque, Cell Project Space, London, 2012, Les Televisions, French Riviera 1988, 2011. Her work will be part of the exhibition Things That Have Interested Me, Waterside Contemporary, London, in June and at South London Gallery as part of PAMI Festival in September 2012.

     

info: info@bubblebyte.org

POLTERGEIST

POLTERGEIST

Image: Rob Cavasse, Mass Wastin (acid wind) still, 2011,

courtesy of the artist.

An exhibition of new works by:

Mario Athanasiou
Rob Chavasse
Yuri Pattison
Hannah Perry
Samara Scott
Tim Steer
Oliver Sutherland 

Curated by Attilia Fattory Franchini

FORT | 34-38 Provost Street | London N1 7NG

17/05/2012 - 15/07/2012 

PV: Thursday 17th May 2012, 6pm - 10pm

The show takes its inspiration from the concept of short unwanted manifestations in physical and digital realm typical of our contemporary culture. Appearance and disappearance, animated objects and images become ephemeral presences calling for attention whilst modifying our ways of seeing and perceiving. Used in communication techniques as powerful marketing tool to influence the subconscious and over present in the digital world - as pop-up and banners - subliminal inputs and undesired elements become contemporary art tools of experimentation to reveal mysterious ideas and new representations of reality. Short time of experience and the condemnation to expire are used as inspiration to consider alternative modes of expression and think about current modes of creation and conservation. Looking at materiality and time as in Katherine Hayles definition of it as a dance between the medium’s physical characteristics and the work’s signifying strategies; each artwork and its interpretation becomes contingent, provisional, and debatable and therefore considered more of a contextual event than a pre-existing object.
Taking the space of FORT as a point of departure, the artists invited engage with it whilst contributing through unexpected events, hidden visions and imperceptible structures to reflect about materiality, revelation, duration and evanescence.

Mario Athanasiou (b.1980 Athens, Greece) lives and works in London. Originally trained as a composer, Athanasiou recently completed an MA in Studio Composition at Goldsmiths College. His works tend to explore how we perceive reality through sound and how we can use technology to manipulate, distort and transform that reality.

Rob Chavasse (b.1984, UK) lives and works in London. He holds a BA in Fine Art from University of West of England. Through site-conditioned works, Chavasse creates experiential situation, investigating the contradictions
of reference vs. experience. Using a wide range of media, Chavasse’s practice is concerned by the notion of space, and how we perceive it.

Yuri Pattison (b.1987 Dublin, Ireland) lives and works in London.  He is member of LuckyPDF and Off Modern Collectives and his interests lie within architecture and materiality, while focusing on space and the process of creating. Mastering a variety of media as video, animation and photography his work stresses digital communications language and tools. Yuri’s installations are a moving escape where time and its constant flux is represented and the access to a virtual past invades the knowledge of an expendable present.

Hannah Perry {b. 1984, Chester, UK} lives and works in London. Working across a variety of medium, including moving image, photography, collage and sculpture, Perry’s practice is mainly developed by mixing found VHS footage, YouTube videos and photos from the artist’s own, personal archive. Perry recent exhibitions include the Invites series at the Zabludowicz Collection, London, Hotel Palenque, Cell Project Space, London, 2012, Les Televisions, French Riviera 1988, London, 2011.

Samara Scott (b.1985, UK) lives and works in London. She recently completed an MA in Communications Art and Design at The Royal College of Art, London. Her practice uses romantic urges to make glossy hyper-real objects, a pick n mix of continental topicality, and a surreal mish-mash of pastel symbols. All part of a greatly orchestrated surreal narrative, the art objects can also be digested from design perspectives. Backgrounds double as foregrounds – a blind operates as both a screen and a sculpture, while different elements suddenly animate with new functionalities

Tim Steer (b.1983, UK) lives and works in London. He is currently completing an MA in Sculpture at The Royal College of Art. His practice revolves around the concept of materiality and its definition in digital culture. Through, video, writing, animated and sculptural creation Steer’s work activates sensations and memories while representing fluid images belonging to the digital realm.

Oliver Sunderland (b. 1985, UK) lives and works in London. He is currently studying an MA in Sculpture at The Royal College of Art. Working across a range of media his practice takes influence from a variety of sources including science, belief systems and fiction, culminating in critical and subversive observations of serious and often humorless situations. Sutherland’s practice examines the more esoteric language of digital media and digital processes, reverting it to create highly visual hybridised artworks.

The Function of the Oblique | Resistance - Action

The Function of the Oblique
Curated by Attilia Fattori Franchini

Sebastian Acker, Nicolas Feldmeyer, Shan Hur,Minae Kim, Jinhee Park, Tobias Zehntner

Resistance

No Format Gallery | 14 - 22 April 2012
private view: 13. 04. 2012 | 6 - 9 pm

Action

Son Gallery, Peckham | 27 April - 26 May 2012
private view: 25. 04. 2012 | 6 - 9 pm
No Fixed Abode will organise a program of
events, screenings and conversations

A project in two parts, The Function of the Oblique presents a series of artistic responses to the eponymous work of architectural theory by Paul Virilio and Claude Parent, in which they declare ‘the end of the vertical as the axis of elevation’ and ‘the end of the horizontal as the permanent plane’.

In both Resistance and Action the artists use concepts of the oblique as a destabilising force, creating imbalance and unexpected outputs by employing a variety of media to challenge traditional conceptions of space.

In both Resistance and Action the artists use concepts of the oblique as a destabilising force, creating imbalance and unexpected outputs by employing a variety of media to challenge traditional conceptions of space. 

The concept of the oblique was presented as a new mode of appropriating space, promoting continuous, fluid movement and forcing the body to adapt to instability. Approached from different attitudes, Resistance and Action, this two part exhibition takes place across two gallery's in South East London.

Resistance is set at No Format Gallery, Woolwich, and will be informed by an understanding of the oblique as resistance to gravity and its horizontal legacy.

Action will take place at Son Gallery in Peckham and analyses physical and architectural conditions favoring fluidity, alteration and constant change.

Through a series of experimental events created by intersecting fields of architecture, broadcast, film, installation and publication, No Fixed Abode will develop forms of shared critique and reflection. Initially a series of film screenings and performative talks are planned. No Fixed Abode is the artistic collaboration between Robert Quirk and Terry Slater.

Artists information

Sebastian Acker
b. 1981, Germany
lives and works in London
Sebastian Acker has a background in space design and installations often reflecting on the configuration of space individually and socially. Acker is currently studying an MA in Sculpture at the Slade School of Fine Art. His work is informed by notions of space and materiality, and how this relates to the urban and physical world.

Nicolas Feldmeyer
b. 1980, Switzerland
lives and works in London
Nicolas was born 1980 in Switzerland. After studying architecture in Zurich and fine art in San Francisco, he is currently doing a master at the Slade School of Fine Art. His work explores notions
of space and its articulation in different media, questioning assumptions of normality and the elsewhere in his research and practice.

Shan Hur
b. 1981 Korea
lives and works in London
Shan Hur is a Korean artist who lives and works in London. Hur holds an MFA in Sculpture from
Slade School of Art (2010) and has exhibited extensively in the UK. Hur's sculptural interventions disrupt the viewers perception of the white cube, directly implicating the gallery space as an active element in the artwork itself. The ideas, which inform Hur’s practice, derive from a fascination in the moment of transition when a particular space is reconfigured for a new purpose and questions our perceptions.

Minae Kim
b.1981, Korea
lives and works in London
The origins of Kim’s works are based on the urban or structural environments present in our everyday life. Kim observes, reflects and reverts the physical and conceptual function of what sometimes is left out, hidden or un-noticed. The elements used in Kim works are often detourned replicas of preexistent details which call for attention and suddenly animate to become the centre of reflection. Kim installations raise questions about the nature of the spaces we inhabit and our relationship therein. Minae Kim holds an MA in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art, 2011 and her works has been recently part of New Contemporaries ICA, 2011 and RCA Final Degree Show, 2011.

Jinhee Park
b.1979, Korea
lives and works in London
Jinhee Park holds an M.F.A from Goldsmiths College, London, 2010 and an M.F.A in Sculpture from Seoul National University, Korea, 2007. His work reflects on the time lost in familiar scenery
and records the traces left (hidden) in nature of certain occurrences or events. Time and its changes
are reflected in Park's practice as a spacial visualisation characterised  by interventions on common materials such as plain wood, using as a natural point of departure to record and visualise what remains.

Tobias Zehntner
b.1983, Switzerland
lives and works in London
Tobias Zehntner holds a BA from Goldsmiths College of Art, 2011. His work is concerned with science, art and architecture intended as tools to explore phenomena while elaborating a keen interest in human and mechanical movements in time and space. Zehntner has a fascination with the
acts of looking and observing, which leads to minimalist studies of the poetry of the everyday.
A contemplative view on mundane and urban environment often reveals an appeal to modernist aesthetics and compositions, while the focus on movement often leads to a choreographical approach to synchrony and symmetry.

Pascual Sisto | FILL_IN_THE_BLANKS | Seventeen Gallery

PASCUAL SISTO

FILL_IN_THE_BLANKS

SEVENTEEN Gallery

Thursday 29th Mar - Saturday 5th May 2012

Curated by Attilia Fattori Franchini
PV Thursday 29th March 6pm

Pascual Sisto's practice often refers to chaotic systems, order, time and evanescence; his work reproduces the transient order of things by manifesting its multiple variables.
In FILL_IN_THE_BLANKS, his first show at Seventeen, the LA based artist presents his recent exploration of forms of representation through the use of mathematical structures, patterns, and digital interventions, while repurposing the imagery and modus operandi from the realm of theoretical physics.
The new body of work introduces a tension between constraint and infinity, matter and ephemerality, reality and fiction, featuring a melancholic sense of humor. New 3D animations and sculptures are presented in unison, functioning as hypnotic elements and forces of attraction in the creation of non-spaces.
By containing and restricting forms through additive and reductive gestures, Sisto's practice reconfigures the idea of endless possibilities. The video elements in the exhibition constitute a passage between Sisto's previous and current production and represent ethereal realities conversely focusing on the versatility of time, stressing it while defining it through either interruption, synchronicity, or pulsation and perpetually transfixed into a liminal space.

This exhibition is made possible by the generous support of the Center for Cultural Innovation ARC Grant.

Pascual Sisto was born in 1975 in Barcelona, Spain, and lives and works in Los Angeles.

Sylvain Sailly solo show Instructors @ bubblebyte.org

Sylvain Sailly

Instructors 

10/03/2012 - 09/04/2012


Private view
09/03/2012
7 pm - 11 pm GMT (2 - 6pm EST / 11am – 3pm PST)

bubblebyte.org is pleased to present Instructors, a solo exhibition by French artist Sylvain Sailly.

Over the past five years, Sylvain Sailly has worked with multimedia installations that combine prints, video work, and sculptural objects. His work explores the dematerialisation of systems and procedures diffused in contemporary society, highlighting invisible processes in production which transform into the practical and meaningful. Sailly’s practice researches the notion of hidden differences between objects and their abstraction, and the way these differences elude direct investigation.

Instructors, the artist’s first solo show at bubblebyte.org, follows the research on imperceptible variations and takes the form of an on-line series of semi-autonomous 3D animations created exclusively for bubblebyte.org. The series adds to the artist’s personal web diagrams collection and functions as an extension of his site-specific and gallery work.

Codes and aesthetics of Internet video tutorials inspire the six digital happenings presented in the show as Google Sketch up files (.skp) paired with animated gifs created as an instructional tools. The work which requires the participation of the viewer in order to activate, is constituted by 3D model objects. As these schematized objects are made and unmade, their simple and even barren graphics emphasize the mechanics, deployment and assembly of their fifteen-second life-cycle. The objects’ function, its capacity to impart a use, comes to the fore, as well as the means and occasion to manipulate this function. Building and unbuilding, processing and unprocessing, the work investigates the relationship between recognition and simulative enactment.

The private view attendees will receive a downloadable artifact exclusively created by the artist.

Sylvain Sailly
born 1983, Poitiers, France
lives and works in Vancouver

Sylvain Sailly holds a BA Plastic Art at the École Européenne Supérieure de l’Image, and an MFA in Plastic Expression at the École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts de Paris-Cergy, Cergy, France .

Sailly’s minimal and alive work focuses on the internet and its elements of production and disruption raising questions of duration and conservation. His work has been shown locally and internationally, and recently included in exhibitions as The Unspeakable Compromise of the Portable Work, Or Gallery off-site project, Vancouver, Canada, Sylvain Sailly and Nicolas Sassoon at The Fair, Vancouver, Canada both in 2011, Et si tu n'existais pas..., Galerie TinBox, Bordeaux, France, 2010, Jakarta Biennale‘09 Fluid Zones, Jakarta, Indonesia, 2009, and Portion roulante à 43° W Today Art Museum, Beijing, China, just to name a few.

info: info@bubblebyte.org

Apocalypse Miau

brilliant!
slurptv.tumblr.com

Paul Flannery | Another Infinity @ bubblebyte.org

Paul Flannery
Another Infinity
07/02/2012- 06/03/2012

bubblebyte.org is pleased to present Another Infinity, a solo exhibition by UK artist Paul Flannery.

The work of Paul Flannery looks at the decoration of the Internet and its early aesthetics.

Using ornamental elements, often produced by amateurs, as icons, background images and memes, Flannery’s work is a deep analysis about digital time and beauty.

Through detournement and re-vision of various popular web. 2.0 features, Flannery creates colorful geometric work which activates new relationships in terms of trends and chronologies, possibilities and advancement.

Another Infinity, the first solo show of the artist on bubblebyte.org, presents a series of works inspired by a (11 frame, 1 x 600px) Rainbow divider, an animated gif ubiquitous during the early days of the web. The original gif is treated as a single sculptural unit, pulled apart frame by frame before being put back together in various combinations of deviation and obedience to its original purpose.

The results lay somewhere between ornament and object.

The works, form part of a larger, on-going series where repetition, tiling and pattern function as components to extend, build and play with the rhythms of every single divider to create cacophonous fields and shapes of hypnotic color.

Rising Generation features a quote from the final chapter of Owen Jones’ Grammar of Ornament. The quote, which relates to his belief that a new era of Victorian decoration was dawning, is written in a specially made font, originally constructed from rainbow dividers and laid on top patterns and textures taken from the background images of various websites. It is conceived in itself as a web-page and a celebration of the concept of Internet ornament.

As part of Another Infinity, depending on the browser used, the bubblebyte.org main page will rotate or throb as a counter rhythm to the works on display.

The private view attendees will receive a downloadable artifact exclusively created by the artist.

Paul Flannery
lives and works in London

Paul Flannery holds a BA (hons) in Fine Art from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and an MFA from Goldsmiths College, London. Flannery’s aesthetically captivating work, focuses on the internet and its elements of communication and adornment, subverting their functions while observing the logical contexts they belong to. His work has been shown locally and internationally, and recently included in exhibitions as Notes on a New Nature, 319 Scholes - Brooklyn, NY, Street Show: The Things Between Us, Eyebeam (Dead Drop) - New York, NY Your Browser is My Kingdom (Speed Show), Or@nien Net - Berlin, Germany .Gif, MU - Eindhoven, Netherlands to name a few.

info: info@bubblebyte.org

bubblebyte.org presents Primo Anniversario | The Sunday Painter, Peckham

Installation shots

 general view:

                     Oliver Sutherland, Don't Ask, 2012

                             
                               OPS, Angelo's Game 2011                                         

                     Sabrina Ratte', Activated Memory I, 2011

                     Rob Chavasse, Fiji (choral version), 2012

 

Nicolas Sasson, Tides 6, 2012

 Duncan Malashock
Pile with Pedestal, Produced for I Want You Mag
2010