http://karlakracht.com/blog Schnickschnack Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:35:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [from la mono] Pictoplasma lanza esta primavera dos nuevos títulos: Characters in Motion – Vol.3 y Pen to Paper. El primero propone un viaje psicodélico por los mundos de la animación, la narración y el ritmo de las series más exitosas, recogido con una calidad gráfica y visual que se ... http://karlakracht.com/blog/festival/pictoplasma-%e2%80%93-lo-ultimo-en-ilustracion/ Mary and Max: The Exhibition. Exhibition of artworks and props from this genious animation film, at the Australian Centre for the moving image. Enter the marvellously miniature world of Mary and Max and view the hand-made characters, props and sets from Adam Elliot's claymation feature film. Oscar®-winnning director and writer Adam Elliot in collaboration ... http://karlakracht.com/blog/expo/mary-and-max-the-exhibition/ A book talking about urban art. Urban art in the broader sense. Finally. Since graffiti paintings became expensive gallery and museum objects (not in this sense....), this, just like many other street art disciplines has decayed (see how bcn changed in 2006… now it's even greyer {{1}}) and artists have ... http://karlakracht.com/blog/street-art/book-preview/ aprovechando del utlimo dia de las expos de Drap-Art’09 en el cccb.... [PHOTOGALLERY] y Ray Johnson. Please Add to & Return {{1}} en MACBA... [VIDEO HERE] [[1]] to advertise his graphic design work, ray johnson started mailing around freaky lithographed postcards and letters. Later he added the request to "add to and return" the ... http://karlakracht.com/blog/expo/expo-day/ Illustration I made for the latest edition of Naif Magazine. A real story that happened to me as a little girl. The one and only time i got a response to a balloon contest, knowing WHERE my balloon flew to: it crossed the inner german border (without a visa!). A boy ... http://karlakracht.com/blog/illustration/globos/ detail of Calaveras televisiosas todo por un hoyito; by Leopoldo Méndez and Mariana Yampolsky, 1949 ephemera assemblyman. http://karlakracht.com/blog/graphics/calaveras-televisiosas-todo-por-un-hoyito/ MoMA | Tim Burton. This major career retrospective on Tim Burton (American, b. 1958), consisting of a gallery exhibition and a film series, considers Burton's career as a director, producer, writer, and concept artist for live-action and animated films, along with his work as a fiction writer, photographer and illustrator. Following ... http://karlakracht.com/blog/expo/tim-burton-expo-at-moma/ …and much more images at Raven Row, where they had an exposition about the collage master (Ray Johnson. Please Add to & Return. 28 February – 10 May 2009) Johnson used radical means to construct and distribute images, inadvertently inventing the ‘mail art movement’. He made art out of social life – ... http://karlakracht.com/blog/video/ray-johnson%e2%80%99s-history-of-video-art-%e2%80%93-karlas-clips/ Mein Fenster 1979 by Zbigniew Rybczynski http://karlakracht.com/blog/video/zbigniew-rybczynski/ from createdigitalmotion Imagine painting with projections, without the use of any paint, live and with out post-production. Blake Shaw and Bruno Levy of the new SWEATSHOPPE collective have done that with the use of Jitter and a laptop, transforming ordinary paint rollers into tools for apply real projections like light graffiti. ... http://karlakracht.com/blog/street-art/painting-with-video-live-projected-wheatpaste-with-sweatshoppe/ multitouch (barcelona) have made this brilliant installation. a very  human installation that replaces the screen/computer with a real, yes REAL person who comunicates with you.... just like skype or messenger. but real. how sad have our social interactions become.....? the best thing about it is its' real handmade look. if i ... http://karlakracht.com/blog/media-art/hi-a-real-human-interface/ from the guardian: Gustav Metzger: the liquid crystal revolutionary | Jonathan Jones | Art and design | The Guardian . Art is demolished to be recreated as science ... Gustav Metzger's Liquid Crystal Environment (1998-99) at London's Serpentine Gallery. Photograph: Johnny Green/PA A car has been parked inside the Serpentine Gallery in ... http://karlakracht.com/blog/art/gustav-metzger-the-liquid-crystal-revolutionary/ Naif magazine has launched a new project to fight against Malaria. They invited 12 artists to customize a doll. In the run of the year 2010, the collection will be exposed in various cities in Spain, amongst them Barcelona, Valencia and Madrid. After the tour the dolls ... http://karlakracht.com/blog/art/munekas/ video installation by El Palomar; Alfred Mauve/Karla Kracht Set in an elevator, this installation that reflects on the issues of nomadism and unusual living spaces. Installation view at "La Caldera", 13.06.2009. It was part of "nodes de gracia", a festival of contemporary creation in Barcelona. http://karlakracht.com/blog/video/hideouts_/ RECORD > AGAIN! - 40yearsvideoart.de - Part 2 concentrates on early German video art and shows numerous discoveries, which, for the most part, have no longer been available for viewing for decades. Included are major reconstructions, such as the installation »Schafe« by Wolf Kahlen from 1975, shown on six black ... http://karlakracht.com/blog/video/record-again-40yearsvideoart-de-%e2%80%93-part-2/ originally from Create Digital Motion » Free Video Projection Tool for Mac, Windows: Projection Mapping More Powerful, Adds Mixing. The mouths are yelling “yay, a new version of Video Production Tool!” Photo (CC) hc gilje. HC Gilje’s Video Projection Tool is a powerful, open-source, Max-produced tool for video projection and projection mapping on surfaces. ... http://karlakracht.com/blog/howto/projection-mapping-more-powerful-adds-mixing/ José Luis de Vicente - Espacios Sensibles "Un día, durante los meses que pasé en Japón como artista en residencia en la escuela IAMAS, estaba en mi habitación intentando hacer una llamada desde mi móvil, y noté que en algunas partes no tenía prácticamente cobertura, mientras que en otras la señal ... http://karlakracht.com/blog/art/artfutura-arte-pensamiento/ Seen at retroriff The film makers JUL&MAT have published a non-official {{1}} video clip for the song "On the Motorway" by the British duo Metronomy. Two paint brushes, various paint buckets and a hell lot of know-how is what they used to realise this wonderfully surprising clip. The mirroring of the images reminds ... http://karlakracht.com/blog/art/ink-blot-music-video/ articulo de "el pais" - 23-07-2009 El colectivo LaptopsRus organiza torneos audiovisuales en vivo en Cáceres, Madrid y Gijón Las programadoras y desarrolladoras ya no son una especie rara. Se multiplican por doquier, así como las representantes de la "generación laptop", sin otros lazos en el mundo que su fiel portátil. Es el caso ... http://karlakracht.com/blog/video/mujeres-vj-se-desafian-en-un-ring-digital-a-golpe-de-portatiles/ LIFE photographer Gjon Mili visited Picasso in 1949. Mili showed the artist some of his photographs of ice skaters with tiny lights affixed to their skates jumping in the dark—and Picasso’s mind began to race. The series of photographs that follows—Picasso’s light drawings—were made with a small flashlight in ... http://karlakracht.com/blog/art/light-painting-by-pablo-picasso/