CHOE U RAM
Integrating both mechanical and computerized movements within his sculptures ever since the late 1990s, Choe’s works push the genre of moving kinetic art toward its newer-generation iterations, such as robotic art. His sculptures sculptures’ skeletal systems often expose the mechanisms of its movement by laying bare its machine of motors, gears, and drives, while minimally relying upon a…
Read MoreKnown As Myself
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Known as Myself (@known.asmyself) Meet the Miniaturist Jen O’Connell from New York City. Jen is a middle school arts educator and multi-media artist working in small scale. Jen crafts art dolls and other scaled down props and constructs diorama scenes which she brings to…
Read MoreDrag Syndrome
from Vogue: Jess Kohl’s joyous short film following Drag Syndrome – a collective of drag kings and queens with Down’s syndrome – on a day trip to RuPaul’s DragCon UK is about empowerment. “I wanted to change the, ‘oh, they’re so sweet’ reaction that these individuals often receive,” Kohl tells British Vogue. “Drag Syndrome’s artists…
Read MoreTaipei Performing Arts Center
from Design Boom: The long-anticipated Taipei Performing Arts Center designed by OMA is complete and will officially open to the public on August 7th 2022. Situated in Taipei’s vibrant Shilin Night Market, the new cultural landmark is designed as a place for new possibilities in performing arts. The monumental architecture is made up of three theaters plugged into a central cube. ‘Theater has a very…
Read MorePortraits in Red
The “Portraits” series explores the diversity in human expression. The artwork cycles through interactions of those who have stood before the piece in the past. Each cycle shows a 4-second clip of an interaction, then resolving to a still portrait of that person until the next cycle/portrait begins (the cycle-time is set by the collector).…
Read MoreRACHMANINOV Sonata No. 2
I had the great pleasure of working with Yekwon Sunwoo for the premiere of my dance The Big Hunger with San Francisco Ballet. The Prokofiev score we were working with gave me a lot of pause because it is so complex, a seeming impossibility to play. It was hard to have faith that it could…
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