Here is a brief overview of Brompton Design District, part of London Design Week 2012 over the few hours I had before getting on my flight. The good news is-the fun starts this weekend as they wrap!
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Sundaram Tagore Gallery Singapore Opening at Gillman Barracks
Thirteen art galleries, featuring some of the best contemporary art of our time, recently opens their doors to visitors from 15 September 2012 at Gillman Barracks, the new contemporary art destination in Asia. Sundaram Tagore Gallery is one of them.
Established in 2000 in New York City, Sundaram Tagore Gallery is devoted to examining the exchange of ideas between Western and non- Western cultures. Its interest in cross-cultural exchange extends beyond the visual arts into many other disciplines, including poetry, literature, performance art, film and music.
The gallery opens with a photography exhibition titled “The Big Picture”, which includes the work of world renowned photographers Henri Cartier-Bresson, Annie Leibovitz, Robert Mapplethorpe and Sebastião Salgado, all of whom have shown us alternate way to look at the world and fundamentally changed the way we see the world.
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Ushering in the Electronic Age: Ikkan Art Gallery’s “The Experience Machine”
Transition has been on my mind of late. Maybe that’s why I gravitated towards the insight noted in The Experience Machine’s catalogue essay on the industrial age making way for the “electronic era”, allowing for renewed “ways of seeing and experiencing our world”.
John F. Simon Jr., “Endless Victory”, Software, Apple Powerbook G4, acrylic plasticHow then does our current electronic era influence art? More than ever, artists are using technological advances to alter and challenge their practices and processes, giving rise to ‘New Media Art’, which comprises “constantly evolving hybrid technological art forms such as video art, digital art, interactive installation and customized software art”. (more…)