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the
cyber-kitchen

boy |
| Jess
Loseby
- co-curator/lead artist 'the cyber-kitchen' |
Country: UK |
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"I
can't get away from my hunger for the small, the domestic
or the downright trivial. I dream of cyber-kitchens..."
Jess
Loseby is a new but established net.artist from the
UK. She exhibits primarily on the net in net.art galleries
and exhibitions and at her own online gallery: http://www.rssgallery.com/ She has recently been invited
to become the artist in residence at furtherfield.org -
one of the first Internet residencies of it's kind.
Following
the success of the net.art project 'the Digital
Pocket Gallery' at ikatun.com (which she co-curated)
her first solo-curated project 'the-cyber-kitchen.com'
was launched in July 2002. This became co-curated
with Michael Takeo
Magruder in October 2002 as the project expanded.
Her work is also found in the Rhizome artbase. In
England she has shown her digital prints both nationally
and at central London venues.
Her
work centers around the cyber-domestic aesthetic.
Is there room in the global arena that is the net
for the small, the domestic and the whims of a neurotic
woman? Mixing words and animation her work is often
text based, sometimes using music and manipulated
photographs to create narratives and skewed perceptions
- reversing the view of the net telescope and narrowing
the field of vision. Jess Loseby is young(ish), has
three children, one husband and no time! |
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kitchen
counter |
| Pierre
Gauvin
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Country: Canada |
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My photographs form landscapes possesed with familiar, human, animal
and sacred presence. The familiar subjects are the
essential everyday landmarks. I have immersed them
in zones of shadow and mystery where there bleeds
sensual, absurd, humorous, spiritual and allegorical
lightning.
I
live and work in Montral, Canada where I've had several
solo and group exhibitions in artist run galleries
for the past 15 years. Some of my autobiographical
writing has been published. Back in 1989 I was a resident
artist at the Banff Centre in the Canadian rocky mountains
where I met Cathy Ward and Eric Wright. We maintained
our friendship through the years. Cathy and Eric made
me animal masks that I have used in accordeon playing
performances and in photographs. Lately I've been
using the masks with hair extensions. Hair has been
a theme in my work (as in Cathy's) for the past two
years during which I documented Montral's barber shops. |
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hob |
| Maya
Kalogera
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Country: Internet |
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interdisciplinary
artist
well,
i cook. and that's almost everyday. one day someone
will cook for me. and hopefully it will be before
nursing home. |
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window |
| Amie
Bolissian
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Country: UK |
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Amie
Bolissian was born in Canada of Armenian and British
parents and raised in London, England. She has studied
at various Art Colleges in London and Brazil including
Central St. Martins College and Chelsea College of
Art where she graduated with a BA (honours) in Fine
Art (Painting) in 1998.
She
has been exhibiting in London and abroad since she
was 19 and works in a range of media, including painting,
drawing, print and photography. She lives and has
her studio in East London but travels extensively.
In
the last three years she has exhibited in a variety
of venues including: The Green Door, Hackney(solo
show); The Tardis, Farringdon, for 'Hidden Arts';
Summer Rights Festival; Erotica exhibition, Olympia;
Ideal Homes Exhibiton; Solo show, First Out caf/Gallery,
Tottenham Court Rd; King of Clubs English Cultural
Centre, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Graphite Gallery, Vauxhall,
London |
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doorway
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I
am digital artist with a main area of interest in
3-d animation, compositing & special effects.
I hold a BA (Hons) in Digital Media. I've just been
graduated at Wolverhampton University and currently
working for "Shining Light Productions" Studio on
the animation project which will hopefully see its
light on Carlton TV later this year. I am also participating
in a few project competitions for various TV Channels.
My main ambition at this point is to be commissioned
to implement my own animation poject by the third
party. I feel very lucky to discover something that
could fill my life in terms of interest and career-wise,
and satisfy my hunger for creativity with a potenial
for not just earning a bit, but travelling possibly,
being mobile and flexible.
I
think, I am not too different from you lot - been
some places, seen some people, got some experience
(up and down). I would like to share the good things
that have come out of it. And definitely learn more...
from you. Good luck to everyone! |
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Cutlery
Drawer |
| Susan
Burgess
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Country: UK |
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Having
worked in a variety of mediums over the years I have
recently decided to develop my photographic work using
both traditional and digital photographic methods.
Original photographs may be scanned and altered using
a computer or, simply printed to be assembled into
a collage. Developing my photographic work I find
I naturally gravitate towards layering, tearing the
images and sometimes adding other found objects to
produce a collage. I seem to never be satisfied with
a pure photograph and need to constantly manipulate
the image either digitally or adding other mediums.
I want viewing the pictures to be more than a fleeting
glance, for them more to be explored by the eye' |
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milk |
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mug |
| Samantha Caine |
Country: USA |
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Boy
George once famously said, "I'd rather have a cup
of tea than have sex." Well I say "why limit yourself?"
Born
USA - serious automobile accident at 16 - lost parents
- suffered amnesia - developed Social Anxiety Disorder
- now completely house bound.
My
'artistic practice' is very much influenced by my
past. Both by what I have experienced and what I have
been unable to experience. My work is entirely computer/net
based. Having to work with what is available means
that I use mostly 'grabbed' images, sounds etc; detourning/updating
the art of previous female artists or using representations
of the female form by male artists. As an 'observer'
only, I find the politics of gender fascinating. And
although its not a debate I can enter into directly
on a day to day basis, I hope my work at least raises
interesting questions about sexuality/domesticity
and the place/representation of women in art (both
now and historically), from a female perspective -
albeit a strange one. |
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kettle |
| Jorge
Margolles |
Country: Spain |
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Born
in Gijon Spain 1965. Degree in Image and several photographic
course in London and NY.
Some
of my exhibitions: PhotoEspaa Descubrimientos.Centro
Cultural Conde Duque. Madrid Feria Internacional de
Arte contemporneo Mac21. Marbella.Espaa Instalation
Alzado Vectorial interactive art capital del Pas Vitoria-Gasteiz.
los Ferrocarriles Espaoles fonundation. A Virtual
Memorial 2002- New Media Art Project by Agricola de
Cologne. Alemania. infographie.univ-lyon. Francia.
Sicur. Galera Vertice. Oviedo. Sala Cultural Cajastur.
Gijn. Centro Cultural Antiguo Instituto Jovellanos.
Instalatin. muestra Sala Cultural Cajastur. Avils.
Centro Cultural Cajastur. Mieres. . Casa Municipal
de Cultura de Luarca. Antigua Rula. Instalacin. Gijn.
Sede de la Fundacin de Los Ferrocarriles Espaoles.
Fundacin Alvargonzlez. Gijn. Centro de Imagen EFTI.
Madrid. Caf Espaol. Oviedo. Asturias.
At
the moment I work in my studio as proffessional photographer
since 1999 |
| email:
Jorgemargolles@telecable.es |
web:
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bin |
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another
thing for networked environments. bin is a container,
a photograph album. only with photos, we keep them,
but with our litter, well, we throw it away...
please
deposit a photograph of the contents of your kitchen
trash can in the cyber-kitchen bin: http://www.devoid.co.uk/bin
(jpeg, best size about 320 pixels square or bigger,
no bigger than 50k) |
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mouse
hole |
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A
couple of Christmases ago I found some black grainy
things on my kitchen worktops and wondered what they
were. One night at about 3 a.m. I found out. That
blur running across the kitchen floor? That was a
mouse. So that stuff on the worktops? That was mouse
shit. I had a major freakout. I couldn't sleep. I
went out the next day with the thought running through
my head that the little bastard might be running through
my flat helping himself to whatever. I was being terrorised.
Where did he go? I knew roughly (he was somewhere
in my flat) but not precisely. So my first resort
was to the heavy stuff. Fifteen mousetraps. These
weren't clever, or humane, but they were precision
weapons, designed to get the job done a.s.a.p. Plus
I figured if they didn't work I could go chemical/biological
with some trays of proprietary poison (Rentokil have
their own range - a trusted brand makes for trusty
products, doesn't it?). I laid the traps and tried
to get some sleep. But I began to have second thoughts.
As much as the mouse was terrorising me and threatening
my way of life, wasn't I terrorising him and his?
We both wanted the same things, after all - to eat,
to reproduce, to roam free. Although I also wanted
a DVD player. Apart from that, we were very much alike.
I, however, had economic superiority and vastly greater
available resources thanks to my near-colonisation
of the local Savacentre. Knowing that, understanding
that, could we not just live and let live? No. I couldn't
stand the little long-tailed bastard crapping on my
worktops. So I left the traps where they were and,
a few minutes before midnight, I heard a loud SNAP
from the kitchen. I slept well that night. In the
morning there was a mess, sure, but I put it in a
black bag and I pay my Council Tax on time so someone
was sure to come and take the remains away for me.
The point was, I was in charge again. I'd been re-elected
president of my flat with an overwhelming majority.
That was a year and a half ago. Now, on a beautiful
sunny summer day in 2002, I climb the stairs from
the garden to the flat and see a mouse's tail disappear
between the floor and the skirting board of the kitchen.
Simon Morse lives & works in London |
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french windows |
| Lilian
Cooper |
Country: (based in the
Netherlands) |
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Born in France, living in Amsterdam
and both Dutch and British, I make art everywhere.
I am a traveller. This piece: Window is a result of
a brief residency in Lyon, France and a very urban
experience. I like to explore my immediate environment
in great detail. Much of my work concentrates on the
idea of place, belonging and our emotional attachment
to particular environments. |
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blender |
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objects
taped to fridge |
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window |
| Anna
Cecile Gabali |
Country: France (based
in the UK) |
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The
work: Digital artists spend more time developing projects
around life forget the spiritual part of art and this
is what I am exploring right now. I have sent the
boudha 'cause every body could understand. But other
work is based and different cults and and beliefs
(the death of christianity,the secrets of babylon,
old Jewish magic) etc.... All my work is digital..
I am rather bad at giving brief about myself so I
used my friend to talk about me.
Miss
Gabali can be described as an extrovert of all proportions,
one who lives life to the fullest naturally without
any addictives and is highly intellectual and humorous.
She warms the streetsand anywhere she goes with her
just her smile and charm and is yet to explore the
extreme of her own genius capabilities. Miss Gabali
is now concentrating on a few projects (music, digital
art) which are gradually taking off the ground. |
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under the
sink |
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In
the places I've lived the space below the sink has
usually been a scene of chaos: the antithesis of the
cleaning, washing, and scrubbing activities that take
place in the space above.
A
variety of stuff gets stored under the sink, "out
of sight, out of mind". Cans and jars of suspect liquids,
rubber gloves, rags, sponges, pot scrubbers, dust
pans, etc. Under-the-Sink is also a metaphor for the
imagination. When I work I begin by hauling out every
prop and material from boxes and cupboards. Art doesn't
get made in a tidy studio but takes on form in the
chaos. Objects that have been put away, lost, forgotten,
buried, or abandoned get resurrected in the process
of making new work.
Jo
Cook lives on Mayne Island, British Columbia, Canada.
Her work can be seen on: http://www.freemanifesta.org/ http://www.smallworldtokyo.com/ http://www.ikatun.com/digitalpocketgallery http://www.helsinki.fi/~jjmvanha/wallet.htm
This
year she is exhibiting her installations of drawings
and sculptures in Artist Run Centres across Canada.
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light switch |
| Kate
Armstrong |
Country: Canada (based
in New York) |
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Kate Armstrong is a writer and
new media artist who has lived and worked in Canada,
France, Japan, Scotland and the United States. Her
work has taken a variety of forms, from short fiction,
essays and a novel, to short films, experimental javascript
and hypertext applications, text-based flash animation
and installation. Her net art works have been exhibited
in international forums. Her first book of essays,
Crisis & Repetition: Essays on Art and Culture,
was published by Michigan State University Press in
2002. |
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clock |
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The
12-hour ISBN JPEG Project -----------------------------
began December 30, 1994
Pointless
Hypermodern Imagery... posted/mailed every 12 hours...
a spectral, trajective alignment for the 00`s! A continuum
of minimalist masks in the face of catastrophe; conjuring
up transformative metaphors for the everyday... A
poetic reversibility of exclusive events...
A
post-rhetorical, continuous, apparently random sequence
of imagery... genuine gritty, greyscale... corruptable,
compact, collectable and compelling convergence. The
voluptuousness of the grey imminence: the art of making
the other disappear. Continual visual impact;an optical
drumming, sculpted in duration, on the endless present
of theNet.
The
basic structure of the project has been over twenty-four
years in the making. While the specific sequence of
photographs has been presently orchestrated for more
than 12 years` worth of 12-hour postings, I will undoubtedly
be tempted to tweak the ongoing publication with additional
new interjected imagery. Each 12-hour posting is like
the turning of a page; providing ample time for reflection,
interruption, and assimilation. |
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sink |
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Sarah
Klein’s work manifests itself in video. Drawn
to the language of the home and the rituals of everyday
life, she shares in common the traditions of our recent
past.
Sarah
Klein graduated with a MFA from Mills College in Oakland,
California. Her recent exhibitions and screenings
include the Performance Art Festival at the Works
Gallery in San Jose, CA, the Film Arts Festival of
Independent Cinema in Berkeley, CA, the Intermedia
Festival in Cincinnati, Ohio, the De Young Museum,
Secession and Meridian Galleries in San Francisco,
CA. Recently she was awarded a project grant from
the Chez Panisse Foundation. |
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door |
| Nancy
Bechtol |
Country: -- |
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Independent
Videographer, Director, Producer, Editor, Educator,
Artist and Consultant. Multimedia Instructor at The
Illinois Institute of Art - Chicago. 99-current ARC
Gallery and Educational Foundation, President/Director.
99-01 Siggraph. Video Research Consultants. 84-87.
City of Chicago:Dept. Cultural Affairs-Coordinator
87-93; MOPD-Specialist, 93-99. Master of Fine Arts
from the School of the Art Institute, Chicago. Multimedia/
Time Arts. Master of Education, Loyola University.
InterArts/Columbia College. Interdisciplinary Arts
Program/Curriculum and Instruction. Exhibition record
locally, nationally and internationally. Recipient
of the Illinois Arts Council Fellowship award in Media
Art; American Video Conference Award, AFI/Billboard,
Midwest Regional Fellow/NEA; Tokyo International Video
Festival, Special Merit Award in Experimental Videoart. |
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door(outside) |
| Joseph
Franklyn McElroy & Donna McElroy |
Country: USA |
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The
world can be beautiful; we must envision it; the present
can become bearable; we must find our way out of it.
Art is a service, not a product.
Performance
has become a key term that in turns applies to experimental
art, worker productivity, and functionality of technical,
corporate, and military systems. Extrapolating from
the purist corporatist bent, when we call Performance
artistic, it references a cultural production that
is meaningful and has definable roles in relation
to the subjects of experience. Within a corporate
context, Performance as artistic must be expressive
within the experimental art domain, but also address
issues of productivity, repeatability, and functionality.
In the greater cultural context, Performance as a
work of art does not exist. What, does exist, are
services (design, labor, practices, management, etc)
that we call art. We explore these services as discrete
departments working towards a holistic goal. Service
is an act (or when considered a process - an action,
series of actions) done for others. Creation is an
act (or process). Contrary to Baudrillard, everything
did not begin with the object. Prior to the object
there is creation. Prior to maintenance, there is
creation. Prior to destruction, there is creation.
Or perhaps better, transformation (an act),since the
only true act of creation would be from nothing into
something (the initial act of God?). |
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cake |
| Nicolae
Comanescu |
Country: Romania |
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1998
Graduate University of Arts, Department of Visual
Arts, Bucharest 1998 Member of Rostopasca Group, Bucharest
2002 Curator_ Coop Media Festival Bucharest _ Open,
Lido di Venezia, Hyperhouse by Mona Vatamanu
Personal
Exhibits: 2001 Demo, Lex Luthor Found Projects, Gad
Photogallery (with angela, floe) 2000 Rostopasca Cultural
Weeks, Briemberg Algorithm, with floe, Atelier 35,
Bucharest |
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'meetingtray' |
| Agricola
de Cologne |
Country: Germany |
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interdisciplinary media artist
from Germany, creator and founder of NewMediaArtProjectNetwork
- the experimental platform for the arts in Internet
The
meeting place
Traditionally
is the kitchen a meeting place, often enough that
very place where family members meet only once a day
early in the morning for breakfast, or where the most
constructive and inventory conversations are made
while someone is cooking. Sometimes in between the
family's son has an intimate contact on the kitchen
table - woman or man, who knows? And finally late
at night, the tired mother cannot sleep in and takes
some supplemetary stuff. What a day! What a meeting
place! |
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knives |
| Caterina Davinio |
Country: Italy |
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Caterina
Davinio, Italian artist and writer, curator. She is
one of the first artists in Italy, who experimented
new technologies (as video, computer and Internet)
in literature since 1990; as curator she has brought
the attention of the public and of the critic to the
connections between experimental poetry and technologies,
by organizing, since the beginning of the 90s itinerant
festivals, which have brought the Italian performance
and visual poetry in contact with the circuit of the
video, computer and web art. As an artist Caterina
Davinio has made computer art , audio-visual digital
poems, real time computer interactions, installations,
computer printings exhibitions, Internet performances
and projects. Her works were showed in universities
and museums, in international exhibitions and festivals,
in Italy and in other countries (Greek, Spain, Portugal,
Germany, USA, Brazil, Argentina, France, etc). |
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dogfood |
| Rene'
Joseph |
Country: USA |
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Every
kitchen needs a dog. They smell when the food is done
cooking, so food is never burnt. When living alone,
one also needs the physicality of someone to share
ones cooking with, and dogs are very handy here. They
are not fussy--if you run out of dog food, dogs will
eat just about anything, including cat food. In fact,
you have to keep the food high enough on the counter,
as dogs will eat even when they are not hungry. Because
of this curious trait, they also make great vacuums,
cleaning up every last crumb and food spill. And,
best of all, curiosity only kills cats, at least in
the e-world of make-believe, where the friendship
of a dog is forever. |
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plug socket |
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I
am a lecturer in Multimedia at University of Northumbria
(Newcastle, England) and just starting a Practice-based
Fine Art PhD in Interactivity. I also work in The
Cluny studios in Byker, Newcastle, recycling paintings
into TV sets,prayer flags for the new techno-religion
and sheds. |
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Philosophy
of accepting is turning point in humanity progress.
At the same time man cannot accept own mistakes and
usually make anothers guilty for his own problems.
For those people its easy to laugh or give advices
to anothers but for them its not possible to be aware
of ownself. In my life I take position of own observer
and with dose of cynicisms and performed me and my
body. I try to act without false ego and accept the
fact state which is giving me possibility of realising
general situation. In cruel reality I approach to
children, looking at their relation toward life.There`s
everything is possible. Components of unreal are based
on real happening. Children imitate adults and the
adults with their acting and irresponsibility remind
to children. Life becomes game and game life. Art
work together with philosophy and visual levels, have
to have atmosphere of moment to be complete and to
get individual feature. Im trying always to go further,
thinking that man have to be universal, equally good
in every his activity field. Step by step: from sketch
to drawing, from drawings to painting, from paintings
to performance, from performances to photography,
from photography to video, from video to video installation
and to interactive object. Using of new medias have
only the sense and meaning in service of idea. Visual
aspect than attain a goal to make something permanent. |
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pets and
pests |
| Saraswati Gramich |
Country: (based in France) |
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Born in 1967 in Colombo
EDUCATION
1998 - 1999 Master of Arts in Fine Art. Royal Melbourne
Institute of Technology (RMIT) at LASALLE-SIA College
of the Arts, Singapore 1996 Bachelor of Arts in Fine
Art (Painting) with Distinction. Royal Melbourne Institute
of Technology (RMIT) at LASALLE-SIA College of the
Arts, Singapore 1993 - 1995 Diploma in Fine Art (Painting).
LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts, Singapore
SOLO
EXHIBITION
2001 Shift, Flex, Listen, Feel. Socit Gnrale Gallery,
Alliance Franaise de Singapour 2000 Installation art
in a public space at the official opening of the new
Piaget Boutique. Takashimaya Shopping Centre, Ngee
Ann City Tower B, Singapore. |
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bottles of alcohol |
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pasta jar |
| Carla
Della Beffa |
Country: -- |
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Spaghetti,
pizza, espresso, cappuccino... Italian food is loved
everywhere, but sometimes its origins aren't known
(Some Americans think they invented pizza!) That's
why Carla Della Beffa has concocted her new work.
It's entirely visual, but is mostly about sound. Try
to hear the sounds in your mind and you'll have a
taste of Italy.
Carla
Della Beffa is a well known Italian multimedia artist
and painter. She works with still and moving images,
words and sounds. Sometimes she manages to fit other
senses, like taste, smell or hearing, into paintings.
She often succeeds in making her art become a multi-layered
experience. |
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