New site launch for contemporary photographer Caleb Charland. Charland’s photographic work is part phenomena and simple physics.
"… Much of this work pursues temporal phenomena and the influence of physical forces on matter. Photography serves my practice well as a means to experience this activity in a single moment or to combine several different moments into a single experience. |
For more information please visit: www.calebcharland.com.
David Trattles will be speaking this Friday at Ryerson University as part of Kodak Lecture Series. He will be speaking about his 15 years of cycling and trotting around the globe and his experiences as a documentary photographer. Trattle’s lectures and images are beautiful as well as wonderfully entertaining.
The lecture time and location:
7:30 pm, Friday, April 04, 2008 at the
Centre for Computing and Engineering, Lecture Theatre 103, 245 Church St.
Admission is free.
www.imagearts.ryerson.ca
More information about David Trattles please visit:
www.davidtrattles.com
www.gogozo.com
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Pangea Day through a live broadcast of film is bringing the world together for one day.
May 10, 2008 selected professional and amateur filmmakers will have their short films simultaneously screened around the world during the four hour long broadcast. The only criteria for the films is that they share an experience, provoke thought and inspire others. The broadcast will show a stretch of films, speakers and music hoping to bridge people through the power of a common emotion. Viewings of Pangea can bee seen globally at numerous official be hosted in Brazil, Egypt, India, the UK, Israel, the Palestinian Territory, Rwanda and the US. The program will also broadcast live on TV, online, and on mobile devices. Also there will be many public viewings being organized in cities everywhere, as well as everyone is welcome to sign-up and host their own viewing event. Pangea Day was founded documentary filmmaker Jehane Noujaim was awarded a TED Prize in 2006 for her wish to "bring the world together for one day a year through the power of film." Noujaim’s films include: startup.com and Control Room.
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I have to admit that its felt like a while since I’ve come across any contemporary artwork that has felt new and humbling. The latest issue of Damn Magazine has Chinese contemporary artist Zhang Huan’s work on it’s cover. Although I’ve seen images of Huan’s work in the past, I can not say that I was at all familiar with his work, nor have I seen his newer works personally. Zhang is primarily known as a performance and photo artist. He has put a temporary stop to performance as his more recent work has moved more towards sculpture and drawing.
The fascination with the newer work in not due to the imagery nor scale of the works, but to the primary material; burnt incense ash. Zhang Huan uses incense ash that has been gathered from Buddhist temples for both his drawings and sculptures. Incense ash, a simple and accessible material, carries within it deep roots in China’s religious/cultural traditions, as well as the prayers and wishes of an endless number of people.
Through the countless personal histories contained within one delicate material, Zhang Huan’s newer work seems extremely touching, very grounded and yet accessible no many levels. Even thought the Buddhist practice dictates that the experience outweighs the final material form, in Zhang’s case, both are quite humbling.
Zhang Huan links:
+ Youtube: Altered States: Art of Zhang Huan and Zhang Huan Studio
+ Saatchi Gallery
