Beck has succeeded to do so too I think in this homage. The New York based photographer has been collaborating with web designer Kevin Berg to evolve and animate his image stills. There is no sound yet there are fleeting moments. Rather than frozen in time the image is captured, held for a moment and released once more to captivate. These moving silent images speak for themselves in a poetry outside of our mainstream experience.

In some ways they remind me of the impressions made by the work of the silent motion picture, of Charlie Chaplin’s 1931 City of Lights, almost a century ago, and by the mime-artisty of Marcel Marceau; both figures in whose presence, one might think, McQueen would possibly feel at home.

Shotz’s work has in the past been shown at the Guggenheim Museum, along with various gallery shows. Forthcoming shows include solo shows at Espace Louis Vuitton, Tokyo Japan later this year, and the Phillips Collection in D.C. in 2012.

The work shown here is a piece called Standing Wave, that was installed at the Wexner Art Center, Columbus Ohio in 2010.

Artist Anne De Vries’ recent work ‘forecast’ takes one through the alternate reality of future scape led by the voice of Bertrand Russell. Click on the image below to walk into the work in motion…

The work produced here is part of Jstchillin‘s exhibition series staged by 319 Scholes in Brooklyn, New York. This is an exhibition by thirty-five artists, all of whom can be seen on JstChillin.org. Read/Write attempts to capture and translate the spirit of each artists’ year and a half long online exhibition dating October 2009 – February 2011. The exhibition ran from March 17th – March 30, 2011.

“This technology was meant to expand human communication, but you’re not even human any more! What you’ve become terrifies me. You’re a freak!”Dr. Angelo in The Lawnmower Man (1992)Sounds by James Whipple, Technological assistance by Timur Si-Qin
In De Vries work the text is by Bertrand Russell, “Philosophical Consequences” from The ABC of Relativity

It is disturbing to think of the mind’s plans and the actuality of life. What we create in the picture of our mental vision shines inside our cranium and the picture tube of our heart. The only solace in all this is that my mental faculty has not been harnessed by some other framework of programming, and I remain ‘Lady’ of my inner satellite station. To put it another way, four hours of a back-to-back-episodes marathon of ‘gossip girl’ or ‘hollywood movie classics’; in which I have no gain by the chosen content, no power to influence the outcome of each episode, and no interactive learning to complete; is basically a relic of my near distant past. Simply said the inactive stimuli is no longer taking up my time. I watch pieces of lace behind glass screens and dream up manipulations and utilities, which has translated to a collection of lacy bits and pieces. What still needs to evolve in this equation is the actual activity of processing the thoughts into action, but at least in 3 years I’ve progressed to a more articulated idea of expressed inner perception.

Cut work and Needle laces from Italy in the late 16th, early 17th Century; from the Metropolitan Museum collections. “Seventeenth-century lace has a voluminous character—rather than the light and airy form of later periods—reflecting an era when luxury was equated with grandeur…

Perhaps it comes down to that simple adage: ‘a stitch in time saves nine’.

Poetry does not just appear out of thin air.

And so, like a string of unspoken words, I am filtering through textiles and period room photographs from the Met, and their order will make no difference at all.

The ceiling lights in the atrium are fabulous; I’d love to know which firm was responsible for them and am in the process of trying to find out. Along with all of downtown I am eagerly awaiting a peak through the new Whitney site downtown, scheduled to open in 2015. One can track the building works development here; and see the taster of things to come in the street art programme that has been running around the site for some time now. It’s another beautifully considered addition to the High Line area and the ever beautifying Meatpacking District.