Slide show, Pride art, Skeive kunstnere, Oslo, Brooklyn is watching, Second life

Digital graphic art and slideshow: Arm Strom

I am combining ink drawings, photos, and Second life snapshots taken at the sim Brooklyn is watching, "BIW", in Second life.

Snapshots of  "Cuboid shark eats cuboid goldfish" by Dekka Raymaker, "Member" by Selavy Oh, and my project "Weights and wasps". 

I am intrigued by the underwater "atmosphere" of virtual environments. The freedom, the weightlessness and lights. 

And, i am concerned abouth the future of the sea, this "aquarium", the vulnerable system...

Arm Strom

Don McCullinn in the national media museum, 8May -27 September 2009

"Donald McCullin, FRPS CBE (b. October 9, 1935, London, England), is an internationally-regarded British photojournalist, particularly recognised for his war photography and images of urban strife. His photojournalism career, which began in 1959, has specialised in examining the underside of society, and his photographs have depicted the unemployed, downtrodden and the impoverished". From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 

http://www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/exhibition/donmccullin/video.asp

"Photography for me is not looking, it's feeling. If you can't feel what you're looking at, then you're never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures". - Don McCullin, Sleeping With Ghosts : A Life's Work in Photography by Don McCullin (Photographer), Mark Haworth-Booth (Introduction), Donald McCullin , ISBN: 0893816590 , Page: 96

More quotations  http://www.photoquotes.com/ShowQuotes.aspx?id=140&name=McCullin,Don

Grace Jones - Corporate Cannibal, the video

 

"I am the ink in the squid": Grace Jones.  

Corporate Cannibal, from the album "Hurricane" 2008.

 "State of Grace", by Miranda Sawyer.  The guardian.co.uk. Saturday 11th October 2008. 

Brooklyn is watching in Second life, at the Boston CyberArts Festival april 24th - may 10th

"Virtual Reality Brings Interactive, Immersive Art to the 2009 Festival". http://bostoncyberarts.org/pdf/bcanews_20090406.pdf

Visit Artropolis, and the online virtual reality environment Brooklyn is watching in Second life. 

"Boston Is Watching," Saturday, April 25th,  at the Boston Public Library. The event presents in-depth look at a kind of art that is simply not possible in real life. "Boston Is Watching" is a mixed reality presentation, highlighting artwork created in Second Life at Brooklyn is watching.

http://brooklyniswatching.com/2009/03/26/boston-cyberarts-festiva/ 

The snapshot above is my contribution to the project "I,am Not Here". The snapshot was taken inside the installation of Juria Yoshikawa.  Photoes of Jurias project, are also shown in real life at CounterpArt Gallery in Lowell MA. 

Arm Strom

Snapshot: Theodor Kittelsen, ... and some kitsch

Snapshot: Arm Strom

Theodor Kittelsen, painter (1857-1914).  Well known for his illustrations of Trolls among other "things", in the norwegian Fairy Tales collected by Asbjørnsen and Moe.