Month: April 2010

Songs of Imagination and Digitisation

joellynrock Digital Narrative, Recently Noticed

songs_blake

William Blake collaborative book / website

Features: Sound and moving images, walks and talks, opportunities to participate.

http://www.futureofthebook.org.uk/blake/book.html

Songs of Imagination and Digitisation is an illuminated book for the digital age, published by if:book with support from Arts Council England. Unlike more conventional books on paper, Songs of Imagination and Digitisation contains sound and moving images, involves walks and talks, even an imaginary brain made of copper plates, plus opportunities to enter your own thoughts and ideas. The book grew over a few months, with commissions and themes emerging along the way.

UTOPIA MATTERS > show at Guggenheim

joellynrock Recently Noticed, Utopian Art

Nice to see this show coming up at the Guggenheim museum in NYC on a theme we worked with earlier this year…

Utopia Matters: From Brotherhoods to Bauhaus
May 1 – July 25, 2010
http://www.guggenheim.org/venice/exhibitions/utopia-matters-from-brotherhoods-to-bauhaus

Utopia Matters: From Brotherhoods to Bauhaus will examine a sequence of international case studies from the early nineteenth century through 1933, when the Bauhaus closed in Berlin and the ascendancy of Fascism and Stalinism curbed or negatively reframed artistic endeavors, and investigate the evolution of utopian ideas in modern Western artistic thought and practice. It will address the movements of Primitivism, the Nazarenes, the Pre-Raphaelites, William Morris and Arts and Crafts, the Cornish Colony, Neo-Impressionism, De Stijl, the Bauhaus, and Russian Constructivism.