Mi Yuming - Between Reality and Virtuality

ArtGate Gallery presents a new solo exhibition called "Between Reality and Virtuality" by chinese photographic artist  Mi Yuming. The exhibition will run from May 3 through June 9, 2012 at ArtGate Gallery,  who says; "Between Reality and Virtuality blurs boundaries: the conventional photographs combined with contemporary digital techniques blur the boundary between photography and mixed media, while the surreal images question the line between reality and virtuality in our everyday lives. 

As inhabitants of a media-inundated world driven by consumerism, we are exposed to a constant stream of images, all of which are attempting to discreetly change the way we think. Mi Yuming invites the viewer to question whether their thoughts are affected by this manufactured reality, what is real and what is superficial. Her images are enlarged and exaggerated, a vivid combination of real life captured through a camera lens and a digitally created virtuality.  Mi’s virtual reality reveals her desire and struggle for individual existence." See more;

Trace Heavens by James Nizam

James Nizam is showing (4 - 26 May, 2012) at Gallery Jones "Trace Heavens", an exhibition consisting in a photograph series about his very impressive geometric light sculptures made using directly the sunlight. I found a really good information about "Trace Heavens" and its process at Canadian Art; 

"The large black and white photographs depict the transformation of darkened rooms into uncanny light sculptures that intersect elegant geometry with math-class daydreaming. Bridling sunlight into streamlined rays via perforated and sliced walls, and with the aid of artificial fog to intensify the slants of light, Nizam creates imagery that might bend our perception of photography."  See more;

Douglas D. Prince

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"My creative evolution in photography is driven by my observations, my response to the environment, seeing things, and a need to manifest this vision into a tangible form. Another motivation is my curiosity about image processes and how these processes affect my perceptions. 

I’ve been working to build a personal vision where craft and content fuse, teaching me to see the world photographically. Photography is the tool I use to search my environment. For me, the medium is as important as the content in making an image and it is an integral part of the image making process. I have explored traditional and alternative processes with the same passion that I‘ve explored my environment. Whether I’m working with the camera, in the darkroom, or on the computer, I’m looking for juxtapositions, relationships and transformations that create new perceptions, fostering an insight into the elementary nature of things. I strive to make images where the ordinary is elevated to the extraordinary. I’m looking for things that I haven’t seen before." - Douglas D. Prince. See more;

Ruined Polaroids by William Miller

Ruined Polaroids by William Miller. As the title of this series says, these are some polaroid photographs which have been ruined, but I'm not sure about how they were impaired. They seem to be affected by some chemical reaction, as you can see in the following pictures they look very organic.  I couldn't find any info about the process of how they could be ruined, your comments and thoughts about, will be welcome. UPDATE: Info about the process into the post. See more;

Bernard Voïta

"Over the past years Bernard Voïta has worked almost exclusively in the medium of photography, although the way he does so is often compared to sculpture. In his work he challenges the medium’s boundaries and its imputations and sounds out its potential as well as questions of perception. Out of simple found objects, Voïta constructs three-dimensional models in his atelier, which he, in a second step, records with his camera. His works do not picture an out-there reality, but an arranged-by-the-artist, complex sculptural design that finds culmination in its photographic depiction. Thus images arise that allude to modernist architecture and city landscapes, or to arrangements and patterns that border on abstraction.These, via the composition, utilize the medium’s own effects, such as depth of field and the loss of real dimensions. The perspectivally arranged objects together conform to one plane.Which objects and arrangements are represented behind the images is no longer discernible to the eyes of the beholder. It is in the photograph itself that a meaningful dimension of the installation first gets composed into something new" - Gallery Bob Van Orsouw. See more;

Idle Speculation by Aaron Rothman

Aaron Rothman’s photographs, video and installation artwork explore perceptual experience of space in both natural and built environments.

"For Idle Speculation, I have digitally layered together multiple views of a scrubby patch of weeds and wildflowers growing in a half-built office park, controlling how each layer interacts with the others. The different image layers variously amplify specific aspects of each other, or cancel each other out. Details emerge and recede; the lines blur between what is natural and artificial, what is seen and what is believed." - Aaron Rothman. See more;

Magdalena Jetelova

"Magdalena Jetelova used illuminated lines to expose communication structure of the landscape; Crossing King's Cross - she uses lights to map out the future path of a train route as well as natural changes (in the Island Project / Islandský projekt – she enlists lasers to draw attention to the undersea intercontinental divide (mountainscape). In her geographical project, Songline 75° 36‘52‘‘ (1998) contemporary localization techniques are used to join two spots on the earth. This is possible thanks mainly to use of the imagination stemming from local traditions." - Lenka Dolanová. See more;

(re):media by Krista Wortendyke

(re):media by Krista Wortendyke, 2009.

"Although most of us have never experienced war, we are surrounded by its imagery. (Re): media is an exploration of the way imagery and information from movies, videogames, newspapers, and the Internet come together to form our perception of war. Having never experienced war first-hand I am forced to put my faith in mediated expressions of the thing itself. By combining the imagery I pillage from all these sources, there is a possibility that what I am creating is more real than the individual images themselves. Explosions are war's most universal and most spectacular signifiers. We are never falling short of this imagery. I have made use of these magnetizing images to show not only how the lines between fiction and non-fiction blur, but also to show how a mediated experience can become indecipherable from a real experience." - Krista Wortendyke. See more;

Tree, Line by Zander Olsen

Tree, Line is an ongoing series of constructed photographs rooted in the forest by Zander Olsen. As Olsen says; these works, carried out in Surrey, Hampshire and Wales, involve site specific interventions in the landscape, ‘wrapping’ trees with white material to construct a visual relationship between tree, not-tree and the line of horizon according to the camera’s viewpoint. See more;

Joshua Tree by Katie Miller

Katie Miller was born in Minnesota and holds a B.A. from Bennington College where she studied video and performance. Although she did not initially aim to focus on photography, it has always been a means for her to explore unconventional lifestyles and surrealist imagery. Recently, her work was exhibited at Milk Gallery in New York City and was published in Bullett Magazine's fall issue.

Katie currently resides in San Francisco and is preparing for a permanent move to New York in the fall. Other work includes a series of interviews she did for Print Liberation and recently co-curated a WALLPAPERS at 319 Scholes with Lindsay Howard featuring the work of Sara Ludy and Nicholas Sassoon. See more;

Jessica Eaton

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"Using a wide array of experimental, analogue-based photographic techniques such as colour separation filters, multiple exposures, dark slides and in-camera masking Jessica Eaton builds images on sheets of 4x5 film that address fundamental properties of photography such as light, chance, duration, illusion and spatial relations. - Clint Roenisch, Gallery.

Eaton says; “I often set up parameters for phenomena to express itself. In the best of cases I push things so that the response comes in ways that I could not have thought up until I was shown it on film. Once you get to see or experience something you can use it. Then you can use it to see something else.” See more;

Horizon by Sparky Campanella

Sparky Campanella's Horizon series is the point where natural and urban worlds collide at the horizon line. These photographs take the tension of man vs. nature and frame it as geometrically abstract composition. See more;

humphry scolombe by Wyne Veen

"humphry scolombe" is the latest cool photograph series by Amsterdam based photographer Wyne Veen. See a previous post and more info about Wyne's works here. See more;

TWR 72 - Tunnel

This is an awesome music video directed by MRRK and Ine van den Elsen for the song Tunnel by TWR72. I also really liked its edition by Ine van den Elsen, who says "It was inspired by their minimalistic sound with a huge climax, we made a 21st century version of the liquid light shows from the late 60′s, which they also use in their live preformance. All visuals in this video were made by hand." The reaction is produced mixing ink and oil. See more;

Aras Karimi

Monochromatic abstraction taken by Aras Karimi.

"Light is the subject of my works. I am interested in light as a story teller. In fact the scene in my works is the medium to picture light, its mood on different surfaces, and its personality in different spaces." See more;

Something specific about everything by Samuel Henne

"Something specific about everything" is a really cool sculpture + photograph  series created by Samuel Henne, consisting in minimalist sculptures made from everyday objects. Nice soft colors in the backgrounds! See more;

Asuka Katagiri

Asuka Katagiri, Tokyo, 1971. He is graduated from Department of Photography, Nihon University College of Art, 1994. Katagiri started photographing stars when he was thirteen. The following pictures are some (non manipulated) amazing shots from his "Light Navigation" series, cool soft tones! See more;

Sherwin Rivera Tibayan

"Best General View" is a conceptual photographic project by Sherwin Rivera Tibayan.

"The work considers both the recorded and irretrievable histories a person steps into when making a photograph in the American West. Using an old screen, found color slides and wall-sized projections, my images are a collaboration of sorts, taken both side-by-side and within the light and landscapes of an anonymous photographer, like a pair of familiar strangers on the same guided tour." - Sherwin R. Tibayan. See more;

Holes and Piles by Katarina Hruskova

I like this conceptual work called "Holes and Piles", created by Katarina Hruskova in 2010. Folded inkjet prints, A2. See more;

Hitoshi Nomura

Hitoshi Nomura made ‘Moon Scores’ between 1975 and 1979, the project consisted to take photographs from the lunar body moving across the night sky.  Nomura marked the film  with five lines, turning the photographs series into an item of musical notation. Transferring the notes to staff paper, he then had the chance compositions performed by a chorus and a string quartet. Later Nomura made a similar series called "birds" photographing just birds. See more;