The library at Winchester has an awesome collection of artists books. One-off pieces and rare volumes, either works themselves or constructed to detail work.

Mel and I went in to have a look at a few of them today - I looking for inspiration and Mel following her English Degree nose in persuit of beautifully bound paper.

In Southampton Uni’s online library search I found a book ‘Andrew Carnie: survey of works 1981-2004′. Andrew was my tutor last year and his background as a scientist caught my imagination as did his very pragmatic, cerebral attitude to art, which he kept without losing his ability to produce visually captivating work.

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Rube Goldberg: (Wikipedia entry)

Some of Rube Goldberg’s inventions: (Linked from Rubegoldberg.com)

Shop window

Pencil sharpner

Dodging the bill collector

Solution for not forgetting to mail your wife’s letter

Picture snapping machine

Safe device for ice

Keep the boss from knowing you’re late

Tee up a golf ball

Never miss putter

Golf inventions

W. Heath Robinson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

Haven’t really had a chance to look at this properly but I’m interested in the concept. Perhaps I should have just put it in my Del.icio.us ‘to-read’ section, but I figured I’d post it anyway.

Justin Mullin’s website has only been up for a few months (as of 1.2.06) but has already received a huge number of hits.

There is also an article about his work at the The Guardian.

Guardian Unlimited | Arts features | Jonathan Jones on Madame XXX and other paintings controversial in their day:

A really interesting article looking at the context of Madame XXX and the scandal that surrounded it.

American artist who paints some of her scenes from childhood memories.

Click here and search for ‘Shall We Gather at the River’.

Not a big fan of her work per se - it appears a bit ‘cutesy’ to me, but there’s some interesting ideas here.

Okay this site is ABSOLUTELY AWESOME! It’s interactive poetry by Australian Artist/Poet Simon Pockley. The text leads you along, asking you to follow the links embedded in words and pictures only the choices grow and the narrative unfolds depending on the choices you make. It’s phenomenally powerful if you give it time to become engrossed in the words and the images.

The following link starts midway through but has some images that are linked with memory:
Here

This is the link for the beginning of the piece:Memory Lines

This is the link for the homepage

Some discussion on memory here.
Click on image for link to the website

No idea who this person is - yo no hablo Frances. But there are some very lovely images here that following on from the materials I’ve been using for the sculpture part of the Memory unit.

• Fragile I love the sense of tension in this picture, there’s a hint that the leaf is about to move|change|alter.
• Bois Similar to some of the images I’ve got from the wood I’ve been using.
• 205 I just like this one!
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Seeing Through Grief

Work by Steve Tucker from 1998 dealing with the loss of his partner. There is a very beautiful and well executed work here plus a good article to boot. I can’t find any more on him at the moment though

The strong use of the eye draws you into the piece before you see through it to the confusing and unexpected vice supporting the glass: Citypaper.net article

I like pin-hole cameras. I like this. Check it out

A few links to more information on Victor Shklovsky

• Bio 1
• Art as Technique
• Bio 2
• formalism

Patrick Hughes uses paint and 3D canvasses to create perception-puzzles.

• here is the link to his homepage

• here is a link to a piece of his work (a 300kb download)

Link to my thoughts.

The following was taken from a Guardian article from 2004

It will shock. But then that’s what modern art is all about. In a move that takes art to unheard of extremes, a British-based artist is to transplant a human ear on to his arm.
Using techniques of advanced plastic surgery, performance artist Stelarc, originally called Stelios Arcadiou, is to grow the ear in a biotech laboratory and have it grafted on to his forearm. 

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my link to this article put on The-Ocean was commented on by SteamSHIFT:

It’s funny how people are so ready to ask the question ‘is it art?’ before really looking at the work in the context in which it is being created. Funny thing is, this is illiciting the same response that the works of Monet, Manet and Van Gogh did in their day. For that matter every generation of artist faces the same issue. Why do we still insist on asking the question? Laziness? It takes much more effor to understand a work in context and then offer critisism based on its merits WITHIN THAT CONTEXT.

A photographer working on both commercial projects as well as personal, privately funded, ones. Lives and works out of London.

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These links were first posted by SteamSHIFT as part of a comment on Perception Course Diary #2 - I think this is worth putting up as this artist/philosopher makes some really interesting points

Might take me a while to get my head around some of it though!

Follow these links here:
Emergent Properties
Virtual Environments and the Emergence of Synthetic Reason
The Work of the Philosopher

(Cheers Binnit!)

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