[Nettime-bold] ADMINS! URGENT ! - real title : (Shiho Fukuhara and Charles Lim at CSM degree show)

["Saul Albert" <saul.albert@virgin.net>]

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Dearest admins,

thank you thank you thank you for your ceaseless toil, sorry to shout at you
like that...

I wanted to get this out before the next announcer digests it.. I've just
realised that the show will be over by tomorrow evening so at least this
will give a few people a chance to see it. To justify it's omission form the
announcer I've written some drivel to bulk it out into a post. If it doesn't
cause your RSI to flare up, could you please change the title too?

Thanks and all the best,

Saul

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In Central St. Martin's 2001 BA Fine Art show two students have produced
some great computer based art.

Charles Lim's laptop displays a hyper-real 3d model of the room in which it
is installed. Every 30 seconds the lights in the virtual and physical rooms
reverse - as one lights up, the other darkens to an over-emphasised ambient
noise recording. The ambient light appears to be sucked from the room into
the laptop as it and then explodes from it as it switches off.

PLEA: I wish I could remember the name of the artist/artwork he is quoting
with this.. a domestic lamp sits in a room. When switched on - the room
lights go down...creating the same optical illusion as described above. Can
anyone help? Bruce Lacey maybe?

His Quake mission in the Tate Modern is less interestingly displayed (no
frills: computer, joystick, table, chair) but beautifully drawn. While art
students all around the Tate were making charcoal sketches of the art he was
walking around with his laptop measuring proportions and emulating textures.
A highlight is that there are choice bits of art that you can blow up or
shoot. I've never enjoyed Bill Viola more than when assaulting his birth,
life, death triptych with a laser cannon.

Shiho Fukuhara's  low-res digital projection acts like a broken magic
mirror, displaying a looped video clip of the last few seconds of the
viewer's activity. The motion is jerkily reminiscent of 1920's manually
driven camera work or poor quality digital surveillance footage. Her
installation revisits themes of earlier electronic art, but is executed with
a light touch, wit and fluency that 'interactive' art people like Lynn
Hershman Leeson could only have dreamed of (her "Paranoid mirror" 1995 was a
kind of austere SERIOUS version of this piece).

It's interesting to see electronic art coming from St. Martins. Having
suffered at their hands myself I am aware that there are no tech art
resources or support to be found anywhere, but these students have obviously
managed to beg, borrow and steal their way to getting some brilliant work
made.

The Central St. Martins show finishes on the 5th July (today!) but is open
until 6 p.m..so HURRY. Charles Lim's work is on the 5th floor and the 7th
floor. Shiho Fukuhara's work is on the 7th floor. 116-119 Charing Cross Road
London WC1 (Tottenham Ct Road or Leicester Square tube).









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