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Things That Talk

2012-01-17T18:45:00.000+02:00

build up *& opening
Things That Talk // Vienna Art Week 2011

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Vienna Art Week 2011

2012-01-17T01:18:00.000+02:00

plaster sculpture - 174x129x16 mm

Things That Talk

image © Iulian Moise

prank fossil found 1881 by Josef Szombathy - at that time an assistant at the k.u.k. Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna - while carrying out the first systematic excavations at the Johann von und zu Liechtenstein cave [Mladeč Cave]. Such finds are of course not unheard of, but this specific item intrigued Szombathy, so he decided to preserve it in the archive of the Freunde des Naturalienkabinetts.

*The items exhibited on the central staircase of the Museum of Natural History Vienna have been selected from the long-standing collection of the Friends of the Natural History Cabinet Association. The initiator of the first soireÅLes in the mid-eighteenth century is said to be the illustrious Emperor Franz I (Franz Stephan of Lorraine) himself, whose private Natural History Cabinet is considered to be the origin of the Museum of Natural History. In pursuit of new scientific insights, the Emperor gathered a circle of like-minded amateur collectors and well-known experts, forming an association with the aim to present and create a discussion around current research. Members of the club started to collect objects that were of special interest to their discussions. Over the following decades, this compilation of items seems to have grown more in peculiarity than in number, which is why it has been suggested that parts of the collection have gone lost. Also, rumour has it, in the years it has been stored and almost forgotten in the cellar of the museum, some items have been assumed part of the collection, which were not previously included. The social tradition of the Friends of the Natural History Cabinet Association continues still today, with current members holding regular meetings in the form of a dinner at the museum each week. For this current exhibition selected items from the association’s collection were prepared for display by the Art & Science class / University of Applied Arts Vienna in collaboration with the Friends of the Natural History Cabinet Association*

www.dieangewandte.at/artscience

Christmas wine

2012-01-04T00:39:00.000+02:00

wine bottle + glass cutting workshop + 100 white LED Christmas lights

as it was important to make the lamp from this specific bottle (have it since April ^^), the wrapping of the gift was made by multiplying the label.

giveaway packaging

2012-01-03T18:47:00.000+02:00

Pringles can / cut to size + tape + old paper bag + double sided tape + spray paint + cut foam

giveaway

2011-12-23T23:13:00.000+02:00

emerging as a byproduct of the work I've done for Vienna Art Week '11 (more on that .soon), these are various stages of coffee cup shaped plaster ..ashtrays (or at least that's what I picture them to be).

Monday, December 12

2011-12-20T00:14:00.000+02:00

book launch

An envelope for arts, sciences, politics and us
Mixing realities and mediating myths & methods

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I'm on a horse in a book

2011-12-11T17:59:00.001+02:00

I'm ~~on a horse~~ in a book ..

An envelope for arts, sciences, politics and us
Mixing realities and mediating myths & methods

tomorrow's the day :]

Book launch | 12.12.2011 | 6.30PM | Raum D, MQ

Sealed in the book/envelope are a variety of thoughts, images, considerations, and theoretical references about the immediate and broader context of establishing an Art & Science class at the University of Applied Arts of Vienna. Two main sources of material are combined: first, contributions that document the development of the department; and second, contributions by invited guests and interesting positions that refer to a wider art/science field. The compiled materials reflect upon experimental investigations into the reality of production of systems, discourses, and institutional structures. The book contributes to the questions of how artistic and scientific methods and practices relate to each other, and how these relations can be enriched and transformed.

Introduction
Gerald Bast (Rector University of Applied Arts Vienna)
Bernd Kraeftner (Department for Ontological Patchworks)
Virgil Widrich (Head department Art & Science)

Laudatio
Herwig Kopp (Conceptual artist / Social designer / Co-founder ADN - Association of Diversification & Novelty)

With contributions by

Michael Bachhofer, Thomas Bugnyar, Pepa Bugueiro Domingo, Oron Catts, Alin Cîrstea, Sarah Duit, Romana Egartner, Anna Fatér, Rudolf Friemel, Nikolaus Gansterer, Michaela Grass, Martin Groedl, Juliana Herrero, Tom Holert, Ashley Holwell, Anna Fríða Jónsdóttir, Bernd Kraeftner, Bruno Latour, Michael Marencik, Iulian Moise, David Palme, Valérie Pihet, Leon Ploszczanski, Johanna Schaffer, Waltraud Schartmüller, Richard Schwarz, Wolfgang Schwarzenbrunner, Manuel Stark, Sabina Teichert, Beniamin Urbanek, Victoria Vesna, Andrea Weidlich, Virgil Widrich, Brigitte Zwick

Book design
Pepa Bugueiro Domingo, David Palme

Editors
Valerie Deifel, Bernd Kraeftner, Virgil Widrich

Published by
“Edition Angewandte” book series of the University of Applied Arts Vienna at
SpringerWienNewYork in November 2011

English, Softcover, 244 p., 155 illus., 98 in color, ISBN 978-3-7091-0989-2

www.dieangewandte.at/artscience

geometry.wikipedia.christmas

2011-12-05T15:08:00.001+02:00

SkeletOn.SkeletOff

2011-10-19T19:23:00.002+03:00

Video made for Dusky's MA Collection.

Video by: Ina Muntean
Editing by: Alin Cirstea
Model: Elena Muntean
Music: Alva Noto - mm

For more details check her blog:
dushky.com

Thursday, September 22

2011-10-10T03:09:00.000+03:00

Silent Strike @ B72, Vienna

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challenging

2011-09-26T20:06:00.002+03:00

drool

2011-07-11T23:36:00.003+03:00

screen printing for the first time

thanks go out to David (sharing his knowhow & tools) 'n' lunchbreath (letting me use his design)

packman_gura | Processing 1.2.1

2011-06-06T18:31:00.006+03:00

Processing code :

float x = 0;
float y = 300;
float z = 200;
float step = 2;
float step2 = 1.5;

void setup() {
size(1000,500);
//background(0);
}

void draw() {
background(0);
fill(255,255,0);
ellipse(x, 250, 100, 100);
smooth();

fill(0);
ellipse(x+15, 220, 20, 20);
smooth();

triangle(x, 250, x+80, y-50, x+80, z+50);
smooth();

x += step;
y -= step2;
z += step2;

if (z > 250) {
z = 200;
}
if (y > 250) {
y = 300;
}
if (x > 1050) {
x = -50;
}

//saveFrame();
}

image sequence animated with VirtualDub 1.10.0 @45fps

penser avec

2011-05-15T18:17:00.002+03:00

Based on an advertising campaign that van Laack did in the beginning of the 70s with Marcel Broodthaers; the advert was published in Der Spiegel on March 22 1971.

Broodthaers wears a van Laack luxury shirt and smokes a cigar. He looks suave and sophisticated as one would aspect in such an advert. The caption beneath the photograph enlightens us that, 'The Director of the Musée d'Art Moderne, Départament des Aigles, refused to wear the van Laack monocle.' On the advert Broodthaers wrote: 'What should we think of the relations that link art, advertising and commerce? M.B. (the director).' By displaying the advert alongside catalogue covers Broodthaers seems to suggest that this relations are rather close, and that, whether in the form of catalogues or for a van Laack shirt, art/the artist is presented through advertising.

Marcel Broodthaers: strategy and dialogue by Deborah Schultz

t-shirt packaging

2011-03-09T22:48:00.002+02:00

Pringles can + black permanent marker + :D sticker

2011-02-11T20:25:00.001+02:00

gift wrapping

2011-02-06T17:58:00.001+02:00

old paper bag + double sided tape

time

2010-08-18T16:13:00.000+03:00

time from Alin Cirstea on Vimeo.

vernisaj licenta

2010-07-29T22:29:00.000+03:00

time - making of

2010-06-23T17:45:00.003+03:00

time

2010-06-18T09:24:00.008+03:00

late @ night with a projector

2010-06-14T23:14:00.002+03:00

artlessness

2010-03-29T12:28:00.003+03:00

bad trip ?

2010-03-12T22:38:00.005+02:00

kitsch it

2010-01-28T12:17:00.002+02:00

self-portrait

2010-01-23T17:01:00.002+02:00

inspired - 56 - fail

2009-12-16T20:56:00.001+02:00

twister

2009-09-29T20:51:00.002+03:00

9 3 1 A M 0 7 0 9 2 0 0 9

2009-09-07T17:12:00.002+03:00

1 5 7 P M 0 2 0 9 2 0 0 9

2009-09-02T14:04:00.002+03:00

8 4 0 A M 2 8 0 8 2 0 0 9

2009-08-28T23:20:00.004+03:00

p o i n t s

2009-08-14T17:41:00.001+03:00

e x

2009-08-11T15:40:00.002+03:00

tehnici

l i t t e r

2009-07-08T21:44:00.002+03:00

studiul compoziţiei

f a s t f o o d

2009-07-06T15:03:00.005+03:00

psihologia formei şi culorii

complicity

2009-06-14T19:22:00.015+03:00

sound:
Nostromo from Knock on the Sky and Listen to the Sound by Daniel Dorobantu

k e e p s a k e s

2009-06-12T00:33:00.003+03:00

Die kahle Sängerin

2009-05-19T13:13:00.004+03:00

www.thebigpicturelibrary.com/alincirstea

dissonance

2009-04-28T21:58:00.002+03:00

gusta culori :D

2009-03-04T22:04:00.008+02:00

CONCURS DE AFISE MANYFEST - premii: o pereche de shoes de la UMAN si materiale de desen in valoare de 100lei

www.manyfest.ro

greed

2009-02-06T04:37:00.003+02:00

nice shoes! wanna ... ?

2009-02-01T16:04:00.005+02:00

c face plictisealea...

.high key

2009-01-20T01:35:00.001+02:00

Monday morning tune

2009-01-19T02:01:00.005+02:00

cu brush-u pe un 50x70 listening to Kaskade ft. Becky Williams - 4 AM (Adam K & Soha Radio Edit) :D

.sacrifice

2009-01-14T14:22:00.001+02:00

2009

2009-01-04T01:29:00.000+02:00

well e 2009... si am zis sa fac ceva c nu am facut in 2008... un blog :P :D