‘Charlotte’, a unique Limited Artist Edition of Searching for Sebald, is currently being featured in a display of new acquisitions at the Long Beach Beach Museum of Art.
Category: News
ICI Friend, Jeremy Quinn, in Exhibition
New video installation by artist and friend of the ICI, Jeremy Quinn, entitled Mountain II is showing this weekend. “Mountain II is an attempt to build a mountain range using methods inspired by image mapping in 3d modeling software and Google Earth’s terrain view – composited video landscapes are projected onto a faceted construction, stretching the image out as it follows the shapes of the form. The video is in some places abstracted, distorted and pixilated, and in other places a clear representation of landscape.”
Opening reception this Sunday, January 27th, from 2-5 pm at José Drudis-Biada Art Gallery, Mount St. Mary’s College. The show will be on view until March 23, 2013.
ICI Associate and Friend in Exhibition
Long-time ICI associate, Christel Dillbohner and friend of the ICI, Christine Nguyen, are featured in a new show titled WASHED UP: Ocean in Peril. In the wake of Hurricane Sandy and the tsunami that hit the coast of Japan in 2011, ‘the twenty artists gathered in this exhibition individually respond to the bewildering problems in the deep and on our adjoining shores.’
The exhibition is showing at El Camino College Art Gallery from February 11 – March 7, 2013.
Festival of (In)appropriation
Festival of (In)appropriation
Sunday, November 11, 2012 at the Egyptian Theather.
Co-curated by our current Visualist-in-Residence, Greg Cohen
Orhan Pamuk’s Museum of Innocence
Brought to our attention by Christian Smith, an ICI collaborator, 100/10 curator and photographer (see his recent portfolio of artists here) – here is Orhan Pamuk’s Museum of Innocence — in pictures.
The Museum of Innocence is both a novel and a museum by Orhan Pamuk, that were conceived together. The two exist and can be enjoyed separately but provide a platform for greater depth and understanding when enjoyed together. The novel was published in 2008, the museum opened in Istanbul, Spring 2012.
Never Sorry
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, a film by Alison Klayman is now playing in theaters.
Visual Technology Tools Online
The ICI’s Visual Technology tools are now available to view online here in the ICI’s Laboratory blog, under the categories ‘Tools + Arcana’ and ‘visual technologies’.
Speculative Pentimenti Catalog
Working within the framework of the ICI’s 2012 research theme of “phantom worlds” and fueled by our long-held belief that all human activities leave behind a visual trace, Speculative Pentimenti presents a visual exploration of contemporary society through the works of artist and longtime associate Sande Sisneros.
The catalog features full-color images alongside essays from curator Sue-Na Gay, and ICI Director Lise Patt.
Publisher: ICI Press
Retail Price: $35
The Speculative Pentimenti Catalog is available in the ICI Gift Shop.
Past Display – A Museum of Infinite Possibilities
A Museum of Infinite Possibilities
February 25 – April 15, 2012
“I am familiar with the surface of things…Fraying, tattered, cracked, flattened, swollen, dried, scrawny, bristling, moldy, clenched, tangled, punctured, battered, bashed-in, scooped-out, withered, engorged, trampled, toppled, crushed, bald, listing, leaning, twisting hanging, buried, wedged, jammed, impaled, straggling, stretched, disjointed, disembowled, skinned, docked, gnawed, entrenched.” (Rosamond Purcell, Owl’s Head: On the Nature of Lost Things, Quantuck Lane Press, NY, NY, 2003, p. 29)
Inspired by Rosamond Purcell’s imagined museums, the ICI opened the drawers to its Ephemera Kabinett and invited the public to unleash its many secrets.
Museum of Obsolete Tools
Museum of Wires
Museum of the Croquet and Musket Ball
Museum of Natural Disasters
Museum of Ruined Landscapes
Museum of Failed Attempts
Museum of Filthy Mail
Museum of Bisected Objects
Museum of Corrosion
Visitors had the opportunity to suggest new categories for the ICI’s Ephemera Kabinett database (“fraying, moldy, trampled, skinned, withered”) as they re-arranged objects from the archive into ever-changing, new ‘museum collections.’
ICI Associate Christel Dillbohner in New Exhibition
Christel Dillbohner, a long-time ICI associate, was featured in a show titled TERRAIN: Exploring the Language of Landscape. The exhibition ‘offered meditations on nature through visual explorations of an inherent language and relationship to the earth that is at once mysterious and sublime.’ It showed at the Berkeley Art Center from February 11 – April 1, 2012.
East Bay Express, a publication out of Oakland, California, recently published a review of TERRAIN: Exploring the Language of Landscape. View it online HERE, or read an archived version on our website.