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All started off when we were experimenting with this Behringer Audio Controller.
Due to reasons that probably should remain nameless it broke down - and that’s where we experienced this strong magnetic force it produced. We even could control it properly. So we quickly set up a piece of software to extract image data from an IDN magazine cover which eventually would not only control the buildup of our sculpture, but also the LEDs in the parts to color it.
Erwin Wurm ‘Fat Car’
It’s pretty crazy that you have to pay for everything on a plane these days. Especially when you end up spending a fortune on your ticket, as you didn’t book it long enough in advance… Here’s a little tip that will get you at least some FREE peanuts, beers and films to make the journey a little bit more comfortable.
On 5th and 6th of March, an outstanding electronic music event took place at the Roundhouse in London, UK. Artists from all around the world were invited and Minivegas and Quayola were asked to do visuals. Sonar somehow managed to convince the enigmatic North American MC DOOM to headline the first day, which turned out to be his first appearance on European grounds ever. For saturday, French techno DJ Laurent Garnier took the main slot.
Beside a jaw-dropping live AV-show from Ryoichi Kurokawa on friday and a in no way inferior laser show by Edwin Van Der Heide on saturday, Minivegas provided live visuals for Matthew Herbert, John Talabot or Sonar’s “Special Surprise Act” 2 Many DJs.
We love the paintings by Philip Jones. The artist showed recently at VEGAS Gallery at a group exhibition curated by Anny Baranova.
‘It has become hard not to notice how worlds of Art and Fashion are so intertwined. Nietzsche wisely noticed that all life came down to arguments about taste. Susan Sontag provided us a definition on camp and its predilection to artifice and love for vulgarity. When speaking of fashion connotations in art mixed with references to sexuality, especially in figurative paintings, Philip Jones is the perfect example to elaborate on.
The work of Philip Jones fuses eccentric characteristics, dandyism, mythological and almost fairy tale-like symbolism. In series of works such as ‘Dandies’, he brings the viewer back into the epoch of Oscar Wilde a time when aesthetics, effeminacy and sexuality swirled around in a rather undefined cloud, distinctly sexually suspect, but never really daring to speak its name. Such extravagant mixes of symbols, hints of kitsch and ostentation echo works by Jeff Koons who uses a playful, toy-like and rather ironic approach in his art pieces. Bright and rich colors provide another dimension to the paintings, allowing the audience to indulge in its beauty. Whether we are looking at an object of sexual desire or a mythological character, we’re not entirely sure.
In his works Philip Jones brings us into the fairy tale of pure beauty and esthetic pleasure where each element of the painting turns the spectator into a child curious to find out the plot of the magic story. And Philip Jones knows how to do so in a very fashionable manner.’ text by Anny Baranova, excerpt from ‘Baranova’s Journal’