A new exhibition at the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts brings his life’s work into focus. 8 mins read . TONY OURSLER. EntroP, 2019. Since the late 1990s, artist Tony Oursler (born 1957) has amassed a vast personal archive of objects and ephemera relating to magic, the paranormal, film, television, phantasmagoria, pseudoscience and technology. This exhibition depicts an inevitable world in which self-help, new age and motivational programs are fused or transferred to A.I.-systems, forming a low-fi singularity, with unforeseen, humorous and disturbing results. 12 x 22 x 20 inches. Acrylic, resin, steel blown glass, projection with sound. Within the booth are four chimerical A.I. Tony Oursler. Thematically these works relate to Oursler's ongoing interest in our daily interactions with ever omnipresent technology; these works are slightly human, their physicality exists as something somewhat smaller than our own, they have torsos, eyes, mouths, they call out and even seem to emote. Artificial intelligence, or A.I., brings to light many questions regarding our coevolution with such systems. A special exhibition of works by Tony Oursler will also be presented in the fair’s Installation sector at Booth I06. Tony Oursler has been a pioneering figure in new media art since the early 1980s. This context encouraged Oursler to break the traditional strictures applied to various media and experiment with cross-pollination between painting, sculpture, video, installation, performance, language, music, and sound. The simple and perhaps ungraceful work of building theatrical props becomes the backbone of his works, bestowing a more marked degree of fiction. Renowned American multimedia and video artist Tony Oursler exhibits a series of glass works, previously never shown before, at Galerie Forsblom in Stockholm. The book is a wonder machine. Focus Booth March 7th - March 10th, 2018 The Armory Show, New York Tony Oursler has been a pioneering figure in new media art since the early 1980s. Alongside the freestanding bots are juxtaposed wall-mounted works from his facial recognition series embedded with video screens depicting mouths and eyes. 1957, New York, NY; lives and works in New York, NY) is known for his innovative integration of video, sculpture, painting, drawing, and performance. Oursler developed his early practice under John Baldessari at CalArts, where he formed longstanding relationships with several of his fellow students, including Mike Kelly, John Miller, and Jim Shaw. Rail: Imponderable: The Archives of Tony Oursler at MoMA in 2016–17 was not a public artwork, its scale as far as research was massive. 30.5 x 55.9 x 50.8 cm It is the artist’s perspective that in between these two questions, A.I has begun to enter our world in many fascinating and banal ways which are open to speculation. your own Pins on Pinterest It is on display in the basin of the former particle accelerator. January 2021. 8 mins read . Tony Oursler (b. Mar 7, 2014 - This Pin was discovered by Robert Boyd. A pioneering figure in new media since the 1970s, Oursler has developed unique methods of incorporating video elements into paintings, drawings, sculpture, and installations. The Obscura is the manifestation of an ongoing project in Oursler's oeuvre, addressing the position of the viewer in relation to the spectacle of current pop cultural viewing trends. MemG, 2019. TONY OURSLER. They play with the notion of how artificial intelligence may help us achieve our goals or not. 119.4 x 78.7 x 73.7 cm. Installation view, Taipei Dangdai. A solo show of the renowned multimedia artist and video art pioneer will open Guild Hall's museum for the summer season. 1957, New York, NY; lives and works in New York, NY) is known for his innovative integration of video, sculpture, painting, drawing, and performance. The artist sees technology as a reflection of our own ontologies, belief systems and desires. January 2021. Image via the artist. Tony Oursler’s video installations offer a revelatory, and sometimes creepy, perspective on our collective obsession with technology. Acrylic, resin, steel blown glass, projection with sound. Studio: Seven Months of My Aesthetic Education and Then Some (NYC Version) Works by Tony Oursler in the booth of Los Angeles’s Redling Fine Art, in the Focus section, at the 2018 Armory Show. Or will we enter a utopian world of limitless knowledge and achievements? These visages also bear the marks, nodes, and geometric patterns of algorithmic facial recognition mapping, pairing the evocation of human expression with the efficient calculus of electronic profiling. These works are based on schematics depicting motivational and inspirational systems, cognitive behavioral therapy, programing, networking to form a nexus of human desire, folly, and machine logic. This was a crucial moment in the development of conceptual art, and Oursler emerged as a central figure in this multifaceted practice. The increasing sophistication and prevalence of facial scanning in society is key to understanding Oursler’s most recent works, which raise questions about the accumulation of biometric data as well as how and by whom that data is used. Tony Oursler. Tatler Singapore. Tatler Singapore. Notably, Lee Bul will debut new works from her Perdu series of mixed media paintings that incorporate mother of pearl into compositions depicting forms that … The degree of fiction in his work is not at random; it has always been intentional, present since his early videos. Selected Works Press Release Installation Views Back. "Tony Oursler: Water Memory" will be on view from June 8 to July 21, 2019. Tony Oursler’s Media Entities Nick Kaye The space after the light leaves the monitor; where life begins and the machine ends—the living rooms and bedrooms where the bodies are— these are the interesting spaces. In The Hot Seat. Courtesy of Dep Art Eight years after the extensive retrospective exhibition held at the PAC (Milan) titled Open Oscura, curated by Demetrio Paparoni and Gianni Mercurio, Tony Oursler has returned to Milan with an exhibition at the Dep Art … Tony Oursler, in conversation with Mike Kelley, 19991 S ince his exhibition of The Waiting in 1992, Tony Oursler’s work has focused “b0ts”, constructed with mixed media and elements of hand blown glass. Oursler questions the utility and ramifications of teaching machines to understand emotion, while exploring the evolution of human identity. Tony Oursler’s video installations offer a revelatory, and sometimes creepy, perspective on our collective obsession with technology. Will our creations replace us? Eight years after the extensive retrospective exhibition held at the PAC (Milan) titled Open Oscura, curated by Demetrio Paparoni and Gianni Mercurio, Tony Oursler has returned to Milan with an exhibition at the Dep Art Gallery titled The Volcano and Poetics Tattoo & UFO. Tatler Singapore. Tony Oursler, On Chance and Face, from Vox Vernacular, 2013. Tony Oursler, Focus Booth, The Armory Show, New York, 2018. It is the artist’s perspective that we are living between these two questions, A.I. Tony Oursler (b. Commissioned by Public Art Fund, Tear of the Cloud, 2018, will be projected onto the historic West 69th Street Transfer Bridge gantry, the Hudson River, and the surrounding landscape.The cumulative effective will be a dramatic visual and auditory experience … In the exhibition b0t / flOw - ch@rt, robotic glass sculptures with artificial intelligence, miniature flat screens, exposed computer circuitry and a variety of materials figuratively arranged are shown next to two dimensional screens based on flow charts. begins to enter our world in many banal and fascinating ways leaving more space for speculation than answers. These self-illuminating forms relate as much to the history of robotics as they do to camouflaged cellphone towers, video games and scarecrows. Baldwin Gallery is pleased to announce its third show with Tony Oursler, an internationally acclaimed video-sculptor. An Artist Talk will be held for members only on Saturday, July 6, 2019 from 3 to 4 p.m. followed by a private Members Reception from 4 to 6 p.m. Or will we enter a utopian world of infinite knowledge and achievements? He completed a BA in fine arts at the California Institute for the Arts, Valencia, California in 1979. For Oursler, the archive functions as an open visual resource, historical inquiry and--most intriguingly--a family history. Oursler, one of the first artists to utilize video as a medium for creating art. According to the artist, one of his intentions is “to invite the viewer to glimpse themselves from another perspective, that of the machines we have recently created.” Through these digital portraits we can see ourselves through the lens of machines we have recently created, piercing contemporary anxieties about privacy, surveillance, and identity. 47 x 31 x 29 inches. Artificial intelligence, or A.I., brings to light many questions regarding our co-evolution with technology. They also question how these intelligences may choose to form physical identity through vestigial artifacts of humanity. Taiwan native son L i Yuan-Chia will be the focus of this single-artist booth. TONY OURSLER. A new exhibition in Taiwan brings his life’s work into focus. In recent years, Oursler’s work has seen a vivid revival of his interest in painting and drawing, and in the new wall mounted video pieces there is a textural focus, that seeks to seamlessly subsume the video in the paint, swirling the two in mixed media. Installation sector, Booth I06. Bid on Tony Oursler Painted Ceramic Sculpture for sale at auction by Revere Auctions 295 on 10th February Tony Oursler (American, b. MemG, 2019. His art covers a range of mediums working with video, sculpture, installation, performance and painting. The freestanding bots are juxtaposed with wall mounted flow charts, which combine digitally moving images, painting, and sound. The chimerical bots relate to Oursler's ongoing interest in our day to day interactions with technology and question the intelligence of the A.I.-systems. 1957). A new exhibition in Taiwan brings his life’s work into focus. A new exhibition in Taiwan brings his life’s work into focus. Embrace The Art Of Slow Travel. August 25th - September 24th, 2017Galerie Forsblom, Stockholm. January 17–19, 2020 2020 Installations The Installations spread throughout the public spaces of the Fair and into the city of Taipei celebrate the full spectrum of artists’ ambitions with large-scale and immersive projects beyond the capacity of a standard fair booth presentation. Antennae (2002), is an installation by Tony Oursler. A pioneering figure in new media since the 1970s, Oursler has developed unique methods of incorporating video elements into paintings, drawings, sculpture, and installations. Acrylic, resin, steel blown glass, projection with sound. Tony Oursler was born in New York in 1957 and currently lives and works in New York City. Discover (and save!) Renowned American multimedia and video artist Tony Oursler exhibits a series of glass works, previously never shown before, at Galerie Forsblom in Stockholm. Most notably, will our creations replace us and become our final undoing? January 2021. 8 mins read . Now recognized as one of the county’s first abstract and conceptual artists, Li … Oursler's work has been exhibited in TONY OURSLER. Image via the artist. The artist’s latest works also reveal the beautiful, yet distinctly non-human qualities of these types of analyses. A new exhibition in Taiwan brings his life’s work into focus. It’s interesting to hear you put a dark spin on it, because your art tends to pose questions about artificial intelligence, without taking a strong stance on the matter. Booth D22 Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center January 17 – 19, 2020. Tony Oursler’s video installations offer a revelatory, and sometimes creepy, perspective on our collective obsession with technology. Tony Oursler’s video installations offer a revelatory, and sometimes creepy, perspective on our collective obsession with technology. Tony Oursler’s video installations offer a revelatory, and sometimes creepy, perspective on our collective obsession with technology. Location: Frescativägen 26, Manne Siegbahn laboratory, Stockholm university. Signed and dated 2003 along the verso.Height: 5 1/2 in x width: 4 1/2 in x depth: 1 3/4 in. The book is a wonder machine. Painted ceramic sculpture of a purple ring with a face. Off-Grid Adventures. Tony Oursler debuts a larger-than-life video work in New York's Riverside Park on the Upper West Side of New York next month. Tony Oursler Date: The installation will be shown every week day October 19 – November 4, 6–11 pm at Stockholm University. Tony OURSLER (1957) (United states) is an artist born in 1957 The oldest auction result ever registered on the website for an artwork by this artist is a sculpture-volume sold in 1998, at Christie's , and the most recent auction result is a audiovisual-multimedia sold in 2021. Th is second event in the series give s focus to Fantastic Prayers (1995), Dia’s first Artist Web Project, by writer Constance DeJong, artist Tony Oursler, and musician/composer Stephen Vitiello. In Upsidedown., Oursler presents a literal representation of a contemporary luddite, layering image after image of human vs. technology. Been a pioneering figure in new York City s latest works also reveal the beautiful yet... 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