February 11 2010
As mentioned preveously, here is my piece from What is Sustainability? Pratt Students Respond. The show is up at the Schafler Gallery at Pratt in Brooklyn, and its pretty cool. A lot of awesome work by undergrads and graduate students alike. Highlights include etched pool balls and a mechanically rotating rainstick that completes a circuit as it turns. My piece documents a fictional outcome of the war against climate change. Turns out people did pay attention to those scientists in 1988... at least in this version of history. Click here for the new piece. Uncovered Documents from 1988 recieved an honorable mention from the show's jury.
February 2 2010
Forgot to mention, I'll have a piece in the upcoming show at Pratt Institute's Schafler Gallery: What is Sustainability? Pratt Students Respond. My submission is a good continuation of the obsessive documentation that The Tomorrow Archive was built upon.
February 10 - March 10, opening February 9th 4-6pm.
February 1 2010
Two new pages of work. Check 'em out below:
As mentioned previously, I had a group show at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn last week with Heather Lang, Mike Stone and Matthew J Ramada. All of whom killed it with their own sorts of subversive artwork. I showed two bodies of work: The Tomorrow Archive and Only Map Left. The former in conjunction with the infamous Rebellion for Autonomous Future. Long live RAF!
January 13 2010
New show at Pratt Institute on January 25! I'm lucky enough to represent Brooklyn for the Rebellion for Autonomous Future's annual stewardship. The RAF is a sort of underground movement that works against the flow of an expected future. I'll have more on their doctrine when I get up the post for the show. For now this means that they'll bring some artifacts from The Tomorrow Archive to display at the show. The above flyer is just for the RAF and myself, but the weeklong show will also feature work by Heather Lang, Michael Livingstone and Matthew Ramada. Opening reception January 25 at 5pm.
Also be sure to check out Manifest Future an RAF blog dedicated to tracking the progress of reality's emulation of the future depicted in mass media:
Preview of my work, and an even newer sneak peak:
December 17 2009
This winter, give the gift of knowledge...
of stellar phenomena... inside plastic bubbles...
New project! Click the image above to see more. Basically it's low tech
urban education. A gift exchange to disrupt traditional views of what a classroom is, and what to expect form public space in general.
In other news, the Bookah continues its longer-than-expected dispaly at Buffalo Street Books. So if you're in Ithaca NY any time soon go check it out.
November 25 2009
New work previewed here! I've got a ton of stuff that will be in an exhibition early in 2010. Most of it will have to wait till then to be properly documented in situ, but enjoy a few new images.
In other news I finally put together some footage I had of the Bookah, resulting in a short video:
The Bookah from Benjamin Andrew on Vimeo.
October 20 2009
So as a tie-in to the continuing Bookah exhibit at Buffalo Street Books, I've arranged for the danger sticker on the side of the Bookah to be mass produced... You can get it in two sizes at Buffalo Street Books. Much thanks to the folks there, and anyone who's gone to sniff some wisdom. Send me an email if you're interested in ordering stickers; I'll see what can be done. Check it out:
Sorry about the lack of updates lately, I'm producing, but the work won't be complete for a while. In the meantime, I'll find some good things to post.
September 2 2009
Cyborgs are here.
New conceptual drawings; anatomy is the new market.
August 30 2009
BOOKAH UPDATE!
The Bookah will be displayed at Buffalo Street Books for an exteneded period of time. At least through the coming month (or two), so go check it out. I'm sitting on a new batch of work that I'll post as soon as I can.
August 17 2009
Added the sketch page for the Bookha, including lots of drawings and photos. Also there are five new tracks over on the music player, so check those out too. These are all brand new tracks from the past summer weeks, andI'm much more excited about these than really anything I've made before in the music realm.
During the rush of book events this week, someone alerted me to the existence of book-scent spray cans. Presumably to mist the air around you while you read your Ebooks. And for more future-past book ironies here is a somewhat compeling image that is making the rounds today: a kindle mounted inside a real book (not my work, to be clear).
Via BBG.
August 16 2009
Here is more info on the Bookah, including a whole bunch of photos, AND two additional book projects. The Bookah is still available to use at Buffalo Street Books in Ithaca NY, and the reception seems to be going pretty well: here is brief article on the Bookah over at Ithaca-blog Tiny Town Times. The other two projects were done a while back, but this seemed like a good way to fit them into the website. Big thanks to Buffalo Street Books and all the folks who are taking the time to check out some art in Dewitt Mall.
Full Page and larger images... here.
August 12 2009
New work in Ithaca!
Bookah is a wry commentary on the current state of the printed book. In short, it is a large hookah which one can use to inhale "old book smell". Styled like a futuristic consumer good, the Bookah's scent is really quite analog - 31 of the oldest, musky books I could find.
If you're in Ithaca NY, please swing by the newly renamed Buffalo Street Books in Dewitt Mall. I'm not sure how long the piece will be on display (likely a week or two), but if you have an unfullfilled desire to inhale book fumes all day... the Bookah is for you.
Full page for the work coming soon, along with more book fun...
July 17 2009
I inserted a few new images into Handmade Utopia, In The Future, and Seen Not Heard. I hadn't had a chance to take decent photographs of the work until recently.
Along with that, there's a new page of Sketches. See image below:
July 4 2009
Music Player is up!
Click that music horn to the left to shake out some fresh tunes, all of which are playful and soulful to such an extent that they contradict almost everything else on the site! But in the ol' quest against Moderrn Consumer Conformity (MCC?), much of the appeal of music is a polar force to that same sterile world. Not to say that there isn't such a thing as cold mechanical music, but the songs I have made and posted are not soundtracks to my Art. At least I don't think they are.... Just posting them here to share. More info here.
June 28 2009
NEW POST!
What can be shared?
How much can Art be distributed and still maintain it's capital letter status?
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All work and images © Benjamin Andrew 2009-2010