[spectre] Olats News n°4, June 15th 2002

[Annick Bureaud]

OLATS NEWS 004 - E – 15/06/2002

1 – Pionniers & Précurseurs (Pioneers & Pathbreakers) : Loïe Fuller, by
Marc Boucher, http://www.olats.org/setF4.html

2 – Pionniers & Précurseurs (Pioneers & Pathbreakers) : Palatnik, http://www.olats.org/setF4.html

3 – Repères & Ressources (Highlights and Ressources) : Bibliographie
Générale de l'art technologique (General Bibliography in technological
Art, http://www.olats.org/setF5.html and review of Ollivier Dyens's book

4 – Livres & Etudes (Books and Studies) : Pour une typologie des
interfaces artistiques (A Typology of Artistic Interfaces), http://www.olats.org/setF6.html

5 - New on Virtual Africa, http://www.olats.org/setF2.html


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1 – Pionniers & Précurseurs (Pioneers & Pathbreakers) : Loïe Fuller, by
Marc Boucher, http://www.olats.org/setF4.html
A new notice in the Pioneers & Pathbreakers section : Loïe Fuller by
Marc Boucher.
"Loïe Fuller was the first international star of solo dance and the
first artist to use electric light for art purposes. Her art was
essentially in playoing with light in movement by using huge silk weils
aroung her ..." (Text in French).


2 – Pionniers & Précurseurs (Pioneers & Pathbreakers) : Palatnik, http://www.olats.org/setF4.html
A monograph on-line on Abraham Palatnik : the artwork of a key-figure in
the History of kinetic and technological arts in brazil.
The first pages of an extensive monograph dedicated to the Brazilian
artist Abraham Palatnik are now on line.
According to Abraham Palatnik, the artist's role is to "order the chaos
of perception". This is probably what led him to explore such a wide
gamut of techniques and materials. At first he tried his hand at the
traditional art of painting and pencil drawing ; this was in the late
1940s when he taught art in the Therapy Department at  the D. Pedro II
Psychiatric Hospital in Sao Paulo. His encounter with the inmates who
produced art with a different and complex language turned out to be an
extraordinary experience that literally shattered his own relation to
art. He then decided to give up painting and contrived his first
kinechromatic that were to make him famous during the first Sao Paulo
Biennial, in 1951. With these singular machines based on the
kaleidoscope principle, he established himself as one of the key-figures
of kinetic and technological arts in Brazil.
Now, in its initial phase, the website offers : a biography ; some
bibliographies, and the beginning of a critical anthology with material
contributed by some of the best specialists of Palatnik1s artwork :
Eduardo Kac, Mario Pedrosa, and Frank Popper. Other texts by Jacques
Leenhardt, Aracy Amaral, Frederico Morais, and Luiz Camillo Osorio will
be soon published.    


3 – Repères & Ressources (Highlights and Ressources) : Bibliographie
Générale de l'art technologique (General Bibliography in technological
Art, http://www.olats.org/setF5.html and review of Ollivier Dyens's book
The General Bibliography in technological Art has been updated with a
lot of new references. This bibliography is established on the basis of
the publications that we have been aware of.
It includes a review, by Julien Knebusch, of Ollivier Dyens's book :
"Metal and Flesh. The Evolution of Man : Technology takes over",
Cambridge, MIT Press, 2001, 120 p (in the section 1.1 / Ouvrages
théoriques & généraux/Arts).


4 – Livres & Etudes (Books and Studies) : Pour une typologie des
interfaces artistiques (A Typology of Artistic Interfaces), http://www.olats.org/setF6.html
A new essay (in French) in the "Study" section : l'article "Pour une
typologie des interfaces artistiques" by Annick Bureaud, to be published
this Autumn, in the collective book "Interfaces et sensorialité", under
the direction of Louise Poissant, Presses de l'Université du Québec.


5 - New on Virtual Africa, http://www.olats.org/setF2.html
5.1 - Toyin Loye, a painter from Nigeria presents : " Toyin Loye Paints
Life "
http://www.olats.org/africa/galerie/gal-loye.shtml
" I have stories to tell and I have chosen paint to express it. My
painting has always been a manifestation of my life experience -growing
up in a very rich culture of visual and oral expressions.
I was born to a royal house in Ijebu Jesa (1959) South west of Nigeria
where homage is daily paid to ancestors, gods and hundreds of spirits
who are roaming about or even guiding and reshaping our daily lives. "
Toyin Loye

5.2 - Within the context "Discovery of Contemporary Arts from North
Africa", we are pleased to introduce :
"The Cry", by the videast Hassan Boufous 
http://www.olats.org/africa/galerie/gal-boufous.shtml
"The Cry" is another vision of loneliness ; it is dedicated to all those
who suffer and want to escape this gap, and this through a twisted and
distorted face that little by little takes back its initial shape (...).
"The Cry" puts an end to suffering."
Hassan Boufous (Text in French)




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