Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg


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Berlin-based artists Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg (both born 1978) create scenic installations in a surrealist vein, using a combination of objects, sculptures, electronic music and stop-motion animation. This catalog accompanies an exhibition of the pair's dreamlike, animated worlds.







Nathalie Djurberg


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The project "Turn into Me" (2008), created expressly by Nathalie Djurberg for the exhibition space of the Fondazione Prada, consists of a series of models that allude to human body parts and simple natural elements such as a potato or a tree. In some instances these become pavilions inside which the videos produced for the occasion are projected.




Expanded Animation


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The symposium Expanded Animation was initiated in 2013 and offered a first approach to the expanded field of computer animation. In the meantime, it has become an established part of the Ars Electronica Animation Festival and the international competition Prix Ars Electronica Computer Animation. Every year under an overarching theme, the symposium has researched the field of technology and art, animation and aesthetics, investigated the collapsing boundaries in digital animation and explored positions and future trends. Much like the first conferences on computer animation at Ars Electronica in the 1980s, practice and theory are equally important. The richly illustrated publication Expanded Animation. The Anthology features contributions from speakers and artist positions from the past five years and presents an overview of the prize winners in Computer Animation.




Nathalie Djurgberg & Hans Berg


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Artist duo Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg create psychologically charged scenarios dealing with human and animalistic desires through a mix of animation, sculpture, and sound. Djurberg?s film-making uses clay animation to dramatize the basest of human instincts, from jealousy, revenge and greed, to submission and lust. Taking cues from allegorical myths, narratives emerge that are rich in symbolic meaning and nightmarish visions. Berg, an electronic musician and composer, provides the atmospheric and evocative music for the immersive films and installations.




Vitamin C: Clay and Ceramic in Contemporary Art


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A global survey of 100 of today's most important clay and ceramic artists, chosen by leading art world professionals. Vitamin C celebrates the revival of clay as a material for contemporary visual artists, featuring a wide range of global talent as selected by the world's leading curators, critics, and art professionals. Clay and ceramics have in recent years been elevated from craft to high art material, with the resulting artworks being coveted by collectors and exhibited in museums around the world. Packed with illustrations, Vitamin C is a vibrant and incredibly timely survey - the first of its kind. Artists include: Caroline Achaintre, Ai Weiwei, Aaron Angell, Edmund de Waal, Theaster Gates, Marisa Merz, Ron Nagle, Gabriel Orozco, Grayson Perry, Sterling Ruby, Thomas Schütte, Richard Slee, Clare Twomey, Jesse Wine, and Betty Woodman. Nominators include: Pablo Leon de la Barra, Iwona Blazwick, Mary Ceruti, Dan Fox, Jens Hoffmann, Christine Macel, James Meyer, Jed Morse, Beatrix Ruf, Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Nancy Spector, Sheena Wagstaff, and Jonathan Watkins.




The Parade


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Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minn., Sept. 8-Dec. 31, 2011, the New Museum, New York, N.Y., May 11-July 8, 2012 and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, Calif., Oct. 13, 2012-Jan. 27, 2013.




The Annotated Reader


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The Expendable Man


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“It was surprising what old experiences remembered could do to a presumably educated, civilized man.” And Hugh Denismore, a young doctor driving his mother’s Cadillac from Los Angeles to Phoenix, is eminently educated and civilized. He is privileged, would seem to have the world at his feet, even. Then why does the sight of a few redneck teenagers disconcert him? Why is he reluctant to pick up a disheveled girl hitchhiking along the desert highway? And why is he the first person the police suspect when she is found dead in Arizona a few days later? Dorothy B. Hughes ranks with Raymond Chandler and Patricia Highsmith as a master of mid-century noir. In books like In a Lonely Place and Ride the Pink Horse she exposed a seething discontent underneath the veneer of twentieth-century prosperity. With The Expendable Man, first published in 1963, Hughes upends the conventions of the wrong-man narrative to deliver a story that engages readers even as it implicates them in the greatest of all American crimes.




El Anatsui


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