Michael Rees : synthetic cells : site and (para)site / foreword by Gary Garrido Schneider ; essays by Tom Moran, Dr. Edward Shanken, Murat Orozobekov, Edward Winkleman, Michael Rees.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schneider, Gary, 1954- writer of foreword.

Grounds for Sculpture, organizer, host institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rees, Michael, 1958---Exhibitions.

Rees, Michael.

Mixed media (Art)--United States--Exhibitions.

Mixed media (Art).

Augmented reality art--United States--Exhibitions.

Augmented reality art.

United States.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

117 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 x 30 cm

Distribution:

New York : AAC Art Books.

Place of Publication:

[Hamilton Township, NJ] : Grounds for Sculpture ; New York, NY : Scala Arts Publishers, Inc., [2020]

Summary:

"The contemporary artist Michael Rees is an acknowledged leader in the field of cutting-edge digital art. This stunning new volume documents a compelling group of Rees's inflatable sculptures that incorporate brilliant structural elements and dramatic colour with dynamic interventions of augmented reality. Commissioned for an exhibition at Grounds For Sculpture in Hamilton, New Jersey, that will run until January 2021, these objects, which also feature augment works by six other leading contemporary artists, illuminate how digital thinking and its rich visual vocabulary are clearly at the forefront of the future of art. Synthetic Cells features augmented reality artworks by Michael Rees, Claudia Hart, Chris Manzione, Will Pappenheimer, John Craig Freeman, Carla Gannis and Tamiko Thiel"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Michael Rees / Tom Moran

Embodied minds and enminded bodies / Edward Shanken

Augmented reality is the street art of the 21st century / Murat Orozobekov and Edward Winkleman

Notes on Synthetic cells / Michael Rees.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781785513176

1785513176

OCLC:

1137736196