b a u space: January 2005

Karen Kuslansky

LEFTRIGHTLEFT, digital illustration, 2005

Karen Kuslansky

received a Bachelors of Fine Art from the School of Visual Arts, NYC in computer art
and computer related media. In 2000, her video Cromagnonmus was juried and selected
for the 8th Annual NY Digital Salon. She was the only undergraduate student to participate.
Karen has worked in the field of new media for eight years and is represented by pod gallery in NYC.

"From the ocean of primitive thought to the plains of virtual existence, where
has the human mind taken us? And has this journey existed all along?
We are indeed puzzles that need to be solved.
My work is a critical investigation of this process."

Cromagnonmus is the culmination of random organization, blueprint encoding, and defragmentation.
These themes can be noted as particularly "digital". This piece reveals the interconnectedness
of man and machine through the organization of language - the intimate process of the human psyche
and how this process is perhaps a permeable pattern in which some underlying current travels.
Cromagnonmus deals with the notion of the universe as a highly organized machine in which
the human being exists as a posterized variable. It is filtered yet proprtional revealing a surface reality
that is disjointed yet somehow symmetrical. Perhaps it is a play on these two opposing elements.

Tom Moore

BUGOOZIP - MAROON, 2005

Tom Moore's
personality driven illustrations have been surfacing on post-its, napkins, index cards, and any loose paper that happen to be laying around. He has other means of making a living which allows him to cut loose with the doodles. Moore has concentrated on illustrating heads not bodies with the emphasis on facial expression. He often finds himself creating the voices, and acting out the personalities while he draws-(scribbles) them. Moore is researching how to animate the characters, with stories and voices. www.scribbleheads.com

Bo Gehring

KISS, 2004 - picture taken by Angelika Rinnhofer, 2005

Bo Gehring

is one of the first computer animators, originally using supercomputers and the Fortran language.
His works from that period are classics in the genre. His work in three-dimensional audio is also widely recognized.

In this show he introduces a new concept:
sculpture as an artistic process over time, where the process itself is the art
and realization of the physical sculpture is incidental."I invented a scripted computer modelling technique to create sculpture
which I planned to realize in metal. But seeing a sculpture reveal its beauty and underlying logic
as it flew into being on a life-size screen was much more exciting to me than the static object
sitting on the floor. And, free from the slowness of making what Robert Morris has called "object-type" art,
I could try tens or hundreds of ideas instead of only a few. My work has precedents in procedural
and process art but with the difference that I'm concerned with the artistic process itself as art,
not with anything ever being manufactured or not."

www.bogehring.com

Alejandro Dron

TET, 2002

Alejandro Dron

creates sculptures that have implied and explicit movement. He uses the computer
to model his pieces in 3D and also to program microchips to activate motors that move his sculptures .
He works with a concept of absolut art, art that has no references or symbolic content, a way to experience the ultimate freedom.Short definition:Alejandro Dron is an 'absolut art' kinetic sculptor.Brief bio:Born in 1962 in Argentina.Alejandro Dron has shown nationally and internationally over the past 5 years.Latest exhibits include The New York Digital Salon and a Madi retrospective at the Museum Reina Sofia in Madrid, Spain.Alejandro Dron got a Masters in Computer Art at School of Visual Arts in New York 1998. He has taught at SVA and ITP Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU. He was a Fulbright Grantee in Visual Arts 1996 and in 2003 he was nominated for a Rockefeller Grant in New Media along with Mathew Barney.Alejandro Dron participated on the 2004 Newburgh Sculpture Project with a site specific sculpture called 'Zayin'. He has donated this piece to the ciy of Newburgh.He recently moved to Newburgh from Brooklyn.www.alejandrodron.com/tet www.alejandrodron.com/tet/zayin

bau 2: press release

After the very successful inaugural show bau 1: "Everyone is Different, Nobody is Special,"

the beaconartistunion, bau, establishes relationships with artists throughout the Hudson Valley. For bau 2 "Newburgh<>Beacon Bridge," bau has invited two artists from the Newburgh area and two artists located in Beacon to present their projects and works in bau's exhibition space, 161 Main Street, Beacon. The founding members of bau are excited to organize their second show reflecting the growing art scene on both sides of the Hudson. Being aware of the impact of digital technology on the arts, it is only natural to build a thematic show around this very current phenomenon. The four featured artists are all involved in digital creation.

With Bo Gehring's contributions as one of the programming pioneers of computer animation in the early seventies we get a unique chance to see where it all started and where it has now arrived. Bo's latest virtual sculptural designs are proof of the digital revolution.

Karen Kuslansky represents the younger generation of Digital Fine Artists. Her sophisticated and joyful use of this contemporary artistic tool integrates audio and visual elements in her works, elevating them to a philosophical level.

The scribbles of Tom Moore are what they are. His drawings reflect an imagination unbounded, as they are created in moments that are free of intention, and full of spontaneity. Using Photoshop software, Tom transforms his frenetic doodles on napkins and Post it notes into a gallery of imaginary mugshots.

Alejandro Dron's elegant and perfectly balanced objects and drawings are reminiscent of familiar forms though we've never seen such forms before. They are like parts of a meta script and can be experienced in both two and three dimensions. Alejandro also utilizes the computer for the generation of his works. bau is lucky and proud to be able continuing the bau project with a presentation of these four artists.

bau2: "Newburgh<>Beacon Bridge" artists from the Newburgh area meet artists from Beacon at bau a feature of their works and projects Opening Reception Saturday, February the 12th, 2005 (Second Saturday) 6:00pm to 9:00pm at bau 161 Main Street, Beacon, NY 12508 the show runs through to March 6 Opening Hours: Saturdays and Sundays 12:00pm to 6:00pm and by appointment

b a u 1

b a u 1: everyone is different, nobody is special.

bau 1 is a life size collage. Six artists with different dispositions, different methods, different media presented together, fully intermingled, creating a single form. Yet, within this singular form, the individual components remain uniquely personal. As artists, we are quite different from one another, but we have some very common goals; explore to the fullest our creative impulses, share our work, and be part of a thriving creative community.

This exhibition is a metaphor for the creation of b a u: Celebrating individual creative statements, offering a venue for those statements, while working cooperatively, to enhance the creative community in Beacon.