Stewart Smith

Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Karlsruhe (ZKM)

2013
February
15
Friday
Friday, 15 February 2013
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On exhibit in Berlin: Trans_actions

My 2011 collaboration with Bernd Lintermann and Robert Gerard Pietrusko —titled trans_actions: The Accelerated Art World 1989–09 —is currently on display at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin in the Nothing to Declare exhibition until May 26th. For more information, video, images, and a complete list of collaborators on the original piece see trans_actions: The Accelerated Art World 1989–09 .

2011
September
24
Saturday
Saturday, 24 September 2011
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MoMA—Talk to Me roundup

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) ’s Talk to Me exhibition is halfway through its run. If you're in the New York area drop in before the show closes on November 7th. The exhibition includes two Stewdio works. The first is Exit (2008) , an immersive data animation created in collaboration with architecture studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro , Warning Office , et al. (See also Talk to Me: Exit .) The second Stewdio piece included in Talk to Me is Windmaker (2007) , an ambient weather widget that applies local wind conditions to live websites. (See also Talk to Me: Windmaker .)

2011
September
16
Friday
Friday, 16 September 2011
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Premiering today: trans_actions

Our new collaboration with Robert Gerard Piertrusko and Bernd Lintermann premieres today at the opening reception for The Global Contemporary: Art Worlds After 1989 in Karlsruhe, Germany. trans_actions is a panoramic data visualization that illustrates the dramatic increase in the number of biennales of contemporary art and the rapid expansion of the art market following the end of the cold war. Visitors enter a large panoramic projection room bathed in animated data representing artists, curators, biennales, and market fluctuations. (Panoramic video projection, 8192 × 1024 at 25 fps. Approximate running time twenty-five minutes.) Click here to view the trans_actions project page .

2011
August
22
Monday
Monday, 22 August 2011
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Coming soon: trans_actions

Our latest panoramic data animation—titled trans_actions: The Accelerated Art World 1989–09—premieres next month in a new exhibition titled The Global Contemporary. Art Worlds After 1989 at the ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art in Karlsruhe, Germany. The piece is a collaboration with Bernd Lintermann and Robert Gerard Piertrusko , and was made possible by the Global Art and the Museum (GAM) department of ZKM headed by Hans Belting and Andrea Buddensieg. More details to follow.

2011
July
9
Saturday
Saturday, 09 July 2011
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MoMA: Talk to Me

Later this month New York City's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) will unveil Talk to Me , a new design exhibition curated by Paola Antonelli . We're excited to announce two Stewdio works will be included in the show. The first is Exit (2008) , an immersive data animation created in collaboration with architecture studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro , et al. (Exit will be represented through video documentation as the actual piece is physically far too large to be included in this particular showing.) The second Stewdio piece is Windmaker (2007) , an ambient weather widget that applies local wind conditions to live websites. Talk to Me will run from July 24 through November 7, 2011.

2011
April
10
Sunday
Sunday, 10 April 2011
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ZKM, one week in

One week down and one to go here at the Center for Art and Media (ZKM) in Karlsruhe, Germany . To recap, I'm here working with Bernd Lintermann , head of the Institute for Visual Media , and the Global Art and the Museum team lead by Andrea Buddensieg on a data visualization exhibition piece for The Global Contemporary: Art Worlds After 1989 exhibition opening this September. Storyboarding. Coding. Bumping along to an odd mix of the instrumentals-only version of Dr. Dre's 2001 and the first three records from Squirrel Nut Zippers . Not to mention the two minute trailer for the Beastie Boys' Fight for your Right—Revisited which seems to have the most incredible cast list ever , including what appears to be a DeLorean time machine. ("Sense is something you can't even make sense of until you've been to the future and spent time there.") So much more coding and sketching to do. Back at it now. —Stewart

2011
April
5
Tuesday
Tuesday, 05 April 2011
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It's Spring in Karlsruhe

It's that time again. Stewart is currently at the Center for Art and Media (ZKM) in Karlsruhe, Germany working with Bernd Lintermann , head of the Institute for Visual Media , and the ever-sharp Global Art and the Museum team. (Bobby will return to ZKM in June.) The result of this collaboration will be an immersive data animation of the art market—a strange and sometimes illogical economy of artists, curators, biennales, fairs, auction houses, and collectors—on display as part of the The Global Contemporary: Art Worlds After 1989 exhibition opening this September. But for now, it's springtime. Trees. Leaves. Rain. Breezes. Sunshine. Bunnies. Storyboards. SQL. OpenGL. And so on. Unrelated: Seventeen years ago today there was an unhappy kid in Seattle. And then there wasn't. How time passes.

2011
January
10
Monday
Monday, 10 January 2011
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ZKM Karlsruhe

Stewart and Bobby have returned to ZKM (Center for Art and Media) in Karlsruhe, Germany to continue their collaboration with the Global Art and the Museum on a new data animation piece. The work will exist as a panoramic projection--opening this September at the museum. The two are constructing the animation in their own Bronson framework, initially developed for their work on the Exit (Terre Natale) collaboration in 2008 and incrementally enhanced and refined for later works such as Under Vine .

2010
December
6
Monday
Monday, 06 December 2010
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Talk to Me, MoMA

New York's Museum of Modern Art ( MoMA ) is planning a new exhibition for summer 2011 titled Talk to Me which promises to be nerdtastic. The exhibition team, lead by senior curator, Paola Antonelli , is sifting through an ever-mutating list of potential pieces for the show. This queue of artworks currently includes two Stewdio pieces: the collaborative Exit (Terre Natale) data animation and our Jed's Other Poem music video for the band Grandaddy. Some friendly faces appear in the queue as well: studio mate Jürg Lehni and recent studio guest Jaakko Tuomivaara .