The 18 short videos 30 seconds in length depict fantastical birds or their parts in flight — a cube of ruffling feathers, sleek swallows diving into a glowing abyss, flapping skeletal wings dissolving into a shuddering multi-color field of pixels.
Artist Rick Silva’s new show, opening at Transfer Gallery tomorrow night, conjoins the digital and the physical in an exploration of the space that neither can reach -- the afterlife. Inspired by Tibetan rituals in which the body is left on a mountain top to be eaten by birds of…
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original "idea sketch" next to a finished piece. This week, Rick Silva illustrates his work process -- "encounters between the tools of digital communication and the unbuilt environment." He makes new media landscapes on site and is currently exhibiting at TRANSFER gallery in…
Although tonight's "YOU ARE HERE" exhibition opening at The Hole has an underlying theme of randomness, the work featured in the show shares a very common thread, capitalizing on implicit concept of randomness and glorifying it, whether it be by the exploration of new technologies or though the intentional misuse of existing ones. Works…
