simple.tech/artists

annabel frearson, tamara stone, jonah brucker-cohen, oliver pietsch, kota ezawa
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simplet.tech exhibition space, panoramic image by Pete Froslie
The documentation of simple.tech starts at the entrance of the gallery and goes clockwise through the space as you scroll down this page. Each artist's work is documented with two images and descriptive texts.  

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BauldriR – 2001, Annabel Frearson, United Kingdom
BaudriR charts the live reproduction of Jean Baudrillard's essay 'In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities' from cover to cover in AOL chat rooms. The work is represented in the gallery as a series of 387 letter-sized print-outs mounted in a grid. Frearson studied at Bristol University, Central St. Martin's College of Art & Design and The Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, UK. She has participated in group shows and internet-based projects across the UK and recently presented at the International Symposium of Electronic Art in Japan. This is her first exhibition in the United States. Visit the artists BaudriR project online at: http://www.baudrir.com/
         
Are You Afraid of Dogs? – 2001, Tamara Stone, Canada/USA
   
Are You Afraid of Dogs? features a pack of toy, remote controlled dogs, stripped of their fake fur down to their robotic essence, the installation uses a motion detector to sense the approach of visitors – sending the entire pack into paroxysms of automated barking and movement. Stone earned her BFA at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University in Boston. Several years ago, after a period of concentration on painting she rediscovered her early fascination with kinetic sculpture. Her recent installations are studies of emotion and cognition through human-machine interactivity. Tamara currently resides in San Francisco and Toronto. Her work has been shown across Canada as well as in Boston and Ann Arbor, Deadtech in Chicago and ISEA2002 in Nagoya Japan.
         
Drawbot – 2003, Jonah Brucker-Cohen, USA/Ireland
Drawbot is a drawing system that anyone can build without having to learn electronics. It is a simple bot that mixes standard drawing materials (in this case magic markers) with weighted motors and plastic cups. The installation features two of the original drawbots along with a drawing created on site for this exhibition. There are also available copies of plans for visitors to take home and make their own drawbot. Jonah Brucker-Cohen works as a Research Fellow in the Human Connectedness Group at Media Lab Europe in Dublin, Ireland, and is a Ph.D. candidate in the Networks and Telecommunications Research Group (NTRG) at Trinity College Dublin. His work has been shown both in the US and internationally at events such as DEAF, Transmediale, SIGGRAPH, ISEA, Whitney Museum of American Art’s ArtPort, Ars Electronica and others. Check out more of Brucker-Cohens projects at: http://www.coin-operated.com/
       
Heroes – 2001/2003, Oliver Pietsch, Germany
   
 
   
       
Heroes is a projected video installation that simulates a first person shooter computer game in a real space. An inverted, hand-held video camera traverses the interior of a warehouse interior all the while “shooting” opponents, different colored balloons, which explode with great volume when punctured by a needle attached to the front of the lens. The work references Michael Powell‘s “Peeping Tom” and Quentin Tarantino’s “Pulp Fiction”. Pietsch lives and works in Berlin, Germany. His work has been shown throughout Europe and beyond, including: Berlin, Budapest, Vienna, Milan, Tel Aviv, etc.. This is his first exhibition in the United States.
 
Home Video – 2002, Kota Ezawa, USA
Home Video features a short, looping animation created from a time-lapse image of a typical suburban tract home as day turns to night. The animation was drawn, frame by frame, using a photograph of a house taken from a real estate magazine. “Working at the cutting edge of contemporary art, Ezawa takes movie or news segments and rather than "filter" the original to make it look like animation, as digital technology permits, he reconstructs it by hand”, (Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle 10/25/02). Born in Germany, Kota Ezawa first came to the US in 1994 on a scholarship from the German government to study at the San Francisco Art Institute, and ended up transferring to SFAI to finish his BFA. Ezawa recently received his Master’s Degree in Fine Arts from Stanford University. His works have been featured in “Bay Area Now 3”, he is currently represented by Haines Gallery, San Francisco.