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Anton Koslov Mayr
Anton Mayr is an American photographer, author and film-maker. Anton Mayr is known for his poetry, art criticism and photography Between 1998 and 2008 Koslov-May taught at Parsons School of Design in Paris. In 2000, under the fictitious name of Lee Mayr, Koslov Mayr became one of the winners of prestigious art competition "Search for Art" organized by the Italian fashion company Mandarina Duck. In 2006, Koslov Mayr created the Artout project, which was viewed as an important part of the Institutional Critique movement. Koslov-Mayr worked on film projects with American artists Richard Dailey and Hilton McConnico (Hope, 1999 ), and film-makers Laurent Boutonnat and Mark Boswell (film director), Mark Boswell. Mayr and Boswell collaborated on a number of projects, the most notorious being "The United Nations is Decadent and Depraved", shown in New York and in Moscow in 2009. The project was based on Hunter S. Thomson short story "The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved." In 2010 it w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artout Project
Artout Project, a.k.a. Artout Escort Agency - an experimental art project created in 2006 by Anton Koslov Mayr with an international group of artists, including theater critic and director of Black Box Theater in Oslo Jon Refsdal Moe, artistPer Platou Kate Pendry, Ira Waldron, Georgy Ostretsov Mike Rimbaud, Alexander Kosolapo Eric Poujea Dana Wise, Elena Kovylina, Sena Yoon, Leban and Kleindiens opera singer Evgeny Nikiti and others. The project is a part of the Institutional Critique mouvement, but also relies on relational art practices. The ideas behind the project were formulated by Anton Koslov Mayr in his essay "On Art and Domination", Jon Refsdal Moe's "Staging Cultural Prosperitand Sueli Rolni's "The Geopolitics of Pimpin Artout Project was set up as a service company offering as a product artists' time, rather than any material work. Any interested party can hire an artist to spend time with and this in itself constitutes a creative act. The project was conceived as a medit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hilton McConnico
Joseph Hilton McConnico (13 May 1943 – 29 January 2018) was a designer and artist who was born in Memphis, Tennessee and lived and worked in Paris from 1965. Biography Hilton McConnico was a self-taught fashion designer. He officially launched his first atelier at 16 years old, and discovered Paris after winning a challenge organized by the magazine ''Vogue'', city where he moved two years later. ''Francetvinfo.fr'', 31 January 2018 After working in fashion for such designers as Ted Lapidus and Yves St. Laurent, he was set designer & art director ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurent Boutonnat
Laurent Boutonnat (born 14 June 1961) is a French composer and film and music video director, best known as the songwriting partner of Mylène Farmer and the director of several groundbreaking music videos. Career Born in Paris, Laurent Boutonnat directed his first film, ''Ballade de la Féconductrice'', at age 17, while the film itself is rated 18. It would later be screened off competition at the Festival de Cannes. The movie contains multiple graphic elements that would characterize Boutonnat's provocative style. In 1984, having composed a song called "Maman a tort" with Jérôme Dahan which required a female singer, they started auditioning, and Mylène Farmer, a young student in acting, showed up. Boutonnat and Farmer then started an artistic collaboration which goes on to this day. While Farmer had limited songwriting input on her first album, she thereafter took up a habit of writing all the lyrics while Boutonnat composes the music and arranges it. Boutonnat also took ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Boswell (film Director)
Mark Boswell is the founder and leading theorist of the NOVA-KINO experimental cinema movement. Born 1960 in Asheville, North Carolina, Boswell studied film, film theory, and art history in Switzerland, France, Germany and the Florida Space Coast from 1984–1992. He co-founded the Alliance Film/Video Cooperative in 1993 (with William Keddell) and the Anti Film Festival in 1994. Some of his most widely screened films are ''Unknown Unknown(s)'', (2009) ''USSA: Secret Manual of the Soviet Politburger'', (2001) ''Agent Orange'', the feature film ''The Subversion Agency'' (2004) and the documentary ''60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero''. For many years Boswell has taught at the San Francisco Art Institute, The Ringling College of Art and Design, Florida, and the Pratt Institute in New York. He was awarded the 2004 International Media Art Award from The ZKM Museum in Karlsruhe Germany for his film ''The End of Copenhagen''. ''KultKino'', Boswell's five minute 1997 experimental short ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kandinsky Prize
The Kandinsky Prize, named after Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky is an award sponsored by the Deutsche Bank AG and the Art Chronika Culture Foundation. It was organized in hopes of developing Russian contemporary art, and to reinforce the status of Russian art within the world. In total, 55,000 euros are awarded to the artists. It was first given out on December 4, 2007, hosted at the Winzavod Contemporary Art Center in Moscow. Four awards were given. The Young Artist Category is awarded to an artist under 30 and they receive a three months stay in Villa Romana. New Media Project of the year is awarded 10,000 euros. Artist of the Year is awarded 40,000 euros. Audience's Prize is awarded 5,000 euros. The award has been evolving over the years. "One of the distinctive features of the prize is that artists are able to nominate themselves." Now the categories are 'Project of the Year', 'Young Artist. Project of the Year' and 'Scholarly Work. History and Theory of Contempor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Photographers
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams Soccer * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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