Sin treatment; About Franco Palioff Glitch Video Art

Dark, textured monochrome image of hand-like forms emerging from foliage, from Franco Palioff's 'Sin Treatment'

“Sacrifice” is the title of Franco Palioff’s Glitch video art in the first week of the Platform 101 group exhibition in -1 Bavan Gallery; Where it shows a building-like structure with a hole in its center. The creature inside the cavity is filling with black liquid, it is drowning. There are three other creatures around […]

Pixel abstraction; About Razieh Koushki and Vahid Qaderi Glitch Video Art

Three visitors viewing an abstract, high-contrast projection on a gallery wall, from 'Pixel Abstraction' by Razieh Koushki and Vahid Qaderi's Glitch Video Art

The first week of the Group Exhibition Glitch Video Art of Platform 101 in -1 Bavan Gallery entitled “Glitch; Pixel Language »began with a video art show by Razieh Koushki and Vahid Qaderi. The general title of their project is Vivid Q, which Vahid Qaderi has considered for electronic and visual music set by Razieh […]

Eleven Weeks With Pixel Language

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A group video art exhibition titled ‘Glitch Art: Pixel Language,’ curated by Mohammad-Ali Famori and Sadeq Majlesi, will open on December 25 at Bavan Gallery(-1) in Tehran and will continue through March 12. After holding the first group photo exhibition tour entitled ‘Definite Moment’ in 2018 in six galleries in Tehran and Isfahan, Platform 101, […]

SCENE REPORT: NEW YORK

Graffiti tag on a brick building wall surrounded by overgrown plants, from 'Scene Report: New York'

Each week we feature updates on current graffiti scenes in a number of major U.S. cities with the help of a few select photographers.

Cultural Sensibility

A dense grid of wire mesh cubes receding into the distance, an installation exploring cultural sensibility

A major exhibition opens at Tate Modern, creating a conversation between the dangers of domesticity and the depths of identity in today’s world.

AN UPDATE WITH MECRO

A graffiti-covered train car with large bubble-letter tag artwork, from 'An Update with Mecro'

Over the years Mecro has dominated the panels with his crispy clean beveled type and the work speaks for itself. Today we check out a variety of his work that not only includes just trains. If you say the words beveled letters along with trains, anyone who follows the freight train graffiti scene will most […]

SCENE REPORT: LOS ANGELES

A colorful graffiti mural with bubble-letter text on an outdoor wall, from 'Scene Report: Los Angeles'

Each week we feature updates on current graffiti scenes in a number of major U.S. cities with the help of a few select photographers. Walter Yetman aka The Harsh Truth Of The Camera Eye delivers this week’s Los Angeles Scene Report featurin the work of Reck, Fobek, Hearse, Aidz, Hilo, Ozer, Yeahboi, Wolfe and more. […]

A NON-SIGN BILLBOARD

A blank rectangular billboard surrounded by a flock of birds against a dusk sky, titled 'A Non-Sign Billboard'

Back in 2010, Seattle-based design studio, Lead Pencil Studio, installed a billboard on the US-Canada border in Washington “signifying no advertisement, no traditional information and no navigational direction.” Entitled ‘Non-Sign II,’ the installation is constructed from welded stainless steel rod and “invites contemplation on navigational direction and the prevelance of advertising while on the road.”

UTTAPORN NIMMALAIKAEW

A blurred portrait of a face seen through frosted or foggy glass, by Uttaporn Nimmalaikaew

Each piece from Thai artist Uttaporn Nimmalaikaew “starts from a canvas backdrop that is set inside a deep casement, and that is then lightly veiled by multiple layers of thread and netting. The artist paints not only on the canvas but also on the thread and netting in order to create shimmering portraits and figurative […]