#artandengineering
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7E Guest Artist - Eric Carl
Eric Carl is a Los Angeles based Art Director/Graphic Design Instructor at Gnomon School of Visual Effects. His work covers UI design and musical tools. In his spare time, he creates electronic music.
We first discovered Eric because he’s a fan of our pro audio company Meris! Reciprocally, we immediately became fans of him as well. We were blown away by his beautiful graphic aesthetic that resonated with us. His passion for music gear, electronics, technology and design stroke a loud chord. We love his work and we’re excited to someday meet another talented Angeleno!
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7E Guest Artist - Sougwen Chung
New York-based Canadian/Chinese artist Sougwen Chung is an experimental artist with a background in fine art, digital and interactive media. Her work focuses on “transitional edges”- mainly the interaction between hand-made and machine-made, the performative with digital and the intuitive to the technical. She uses traditional art tools as well as digital mediums; paper and black ink, canvas and paint, charcoal and cloth, magnets, steel, rods, LEDs, wood, film acetate, silk, Photoshop, Illustrator, Cinema4D, Processing, nano-controllers, electric violin, Ardiuno, projectors, mad mapper, etc. Her work spans from installation, scupture, still image, drawing and performance.
Her work explores the intersection of organic and technology as well as shifting between what is real and what is virtual. Her style is abstract and incredibly detailed. She balances delicate lines or flourishes while maintaining a austere and mesmerizing feel.
I would love to buy a drawing from her. Her work is absolutely captivating to me. Thank you Sougwen for joining 7E. We’re honored.
-Jinna
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7E visits Days and Nights Festival 2014 with Philip Glass - Big Sur, California PLUS BIG NEWS
Last Friday on September 26th, we made a 6 hour drive to the Henry Miller Library in Big Sur to witness an Evening of Music and Spoken Word with Philip Glass and Friends.
The setting was intimate as we were seated amongst twinkling lights, stars and ancient redwood trees. While breathing the crisp night air of ocean and sequoia, we witnessed Philip Glass perform some of his works accompanied by a stellar concert band. They also performed a string trio OP. 9 No. 3 by Ludwig Beethoven. Beautiful.
Although poetry/spoken word is not something we follow, (and perhaps not appreciated enough) Jerry Quickely’s piece called Whistleblower was compelling and executed with grace.
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News to Readers: We’re well aware that we’ve been holding off on posting any new articles for several months. It’s for a good reason…
We want to announce today to our loyal 7E readers/friends very intimate news that we are expecting our first baby. :)
Days and Nights Festival was a short soulful journey. It was great to breathe the good coastal air and witness an ensemble of unique artists. I’ve been extremely sick and weak the past few month but lately I feel I’ve been gaining strength.
7E was derived from our root concept: a marriage of Art of Engineering. We’re proud to share our big news to you. We promise more art and engineering will return. Feel free to write to us!
-Jinna
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7E Guest Artist - Casey Reas
The first time I was exposed to Casey Reas’ artwork was through installation art he created for Yeasayer. I was excited to see them perform at FYF in 2012 since they had recently added Cale Parks, one of my favorite drummers, to the lineup. I was wondering who created the triangular installation on stage and much much later found out it was Casey in collaboration with Aranda\Lasch. That discovery led to another realization that I had actually been introduced to his work even earlier by using Processing, the programming environment for visual artists. Casey co-created processing with Ben Fry and it has of course also now been adapted as the default development environment for arduino.
Learning to code was a necessity to express his art. Casey’s visual work is mostly generative, always interesting and spans a wide range of mediums. Jinna would love to own one of Reas’ pattern dresses shown above. As an engineer I deeply respect an artist who has made such widespread contributions across the union of Art + Engineering. Thanks Casey for joining us on 7E.
-terry
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7E Guest Artist - Joanie Lemercier
Joanie Lemercier is a French visual artist and former Creative Director of AntiVJ. He creates spectacular light installations, video presentations, stage designs, projection mapping and sculptures. His work is inspired by geometry, nature, visual perception and optical illusions. Minimalist yet intricate in detail, his designs notably consist of triangulations - a network of triangles in 3-dimensional form.
We’re blown away and thrilled to have Joanie join our 7E community.
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7E Guest Artist - Evan Holm
Evan is a multimedia sculptor, born in Seattle and now resides in Oakland, California. While attending UCSC, he studied double major in art/engineering and eventually steered his focus to an art degree. Evan utilizes audio components and electronics while using simple machines or custom mechanical devices. He writes, “For the most part, I make large scale sculptures that are machines and clocks of a sort. I use elements found from the natural world, and tailor them together with technological components crafted by human hands. I love merging nature and tech in a way that resolves the piece into a higher harmony. Sound is a beautiful medium in its own right. As an artist, it is a pleasure for me to move between mediums. Sound and music is a medium that I find so immediately engaging that I try to include it in most of my sculptures."
Watch Submerged TurntablefromBrian LillaonVimeo.
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