We have Glass and are now experimenting with using it to view art in a new ways.
Here is an article in Installation Magazine featuring Tony's collaboration with Google Glass.
Tony Taj AMP Feature in Installation Magazine
Google Glass and Tony Taj’s The City – AMP, mixed media on canvas, 24″ x 32″, 2011
Cityscape Configuration-Tony Taj
Becoming adept at making the seemingly impossible possible is crucial to all innovation. Tony Taj recognizes how implausible sources often yield the greatest artistic illuminations. "You can't pin me down," he often chuckles, responding to gallery-goers astonishment upon viewing his distinctive, ever-evolving approaches to painting.
Tony hopes to capture feeling completely weightless on canvas. Configurations is the newest series of work by Tony that explores organized chaos. Paint is manipulated in the moment and uses gravity to fall to the canvas. Using observing the outcome leads to inspiration and serves to guide future choice.
Specifying parameters such as: color selection, quantity of paint, how fast and far to apply paint, the process of creation naturally unfolds. This approach unveils how the artist's intention coupled with spontaneity yields work that is simultaneously abstract and representational.
Land Configuration- Tony Taj
Metropolis Configuration- Tony Taj
Giovanni Nino and Tony Taj complete their first weightless flight training exercise at the iFly facility in Renton Wa. Each flight is 1 minute in length accompanied by a certified instructor to coach on proper technique.
Here is our submission to the #ifwehadglass promotion by Google. Google Glass will be available through the Google Explorer program in limited quantities. Applicants are judged based on novel and creative uses of Glass.
@projectglass #ifihadglass I could find my way in a weightless environment in 3 dimensional space. pic.twitter.com/Fpx5C0Tt5q
Upon fulfilling his lifelong dream, hurtling through space on Apollo 14's 1971 mission to the Moon, former astronaut Edgar Mitchell found himself enraptured by a profound sense of universal interconnectedness. This experience, which he now calls 'Noetic,' catalyzed his mission to explore human consciousness and eventually found The Institute of Noetic Sciences. IONS is "...an emerging movement of globally conscious citizens dedicated to manifesting our highest capacities."
"I recognized that the Newtonian idea of separate, independent, discreet things in the universe wasn't a fully accurate description. What was needed was a new story of who we are and what we are capable of becoming,” says Mitchell, whose resulting epiphany completely shifted his view of human potential. Today IONS seeks not only to enhance quality of life on our planet but to unite objective with subjective methods of perceiving, to honor multiple ways of knowing, and to uphold the value of consciousness in a myriad sectors running the gamut from business to healthcare.
This cognitive shift and renewed perspective as a result of venturing into space defies labels or dissection but certainly demands our continuing inquiry.
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Enjoy the video below, Ad Astra!
Astronaut Chris Hadfield continues to shatter any preconceived notions we had and perhaps never even considered regarding the intersection between science and art. His latest endeavor: the first musical collaboration in space with The Barenaked Ladies singer Ed Roberston. "...he created a really poetic, laced-with-technical-info second verse. I was like: ‘Dude, you’re the astronaut. I’m supposed to be the songwriter,’ says Robertson. "But it was an awesome surprise.” Awesome indeed, their song titled "I.S.S (Is Somebody Singing)" was recorded live, Chris was located aboard The International Space Station while Robertson performed at CBC Music’s studio in Toronto.
Last week we were fortunate enough to meet with Tyler Stallings, curator of the newly opened Free Enterprise exhibit at UCR artsblock for a private no hassles tour. Three dedicated years to actualize the vision of this exhibit certainly paid off. We'll let the pictures do most of the talking:
Entrance to the Mothership
Richard Clar, "The Spaceflight Dolphin"
Space fashion
The first painting executed on a parabolic flight by Frank Pietronigro.
ARTifacts from the first artist to paint on a parabolic flight
More ARTifacts...
Giovanni strikes a pose near the first microgravity "art studio" or in Frank Pietronigro's words it is the “'Tabernacle' to signify the 'creativity chamber' and to site 'its basis in ritual.' "
Zero Gravity dancing...videos capturing experimental choreography of Kitsou Dubois and Co. For your viewing pleasure, on Youtube, a quick search of "Kitsou Dubois" should do the trick.
Video of Kitsou Dubois and fellow choreographer dancing in microgravity. One of over 22 parabolic flights she has taken.
Tony and a prototype designed by XCOR Aerospace, a company who recognizes that the only way for them to get to space is to make it affordable for private citizens. They are the "blue collar workers" in the realm of space travel.
Today marks the opening of Free Enterprise: The Art of Citizen Space Exploration, the first contemporary art exhibition in the U.S. to explore implications of civilian space travel. Book your trip to sunshine and cutting edge innovation between now and May 18 at UCR ARTSblock, located in the 3800 block of Main Street in downtown Riverside.
The California Museum of Photography, Culver Center of the Arts and Sweeney Art Gallery are open Tuesday through Saturday from noon to 5 p.m., and from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. for First Thursday ArtWalks. Admission is $3, which includes entry to all three venues, and is free during First Thursday ArtWalks. Click HERE for more information
Hypersensitivity, "spidey senses," coupled with years of practice honing in on the infinitesimal grooves and dents in rocks are the methods of Mr. Grab's madness. He achieves impecabble, awe-inspiring feats of balance by venturing out into the wildness on quests for the perfect stones. "'I find a zero point, or silence within myself.' I'm not sure what that means, but it's my sense that the man's got great hands, hands that can feel the exact weight of a stone and a mind that can concentrate, and somehow get inside these stones, and, as he puts it, "Become the balance."
See Mr.Grab's website
Have you ever been curious about what a "space toilet" sounds like? Take a gander and listen on Chris Hadfield's Soundcloud HERE which includes the first and only original track recorded in space.
The 21st of December 2012 was hardly wrought with apocalyptic prophecies after all. Much the opposite, in fact, as kindred spirit and the first Canadian Astronaut to walk in space, Chris Hadfield recently marked a new milestone in the realm of "space art" by being the first person to record an original song in space. "Early pioneers, sailors and miners all created songs about the exploration of new frontiers on Earth. So it is only natural for the tradition to continue as humanity expands into the cosmos," says Hadfield. We wholeheartedly agree.
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Check out this inspirational short by Giacomo Sardelli:
