emagazine has joined together two top level professionals to work in a singular project, Mathias Bünte (copywriter for Coca Cola) and Raupa (graphic designer). We have worked the idea of getting together Warhol’s perception of art and Coca Cola as a universal product defining paradigmatic standards that still today can be questioned.

Even though it was thought as video-animation-installation project (idea still on the table), the final outcome is nothing but a nice piece of collaborative art.

Harold Lopez Nussa is a young talented pianist currently focused on Jazz. emagazine has  the pleasure of his collaboration with a composition regarding the main project of our third issue.

He has recently presented himself along with his group at Olympia Theater, París; Chistian Liger Theater, Nimes; Espace Charles Vanel,  Ville de Lagny sur Marne; Barbican Centre, London;  Montreux Jazz Festival (First Prize), New Morning of París, Satin Doll de Bordeaux, Festival Internacional de Música Do Pará, Brasil; IFA Sommergarten of Berlín (along with musicians of Buena Vista Social Club), Festival Internacional de Jazz de Barcelona,  and Festival Jazz Sur Son 31, Tolousse, France.

http://www.myspace.com/haroldlopeznussa

As a Leader and artist himself, Bill FitzGibbons runs Blue Star Contemporary Art Center as social sculpture,  offering a wide range of well served purposes all intricately related: Artist in Residence and the Mosaic Education and Exhibition Programs, working as a common thread showing a multi-faceted art center with all of its major components overseen and managed by artists. This creative energy informs its community in a very positive and engaging way, significantly adding to the quality of life of San Antonio and Texas.

emagazine, as a deeply social minded platform, has the pleasure to offer a space within its pages to Eco their purposes and achievements.

San Diego, CA (June 2, 2009) San Diego’s first Beyond the Border International Contemporary Art Fair (BTB ICAF), scheduled for September 2-4, 2009. The 3-day contemporary art fair will be held at The Grand Del Mar, San Diego’s newest luxury resort in Coastal North San Diego County. The event will showcase over $4 million in artwork by prominent national and international galleries coupled with sponsors such as Maserati, Modern Luxury Media, Qualcomm, Christie’s, The American Institute of Wine and Food, The California Bipolar Foundation, and many others. We anticipate over 3,000 qualified new and established collectors over the three days.

emagazine will feature and cover this event as well as to distribute to our loyal audience a prime content revealing the power of curated sample of works exhibited during this event.

John Spiak has kindly accepted, on behalf of ASU Museum, to collaborate with emagazine in project ” I´m keeping an eye on you”.

John Spiak is Curator at the Arizona State University Art Museum, joining the staff in 1994.   Spiak is one of the most energetic and innovative curators of contemporary art working in the Western United States. His curatorial emphasis is focused on contemporary art and society, with focus on works in video and new media by emerging artists.   Select past projects include:   New American City , addressing the role artists play in the development of Phoenix; When I Grow Up …, a look at the contemporary lives of senior citizens ; Screenshots: Jon Haddock; Pipilotti Rist: Sip My Ocean and Other Videos; Sean Duffy: The Grove; and Not Quite Myself Today, which looked at the stereotypes and perceptions of artists . In 1997, he founded the annual ASU Art Museum Short Film and Video Festival.

http://asuartmuseum.asu.edu/2009/imkeepinganeyeonyou/index.php

invited artists

Mounira Al Solh ,Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS

Jeff Luckey, Berlin, GERMANY

Charlotte Ginsborg, London, UK

Pia Greschner, Berlin, GERMANY

Myung-soo Kim, Tempe, ARIZONA

Yaron Lapid, London, UK

Johnna MacArthur, New York, NEW YORK

Michael Mohan, Los Angeles, CALIFORNIA

Corinna Schnitt, Hamburg, GERMANY

Dr Rachel Garfield, London, UK

Ray Beldner

Artist, curator and educator, Ray has joined emagazine to give us the privilege to feature his latest curatorial project: It’s Not Us, It’s You: The Rejection Show

Like many artists, Ray Beldner makes art from the stuff of everyday life: clothing, cash, stolen items, porn. The work takes the form of sculpture, installation, digital media, text-based work, and applied arts. It is frequently derived from conceptual ideas that deconstruct hierarchical systems “high art” versus “low art,” “intrinsic value” versus “commercial value,” and so on with ironic humor.

Born in San Francisco, Beldner received a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and an MFA from Mills College. He has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions both nationally and internationally and his work can be found in many public and private collections including the Federal Reserve Board, Washington D.C., the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Oakland Museum of California, and the San Jose Museum of Art.

Beldner is the recipient of grants from the California Arts Council, Creative Work Fund, Potrero Nuevo, and the Ruth Chenven Foundation. He has taught in the San Francisco public schools and at California College of the Arts, The San Francisco Art Institute, University of Notre Dame de Namur, and at UC Santa Cruz. Articles and reviews of his work have been published in: Arte, Wired, Art On Paper, Playboy, Art Papers, Artweek, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.

Most recently, his artwork has been exhibited in Inventing Marcel Duchamp: The Dynamics of Portraiture¸ National Portrait Gallery, Washington D. C., Redesign: Transforming the Ordinary, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada, Material Abuse, Clifford Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY, and in Greetings From the American Dream, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA.

http://www.raybeldner.com/

Claudia Buzzetti

Born in Uk and raised in Italy, Claudia Buzzetti is a young Historian that has taken adavntage from her academical background to digg into the photography universe, expanding her expertise in spaces and companies like: Vogue Italia, Aperture Foundation and  Specchio de La Stampa.

She has also worked as icon & image editor, and has a deep background in photography critic and curatorial efforts not just related to photography to contemporary art in general.

Artist Thierry Geoffroy participates in emagazine presenting Emergency Room project.

Thierry Geoffroy has worked with format art since 1989 when he wrote a manifest on 5 types of moving exhibitions(Manifeste – Les differents Types de moving Exhibitions). Since then he has worked on several other formats, his most famous being Emergency Room, which has toured internationally and has been shown at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in New York.

The format art of Thierry Geoffroy is created to be actualized in multiple locations, every time adding new knowledge to the format. The method is inspired by the TV format program: Art institutions wanting to use an art format must purchase a license and agree to use the original title, the architectural concept and the methods. As in TV vast documentation is always created with video and photo material as central elements.

Thierry Geoffroy’s formats always involve many participants – often several hundreds – and is occupied with social psychology conflicts, collaboration, etc.

Besides a long and norm-challenging, often humouristic, unusual and immense art production Thierry Geoffroy has also made several productions for Danish national television DR2. Among these the programs “Capitain” (1999), ”Immigranten” (2001), “Photographe“ (2002) and “Protest Underwear” (2005). The choice of media is frequently changing and is usually concerned with the contemporary. News papers, radio, fashion industry, telephones, internet domains, parties, music festivals, performance, myspace and facebookare among the elements of the artists crossmedia praxis.

Central to the philosophy of Thierry Geoffroy seems to be the concern that contemporary artists have an obligation to confront current thematics – “emergencies”. This is especially evident in Emergency Room and the Awareness Muscle format which goal is to train the collective “muscle of awareness”.

Parallel to the artists conceptual work with format arthe has also worked with subjects such as immigration, multiculturalism, colonialism, tourism, hypocrisy and the role of the artist.

http://www.colonel.dk/

Dan Mills

Emagazine is lucky to count in Dan Mills, artist and curator, with a unique Chinesse photography project.

Mills has  organized, curated or co-curated over fifty solo and group exhibitions for universities and museums throughout the US over the last twenty years, including New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Diego. Curated exhibitions in all media with an increasing focus on the art of our time and with a global perspective.

http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/dtmills/

Karol Radziszewski

An artist actively seeking and initiating diverse means of communication. A painter, performer, and public intervener. To realize projects, he easily chooses a certain media, from the classic (painting, drawing, photography)
to the experimental (working with space, video-art, multimedia, blog). Radziszewski’s chosen language perfectly coincides with character of the work, creating a determined and clear announcement. At the same time, his works are accompanied by a studying process of different forms of communication with reality and ways of art functioning in life. Radziszewski is clearly interested in the possibly of continuing the idea of pop art, as well as fulfilling the renaissance idea of humanism. Often in his realizations, he binds popular elements with classic ones and always intensely involves the sphere of individual feeling. Documenting himself, close ones, occurrences, and patterns, he builds a contemporary subjective notation.

http://karolradziszewski.blogspot.com/