Emilio Chapela / Kabinett: 2009

jueves, 19 de noviembre de 2009

Google Suggestions.... (Racist or Rude)

PART 2 (Racist or Rude)

Google has a tool for suggesting or completing searches for the users. The choices presented are based on the most popular queries on the web. I feel that this tool works as a very effective insight to the web's collective unconsciousness. Here are some examples...

Don't be offended, the collectiveness is speaking.

miércoles, 11 de noviembre de 2009

Google Suggestions....

Google has a tool for suggesting or completing searches for the users. The choices presented are based on the most popular queries on the web. I feel that this tool works as a very effective insight to the web's collective unconsciousness. Here are some examples...

domingo, 1 de noviembre de 2009

451 - List #1

451 - List #1

* If anyone is willing to donate me a copy of any of this titles for a project, It would be great! Thanks. No importa el idioma, aunque de preferencia en el original. Gracias

A Few Figs from Thistles, Edna St. Vincent Millay
Leaves of Grass, Walt Withman
The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner
Hamlet, William Shakespeare
La Biblia
Paradise Lost, John Milton
Edipo Rey, Sofocles
La Rebelión de las Masas, Ortega Y Gasset
Meditaciones, Marco Aurelio
La República, Platón
Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift
On the Origin of the Species, Charles Darwin
Out of My Life and Thought, Albert Schweitzer
Las Nubes, Aristófanes
An Autobiography of my Experiments with Truth, Mahatma Gandhi
Manual of Parliamentary Practice for the Use of the Senate of the United States, Thomas Jefferson
Magna Carta
United States Constitution
Headlong Hall, Thomas Love Peacock
Il Principe, Nicolas Maquiavelo
Principia Mathematica, Bertrand Russell
Walden, Henry David Thoreau
Farenheit 451, Ray Bradbury

lunes, 19 de octubre de 2009

Language @ Galeria Leme / Sao Paulo

Language by Emilio Chapela at Galeria Leme,
As part of One foot apart, with works by: Miguel Monroy, Erick Beltran, Fernando Ortega, Eduardo Aragon, Pablo Sigg, Daniel Guzman, Begoña Morales, José Antonio Vega Macotela, Mark Powell, Gilberto Esparza, Alejandro Almanza, Jorge Mendez Blake y su servileta.
Curated by Ruth Estévez.

It is the first time that "Language" is installed using two synchronized monitors to simulate a dialogue between computers. It seems as the two monitors answer back to each-other by translating the texts prompted on the screens.

domingo, 16 de agosto de 2009

Lucky 13 (at Projex-Mtl, Montreal)

This piece consists of 13 different ways to mathematically express the number 13: Every image on the series is visually different but represents the same number. In other words, it is a collection of 13 "unique multiples".
The conceptual rigidness of the piece is contrasted by a more obscure exploration of the superstition that surrounds the number 13.

jueves, 2 de julio de 2009

Pieces I would like to do, but I won't do.

Pieces I would like to do, but I won't. (List in progress).

1) Opening a facebook account under the name "John Smith" and invite all other John Smith's on facebook to be my friends (only them).
2) Do a "Caldo Tlalpeño" Campbell's soup painting. (Andy's style)
3) Sell Cumbia pirate CD's in London subway, using a loud "chinese" stereo-backpack. (llevelo... llevelo)
4) A sculpture made with chopped onions, so the audience cries before the masterpiece.
5) A Coca-Cola running toilet.
6) Leaving a suspicious package inside the MOMA and film the paranoid security guards removing it from the premises. Works well in airports or tall buildings as well. (This one I actually might do it, anyone knows where they have a robots to remove packages?)

This is it for now, come back for further updates.