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“Landscape Techne” at Little Berlin: Artists Explore Landscape to Contribute to Contemporary Art

Eteam’s “Prim Limit,” one of the pieces in the “Landscape Techne” exhibition at Little Berlin through November 27th, is a half-hour film that takes place in the “Second Life” virtual world, an online computer game that allows users to design their own avatar world.

Kensington ramble to Crane Arts, Little Berlin, Rebekah Templeton

It’s remarkable how much territory you can cover and art you can see in an afternoon, on foot, in Kensington. Here’s a sample of some offerings from my walk last Saturday afternoon.  I started at Little Berlin, where Landscape Techne, the group show curated by LB member Kristen Neville, suggests that no matter how electronically-or technologically-sophisticated we are as a society, artists will always have a need to create landscape imagery of some sort.

Toronto – sweet digital dreams of Alex McLeod

We got an email from an artist in Toronto recently. Alex McLeod, 25, was alerting us to his website and wanted some feedback. We both took a look at the digitally-rendered landscapes and were wowed by the super seductive colors, textures and spaces in what looked to be a dystopic Second Life world with weird architecture and even weirder nature (clouds that hang heavy as cow’s udders and air that seems to rise like bubbles in a fish tank, etc.).   These pretty, fragile worlds are a puzzle.  Is this an eco-disaster fueled art; is it post-apocalpytic; sheer fantasy?  The ... More » »