var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-120018-4']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })(); Nonsense Lab was dubbed the unofficial name of the studio space that hosted Sean Smith for the inaugural Artist/Scholar-in-Residence at the University of Western Ontario’s Department of Visual Arts during 2011-2012. The title is a tongue-in-cheek homage to the Sense Lab, a program space for research-creation founded by Erin Manning and Brian Massumi in Montreal. This blog originally documented Sean’s engagement with students in the elective Visual Arts course “Toward a Kinoderm Aesthetics,” other activities and initiatives with the UWO and broader London communities while in residence during the fall 2011 semester, and progress on work for the exhibition D S NFORMAT ON: Threnody from the Vision Machine, held January 12-26, 2012 at the ArtLAB Gallery, John Labatt Visual Arts Centre. Today it continues to share emergent processes with various networked communities, as well as offering a rough curatorial exercise of inspiring artworks that engage similar thematic trajectories. Much of Sean’s current work emerges from the Department of Biological Flow, his ongoing experimental dialogue of research-creation with Barbara Fornssler. Spanning performance, installation, text, image, poetry and motion capture, their consideration of biological flow develops processes to a state at which they have just ceased to be fragile enough for one’s imagination to take over and build upon the framework. While the focus of their practice often concerns the aesthetics and politics of surveillant optics in urban spaces, they also intend to bring a more multisensory approach to their processes of research-creation — along with generous helpings of humour.Tumblr (3.0; @nonsenselab)http://nonsenselab.tumblr.com/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/2301d5f5a53136bbcef0a9964a117052/tumblr_mlqocp0tOd1r24ddao2_500.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/08da061312ca4f6ba3ef0b9a8cef90e6/tumblr_mlqocp0tOd1r24ddao1_500.png"/><br/> <br/><p><small><a href="http://www.departmentofbiologicalflow.net" target="_blank">Department of Biological Flow</a></small><br/><small><em><a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.632586656756015.1073741825.165747780106574&type=1" target="_blank">Jewel Box</a></em></small><br/><small>2013</small><br/><small>ballizein poetics (no.2)</small></p> <p>- - -</p> <p>[google docs live editing (or a dance floor) > 2 artificial identities + 1 opening + hearst castle inspiration + joules > <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mv4DnHpaJo" target="_blank">james zabiela/sasha involv3r time constraint</a> and emergent poem = ‘jewel box’]</p>http://nonsenselab.tumblr.com/post/48747453901http://nonsenselab.tumblr.com/post/48747453901Tue, 23 Apr 2013 23:00:00 -0400DoBFperformancepoetrydancejoulesenergeticsballerinaidentitylightcolourthirdnessanxietyprocessrecombinancemachinecollaborationtime-based media<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/ad041ba6194909eb031e71aefbf70dab/tumblr_mljdzjnZJM1ra11kso1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/47a2328d8385b83370574ddf8a605be2/tumblr_mljdzjnZJM1ra11kso2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/9652f6877152473ecc11b470d6e644e7/tumblr_mljdzjnZJM1ra11kso3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/b42f5f480510c94255f1fe3282c91205/tumblr_mljdzjnZJM1ra11kso4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/cd887b56204bade8bb0498a8210c011d/tumblr_mljdzjnZJM1ra11kso5_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p><small>carnovsky</small><br/><small><i>RGB</i></small><br/><small>2010</small><br/><small>installation</small><br/><small><a href="http://www.carnovsky.com/RGB_Johanssen2010.htm" target="_blank">Johanssen Gallery, Direktorenhaus, Berlin</a></small></p>http://nonsenselab.tumblr.com/post/48516795872http://nonsenselab.tumblr.com/post/48516795872Sun, 21 Apr 2013 07:40:00 -0400carnovskycolourarchitectureinstallationunderwateranimalsshiftecologydisappearance<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/d7eb812f71df1f4da971f33a065db287/tumblr_mfvs1tQlGv1s2094ro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><small>Gjon Mili</small><br/><small>stroboscopic image of a trick shot by billiards champion Willie Hoppe</small><br/><small>1941</small></p>http://nonsenselab.tumblr.com/post/48278547684http://nonsenselab.tumblr.com/post/48278547684Thu, 18 Apr 2013 10:32:00 -0400Miliphotographstroboscopyforcecollisionbilliardstempopointsformgesturestyle<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/f551199ee476e9634271638404f4a421/tumblr_mkzojdNx5v1r24ddao1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><i>footsteps footsteps<br/>      footsteps<br/> wings flitting<br/> humming</i></p> <p><i>cold and uncertain<br/> emboldened</i></p> <p><i>humming</i></p>http://nonsenselab.tumblr.com/post/47536601146http://nonsenselab.tumblr.com/post/47536601146Tue, 09 Apr 2013 09:09:00 -0400DoBFdiagraminsectecologyartphilosophymovementpoeticsdoxawalkingvibrationwork-in-process<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/1ec27465e0f6efc3b71c758be6f762aa/tumblr_mkumihmM2z1r24ddao1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><small>Gego (Gertrud Goldschmidt)</small><br/><small><em>Ocho cuadrados [Eight Squares]</em></small><br/><small>1961</small><br/><small>welded and painted iron</small><br/><small>66 15/16” x 25 3/16” x 15 3/4”</small></p>http://nonsenselab.tumblr.com/post/47298535898http://nonsenselab.tumblr.com/post/47298535898Sat, 06 Apr 2013 15:37:29 -0400Gegosculptureironmoiréshadowmovementgeometryabstractionstriated spaceangleperspectiverelationresonance<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/e9c5c1d325b743b628cf7e8aa62021df/tumblr_mjpscs0Pzu1r87i11o1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/cba236536835535f286e71fb8d068118/tumblr_mjpscs0Pzu1r87i11o2_400.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p><small><a href="http://lethaprojects.com" target="_blank">Letha Wilson</a></small><br/><small><em>Ghost of a Tree</em></small><br/><small>2012</small><br/><small>digital print on vinyl, drywall, wood, wood column</small></p>http://nonsenselab.tumblr.com/post/47269266722http://nonsenselab.tumblr.com/post/47269266722Sat, 06 Apr 2013 07:59:00 -0400Wilsonphotographyinstallationskeuomorphtransversalitytreestructurememoryforceweightenvironment<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/2e0945068b9c12a2b640e55b7fa83b5c/tumblr_mkn5166mpp1qhmazuo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><small><a href="http://www.jongmee.com/" target="_blank">Jongmee</a></small><br/><small><em>Blind</em></small><br/><small>2013</small><br/><small>illustration</small></p>http://nonsenselab.tumblr.com/post/47269253353http://nonsenselab.tumblr.com/post/47269253353Sat, 06 Apr 2013 07:59:00 -0400Jongmeeillustrationblindnessrepetitiongirlpatterncloningmassrelationtouch<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/56b05060fa3a858a7e55b8ccbe6f9cb1/tumblr_mklwtc4EhH1s5yn9oo8_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/83d1e940f2d5cf80d44209b811ebf92e/tumblr_mklwtc4EhH1s5yn9oo10_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/7919b4c9e8d0f9e7e272ee2e001be134/tumblr_mklwtc4EhH1s5yn9oo1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/821bf39d7f145bbe535970eed55477ba/tumblr_mklwtc4EhH1s5yn9oo2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/ecac64feb6255487b70209babecb44df/tumblr_mklwtc4EhH1s5yn9oo3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/ae4610bf5044f4eb0bdc3b52f6f1d427/tumblr_mklwtc4EhH1s5yn9oo4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/8704897ece4b9534b740fb9780c1e64f/tumblr_mklwtc4EhH1s5yn9oo5_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/dca58165f72232e29724fc581d03b585/tumblr_mklwtc4EhH1s5yn9oo6_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/351a517d68d7999ce86266ab441458fe/tumblr_mklwtc4EhH1s5yn9oo7_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p><small>Gad Fleischwitz</small><br/><small><em>Morphogenesis</em></small><br/><small>2013</small><br/><small>land art</small><br/><small>Amherst Island, Ontario</small></p>http://nonsenselab.tumblr.com/post/47028093964http://nonsenselab.tumblr.com/post/47028093964Wed, 03 Apr 2013 11:59:00 -0400Fleischwitzland artspiralintensitycellularontogenesisvectorstexturecolourlifereanimationenergetics<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/6ba111e315f550ccb985c5cf14458c4b/tumblr_mjyil4a2du1rilabwo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><small>Nicolaj Diulgheroff</small><br/><small><i>L’uomo razionale</i></small><br/><small>1928</small><br/><small>oil on canvas</small></p>http://nonsenselab.tumblr.com/post/46470115249http://nonsenselab.tumblr.com/post/46470115249Wed, 27 Mar 2013 21:41:00 -0400Diulgheroffpaintingfuturismrationalismmovementindustryrepetitionprojectionspiralcolour<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/d134ce02485be02432e0c572ba23e8e0/tumblr_mjre0drvwC1r24ddao1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/e44e00fd33f29f518527198795f8615c/tumblr_mjre0drvwC1r24ddao2_400.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p><small>Michael Heizer</small><br/><small><em><a href="http://doublenegative.tarasen.net/double_negative.html" target="_blank">Double Negative</a></em></small><br/><small>1969-70</small><br/><small>land art (and overhead satellite view)</small><br/><small>1500’ x 50’ x 30’</small><br/><small>Mormon Mesa, Nevada</small></p>http://nonsenselab.tumblr.com/post/45500671012http://nonsenselab.tumblr.com/post/45500671012Sat, 16 Mar 2013 11:07:00 -0400Heizerland artexcavationmesarockscaletrenchnegative spacelineperspectivedecaydepthvolumegesturetimecutscar<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/18bff855ec857cab47777e4436fd2db8/tumblr_meqc2x49dG1rxkmgxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><small>Emperor Hizong</small><br/><small><em>Auspicious Cranes</em></small><br/><small>c. 1112</small></p>http://nonsenselab.tumblr.com/post/45385313208http://nonsenselab.tumblr.com/post/45385313208Thu, 14 Mar 2013 21:10:00 -0400Hizongpaintingcranesflockingskycompositionfragility<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_me4st1IVi11qmggeio1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><small><a href="http://www.dennis-oppenheim.com/early-work/153" target="_blank">Dennis Oppenheim</a></small><br/><small><em>Two Stage Transfer Drawing</em></small><br/><small>1971</small><br/><small>performance</small></p> <p>- - -</p> <p><em>“As I run a marker along Eric’s back he attempts to duplicate the movement on the wall. My activity stimulates a kinetic response from his sensory system. I am, therefore, Drawing Through Him”</em></p>http://nonsenselab.tumblr.com/post/45382293308http://nonsenselab.tumblr.com/post/45382293308Thu, 14 Mar 2013 20:31:00 -0400Oppenheimperformancedrawinggesturerelationskinmultiple bodytactilitylinearsegmentedassemblagesynaesthesia<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/33bf8fed205eb66742640b358cd3aac9/tumblr_mjo8yuosiJ1r24ddao1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><small><a href="http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1992.5112" target="_blank">Yves Klein</a></small><br/><small><i>Leap into the Void</i></small><br/><small>1960</small><br/><small>performance and photomontage on gelatin silver print</small></p>http://nonsenselab.tumblr.com/post/45372623678http://nonsenselab.tumblr.com/post/45372623678Thu, 14 Mar 2013 18:25:42 -0400Kleinperformancephotomontagevoidflightgesturecurvebodyfreedomprocesscutfoldtimegravityhysteria<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/50bd788e6a2bed109c8c1c6f5d372c7a/tumblr_mjcovzUlR91qcp8t5o1_500.gif"/><br/><br/><p><small><a href="http://www.89a.co.uk/" target="_blank">Mathew Lucas</a></small><br/><small><em>Bauhaus</em></small><br/><small>animated gif</small></p>http://nonsenselab.tumblr.com/post/45078259242http://nonsenselab.tumblr.com/post/45078259242Sun, 10 Mar 2013 22:09:00 -0400Lucasanimationgifsbauhauscompositionrotationvolumeassemblageminimalism<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/1e2d7edbb48a12f24488ecfa85b92b19/tumblr_mi24txvqOm1qe31lco2_r1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/125a6c57cad103c8a7733aed46d87ff8/tumblr_mi24txvqOm1qe31lco4_r1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/d0c364a66015820e75e9f29e5bc8b818/tumblr_mi24txvqOm1qe31lco3_r2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/d5a8dd342d7c82963abea6b19db31b79/tumblr_mi24txvqOm1qe31lco1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/01c21e75425996b43632b0b075c12673/tumblr_mi24txvqOm1qe31lco5_r2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p><small><a href="http://www.sandysmith.co.uk/" target="_blank">Sandy Smith</a></small><br/><small><em>Mauritian Sunset</em></small><br/><small>2005-6</small><br/><small>media installation</small></p>http://nonsenselab.tumblr.com/post/44986237959http://nonsenselab.tumblr.com/post/44986237959Sat, 09 Mar 2013 20:44:00 -0500Smithinstallationtimecolourgradientsunenergyentropyobversewallarchitecture<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/d8e425ecdb99334f8f31f18664f72f4c/tumblr_mjeteq4SYE1r24ddao1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><small><a href="http://www.huguettecaland.com/" target="_blank">Huguette Caland</a></small><br/><small><i>Golden Daisies</i></small><br/><small>2009</small><br/><small>mixed media on linen</small><br/><small>61 x 90cm</small></p>http://nonsenselab.tumblr.com/post/44961851518http://nonsenselab.tumblr.com/post/44961851518Sat, 09 Mar 2013 15:11:14 -0500Calandmixed mediaflowersabstractioncolourtexturelifevitalismspace<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/76e1a7ccea99285b366d8ee21fa251b6/tumblr_mifrdl0v8W1qbz13no1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><small>Michael Kidner</small><br/><small><em><a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/kidner-square-and-circle-one-p77023" target="_blank">Square and Circle One</a></em></small><br/><small>1976</small><br/><small>photo-etching on paper</small></p>http://nonsenselab.tumblr.com/post/44541052559http://nonsenselab.tumblr.com/post/44541052559Mon, 04 Mar 2013 09:32:00 -0500Kidnerphoto-etchinggeometrystriaeovumdecenteredclinamencompositionvibrationboundedness<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/dac78b62a765387929e859209ea826c9/tumblr_miznmjbde71rhgbn2o1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/006faecf64b08e6e3cb18646fb89127d/tumblr_miznmjbde71rhgbn2o4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/7511a2aeb61e516153ec57558f34578a/tumblr_miznmjbde71rhgbn2o2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/13b2ec88d89ae298c70dd3b28ecdf880/tumblr_miznmjbde71rhgbn2o6_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/59f94cc76b35ca3d1af650e12b5e7181/tumblr_miznmjbde71rhgbn2o5_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/288ac85caccc44538be97a5d9f3a45c7/tumblr_miznmjbde71rhgbn2o7_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/f71ff656a620ec76e042282395ff930c/tumblr_miznmjbde71rhgbn2o3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p><small><a href="http://www.inkyoback.com/chromoillusion.html" target="_blank">Inkyo Back</a></small><br/><small><em>ChromoIllusion No.5</em> and <em>No.6</em></small><br/><small>2012</small><br/><small>installation</small><br/><small>Gallery Jireh, Heyri, Korea</small></p>http://nonsenselab.tumblr.com/post/44377373059http://nonsenselab.tumblr.com/post/44377373059Sat, 02 Mar 2013 11:34:00 -0500Backinstallationcolouropticsfragmentationfragilitylow-fiperceptiondistortionrelationviewerstriae<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/f38a0657481b434b35728f23f1eeb3ad/tumblr_mhxkc2tL4s1qa6hruo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><small>Charles Ray</small><br/><small><em>Plank Piece</em></small><br/><small>1973</small><br/><small>performance/sculpture</small></p>http://nonsenselab.tumblr.com/post/44339008675http://nonsenselab.tumblr.com/post/44339008675Fri, 01 Mar 2013 21:41:00 -0500Rayperformancesculpturehypotenusestaticpostureplankcompositionpart-objects<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/3536fa2146e7ebdc76cba73bcba9f847/tumblr_mipk135pMF1r24ddao1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><small>Department of Biological Flow</small><br/><small><i>asciii rumble</i></small><br/><small>2013</small><br/><small>thermopoetics</small></p>http://nonsenselab.tumblr.com/post/43866348364http://nonsenselab.tumblr.com/post/43866348364Sat, 23 Feb 2013 23:48:00 -0500DoBFpoetrywavesrhythmmusicsmooth spacestriated spacecapitalenergyheatbubblestextimageasciipolitics of joy