Keep Adding
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Keep Adding is an artist group formed in the year 2001.
Keep Adding creates environments that address space, context, and site. These spaces are not simply the cube of a gallery or an abandoned house – they are the sites of complete sensory experiences. Keep Adding's pluralistic practice spans a broad range of media including sculpture, photography, video, drawing, digital media, painting and site-specific installation. They often incorporate themes of surgery
, architecture
, graffiti
and organic mass into their abstract works.
Works from Keep Adding have screened internationally at venues such as the Cannes Film Festival
/ International Critic’s Week, the Austin Museum of Digital Art, the Santa Fe Art Institute, and the Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe. Keep Adding works are included in private collections in the United States and Europe.
Keep Adding were introduced to a larger audience by their album artwork for acclaimed German music producers Funkstörung
, Atlanta-based Richard Devine
and Miami-based Schematic Records
. They have also worked with Sublight Records
and Hymen Records.
Keep Adding’s wrekage project merges graffiti
style abstract painting, architecture
and Liquid Crystal Display
digital art
into one space.
These wrekage installations function as a large-scale abstract painting that viewers can walk into and experience from various vantage points, exploring concepts of two- and three dimensionality, interior and exterior. Inherent to this work is its dependence upon its audience to transform the art into a living, changing entity. Keep Adding invites the viewer to explore, consider, and assess individual experience within a work of art.
Keep Adding creates environments that address space, context, and site. These spaces are not simply the cube of a gallery or an abandoned house – they are the sites of complete sensory experiences. Keep Adding's pluralistic practice spans a broad range of media including sculpture, photography, video, drawing, digital media, painting and site-specific installation. They often incorporate themes of surgery
Surgery
Surgery is an ancient medical specialty that uses operative manual and instrumental techniques on a patient to investigate and/or treat a pathological condition such as disease or injury, or to help improve bodily function or appearance.An act of performing surgery may be called a surgical...
, architecture
Architecture
Architecture is both the process and product of planning, designing and construction. Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural and political symbols and as works of art...
, graffiti
Graffiti
Graffiti is the name for images or lettering scratched, scrawled, painted or marked in any manner on property....
and organic mass into their abstract works.
Works from Keep Adding have screened internationally at venues such as the Cannes Film Festival
Cannes Film Festival
The Cannes International Film Festival , is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres including documentaries from around the world. Founded in 1946, it is among the world's most prestigious and publicized film festivals...
/ International Critic’s Week, the Austin Museum of Digital Art, the Santa Fe Art Institute, and the Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe. Keep Adding works are included in private collections in the United States and Europe.
Keep Adding were introduced to a larger audience by their album artwork for acclaimed German music producers Funkstörung
Funkstörung
Funkstörung is Christian de Luca and Michael Fakesch , a duo of IDM musicians hailing from Rosenheim, Germany...
, Atlanta-based Richard Devine
Richard Devine
Richard Devine is an Atlanta-based electronic musician. He is recognized for producing a layered and heavily processed sound, combining influences from hip-hop to old and modern electronic music. Devine largely records for the Miami-based Schematic Records, which was founded by . He has also done...
and Miami-based Schematic Records
Schematic Records
In 1995 Josh Kay & Romulo Del Castillo released a series of records for the US major label Astralwerks under the name Soul Oddity. In 1997 after a dispute with Astralwerks & a successful release as Phoenecia on Warp , the duo founded Schematic Music Company, an electronic music label which would go...
. They have also worked with Sublight Records
Sublight Records
Sublight Records was a Canadian record label started in 2004 by Aaron Rintoul and ran until June 2007. Based out of Winnipeg, Canada. It was named among the top 25 indie record labels of 2006 by XLR8R magazine - "Sublight has gone from spewing out splattered beats fresh from bedrooms where the sun...
and Hymen Records.
Installation
- wrekage (2001-present)
Graffiti
Graffiti is the name for images or lettering scratched, scrawled, painted or marked in any manner on property....
style abstract painting, architecture
Architecture
Architecture is both the process and product of planning, designing and construction. Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural and political symbols and as works of art...
and Liquid Crystal Display
Liquid crystal display
A liquid crystal display is a flat panel display, electronic visual display, or video display that uses the light modulating properties of liquid crystals . LCs do not emit light directly....
digital art
Digital art
Digital art is a general term for a range of artistic works and practices that use digital technology as an essential part of the creative and/or presentation process...
into one space.
These wrekage installations function as a large-scale abstract painting that viewers can walk into and experience from various vantage points, exploring concepts of two- and three dimensionality, interior and exterior. Inherent to this work is its dependence upon its audience to transform the art into a living, changing entity. Keep Adding invites the viewer to explore, consider, and assess individual experience within a work of art.
Videos
- "Chopping Heads" (2005) video for FunkstörungFunkstörungFunkstörung is Christian de Luca and Michael Fakesch , a duo of IDM musicians hailing from Rosenheim, Germany...
- "I Want It" (2007) video for Michael Fakesch
External links
- Keep Adding - official website
- Apple.com interview with Keep Adding
- http://www.youtube.com/KeepAdding
- http://www.myspace.com/keepadding
- "Wrekage" DVD (2007), a video documentary from Microcinema International
See also
- New Media ArtNew media artNew media art is a genre that encompasses artworks created with new media technologies, including digital art, computer graphics, computer animation, virtual art, Internet art, interactive art, computer robotics, and art as biotechnology...
- Digital ArtDigital artDigital art is a general term for a range of artistic works and practices that use digital technology as an essential part of the creative and/or presentation process...
- Electronic ArtElectronic artElectronic art is a form of art that makes use of electronic media or, more broadly, refers to technology and/or electronic media. It is related to information art, new media art, video art, digital art, interactive art, internet art, and electronic music...
- Video artVideo artVideo art is a type of art which relies on moving pictures and comprises video and/or audio data. . Video art came into existence during the 1960s and 1970s, is still widely practiced and has given rise to the widespread use of video installations...
- IntermediaIntermediaIntermedia was a concept employed in the mid-sixties by Fluxus artist Dick Higgins to describe the ineffable, often confusing, inter-disciplinary activities that occur between genres that became prevalent in the 1960s. Thus, the areas such as those between drawing and poetry, or between painting...
- PostdigitalPostdigitalPostdigital is a term which has recently come into use in the discourse of digital artistic practice. This term points significantly to our rapidly changed and changing relationships with digital technologies and art forms. It points to an attitude that is more concerned with being human, than with...
- PostmodernismPostmodernismPostmodernism is a philosophical movement evolved in reaction to modernism, the tendency in contemporary culture to accept only objective truth and to be inherently suspicious towards a global cultural narrative or meta-narrative. Postmodernist thought is an intentional departure from the...