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Still from Robert Seidel

I’ve seen enough “conceptual” video art to be wary of the medium, but the Advanced Beauty exhibit, which uses the theory of synesthesia, is beautiful and intriguing (even to the non art-savvy). An ongoing collaboration between artists, musicians, animators, architects, and programmers, these “video sound sculptures” are meant to mingle and excite the senses.

Still from Karsten Schmidt

There are six videos available on the website right now and a new one coming out on August 18th. My favorites right now are the ones directed by Robert Seidel (short and sweet) and Karsten Schmidt (otherworldly music, reminds me of a thousand copulating paper cranes). If you’re lucky enough to be in Amsterdam right now, the videos are playing in a boutique window on the Prins Hendrikkade until August 18th. Everyone else will just have to check the website. 

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The photo series “Bodies in Urban Spaces” is the result of a collaboration between art director Willi Dorner and photographer Lisa Rastl. The touring exhibition involves temporary, well choreographed human “sculptures” leading an audience through different urban environments as it’s all captured in photographs. These live performances have been taking place across the globe since 2004 when Dorner came up with the idea.

“The body is the tool for perceiving the dimensions of space,” Dorner wrote on his website. “By putting himself in relationship to space and architecture, body is not only measuring the space around him, body gives it a meaning. By literally filling up spaces that are left free in the designed space (architecture) not only dimensions become visible, it tries to make clear and point out how bodies stand against architecture and how they can change the perspective on it.”

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