Stimulating innovation to help our communities grow.

Posted on January 15, 2011 by admin

The Engine Institute’s purpose is to support artistic exploration at the frontiers of science and foster innovations to beneficially impact society and culture.

News

Bernard Brunon will speak about The Engine Institute, Inc., in his lecture on art & business in the Art & Flux seminar, organized by Yann Toma  Friday 05/18 at La Sorbonne’s UFR arts plastiques et sciences de l’art, Paris, France.

The Engine Institute’s Founder & Executive Director, China Blue met with Congressman Langevin to discuss H.Res.319 STEAM a RI initiative to add art education to STEM education (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math). Please contact your state representatives and ask them to co-sponsor H.Res 319 if you believe, like we do, that art + science = innovation:

China Blue is the recipient of the 2012 Rhode Island State Council of the Arts’ Fellowship in the category of New Genres and her exhibition “Firefly Projects” is nominated for the Best Monographic Museum Show, Nationally by the International Association of Art Critics.

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Theatre of Life

Posted on May 11, 2012 by admin

Marina Abramovic, Cutting the Star, 1976 / 1997, video installation, color, loop, courtesy: Studio Stefania Miscetti, Rome

Life, life itself… is the absolute art!
When Yves Klein pronounced this words for the first time they were highly provocative. Not only they undermined conventional notions of art, they also anticipated all those artistic strategies which, on the turn of ‘60s to ‘70s, expanded to the highest extent boundaries of art, seeking to merge it with all other expressive languages.

Theatre of Life: One and Many Actions is exhibitive project dedicated to this artistic practices which looked for confluence between art, experimental music, new dance and theatre. Continue reading →

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Glasstress: New Art from the Venice Biennale

Posted on May 8, 2012 by admin

 

Cristina’s Frozen Dreams, Jaume Plensa, 2010, Edition of 8, PHOTO CREDIT: Francesco Ferruzzi, Courtesy of Berengo Private Collection, Venice; Galerie Lelong, Paris

The cutting-edge exhibition series Glasstress, organized by glass impresario Adriano Berengo for the past two Venice Biennales—each time making waves in the lagoon city—debuted at the Museum of Arts and Design in February 2012.

Berengo calls the series “a new visionary manifesto for glass and art.” His commissioning of leading contemporary artists and designers to create works despite a lack of knowledge about the medium or its history has proved a game changer in the field. Lacking preconceptions, these creators working with artisans on Murano have produced pieces that are as exciting as they are fresh. The Museum of Arts and Design presents a selection of some 20 pieces culled from the exhibition’s two editions, most from the 2011 edition. Continue reading →

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Brains: The Mind as Matter

Posted on May 5, 2012 by admin

"From Within," Annie Cattrell, silvered bronze cast, 2006

Wellcome Collection’s major new exhibition looks at one of the most complex entities in the universe. Brains: The Mind as Matter, explores what humans have done to brains in the name of medical intervention, scientific enquiry, cultural meaning and technological change. Featuring more than 150 objects including real brains, artworks, manuscripts, artefacts, videos and photography, Brains follows the long quest to manipulate and decipher the most unique and mysterious of human organs, whose secrets continue to confound and inspire. Continue reading →

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TechnoCraft: Where High Tech Meets Handmade

Posted on April 29, 2012 by admin

 Hera Gallery and Education Foundation, Jamestown Art Center and The Engine Institute, Inc., present TechnoCraft an exhibition of Rhode Island and greater New England artists who are inspired by and use technology to enhance the impact of their work. Showing the technology front and center some works blink, buzz, glow, flap, and spin. Continue reading →

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LUX an Exhibition Blending Science, Art and Nature

Posted on April 28, 2012 by admin

Natalie Tyler, Coccoons

Light reveals what is hidden, allowing us to see color, form, and movement. It illuminates our visual world making the hidden become truth to our eyes. 

Funded in part by the Cornell Council of the Arts, Lux is a unique exhibition encompassing both art and science. A combined effort by the Department of Art and the Department Continue reading →

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2012 Armory Show

Posted on March 19, 2012 by China Blue

Yang Jiechang, Tale of the 11th Day - Golden Day, 2011, ink and mineral colors, silk on canvas 8 panels, 255 x 148 cm-Detail

This year I decided to go to the New York Armory Show, one of the most important Modern and Contemporary art fairs of the year. In 2012, the Armory Show was housed in Piers 92 and 94, with Pier 92 dedicated to primarily the Modern Masters and Pier 94 to the Contemporary art.

This is a useful way to segregate these works, but if you just want to experience all the art, navigating the space even in one pier it is a serious amount of turf to cover. I was fortunate because I am interested in contemporary art and was specifically interested in artists that are working at the nexus of technology and/or science.  This focus made the process of looking at work a little bit simpler. As I found my way around the booths, I was pleasantly surprised to find a number of artists that were working with the topics of biology, nature and a small number on technology.  Continue reading →

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Jonathan Sterne: MP3

Posted on March 6, 2012 by admin

A Hundred-Year History of an 19-Year-Old Format in Under an Hour

There are now more MP3s in circulation than all other forms of recorded audio combined. Through a series of episodes, Jonathan Sterne offers a history of the MP3 format, and uses it to point to a longer, general history of compression in the 20th century. Our most basic ideas of what it means to hear and listen, as well as our Continue reading →

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Polymath

Posted on March 6, 2012 by admin

David Marron, Muse (detail), mixed media, 2012

GV Art’s latest exhibition brings together ‘polymath’ works that create synergies and connect disparate ideas and different schools of thoughts. From David Marron’s Nervous Tissue installation, to Susan Aldworth’s Reassembling the Self lithographs, to Rachel Gadsden, whose Unlimited Global Alchemy will be presented as part of the 2012 Cultural Olympiad. Reassembling the Self , a new suite of 14 lithographs by Susan Aldworth made at the Curwen Studio under the

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PAINTING AIR: SPENCER FINCH

Posted on March 6, 2012 by admin

Spencer Finch, Installation view of Painting Air, 2012

Painting Air: Spencer Finch is a major exhibition by Brooklyn-based artist Spencer Finch. In this two-part show, the museum debuts a large-scale installation by Finch, shown with more than 60 pieces—from ancient objects to late-20th-century art— selected by the artist from the Museum’s collection.

The work of Impressionist painter Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926) serves as the aesthetic touchstone for both parts of the exhibition, and even Continue reading →

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The Fourth State Of Water: From Micro To Macro

Posted on February 28, 2012 by admin

Iwasaki, Hideo “Cyanobacterial Bonsai Project” 2008 artificially grown cyanobacterial species

This project considers the idea of the 4th state of water as a shift in perspective and a new way of thinking with this molecule being the ultimate reflection of our emerging global consciousness. This project is developed around the theme of water, understood not only through the multiplicity of its symbolical and metaphorical meanings but also as one of the life and energy sources which today demands a serious political and social discussion.

Artists & scientists: Karla Brunet (Brazil), Richard Clar & Dinis Afonso Ribeiro (USA / Portugal), Suzon Fuks (Australia), Shiho Fukuhara & Georg Tremmel (Japan / Austria), Dew Harrison (GB), Tomoko Hayashi (Japan), Takashi Ikegami (Japan), Continue reading →

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