#mindmelt

Lately I've been kicking back watching the world knitting itself into synchromystic sticky web. Well my reality at least.

Guess What!!??

I've got an artist talk going on this Thursday 28 April 2011 at the White House Studio Project Located at #277.5 Augusta Ave. Toronto, Ont. come out and listen to me talk about fantastic and strange interactions where science and art make contemporary culture.


Matt Mincoff is an artist/sculptor from Hamilton Ontario and has studied at OCAD (BFA 2007) and RMIT Melbourne (MFA 2010). His practice is an exploration of what is unknown and how can we communicate what should be unexplainable. With this focus on the unknown he has worked with the concepts of the mind, ghosts, identity, invisibility, spirit, relationships and n-dimensional geometry through various approaches to objects, installation, images, sounds and video.
The workshop will discuss various topics that Mincoff has been recently working on through his art practice with slide presentations of his work and relevant media to support the concepts under the title “seeing beyond looking through”.
(website: http://mattmincoff.blogspot.com/)
Doors @ 7pm
Lecture starts at 7:30 sharp
PWYC!
Click here for Facebook event page.

Beezer.

We lost one of the raddest dudes ever at the beginning of this year.
Bryan we all miss you. Thank you for all the motivation. Everyday.

speaking of collaborating

Like i mentioned in the previous post I enjoy working on various projects with different people that I know. This morning i received an email from Australia sent by my pal and partner in crimes Bec. She is a jewlery maker and fellow creator and connoisseur of stuff. I left a few unfinished sculptures with her in hopes that she could help finish them. I was pretty stoked to hear that this is already happening! Bec sent me these photos of what she had added to a simple square base i left with her.

 

 I really like these gumnut monsters she has made on top of a base that i had made with no idea what to do with. Look at how cute and funny they are! Its really exciting to me to see how things can grow so unexpectedly when you work with someone else. I can't wait to see what else gets made in this collaboration!

Steamboat Opera Album Cover

A childhood friend of mine Chris Martin recently contacted me about doing some cover art for his new music project Steamboat Opera. What i made for him is a digital collage of images of the Apollo 11 launch and recovery juxtaposed with the sinking of the steamboat Cheslakee and the area surrounding where it sank off of Texada Island B.C. Here is a sample of that collage without the titling and track info.



and if you are wondering what Steamboat Opera will sound like have a listen below

Steamboat Opera by SteamboatOpera

It's always fun to do projects with different people and for different projects. i am looking forward to seeing how these turn out after the text and logos go on them. I'll be sure to post the final product when it surfaces.
Also be sure to check out Steamboat Opera on Facebook

riding out the last of my australian adventure

I'm not sure what to say about my time in Australia with just about a week left. i think it is still to soon to know how it was, so in the mean time i am trying to soak in as much sun and fun as i can. this past weekend i went camping with some new friends to Wilsons Promontory and finally got to see a little more Australian nature. 

   

  got some chillin' beach time in as well as some swimming

 

every time i took out the camera it got full of sand so unfortunately i don't have any photos of wombats, jellyfish, roos or the amazing marine phosphorescences we swam with in the tidal river at night. the phosphorescence was truely unforgettable. When will i get another chance to swim in warm water of flashing little creatures lighting up with my every movement!?? "what are yous?" "there's so many of them!" "i just really want to drink them!!!"

making memories

Thanatos

"And there the children of dark Night have their dwellings, Sleep and Death, awful gods. The glowing Sun never looks upon them with his beams, neither as he goes up into heaven, nor as he comes down from heaven. And the former of them roams peacefully over the earth and the sea's broad back and is kindly to men; but the other has a heart of iron, and his spirit within him is pitiless as bronze: whomsoever of men he has once seized he holds fast: and he is hateful even to the deathless gods." -Hesiod

loose lips sink ships

"Most people don't care: you be stressin me
So no talking! Plead the 5th often" - lil b

Why Man Creates (1968) by Saul Bass

Understanding: looking through (2011)

Learning is an equilibrium of constructive and destructive thoughts. The processes of Learning facilitate change similar to the additive and subtractive processes that transform this notebook into an abstract identity. Leaning is a holistic process, it can not be understood as a sum of it's parts, it is like a window one chooses to peer through into somewhere else. - Matt Mincoff

i make art

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at a Master level now . cool beans. all finished the RMIT MFA program and graduation will be over the next couple of weeks. give me a holler and we'll tip some glasses in celebration.

2010 RMIT MFA graduation show

come celebrate the opening of the graduate show wed. 1 december @ 5:30
i've been working towards this show this whole year and can't wait to introduce my art to Melbourne.

have a look at what i've been making this year in RMIT's MFA studios at external interior
or click the image below

the "something" nothin'

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there's so much to say and no words. just my foot in my mouth.

there really isn't much more to say that hasn't already been said.

After three thousand years of explosion, by means of fragmentary and mechanical technologies, the Western world is imploding. Today, after more than a century of electronic technology, we have extended our central nervous system itself in a global embrace, abolishing both time and space as far as our planet is concerned. Rapidly, we approach the final phase of the extensions of man-the technological simulation of consciousness, when the creative process of knowing will be collectively and corporately extended to the whole of human society, much as we have already extended out senses and our nerves by the various media. (McLuhan, Understanding Media 3-4)

Kurt Vonnegut

this is the best i could do for finding this documentary about the legend Kurt Vonnegut



couldn't find part 2..

advice

sometimes we need a little..



"..sometimes a dumbass drops a clever turd.." - Fabolous (exhibit F)

special.

here is a version of one of my warning signs which ended up looking quite different





check out the whole installation over on my tumblr: external interior

Victorian Morning

snapped these this morning; didn't sleep at Ruffy Fest and decided to stay up and adventure around. [click for fullsize]

richard serra

i feel ya.