BlackFlash Magazine

Watch Alex McLeod’s latest video

BlackFlash Friend Alex McLeod continues to expand his digital universe. In Ghost Forrest McLeod creates a winter scene with an Aurora Borealis-like event hovering and fluxing over half-constructed cabins. The video feels old and new at the same time. While his style is very distinct the video combined with the audio by Emily Power (Thanh [...]

Watch the trailer for Art:21 season 6

I am a sucker for Art:21 so I was excited to see the trailer for the new season (the trailer was posted to youtube yesterday). Season 6 looks good with portions of episodes focusing on Ai Weiwei, Marina Abramovic, Catherine Opie and many other artist. I was most surprised and excited to see that Canadian [...]

Watch Laurel Nakadate talk about crying

Laurel Nakadate seems to be popping up everywhere. I recently read an interview with her in New York Magazine and she was also featured on the Guardian website as one of their artists of the week. In this video created by Fader magazine she talks about her show at MOMA P.S.1 and her project Catalogue of [...]

BlackFlash’s favourite best of lists of 2011

This is the time year where lists and opinions circulate. In the spirit of year end lists here is our list of highlights from other best of lists. We hope you enjoy it. Happy New Year. Click on the link to each publication to view their entire list.   • Jerry Saltz for New York Magazine: Christian Marclay [...]

Watch Kitty Scott talk about Curatorial Intelligence

This video of Kitty Scott’s talk On Curatorial Intelligence was posted to Vimeo by the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery. The talk took place in Toronto October 30, 2011 as part of  Art Toronto. The video come in at around one hour but if you would like a little highlight here is Scott’s list that [...]

Watch David Hockney explain his iPhone drawings

British artist David Hockney has always explored process as much as content within his work. In the past he used individual 3.1 x 3.1 inch polaroids to create a larger image. He also used his knowledge of painting to deduce that baroque master painters used methods of projection to create their hyper-realistic paintings. Now Hockney has taken on the [...]

Watch the performance at Ellen Moffat’s reception for PickUpPutDown

The exhibition PickUpPutDown, by Saskatoon asrtist Ellen Moffat,  is a sound installation that interacts “in and with an architectural space as a base form for an experimental sound project.” This video is of a performance by Moffat, Jeff Morton and David Grosse at the reception. While I did not attend this reception I did attend Moffat [...]

Watch two Jessica Eaton videos

A couple of videos have recently been posted to youtube with Jessica Eaton as the theme. The first one was emailed to us by Isabel M. Martinez (whose photographic work is also worth checking out). It was created by Musée d’Art Contemporain and has Jessica talking about her new series of work Expol. The series continues [...]

Watch Mateo M.’s Digital Painting video

Although this video is quite old I just found it the other day. The imagery that Mateo M. creates from projecting live “digital painting” onto subjects and the surface behind them is striking. It is an great way of combining performance and video projection.  

Watch Mat Collishaw talk about his work Sordid Earth

Mat Collishaw’s Sordid Earth is a video projected onto hanging pieces of silicon. The piece looks amazing.