Author Archives: Jacob Tonski

Balance From Within

Posted on May 8, 2012 by Jacob Tonski

Balance comes from within. It’s a delicate act, and sometimes we fall down. A 170 year old sofa teeters precariously on one leg, continuously responding internally to external forces.

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Creatomatic

Posted on November 3, 2011 by Jacob Tonski

3 objects designed with Nova Jiang’s Creatomatic software & process.

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Reel

Posted on October 8, 2011 by Jacob Tonski

(imperative tense)

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Festival Miden on Visual Container TV

Posted on September 29, 2011 by Jacob Tonski

Oct 6 – Nov 2, 2011. www.visualcontainer.org Milan, Italy Visual Container TV screens Festival Miden: MONOBALANCE, including Balance Study, Threshold Press Release

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Modular Design Workshop w/ Richard Elaver

Posted on September 27, 2011 by Jacob Tonski

Interdisciplinary teams of students from engineering, art, computer science, graphic design and architecture produced these modular systems in a weekend-long intense workshop co-organized with Richard Elaver (DesignerCraftsman.com).

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Casa Bernardo

Posted on September 13, 2011 by Jacob Tonski

Oct 15, 2011. Caldas da Rainha, Portugal Screening Balance Study, Threshold @ Casa Bernardo Museum

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FONLAD in the Porto Santo Biennial

Posted on August 1, 2011 by Jacob Tonski

Aug 1-30, 2011. Porto Santo, Madeira, Portugal. Screening Balance Study, Threshold as part of FONLAD #07.2011

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Planet Bicycle

Posted on July 29, 2011 by Jacob Tonski

July 29-30, 2011. Kardamili, Mani, Greece. Screening Balance Study, Threshold in a joint exhibition of Festival Miden and photography exhibition Planet Bicycle.

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Rotterdam VHS Festival

Posted on July 29, 2011 by Jacob Tonski

July 29, 2011. Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Screening Balance Study, Threshold by invitation at Rotterdam VHS Festival

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Festival Miden – Video Art: A Survival Guide

Posted on July 7, 2011 by Jacob Tonski

July 7-9, 2011. Screening Balance Study, Threshold in a public exhibition in Amfias Square, Kalamta, Greece as part of Festival Miden 2011.

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Athens Video Art Festival

Posted on May 20, 2011 by Jacob Tonski

May 20-22, 2011. Athens, Greece. Screening Balance Study, Threshold at the 2011 Athens Video Art Festival

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West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival

Posted on April 30, 2011 by Jacob Tonski

Apr 30-May 1, 2011. Morgantown, WV Screening Buoy in the West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival

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Performance Post Appropriation

Posted on April 23, 2011 by Jacob Tonski

Apr 23, 2011. Chicago, IL Screening Balance Study, Threshold at the Nightingale.

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2011 Oxford Kinetics Festival

Posted on April 9, 2011 by Jacob Tonski

A high energy day of kinetic art for all of Oxford!

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Ybor Festival of the Moving Image

Posted on March 23, 2011 by Jacob Tonski

Mar 23-27, 2011. Tampa, FL Screening Balance Study, Threshold as part of the Digital Lounge at Ybor Festival of the Moving Image

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Material Apparatus at Cheekwood

Posted on March 8, 2011 by Jacob Tonski

Mar 19 – Sept 18, 2011. Nashville, TN. Balance Study, Threshold is part of Material Apparatus at Cheekwood‘s Museum of Art. Curated by Dwayne Butcher

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Greener on the Other Side

Posted on March 4, 2011 by Jacob Tonski

Mar 4-6, 2011. Chongqing, China. Screening Balance Study, Threshold at Organhaus Art Space. GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE Berlin – Chongqing Video Art Festival 04 – 06 March 2011 • Organhaus Chongqing • each day from 7.30 – 10 pm … Continue reading →

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Video Vaudeville 2: Toxic Body

Posted on February 26, 2011 by Jacob Tonski

February 26 2011, Brooklyn, New York. Showing Balance Study, Threshold at Vaudeville Park.

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Buoy

Posted on February 17, 2011 by Jacob Tonski

A formal study with circles and trigonometry. Adrift.

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Ubiquitous Social Spaces Teetering on the Edge of Collapse

Posted on December 7, 2010 by Jacob Tonski

Work in Progress :: Balance comes from within. It’s delicate. And sometimes we fall over.

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Garage Monster

Posted on October 31, 2010 by Jacob Tonski

Halloween 2010

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Giguk 2010 Festival

Posted on October 30, 2010 by Jacob Tonski

October 30 2010, Gießen, Germany. Showing Balance Study, Threshold at Giguk

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Video Dumbo

Posted on September 24, 2010 by Jacob Tonski

September 24-26, 2010 Brooklyn, NY. Showing Balance Study, Threshold at Video Dumbo

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MMX – Show VI

Posted on August 27, 2010 by Jacob Tonski

August 27, 2010 Berlin, Germany. MMX Screening Program

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Fellowship, Studio for Creative Inquiry at CMU

Posted on July 13, 2010 by Jacob Tonski

In pursuit of a kinetic sculpture with a robotic heart…

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Currents 2010

Posted on June 13, 2010 by Jacob Tonski

June 2010 Santa Fe, New Mexico Showing Balance Study, Threshold at Currents 2010, presented at the Museo Cultural de Santa Fe

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Oxford 2010 Kinetic Sculpture Race

Posted on April 24, 2010 by Jacob Tonski

Wheelie Bike in Collaboration with Rod Northcutt

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Terminal Short Video Festival

Posted on April 15, 2010 by Jacob Tonski

April 15th, 2010 Showing Balance Study, Threshold at Terminal, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, Tennessee.

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Exodus 2012

Posted on April 13, 2010 by Jacob Tonski

I grew up between two very different images of God.

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Searching For God

Posted on February 15, 2010 by Jacob Tonski

Feb 17 – Mar 18, 2010 The Ohio State University at Marion Wayne and Geraldine Kuhn Fine Arts Gallery Exodus 2012 included in Online Works Download Press Release

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Instant Cinema

Posted on February 15, 2010 by Jacob Tonski

Balance Study, Heel Toe exhibited / archived at InstantCinema.org

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Autumn09

Posted on November 15, 2009 by Jacob Tonski

Experiments inspired by the first autumn-complete-with-falling-leaves I’d experienced in a decade.

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Arduino Workshop @ Mobile Art + Code

Posted on November 8, 2009 by Jacob Tonski

I’m running an Arduino workshop at Carnegie Mellon University as part of the Mobile ART && CODE conference, Nov 8, 2009.

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Taller Than Most at IDEAS09

Posted on November 5, 2009 by Jacob Tonski

Nov-Dec 2009 I’m taller than most of the people I know exhibited in the IDEAS09 exhibition of the 2009 International Digital Media and Arts Association conference.

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Ship Rock (working title)

Posted on October 10, 2009 by Jacob Tonski

Work In Progress :: The body is a vessel. Does it move through the world or does the world move around it?

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Cause & Effect at LM Projects, Los Angeles

Posted on August 27, 2009 by Jacob Tonski

Show Info at LM Projects (formerly Bank Art) September 5 – November 14, 2009 Nova Jiang Len Lye Robert Rauschenberg Jacob Tonski Peter Fischli & David Weiss

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Rose Petal Cannon

Posted on May 13, 2009 by Jacob Tonski

A wedding contraption for bringing smiles and lofting rose petals.

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Bicycle Trip

Posted on October 30, 2008 by Jacob Tonski

One woman, One man, One dog, One bicycle, One month…

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Balance Study

Posted on July 13, 2008 by Jacob Tonski

Two videos studying balance, isolated from a fixed horizon.

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I’m taller than most of the people I know

Posted on July 13, 2008 by Jacob Tonski

The height of the floor adjusts itself so that two or three individuals stand at the same height, gazing eye to eye.

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Big Top

Posted on July 13, 2008 by Jacob Tonski

Personal space is a living thing, responding to the interplay between attractions and fears.

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Exit Strategies

Posted on May 3, 2008 by Jacob Tonski

2008 UCLA Design | Media Art MFA Exhibition, May 15-29 Exhibition Website Press: UCLA Daily Bruin, “Exit from the Everyday” (pdf) Installation and Opening Photos…

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Gravity Art

Posted on March 3, 2008 by Jacob Tonski

Telic Arts Exchange Curated by Rene Daalder March 1 – April 26, 2008 Featuring video works by 30 artists, including Bas Jan Ader, Vito Acconci, Richard Serra, Stelarc, Pascual Sisto, Fernando Sanchez… Showing Balance Study, Heel Toe Press: LA Times, … Continue reading →

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Shadows in Light

Posted on November 27, 2007 by Jacob Tonski

FAILURE :: A test, projecting one’s shadow with light.

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Redacted

Posted on November 19, 2007 by Jacob Tonski

An impulse…

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Real Presence 2007

Posted on October 7, 2007 by Jacob Tonski

I attended a wonderful residency/workshop in Belgrade, Serbia and Istanbul, Turkey from August 20 – September 8. 100 young artists from around the world gathered to discuss their work and mount an exhibition. We were present for the opening of … Continue reading →

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Machine for Dropping Feathers

Posted on July 13, 2007 by Jacob Tonski

This handmade machine drops a single precise cascade of feathers.

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Hammer Museum Performance

Posted on May 22, 2007 by Jacob Tonski

May 2007, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California Performed Wakening in collaboration with Dancer Chris Leyva of the UCLA World Arts and Cultures Department.

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