Author Archives: Jacob Tonski
Balance From Within
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.
Creatomatic
3 objects designed with Nova Jiang’s Creatomatic software & process.
Reel
(imperative tense)
Festival Miden on Visual Container TV
Oct 6 – Nov 2, 2011. www.visualcontainer.org Milan, Italy Visual Container TV screens Festival Miden: MONOBALANCE, including Balance Study, Threshold Press Release
Modular Design Workshop w/ Richard Elaver
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).
Casa Bernardo
Oct 15, 2011. Caldas da Rainha, Portugal Screening Balance Study, Threshold @ Casa Bernardo Museum
FONLAD in the Porto Santo Biennial
Aug 1-30, 2011. Porto Santo, Madeira, Portugal. Screening Balance Study, Threshold as part of FONLAD #07.2011
Planet Bicycle
July 29-30, 2011. Kardamili, Mani, Greece. Screening Balance Study, Threshold in a joint exhibition of Festival Miden and photography exhibition Planet Bicycle.
Rotterdam VHS Festival
July 29, 2011. Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Screening Balance Study, Threshold by invitation at Rotterdam VHS Festival
Festival Miden – Video Art: A Survival Guide
July 7-9, 2011. Screening Balance Study, Threshold in a public exhibition in Amfias Square, Kalamta, Greece as part of Festival Miden 2011.
Athens Video Art Festival
May 20-22, 2011. Athens, Greece. Screening Balance Study, Threshold at the 2011 Athens Video Art Festival
West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival
Apr 30-May 1, 2011. Morgantown, WV Screening Buoy in the West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival
Performance Post Appropriation
Apr 23, 2011. Chicago, IL Screening Balance Study, Threshold at the Nightingale.
2011 Oxford Kinetics Festival
A high energy day of kinetic art for all of Oxford!
Ybor Festival of the Moving Image
Mar 23-27, 2011. Tampa, FL Screening Balance Study, Threshold as part of the Digital Lounge at Ybor Festival of the Moving Image
Material Apparatus at Cheekwood
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
Greener on the Other Side
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
Video Vaudeville 2: Toxic Body
February 26 2011, Brooklyn, New York. Showing Balance Study, Threshold at Vaudeville Park.
Buoy
A formal study with circles and trigonometry. Adrift.
Ubiquitous Social Spaces Teetering on the Edge of Collapse
Work in Progress :: Balance comes from within. It’s delicate. And sometimes we fall over.
Garage Monster
Halloween 2010
Giguk 2010 Festival
October 30 2010, Gießen, Germany. Showing Balance Study, Threshold at Giguk
Video Dumbo
September 24-26, 2010 Brooklyn, NY. Showing Balance Study, Threshold at Video Dumbo
MMX – Show VI
August 27, 2010 Berlin, Germany. MMX Screening Program
Fellowship, Studio for Creative Inquiry at CMU
In pursuit of a kinetic sculpture with a robotic heart…
Currents 2010
June 2010 Santa Fe, New Mexico Showing Balance Study, Threshold at Currents 2010, presented at the Museo Cultural de Santa Fe
Oxford 2010 Kinetic Sculpture Race
Wheelie Bike in Collaboration with Rod Northcutt
Terminal Short Video Festival
April 15th, 2010 Showing Balance Study, Threshold at Terminal, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, Tennessee.
Exodus 2012
I grew up between two very different images of God.
Searching For God
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
Instant Cinema
Balance Study, Heel Toe exhibited / archived at InstantCinema.org
Autumn09
Experiments inspired by the first autumn-complete-with-falling-leaves I’d experienced in a decade.
Arduino Workshop @ Mobile Art + Code
I’m running an Arduino workshop at Carnegie Mellon University as part of the Mobile ART && CODE conference, Nov 8, 2009.
Taller Than Most at IDEAS09
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.
Ship Rock (working title)
Work In Progress :: The body is a vessel. Does it move through the world or does the world move around it?
Cause & Effect at LM Projects, Los Angeles
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
Rose Petal Cannon
A wedding contraption for bringing smiles and lofting rose petals.
Bicycle Trip
One woman, One man, One dog, One bicycle, One month…
Balance Study
Two videos studying balance, isolated from a fixed horizon.
I’m taller than most of the people I know
The height of the floor adjusts itself so that two or three individuals stand at the same height, gazing eye to eye.
Big Top
Personal space is a living thing, responding to the interplay between attractions and fears.
Exit Strategies
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…
Gravity Art
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
Shadows in Light
FAILURE :: A test, projecting one’s shadow with light.
Redacted
An impulse…
Real Presence 2007
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
Machine for Dropping Feathers
This handmade machine drops a single precise cascade of feathers.
Hammer Museum Performance
May 2007, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California Performed Wakening in collaboration with Dancer Chris Leyva of the UCLA World Arts and Cultures Department.
Wakening
Inspired by the space between dreams and the day
GIVE UP NOW!
A quick, participatory project, turning despair to power through a change of scale. Textually.
Basketball Hoop (on foot) (for unicycles)
A wearable basketball hoop
Bay Area Rapid Transit
A train arrives, waits, and departs.
Crosswalk
Slit scan video of cars and people alternately passing through a crosswalk.
Playa de Barceloneta
The full length of Barceloneta Beach, Barcelona Spain.
Nou de La Rambla
The full length of Carrer Nou de la Rambla, Barcelona Spain.
Escudellers, Boca Abajo
Inverted shadows…