September 18, 2009 | 2:30 PM
Room 371 | ACAD
ACAD's MADT program, the Illingworth Kerr Gallery, and ArtCity are excited to welcome Berlin-based Video-installation artist Anna von Gwinner to ACAD.
Anna Von Gwinner | Minus8
Exploring the relationship between place and its perception, Berlin-based artist and architect Anna von Gwinner uses video projection to re-imagine the urban landscape. In these videos, she transforms ordinary scenes — such as a balls bouncing, rabbits playing, water pouring, or people ice skating — into extraordinary projections. She does so via shifts in scale, focus and framing: re-sizing her subjects into monstrous silhouettes and shrinking shadows as they move in and out of the camera’s frame. The full effect of the projections is, however, only felt when married with sites that von Gwinner carefully selects and transforms. In her talk Anna von Gwinner will show documentation videos and samples of photography of some of her projects and discuss the potential of the temporary manipulation of an architectural space through videowork and photography.
