Mark Dorf is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. This is where he makes…

Two years ago I moved to Brooklyn and I have had two spaces that I work in, this one being of course the most recent. I tend not to have complex large workspaces at the moment because I work almost exclusively digital albeit through photography or other digital media like 3D, video or animation. I try to make my walls a reflection of the current headspace that I inhabit – they stay cluttered with recent works, inspiration, and texts that I have been working on so that I can at a glance look and understand my placement in my process. Additionally, I try to keep the tools I use most within arm’s length on the walls so that I’m never searching for anything for a long time – it is so important for me to be able to keep my momentum and not get stopped by something silly like trying to find a straight edge and consequently lose my direction. My work predominantly is based within the landscape, so the real studio is of course in the remote reaches that I love to explore.

Dorf’s most recent show //_PATH is being exhibited at the New Realities Exhibition in Barcelona – an international exhibition curated by Alpha-ville and powered by Mobile World Capital. Read more about this on Central Station here. Dorf is also releasing a set of digital limited editions from his //_PATH series on Sedition, along with other artists participating in the exhibition. You can view and purchase the collection here.

Mark Dorf -  //_PATH, Untitled

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‘Where I Make’ invites readers behind the scenes of artists from many disciplines to share photographs and a little insight about where they create their masterpieces. See more from the series here.

New Realities is an eight week exhibition at Mobile World Centre Barcelona curated by Alpha-ville. The exhibition forms part of Music + Arts an international showcase of new trends in music, art and digital culture organised by Mobile World Capital in partnership with Movistar, and in collaboration with Alpha-ville. The show features the work of 30 international artists, designers and musicians. Running until 13 December, both the exhibition and its parallel programme of events, explore the current digital art and cultural landscape, and reflect on concepts brought by the integration of digital into our society.

Herman Kolgen – Seismik_Index, 2014

Sougwen Chung – Mytheme Etude Op.4, 2013

The exhibition features work from Herman Kolgen, Sougwen Chung, Mark Dorf, Varvara Guljajeva & Mar Canet and many other talented creatives. There’s much to see with installations ranging from print to interactive and from music videos to web experiments. There are also several showcases around the digital arts, tangible objects, music and art apps and generative art. If you’re in Barcelona, don’t miss Beyond Music + Arts (13 December), a symposium around digital technology and innovation in music and art which runs as part of the New Realities parallel programme.

Beyond Music + Arts – Image: Felix Faire

New Realities Preview:

New Realities runs at Mobile World Centre until 13 December.

For more from New Realities, see this Recommends feature from Varvara Guljajeva & Mar Canet. Stay tuned for more features from New Realities in the coming weeks.

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New Realities is an exhibition curated by Alpha-ville and powered by Mobile Word Capital that takes place at the Mobile World Centre in Barcelona. The exhibition which is part of the Music+Arts showcase explores the current art and cultural landscape through the work of 30 artists, designers and musicians from around the globe. It reflects on concepts brought by the integration of digital and the Internet into our society. The artists involved use new technologies to express their interests, perspectives and visions of a new cultural reality that is breaking boundaries.

For New Realities, artist duo Varvara Guljajeva & Mar Canet have been commissioned to create “The Highest Human Tower” – a new interactive art project inspired by the Catalan tradition of Castells (human towers). The onsite installation and a dedicated website collects the measurements of participants, creating the highest human tower ever made.

Photo: Manuel Portela

Hangar (ArtSpace)

This is one of the core spaces for art in Barcelona. Hangar is an art production space by the Catalan artist association.

The Plague (Movie directed by Neus Ballús)

The Plague is a film of intertwining stories, that offers a moving portrait of life in the outskirts of Barcelona. The main characters are not actors and it was shot in the hometown of Mar. Watch the trailer here.

La Central Macba (Bookshop)

This bookshop attached to MACBA museum is a place we regularly visit in the center of Barcelona. It offers a good variety of art books.

The Influencers (Festival)

The Influencers is a festival about unconventional art, guerrilla communication and radical entertainment. It happens every year in November and is hosted at CCCB. This is the kind of festival you don’t want to miss. We travel a lot and we missed it several times but luckily for us they have a nice online archive with all the talks for each year.

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For more recommendations on what to read, watch or listen to, go here.

Oslo 05.06.12

Six months ago in Aberdeen, a group of friends and visiting artists spent the post-club twilight hours reminiscing and looking over the ‘granite city’ from a high rise tower block. The occasion was the aftermath and end of almost four years of booking diverse electronic music acts for audio-visual events in my home city, Aberdeen, and city-of-residence, Oslo. It was an enriching experience; balancing professionalism with having a good time, meeting and working with talented international artists and ultimately producing a series of unique culture events that were not happening in either cities at the time. See more about these events here.

It was also an exhausting one, and there was always a desire to create something more permanent – a physical product and organisation that treated music equally with design, and was at home in an art gallery, as it was a club. From being exposed to sounds and vibes from nights like Jungle Nation, Kia Aura and Lifestyle in Aberdeen to checking out art shows in the streets and independent galleries of Barcelona, and running my own events – all of these experiences are part of Fine Grains.

Fine Grains is an amalgam of new music and design, anticipating and releasing limited release records that feature artwork and sounds representative of different emergent scenes from around the globe. With planned collaborations between designers and electronic music producers from Moscow, Aberdeen, Oslo, Ayr and Barcelona in the first releases I am committed to trying to challenge these artists to create something new and approachable on a number of levels, be that a small event, the record artwork or the actual tracks!

With our website now live and growing by the week, in order to introduce the label and gave people a taste of what Fine Grains will sound and look like we will be showcasing our debut artists and special guests at events in Barcelona during Sonar festival, Oslo and Aberdeen in the coming months. There will be an eclectic mix of music, anything from skweee to footwerk to calypso and afro house, live performances, and a limited run label sampler CD to hand out while they last. So if you cannot make it to any of these events, keep up to date with our future events and news on our Twitter feed and the website which are both updated regularly.

Read more on Fine Grains presence during Sonar festival on the Facebook event page here and follow us on Twitter here.

Visit Alexander Horne’s personal website here.

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Picture credits:
01 – Fine Grains logo
02 & 03 – photos from launch party in Oslo by Julie Arrive, April 2012