http://www.kianooshmotallebi.com Kianoosh Motallebi Sun, 20 May 2012 19:21:30 +0000 http://www.kianooshmotallebi.com en http://kianooshmotallebi.com/Untitled-2012 http://kianooshmotallebi.com/following/kianooshmotallebi.com/Untitled-2012 Sun, 20 May 2012 19:21:30 +0000 Kianoosh Motallebi 3439947 Incandescent bulb coated with a layer of aluminum <img src="http://payload56.cargocollective.com/1/3/127364/3439947/Slide1.jpg" width="670" height="502" width_o="1800" height_o="1350" src_o="http://payload56.cargocollective.com/1/3/127364/3439947/Slide1_o.jpg" data-mid="17717954" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload56.cargocollective.com/1/3/127364/3439947/Slide2.jpg" width="670" height="502" width_o="1800" height_o="1350" src_o="http://payload56.cargocollective.com/1/3/127364/3439947/Slide2_o.jpg" data-mid="17717956" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload56.cargocollective.com/1/3/127364/3439947/Slide3.jpg" width="670" height="502" width_o="1800" height_o="1350" src_o="http://payload56.cargocollective.com/1/3/127364/3439947/Slide3_o.jpg" data-mid="17717957" border="0" align="left"/> http://kianooshmotallebi.com/Hydrogen-Atom-on-the-left-Far-Star-on-the-right-2011 http://kianooshmotallebi.com/following/kianooshmotallebi.com/Hydrogen-Atom-on-the-left-Far-Star-on-the-right-2011 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 02:42:24 +0000 Kianoosh Motallebi 2656667 Framed inkjet print. <img src="http://payload17.cargocollective.com/1/3/127364/2656667/13_farstar.jpg" width="670" height="442" width_o="1477" height_o="975" src_o="http://payload17.cargocollective.com/1/3/127364/2656667/13_farstar_o.jpg" data-mid="13457364" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload17.cargocollective.com/1/3/127364/2656667/14_farstar.jpg" width="670" height="474" width_o="1477" height_o="1046" src_o="http://payload17.cargocollective.com/1/3/127364/2656667/14_farstar_o.jpg" data-mid="13457366" border="0" align="left"/> http://kianooshmotallebi.com/Common-Space-2011 http://kianooshmotallebi.com/following/kianooshmotallebi.com/Common-Space-2011 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 02:36:27 +0000 Kianoosh Motallebi 2656626 Installation consisting of 6 telescopes and 6 microscopes. The instruments have been modified to interface with each other. <img src="http://payload17.cargocollective.com/1/3/127364/2656626/15_commonspaceinstallation.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="1477" height_o="985" src_o="http://payload17.cargocollective.com/1/3/127364/2656626/15_commonspaceinstallation_o.jpg" data-mid="13457224" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload17.cargocollective.com/1/3/127364/2656626/16_commonspace.jpg" width="670" height="431" width_o="1477" height_o="952" src_o="http://payload17.cargocollective.com/1/3/127364/2656626/16_commonspace_o.jpg" data-mid="13457226" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload17.cargocollective.com/1/3/127364/2656626/17_commonspace.jpg" width="670" height="1004" width_o="1477" height_o="2215" src_o="http://payload17.cargocollective.com/1/3/127364/2656626/17_commonspace_o.jpg" data-mid="13457229" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload17.cargocollective.com/1/3/127364/2656626/18_commonspace.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="1477" height_o="985" src_o="http://payload17.cargocollective.com/1/3/127364/2656626/18_commonspace_o.jpg" data-mid="13457230" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload17.cargocollective.com/1/3/127364/2656626/19_commonspace.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="1477" height_o="985" src_o="http://payload17.cargocollective.com/1/3/127364/2656626/19_commonspace_o.jpg" data-mid="13457232" border="0" align="left"/> http://kianooshmotallebi.com/spiderman http://kianooshmotallebi.com/following/kianooshmotallebi.com/spiderman Mon, 04 Jul 2011 11:59:35 +0000 Kianoosh Motallebi 1679535 2005 An aided 360 turn on a fence and falling define the unavoidability of gravity. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/127364/1679535/spiderman.jpg" width="670" height="536" width_o="720" height_o="576" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/127364/1679535/spiderman_o.jpg" data-mid="8243321" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/127364/1679535/spiderman1.jpg" width="670" height="536" width_o="720" height_o="576" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/127364/1679535/spiderman1_o.jpg" data-mid="8243322" border="0" align="left"/> http://kianooshmotallebi.com/Resonding-to-a-faulty-light-2008 http://kianooshmotallebi.com/following/kianooshmotallebi.com/Resonding-to-a-faulty-light-2008 Mon, 04 Jul 2011 11:59:34 +0000 Kianoosh Motallebi 1679502 I shine a large torch onto the facade of a flat in an attempt to respond synchronously to a faulty flickering light, as if in morse code. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/127364/1679502/respondingtoafaultylight.jpg" width="670" height="376" width_o="823" height_o="463" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/127364/1679502/respondingtoafaultylight_o.jpg" data-mid="8243266" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/127364/1679502/respondingtoafaultylight1.jpg" width="670" height="377" width_o="825" height_o="465" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/127364/1679502/respondingtoafaultylight1_o.jpg" data-mid="8243267" border="0" align="left"/> http://kianooshmotallebi.com/Stripping-without-triggering-a-security-light-2007 http://kianooshmotallebi.com/following/kianooshmotallebi.com/Stripping-without-triggering-a-security-light-2007 Mon, 04 Jul 2011 11:59:32 +0000 Kianoosh Motallebi 1679479 The video documents an attempt to undress in front of a security light without triggering it. Each time I fail, the scene is lit for the viewer, and I have to start over. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/127364/1679479/stripping.jpg" width="670" height="376" width_o="823" height_o="463" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/127364/1679479/stripping_o.jpg" data-mid="8243244" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/127364/1679479/stripping1.jpg" width="670" height="377" width_o="823" height_o="464" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/127364/1679479/stripping1_o.jpg" data-mid="8243246" border="0" align="left"/> http://kianooshmotallebi.com/To-outshine-the-sun-2008 http://kianooshmotallebi.com/following/kianooshmotallebi.com/To-outshine-the-sun-2008 Mon, 04 Jul 2011 11:52:07 +0000 Kianoosh Motallebi 1679517 A Magnesium strip is ignited to challenge the sun's brightness <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/127364/1679517/tooutshinethesun.jpg" width="670" height="381" width_o="823" height_o="469" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/127364/1679517/tooutshinethesun_o.jpg" data-mid="8243211" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/127364/1679517/tooutshinethesun1.jpg" width="670" height="381" width_o="823" height_o="469" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/127364/1679517/tooutshinethesun1_o.jpg" data-mid="8243212" border="0" align="left"/> http://kianooshmotallebi.com/The-ball-fell-to-make-5-other-balls-2009 http://kianooshmotallebi.com/following/kianooshmotallebi.com/The-ball-fell-to-make-5-other-balls-2009 Mon, 04 Jul 2011 11:50:40 +0000 Kianoosh Motallebi 1679504 five 6 inch solid mild steel balls <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/127364/1679504/THEBALLS_o.jpg" width="670" height="448" width_o="1259" height_o="843" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/127364/1679504/THEBALLS_o_o.jpg" data-mid="13449461" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/127364/1679504/THEBALLS1_o.jpg" width="670" height="449" width_o="1471" height_o="987" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/127364/1679504/THEBALLS1_o_o.jpg" data-mid="13449482" border="0" align="left"/> http://kianooshmotallebi.com/New-Good-Like-Evil http://kianooshmotallebi.com/following/kianooshmotallebi.com/New-Good-Like-Evil Mon, 04 Jul 2011 11:43:48 +0000 Kianoosh Motallebi 1679475 2008-2009 "I often hear somebody say that the most important thing about a work of art is not that it be new but that it be good. But if we define good as what we like, which is the only definition that I find useful when discussing art, and then say that we are interested in what is good, it seems to me that we will always be interested in the same things (that is, the same things we already like). I am not interested in good; I am interested in new, even if this includes the possibility of it's being evil" - La Monte Young, 1962 New Good Like Evil is the working title of a two year investigation into the notion of novelty or newness. In the period of 2006 and 2008, experiments attempts were made at producing a completely unique and new art work. New, in the strictest sense, as in not existing yet on earth or yet to be created. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/127364/1679475/09_newgoodlikeevil_2.jpg" width="670" height="718" width_o="828" height_o="888" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/127364/1679475/09_newgoodlikeevil_2_o.jpg" data-mid="13448948" border="0" align="left"/> This finally lead to the production of new chemical compound: An alloy of the metals Calcium and Tantalum. (image above) This compound is not known to exist on earth and it is completely new, having never been made or discovered by man. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/127364/1679475/11_newgoodlikeevil.jpg" width="670" height="448" width_o="1477" height_o="989" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/127364/1679475/11_newgoodlikeevil_o.jpg" data-mid="13448738" border="0" align="left"/>, <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/127364/1679475/12_newgoodlikeevil.jpg" width="670" height="448" width_o="1477" height_o="988" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/127364/1679475/12_newgoodlikeevil_o.jpg" data-mid="13448741" border="0" align="left"/>, <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/127364/1679475/10_newgoodlikeevil.jpg" width="670" height="411" width_o="1477" height_o="907" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/127364/1679475/10_newgoodlikeevil_o.jpg" data-mid="13448698" border="0" align="left"/> The work was first presented during a lecture together with the publication <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/127364/1679475/08_newgoodlikeevil.jpg" width="670" height="448" width_o="1477" height_o="989" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/127364/1679475/08_newgoodlikeevil_o.jpg" data-mid="13448686" border="0" align="left"/> http://kianooshmotallebi.com/Unlikely-Exit-2009 http://kianooshmotallebi.com/following/kianooshmotallebi.com/Unlikely-Exit-2009 Mon, 04 Jul 2011 11:33:26 +0000 Kianoosh Motallebi 1679468 A bingo machine with a hole just big enough for a ball to escape it's enclosure. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/127364/1679468/unlikelyexit_1.jpg" width="670" height="148" width_o="1608" height_o="356" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/127364/1679468/unlikelyexit_1_o.jpg" data-mid="13448429" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/127364/1679468/unlikelyexit1_o.jpg" width="670" height="648" width_o="1013" height_o="980" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/127364/1679468/unlikelyexit1_o_o.jpg" data-mid="13448489" border="0" align="left"/>