DJsounds caught up with the US conceptual/video artist Gardner Post to talk about art + technology at the Remix Hotel, at The National in South Beach. The interview is followed by a trip to a nearby apartment to get a special, behind-the-scenes insight into what Gardner’s working on this year – complete with words from celebrity DJ Tom Laroc!
Gardner was in South Beach with his Baby Grand Master creation (an acclaimed DJ/VJ masterpiece, modestly tagged the king of ‘video instruments’) to collaborate with the New York-born, Miami-based hip-hop DJ Tom Laroc/United Content Providers.
DJsounds last spoke to Gardner in 2007 at the Optronica festival, so it was great to see his vision for Baby Grand Master-style video mash-up materialising in such full-on splendour. Enjoy the show.
Extra special thanks to Mary Mc Caughey, Adrian Shaw, and Terri Parker for making last month’s Late at Tate event a wonderful evening.
While there, I also had the good fortune to see some amazing new work by the Russian art group AES+F, and meet some of the artists. I was truly impressed with their new work, and recommend their website to get a look at it.
Pictured here are Gardner Post and myself, along with Mary Mc Caughey, Francoise and Graham from Addictive TV, Stuart from Hexstatic, and MC Rebbe in a quiet moment after the event finished.
Thanks again for everyone’s help, and for more information on the Baby Grand Master, click here.
The Baby Grand Master will make its’ European debut at the Tate Britain, Dec. 7, 2007, as part of the Nature to Advantage Dressed: English Garden Lounging, winter in London 2007 show.
The event will feature…
• an English Garden Lounging soundscape by DJ Mary Mc Caughey in the Romantic Painting in Britain Gallery
• a DJ performance by Berlin-based electronica musician Future Loop Foundation, creator of the limited-edition, now highly coveted Scratch and Sniff EP
• Moscow’s AES + F Group’s beautiful 3-channel futuristic film landscape, The Last Riot (2007) currently being exhibited to great critical acclaim in the Russian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale ~ English Garden photograph projections by C.E. Bourke in the Duveen Galleries
• DJ tailoring by avant-garde British couture designers Boudicca
• The Baby Grand Master – the glamourous new DJ console created by American artist Gardner Post
Guests will also have an opportunity to view…
• the Turner Prize Retrospective and Millais exhibitions
• Tate Britain’s collection.
Dress Code
• Dinner-Jackets
We’ll be attending the event in person, and look forward to meeting everyone.
