• Carol Del Signore
• Scott Kildall and Victoria Scott
• Warren Lehrer
• Frances Shaw
• Susan Chun
• Marc and Joan Sherman
• Diane Moser
• Judith Ivry
• Lawrence D. Morris
• Carol Cholmakjian
• Wiley Wiggins
• Bruce Ansley
• Marina Zurkow
• Ray Anderson
• Cathy Kimball
• Nancy Davidson
• Mark Dresser
• Elizabeth Felicella
• Joan Brigham
• Marc Kristal
• Marian Spore
• Susan Brenner
• Griselda Warr
• Charles Bernstein
• Meegan Williams
• Amy Glengary Yang
• Eunice Lipton
• Damrauer/Bertolo
• David Fisher / tibbon
• Sarah & Steve Sorkin
• Bob Holman
• Maria Michails
• Pamela Greene
• Ro Malone
• Allyn Simon
• Mark Feldman
• Carolee Schneemann
• Ken Allen
• Vicky Virgin
• Champe Smith
• Nicole Peyrafitte & Pierre Joris
• Deborah Wexler and Michael Mann
• Ed Epping
• Taniith
• Matthew Michaud
• Kyle Cameron Studstill
• Carol Coye Benson
• Barbara Tipson
• Steve Seid
• Beth Burns
• Ryan Warnberg
• dddienst
• Fred Hapgood
• Peter Galloway
• Marilyn Nance
• Jeannie Whited
• Sunny Bates
• Gunter Riker
• Greg Giannis
• Ardele Lister
• I-Ching Lao
• Koen van Turnhout
• Jeffrey Gold
• Pelle Sten
• Lee Dale
• Brenda Hutchinson
• Susan Olij
• Beth Weaving
• Michael Sprague
• Ananthi Periasamy
• Emma
• Giuseppe turitto
• Adrienne Crew
• Laudowicz
• Margaret L McGuan
• Charlotte
• Brent Jackson
• Sharon Bach
• Drewish
• Arturo Alonzo Sandoval
• Jennifer DeMarrais
• Nancy Bowen
• Maria Fredericks
• Carol Bingaman
• PATTY Couse-Baker
• Steven Schiff
• Shelly Silver
• Dennis Connors
• Sam Heath
• Gilles Laheurte
• Patricia DeMar Hauver
• Laurie Reese
• Ula Warchol
• Hedi Kyle
• Christopher J. Mason

In this video clip, Ligorano/Reese explain the concepts behind their Fiber Optic Tapestry.

The tapestry is bi-coastal, developed and built in Silicon Alley and Valley.

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The tapestry parses information from Twitter and other data sources to display color, light and pattern onto woven fiber optic panels using RGB LEDs. The resulting real-time animation is an abstract, data visualization that continually updates as data changes.

It’s like weaving information we wanted to make a textile using contemporary communication materials and processes, to redefine the role of a tapestry in contemporary culture.

Weaving epitomizes social interaction. Textiles have a shared history throughout the world’s cultures and are common throughout time. In European culture, medieval tapestries tell narratives, and in the 21st century, we find our stories threaded and networked throughout the web. The Fiber Optic Tapestry is an art form about networking, communication, and society.

The artists are presenting a tapestry called  50 Different Minds at the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles. The piece measures 50 by 50 inches. It displays patterns and colors that relate to Twitter Tweets of color words. It also uses air traffic data from the nine busiest airports in the U.S. Horizontal and vertical lines on the tapestry’s surface move in real- time, synchronized with the longitude and latitude of arriving and departing flights.

Visitors can also interact with the tapestry by tweeting additive and subtractive color names. The tapestry is programmed to display colors in response to tweets written using the expression #optictapestry and then color words.

For more information see: Fiber Optic Tapestry on:

This project was funded in part by the Jerome Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts, and through residencies at Montalvo Arts Center and Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology.

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The tapestry parses information from Twitter and other data sources to display color, light and pattern onto woven fiber optic panels using RGB LEDs. The resulting real-time animation is an abstract, data visualization that continually updates as data changes.

“It’s like weaving information,” Marshall Reese says, “we wanted to make a textile using contemporary communication materials and processes, to redefine the role of a tapestry in contemporary culture.”

“Weaving epitomizes social interaction,” for Nora Ligorano, “Textiles have a shared history throughout the world’s cultures and are common throughout time. In European culture, medieval tapestries tell narratives, and in the 21st century, we find our stories threaded and networked throughout the web. The Fiber Optic Tapestry is an art form about networking, communication, and society.”

The artists are presenting a tapestry called  50 Different Minds at the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles. The piece measures 50 by 50 inches. It displays patterns and colors that relate to Twitter Tweets of color words. It also uses air traffic data from the nine busiest airports in the U.S. Horizontal and vertical lines on the tapestry’s surface move in real- time, synchronized with the longitude and latitude of arriving and departing flights.

Visitors can also interact with the tapestry by tweeting additive and subtractive color names. The tapestry is programmed to display colors in response to tweets written using the expression #optictapestry and then color words.

For more information see: Fiber Optic Tapestry on Kickstarter.com.

This project was funded in part by the Jerome Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts, and through residencies at Montalvo Arts Center and Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology.

LIGORANO/REESE
NORA LIGORANO and MARSHALL REESE have collaborated together as Ligorano/Reese since theearly 80’s. They make limited edition multiples, videos, sculptures and installations and exhibited at the Cleveland Museum of Art, Museum fur Angewandte Kunst (MAK) in Frankfurt, Germany, MIT MediaLab, Museum of Arts & Design, the Neuberger Museum of Art, Schroder Romero Gallery, Kent Gallery, ZER01, Eyebeam, The Kitchen, the Sculpture Center, and Lincoln Center.

They have received fellowships and funding from the Jerome Foundation, the Fulbright Commission, NYFA, NYSCA, the NEA and Art Matters. They have been artists in residence at the Montalvo Arts Center, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, and the MacDowell Colony. Their work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, SFMOMA, The Getty Research Center, Clark Institute, Yale University, and private collections. Ligorano/Reese’s edition work is represented by Jim Kempner Fine Art in New York.

ITAB: International TECHstyle Art Biennial ITAB is a juried exhibition of work by artists mining the expressive potential of combining fiber media with new information and communication technologies in their artistic processes, in the content of their work and as a mean of artistic expression.

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Each snow globe is $100, plus shipping. All orders shipped FedEx Ground, unless otherwise noted.

Dimensions: 5 1/2 inches high, 3 3/4 inch wood base, 4 inch glass globe.

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Dimensions: 5 1/2 inches high, 3 3/4 inch wood base, 4 inch glass globe.

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Dimensions: 5 1/2 inches high, 3 3/4 inch wood base, 4 inch glass globe.

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Dimensions: 5 1/2 inches high, 3 3/4 inch wood base, 4 inch glass globe.

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Dimensions: 5 1/2 inches high, 3 3/4 inch wood base, 4 inch glass globe.

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Dimensions: 5 1/2 inches high, 3 3/4 inch wood base, 4 inch glass globe.

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Dimensions: 5 1/2 inches high, 3 3/4 inch wood base, 4 inch glass globe.

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It’s hard to top the F**K snow globe, but this does. Our latest edition is as much a shrewd commentary on our times as it is a technical and stylistic breakthrough. Everyone’s favorite sins are here.

These seven, multi-colored, exquisite pieces raise the art of snow globes to new heights, blending the latest digital techniques with the kind of conceptual twists we’re known for. We’ve integrated computerized laser cutting with an exacting commitment to craft. Even Dante would be proud.

And they’re available a la carte, $100/each. Order them online - we’ll ship them out right away. Order now.

Dimensions: 5 1/2 inches high, 3 3/4 inch wood base, 4 inch glass globe.

Untitled from LigoranoReese on Vimeo.

On Newsweek TV

The State of Things, from Denver on GRITtv with Laura Flanders

Fair & Balanced

Fox&Friends reported on Line Up in the Multiple Impressions show at the New York Public Library

Line Up at NYPL from LigoranoReese on Vimeo.

But they couldn’t outfox their other programming when it came to really understanding the exhibition,

Lefty Library from LigoranoReese on Vimeo.

Fair & Balanced? Don’t even mention Russian TV…

Fair & Balanced in Russia from LigoranoReese on Vimeo.

Snow Globes

Making the F**K snow globe. Available at edgygifts.com.

We’re in production now, with a new set of snow globes coming out - Deadly Sins #1-7.

We’re offering a special lettered set (A-Z) of all seven sins; Greed is casted with gold leaf.

Deadly Sins Nos. 1-7 - new series of snow globes

Of course, Sins are always available a la carte, just take your pick. They’re available from us through ligoranoreese.net and sold at the New Museum store.

Nora designing the model for Lust

Deadly Sins #1-7 is a hybrid project, using computer design with hand-cast resin sculptures. The casts are designed using illustrator, then we use a laser cutter to make the masters for the molds.

Adjusting the lens of the laser cutter

The first step is to adjust the laser cutter so that it is the proper distance from the material.

The files are output to the laser cutter

The laser cutter is a printer and prints the words by cutting them out of plastic, or paper, even out of metal.

Cutting the plastic

The plastic we use is half-inch thick, and requires several passes to cut through it.

Taking the plastic sheet out of the laser cutter

When the laser is finished we lift the plastic sheet off the bed of the cutter.

Then we push the words out of the plastic

Taking out the little bits of greed

Then, we take out all the bits, so there’s negative space. The final step is taking the masters from the laser cutter and making silicon molds from them.

Demolding Gluttony

Then we hand-cast resin in them, here we’re demolding our favorite sins.

Lust fresh from the mold

Each sin is a different color, carefully mixed, and has a different stylized typeface, like Lust, a fleshy, bulbous, looking letter.

Resin casts from the new edition of snow globes

Wrath, kind of a “Spy vs. Spy” look. (One of our favorite comic strips.)

One of those moments - worth more than 1,000 words…

Greed on a silver platter

The first of the new set - Greed. We can’t think of a better way to end ‘09 than by shaking it up with each one of the seven deadly sins.

Deadly Sins #1

“Snow Globes?” you may ask. Yes, snow globes.

We been making limited edition snow globes since 2001. We started out by producing John Ashcroft snow globes, which quickly sold out. All of our snow globes are hand-cast and hand-assembled by us in our studio.

In 2004, we began making editions of F**K snow globes on an ongoing basis. These snow globes are not really an open edition; they are actually based on a literary model of editions.

Now in their 7th edition, we have made over 300, which are signed and numbered.

The F**K snow globe

Nora drilling F**ks

The fifth edition in the final stages of assembly on the work bench

Nora working on the letters to cast the words for Blind Faith

Signing the edition of Untitled, 2001
Here we are signing the screenprint Untitled, 2001 at Brand X. We’re really interested in using and reusing imagery and forms, so something may start out in one form and morph into another.

Signing Untitled, 2001

Untitled, 2001 was also blown up to fill the window of Jim Kempner Fine Art on the anniversary of 9/11.

Untitled from 23rd Street and 10th Avenue

The Party’s Over Giftwrap
Our series Pure Products lets us play with lots of new forms, from nutrition kits and energy bars to wrapping paper. Nora talking with the production manager of Brita Litho during the printing of our gift wrap.

Nora examining print run of giftwrap

The paper was decorated with financial records from Enron, American Express bills of Abramoff, Tom DeLay, and federal indictments of Judith Miller and Scooter Libby.

Hot off the press, pressman pulls a sheet of the print run for inspection

Line Up on the streets
We started Line Up by selling it as a postcard book on the streets of NYC during the Republican National Convention in NYC in 2004. The response was awesome.

We sold hundreds, and went into national distribution, printing 3 editions, over 5,000 copies. Later it became a digital print limited edition.

It’s another example of how our work migrates from one form and format into another.

On the streets in front of Madison Square Gardens

Even NYPD know real criminals when they see them

Who could resist brave sailing men and women?