February 2012
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Kenia Nárez
In the 19th century, one of the main discussions in biology was whether the characteristics of change could be handed down to one’s offspring or when the transformation matrix was accidental.
What was actually under discussion was a more subtle issue that had to do with the capacity of our perception to attribute human characteristics to animated creatures...
superhero-generator-heromachine
UGO’s HeroMachine lets you create the hero of your dreams, whether you want to be a rock star or a super hero. Create your own and then print it or share it with your friends. Create a Pinup of Yourself - Find competitions at ibeatyou
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& sons
& sons is an audiovisual & art direction studio based in barcelona.
we specialize in ideas that influence, grow, accelerate and generate
their own natural momentum.
we strive to be faster, better and more effective.
and since every client is unique, so are our solutions.
we are proud of not having a house style.
&sons process
the silence project nr3 Frank...
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JCJ Vanderheyden (83) overleden
JCJ Vanderheyden (83) overleden
De Bossche kunstenaar JCJ Vanderheyden is maandagochtend op 83-jarige leeftijd overleden.
Vanderheyden groeide in de jaren zestig en zeventig uit tot een van Nederlandse meest gewaardeerde kunstenaars. Vanderheyden was laatste maanden aan de sukkel geraakt. HIj had evenwichtsstoornissen en liep met een stok.
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Joseph Cornell - Nymphlight (made with Rudolph...
The films of the reclusive artist
Joseph Cornell (1903-1972) are as unique as his famous box constructions. Though rarely exhibited during his lifetime, these mysterious works nonetheless have had a deep and lasting influence on the world of avant-garde filmmaking . His entire body of film numbers some thirty-odd works, encompassing the incomplete and the fragmentary. It can be said...
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Ayşegül Sağbaş
The artist, while painting Fadu hanging her laundry or reading love letters on her bed does not represent a critical stand, but observes the daily female rituals that for them are solely a form of existing. These women keep waiting for an emancipation that will save them from their ordinary routines. Between their simple action they watch us, and they know they are being...
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WUT! Das Projekt WUTRÄUME 2010
WUT! Das Projekt
WUTRÄUME ging der Frage nach, auf welche Weise sich Wut in der Stadt, in öffentlichen wie in privaten Räumen, manifestiert. Als ästhetisches Forschungsprojekt verstand sich WUTRÄUME als Outreach-Programm ergänzend zum Projekt ON RAGE - ÜBER WUT das vom 13.3. bis zum 9.5.2010 im Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin zu sehen war.
Die urban dialogues-Künstler...
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Michael Bell-Smith - Chapters 1-12 of R. Kelly's...
Michael Bell-Smith uses digital forms to explore contemporary visual culture and how it is mediated through popular technologies. His work often incorporates the visual vocabulary of the Internet, such as animated gifs and lo-res images, and references the aesthetics and semiotics of common computer programs such as Powerpoint and Web sites such as YouTube.
Remixing and reinterpreting...
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Ali Kheradyar: Dye
Betty Hair Dye – a dye specifically designed to be safe for pubic hair. The artist discovered this product in 2009, originally developed in Europe for women who wanted to match their pubic hair to the hair on their heads. The colors are traditional blonde and brunette but are also hot pink, red, blue, purple and green.
Ali Kheradyar writes:
“I started asking a lot of...
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Sick: the Life and Death of Bob Flanagan,...
-Bob Flanagan was a performance artist that made Robert Maplethorpe look like friggin Norman Rockwell. He had himself beaten, freezed, pissed on, sewn, stapled, and nailed. I mean literally nailed. As in, Bob was personally take a hammer, a nail, a board and his penis and do the thing you and I would least like to do with a hammer, a nail, a board, and our penis. Since...
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Remix Gendered LEGO Commercials
The absurd Lego
gender stereotyping in each set of commercials create hilarious and insightful juxtapositions when placed into our HTML5 Gendered Advertising Remixer web app (beta version 2). You can easily drag and drop LEGO Friends ads and remix them with any of 10 recent LEGO commercials targeting at boys. Which of the 60 possible re-combinations do you think works best? What...
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N. S. Harsha
N S Harsha’s wide-ranging work includes detailed figurative painting and drawing, semi-abstract panels, sculptures and installations, site-specific projects and community-based collaborations.
Harsha embraces the modern Indian narrative enriched with popular art forms as a platform for a powerful social and political commentary. As the miniature painting format has...
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Matteo Pasin - risonanza orbitale
io (in italian means ego, me, I): natural satellite of jupiter. discovered by galileo galilei in 1610. it’s in orbital resonance with two more satellites: europa and ganimede. these three celestial bodies excert a regular periodic gravitational influence on each other.
risonanza orbitale (06:10)
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Daniel Schüßler
Daniel Schüßler (2006):
“Zerstörung und Katastrophen sind Türöffner für urbane Neuerfindung und die Entwicklung neuer gesellschaftlicher Möglichkeiten und Modelle.
Im Zeitalter des “Clash of the Cultures” und der Verbreitung fundamentaler Werte und Ideologien, ist für mich und meine Werke die Frage der destruktiven Kreativität von zentraler Wichtigkeit.
In...
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Personas
Personas is a component of the Metropath(ologies) exhibit, originally on display at the MIT Museum by the Sociable Media Group from the MIT Media Lab. It has been shown in 7 exhibits around the world since, from Peru to Italy.
It uses sophisticated natural language processing and the Internet to create a data portrait of one’s aggregated online identity. In short, Personas...
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Michael Petermann - The Blödes Orchester Stupid...
Arranged like a symphony orchestra, approximately 200 antique vacuums, mixers and washers are transformed into musical instruments.
They form an ensemble that the conductor, harpsichordist and composer Michael Petermann, alias
weiserrausch.de, has now completed after eight years of preparation: The Stupid Orchestra.
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The Blödes Orchester...
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Brian Kenny
Brian Kenny:
“I believe that making art is an ideal opportunity to destroy or redefine stereotypes and common beliefs, juxtapose seemingly unrelated ideas and expand notions of beauty and self-awareness. I prefer to work in a spontaneous or stream-of-consciousness manner, with little or no planning or adherence to any specific genre. Influenced by the energy and...
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Michael Patterson-Carver
Michael Patterson-Carver’
s drawings range from small groups of colorful figures protesting specific issues to political allegories where nazis, klansmen, robber barons and terrorists meet current day political leaders. His drawings address both current and historical struggles and in this way exhibit both ongoing themes of cultural and political repression and the...
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Exey Panteleev's Geekography
Exey Panteleev
‘s Geekography. SexUI Sexy HTML Tips Sexy CSS Tips
html css, click css html, html p tag text wrapping with image
3 years of Geekography, backstage (02:56)
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Marta Popivoda - Tunnel 2005
Marta Popivoda (Belgrade, 1982) is film and video maker, but also cultural worker from Belgrade. She is part of the TkH collective of theorists and artists (TkH=Walking Theory), which deals with the problematics of performance paradigm in art, culture and theory. TkH is mostly active on the independent art scenes in Belgrade and Paris.
In her solo projects she explores cinema as a medium...
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Kelly Reemsten
Kelly Reemtsen creates portraits of anonymous women wielding hefty and dangerous tools. The inclusion of the late 1950’s/early 1960’s dresses on the figures suggest that it’s unlikely the women would be engaged in the kind of work the tools are intended for, pointing to dark and perhaps murderous intentions. The haunting work also carries the significance of this paradox, pointing to a...
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Bartholomäus Traubeck
HuffPost Arts: In the visual realm it is easier to separate form from content, shape from materials. In the audio realm the shape of a song is its content. Your work shows the connection between the aural and visual realms. Do you think the senses of sight and sound are separate? Does what you show about sound translate back onto shape?
Bartholomaus Traubeck: This is an interesting...
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Ursula Neugebauer - von herzen mit schmerzen 2001
Unter dem Titel “…von Herzen, mit Schmerzen…” zeigt
Ursula
Neugebauer eine zweiteilige Arbeit: der eine Teil besteht aus
einer Pflanzung von 3000 Margeritenstauden auf einer Fläche von 200 qm. Die Künstlerin entfernt von allen Margeriten die weißen Blütenblätter - auf obsessiver Suche nach Gewißheit, nach Wahrheit. Mit jeder neuen Blüte setzt die Suche von neuem...
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Lise Sarfati
After living and working in Russia for 10 years, in 2003 the French-born photographer
Lise Sarfati decided to drive across America: “Just a road trip from the east to the west, like in the American tradition of photography, but not with the same spirit,” she explained last year in an interview for the online site ASX.
On that first trip she concentrated on the...
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Antoni Tapies Dies At 88 Years Old
Antoni Tapies passed away last night according to his family members. He was 88 years old and had been in bad health for some time. Tapies was hugely influential to European Abstract art;
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Antoni Tàpies (05:27)
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Allison Kudla
Allison Kudla is interested in using digital media to preserve and discover environments that are in a continual state of flux. She also uses technology in her art to gain greater perspectives on the system in which she exists, with the vision of generating deeply impacting and fully present systemic realities. She hopes for her work to inspire, develop and question the technology it...
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Baden Pailthorpe - Formation (difference and...
Baden Pailthorpe is an Australian interdisciplinary artist currently based in Paris, France. Situated broadly in the field of new media, his work explores technologies and their political, cultural and conceptual potential. Pailthorpe’s work has been widely published and exhibited, with solo and group exhibitions both across Australia and internationally. Baden Pailthorpe holds masters...
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70s Blowjob Faces
70s Blowjob FacesThe faces men made while receiving blowjobs in 1970s pornography.
Common Law Cabin - Russ Meyer 1967 (1:09:17)
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Adam Frelin - Slowwalker 2010
Adam Frelin:
“In many ways my projects are extracted moments taken from a larger story that is never told in its entirety,” Frelin states. “They are moments that describe certain actions (moving, floating, stealing, escaping, disappearing) that are motivated by self-imposed or external forces. The result of both leading and being lead, characters carry out their actions with a strong sense of...
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Daniela Edburg - Knit
When I interviewed you about “Drop Dead Gorgeous,” you explained how “through color, composition, and humor you can create the illusion that something is aesthetically pleasing when, in reality, it could be horrible or gross.” I definitely see that using knitting as a theme makes these potentially gross scenes funnier—what is it about knitting that lightens the whole scene...
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Christian Skeel
Christian Skeel’s paintings deal with different corners of the worlds’ visual presence on a scale from open winter landscapes, waves and tree trunks to other artists’ pictures and film stills. The paintings have in common that they all lead the familiar and intimate, originally photographed, space out to the border where it partly breaks down in visual paradoxes.
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Pioneering Artist Mike Kelley Has Died at 58
Mike Kelley, one of the most critically acclaimed artists of his generation, has died at the age of 58. According to several sources close to the artist that The Observer has spoken with the cause of death was suicide.
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Mike Kelley - What’s In My Bag? (06:25)
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January 2012
31 posts
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Joshua Heineman - Stereogranimator
Like is often the case, it was dumb luck that changed my private interest into a years-long art project that captivated the Internet (as much as such a thing can happen) & made this NYPL application possible. One evening in my final year of college, I was downloading digital snapshots to my laptop when I got a fleeting sense of 3D as the preview screen...
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Christian Marclay - Telephones, 1995
Christian Marclay’s “Telephones” (1995), a 7 1/2-minute compilation of brief Hollywood film clips that creates a narrative of its own. These linked-together snippets of scenes involve innumerable well-known actors such as Cary Grant, Tippi Hedren, Ray Milland, Humphrey Bogart and Meg Ryan, who dial, pick up the receiver, converse, react, say good-bye and hang up. In...
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Christoph Schäfer
skug: Du bist als embedded artist bezeichnet worden, als Künstler-Aktivist, der an sozialen Bewegungen, wie etwa in Hamburg bei stadträumlichen Auseinandersetzungen, von »Park Fiction« bis »Recht auf Stadt« teilnimmt. Wie stellst du diese Verbindung her?
Christoph Schäfer: Embedded, Künstler und Aktivist – diese Begriffe sind Fallen. Mir geht es um Aneignungsprozesse,...
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John Carpenter's They Live
They Live should be embraced as a true work of science fiction. The fact that it uses the context of an exciting story of aliens, gunfights and action to disguise the subtext of angry political outrage is the very essence of what sci-fi should be.
As an audience, we shouldn’t be surprised when we pick at the surface of the plethora of blockbusters released every year to find they are...
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Hans Lannér
Hans Lannér works with images from various origins – moments from journeys, everyday life compositions, abstract thoughts and fading memories. He works in a dissolved but yet precise manner, where each smear of colour is both body and content. Where the motif is both simple and inscrutable.
There is a timeless fateful quality in Lannér’s work that Ulf Linde...
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Bel Linquist - Patch A Signal (interactive video)
Bel Linquist doesn’t like the term “artist.” She prefers “psychic alchemist.”
But after you’ve created paintings that brainwash their viewers and sold customized lo-fi love songs, you can pretty much call yourself whatever you want.
Bel wanted to prove that the everyday didn’t have to be ordinary.
So she took an Xperia and toured Paris for a few days, collecting the sort...
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Jasch - Optical Identity (2007)
Artistic Director Cathie Boyd aims to blast open the frontiers of musical performance, and present it as a more intoxicating experience illuminated by visual and theatrical interpretation.
Using sculptural sets by internationally-renowned designer Jason Ong, costumes by Singapore fashion designer BAYLENE and visuals created by Swiss digital artist
Jasch, she has succeeded...
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Daniele Del Nero
Daniele Del Nero creates architectural scale models of buildings with a domestic look to them. He then dampens the exterior of the structure and applies a thin dusting of flour. The model is then placed into a transparent plexiglass case. Mould starts to grow after a couple of days and dies within two weeks, leaving behind what Del Nero describes as “a dusty spider-web...
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Gabriela Fridriksdottir
Gabriela Fridriksdottir’s approach is characterized by the use of a variety of media: drawings, paintings, photographs, and sculptures figure as prominently as installations and performances.
The artist assembles different cultural, religious, and psychological elements to unfold a unique aesthetical canon of signs, forms, and meanings. This becomes particularly...
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Agustina Woodgate - Poetry Bombing 2011
Agustina Woodgate looks anxiously over her shoulder before passing her needle through another pair of brown trousers. The tag she sews into the waistband reads, “Life is a huge dream/ Why work so hard?” Hiding among the racks in a thrift store in Hialeah’s Flamingo Plaza, she sews as many poetry tags as she can into secondhand clothes before she gets kicked out.
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Daniel Grabner - Hashish (2002)
Daniel Grabner’s documentary
Haschich is a fascinating look into the world of hashish artisans living in Ketama, Morocco.
Simple yet filled with detail, the film reveals the daily rituals revolving around the production and business of hash and the centuries-old society of the men who make it. For many of us, hashish evokes a certain exotic mystique, but Grabner’s film shows us that...
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An American Language 2012
Guerrero Gallery is pleased to present its January show,
“An American Language”, featuring the works of 12 traditional American sign painters.
An extension to the gallery’s show last year with San Francisco’s own, New Bohemia Signs, this month’s exhibition brings together artists from across the country who have built a livelihood through the language of sign...
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Julian Palacz - algorithmic search for love 2010
Who doesn’t love a good supercut?
And no, we’re not referring to the budget hair salon, but rather to the obsessive fan-created video montages that string together isolated scenes from movies, TV shows and other video content to create an all-encompassing sequence of usually hilarious proportions. The genre has given birth to such instant classics as “Every Single Dude,” a supercut of...
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Veronica Ranner - Biophilia 2011
Current sciences progress at an exponential pace – my practise aims therefore to mediate the intersection of emerging technology, science, society and design. Using a wide range of media such as objects, illustrations, video as well as artistic and scientific collaborations, I hope to encourage the public to question and re-assess their relationship towards technology.
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Mike Lash
Mike Lash
- LIES FOR LEO LIES FOR US
‘Elephants are afraid of mice.’
‘Rabbits like carrots best.’
‘The earth is round.’
‘The sky is blue.’
‘This is a green balloon.’
From myth to philosophy, New York artist
Mike Lash
recorded a series of ‘lies’ (mainly composed of common-world perceptions) his neighbour Tim told his son Leo. Lash then created a...
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Dot Samsen - Coin Flipper
Randomness and fate are usually used as decision making for us. Some decisions are so hard, we leave the responsibility to fate or randomness, coin flipping is one of those methods. Whether it makes us feel less guilty or believe it is the right decision. What about our true intention behind decisions? The Coin flipper aims to challenge the randomness to reveal the true...
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Alessandro Zuek Simonetti - Fetish Meetings (2008)
On digital versus analog…
Alessandro Zuek Simonetti: Digital was not present when I was a teenager. I started taking pictures around [the age of] 17, when I was [interested in] graffiti and the skate culture. We were spending our days at train stations, waiting for the trains to arrive and to paint [them].
I’m not against “digital.” It’s just a different approach… I...
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Chris Marker - La Jetée (1962)
Chris Marker - La Jetee is almost totally composed of individual frozen pictures, since it is a photo-montage with sparse narration. Set in the near future, the Earth has barely survived an all encompassing nuclear holocaust, which has driven the remnants of humanity underground. The division between victor and vanquished is rather meaningless under these circumstances, yet there are those...