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Arcangel and the future of digi/net art

0bvious — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 05:44:50 -0800

Corey Arcangel is perhaps the internet's most infamous hack, masher-upper, digi/net artist. His work stands for a growing culture of artists who run wildly through animated GIF landscapes populated with corrupted data-compressed bunny rabbits and tinny, MIDI renditions of Savage Garden ballads. As the Lisson Gallery, London, opens its archives to Arcangel's curatorial eye, could digi/net art be set to infect the real, fleshy world, like a rampant Conficker Worm? Has YouTube become the truest reflection of our anthropological selves? Are we destined to roam the int3erw£bs like the mythic beasts of yore, hoping, in time, that digi art can free us from the confines of this fleshy void? [...previously]

The Gustavatory

BlackLeotardFront — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:05:59 -0800

Gustave Dore's engravings for the Old Testament. High quality enough to print. New Testament is here, though it's not nearly as exciting. Much of the rest of his work can be found here (The Raven, Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The Divine Comedy and so on), albeit in varying resolutions.

You Don't Have to be a Rockefeller to Collect Art

Extopalopaketle — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:29:19 -0800

Herb & Dorothy Vogel is a documentary about a postal clerk and a librarian who amassed over 4000 works of conceptual and minimalist art on their modest income. Their only criteria: it had to be affordable, and it had to fit in their apartment.

Visual review of art history

filthy light thief — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 08:29:13 -0800

Are you looking to review your art history knowledge but find google too chaotic, and Prof. Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe's site is overwhelming and has a few too many dead links? Maybe wikipedia lacks the visuals you associate with an art history review, and Art cyclopedia could be a bit more straight-forward? Then The Art Browser might be the thing for you. The site combines brief descriptions of movements and artists from wikipedia, classifications from Art cyclopedia, and large images from Art.com for compact visual overview of art history. [via mefi projects] Previously posted when the site was focused on Picasso, Matisse, Degas, and Okeefe, the site grew to include Cézanne, Chagall, Dali, Gauguin and others. The new version is completely reworked, covering a much broader expanse of history, and image viewing is handled differently.

SFMOMA ArtScope

hortense — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 19:26:47 -0800

SF artmuseum's zooming interface interesting collection, flash found

Bye Bye Blackboard

Fizz — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 07:37:06 -0800

Blackboards were wiped after use: they were meant for immediate communication, not for record. Even as they were being used, their messages were continuously revised, erased and renewed. But when Einstein came to Oxford in 1931, he was already an international celebrity. After one of his lectures a blackboard was preserved and has become a kind of relic. It is the most famous object in this Museum. This exhibition marks the centenary of the Special Theory of Relativity by inviting a number of well-known people in Britain today to chalk on blackboards the same size as Einstein’s. All these guest blackboards have been prepared in the early months of 2005. The result is an exhibition about science, art, celebrity and nostalgia. The blackboard is fast disappearing from meetings, classes and lectures: ‘bye-bye blackboard’.

The Grand Tour...in York

djgh — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:05:22 -0800

The Grand Tour is back, and this time it's in York. [Previously]

Smashing Magazine celebrates Pixel Art

Brandon Blatcher — Mon, 05 May 2008 17:28:37 -0800

Smashing Magazine has gone pixel mad with a celebration of the art form.

Ancillary Art

afx114 — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:26:12 -0800

ANSI art gets the respect it is due. On January 12th, 2008, ACiD Productions produced an art show of legendary MS-DOS artists Somms and Lord Jazz. Their digital art was turned into hangable pieces using home-brew scrollable LCD light boxes hung on the gallery walls. More photo galleries: 1 2 3 4 5

Where all good bumpers go to die

nax — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:01:20 -0800

Sculptor John Kearney of Chicago and Provincetown and his wife Lynn have been running Chicago's Contemporary Art Workshop in a former dairy for almost 60 years. Unlike their better-known contemporary the Hyde Park Art Center, (founded nearly the same year) the pair never let the gallery move beyond its original mission, to discover and support young artists, especially those with little or no exhibition background. The Workshop had early solo exhibitions for both artists who went on to fame, and those whose careers fizzled (full disclosure-that would be me) and has exhibited thousands in its 6 decades. Kearney, who worked with found objects from early in his career, is the best-known sculptor you never heard of, with his creative and amusing bumper sculptures all over Chicago. Switching to bronze after Detroit stopped making chrome bumpers, most recently, the 85-year old artist completed four sculptures for Oz Park.

Stan The Man

sambosambo — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 04:07:11 -0800

I may not know art, but I know what I like. Gallery Nineteen Eighty Eight Previously on MeFi.

Do The Collage

dhammond — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 00:31:07 -0800

When he's not recording more songs than Bob Dylan, former Guided by Voices frontman Robert Pollard is busy creating collages, many of which can now be seen online in an exhibit from Studio Dante in New York City. These and more will also be featured in a soon-to-be-released coffee table book entitled Town of Mirrors: The Reassembled Imagery of Robert Pollard.

Ripeness is All: Lustmord Portrayed in Oil

WCityMike — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:48:34 -0800

New York artist Ashley Hope's Ripeness is All exhibit at the Tilton Gallery recreates crime scene photographs of murdered women from the 1910s through the 1990s as oil paintings on huge 4' x 6' canvasses. [some nsfw art] Hope states that her goal is the "re-subjectification of a scene that had been totally objectified by the forensic camera." She chooses the crime scenes of "Lustmord" (or "lust murders") — "these incomprehensible crimes are more sublime; they exemplify a reality that betrays our expectations, a reality that so often takes us outside of our understanding." ArtDaily.com, who made Hope their Nov. 2007 featured artist, comments: "Man is valued for his interior qualities ... woman is valued for her exterior attributes ... Hope's work — images of women reduced to a body — underscores this dichotomy, thus challenging these reductive tendencies."

A serious nocturnal photography habit.

carsonb — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 18:50:18 -0800

The Nocturnes Gallery Also, some of the featured photographers' websites are pretty neat.

"Teenage Stories."

Soup — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 09:32:01 -0800

"Teenage Stories." Award-winning photography by Julia Fullerton-Batten (flash). With in ter views (pdf).

beyond the veil

oneirodynia — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 11:36:09 -0800

A small gallery of talking boards and planchettes by various artists. (Warning: navigation is somewhat clunky.) For the ham-handed: you can download a PDF to make your own from this site.

Hundreds of paintings, one masterpiece mural

iamkimiam — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 09:51:24 -0800

Mural Mosaics! Artists come together to create beautiful themed murals, made of hundreds of relevant paintings. See the making of Lewis Lavoie's ADAM (youtube), a United Nations mural mosaic consisting of 20 large art pieces, painted live at the Edmonton Capital EX. Or visit the ADAM page for an in-depth look. Check out the other murals, such as Earth's Treasure Chest, where you can click on individual tiles and learn about the contributing artists. Also, there's a new mural in progress, King of Kings, updated every Monday! You can be a part of the mural too! Check it.

Sugar and spice and nothing nice

ZachsMind — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 22:54:24 -0800

"A paper around her neck said she was Ida, but Ida said nothing at all." So tells the story of the saddest, unluckiest girl that ever lived. Don't forget to watch part two, after part one, of course. Children R Skary dot net is available in flash too, if you're so inclined. These children have been very naughty, but methinks Santa fears them. Katy Towell isn't sad or unlucky, but she's a very busy little girl. If you like her stuff more than I do, you can help. heh... i can't believe no one before me has posted this artist's incredible work to The Blue. I did searches and can't find her. Well, she's here, but you have to know where to look.. and I'll leave it at that. =)

Art to Go

djgh — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 21:15:13 -0800

The Grand Tour. Until August 31st, the National Gallery in England is putting reproductions of famous paintings on the streets of London, with MP3 audio guides and maps available for download. The reaction has been good.

Walking - Cel Animation In The Real World

jonson — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 08:43:34 -0800

Walking is a crazy animation of a character walking around the walls of an art gallery, where each frame of the animation was painted on the walls & then wiped clean for the next frame. Via.

Collaborative ketchup art collection

mediareport — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 21:09:44 -0800

Ketchup Art.com. Submit your own. [via It's Knuttz]

Edo period creepy crawlies

p3t3 — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 19:11:01 -0800

Japan's National Diet Library Gallery has been mentioned here before, but the Pink Tentacle blog came across some fantastic late Edo period illustrations in the NDL Gallery by Kurimoto Tanshu (栗本丹洲, 1756 - 1834). Apparently he was a doctor, but he seems to be better known for his hundreds of biological illustrations. Many are of sea creatures, but there are also quite a few other plants and animals. ranging from realistic renditions to bizarre creatures. A huge and varied collection, but all are equally fascinating.

Death Never Looked this Delicious!

Dreamghost — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 08:03:12 -0800

Drop Dead Gorgeous a Photo Gallery of not so safe treats by Daniela Edburg. (via the morning news)

Battle of the Galleries

Hogshead — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 07:16:28 -0800

Art is power. Two of London's biggest names in art just went head to head. Yesterday the Serpentine Gallery opened an exhibition by new Chinese artists in Battersea Power Station, allowing the public to see inside the city's greatest piece of abandoned architecture for the first time. Not to be outdone the Tate Modern, the other London art gallery built in an abandoned power station, hits back with its new interactive exhibit tomorrow.

zbrushcentral.com

crunchland — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 13:45:49 -0800

Interesting gallery of images people have made using a program called zBrush. (some images nsfw)