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Show everybody that you really are down.
posted by Su
on May 6, 2003 -
35 comments
Remember
Bullet Time? Remember how it got damn annoying from overuse really quickly? When was the last time you saw something neat done with it?
Take a look at
Lumasol.
posted by Su
on Sep 12, 2002 -
20 comments
Do you ever just wander? Based upon the ideas of
psychogeography and the
dérive, a group called Special Airplane is orchestrating
Drift next week in Vancouver. Also ref.
The Cityspace Cut-Up @ Social Fiction, who seem somewhat responsible for this.
I don't see how Drift is "generative," but whatever; it's an interesting idea.
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posted by Su
on Aug 24, 2002 -
18 comments
Artist Marc Garrett has used the pseudonym
Eye Opener for several years to produce the Censored Porn project. Images were lifted from the net, and all skin replaced with solid color or patterns, often from the images' own backgrounds. And, no, it's still not really worksafe, although it might take a little work for anyone to figure out just what you're looking at.
posted by Su
on Apr 23, 2002 -
5 comments
The
Read_Me Festival 1.2 shortlist has been posted, and includes such projects as
Carnivore(not the government one, though that was part of the concept), and the
DeskSwap screensaver. While this is a "software art" exhibition, it's of particular note that patches or
even just instructions for making existing software do things not originally intended are allowable entries. I haven't been through all of them to see if any patches were entered, but it'd be interesting what the publishers might think of these, since it would basically constitute hacking and/or reverse engineering.
posted by Su
on Mar 30, 2002 -
2 comments
Get your unique 32x32 piece of net art at
Image::copy. Give your e-mail address, select which part of any of three images you want, and get it within a few minutes. The section you receive is then blacked out in the original file.
posted by Su
on Mar 28, 2002 -
20 comments
Dali + Lichtenstein =
Massurealism? That's one ugly baby. Apparently a lot of the marketing and visual information we're presented with currently has roots in surrealism. But is it art?
posted by Su
on Mar 19, 2002 -
4 comments
The University of Iowa, of all unlikely places, maintains the
International Dada Archive. I suppose someone had to try, since almost no one understands it. There you can not only view images, but download PDFs—page by page, unfortunately—of
many Dadaist publications. Most of them are in various non-English languages, but still worth looking at just for the visual design.
And yes, the urinal is there, but you'll have to find it yourself.
[via
Consumptive]
posted by Su
on Mar 17, 2002 -
8 comments
A bunch of artists and designers were sent a small Flash file and told to change whatever they wanted, and send back the results. You get to see the
mutations.
posted by Su
on Jan 11, 2002 -
13 comments
[re]distributions is a collection of art software and essays centering on PDAs and information appliances. Glad I cleaned out my Jornada at work today. Most of the artists have various other projects at their own sites, if you follow their links.
posted by Su
on Dec 12, 2001 -
1 comment
Typographic Tree. "A small signpost invites users to sing to the mushrooms which sit on top of a 5' tree stump. As soon as a visitor begins a tree begins to grow. Using nothing but the tone and volume of their voice they can control every aspect of the trees growth. It's size, complexity, colour and even the amount of flowers in bloom." I'm not sure why it's 'typographic,' but still very pretty.
posted by Su
on Dec 7, 2001 -
3 comments
