MetaFilter posts tagged with media and art

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]

It is not the most chilling portrait of a murderer

Astro Zombie — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:37:56 -0800

It may be the worst police sketch ever: "The head is shaped like a rugby ball, the lips slide to one side, the nose is phallic, the ears are missing and the hair is having a very bad day." But it led to two arrests, and one television station, in order to protect the identities of the arrested, seemed to think it was a good idea to superimpose the illustration on top of the faces of the suspects.

Digital Art / Culture / Technology

netbros — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:14:06 -0800

Vague Terrain is a web based digital arts publication that showcases the creative practice of a variety of artists, musicians and scholars. Vague Terrain 13: citySCENE is their freshly launched project on urban representation that catalogs how cartography, infrastructure and locative media shape perception in the contemporary city. An example is Joyce Walks, a Google maps mashup which remaps routes from James Joyce's Ulysses to any city in the world, generating walking maps. [via mefi projects] Previous issues of Vague Terrain include Device Art, in which artists and craftspeople create machines as artworks, Curediting, the idea of curating on the Internet within the context of a community-based narrative of everyday life, Digital Dub examining the dubbing subculture, Rise of the VJ and the growing practice of audiovisual performance as a contemporary form of media-based art, and Process, six interviews with artists that generate a discussion about the tools and techniques of contemporary creative practice.

Why Does Hollywood Hate the Suburbs?

kliuless — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 11:01:35 -0800

In defense of suburbs: "Revolutionary Road," based on Richard Yates's 1961 novel of the same name, is the latest entry in a long stream of art that portrays the American suburbs as the physical correlative to spiritual and mental death.

There There Square

Fizz — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 06:14:38 -0800

There There Square: The desire to own and name land and the pleasures of seeing from a distance color this personal survey of the history of mapmaking in the New World. There There Square takes a close look at the gestures of travelers, mapmakers, and saboteurs that determine how we read - and live within - the lines that define the United States. Jacqueline Goss is a videomaker and new media artist whose work explores muted personal and historical narratives and negotiates the slides and snags one encounters while moving between written and spoken communication. She currently teaches in the Film and Electronic Arts Department at Bard College. Winner of the 2007 Alpert Award for Film/Video from the Herb Alpert Foundation

Art in the Age of Digital Ubiquity

billtron — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 00:14:12 -0800

I was going to share the many amazing videos that StSanders has uploaded to youtube featuring guitar gods like Van Halen and Santana shredding, since they have inexplicably only received scant mention on mefi so far. But StSanders' account has been suspended all all videos have been removed! So in the meantime the best I can offer is the work of John Michael Boling and Javier Morales. They are video artists whose hypnotizing and nostalgic and work can be seen at 53 o's. For those of you who didn't hover over that hyperlink, the website is http://www.gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogle.com/.

Photorealistic drawings with a biro

goo — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 10:27:31 -0800

The incredible works of Juan Francisco Casas, drawn using a Bic pen (some NSFW).

Packing Tapestry

spiderskull — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:15:14 -0800

Mark Khaisman makes incredible art using packing tape on plexiglass. (via)

Take your forms wrestled from the void and get the hell out

1f2frfbf — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 07:37:48 -0800

Wayne White's paintings Wayne Who? He left Tennessee to study at the New York School of Visual Arts with Art Speigelman (he posed holding a broomstick for some of the characters in Maus) and Red Grooms. He came back to Tennessee to do puppetry work for a children's show called Mrs. Cabobble's Caboose, (5th link down, mpg) which in turn caught the attention of CBS who hired him to do the set direction for Pee Wee's Playhouse (I'll defer to this excellent post for Pee Wee videos), for which he played Mr Kite, Randy and Roger the Monster. Where else have you seen his work? The video for Peter Gabriel's "Big Time", and the video for the Smashing Pumpkin's "Tonight, Tonight". This was inspired by my tiny little comment here and he seems to be mentioned in passing here and here. Also: Waxy weighs in along with jonson, his IMDb profile and his Wikipedia entry. Not for use with some sets, consult doctor before taking internally.

The Heeb 100

Cochise — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 14:05:50 -0800

The Heeb 100 Heeb Magazine, you know that sometimes controversial magazine out of Jew York has recently released their list of the "100 people you need to know about" who also happen to be Jewish. Also, be sure to check out their reposting of an interview with art world honcho and big time heeb Zach Feuer.

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. =)

La idea inicia su proceso de superación del objeto y establece una descontextualización Dadá.

amberglow — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 13:21:32 -0800

Chema Madoz -- photos

Media and Algorithms and Home Made Music.

stavrosthewonderchicken — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 01:07:37 -0800

Screenvader. Media and algorithms and home made music. [flash]

free video art to go

amberglow — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 15:37:52 -0800

ArtPod --video art for your iPod, from Artnode Denmark

17 Minutes

sjvilla79 — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 07:24:59 -0800

17 Minutes is a performance and video blog project by new media artist Chris Barr. It's about suicide. [MI]

NOISE

sjvilla79 — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 19:58:54 -0800

NOISE is a global youth arts initiative (under 25s) that develops and profiles artists and their work across television, radio, in print and online. Requires Flash. [MI]

Take for Ague, the grip, pluersy and dipsomania

klangklangston — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 16:50:01 -0800

These are the cures. These are the illnesses. Guaranteed to cure what ails you. A look at the fantastic science of medicine, and the fantastic art of bodies afflicted.

Because digital pages don't turn yellow.

me3dia — Wed, 17 Nov 2004 12:35:57 -0800

The National Endowment for the Arts and the Library of Congress are putting 30 million newspaper pages online. The National Digital Newspaper Program "will create a national, digital resource of historically significant newspapers from all the states and U.S. territories published between 1836 and 1922." The goal is to have it done in 20 years; the LOC has a sample up now: The Stars and Stripes from 1918-1919.

Three...two...one...IGNITION

adamgreenfield — Sun, 26 Sep 2004 09:08:34 -0800

Ant Farm's "Media Burn."

MetaNanoTech

Gyan — Sun, 16 May 2004 17:13:59 -0800

Molecular Media Project.

Weightless Animals

anathema — Thu, 06 May 2004 20:25:35 -0800

Weightless Animals: soundtrack to space.

Contemporary Danish Art

hama7 — Tue, 03 Feb 2004 17:45:14 -0800

Artnode: Contemporary Danish Art

Meet J.C. Leyendecker, American illustrator

mediareport — Sat, 21 Dec 2002 18:18:47 -0800

Meet J. C. Leyendecker, the Golden Boy of American Illustration. He helped codify the modern image of Santa Claus. His Baby New Year covers for the Saturday Evening Post invented a pop culture icon. He was "the most out front closeted gay man of the twentieth century" - a hugely popular artist whose work was often clearly homo erotic. The young Norman Rockwell used to stalk him and once said, "Leyendecker was my god." In 1905, he created advertising's first male sex symbol, the Arrow Shirt Man, which "defined the ideal American male" for decades, got more fan mail than Valentino and inspired a 1923 Broadway play. A detailed, opinionated biography and 14 pages of gorgeous Post covers.

ASPEN MAGAZINE adapted for the web

xian — Fri, 15 Nov 2002 16:56:55 -0800

Before there was McSweeney's... Phyllis Johnson published 10 issues of Aspen, a multimedia magazine in a box to which the USPS denied second-class mail rates. After a few issues that stayed close to the ski resort in terms of theme, the magazine began bringing in guest editors and addressing cutting edge art and media, in New York, Britain, Asia, and the minds of cultural critics and psychedlic drug users. Andy Warhol participated in Issue 3 and the Fluxus movement dominated Issue 8. There were 10 issues in all, the first 9 of which are featured in this new web adaptation at Ubuweb. At the risk of only posting whenever Andrew Stafford unveils another cool web-native multimedia art project, I thought a lot of Metafiltrates would appreciate this interpretation of Aspen Magazine

anathema — Mon, 08 Jul 2002 18:35:58 -0800

For quite a few years now, Autonomedia has been putting out consistently challenging literature. From their books on art, culture and theory, to Graphic Novels by a member of The Fugs. Just browsing the titles will get your brain working.