Artist Rick Silva’s new show, opening at Transfer Gallery tomorrow night, conjoins the digital and the physical in an exploration of the space that neither can reach — the afterlife. Inspired by Tibetan rituals in which the body is left on a mountain top to be eaten by birds of prey, Silva is giving artworks […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished piece. This week, Rick Silva illustrates his work process — “encounters between the tools of digital communication and the unbuilt environment.” He makes new media landscapes on site and is currently exhibiting at TRANSFER gallery in Brooklyn. For the enpleinair.org site/series […]
A new bill being introduced to the City Council seeks to require cops to have a warrant if they want to use a drone in the line of duty. It would also entirely ban the use of drones by regular citizens. The measure is being introduced by Council Member Dan Garodnick, who tells the New […]
The National Transportation Safety Board has ruled (PDF doc) that all drone flights can be considered illegal. For drone users, Tuesday’s ruling by an appeals board will be very important announcement to pay attention to. The FAA claims that it will release clear regulations for drones by the end of the year, but for now, […]
Here are some art, film, music and other things happening in NYC so you can Have a Good Weekend. Drop your suggestions in the comments or to tips@animalnewyork.com. FRIDAY 72°F LOW 59°F In theaters: Michael Keaton gets real weird with it in Birdman, Guillermo Del Toro does animation in The Book of Life, Jason […]
The second series of Sara Ludy, Sylvain Sailly and Nicolas Sassoon’s collective project “Wallpapers” has launched today. The individual, artist-created digital patterns display full-screen on their own URLs. They are meant to be viewed online and as gigantic projections at international exhibitions and events: Wallpapers offline takes form as site-specific installations comprised of large-scale video-projections. These site-specific installations employ wallpapers from the […]
Artist Rick Silva, whose new media landscapes were on view at TRANSFER Gallery last year, has just launched a new project — The Silva Guide to Birds of a Parallel Future. The 18 short videos 30 seconds in length depict fantastical birds or their parts in flight — a cube of ruffling feathers, sleek swallows diving […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished artwork or project. This week, Lebanon-born Brooklyn-based artist Ramsey Nasser talks about his Arabic programming language artwork قلب . Arabic programming languages with the honest goal of bringing coding to a non-Latin culture have been attempted in the past, but have failed without […]
Although tonight’s “YOU ARE HERE” exhibition opening at The Hole has an underlying theme of randomness, the work featured in the show shares a very common thread, capitalizing on implicit concept of randomness and glorifying it, whether it be by the exploration of new technologies or though the intentional misuse of existing ones. Works featured in the show range […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished piece. This week, artist Melissa Clarke talks about Untitled: Ice Gouge for Performance — her sound piece, installation and performance that sources field recordings of glaciers. The artist is also premiering footage of her performance of the piece at Brooklyn’s Silent […]
