ANIMAL favorite Yung Jake has done it again. The media-savvy digital artist has been making these amazing portraits of various celebrities using nothing but emojis. You can do it yourself as well using the browser based app at emoji.ink, but good luck nailing it with the skill and panache of his Yung-ness. Our favorite is Chief […]
“Used to be my main bitch, now she’s just a follower …” Yung Jake (“Datamosh,” “e.m-bed.de/d,” and the Larry David rap song) has just performed his latest song “Unfollow” at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. Click to watch the music video above. It’s his slickest video yet. And it’s very sensitive. (“Now it’s over… like a […]
Here’s a special fan rap video from Max Piff (rapper, producer) and Yung Jake (featured rapper, director). Absolutely best line is at 2:51 from Yung Jake regarding Larry David’s please no stop n chat policy, because he’s 2 real. And I say that with absolutely no bias despite being a Yung Jake fangirl / Yung Jake’s digital art […]
Rhizome — New York’s notable not-for-profit organization and new media art platform affiliated with the New Museum — just unrolled its newest list of Commissions and Tumblr Internet Art Grant Awardees. After reviewing over 250 proposals, five new media commissions and three Tumblr-spirited projects have been awarded funds. ＼(^-^)／ for everyone, but most of all Yung […]
“It has nothing to do with Vine. Vine is a paintbrush.” But yes, we (#SVAES) sold two more Vines. Ms. Kianga Ellis is based in Beacon and organizes experimental conceptual exhibitions. She is now the second official collector to acquire a Vine from the Shortest Video Ever Sold! #SVAES project and there will be others. She has […]
He’s back. Our favorite net art rapper Yung Jake — the maker of the original “Datamosh” video and the most amazing interactive experience “E.m-bed.de/d” returns with an augmented reality video you can only view as an app we’ve been dying to share with you. “Augmented Real” — it’s FREE, don’t stress. And it also… next level. Just find “Yung […]
Adam Ferriss creates mesmerizing glitch art, and with his new interactive project Gush, you can become a part of it. (Hint: Move, click, awe.) Gush was built off Andrew Benson’s Flow Cam, to turn your webcam photos into day-glo psychedelia. “While the webcam captures the movements, a generative and evolutive loop gives rise to fluid, glitched-out and distorted […]
This is Press ESC to Escape, a 2013 painting by artist Jeanette Hayes. The work is rendered in oil over a chromogenic print on canvas. The original image was Photoshopped and put on Instagram by artist Mattie Hillock a year ago, with the caption “I’m sick of looking for jobs.” Hayes commented, “I wan 2 paint dis.” Hillock […]
Today we got a new video from Robyn and Röyksopp’s upcoming mini-LP collaboration Do It Again. The black and white video for the Swedish dream team’s electro-jam “Sayit” follows in the footsteps of artists like Kirin J. Callinan and Yung Jake, with a series of gif-like video clips and glitchy art by Johan Söderberg and Miguel Angel Regalado. […]
Here’s a browser-based webcam from artist Andrew Benson of Wolf and Unicorn (gif art series about love and death) and INTOTHEZONE (a digital and psychedelic Tarkovsky adaptation). Prosthetic Knowledge explains: It’s “a WebGL realtime visual distorter with a smooth yet digital grainy effect.” Try Flow Cam right here right now. “Technically speaking, it isn’t datamoshing,” Prosthetic Knowledge’s Rich Oglesby schools us. “Datamoshing is […]
