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July 18, 2014 Sophie Weiner

EO1, a venture working in sleek technology for displaying internet art, has announced a program for artists to develop digital works specifically intended for the device. Artists selected for the residency will receive their own EO1, a $500 stipend for their work, and will get to hang out with Electric Objects head of development Jacob Bijani. […]

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July 16, 2014 Marina Galperina

Artist Sara Ludy has just released the first video introducing her latest work Dream House, “an on-going virtual architecture project inspired by lucid dreams and sacred spaces.” View the video above to explore. “The sound is just various room recordings that are pitch shifted slightly to create different ambiences for each space,” Ludy Tells ANIMAL. It adds an […]

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July 6, 2014 Emilie Gervais

What happened since Rosalind Krauss introduced the term “post­media,” full of semiotic contradictions? After Felix Guattari used the expression “post­-media era” and producer and consumer melted within the media, dissecting themselves? What happened after Miss Krauss wrote A Voyage in the North Sea. Art in the Age of the Post­-Medium Condition, chatting about post­-medium, killing […]

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July 3, 2014 Marina Galperina

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 […]

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June 27, 2014 Sophie Weiner

As internet-based art proliferates, it’s fascinating to watch work that is rooted in the digital as it migrate into the world of physical art spaces. The success of these transitions is varied, but Jon Rafman‘s practice is endlessly fascinating. His exhibition at the Contemporary Art Museum of St. Louis opening tomorrow feels likely to bridge that gap. As curator […]

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June 23, 2014 Marina Galperina

ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished artwork or project. This week, Los Angeles-based artist Sterling Crispin talks about Charon — a technically complex year-long project creating a gorgeous sculpture derived from a flight path of a drone. In short, Charon is an interactive installation and sculpture created […]

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Marina Galperina

James Kerr’s amazing Scorpion Dagger blog has hundreds of animated digital collages that remix northern and early Renaissance art with 21st century themes. See some of our favorites in the gallery above, featuring Jesus, Mary, and a slew of characters from the Biblical times and 15th Century Europe, like Jesus-and-Apostles tandem bike, transformer-Jesus… …giant-inflatable-tube-man Jesus… …and, also, pant-shredding […]

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June 20, 2014 Marina Galperina

A new collaborative art space has recently opened in Bushwick. Powrplnt provides free and donation-based digital art workshops open to everyone (ages 13-113), training participants in creative software like Photoshop and Ableton Live while working on projects.   Powrplnt founder Angelina Dreem spoke frankly to ANIMAL about their mission, their projects and the gentrification of Brooklyn. Powrplnt’s next exhibit takes place […]

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May 30, 2014 Marina Galperina

The group exhibition بیت بر ثانیه  (Bitrates) opens today at the Dar-ol-Hokoomeh Project in Shiraz, Iran. It will feature a selection from GIFbites curated by Daniel Rourke, who asked 50 artists to create and pair an animated GIF with audio snippets. The complete GIFbites has been streaming online in loop at ad infinitum at Bitrates.GIFbites.com. Accordingly, the above neon-rainbow-hued […]

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May 23, 2014 Marina Galperina

Please forgive Artforum editor Philip Leider for rejecting the idea of a digital art issue, like so: I xxx cant imagine ARTFOR/UM xxxx ever doing a special issue on electronics or computers in art, but one never knows It was 1967. Computers were room-size. The internet wasn’t born yet. How could he know? Do we take […]

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