From the Internet’s best art critic behind Art Thoughtz: Damien Hirst, here’s Hennesy Youngman’s crash course through performance art’s various attempts to annoy people through the ages. Featuring: “white males with scissors” and “titties.” Read more »
Here’s a charming little video art bit in response to the news of Bradbury’s classic “Fahrenheit 451″ to be released as an ebook. The irony of this un-burning isn’t subtle, but it makes sense: We don’t need any “firemen” to burn our paper books, not now when the internet is here to outmode them. Read more »
Around the same time that Ustream pulled the plug on Amber Hawk Swanson’s live performance of disemboweling her fuck doll clone, California-based web artist Petra Cortright had her much more demure video art piece yanked off YouTube for “tits.” Not tits, but “tits,” get it? Read more »
Yeah, there’s definitely a rapey vibe in this Harmony Korine short. After his Fall 2010 racist-esque fashion video Act da Fool for Proenza Schouler, they had him do another one this season. It could use more clothes, and not just to cover the sweaty moobs. Read more »
Dutch artist Johan Rijpma has made a tedious, time-consuming, utterly hypnotic video art piece starring… tape! Watch the clusters of clear tape rolls swell and swirl in patterns against projection screens to an ambient soundscape punctuated with remixed sounds of pulling tape and sticky pops. Read more »
Here’s a new video by cyriak. It’s a sheep asexually reproducing on the run by vomiting increasingly deformed clones of itself to midi-harpsichord dance music, I think. Read more »
Not to be confused with glitch art or datamosh, Content is Queen is a new “generative video painting” by a Sergio Albiac. Watch her wrinkles and peepers emerge from a mosaic of found video. Best enjoyed on fullscreen. Read more »
Bravo, Lindsay! Sure, rolling around in blood and sucking off guns was kitschy fun, but this is much better for you. Dive into painter Richard Phillips’s first short film, wherein a water-loving Lohan emotes classic cinema tributes in a bikini. Read more »
Whoever Yung Jake is, he gets datamosh. You know, that glitchy genre of video art that makes you think your computer is broken? Love it. Video artist Nicolas Provost’s New Flesh is the best in game, but this is the damn theme song. Read more »
Japanese sound/video artist Ryoji Ikeda premiered his projection duo the transfinite last night, inside Park Avenue Armory’s giant, dark hall. I popped in just as MoMA PS1 dir. Klaus Biesenbach was ducking out, so here are some practical tips on enjoying this pulsating monster of an art installation… without name-checking Immanuel Kant and the “mathematical sublime” because I’m not fancy. Read more »
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