Month: June 2013
Vine, still the most interesting art-making mobile app this side of Glitché, has yet to see any serious competition in the video-sharing space. (Snapchat rolled out video recently, but its private, ephemeral nature makes it a different beast entirely). But that’s about to change. According to a report from TechCrunch, Instagram will debut Vine-like video sharing features […]
Yeezus, Bushwick. (Photo: ANIMALNewYork) […]
Secret Squirrel graffiti by CHINO BYI on the side of a New York City box truck is nostalgic, awesome. (Photo: sabeth718/Flickr) […]
First Slava charms the hell out of you with that “Werk” music video, perpetuating the old stereotype that Slavs drink Vodka at work and then dance to electronic music inside computers. Now, he drops “Girl Like Me” — dir. Eugene Kotlyarenko’s stylish, dramatic, well-paced, beautifully-shot, crisply aesthetically-attuned silent short film that made YouTube commenters stop misspelling […]
Rhizome — “emerging artistic practices that engage technology” — has been accepting proposals for unique projects that highlight intersections between art and the internet. Artist Emily Martinez produced a very timely proposal that thoughtfully combines the 374 keywords actively used by The Department of Homeland Security to monitor your activity on social media and just about everything you’ve been doing on the […]
At first glance, Andrew Bujalski’s Computer Chess looks like a documentary filmed in the early ’80s. Then, you realize… This could be this year’s best new film. See chess software programmers spend several days in a crappy hotel. There’s a Swiss-style chess tournament: “We get to know the eccentric geniuses possessed with the vision to teach […]
A new piece by artist Jeffrey Alan Scudder allows its participants to play four copies of Grand Theft Auto IV simultaneously, gradually transitioning between each individual game environment. This uncontrollable displacement from one instance of the game to another causes a jarring effect for players of the game. At the same time, it functions as a […]
Twenty-two-year-old Connecticut resident Willian Barboza was driving through the Catskills town of Liberty, New York last year when he was pulled over and ticketed for speeding. Barboza got home, plead guilty through the mail, and sent his ticket in–but not before eloquently expressing his dissatisfaction, scratching “Liberty” from the ticket, replacing it with “Tyranny,” and offering […]
Doo-doodoo-doodooo-doo doo-doodoo-doodooo-doo… Oh, nothing. Just singing the score to the The Wizard of Oz tornado scene when old Miss Gulch flies past Dorothy’s window on a bicycle, ’cause when I get my own sweet flying fixie, you bet your ass I’ll be soaring past your window with that song blasting from a clip-on boom box. That’s right. […]
Using his cat’s laser toy, a swivel chair and complicated math, artist Rollin Leonard just released a new project and it looks like it hurts. This is 360 / 18 Lilia. Using highly composite numbers, Leonard breaks up the very recognizable image of a human face into nine horizontal slices rotating individually on a 24 second loop and then, again, into […]
