Month: June 2013
Google Earth has glitches. These glitches make great art. Trapcode founder Peder Norrby’s series of well-executed screen captures of glitched out iOs map images give us a vision of a post-nuclear-holocaust world. From trees melting into the streets and flattened cars on collapsed highways to a deadlier Coney Island Cyclone, these images — produced, as always, by malfunctioning algorithms — offer […]
Many consider The World’s First Collaborative Sentence by Douglas Davis to be a classic piece of internet art. It was created in the early nineties and allows any of its participants to contribute to a never-ending sentence. Recently, the piece has been restored and adapted to run on today’s computers. The piece is ongoing, to this day. Much […]
Here’s the perfect way to retaliate against the NSA for all that privacy they’ve been violating lately: “Operation: Troll the NSA,” a campaign that’s asking anyone who cares to send the same buzzword-laced but ultimately innocuous email at the same time this Wednesday. To participate, simply copy and paste the pre-written text into an email […]
Past Friday afternoon, artist and recent legal provocateur Richard Prince tweeted a link to a video in which he is seen burning one of his still disputed “Canal Zone” paintings. The tweet has since been deleted. Rewind: Years ago, the artist was sued by photographer Patrick Cariou over the artist’s use of his photographs in a series of paintings […]
Sudden Black is a production house operating out of London that creates spellbinding music videos, short films and commercials. They also a have one of the greatest and most honest business philosophies ever. As much as we take our work seriously, at Sudden Black we aim to have fun and in the process make amazing […]
The Eclectic Method, aka Jonny Wilson, aka the guy who brought you this, this, this, and this, is back with a new one. The video remixer’s latest piece takes clips of laughter from a variety of films, then sets it to a slice southern rap-inflected bass music that wouldn’t sound the least bit out of place […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished piece. This week, Daniel Temkin talks about corrupting images with a sound editor in his Glitchometry project. I spent a week at Alfred University’s Institute for Electronic Arts, immersing myself in my ongoing project Glitchometry. To make Glitchometry images, I corrupt images in a […]
Glitché was already the best, most interesting photo app available before its update update yesterday. Now, it’s something else entirely. I’m just going to tell you up front: to get the full functionality, you’ll have to plunk down $3 (the original version was free, and there’s still a free, less functional, version available). I know […]
When it comes to precision hits on public spaces, Mobstr deploys several tactics: spray paint, stenciled phrases and mixed-media sculptures. Over the past few years, Mobstr has made a name for himself, literally, while remaining anonymous — a near impossible feat in any city, let alone London, a place notorious for its network of CCTV cameras […]
Watching a former member of Japan’s notorious Yakuza mafia snap off his pinkie prosthetic is terrifying. It’s not nearly as terrifying as his soft-spoken account of “yubitsume” — the Yakuza punishment for disgraced gang members which requires them to chop off their own fingers. He slammed a chisel through this one. This one didn’t break off, so […]
