Year: 2013
Whether or not these photos instantly trigger flashbacks of your repressed, guilt-ridden Catholic youth, there’s something about Billie Mandle’s Reconciliation that’s both sad and quite lovely. Hoping to capture the “relationship between the tangible structure of the confessional and the intangible ritual of the space,” Mandle, who is a Catholic, began photographing confessional booths all around the U.S. […]
Before Sheryo x The Yok’s “PIPE DREAMS” exhibit opened at the Krause Gallery in the Lower East Side last week, ANIMAL stopped by the artists’ studio in Brooklyn. While the street artists are active in New York, this series of work was created at a ceramic factory in Northern Vietnam and on canvases inside their […]
So, it’s not quite as dramatic as lasers vs. balloons, but it’s enough to wake you up on this gloomy Monday morning. Digital artist Memo Akten developed an openFrameworks-based method to control a laser projector with vector drawings, then took the project one step further, tracking the edges of real objects, then projecting lasers onto […]
Tan Mom’s music video opens on a shot of Tan Mom greenscreened over the sun, because the sun makes you tan and because tan mom is the light and the warmth around which our planet revolves. A few shots later–after The Luckiest Guy in The Universe mingles shirtless with Tan Mom and gently cups her […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished piece. This week, artist Faith Holland talks about a movie scene inspiring her video performances Light Petting and Heavy Petting in which she touches the internet. The idea for Heavy Petting was conceived about a year ago when my husband and I watched Human Centipede […]
After nine weeks of testimony from about a dozen men who believe they’ve been wrongly stopped and frisked by the NYPD, the federal civil rights trial of the police department practice will come to a close. After each side gives a summation of its case today, judge Shira Scheindlin will review the trial record, then […]
Hollywood studios ask Google to remove links to their content all the time. Say a pirated copy of Taken 2 pops up on the search engine, for example–20th Century Fox can send what’s called a Digital Millenium Copyright Act takedown notice to Google and have any the offending content removed from search. These takedown searches and notices […]
Attend an event at the Barclays Center, and you’re greeted by a luxuriant ambience–top-notch local food, black leather trim everywhere, and a smell like the inside of a brand new Benz. It’s easy not to consciously notice the scent at first–it’s all part of the experience–but consider it for a while and it becomes downright […]
Sam, East Williamsburg. (Photo: Marina Galperina/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Annica Cuppetelli and Cristobal Mendoza’s interactive Transposition (2013) at Eyebeam Art + Technology Center’s “video_dumbo” moving image festival warbles, waves and makes alluring sounds, like this… Transposition, Cuppetelli & Mendoza, video_dumbo vine.co/v/bEXnuMEdeOp — Marina Galperina (@mfortki) May 16, 2013 (Photo: Marina Galperina/ANIMALNewYork) […]
