Artist Stuart Atteberry remixed a selection of Mondrian and Rothko paintings using Gimp and GlitchSort, reorganizing the pixels by brightness and then animating the sorting, so they “cascade dreamily.” Artist Kim Asendorf coined the term “pixel sorting” for this type of algorithmic image manipulation process in 2010.
Atteberry explains the very basic idea behind his project: “Many old artists helped to push humanity along the path of better understanding, and I’m using glitch methods to re-examine those understandings.” Now ooh, aah.
I want to put this art in my mouth. For her "Art Toast Project," Norwegian artist Ida Skivenes created toasty replicas of iconic works of art by Edvard Munch, Frida Kahlo, Piet Mondrian, Jackson Pollock, and Salvador Dali. She melted cheese "clocks" on her The Persistence of Memory toast. Word on…
Here's a mini-doc featuring Marcin Lodyga and Vladimir Umanets, the notorious duo of IRL art trolls, artists, philosophers, vandals, Yellowists. It features the Yellowists explaining Yellowism and screenshots of all the press hate/bemusement. Last year, Umanets was sentenced to two years in prison for writing his name on a Rothko at…
If you've got an extra $27 mil laying around, consider spending it on the mansion at 132 East 62nd Street. Aside from six bedrooms, an elevator, and a beautiful backyard, it's also got a horde of art inside -- and everything comes with the house. According to Curbed, the mammoth residence…
