Category: Art
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished artwork or project. This week, we’re excited to premiere the trailer for “Pig Movie” by sound artist Kate Levitt and video artist Miles Pflanz. The film was written by the prisoners of the Lincoln Correctional Facility. In spring of 2014, we were […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished artwork or project. This week, artist Lucas Ajemian talks about his installation “Analog dispersion piece / to be named upon dissemination, if / to scatter a parse to scale / inaccessible volume and phase out of order / descendant / aspirational […]
ANIMAL’s feature Game Plan asks video game developers to share a bit about their process and some working images from the creation of a recent game. This week, we spoke with Ziba Scott of Popcannibal about Elegy for a Dead World, a game in which players concoct their own stories about long-gone civilizations. Ziba Scott’s […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished artwork or project. This week, Shanghai-based artist Kim Laughton talks about his digital work The Physical Possibility Of An Eggplant, inspired by “a bruised white aubergine sitting on a black marble windowsill.” I usually look for inspiration in the world around me. In this […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished artwork or project. This week, Leah Schrager talks about the origins of her infamous performance project Naked Therapy, as well as German expressionist dance choreography, erotic photos and WordPress themes. Naked Therapy started as a proposal to the world on the […]
ANIMAL’s feature Game Plan asks video game developers to share a bit about their process and some working images from the creation of a recent game. This week, we spoke with David OReilly about Mountain, a game in which you watch nature express itself. If god exists, he or she doesn’t give a shit about you […]
Adam Ferriss creates mesmerizing glitch art, and with his new interactive project Gush, you can become a part of it. (Hint: Move, click, awe.) Gush was built off Andrew Benson’s Flow Cam, to turn your webcam photos into day-glo psychedelia. “While the webcam captures the movements, a generative and evolutive loop gives rise to fluid, glitched-out and distorted […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished artwork or project. This week, Berlin-based artist Labanna Babalon talks about mysterious emails, mind-expanding psychedelics, community, rejecting the monetization of the art world and new digital platforms, all of which resulted in her latest piece titled ANIMAL. Honestly, I had a […]
This is Press ESC to Escape, a 2013 painting by artist Jeanette Hayes. The work is rendered in oil over a chromogenic print on canvas. The original image was Photoshopped and put on Instagram by artist Mattie Hillock a year ago, with the caption “I’m sick of looking for jobs.” Hayes commented, “I wan 2 paint dis.” Hillock […]
New York based artists Mike & Claire create surreal videos incorporating performance, design and digital art. Their newest work, Fried Eggs, is a bizarre take on the popularization of gender critique. There are eggs everywhere, being cooked, served, eaten and gagged on. There’s also a strong element of police brutality in the video, albeit enacted in […]
