Category: Culture
In a McDonald’s, in a bank, in library, in Washington Square Park, the lamps are listening to you. Artists Kyle McDonald and Brian House installed microphones equipped with Wi-Fi into lighting fixtures in all of the above locations, and are tweeting the conversations they overhear as part of their surveillance-art project Conversnitch. The snippets of […]
PLASMA SLUGS’ GRAFFITI ART COLONY ARTIST’S NOTEBOOK: RHETT JONES CEX’S SHAMANEATER: THE SOUNDTRACK TO AN IMAGINARY PS2 GAMELISTEN IN: ODONIS ODONIS MADEYOU A PLAYLIST ART OF WAR: COBY KENNEDY TURNS BROOKLYN STREET SIGNS INTO POST-APOCALYPTIC WEAPONS OCCUPY WONK STREET HERE’S THE ELECTRIC CAR THAT COULD REPLACE NYC’S HORSE-AND-CARRIAGES BROOKLYN ARTIST BALLIN’ HERE’S HEROIN ON “DARK-WEB GOOGLE” THIS […]
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 Dylan Carter about ALZ, a simple and brief game that accurately conveys something tragic and terrifying. You go for a walk and suddenly have […]
Lately, all that’s coming from Russia are dashcams, meteorites, homoerotic photos of Putin and the invasion of Ukraine. But let us not forget the rugged DIY spirit of former fellow countrymen! Here’s to you, Mr. Fireman! See the glorious thing that appears to levitate when several fire extinguishers are being wasted at the same time. Listen to the […]
“Listen In“ is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. The Toronto industrial punk band Odonis Odonis walks a fine line between melodic accessibility and grinding noise (see their excellent Hieronymus Bosch-referencing clip “Order in the Court” for evidence of the latter). Fittingly, their […]
Rjyan Kidwell’s work as Cex has long been fueled by provocation. Consider a performance the electronic musician, Tigerbeat6 cofounder, and turn-of-the-millennium internet hero gave in 2007, opening for Dan Deacon and Girl Talk. After he was lifted on stage in a wheelchair, Cex told the crowd he was a contest-winner hoping to raise awareness for […]
Last week, ANIMAL attended “Birth of a Nation,” an ironically titled group show referencing D. W. Griffith’s notorious KKK propaganda film of the same name. It took place at the Exit Room Gallery in Brooklyn and features the work of LNY, Mata Ruda, NDA, Sonni, and Icy & Sot, collectively calling themselves Ñewmerica — an unpretentious, likeminded […]
“Listen In“ is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. This week’s playlist comes from the Detroit punk band Protomartyr, whose excellent sophomore album Under Color of Official Right was released today via Hardly Art. Though the new record mellows out the raw, drunken […]
“I don’t really associate with urban explorers, but I think I do more than photography,” 2e says. It’s midnight, snowing a bit, and 2e is biking towards the abandoned warehouses in Greenpoint. Later that night, he’ll climb a smoke stack on top of the Domino Sugar Factory and poke around the Underbelly Project. But at […]
Have nine hours to spare? Consider spending some of it on SUPER PRESS START, a compilation of start screens from every game ever to grace the Super Nintendo. Titles range from iconic — Mortal Kombat, Super Mario Bros., and Mega Man games — to hyper-obscure — Solid Runner, anyone? My favorite part is listening to the various games’ title music, which, […]
