Category: Features
“The Largest Vocabulary in Hip Hop,” a data visualization project by Matthew Daniels that’s been making waves since it made the front page of Reddit over the weekend, is interesting for a moment. Quantitative analysis is trendy, and so is rap music, so why not combine the two? One, because using statistics to glean anything […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished artwork or project. This week, Lebanon-born Brooklyn-based artist Ramsey Nasser talks about his Arabic programming language artwork قلب . Arabic programming languages with the honest goal of bringing coding to a non-Latin culture have been attempted in the past, but have failed without […]
There are two certainties in life: New Year’s Eve will never live up to the hype and you will constantly be surrounded by people waxing nostalgic about the good old days. Unfortunately for the good old days, they weren’t all that good. No matter what era you pick in New York City’s history, it has […]
Here “Crocodile Chop,” a magical mash-up of Elton John’s “Crocodile Rock” and System of a Down’s “Chop Suey” by Neilcic. It sounds awesome. And it fits perfectly. But to fit perfectly, Neilcic did a lot of work on it: Slowing down the vocals, adjusting the pitch, chopping up the phrasing of the chorus… Not that […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished artwork or project. This week, Brooklyn and web-based performance artist and playwright Ann Hirsch speaks candidly about Twelve, a digital media piece inspired by her cybersexual preteen relationship with an older man, which was turned into an app and censored by Apple for […]
Here’s some art, film, music and other stuff happening in NYC so you can Have a Good Weekend. Drop your suggestions in the comments or to tips@animalnewyork.com. FRIDAY 69° F NIGHT 49° F “New Romantics Performance Night” at Eyebeam in conjunction with the ongoing exhibit. Miao Jiaxin, Mikey McParlane, Ann Hirsch, Vincent Tiley, ATOM-r and MSHR. “Using sound, interactive devices, and skype […]
Palcohol, the powdered alcohol that will completely change the way we brunch and justify our one bottle of wine a day habit, had its label approval cruelly torn from it after the alcohol law blog Bevlaw reported on it. The makers claim it was just an error in the packaging but from the history of […]
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 […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished artwork or project. This week, Brooklyn-based artist Am Schmidt talks about Fierce (Untitled), an endurance performance where she wore Abercrombie & Fitch graphic shirts and Fierce cologne every day for one year inspired by Tehching Hsieh’s One Year Performance, Sincerity by R. Jay Magill […]
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 […]
