Category: Takeover
Vicky, Hell’s Kitchen. (Photo: ANIMALNewYork) […]
“قلب, as far as I know, is the first programming language that’s also a conceptual art piece,” says Ramsey Nasser, computer scientist and a fellow at New York’s Eyebeam Art+Technology Center. He can’t read the Russian hacker forums or the Chinese Twitter accounts buzzing about قلب (“alb”, “heart”), but he shows us how his terminal can understand Arabic calligraphy. It’s […]
Manhattan is a notoriously expensive place to stay. A mediocre hotel costs anywhere from $150 to $250, but for the strong of heart, there are other options… much cheaper options. Last week, ANIMAL fanned out across the city and each of us spent a night in the lowest priced lodging we could find, whether that […]
Aphex Twin, Nine Inch Nails, Disasterpeace and in all likelihood, many other musicians have been hiding images in their songs for years. These Easter eggs can be found using something called a spectrograph, an application or instrument that creates visual renderings of audio signals. Other programs out there, like this one, or this one, do […]
Carl, Madison Square Park. (Photo: Irina Dvalidze/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Jerry and the Pigeon Coalition of the East Village, East Village. (Photo: ANIMALNewYork) […]
Graffiti spruces up an otherwise drab abandoned site in Brooklyn. (Photo: Ryan Dirbab/Flickr) […]
On Friday evening, ANIMAL and advocacy group Stamp Stampede took a projector-equipped van to the streets of Manhattan — as promised — and broadcasted propaganda to mark the third anniversary of the Supreme Court’s controversial Citizens United decision. We kicked things off at Bowery and Houston and eventually made our way uptown to send a […]
Tom, Cobble Hill. (Photo: ANIMALNewYork) […]
Oh my God. Hold me. This is beautiful. Let’s all just look at this gorgeous glitch portrait of the New York Germany-based artist Kim Asendorf who works with experimental “generative strategies, physical computing, data and glitch” and tell me how this is less relevant than Turner. Because it’s not. In 2010, Asendorf coined the term “pixel sorting” — an algorithmic image […]
