Venus Webcam was a stand-out new media piece at the F.A.T. Gold 5-Year Retrospective at Eyebeam Art+Technology Center. It also got ANIMAL kicked off Facebook for two days, after we posted the project documentation — “art boobs,” sort of. Today, Eyebeam’s booth for Internet Week New York (#IWNY) at the Metropolitan Pavilion got censored. In physical space. With a curtain. Yes, […]
We’re one step closer to a beautiful, terrifying utopia in which we stop staring into computers all day every day and simply become them. A team of MIT researchers led by Rahul Sarpeshkar have developed a working calculator built entirely from living E. coli bacterial cells, capable of “performing addition, division and power-law computations,” according to SciLogs. It’s not the first […]
Need an extra caffeine jolt in the morning but have no time drink a cup of Joe? Good news. Here’s a recent patent filed by Colgate/Palmolive for a new type of toothbrush equipped with additional substance-dispersing widget embedded into its design, just below the bristles in the “body” of the toothbrush itself. The patent is not all about […]
Whether or not these photos instantly trigger flashbacks of your repressed, guilt-ridden Catholic youth, there’s something about Billie Mandle’s Reconciliation that’s both sad and quite lovely. Hoping to capture the “relationship between the tangible structure of the confessional and the intangible ritual of the space,” Mandle, who is a Catholic, began photographing confessional booths all around the U.S. […]
Before Sheryo x The Yok’s “PIPE DREAMS” exhibit opened at the Krause Gallery in the Lower East Side last week, ANIMAL stopped by the artists’ studio in Brooklyn. While the street artists are active in New York, this series of work was created at a ceramic factory in Northern Vietnam and on canvases inside their […]
So, it’s not quite as dramatic as lasers vs. balloons, but it’s enough to wake you up on this gloomy Monday morning. Digital artist Memo Akten developed an openFrameworks-based method to control a laser projector with vector drawings, then took the project one step further, tracking the edges of real objects, then projecting lasers onto […]
Tan Mom’s music video opens on a shot of Tan Mom greenscreened over the sun, because the sun makes you tan and because tan mom is the light and the warmth around which our planet revolves. A few shots later–after The Luckiest Guy in The Universe mingles shirtless with Tan Mom and gently cups her […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished piece. This week, artist Faith Holland talks about a movie scene inspiring her video performances Light Petting and Heavy Petting in which she touches the internet. The idea for Heavy Petting was conceived about a year ago when my husband and I watched Human Centipede […]
After nine weeks of testimony from about a dozen men who believe they’ve been wrongly stopped and frisked by the NYPD, the federal civil rights trial of the police department practice will come to a close. After each side gives a summation of its case today, judge Shira Scheindlin will review the trial record, then […]
Hollywood studios ask Google to remove links to their content all the time. Say a pirated copy of Taken 2 pops up on the search engine, for example–20th Century Fox can send what’s called a Digital Millenium Copyright Act takedown notice to Google and have any the offending content removed from search. These takedown searches and notices […]
