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Artist’s Notebook: Jacob Kirkegaard

ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished piece. This week, Danish artist Jacob Kirkegaard — one of the artists exhibiting at MoMA current “Soundings” show — shares the inspirations and audio from his sound art piece Labyrinthitis, sent to us just before his recent performance of the piece at Eyebeam. I […]

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Go Big, Go GIF at Lorna Mills’ Solo Show in Brooklyn

TRANSFER — New York’s only net art gallery — has an opening tomorrow night that is relevant to your interests. Especially if your interests are large scale physical manifestations of digital work poppin’ GIFs like this… This is Lorna’s Loose Lips Sink Ships! GIF from Run Computer Run, but for TRASNFER it’s all new everything: The […]

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Artist’s Notebook:
Rick Silva

ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished piece. This week, Rick Silva illustrates his work process — “encounters between the tools of digital communication and the unbuilt environment.” He makes new media landscapes on site and is currently exhibiting at TRANSFER gallery in Brooklyn. For the enpleinair.org site/series […]

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Artist’s Notebook:
A. Bill Miller

ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished piece. This week, A. Bill Miller talks about his ASCII-based Holoscreen projection piece from his recent “Gridworks” show at TRANSFER Gallery. Currently my sketchbook is really just a series of folder/directories on multiple computers and hard drives. I haven’t had […]

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Artist’s Notebook: Lorna Mills

ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original idea sketch next to a finished piece. This week, artist Lorna Mills takes us from a found object to her piece Double Unicorn. I’m a serial obsessive, so I don’t need to keep a notebook since I only have one thing going on in my head at […]

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Why Are These Sepia Paintings of Bad Paperclips So Sexy?

Not really keen on minimalism. Fuck I know about art. This is the most beautiful art piece ever made right here. Minimalish? LOOK AT THESE PAPERCLIPS. Shall I serenade the aesthetic simplicity of artist Dan Golden from Boston and his sepia watercolor paintings of various fucked up paperclips? How the soft photorealism transfers the charge behind these uniquely archaic […]

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It’s Your TED Talk
at Eyebeam’s “F.A.T. GOLD” 5-Year Retrospective

“There’s some trademark violation going on, obviously. Whatever.” F.A.T. artist Aram Bartholl’s talking about Evan Roth’s project Ideas Worth Spreading. Pop on a headset, pop in your own Powerpoint or just stand next to the giant red “TED” and it’s your TED Talk. Sup? It’s an all F.A.T. international reunion at the Eyebeam Art+Technology Center’s Lindsay Howard-curated […]

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Put DVD in DeadDrop Hole,
Receive Rollin Leonard’s Vacation Photos

Yes, that lamp has DEER HOOF FEET. No, that’s not Twin Peaks. Remember Aram Bartholl’s digital art glory hole at the Museum of Moving Image in Queens? Volume 5 in launching today! Through March 14, bring your blank dvd to the DVD Dead Drop and it shall spit out the Best of Fach & Asendorf Gallery of net art, compiled by […]

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Julian Assange Receives Camera-Rigged Package, Because Art

Julian Assange has been living in the Ecuadorian embassy in London since being granted asylum in June 2012. And now, someone sent the Wikileaks founder a present. As ArtInfo points out: It’s art. Delivery for Mr. Assange (2013) created by the !Mediengruppe Bitnik collective rigged a parcel with a tiny camera that records and uploads an image every 10 seconds onto […]

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