Tag: Art
Ways of Seeing (1972) has been sweded by a massive group of digital, new media and web-based artists. Debuting in New York on September 6th, Ways of Something (2014) keeps the original audio track of John Berger’s seminal BBC program, but replaces all visuals with 60-second artworks, reworking the art history doc into relevancy and insanity. “I encouraged the artists to […]
For the upcoming Vancouver Biennial, international street artists Os Gemeos are taking over a 75 foot tall wall of silos as part of their ongoing “Giants” series. “We did not want a conventional two-dimensional wall that we had done before – we wanted something different, special and unique,” Os Gemeos wrote in a statement about the project. “The connection […]
Notorious artist Istvan Kantor strikes again, vandalizing a wall inside the Whitney’s perfect Jeff Koons retrospective with an X of his own blood yesterday. The Hungarian-born Canadian artist first started his “Blood Campaign” in 1979. With the latest action, Kantor passed out Jeff Koons-addressed artist statements for The Gift… …a surprise addition to your monumental exhibition and a sign of my high esteem […]
Here’s a fantastic music video for yaming’s “umio” produced by BRDG. It’s pulsating and completely overwhelming, cascading glitchy collages of various Japanese internet ephemera and interfaces, withering like electrocuted innards. Enjoy. (GIF: Prosthetic Knowledge) […]
From Australian artist Andy Thomas, here is a visualization of a bird sounds from the archives of the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. The artist specializes in “audio art forms” like these. It’s immaculate and hypnotic. Watch the render go from abrupt to undulating, feathery to fluid. (GIF: Prosthetic Knowledge) […]
Those deformed figures you drew as a small child may have slightly predicted your future intelligence, according to a new study from King’s College. For the experiment, researchers instructed 7,752 pairs of identical and fraternal twins to draw a child. They rated the drawings from 0 to 12. Drawings with more features like limbs and facial characteristics received a […]
Artist Alex McLeod new series of digital work goes on view at Montreal’s Galerie Trois Points next month. “They are all interior spaces, but I treated them like they were bodies, using things like clouds staircases and gems to stand in for organs,” McLeod tells ANIMAL. See the work above, featuring intestine-like structures in crystalline textures and interior landscapes […]
“Let’s face it. What I’m doing isn’t really vandalism,” Jay Shells tells ANIMAL after a weekend of putting his site-specific Rap Quotes around Philadelphia. “But the questionably legal act of installing signs became trickiest around City Hall and the Liberty Bell where an abundance of bored security guards are waiting to flex on a smart ass like me.” But he got it done. […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished artwork or project. This week, artist and comedian Sean Joseph Patrick Carney talks about making Experimental Aioli, seven signature aioli flavors paying tribute to a New York individual or institution of cultural influence including Bill de Blasio, Action Bronson and Matthew Barney for a performance installation […]
Cyriak: I’ve no idea what this video is. It crawled out from some dark corner of my computer after evolving from the virtual maggots that feast on rotting film footage. Holy Hell, no. […]
