Tag: Art
This is Electrostabilis Cardium, a custom-bioprinted defibrillating organ It’s part electric eel, so it discharges an electric current at an instance of a heart attack. This is what an Electrostabilis Cardium transplant looks like. As imagined by Agatha Haines, Circumventive Organs bioart series imagines a near future of new organs: The ability to replicate and print cells in […]
“She trusted me completely,” French digital artist Systaime (Michaël Borras) tells ANIMAL. Every day for days, actress/singer/director Asia Argento shot videos with her cellphone in Rome and sent them to Systaime in Limoges, France. “She has given me no instructions.” The video for “Sexodrome” off Nuun Records’ Total Entropy is a mash-up of Asia’s video selfies, YouTube clips, datamoshed […]
Legendary model Kate Moss is the muse for a new exhibition and auction at Christie’s in London. Featuring a variety of photos that showcase the versatility that characterized her modeling career, the auction will also include Kate-inspired art works, from sculptures to collages and even a tapestry. “Kate is the ultimate modern muse and we will […]
To mark the upcoming release of his new album-cum-viral-marketing-stunt, Magna Carta Holy Grail, Jay-Z created some shiny, mostly contentless promotional books, then sent fans on a scavenger hunt to find them. Inside was the album’s tracklist accompanied by black bars that look like censored lyrics–I’d call it some kind of comment on NSA surveillance, but even that […]
The first email from Miranda July’s We Think Alone project was sent out yesterday. For the next 19 Mondays, subscribers will be blasted with private emails from Lena Dunham, Kirsten Dunst, writers, artists and her other friends. The first Monday’s topic was money. “I have always loved reading other people’s emails,” July told the Huffington Post. “There is something about […]
In 1914, the fraternal society Knights of Pythias would meet in Philadelphia’s Hathorne Hall. After being left vacant for many years, it was recently taken over by the New York artist collective Rabid Hands for the Hidden City Festival. Its mysterious fraternal past inspired a building-wide art installation based heavily on the imagined history of another secret society. Knights of […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished piece. This week, new media artist Carla Gannis talks about her current collaborative project with poet Justin Petropoulos about “(mis)communications.” I am collaborating with poet Justin Petropoulos on a project entitled <legend> </legend> . The project is rooted in poems written by Justin from […]
Please quit yanking your joystick and give a round of applause to the newest batch of video game alumni, now dubbed “art” by the Museum of Modern Art’s Architecture and Design department senior curator Paola Antonelli! Joining, are the newly MoMA-acquired… Magnavox Odyssey (1972) Pong (1972) Space Invaders (1978) Asteroids (1979) Tempest (1981) Yar’s Revenge (1982) Minecraft […]
ANIMAL stopped by the opening of Jonas Mekas’s exhibit “OUTLAW: NEW WORKS” at the Microscope Gallery last night. The 90-year-old Lithuanian filmmaker, “godfather of American avant-garde cinema” and founder of the invaluable Anthology Film Archives was cheerful and friendly, despite the aggressive theme of his show. I dedicate this Exhibition to all artists who had to go […]
Here’s that “Came Back Haunted” David Lynch music video you were looking for. It has… – Pulsating red squares. – Pulsating black dots. – A constantly inverting BW Photoshop of a girl-insect in a gasmask. – Creepy indoor mushroom cloud. – A shaky, angry, red-tinted close up of Trent Reznor. – One of David Lynch’s […]
