Tag: Art
With every uprising comes the media blackout. When thousands of anti-Erdogan regime protestors marched into Istanbul’s Taksim Square last week, Turkish television was broadcasting penguins. Shortly, #OccupyGezi updates rippled across the internet. Citizen social media channels exploded with photos of police dousing unarmed protestors with pepper spray. An ocean away, Turkish-Americans watched helplessly — alone by their computer […]
Today is the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 and China has cracked down on any search terms that could lead to the iconic AP photo of man vs. tanks, blocking search terms like “June 4” and “today.” The social network Weibo has been trying to go around this censorship with the memefication of the […]
London-based artist Phil Thompson’s ongoing project Copyrights– one that is largely based on the Google Art Project’s interior views of museums, and the hazy, blurred out paintings that accompany these images as a result of complicated copyright issues surrounding some of the works. Some of the paintings in virtual walkthrough of the museums are blurred out because they are not actually […]
Right, then. This here is a series of exemplary butts with Roy Lichtenstein reproductions painted on them. The work by Boyarde Messenger will be part of her “Pop Art Bottoms” show at the Affordable Art Fair in London later this month. Prints, presumably. Possibly, the ladies. Also, butts are challenging canvases, Messenger explains: The body is a lumpy canvas and, […]
A programmer named Michael Birken created “Tetris Printer,” an algorithm that plays through the titular game in order to create an image. And because we’re operating at an extremely sophisticated level of nerdery here, the pictures it generates are classic video game characters: Mario, Samus Aran, Mrs. Pac-Man, and the like. Watch Tetris Printer in action […]
Richard Mosse’s fascinating Congo project’s latest incarnation at the Venice Biennale looks fascinating. Mosse had traveled all over eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, infiltrated armed rebel groups, and documented devastated, terrorized communities. Since 1998, 5.4 million people died from war-related incidents. No one cared. Mosse shot all this with infrared-detecting aerochrome film originally developed for military camouflage detection purposes. […]
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 […]
In a seemingly unlikely and wonderful collaboration, artist Gary Baseman teamed up with South-African duo Die Antwoord to make… The Buckingham Warrior, a tale inspired by Gary Baseman’s father Ben Baseman who survived the holocaust, fighting the Nazi invasion in Ukraine’s birch tree forests for almost 4 years. Big up to the MOCAtv YouTube channel which has some amazing […]
For Munich’s public art project A Space Called Public, Turner Prize 2013 nominee David Shirgley has been invited to create “outdoor artistic interventions” within the city. And so, Shrigley is creating a shrine to Michael Jackson’s beloved pet monkey Bubbles. The proposed shrine will sit not far from an existing monument to the “King of Pop.” Shrigley eloquently explains that […]
Artist Daniel Edwards has built a career on naked, pregnant and recently dead celebrities with his bronze sculptures and bronze-colored computer renderings. Using leaked 3D ultrasounds, allegedly, he presents to you his latest masterpiece Baby Kimye And The Royal Heir — a sleeping fetus duo. It’s an improvement on his last masterpiece Special K, a sleeping fetus. Lacks a […]
