Tag: Art
Look at that. That minimalist Dan Flavin knew what he was doing, am I right? Sure, his signature sculptural fluorescent light installations looked good at the Dia or, say, at the Wissenschaftspark Rheinelbe in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, but don’t they look hot in a SoHo loft? Fellow famous minimalist Donald Judd lived here and you can now rent the renovated loft from […]
Can Kenneth Goldsmith do wrong? For his latest endeavor, Museum of Modern Art’s first poet laureate and founding editor of the unstoppable, renegade avant garde media archive UbuWeb wants YOU to print out the entire internet. The idea is simple: print out as much as of the web as you want — be it one sheet or a truckload — send […]
There’s a brand new artist interview video series on Netartnet.net and, as ANIMAL’s Art Editor, I’m jealous. Artist Anthony Antonellis’s Netartnet.net project — “quick access to netart listings… all netart gallery bookmarks and RSS feeds in one place” — celebrated its one year anniversary this week, with more than 300 exhibitions and 1000 artists logged and with archives reaching back into […]
This year’s Figment art festival on Governor’s Island will feature the Selfie Portrait Project, along with a bunch of other neat interactive pieces. Sort of like an IRL version of that Facebook portrait swap mixed with those Dove crime artist sketches, the self-portrait project will ask participants to take an actual selfie, write a description of […]
Just when you think everything that could be 3D-printed has been 3D-printed and every “Unknown Pleasures”-related artwork has been arted, here’s a 3D-printed “Unknown Pleasures”-related art work. It’s perfect. Michael Zoellner intricately adjusted the file specifications to get the model just right: “I even tried to visualize PSR B1919+21’s waveforms, but in the end I spent an evening tracing the waves by […]
In Minecraft, players of the labor-intensive video game’s open world gaming environment are encouraged to “build anything they can imagine,” brick by pixellated brick. It’s quite apparent that artist Jan Robert Leegte may have taken that idea to heart as the artist has painstakingly recreated Robert Smithson’s well-known earthwork Spiral Jetty in great detail. However, much unlike Smithson’s work this […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished piece. This week, Nicolas Sassoon takes us through the construction of Headquarters for Computers Club. Headquarters started out as random conversations with Krist Wood a few years ago. The Computers Club website was undergoing some changes at the time, and Krist offered me […]
The Nuclear Safety Authority in France came down on the usage of X-Ray machines in art. This decision came following an exhibition titled Hand Games by French artist Marc Ferrante, featuring some 100 radiographic images of participants’ hands. The ASN recalled that Public Health Code prohibits the use of ionizing radiation for non-medical purposes under Article L1333-11 and… Although […]
Do you have a dumbphone, but still want to access internet things? Welcome to The Dumb Store. A project by Allison Burtch and Ramsey Nasser, just premiered week at the ITP graduate program showcase in Tisch. “We think that information should be available to everyone, irrespective of the hardware or software they have,” Burtch tells ANIMAL. The Dumb Store is truly a platform for everyone: […]
Artist Helen Pynor is not a shock artist. Yes, she managed to get a fresh human brain for the “Brains: The mind as matter” installation at the Wellcome Collection in London last year, but her projects aren’t sensationalistic. They’re just unusually corporal. The Body is a Big Place is Pynor’s large-scale, immersive installation. The underwater sequences were shot with members of the Melbourne organ […]
