Tag: Art
Submergence, a transfixing immersive installation of wired-up LEDs is the latest iteration of Ocean of Light, an ongoing project expanding digital visual media into the third dimension by the decade-old art and research collective Squidsoap. The work, sometimes referred to as a low-res “volumetric visualization” was on view in Norway earlier this month and reminds […]
The grotesque beauty of humans and other animals has long been a central theme of Australian artist Patricia Piccinini’s work. For The Carrier, a piece currently on display as part of Haunch of Venison’s “How to Tell the Future From the Past” exhibition, lies somewhere between the realms of human, ape, and alien. “This exhibition examines the […]
“I’m interested to explain ‘Who is James Franco?’ and ‘Why is he doing what he’s doing?’ He hardly sleeps or has a life. He just keeps going.” That’s performance artist superstar Marina Abramović gushing about her Friend Since 2010 James Franco. He is “the most interesting actor of the moment” because he’s not afraid of failure, etc. It makes perfect […]
Welcome to the next few hours of your day: Chris Shier created gifmelter, a bookmarklet that turns any GIF or static image into a pixelated, decomposing swirl. It’s grotesque and beautiful and mesmerizing and you should just take a look at it and stop reading this now. Paste the URL of your own GIF into […]
So, this one time, the Chinese Communist Party banned traditional Peking opera for being too bourgeois. And so, Chairman Mao Zedong’s wife Jiang Qing developed some model operas. Photographer Zhang Yaxin was one of the few people who was allowed to have color film. He was selected to document these very proper operas of very good comrades sprinting very properly across the stage […]
We’ve had a lot of fun looking at your 6-second Vines for the #VeryShortFilmFest. Thanks for all the naughty art, internet! You were amazing. Refresher: Since Vine — that hot social media platform that lets you record, edit and share 6-second-videos with sound in-camera — slapped NC-17 rating because of all the, ahem, dicks, we here at ANIMAL took […]
“I want to play God” is how Cao Hui‘s begins is artist statement. Clearly. The Beijing-based artist has makes stone into flesh. And then, he slices it. Behind the marble surfaces of familiar classical statues, bloody flesh and bone appear, visible as cartoonish, gory slabs. There’s just something so frightening about this. Pygmalion IRL, basically. […]
New York-based artist Asger Carlsen makes these beautifully-toned monochrome portraits Edward Weston could be proud of, but there’s a caveat — his subjects are horrifying mutant humanoids, “slabs of what appears to be human tissue wrapped in skin and supported by bone.” Impossible and grotesque but so hyperrealistic, they are hard to look away from. […]
I have some beautiful net art for you. Here’s a little bit from the latest GIF series from Emilio Gomariz: RGB landscapes. Reminds us a bit of Nicolas Sassoon, but more colorful. Anyway, DISCLAIMER: Possibly seizure-inducing new net art below. Enjoy. […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original idea sketch next to a finished piece. This week, artist Cody Critcheloe shows us his sketches for SSION’s new music video “HIGH.” The video was written and directed by Critcheloe and shot in his native Kansas City, conceptualized as “an Americanized Dante’s Inferno.” Come in. Go from […]
