Tag: Art
Alexander Semenov is the head diver at Moscow State University’s White Sea Biological Station in the Russian Arctic. When he’s not doing science-y stuff and whatever else head divers at biological stations do, he’s taking photographs of whatever beautiful plants and animals he finds underwater and posting them to his Flickr. The latest installment, uploaded […]
Niklas Roy, a professor at art university in Germany (where else?) recently challenged his students to create functional computing systems using nothing more than cardboard, welding wire, glue, rope, rulers and cutting knifes. To prove it could be done, Roy also created a cardboard computer himself–the ingenious plotting machine in the above video. Roy’s students submitted […]
ANIMAL loves F.A.T. artists so much, you know? But here’s F.A.T.’s street artist Katsu braggingabout tagging in Minecraft, all like “The future of graffiti for me will be in the form of black hat tactics” and “MINECRAFT offers me a way to connect with my untainted inner youth and create expressions of criminal activity without the police […]
New York-based graphic designer Zhang Qingyun has created a curious and brilliant case study of YOU ON THE INTERNET. For his piece at the “Processed” exhibition at Center 548 in Chelsea, he set up two displays: (1) 50 captions culled from personal Facebook messages, gchats and tweets and (2) correlating Google Image results. Then he let the […]
Massive Attack’s Robert Del Naja and documentary filmmaker Adam Curtis are collaborating on six performances in September, blending the music of the English group with film that weaves “arresting stories of politics and power over the past 30 years.” It’s sure to be one of most sensory-overloading experiences of the 2013 Park Avenue Armory season. […]
Hey, sexy internet. Thank you for all your amazing submissions to the… We here at ANIMAL’s #VeryShortFilmFest have had a great time exploring Vine as a social and artistic platform, without asking their permission. We liked those arty and/or XXX-ish 6-minute videos you made. Our awesome judges — Stoya, Casey Neistat, Clayton Cubitt, Nate “Igor” Smith and Zoetica Ebb — […]
Students at the University of Surrey in the UK taking a Practical and Biomedical Bacteriology course imprinted their smartphone screens onto petri dishes with grow media to see what kind of bacteria was lurking. Three days later, they found #art. The colorized result are not just alluring abstract designs, there are narrative and performative elements […]
Selfless Portraits is a project in which people across the world create an artistic rendering of a random stranger’s Facebook profile picture, in exchange for having their own photo art-ified as well. They’ve received lots of submissions, most of which are charmingly amateurish, but there are some pretty decent entries as well. Check out a few […]
Hanging from the ceiling of the Industry Gallery in Washington, DC are 3D-printed replicas of a real man’s organs, illuminated by neon tubes that have been shoved through them obtrusively. Other lifelike body parts float in vats of warm water saturated with a special powder that allows potassium aluminum sulphate crystals to grow– and thrive– […]
Kansas-based photographer Emma Kisiel, who focuses on “ways in which we as humans experience and interact with animals,” has been making images of roadkill, specifically roadkill memorialized by the photographer herself for a series called At Rest. She pairs the drab sight of rodent death with brightly colored flower petals, etc. Why? My images draw […]
