Tag: digital art
The anti-Tinder has arrived and it has the hilariously dystopian, Silicon Valley-friendly name: pplkpr. More than just a dating app, pplkpr (pronounced “people keeper”), is a service that aims to monitor your real life interactions with people and eventually it blocks them on social media or schedules a date with them based on the information […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished artwork or project. This week, sixteen-year-old artist Terrell Davis talks about his cover artwork for Yoshi & Komono, inspired by Googling cat cafes, “Japanese snacks, old games, Ramune soda, tamagotchis,” and social media feedback. This is a piece I did for Yoshi […]
You may remember the computer virus Stuxnet, a piece of malware from 2010 believed to be designed as an attack on Iran’s nuclear weapons program — but do you recall the I Love You virus from 2000? That piece of malicious code did somewhere between $5.5-8.7 billion in damages to computer systems worldwide, and cost the […]
Chroma Key graffiti is dope. Vimeo user Ingrid Jornet uploaded this video of a man spray painting a wall but instead of paint coming from the can, it looks like he’s spraying video of himself spraying the original black paint. The idea is to use video software and replace a solid color with whatever video you want. […]
The mainstream is catching up with what net artists have always known, that early net aesthetics are great and beautiful. Windows 93 is a perfect example. It blends a nostalgic Windows 95-style interface with a bunch of glitchy little programs all in your browser. And unlike some Windows, this one has a Start button! Among […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished artwork or project. This week Sean Capone discusses the evolution of Sunshine/New Paintings, his commission to beautify a luxury hospitality environment and the perils of being self-employed. I thought it would be interesting to look back and sort out what I […]
“I’m interested in expanding my ability to ‘see’ the composition of reality,” Brenna Murphy tells ANIMAL. “I think ‘reality’ includes physical and virtual space, and the two are totally intertwined.” Murphy’s “skyface~TerraceDomain” opens at Brooklyn’s American Medium gallery on October 16th, and unlike her previous solo exhibitions that focused on a physical sculptural installation, this one is different. “With this show,” she says, “I’m […]
Currently on view at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin, Kate Cooper’s “Rigged” series features some of the glossiest, most fully-fleshed, corporate-budget-level CGI renders we’ve seen this year. They are immaculate, down to their wet gums, pores and eyelashes. According to DIS, the body of work “looks at the agency of the computer generated female within the glossy aesthetics […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished artwork or project. This week, Chicago-based artist Sam Rolfes talks about his typeface/word world building series, which recalls monolithic islands, bathroom lighter tags and 3D scans of his childhood home. Rather than manipulating the kind of polychrome, malformed figure I normally obsess […]
This year’s most inspiring project is Ways Of Something (2014) — BBC’s seminal Ways of Seeing (1972) documentary series remixed/remade/updated/re-contextualized, one minute at a time. After celebrating its New York premiere at TRANSFER gallery on Saturday, ANIMAL is incredibly excited to share Ways Of Something: Episode 1. Click to watch above! For this 30 minute episode, artist and curator Lorna Mills invited 30 web-based artists from all […]
