Tag: digital art
Jonas Lund‘s exhibit “Studio Practice” opens in Amsterdam this week, but none of the work is “finished” yet. Instead of making a bunch of stuff and hanging it in a clean white cube, Lund has hired other artists to follow his 300-page guidebook. They’re making objects in the gallery under constant live-streaming surveillance. As each work is completed, a respected fourteen-person panel […]
Exploding children, cute ducks and heaving flesh blobs? Must be a Lorna Mills GIF. Some of ANIMAL’s favorite digital artists are in the “GIF Free For All” online exhibit launched by Computer Art Congress 4 – CAC4 Rio de Janeiro. Here are our favorite ones. Andrew Benson: We have to agree with Art F City on this one. […]
Artist Eva Papamargariti‘s new piece New Nosthetics for online exhibition space Channel Normal is many things. A light beige open digital space becomes riddled with dynamic structures, maybe insects, maybe instruments — forms consuming and vomiting bits of each other, breathing, sticking, gyrating — all the while a computerized voice drones on about the rendering process, narrating mutations. My favorite part is when the rainbow-iridescent caviar-bubbles erupt […]
Ways of Seeing (1972) has been sweded by a massive group of digital, new media and web-based artists. Debuting in New York on September 6th, Ways of Something (2014) keeps the original audio track of John Berger’s seminal BBC program, but replaces all visuals with 60-second artworks, reworking the art history doc into relevancy and insanity. “I encouraged the artists to […]
From Australian artist Andy Thomas, here is a visualization of a bird sounds from the archives of the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. The artist specializes in “audio art forms” like these. It’s immaculate and hypnotic. Watch the render go from abrupt to undulating, feathery to fluid. (GIF: Prosthetic Knowledge) […]
Artist Alex McLeod new series of digital work goes on view at Montreal’s Galerie Trois Points next month. “They are all interior spaces, but I treated them like they were bodies, using things like clouds staircases and gems to stand in for organs,” McLeod tells ANIMAL. See the work above, featuring intestine-like structures in crystalline textures and interior landscapes […]
After celebrating its second birthday earlier this year, the most interesting net art project ever hosted on Tumblr (long before it went corporate) has released their yearly video compilation. Like Carlos Sáez and Claudia Maté‘s endless website project Cloaque, the annual video release is exquisite corpse-style, featuring many of our favorite digital artists. Art F City raves: The piece begins with the […]
John Pound, the artist who helped create Garbage Pail Kids, has been toiling away in relative obscurity, building randomized, computer generated comic strips since the 1980s. After purchasing his first computer, Pound became fascinated with digital art, and learned the programming language PostScript, which he still uses to create his works today. Wired writes: He coaxed […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished artwork or project. This week, Shanghai-based artist Kim Laughton talks about his digital work The Physical Possibility Of An Eggplant, inspired by “a bruised white aubergine sitting on a black marble windowsill.” I usually look for inspiration in the world around me. In this […]
“The idea to use the stock market came to me in dreams,” says Claudia Maté. On view now at Brooklyn’s Transfer gallery, the Spanish artist’s first solo show “Sweet Finances!” turns the sterile and often merciless world of finance into data-infused and data-operative objects, installations and videos. “I think data can be beautiful by itself, even if it’s random. That’s why […]
