Tag: Internet
You probably haven’t run into the artist LaTurbo Avedon at a new media gallery opening or bummed a cigarette outside “the club.” She has a shock of bright blonde hair recently shaved down to that undercut that’s so popular at the moment, misty hazel eyes, and porcelain skin, plus a hyperactive social media presence to […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished piece. This week, artist-render LaTurbo Avedon — who exists only as an avatar on the internet — shows us the process behind her New Sculpt series. Her first solo exhibition in the physical space (so-called “IRL”) opens this Saturday at Brooklyn’s […]
Iranian citizens are being assigned special government-issued email addresses, which Communications Minister Mohammad Hassan Nami says “must be used for electronic communication with government agencies” so “government interactions with the people will take place electronically.” Though 75% of Iranian citizens use the internet, they experience seemingly deliberately slow connection speeds, “obscenity” filters, various blocks, inability The relatively […]
“I am 17 years old and I am a feminist,” British high school student Jinan Younis writes in her Guardian editorial, describing her and her female peers’ experiences with cat calling, rape, emotional abuse, and eating disorders and how it inspired her to create a feminist club at her school. Sadly, those are all well-known issues that […]
The sizable slice of all articles people seem to be reading and sharing on the internet are formated as “listicles” — short form, single-serving lists, paginated into long-form clicking to create the maximum amount of pageviews. It can quickly become a nuisance to click on each and every slide in order to view the entire contents of […]
While it’s not news that Facebook cannot seem to handle even the slightest bit of tasteful nudity — THANKS, FACEBOOK! — the ever ubiquitous terms of service agreements and certain sacrifices in privacy we must make in order to use social networks are nevertheless a frustrating detail to put up with, especially for an artist. Earlier this afternoon […]
Google Earth has glitches. These glitches make great art. Trapcode founder Peder Norrby’s series of well-executed screen captures of glitched out iOs map images give us a vision of a post-nuclear-holocaust world. From trees melting into the streets and flattened cars on collapsed highways to a deadlier Coney Island Cyclone, these images — produced, as always, by malfunctioning algorithms — offer […]
Sometimes you just need a good shank, but who has the time to actually craft one of these unique homemade cutting/stabbing tools themselves? Well… Brooklyn designers Chen Chen & Kai Williams have already began to capitalize on the virtually nonexistent market of shanks and are selling a collection thirty shanks, each as a limited edition, with design materials ranging from […]
Yesterday, at the Wall Street Journal’s eleventh annual All Things Digital Conference, Regina Dugan of Motorola unveiled a new “vitamin” that when ingested is capable of storing your password data for later use. The vitamin is ingested and “activated” naturally by your stomach acids to create a unique 18-bit signal — an instant password authentication enacted by simply by touching a […]
Net neutrality–the idea that internet service providers shouldn’t limit or regulate or throttle access to specific websites–is essential to keeping the freewheeling openness that made the internet so great in the first place. Here in the U.S., the net is pretty much neutral, but there are no laws protecting it. That is to say, Time […]
