Tag: Internet
Here are some cute and pithy illustrations from French artist Jean Jullien that reflect on our very internet daily lives. Ooh, depressing! Or maybe not. That all depends on whether you’ve made peace with the fact that you cuddle with your smartphone at night, one eye open for friend status update alerts, your existence justified solely by […]
HTML5, the language that’s helped usher in the web’s current incarnation–with its infinite scrolling, emphasis on interactivity, and beautiful custom page layouts–is still a relatively new technology. It’s already spawned some classics (and might I humbly submit this for consideration?), but by and large, its full potential has yet to be seen. Designer and developer Jongmin […]
Number-crunching Austrian artist Peter Jellitsch was inspired by the internet to create the above sculpture, but not in the nostalgic/free associative/more-is-more way that’s typical of much net art–Jellitsch was simply interested in signal strength. For 45 days, the artist used a radio-wave-measuring device to read the strength of the Wi-Fi network at the Bleecker Street […]
We had so much fun putting our faces into things with Overlayer from ANIMAL favorite OKFocus… But wait, there’s more. From artsits Pinar&Viola, DAZED and OKFocus, here’s a fresh new set of webcam filters, featuring some complex net art trompe-l’oeils to mug through. Uh, so, we had a lot of fun again … and you can too! There was a demon robot for Bucky, […]
There’s been some concern lately of Skype communications being monitored without users’ consent , after the Microsoft-owned service began allowing law enforcement agencies to surveil text chats. Fueled by these privacy concerns, a group of hackers at Warsaw, Poland’s Institute of Telecommunications have come up with an ingenious sub rosa method of communication on the service: hiding […]
When Art.sy first emerged as a start-up, there were several attention grabbing points, including their Pandora-like Art Genome Project to guide your cruising (and purchasing) experience of 21,000+ artworks from over 4,500 artists, as per your personal taste pegged to 1211+ characteristics (“genes”). And, of course, that name. Such a cute name — “the shortest spellable English language domain that […]
