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March 19, 2014 Marina Galperina

Cloaque — a collaborative, Exquisite corpse-style digital art project from Carlos Sáez and Claudia Maté — just celebrated its 2nd anniversary. “314,377 pixels are a lot, 464 posts are a lot, 67 artists are a lot — but two years mean nothing, specially when talking about a never ending project,” Cloaque’s Sáez and Maté tell ANIMAL. Artists in Cloaque created original vertical artworks […]

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March 14, 2014 Marina Galperina

From the artist/writer who founded the “New Aesthetic,” James Bridle’s project #Rorschcam taps into the CCTV cameras mounted all around the city. You can now watch the Department of Transportation’s live feeds, from the construction on 9th Avenue and 49th Street to the midday traffic droll of Columbus Circle at Central Park, from as close to a block from our office to as far […]

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January 6, 2014 Marina Galperina

Artist Rafaël Rozendaal just launched a new art site, FillThisUp.com. To use, click, point around and fill screen with cheery gradient geometrical bits. Rozendaal explains: My abstract works are an ongoing research… the viewer’s relationship to the artwork… the viewer’s relationship to the screen… the limits of the browser… computational abstraction… dynamic compositions on an unpredictable canvas… Some […]

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October 7, 2013 Marina Galperina

Nicolas Sassoon’s Waterfall 6 is in the window of Phillips (starting bid: $800) and it’s not as disorienting as I thought it would be. I remember when I would stare into its pulsating glowing waves online and later, fiddling Rafaël Rozendaal’s responsive gradient websites until happy. Right now, IfNoYes.com is projected in its own room at Phillips (starting bid: $4,000), with a […]

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September 27, 2013 Kyle Chayka

Artists Anthony Antonellis (the one with the RFID chip implant) and Kim Asendorf (the one who launched GIFs into space) eat food, just like us. As part of an exhibition for Berlin’s Art Hack Day — an internet-based nonprofit dedicated to “hackers whose medium is art and artists whose medium is tech” — artists Kim Asendorf, Andreas Nicolas Fischer, Sebastian Schmieg, Anthony Antonellis and Nora […]

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September 25, 2013 Marina Galperina

Earlier this year, the Shortest Video Art Ever Sold! project at the Moving Image Contemporary Video Art Fair in New York made a few headlines with the world’s first Vine sale (Shout out Angela Washko!) Ok, so there was a hacking of Vine involved, but the exciting part in the long-run is the ongoing conversation of a micro-collecting community and the work that artists […]

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September 24, 2013 Marina Galperina

The first-ever digital art major auction lot highlights have gone public and they are… Silvia Bianchi + Ricardo Juárez, Petra Cortright, Alexandra Gorczynski, Joe Hamilton, Ilja Karilampi, Brenna Murphy, Aude Pariset, Sabrina Ratté, Casey Reas, Rafaël Rozendaal, Nicolas Sassoon, Molly Soda, Kate Steciw, Mark Tribe, Clement Valla, Addie Wagenknecht, and Jamie Zigelbaum. …and more. “Paddles On!” at […]

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September 6, 2013 Marina Galperina

A Net Art Show on the Internet Review is a new ongoing series of reviews of net art shows… on the internet.  Art Baby is an online exhibition space that supports artists who “consider digitality to be a main focus of their practice” “in the beginning stages of their career.” Currently on view: Aimee Leigh. Expectingly, […]

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September 3, 2013 Marina Galperina

Lindsay Howard, who curated the F.A.T. Lab’s epic five year retrospective at Eyebeam and organized the 48-hour #GodsMode art hack day at 319 Scholes in Brooklyn, is curating the first-ever digital art auction at Phillips. Currently, there’s open call for submissions through September 16th. “Official press release from Phillips is forthcoming, right now we’re focused on getting […]

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August 28, 2013 Marina Galperina

Last week, ANIMAL videotaped artist Anthony Antonellis getting an RFID chip implanted into a fleshy part of his left hand — from the initial slice of the skin, to the stretching and pulling apart of the flesh, to the implantation to the… TA-DA!.. functionality. The RFID chip stores Anthony’s unique 1KB favicon gradient GIF and is readable by compatible mobile devices […]

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