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February 8, 2013 Marina Galperina

Yes, that lamp has DEER HOOF FEET. No, that’s not Twin Peaks. Remember Aram Bartholl’s digital art glory hole at the Museum of Moving Image in Queens? Volume 5 in launching today! Through March 14, bring your blank dvd to the DVD Dead Drop and it shall spit out the Best of Fach & Asendorf Gallery of net art, compiled by […]

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February 5, 2013 Eugene Reznik

Hacker/artists Paolo Cirio and Alessandro Ludovico take the private information you post online and free the virtual you from the “you” you. Face to Facebook, showing in New York for the first time this month, is a multimedia installation of 1,000,000 appropriated, or “stolen,” Facebook profile pictures matched up simply by facial expression on a custom […]

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February 1, 2013 Eugene Reznik

The latest project from New York-based Libyan photographer Jehad Nga is a huge step away in style from his well-recognized crisis and conflict photojournalism. The Green Book‘s title refers to a 24-chapter quasi-philosophical propaganda tome of the former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. The book was issued to all Libyans during his reign as “required reading… an inane […]

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January 28, 2013 Andy Cush

Canadian artist Jeremy Bailey would like you to know that you’re appreciated–if you give him money, that is. So he’s taking to Kickstarter, creating augmented reality portraits of any backer willing to donate $149 or more to help put on his next show, an exhibition of portraits of Kickstarter backers. Convenient! The whole thing is […]

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Marina Galperina

ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original idea sketch next to a finished piece. This week, Eva and Franco Mattes tell us about their piece Catt (2010) and trolling Maurizio Cattelan.  Known for their provocative projects that involve and expose its willing and unwilling participants, Eva and Franco Mattes have stolen many little bits […]

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January 21, 2013 Marina Galperina

From artists/graphic designers Iain Hector and Jamie Winder, here is Garbage: English In China Junk. It’s art. A short collection of Chinese spam emails, as received and translated through Google Translate. Designed in one day at various locations and printed on a Risograph RZ370, the book reflects both the throw–away nature of spam emails and also the accidental humour […]

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Marina Galperina

ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original idea sketch next to a finished piece. This week, net artist Anthony Antonellis talks about the creation of his 3d Porn HD with Retina Display. You too can be in porn… without being in porn! This is very NSFW. Obviously. You can see Anthony’s work right now at the […]

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January 18, 2013 Andy Cush

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 […]

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January 15, 2013 Marina Galperina

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, […]

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January 11, 2013 Marina Galperina

Are you ready for your liberation, internet young’un? Your saviors, artists Rafaël Rozendaal & Jonas Lund being your brand spankin’ new Chrome extension: Text Free Browsing. “Text Free Browsing does what the name says: once you install it, you can click on a little nerdy face to turn off all text on the internet. You can turn TextFree on and […]

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