The problem with technology in art

Manual Input Sessions by Golan Levin and Zachary Lieberman (I've recently written about Levin's other projects) is another one of these brilliant inventions that seem the beginning of something beautiful. We discover the technology, it is new, fresh, and has great potential....

Post-erotic art

Take a look at the picture:Not exactly what you were expecting?Erotic art, I suppose, has to do with subtly playing with our senses. It becomes pleasantly impossible to distinguish between erotic and aesthetic experience. One of the two guides us, the other follows us (the...

More than clear

but clarity is the lowest form of poetry, and language, like all else in our lives, is always changing. our emotions are constantly being propelled by some new face in the sky, some new rocket to the moon, some new sound in the ear, but they are the same emotions.- Merce...

Why painting is better than film

I remembered a quote by Luis Gispert that appeared in a post I wrote about an artist retirement fund:"The idea of 'artist' is less sacrosanct than it once was. I could have easily gone into commercial photography or the movie business. Why should I suffer because I make art instead?"This comment implies...

Software art

"Software art is empowering. Engaging. Endless. "And in this case - unfree. As in - digital works of art for sale, at $100 a piece. Expensive? Well, the tag went down from $950. It is nice, and entertaining, and aesthetically pleasing. It irritates us, because it seems...

The independent artist is a mediating machine

The only tactic of resisting the institutional market for the freelance artist is to become the mediating machine him/herself, producing productivity and a self-governed networking. His/her work shifts to a multiplication of activities, contacts, formats of work, collaboration and presentation, allowing...

Botero - the metamorphosis of a painter

At my favorite conservative art blog, art-for-a-change (see this wonderful post, deeply offended by some recent performances), I discovered the new paintings of Fernando Botero, the painter famous for his fairly light-hearted, round-shaped figures, often reproducing masterpieces...

Machine Love

(I am thinking of abandoning. This seems hopeless.) The LoversTwo networked machines, one infected with a virus, slowly infects the other through the interface of classic romantic poetry.A breakdown in the relationship was inevitable once the virus had seeped into...

Locative Art

A person walking through the city centre hears a beep on their phone and glances at the screen. Instead of an SMS alert they see a message reading: “We are currently experiencing difficulties tracking your position: please wave you network device in the air.”...

Biting reality

See two projects by photographer Matt Siber.The first one is called Floating Logos, and I think the above picture is pretty self-explanatory.The second has a name which at first seems innocent: The Untitled Project. Then, you see the images. And then, read the texts. And...

Acting unfair: when art gets personal

there's no Getting used to Art.changing the World is an impossibility.In a World in wich EVerythinG Happens By chanCE, The Artist can at Best Win a Chance Victory Over chance. Every Artist/Animal For HimSelf, Like ShipwrecKed Sailors.Jan Emiel Constant Fabre, Lyon 2001The...

Classy art/ Artsy class

Here is a small blog-game about class, by Richard Rinehart, wittily called Reading Class.ReadingClass is what Joseph Beuys called "social sculpture"- engagement with the intangible elements that shape our lives. ReadingClass uses social software to explore the social question...

More dada, andada, andada

If you think dada netart makes sense and is a never-drying creek of creativity, check out Grafik Dynamo. Here, the pictures are chosen from the net at random, and then combine with texts (randomly chosen, of course) from a comic book.Personally, I am now getting a little...

Retro Net Art

The beginning of something old-fashioned and stylishly attractive, by Olia Lialina, net artist and archaeologist (though she describes herself as "Net Artist. Animated Gif Model. Wife of Rockstar"). You can also explore her charmingly crazy gallery site, art.teleportac...

Universal faces

Have you ever seen a work that corresponds exactly to an idea you had? Well, here is something I had wanted to make (in a slightly different way) a few years ago with my partner. We ended up not doing it, as we had no experience and didn't know how to go about it. Now, the photographer Mike Mike has...

Closer to the object

Anarchitekton is a project by Catalan artist Jordi Colomer.anarchitekton is the generic title of a video series made as a work in progress: Barcelona, Bucharest, Brasilia, Osaka are the first stops on this journey.A peculiar character, Idroj Sanicne travels the city contaminating...

Take a picture, make a film

Until recently, photographs have been the predominant form of performance documentation and a key reference for historians attempting to cobble together the more than one hundred year history of performance art.Nowadays, film and video of performance, both historical and...

Getting it right every time

I was talking to a writer a while ago, who's a little older than me. He was saying how, you know, he now had become technically better. He could write more quickly. He knew when things weren't working. He'd acquired technique. And I had to realise when I was talking to...

Blog vs. Web Page

During my (2-day) absence, the number of visitors dropped dramatically. Which made me think. It's clear that the large majority of the visitors don't know the whole blog - that is, haven't been reading since the beginning or looking at all the previous posts. What's more, it seems normal that only the...

Generous Art

How to discover Tomoko Takahashi's latest work (and understand a little about the ways contemporary art scene can be presented).
1) Go here
2) Then go here
3) Finally, go here
4) Share your impressions.

The jacket is the perfect organ

I have just stumbled upon Carolyn Zick's blog, a fine fine arts blog (for specialized eyes only, though, with loads of inside jokes and comments on comments on comments on art). (I later discovered this "work" section I found more lively and hands-on, so to speak). What...

Art as a Commodity

Luis Gispert, Untitled (Chain Mouth, a.k.a. Muse Ho), 2001 Art is a fairly risky affair: you can work hard, create things that are original, beautiful, interesting, but still struggle to make a good living. What's more, you have no security - you never know when a wave...

Mocean

Mocean is a musical immersive environment that invites people to touch, stir and play with water in a tank. The movement of the water is translated into movement of air in the organ pipes suspended above the water. The sound of the pipes envelops the person, its movement...

Perform

Performance art is a tricky thing: the more you talk about it, the less it seems obvious. I've already mentioned that the internet is not the place to look for resources in this domain. You can always try. Just don't do it for too long, or you will end up thinking that...

Silence

"I somehow loved that silence, though; and felt it met my wishes
As no one's talk does nowadays!"
- Dionysus about the silence in Aeschylus's plays. The quote comes from "The Frogs" by Aristophanes, 405 B.C.

When business uses art

I'm not really sure what to think about the subservient chicken.It is an ad for a junk food enterprize. It subtly makes us remember the brand, and associate it with positive, fun things.This is classic PR work.On the other hand, it's very funny, well-made, innovative and can certainly be considered...

Guerilla Projector

Presenting,

the SMS Guerilla Projector. A high-intensity light source, it's equipped with a cellphone that can receive and then project SMS messages in public spaces: theaters, walls, government buildings. By the London-based art/design collective Troika.

(via eyeteeth)

Which artist said this?

When I was still an adolescent, I went and signed my name on the other side of the sky during a fantastic ‘realistico-imaginary’ voyage. It was pure chance that led me to judo. Judo has helped me to understand that pictorial space is above all the product of spiritual exercises. Judo is in fact the...

The new art of modem dance

Night stage : A big snow monkey appears in the center of the pond during a night stage produced by American modem dance artist Robert Wilson at a press preview for the 2005 World Exposition in Nagakute, Aichi prefecture.This note was found on Yahoo news. I am usually against...

Outstanding stencil art

M-city is an ongoing street art project by Polish artist Mariusz Waras. The site contains images of the work (various media: grafitti, stickers, billboards, canvas...).M-city in a first place is a play with the form and space of the city, played on the walls, posters, billboards,...

Still-born blogs

What about all those lonely posts stuck in abandoned blogs, one-post blogs nobody remembers, silent witnesses of our ever-growing hunger
for others?

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