Category: art

“Hypertemporality Animations are a series of gif files layed out in a table and due to network conditions, browser idiosyncrasies, and client behavior act dynamically. try reloading them. try different browsers”

You gotta click through to the animated examples here and here. These are just awesome, the perfect blend of simplicity combined with knowing and understanding your medium. Exploring the internet and subtly getting into the crevices of how it functions, all with the humble animated gif the very thing that was there in the beginning. And who doesn’t love an animated gif?

(via today and tomorrow)

These are some of the best and most wonderful portraits I’ve seen all year. It is quite a collection. Is that Marina Abramovic in there? Yes these photos are part of Marina’s performance at the MOMA. A professional photographer takes a portrait of every single person who participates. I think that gives me second thoughts about participating, but the results are stunning and well worth extended study.

I really like this exploration of trying to bring Picasso like multiple perspectives into the digital realm. Patrick Proctor at ITP is experimenting with bringing in multiple video feeds into one image and playing with the different ways of presenting this multi-faceted information coherently. It’s a simple but effective examination of this effect.

I find most print work not very exciting at all, but once in while something catches my eye. Kevin Haas has an interesting portfolio, sure there is the sparseness/minimalism that attracts me, but also the “technical drawing” style and urban fragments subject matter.

(via printeresting)

This is all over the interweboblogosphere, but I am such a big performance art fanboy that I have to post it here as well. You can watch Marina Abramvic’s latest performance work LIVE from anywhere in the world. The performance is part of a large retrospective exhibit of her work at MOMA.

UPDATE (3/29/10):

An artist named Anya Liftig, used this performance as a venue for her own performance. It seems slightly antagonistic at first, but based on the interview this is really an extreme case of “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.” Very nice addition to the dialogue!

One of my (and my wife’s) favorite artists. I love minimalism and he takes it to the extreme, my favorite kind. I think I fell in love with his work when I saw it on display at the DIA:Beacon.

Out of all the amazing work you can see there, Room 19 truly shocked me and really made me stop and think. I think it even took me a minute to convince myself that this was even a piece on display, beyond that, once I was convinced of its status as “for public consumption,” the color and choice of material knocked it out of the park for me. I am a fan.

I love these hilarious and most likely controversial street art pieces by Specter. I wish I could see them in person (miss ya brooklyn!). They are promotional items for, or maybe even part of, an exhibit about gentrification in Brooklyn, at the The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts [MoCADA].

Definitely check out the rest of Specter’s awesome portfolio.

(via wooster collective)

Interview with, awesome, visually striking, minimalist, street-art maker Aakash Nihalani. Unfortunately his style is easily duplicated, but he’s the original.

artist portfolio flickr

if you decide to visit jodi.org make sure you do it more than once, each time is a unique experience.

Moody, eerie and calm. Beautiful, composed, and intricate. Minimal but also baroque and opulent in detail. Another one for the inspiration file. Check out the rest of this photographic series [click –> projects –> in between] and the other projects in Julia Fullerton-Batten’s portfolio.