Category: art

Read a little more on the great motherboard site.

This is the kind of augmented reality I like! Not that virtual stuff. I also love the fact that it’s New York. In my mind it’s also a performance. I guess technically this is photography, but I can’t help but view a lot of art in terms of it’s performative aspects. Either way I find the end result visually interesting and thought provoking.
Continue reading Fred Lebain

I first saw some of his work at an exhibit of contemporary Chinese art, about a month ago, at one my favorite places to see contemporary art in Chicago, the Chicago Cultural Center. (It may not seem like it but they usually have some pretty amazing art there and it’s all free!)

I’ve said it before, but I love to have something performative in all my art no matter what the form. I find these photographs fascinating. Especially the ones where there is interaction with others and I love the foreground/background interaction that relationship creates.

I enjoy these purely from a formal perspective but his intent is quite a bit deeper. Read his statement and check out more images here: Galeries Bertin-Toublanc.

(I recently saw a post about him on the donut project, so also via them)

I saw some of his inspiring work at the new Modern Wing¹ of the Art institute of Chicago this past weekend. I was quite taken by it. I think it’s Amazing.

Robert Ryman is “recognized for his remarkable ability to demonstrate innumerable variations within what have become the two defining characteristics of his work: white paint and a square frame².”

I just love the extreme minimalism of the work. Despite the seeming sparsity of materials, there is a lot of nuance and a lot to study and meditate on in his pieces.

Well, I was going to post about this website that has some really great “fine art” photos of parkour, but their website is so terrible (it’s in flash + has a bad interface + all of their photos have copyright written all over them so you can’t even enjoy them) that I’m not even going to dignify it with an actual post. no image no link no nothing. (via boingboing)

I love a little magic in my art. Some of his pieces delve a little too much into science and maybe mysticism, but a lot of them are perfectly minimal, magical and beautiful.

super superb minimalism. photographic, no less. amazing. eavasko.com

Danger Mouse’s new album is a blank CD-R! no, seriously!

Due to an ongoing dispute with EMI, Danger Mouse is unable to include music on the CD without fear of legal entanglement. Therefore, he has included a blank CD-R as an artifact to use however you see fit.

niiice one! check it. The album sounds cool, a collaboration with Sparklehorse and film maker David Lynch.

Hey this guy stole my idea! Actually he made his interactive video installation, titled Interface in 1972, much more simply and without a single line of code. I’m very fond of his work, and I’ve seen a few of his regular non-interactive video pieces*, which are quite interesting and engaging to watch. Peter Campus is a master of his craft and he was a pioneer of video art. I had no idea, however that he had made any interactive pieces, would love to see one in person.