Dead Drop is a project Aram Bartholl made as a part of his ongoing EYEBEAM residency in NYC:
“Dead Drops’ is an anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public space. I am ‘injecting’ USB flash drives into walls, buildings and curbs accessable to anybody in public space. You are invited to go to these places (so far 5 in NYC) to drop or find files on a dead drop. Plug your laptop to a wall, ...
‘Fuzz Face‘ is the second single to be lifted from Belleruche’s third album, ’270 Stories’. Four and a half thousand photocopies, made in corner stores in East London, result in this original and distorted video.
The Satellite Collection, by Jenny Odell, is a series of six digital prints made by collaging cut-out imagery from Google Satellite.
“Most of Abelardo Morell’s photographs are digital, but a lot of his gear is, conceptually, a millennium old. Morell is among the few contemporary masters of the camera obscura, the ancient method of projecting an image on a wall (deployed by Renaissance masters, like Leonardo da Vinci, and possibly used as a painting aid). All it is, really, is a room with a tiny hole in the wall or roof that acts as a lens.”
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David Kramer, “Impressive Resume,” 2010.
Currently on view at Galerie Laurent Godin, Paris
“We live in this time where everything is in the present tense. Memories are simply the source materials for “tonight’s act.” Any film clip or historical document can be summoned by surfing the web, and entire TV networks are devised to trot out re-runs of Westerns and cartoons, all juxtaposed against the backdrop of people downloading what just happened, off of their telephones for ...
Gcity, a new video work by Marco Cadioli (aka Marco Manray): “A flight over the cities that are emerging in Google Earth. Skyscrapers with nothing around in a still uninhabited world.”
Sneak peek of exterior projections on the Guggenheim facade beginning Oct 21 for YoutubePlay...
[via twitter]
“A moving picture is a real thing and as a real thing it is not imitation. It does not reflect on life, it embodies the life of the mind.” -Ernie Gehr
Spectacular tv sculptures by Antoine Catala (on view at AVA, New York, until November 4th).
[via triangulation blog]
A more open place is a photo series by Phillip Meisel. He took long-exposure photographs of a computer screen while flipping through photo albums on Facebook. The title refers to a quote by Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg: “We’re going to change the world. I think we can make the world a more open place”…
[via designyoutrust]
Fluxlasers created a game level based on Cremaster 1 by Matthew Barney using Little Big Planet…
[via dangerousminds]
