Highscreen, 2011, by Aram Bartholl:
“In this public intervention ‘HIGHSCREEN‘ I revived dumped CRT screen from the streets of Berlin to show Internet art on them before they eventually go to electronic hell. Featured works in this intervention: ’404′ by JODI 1997, ‘C.R.E.A.M.’ by Evan Roth 2010, ‘therevolvinginternet.com’ by Constant Dullaart 2010, ‘Super Mario Clouds’ by Cory Arcangel 2002″
Good stuff never gets old…
In 2008, the roof of Hayward Gallery, London, turned in to a pond for boating by artist Gelitin. The work is titled ‘Normally, Proceeding and Unrestricted With Without Title’.
[via lustik]
A collections of news reports, commercials, and instructional videos from the 90′s, trying to explain that massive computer network that’s becoming really big now.
[via devour]
This is a golden fist crushing an American jet, and may have been commissioned after Ronald Reagan ordered airstrikes on the country in 1986. And, yes, it does exists.
Photo Opportunities is a photo series by the Swiss photographer Corinne Vionnet. They are made by combining hundreds of tourist photos into one…
Midget & Giant is a work by Japanese architect Ryuji Nakamura. A house-shaped cover for your webcam that turns you into a giant…
Meet Nelson, Coupland, and Alice — the faces of tomorrow’s book. Watch global design and innovation consultancy IDEO’s vision for the future of the book.
I’ve been writing and researching about internet culture, vernacular web, memes, viral stuff and web celebrities for quite a while now. I’ll be publishing something soon, but in the meantime, I opened a blog where I take notes and collect links (in italian only). Please welcome my new site Tales from the Internet :-)
No words to describe this. David O’Reilly is a genius. End of story.
“The book “’Traumgedanken’ (“Thoughts on dreams”) contains a collection of literary, philosophical, psychological and scientifical texts which provide an insight into different dream theories. To ease the access to the elusive topic, the book is designed as a model of a dream about dreaming. Analogue to a dream, where pieces of reality are assembled to build a story, it brings different text excerpts together. They are connected by threads which tie in with certain key words. ...
“The version of Street View technology used in the galleries involved an extremely high tech and rather silly-looking trolley. It was to be pushed around the rooms at a particular speed and on a peculiar route, and seemed to me to be a marvellous combination of garden-shed and cutting-edge.”
[read more on Tate's blog]
