Painting gifs

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Digital collages made from northern and early renaissance paintings by Scorpion Dagger…

Portrait of the Artist as a Catalyst in a Capitalist Society

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“Portrait of the Artist as a Catalyst in a Capitalist Society,” by Dick Preston, chart by Elfi.

The East Village Other, Vol. 3, No. 18 (April 5-11, 1969)

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Edwardian Lolcats

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“Over a hundred years before Icanhascheezburger.com and lolcats.com, there was Brighton, England photographer Harry Pointer and his ‘Brighton cats’ series.”

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Trembling

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New animated gifs by digital artist Zach Dougherty…

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Real Internet Art unboxing

Constant Dullaart unboxing the Real Internet Art project by Fabien Mousse…

It looks like typing

“There is an aesthetic crisis in writing, which is this: how do we write emotionally of scenes involving computers? How do we make concrete, or at least reconstructable in the minds of our readers, the terrible, true passions that cross telephony lines? Right now my field must tackle describing a world where falling in love, going to war and filling out tax forms looks the same; it looks like typing.”

Quinn Norton

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Annals of Time Lost

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“The conversation surrounding the presentation and archival of new media art has often revolved around the issues facing curators and historians as they struggle to bring older works to newer formats; in Annals of Time Lost, Jon Rafman reframes this responsibility into an opportunity: A COPEX LD75D microfiche reader displays Rafman’s New Age Demanded, a series of busts rendered from 3D models; while a nearby plinth houses a 3D print of a bust from the same series. The conditions of archival anxiety—which has been, on some level, wrongly understood as a passing phase to a future in which Google Glass sees all—become palpable as Rafman reexamines the scale and physicality of archives.”

Jon Rafman
Annals of Time Lost
Future Gallery
Berlin, Germany

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Computer basics

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Picasso Gifs

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Pablo Picasso at work in his atelier, Vallauris, France, 1949. (video)

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Media Burn: the ultimate media event

“Media Burn integrates performance, spectacle and media critique, as Ant Farm stages an explosive collusion of two of America’s most potent cultural symbols: the automobile and television. On July 4, 1975, at San Francisco’s Cow Palace, Ant Farm presented what they termed the “ultimate media event.” In this alternative Bicentennial celebration, a “Phantom Dream Car”—a reconstructed 1959 El Dorado Cadillac convertible—was driven through a wall of burning TV sets.”