“Introducing murk and contamination into 3D worlds is really difficult, I would say that’s the biggest challenge: how to simulate the endless filth of the world.”
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The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet
A very interesting and necessary reflection on the difficulties of being our true selves online in 2019. And a good description of the never ending tension between the will to hide (and be safe) and the need to participate (and be exposed). Be sure to also read part II.
Murder on the dancefloor
“Lavinia Schulz and Walter Holdt were a wife and husband partnership briefly famous in Germany during the early 1920s for their wild, expressionist dance performances consisting of “creeping, stamping, squatting, crouching, kneeling, arching, striding, lunging, leaping in mostly diagonal-spiraling patterns” across the stage. Shulz believed “art should be…an expression of struggle” and used dance to express ‘the violent struggle of a female body to achieve central, dominant control of the performance space and its emptiness'”.
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Dio, an AI Sculpture
“After Snell finished creating the 3D model, he disassembled the computer he made it on and ground it to dust using a specially-designed sealed box. This included the computer’s enclosure, its hard drive, its RAM and its graphics processing unit. He then 3D-printed a mold of Dio and cast the sculpture into this mold using resin and the ground remains of the computer.”
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Fairytales of Motion
How do artists capture movement? What happens when our actions become codified – or exploited? A fascinating video-essay by Alan Warburton
Bear
by Kim Laughton
Sometimes to Deal With the Difficulty of Being Alive I Need to Believe There is a Possibility that Life Isn’t Real
Sometimes to Deal With the Difficulty of Being Alive I Need to Believe There is a Possibility that Life Isn’t Real
Simulation/Game by Jeremy Couillard coming to Steam and itch.io in May 2019
Emotigun
What if reactions left bruises?
Emotigun, by Tadas Maksimovas
Go to Hell with Your Money Bastard
– GO TO HELL WITH YOUR MONEY BASTARD –
(Asger Jorn refuses the Guggenheim Prize with a telegram in 1964)
Glitch Fashion
Mindblowing fashion design by Stefan Kartchev
Everything comes from photography
“We define ourselves as photographers even when we’re working with 3D materials,” say Paris-based duo Benjamin Roulet and François Bellabas. “Everything comes from photography.”
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Museum visions
“You cannot touch the exposed pieces, but nobody told me not to use them as emitters.”
Particle rendering a portrait from the Bode-Museum using Redshift by Simone Vezzani.
Werner Herzog gives voice to a plastic bag
This short film by American director Ramin Bahrani traces the epic, existential journey of a plastic bag, voiced by Werner Herzog…
Fashion got weird
Yilmaz Sen designed Balenciaga’s latest social media campaign. The artist imagined a set of avatar-type models in Resort 2019 outfits looking blankly at the camera whose bodies slowly start to contort.
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ghostCRASH
Uncomfortable photo of the day
Dance like nobody’s watching
PLAY, an artwork by Urs Fischer with choreography by Madeline Hollander.
I’m not creative
Barbara Kruger for Dazed and Confused
The Avant-Garde Doesn’t Give Up
Asger Jorn, L’avant-garde ne se rend pas (The Avant-Garde Doesn’t Give Up), defiguration, 1962
Is technology bringing history to life or distorting it?
“It feels a little like we’ve been given the ability to time travel,” said Seth Denbo, director of digital initiatives at the American Historical Association.