Awesome project! Faces, from Vimeo user Arturo:
Real-time face substitution. Made with Kyle McDonald’s ofxFacetracker + Jason Saragih’s facetracker library, a C/C++ API for real time generic non-rigid face alignment and tracking.
Inspired by Kevin Atkinson’s image clone code.
(via Dangerous Minds)
Mathieu Bernard-Reymond, Demographic Development Sweden 1970-2050
As you may know, since 2010 I’m in charge of the “Photography and New Media” section of FotoGrafia. Rome International Photography Festival, this year at its tenth edition. The show opens at Macro Testaccio, in Rome, on the 22th of September… come and take a look of you’re around!
23 September – 23 October 2011
FotoGrafia. Festival Internazionale di Roma (X edizione) – Motherland
Opening: 22 september 2011, 8.00 p.m.
MACRO Testaccio, Piazza Orazio ...
“For decades now, people have joined together online to communicate and collaborate around interesting imagery. In recent years, the pace and intensity of this activity has reached a fever pitch. With countless communities engaging in a constant exchange, building on each others’ work, and producing a prodigious flow of material, we may be experiencing the early stages of a new type of artistic and cultural collaboration. In this episode of Off Book, we’ll speak with ...
Manuel Palou, 5 Million Dollars 1 Terabyte, 2011
1 TB hard drive containing $5,000,000 worth of illegally downloaded files. A full list of the included files along with their download url can be found here.
[via sympathyfortheartgallery]
Words of wisdom by John Waters, interviewed by Big Think… (oh and he says also that contemporary art hates you! and that’s very true)
[via hyperallergic]
David Byrne made a bunch of fake screenshots for iPhone apps that don’t exist. They’ll be in an exhibit called ‘Social Media,’ at The Pace Gallery (510 West 25th Street) from September 16 – October 15:
“The exhibition focuses on contemporary artists exploring public platforms for communication and social networks through an aesthetic and conceptual lens. In an era of increasingly omnipresent new technologies, Social Media examines the impact of these systems as they transform ...
The Antics Roadshow is an hour-long special made by Banksy charting the history of behaving badly in public, from anarchists and activists to attention seeking eccentrics. Contributors include Michael Fagan talking about breaking into the Queen’s bedroom: ‘I looked into her eyes, they were dark’; and Noel Godin, who pioneered attacking celebrities with custard pies: ‘Instead of a bullet I give them a cake’. Explaining his reasoning behind the show, Banksy said: ‘Basically I just thought it ...
“Jordan Laws of ScreenWerks created a dubstep remix of ‘Hard In Da Paint’ by Waka Flocka Flame featuring the legendary painter and art instructor Bob Ross, host of the PBS show ‘The Joy of Painting’.”
(via Laughing Squid)
