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

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.

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The First Catastrophe of the 21st Century

Talking about road accidents and robots…

Nam June Paik, The First Catastrophe of the 21st Century, 1982
Location: 75th Street and Madison Avenue, Manhattan, outside of The Whitney Museum

“For this performance, the robot K-456 was removed from its pedestal at the Whitney Museum of American Art, which hosted Paik’s retrospective exhibition, and guided by the artist down the street to the intersection of 75th Street and Madison Avenue. When crossing the avenue, the robot was “accidentally” hit by an automobile driven by artist Bill Anastasi. With this performance Paik suggested the potential problems that arise when technologies collide out of human control. After the “collision”, K-456 was returned to its pedestal in the Museum.”

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Meet the Craxxxmurf

Surreal video of the Day by Kim Laughton. Meet the Craxxxmurf!

Learning to see. You are what you see

“A pre-trained deep neural network making predictions on live webcam input, trying to make sense of what it sees, in context of what it’s seen before. It can see only what it already knows, just like us.”

A project by Memo Atken

In the machine’s subconscious

Robbie Barrat‘s AI-generated nude paintings make Francis Bacon look like a genteel pre-Raphaelite [via]

I Hate Modern Art

I started collecting videos of people ranting against modern and contemporary art. Still don’t know what to with them, but I’m learning a lot in the process. Enjoy! #ihatemodernart

https://ihatemodernart.tumblr.com

The History of the Future

Reynold Reynolds, A Review of our changing visions of the Future as shown in over 50 Films, USA 1996, 16 minutes

Something is wrong on the internet

The increasing weirdness of kids targeted content on Youtube is something I began to notice last year, after the birth of my first daughter. James Bridle went down the rabbit hole of this genre, and found very frightening stuff:

“This is being done by people and by things and by a combination of things and people. Responsibility for its outcomes is impossible to assign but the damage is very, very real indeed”.

Something is wrong on the Internet

Goodbye Uncanny Valley

“It’s 2017 and computer graphics have conquered the Uncanny Valley, that strange place where things are almost real… but not quite. After decades of innovation, we’re at the point where we can conjure just about anything with software. The battle for photoreal CGI has been won, so the question is… what happens now?”

Written and animated by Alan Warburton with the support of Tom Pounder and Wieden + Kennedy. Music by Cool 3D World.

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Creative duo Scott Kelly and Ben Polkinghorne have brought omnipresent internet suggestions to real settings with their latest project, ‘signs of the times’.

Smell of Data

Project from Leanne Wijnsma is a device which will emit an odor when it detects an invasion of data privacy, inspired by how historically scent has been important to detect danger and survival.

Instagif, a camera that prints a GIF instantly

A maker named Abhishek Singh has created an instant camera that outputs a little box that contains a Raspberry Pi connected to a PiTFT screen.

Zoetrope Fidget Spinner

“It’s already spinning, why not add an animation? Now you can be distracted by a cat video while you get out that nervous energy. It’s a simple design: two wheels, two bearings, two caps for your thumb and forefinger, and a drum with slits in it press-fit together.”

Travelling without moving

Jacqui Kenny lives with agoraphobia, an anxiety condition that causes individuals to avoid venturing into crowded or remote places, for fear of having a panic attack and being unable to escape or find help. For some, at its worst, this can mean a fear of leaving home. To counter this, Kenny roams the globe via Google Street View, and virtually combs streets and landscapes to snap screenshots for her photography series “Agoraphobic Traveller.”

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