Francois Mazabraud, Total Vanité, 2008, bois, bouteille en plastique, coca-cola, maquette de pétrolier brisé, bois, vernis. 32 x 10 cm. Collection privée
RGB Colorspace Atlas
The RGB Colorspace Atlas by New York-based artist Tauba Auerbach is a massive tome containing digital offset prints of every variation of RGB color possible.
[via colossal]
56 Broken Kindle Screens
“56 Broken Kindle Screens” is a print on demand paperback that consists of found photos depicting broken Kindle screens. The Kindle is Amazon’s e-reading device which is by default connected to the company’s book store.
The book takes as its starting point the peculiar aesthetic of broken E Ink displays and serves as an examination into the reading device’s materiality. As the screens break, they become collages composed of different pages, cover illustrations and interface elements.
56 Broken Kindle Screens – Photographed E Ink, Collected Online, Printed On Demand
Silvio Lorusso and Sebastian Schmieg, 2012
More info here: silviolorusso.com/home/?project=56-broken-kindle-screens
and here: sebastianschmieg.com/56brokenkindlescreens/
[via collectthewwworld]
Ascii Street View
The incredible Ascii Street View. Coded by Peter Nitsch.
Disappearing words
A personal oasis
Oase Nr. 7, a personal oasis with a diameter of 8 metres protruded from the façade of the Museum Fridericianums during the 1972 Documenta.
After Duchamp
ART SCHOOL HAZING RITUAL (AFTER DUCHAMP), 2012 – performance
Is the Web Browser Replacing the Art Gallery?
“For the past 200 years, the gallery has been the home of new and cutting-edge art, a place where the art community can come together and share new ideas. But in this episode, we ask: is the web browser replacing the gallery as the best place to view amazing, cutting-edge art?!? In the era of the internet, you can view remarkable art from the comfort of your laptop. Accessible to virtually everyone, web art does away with the physical limitations of the gallery and makes impossibly cool art a part of our daily lives!”
Cycle of Experimental Art
“Cycle of Experimental Art”, (1968), Rosario, Argentina by Graciela Carnevale:
In the context of Fascist Argentina, Carnevale invited an audience to an exhibition where she locked them inside the gallery for over an hour without prior notice or explanation, until the crowd finally decided to smash the glass to escape.
Rothcons
Binary newspaper
Swiss newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) decided that now it is publishing its entire print edition online (as of today), it would celebrate by printing its entire front page in binary code.
[via thenextweb]
Photoreport: Manifesta 9 and dOCUMENTA(13)
I am a camera
Two Kingston students (Luke Evans and and Josh Lake) created human photograms by swallowing 35mm film, then, erm, expelling it, and recording the results. Amazing.
Prometheus
Constantin Brancusi, Prometheus, c. 1926-27, Gelatin silver print
[some other incredible Brancusi’s photographs here]
Online Gallery Playset
“The Online Gallery Playset is a new way to curate the Internet with a DIY miniature papercraft gallery. The playset was created by Aram Bartholl of Free Art & Technology.”
[via laughingsquid]
Anhedonia
Aleksandra Domanovic, Anhedonia, 2007. Video
“In psychology, anhedonia is an inability to experience satisfaction from normally pleasurable life events such as eating, exercise and social or sexual interaction. It was also supposed to be the original title of Annie Hall, but was considered unmarketable.”
[via collect]
I Miss You
Touchy, a human camera
Touchy is a human camera, who is blinded constantly until someone’s touch enables the opening of the automated shutters. While a continuous physical contact is maintained between Touchy and a user, the camera shoots a photo every 10 seconds.
[via designboom]
de/Rastra
The de/Rastra oscillographic synthesizer is a real-time audio/video instrument and computer-interfacing device that allows a performer to generate visualizations intrinsic tocathode ray tube technology while simultaneously creating the acoustic analog of the displayed imagery.
Paul’s Boutique would be impossible today
“Matt Yglesias argues that because of the way copyright is viewed by the public and interpreted by lawmakers and the courts, making an album like The Beastie Boys’ Paul’s Boutique would be nearly impossible today.”
[via kottke]
A Brief History of John Baldessari
The epic life of a world-class artist, jammed into six minutes. Narrated by Tom Waits.
Commissioned by LACMA for their first annual “Art + Film Gala” honoring John Baldessari and Clint Eastwood.
directed by Henry Joost & Ariel Schulman (http://gosupermarche.com/)
______.jpg
Alan Belcher, “______.jpg”, 2012
“Alan Belcher has produced new work for this exhibition, a ceramic multiple edition. Known for his pioneering of the photo-object_ genre (artworks which fused the disciplines of photography and sculpture); he has furthered that exploration with a multiple series of what can be seen as perhaps the ultimate “photo-object”. Belcher has taken the ephemeral nature of the universal jpeg, and solidified its default icon into a standard image surrogate. The edition entitled “______.jpg” was fabricated in China, is a series of 125 pieces each signed and dated.” 25 Years of Talent at Marianne Boesky Gallery, curated by Michelle Grabner May 2 – Jun 16, 2012.”
[via jockohomo]
Not Sure if Art
Aled Lewis, Post post-modern ironic art for a cynical world. 297 x 420 mm (11.7 x 16.5 in) 5 colour screen print on Sirio 350gsm. Signed, numbered edition of 50. Lovingly hand-made in London, England for the “Memes” group show
I Miss My Pre-Internet Brain
Douglas Coupland, I MISS MY PRE-INTERNET BRAIN (from Slogans for the Early Twenty-First Century), 2012