Posts Tagged → history
William Gibson and the ambivalence towards technology
William Gibson talks about the Internet in 1997, BBC’s The Net…
Oh Dracula
In 1974, at the Utah Museum of Art in Salt Lake City, Chris Burden climbed into a “chrysalis”-like sac and had himself installed in between some of the museum’s exceedingly random 18th century paintings, with candles placed at his head and feet. And there he hid all day.
[via]
Cybernetic Serendipity, 1968
“Cybernetic Serendipity was an exhibition of cybernetic art curated by Jasia Reichardt, shown at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London in 1968 and then touring the United States.”
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Gif Portraits
A Hole in Space
A Hole in Space LA-NY, 1980 – Artists Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz created a ‘hole in space,’ or what they described as a telecollaborative project that utilized satellites to stream true-to-life-scale video feeds between public spaces on either coast or large scale monitors, this was 30 some odd years before any of this became standard. The following is a video tape document of an unannounced, live two-way satellite transmission which took place between Los Angelese and New York city on November 12, 13 and 14, 1980 for two hours.
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Cube No. 3
Piotr Kowalski – Cube No. 3, 1966
Edwardian Lolcats
“Over a hundred years before Icanhascheezburger.com and lolcats.com, there was Brighton, England photographer Harry Pointer and his ‘Brighton cats’ series.”
[via dangerousminds]
Computer basics
[via momalibrary]
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.”
more documentation here
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[found here]
A Short History of the Death of Culture
The Photojournalist
Faking It
Faking It: A Visual History of 150 Years of Image Manipulation Before Photoshop. Exhibition and book.
[via brainpickings]
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.
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.
Prometheus
Constantin Brancusi, Prometheus, c. 1926-27, Gelatin silver print
[some other incredible Brancusi’s photographs here]
Revolving Self Portrait
The book reader of the future, 1935
The book reader of the future (April, 1935 issue of Everyday Science and Mechanics)
Part time virus hunters
“Overly melodramatic and cheesy Boston TV channel news report about a computer virus outbreak discovered by MIT nerds in 1998. Fun because they don’t just report on the virus – they interview geeks, and insert random clips from retro videogames and TV movies to illustrate what a virus is.”
[via dangerous minds]
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The World’s First Mobile Phone
A couple of years ago, British Pathé uncovered some striking footage from 1922 showing two women experimenting with the first mobile phone.
(via Open Culture)
Learning Windows ‘95 with Greta
Windows ‘95 with Greta is the kind of stuff that makes me love the Internet. How else were we supposed to find this crazy stuff? Seriously, I’m grateful…
[via Dangerous Minds]