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Rhizome: Last Breath in Alaska (Found Object)
The artist Pascual Sisto found a series of Google Street View images where a plastic bag found its way on top of the car-mounted camera. He's created a Flash document of the images, which are striking in their own way.
art  googlemaps  Flash 
august 2008 by McChris
AP: Charges dismissed against NY professor who obtained bacteria for art
A judge did the right thing and dropped the charges against Steve Kurtz of the Critical Art Ensemble.
art  lawenforcement 
april 2008 by McChris
20 x 24 Studio @ Polaroid.com
I wonder will happen to these giant instant cameras now that Polaroid is quitting production of instant film.
photography  art  redonkulous 
february 2008 by McChris
murketing: Human rights icons in the form of LEGO minifigs
Rob Walker interviews the creator of pieces that represent human rights figures with Lego pieces.
Lego  art  MLK  socialjustice 
january 2008 by McChris
You're Not My Father
Treewave's Paul Slocum re-enacts a scene from the TV show "Full House" several times with different actors.
art  video  awesome  TV 
january 2008 by McChris
Time: Googling for Your Grade
A class at Parsons school of design grades students on their ability to become Internet celebrities. Although it's couched as a kind of conceptual art, I wonder if it's just more practical self-promotion.
celebrity  education  yasns  art 
december 2007 by McChris
Obey Plagiarist Shepard Fairey
Mark Vallen argues that Shepard Fairey reliance on appropriation makes him a plagiarist, rather than an artist.
sampling  art  streetart  intellectualproperty 
december 2007 by McChris
ArtSoftware
"ArtSoftware.org is a wiki for sharing information about free and open source art software!"
opensource  wiki  art 
december 2007 by McChris
The Harveyville Project
This former school in rural Kansas has been transformed into an artist's colony. I sort of know one of the people involved in the project.
art  kansas  neato  rural 
november 2007 by McChris
Weird Flash thing that aggregates old Soviet imagery
I don't know what this is, but it's cool.
weird  Flash  soviet  archive  art 
october 2007 by McChris
eboy XV: O'Reilly Maker Faire Poster
Here's eboy's isometric pixel poster design for this weekend's Maker Faire. I want an eboy poster so bad.
geek  art 
may 2007 by McChris
New Media Art - Nothing - Mark Tribe
Brown University is hosting a wikified version of Mark Tribe's recent book on computer-based art.
art  books  newmedia  net.art  wiki 
april 2007 by McChris
Open City: Tools for Public Action
Eyebeam's "glimpse into the current media and tactics of artists who take their practices into the street" looks awesome, although it seems like it could benefit from a grounding in historical street-level praxis.
art  activism  streetart  NYC 
february 2007 by McChris
The Museum of Lost Interaction... Exhibits
This art project depicts fictitious obsolete technologies. It's pretty slick, but I have to say that there are plenty of old forgotten technologies that are just as weird.
media  telecom  art 
february 2007 by McChris
Lost Tapes, Found Sounds
This post at We Make Money Not Art discusses an art exhibition of cassette tapes.
oldmedia  art 
february 2007 by McChris
Banksy: Shop
Street artist Banksy offers hi-res images of his work for free download. I think I may have an 8x10 made of the surveillance camera piece.
streetart  copyright  art  awesome 
january 2007 by McChris
VQR » One Eye
Chris Ware reviews Charles Burns' latest book... of photographs.
photography  comics  art  review 
january 2007 by McChris
My Cage (Silence for Cellphone)
Jonathon Keats has adapted John Cage's four minutes and thirty-three seconds as a mobile phone ringtone.
music  art 
january 2007 by McChris
Socialist Worker: The art of streets
Leftist discussion of graf and street art.
streetart  activism  art  politics 
december 2006 by McChris
Radical Software
I keep meaning to post this video art magazine from the 1970s. Now I have.
archive  art  history  video  magazine 
december 2006 by McChris
Stay Free! Daily: A Call to Artists - and to Owners of Broken iPods
The folks at Stay Free! are co-ordinating a project to protest the short lifecycle of iPods by making art out of broken iPods. I'll participate if someone gives me a broken iPod.
iPod  environmentalism  Apple  art  protest 
november 2006 by McChris
Attention Artists: Brushes and Paint are now Free
Matt Haughey discusses changes in the economics of producing creative works. I'm not sure I buy his assertions entirely – Photoshop is quite expensive, even with a student discount – but he focuses on how YouTube and others have solved the hosting pro
art  economics  net.art 
september 2006 by McChris
Wooster Collective: Writing With Water
A computer-controlled system prints words with falling drops of water. Why does it have to be in Helvetica?
art  geek  whoa 
august 2006 by McChris
U B U W E B - Joseph Beuys: "Sonne statt Reagan"
Oh my, here's a 1982 music video starring Joseph Beuys. He's singing a song protesting US President Ronald Reagan's defense policy, and it's as unkrautrocklich as imaginable.
video  anti-war  art  history  weird 
august 2006 by McChris
The Miss Rockaway Armada
Since I mentioned this at a party last night, I thought I would post this street art project here. The Miss Rockaway Armada are sailing a biodiesel raft made from salvaged parts down the Mississippi from Minneapolis to St. Louis.
art  streetart  transportation  sustainability  DIY  recycling  awesome 
august 2006 by McChris
Museum of Ephemerata – Grand Closing of MACHINES - August 5, 7-10pm
I plan on attending this.
austin  event  to:attend  geek  art  DIY 
august 2006 by McChris
BBC NEWS: Two killed as artwork 'lifts off'
"The sculpture - called Dreamspace - is thought to have drifted for up to 40 metres before catching on a CCTV camera post and coming down near a children's playground." I say we blame the surveillance cameras rather than the inflatable sculpture.
art  surveillance  disaster  scary 
july 2006 by McChris
Kurt Cobain's Suicide Letter vs. Google AdSense
Cory Arcangel has created a page with Kurt Cobain's suicide note embedded with Google AdSense ads to see what the contextual algorithm will drop in the text. I had to whitelist AdSense in my Adblock extension for it to work.
music  punk  google  hack  advertising  art  humor 
june 2006 by McChris
How to Silkscreen Posters and Shirts
This is a nice little tutorial. I've been meaning to learn how to silkscreen for like ever.
useful  art  clothing  design  DIY 
may 2006 by McChris
wheresmy40? - i'm on fire.
Dang, it took me forever to find Mel's tribute to Joey Lawrence, so up to del.icio.us it goes. Now I know why LiveJournal added tagging.
whoa  camp  celebrity  TV  art 
may 2006 by McChris
eboy XV » FTN_CommunicationCity_06t.png
eboy isometric pixel illustration of a "communication city" done for Fortune magazine. I would buy a print of this if it were available, but I guess I'll have to pick up the issue instead.
geek  media  art 
may 2006 by McChris
Internet Archive: Details: Media Burn
I was looking around for this for a presentation tomorrow, and, sweet sassy molassy, Ant Farm's groundbreaking video Media Burn is available on the Internet Archive.
history  media  TV  video  art  archive 
may 2006 by McChris
Eyeteeth: Miró's family goes after Google
I thought the Miro-inspired Google logo was pretty cool.
art  google  intellectualproperty 
april 2006 by McChris
Art, copyright and the beauty of inaccessibility
Ethan Zuckerman's account of visiting Walter de Maria's "Lightning Field" installation in rural New Mexico. The Dia Foundation, which manages the site, was criticized on bOINGbOING for restricting photography of the work.
photography  freeculture  copyright  art 
april 2006 by McChris
Comments on the Society of the Spectacle
We're reading this piece for my TV class this week. I thought I would bookmark it for easier access.
situationism  politics  art  spectacle  anarchism 
april 2006 by McChris
The Collective Conscious - New York Times
NYTimes piece on art collectives, suggesting that the mode of production threatens the norms of the art market.
art  commodification  production 
march 2006 by McChris
Man-Child in the Promised Land
Lovely <i>NYTimes</i> profile of Daniel Johnson
austin  art  music 
february 2006 by McChris
Scanner Photography
Modifying flatbed scanners for large-format photography.
art  photography  DIY  hack 
january 2006 by McChris
Spam Lit
Mark Dery compares contemporary spam to Dada poetry.
spam  art  dada  net.art 
january 2006 by McChris
Mel Chin's "invisible aesthetic"
art  landart  environmentalism  landuse 
january 2006 by McChris

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