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Freedomain Radio -- #0204: Art Part 3: Shakespeare (MP3)
"The False-Self views the Truth-Self as naked and insane and defenseless ... because, of course, the False-Self is created when the Truth-Self is utterly defenseless, usually when it is at the mercy of parental power, such mercy of which, of course, is not forthcoming."
art  artistheenemyofthepeople  propaganda  falseself  StefanMolyneux 
15 days ago by adamcrowe
Ribbonfarm -- The Turpentine Effect
'“I’d rather write programs to write programs than write programs.” That about sums it up. I think the turpentine effect is caused by — and I am treading on dangerous territory here — the lack of a truly artistic eye in the domain defined by a given tool (so it is ironic that it was Picasso who came up with the line). Interesting art arises out of a combination of refined skills and a peculiar, highly original way of looking at the world through that skill. If you have the eye without the skills, you become an idiosyncratic eccentric who is never taken seriously. If you have the skills without the eye, you become susceptible to the turpentine effect. There is a limit to how many people can be absorbed in safe and socially-useful turpentine-effect activities like tool-building or teaching. Let loose where a content-focus, artistic eyes and judgment are needed, it leads to over-engineered monstrosities, products nobody wants or needs, and a massive waste of resources.'
themediumisthemassage  learning  art  from delicious
june 2011 by adamcrowe
Wikipedia -- We Live in Public
'Among Harris' experiments touched on in the film is the art project "Quiet: We Live in Public," an Orwellian, Big Brother type concept developed in the late '90s which placed more than 100 artists in a human terrarium under New York City, with myriad webcams following and capturing every move the artists made. The pièce de résistance was a Japanese-style capsule hotel outfitted with cameras in every pod, and screens that allowed each occupant to monitor the other pods installed in the basement by artist Jeff Gompertz. The film's website describes how, "With Quiet, Harris proved how, in the not-so-distant future of life online, we will willingly trade our privacy for the connection and recognition we all deeply desire. Through his experiments, including another six-month stint living under 24-hour live surveillance online which led him to mental collapse, he demonstrated the price we will all pay for living in public."'
documentaries  internet  panopticon  anonequiveillance  privacy  voyeurism  oversharing  selfservers  realitytv  performance  masks  contextcollapse  relationalaesthetics  liveart  art  surveillance  puppetry  equiveillance  from delicious
february 2011 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- John Berger: WAYS OF SEEING 1/4
"Eye, the machine... freed from the boundaries of time and space, Eye co-ordinate any and all points of the uni-verse wherever Eye want them to be." -- Ear, the mesh-aeon
art  aesthetics  aura  gigantism  propaganda  repetition  rhetoric  culture  hierarchy  perspective  literaryculturevsoralculture  copy  reproduction  heterarchy  from delicious
february 2011 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- BUY $2 bill FOR ONLY $10!!! We live in the FUCKING Twilight Zone!
"Art is whatever you can get away with." -- Andy Warhol
art  aura  dollar  from delicious
december 2010 by adamcrowe
The Daily Bell -- Demise of the Politically Correct?
'...if one subscribes (as we do) to the idea of an Anglo-American power elite that uses its tremendous, familial banking wealth to move society toward one-world government, then the evolution we are observing makes a good deal of sense. Money power makes all the difference; it provides a formidable incentive for self-censorship. Money determines fashion; wealthy donors fund museums and theatres that make "gate-keeper" decisions. The subtlety of money power—as brutal as it can be—is wondrous to behold. What was resisted in one generation is welcomed in the next. The beauty of money power is that once a theme, trend or cultural direction is set into place, it tends to propagate on its own. Only a relative few gatekeepers are needed. Establish a trend and the mimetic elements of human behavior take over. People are inevitably tribal. It is a survival instinct and a success-instinct. One sees what is successful and wishes to emulate it. Within this context almost anything can be nurtured.'
metanarratives  statism  crimestop  goodthink  mimesis  memetics  forcedmemes  propaganda  art  culture  politicalcorrectness  usefulidiot  herd  puppetry  consensusreality  collectiveunconsciousness  from delicious
november 2010 by adamcrowe
The Independent -- Modern art was CIA 'weapon'
'For decades in art circles it was either a rumour or a joke, but now it is confirmed as a fact. The Central Intelligence Agency used American modern art - including the works of such artists as Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko - as a weapon in the Cold War. To pursue its underground interest in America's lefty avant-garde, the CIA had to be sure its patronage could not be discovered. This was the "long leash". The centrepiece of the CIA campaign became the Congress for Cultural Freedom, a vast jamboree of intellectuals, writers, historians, poets, and artists which was set up with CIA funds in 1950 and run by a CIA agent. It would be the official sponsor of touring exhibitions; its magazines would provide useful platforms for critics favourable to the new American painting; and no one, the artists included, would be any the wiser.' -- Art?? We have no need of art! We simply do everything as best we can.
america  psychopolitics  psyops  propaganda  art  kipple  psychohistory  psychology  politics  from delicious
november 2010 by adamcrowe
Mediamatic.net -- Synthetic Aesthetics Salon
'The emerging field of synthetic biology aims to transform biology as we know it into a discipline of engineering. The top-down BioBricks approach prefers to hack existing organisms. The more research-oriented field of so-called protocells aims to create minimal living machines and may on the way discover the nature of life itself. What both technosciences share is that, if successful, they will profoundly shift or even erase our distinction between nature and culture. After the first truly artificial life form has been created and employed, everything can potentially become technology. If their main subject is increasingly an object that is made, biologists are becoming creative. What will be the role of the arts in a future where life is a thing to be designed? Will scientists become the poets of the time, or do art, design and architecture need to play a role in this development? Can these possibilities be explored collaboratively?'
kipple  syntheticbiology  art  from delicious
november 2010 by adamcrowe
Adam Curtis Blog -- KABUL: CITY NUMBER ONE: PART 10
'Lots of westerners came out to Afghanistan to help the Afghans become a modern democracy. Here is an art expert who has come to teach them about Conceptual Art. It starts with a group of young Afghan artists watching film of an installation in a western gallery, then she shows them Marcel Duchamp's 1917 urinal. She is very keen to get them to say that if anyone did what Duchamp did in today's Afghanistan then they would be put in prison. It is interesting that the Afghans in the room, though they are polite, seem to disagree.'
documentaries  afghanistan  art  indoctrination  AdamCurtis  from delicious
july 2010 by adamcrowe
Freedomain Radio -- #547 Art Part 2: Parents, [Capitalists], Children and Art (MP3)
Gisted -- Parents have a very ambivalent relationship towards capitalists. To assuage parents' guilt about using the TV as a free babysitter, capitalists put anti-capitalist messages in kids cartoons to provide parents the excuse that by letting their children watch TV programming, they are in fact educating them about the 'selfishness' of capitalism. But when parents tell their children that self-interest is bad and that you shouldn't do things for your pleasure but rather you should do things for the pleasure of others – that's a really terrifying idea for children – it totally screws up their sense of security. A child is left with a very basic question: if self-interest is bad, why did my parents have me? Because to take pleasure in my existence would be selfish, right? But if selfishness is bad, then my parents must really not want not me. -- If you genuinely take joy in your children then your children are secure in their value to you—there's nothing 'selfless' about this at all.
emotionalintelligence  parenting  children  selfishness  selflessness  "capitalism"  altruism  guilt  statism  propaganda  art  philosophy  StefanMolyneux  from delicious
july 2010 by adamcrowe
The Independent -- Art traded for medicine and care
'The artists provide a wide range of imaginative services. One artist, trained in yoga breathing and self-soothing, helps breast-cancer patients remain calm and centered while they are waiting to be seen. Others might read to pediatric patients in that waiting room. An actor might put on role-playing sessions for staff, helping them rehearse how to break bad news to patients and loved ones. Photographers taking pictures of newly-borns to give to the mother as a thank-you for choosing Woodhull hospital. In return, the artists earn 40 credits per hour of service. Uninsured patients at this public hospital pay a flat fee for doctor's visits, between $15 and $60 depending on their income. Most artists end up paying around $20 per service, which also includes emergency room and clinic visits. For each hour they devote to helping the hospital, they earn enough credits to pay for two medical visits. By the end of 2008, more than 400 artists had earned credit this way.'
art  health  trade  credit  LETS  economics  humanaction  mutualism  anarchism  voluntaryism 
may 2010 by adamcrowe
Wikipedia -- The Course of Empire
'The Course of Empire is a five-part series of paintings created by Thomas Cole in the years 1833-36. It is notable in part for reflecting popular American sentiments of the times, when many saw pastoralism as the ideal phase of human civilization, fearing that empire would lead to gluttony and inevitable decay. The series of paintings depicts the growth and fall of an imaginary city and comprise the following works: The Course of Empire - The Savage State; The Course of Empire - The Arcadian or Pastoral State; The Course of Empire - The Consummation; The Course of Empire - Destruction; and The Course of Empire - Desolation.'
art  civilization  america  empire  collapse 
march 2010 by adamcrowe
eBay -- A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter (2009) - Caleb Larsen
'Description: This object perpetually attempts to sell itself on eBay. -- WHEREAS: A. Artist has created a work of art titled “A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter (2009)” (“the Artwork”) which consists of a black box that places itself for sale on the auction website “eBay” (the “Auction Venue”) every seven (7) days. The Artwork consists of the combination of the black box or cube, the electronics contained therein, and the concept that such a physical object “sells itself” every week. WHEREFORE: 12. Any failure to follow these terms without prior consent of Artist will forfeit the status of the Artwork as a legitimate work of art. The item will no longer be considered a genuine work by the Artist and any value associated with it will be reduced to its value as a material object and not a work of art.'
art  net.art  replication 
january 2010 by adamcrowe
Wired -- Artwork selling itself on eBay
'A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter, 2009, is a black, acrylic box that places itself for sale on eBay every seven days thanks to an internet connection, which, according to the artist's conditions of sale, must be live at all times. Disconnections are only allowed during transportation, says the creator. -- Here's how it works. The purchaser can set a new value for the artwork, which must be based on "current market expectations" of Larsen's work, and which could be considerably more than the price they paid. When A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter decides it wants to be sold again, bidders will start their battle at the value set by the current owner. This is where the art collector could make money. However they must first pay any fees to eBay and give Larsen 15 percent of any increase in value of the artwork.'
*  art  net.art  markets  dematerialization  financialization  blackboxes  commodityfetishism  transaction  interaction  replication  liminalobjects  objects 
january 2010 by adamcrowe
Wikipedia -- Abbas Kiarostami
"We can never get close to the truth except through lying."
reality  reflexivity  cinema  art  productnarratives 
january 2010 by adamcrowe
The Last Psychiatrist -- The Limits Of Control: The Movie
'In the last scene, the movie picture appears to jolt suddenly; the only way I can describe it is that it's as if the camera operator started putting the camera down before he turning it off. What's the significance of that jolt? It's in such contrast to the stillness of the rest of the movie. Does it mean it's all a dream? He's killed? What? No, believe it or not, that jolt happens because the camera operator actually did put the camera down before he turned it off. And the director liked the effect.' -- I've *seen* this movie before, but I can't say what it is because the comment above would ruin it for you, though I'm keen to recommend it. Interesting... I kinda feel art finds you, rather than the other way around, so I'm careful not to intervene but— If you'd like to chance my ruining it for you rather than leaving things to fate: Amazon > Search: "Abbas Kiarostami Close Up" > Add to basket > Checkout > ??? > !!! yw ;^)
art  cinema  fourthwall  productnarratives  stage  reality  simulacra  existentialism  reflexivity 
january 2010 by adamcrowe
The Onion -- A Complete History Of Art
( . )( . ) OR GTFO
TheOnion  history  art  tits  lulz  satire 
december 2009 by adamcrowe
Wired -- American Stonehenge: Monumental Instructions for the Post-Apocalypse
"LET THESE BE GUIDESTONES TO AN AGE OF REASON. MAINTAIN HUMANITY UNDER 500,000,000 IN PERPETUAL BALANCE WITH NATURE. GUIDE REPRODUCTION WISELY—IMPROVING FITNESS AND DIVERSITY. (UNITE HUMANITY WITH A LIVING NEW LANGUAGE [Science]). RULE PASSION—FAITH—TRADITION—AND ALL THINGS WITH TEMPERED REASON. PROTECT PEOPLE AND NATIONS WITH FAIR LAWS AND JUST COURTS. LET ALL NATIONS RULE INTERNALLY RESOLVING EXTERNAL DISPUTES IN A WORLD COURT. AVOID PETTY LAWS AND USELESS OFFICIALS. BALANCE PERSONAL RIGHTS WITH SOCIAL DUTIES. PRIZE TRUTH—BEAUTY—LOVE—SEEKING HARMONY WITH THE INFINITE. BE NOT A CANCER ON THE EARTH—LEAVE ROOM FOR NATURE." -- Still doesn't solve the problem of the psychopaths.
art  sculpture  monuments  astronomy  enlightenment  reason  rationalism  science  renaissance  apocalypse  death  rebirth  life  mythology  occult  conspiracy 
november 2009 by adamcrowe
scott-eaton.com -- Death of the Centaur
'Chiron originally appears in Greek mythology as an exemplar of wisdom and learning, tutoring many of the legendary Greek heroes including Achilles, Jason, Theseus, and Hercules. He meets his end at the hands of Hercules who, during a skirmish with unruly centaurs, accidentally wounds Chiron with an arrow poisoned with Hydra blood. Being immortal Chiron can’t die, but lives in agony until he selflessly barters his immortality for Prometheus‘ freedom...'
3d  digital  art  sculpture  mythology  archetypes  selflessness  learning  healing 
october 2009 by adamcrowe
Infinite OZ
art  inspiration 
july 2009 by adamcrowe
Alice and Kev: The story of being homeless in The Sims 3
"This is an experiment in playing a homeless family in The Sims 3. I created two Sims, moved them in to a place made to look like an abandoned park, removed all of their remaining money, and then attempted to help them survive without taking any job promotions or easy cash routes. I have attempted to tell my experiences with the minimum of embellishment. Everything I describe in here is something that happened in the game. What’s more, a surprising amount of the interesting things in this story were generated by just letting go and watching the Sims’ free will and personality traits take over." -- @Baudrillard The desert of the real estate?
sims  homelessness  recession  america  simulation  simulacra  storytelling  productnarratives  narrativeenvironments  virtualworlds  machinima  liveart  art  thegamingofeverydaylife 
june 2009 by adamcrowe
The Art of David Dees
Laser-sharp political satire or 'conspiracy theory', if you prefer. (Warning: Includes some holocaust 'conjecture')
art  activism  illustration  satire  politics 
june 2009 by adamcrowe
Marshall McLuhan Quotes
"Art is anything you can get away with." — The medium is the message (1967)
art  quotes  McLuhan 
june 2009 by adamcrowe
thatgamecompany -- Flower
"The game exploits the tension between urban bustle and natural serenity. Players accumulate flower petals as the onscreen world swings between the pastoral and the chaotic. Like in the real world, everything you pick up causes the environment to change. And hopefully by the end of the journey, you change a little as well."
art  games  flow  space  JenovaChen 
may 2009 by adamcrowe
Chris Jordan -- Running the Numbers II: Portraits of global mass culture
'Finding meaning in global mass phenomena can be difficult because the phenomena themselves are invisible, spread across the earth in millions of separate places. There is no Mount Everest of waste that we can make a pilgrimage to and behold the sobering aggregate of our discarded stuff, seeing and feeling it viscerally with our senses. Instead, we are stuck with trying to comprehend the gravity of these phenomena through the anaesthetizing and emotionally barren language of statistics. Sociologists tell us that the human mind cannot meaningfully grasp numbers higher than a few thousand; yet every day we read of mass phenomena characterized by numbers in the millions, billions, even trillions. Compounding this challenge is our sense of insignificance as individuals in a world of 6.7 billion people. And if we fully open ourselves to the horrors of our times, we also risk becoming overwhelmed, panicked, or emotionally paralyzed.' -- Numbers numb.
art  photography  numbers  consumption  visualization  ChrisJordan 
may 2009 by adamcrowe
Chris Jordan -- Running the Numbers: An American Self-Portrait
"Running the Numbers looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something...My hope is that images representing these quantities might have a different effect than the raw numbers alone, such as we find daily in articles and books. Statistics can feel abstract and anesthetizing, making it difficult to connect with and make meaning of 3.6 million SUV sales in one year, for example, or 2.3 million Americans in prison, or 32,000 breast augmentation surgeries in the U.S. every month. This project visually examines these vast and bizarre measures of our society, in large intricately detailed prints assembled from thousands of smaller photographs. Employing themes such as the near versus the far, and the one versus the many, I hope to raise some questions about the roles and responsibilities we each play as individuals in a society that is increasingly enormous, incomprehensible, and overwhelming." -- Numbers numb
art  photography  numbers  consumption  visualization  ChrisJordan 
may 2009 by adamcrowe
Vimeo -- The Artvertiser: Augmented Billboards
"The Artvertiser is an urban, hand-held, augmented-reality project exploring the live substitution of advertising content for art. Software is trained to recognise individual advertisements, each of which become a virtual 'canvas' on which an artist can exhibit when viewed through the hand-held device."
art  augmentedreality  advertising  backlash 
may 2009 by adamcrowe
beautiful agony -- facettes de la petite mort view
"Beautiful Agony is dedicated to the beauty of human orgasm. This may be the most erotic thing you have ever seen, yet the only nudity it contains is from the neck up. That's where people are truly naked."
sexuality  art 
april 2009 by adamcrowe
ART BY THOMAS DOYLE
'My work mines the debris of memory through the creation of intricate worlds sculpted in 1:43 scale and smaller. The pieces’ radically reduced scales evoke feelings of omnipotence—as well as the visceral sensation of unbidden memory recall. Hovering above the glass, the viewer approaches these worlds as an all-seeing eye, looking down upon landscapes that dwarf and threaten the figures within. Conversely, the private intensity of moments rendered in such a small scale draws the viewer in, allowing for the intimacy one might feel peering into a museum display case or dollhouse. Though surrounded by chaos, hazard, and longing, the figures’ faces betray little emotion, inviting viewers to lose themselves in these crucibles—and in the jumble of feelings and memories they elicit.'
art  scuplture  memory  inspiration  ThomasDoyle 
april 2009 by adamcrowe
Harpers -- Faustian economics: Hell hath no limits by Wendell Berry
"... once greed has been made an honorable motive, then you have an economy without limits. It has no place for temperance or thrift or the ecological law of return. It will do anything. It is monstrous by definition ... the commonly accepted basis of our economy is the supposed possibility of limitless growth, limitless wants, limitless wealth, limitless natural resources, limitless energy, and limitless debt. The idea of a limitless economy implies and requires a doctrine of general human limitlessness: all are entitled to pursue without limit whatever they conceive as desirable... this credo of limitlessness clearly implies a principled wish not only for limitless possessions but also for limitless knowledge, limitless science, limitless technology, and limitless progress. And, necessarily, it must lead to limitless violence, waste, war, and destruction. That it should finally produce a crowning cult of political limitlessness is only a matter of mad logic." -- Supersize We
*  economics  debt  ponzi  criticism  consumption  consumerism  delusion  denial  insanity  virtuality  reality  freedom  friendship  ethics  trust  loyalty  empathy  communities  civility  ecology  sustainability  austerity  humanity  philosophy  religion  art  life 
march 2009 by adamcrowe
Maschmeyer -- Princeton Speech
"In many ways, we have saturated the world with understanding. But just as we can find information quickly so too can we sort it. … we cocoon ourselves in the information and people we want to see and read because they make us feel good about ourselves. In the pursuit of understanding, we have unintentionally created less empathy. While we may intellectually be aware of the world and the different people around us, we feel less emotionally connected to them. Without a commitment to empathizing, we won’t be able to grow as individuals. But more importantly, without a commitment to amplifying empathy in the world, we won’t be able to achieve the compromises necessary to the collaboration necessary to overcome the environmental and social issues that are plaguing our world. If we continue to live without empathy, we will continue to ... see other peoples’ problems as not our problems. Empathy is critical to our communication future."
empathy  emotionalintelligence  ethics  civility  support  relationalaesthetics  relational  art  LelandMaschmeyer 
march 2009 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- GOLDIE: WHEN SATURN RETURNZ (1998)
"The flamboyant figurehead of avant-garde dance music confronts his past in a controversial feature. GOLDIE: WHEN SATURN RETURNZ delves behind the gold toothed image to reveal the private hurts that drive the Midlands born superstar. Musical heroes such as David Bowie, Noel Gallagher and former collaborator Rob Playford contribute to a powerful portrait of a British visionary." -- LEGENDARY.
documentaries  art  music  british  uk  hiphop  jungle  dnb  reinforced  metalheadz  Goldie 
february 2009 by adamcrowe
Max Keiser Radio -- [1013] The Truth About Markets (31 January 2009)
"The global insurrection against the corporate occuptation." -- Excellent thoughts about the need for artists in times of crisis. (The purpose of art is to tell the truth.)
economics  fascism  socialism  corporatism  resistance  activism  art  philosophy  podcasts  MaxKeiser  mercantilism 
february 2009 by adamcrowe
Esquire -- The Video-Game Programmer Saving Our 21st-Century Souls
"You meet a girl. Your fat-pixeled soul mate. Link up with her and a heart explodes. You're in love. Now she sticks to you as you move through the forest, less easily than before. It's a trade-off: You can get more treasure by staying single, but bond with your "wife" and you earn double the points for every step you take. If you're like most people, you'll choose the comforts of companionship. Only, as you trudge across the stripe, something happens. Your pixels begin to fade, gray out. Your hair recedes by degrees. Your wife slurs into a matronly shape. It hits you: This is going to happen to me. Age, decrepitude, ugliness. At least I won't be alone. Somebody loves me. Ha-ha-ha... Then -- thwack -- she dies."
*  games  design  gaming  empathy  emotion  emotionalintelligence  relationalaesthetics  criticaldesign  creativity  solitude  introspection  transformation  art  JasonRohrer 
december 2008 by adamcrowe
UNM Relational Art Program -- Happy to Meet You: An Introduction to Relational Art
"... bourriaud formulated a new aesthetics for contemporary art. his theoretical leaning, summarized as 'relational art,' gives a new interpretation of the aesthetic object. the object is no longer materially or conceptually defined, but relationally. "what do relations eventually create? relations to the artistic work, institutions and so on?" -- Transformations. Design for the transformation. Everything else is secondary.
via:lelandmaschmeyer  transformation  design  relationalobjects  objects  art  relationalaesthetics  reflexivity  performance  improv  productnarratives  socialobjects  production  paradigms  marxism  NicolasBourriaud 
december 2008 by adamcrowe
Tate -- Altermodern: Manifesto by Nicolas Bourriaud
"The artist becomes ‘homo viator’, the prototype of the contemporary traveller whose passage through signs and formats refers to a contemporary experience of mobility, travel and transpassing. This evolution can be seen in the way works are made: a new type of form is appearing, the journey-form, made of lines drawn both in space and time, materialising trajectories rather than destinations. The form of the work expresses a course, a wandering, rather than a fixed space-time. Altermodern art is thus read as a hypertext; artists translate and transcode information from one format to another, and wander in geography as well as in history. This gives rise to practices which might be referred to as ‘time-specific’, in response to the ‘site-specific’ work of the 1960s. Flight-lines, translation programmes and chains of heterogeneous elements articulate each other. Our universe becomes a territory all dimensions of which may be travelled both in time and space."
*  manifesto  altermodernism  art  theory  criticism  relationalobjects  relationalaesthetics  space  time  metanarratives  paradigms  history  reflexivity  transformation  multitude  navigation  networks  #bandwidth  #socialization  #diversity  NicolasBourriaud  itr  retribalization 
december 2008 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- Altermodern by Nicolas Bourriaud
"Nicolas Bourriaud previews his hypothesis that postmodernism is over and that a new type of modern - the altermodern - is emerging."
*  altermodernism  art  theory  criticism  relationalobjects  objects  relationalaesthetics  metanarratives  paradigms  history  reflexivity  multitude  #diversity  NicolasBourriaud  itr  retribalization 
december 2008 by adamcrowe
Wired -- Eye Spy: Filmmaker Plans to Install Camera in His Eye Socket
'"If you lose your eye and have a hole in your head, then why not stick a camera in there?"'
cyborg  prosthetics  camera  extensionsofman  eye  centralnervoussystem  lifecasting  sousveillance  film  art  eyes 
december 2008 by adamcrowe
Add-Art
"Add-Art is a free FireFox add-on which replaces advertising on websites with curated art images. The art shows are updated every two weeks and feature contemporary artists and curators."
advertising  hacks  adblock  art  browser  curation 
september 2008 by adamcrowe
BURAK ARIKAN - Creative Networking, NYU / ITP
"This course is an introduction to complex networks within the context of the arts."
networks  art  relationalaesthetics 
september 2008 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- Looking Clock
Look at that clock!
ChrisSpeed  art  clocks  time 
september 2008 by adamcrowe
Chris Speed -- Looking Clock
"The Looking Clock is a digital art piece that could function as a product but at present represents an alternative to delivering time and ultimately moving between lived time and universal time or the moment and the instant. Very simply, it is an analogue clock that only reveals the time and continues working when a person is present and looking at it."
art  relationalaesthetics  time  clocks  ChrisSpeed 
september 2008 by adamcrowe
Amazon.com: - Visual Futurist: The Art & Life of Syd Mead
And technique DVDs
SydMead  bladerunner  art  design 
september 2008 by adamcrowe
fuck you sideways you fuck you duck crazy shit man yeah!
"The initial idea behind buying this domain name - or better said: the initial enthusiasm - can not be retrieved in my mind any more. Now, after the fun is gone, I am stuck with a weird obligation to make something of it and it seems like one of the most challenging tasks in my life." - Pffftttt hahaha!
art  recursion  boredom  lulz  domains 
august 2008 by adamcrowe
TED.com -- Jonathan Harris collects stories
Video: Stories have #Characters #Concepts #Contexts #Colours #Time #Dates #Excitement Level
visualization  storygraph  narrativeobjects  storytelling  narrativeenvironments  narrativeacts  stage  performance  design  art  relationalobjects  objects  relationalaesthetics  * 
july 2008 by adamcrowe
Google Code -- RA DIOHEA_D / HOU SE OF_C ARDS
Transmedia doesn't get any more granular than this!
*  radiohead  transmedia  mediaclouds  data  productnarratives  visualization  tools  music  video  narrativeenvironments  storytelling  objects  narrativeobjects  narrativeacts  animation  LIDAR  processing  processing.org  code  art  share  remix  openmedia 
july 2008 by adamcrowe
Wikipedia -- The Mindscape of Alan Moore
"The Mindscape of Alan Moore is a 2003 feature documentary which chronicles the life and work of Alan Moore, author of several acclaimed graphic novels, including From Hell, Watchmen and V for Vendetta."
AlanMoore  art  writing  magic  culture  documentaries 
june 2008 by adamcrowe
The New Yorker -- The World of Fashion: Pixel Perfect
"Pascal Dangin is the premier retoucher of fashion photographs. In the March issue of Vogue Dangin tweaked a hundred and forty-four images: a hundred and seven advertisements (Estée Lauder, Gucci, Dior, etc.), thirty-six fashion pictures, and the cover."
fashion  beauty  art  portraiture  photography  photoshop  digital  painting  retouching  virtuality  body  avatars  self  simulacra 
june 2008 by adamcrowe
Yet Another Transhumanist Blog -- "Ideas" don't solve all problems.
"... ideas don't have "power" in their own right, but only in certain historical contexts, and sometimes not at all."
memetics  ideas  context  art  science 
june 2008 by adamcrowe
BBC -- The Shock of the New
"First shown on BBC Two in the 1980s, the series looks at different themes rather than presenting the art chronologically."
art  modernism  design  history  criticism  documentaries 
may 2008 by adamcrowe
Bert Simons -- Paper self clone
"I considered myself one of many who just will be forgotten. That sucked, but instead of endulging my self into depression I desperetly started looking for a solution and I came up with this idea, I decided to clone myself.. more me's have more chances."
art  papercraft  replicants  self  cloning  avatars 
may 2008 by adamcrowe
BBC -- Artists catch head lice for show
'"The idea is that we live in the museum as their guests, and at the same time we are hosting lice on our heads," said artist Vincent Grunwald, 23.'
art  parasitism  objects  narrativeobjects  storytelling  narrativeenvironments  narrativeacts  performance  design  animals  insects 
may 2008 by adamcrowe
Psymbiote -- Hybrid Apparatus for Social Interface
"Adorned in titanium, latex, silicone, and electronic apparatus, isa becomes Psymbiote: the conceptual terrain at the collision of bodies and machines, the mutation of her own identity through transformation of the body."
body  bodymodification  modification  hacking  cyborg  cyberpunk  art  fashion  performance  organisms 
april 2008 by adamcrowe
Man Ray - Le Violin d'Ingres
ManRay  art  body 
april 2008 by adamcrowe
Kevin Kelly -- The (Unspeakable) Ultimate Machine
Arthur C. Clarke on the 'Ultimate Machine': "There is something unspeakably sinister about a machine that does nothing -- absolutely nothing -- except switch itself off."
quotes  ClaudeShannon  technology  designnoir  performance  design  binary  digital  vintage  art  sculpture  prosthetics  consciousness  storytelling  objects  narrativeobjects  relationalobjects  machine  artificiallife  mecha 
march 2008 by adamcrowe
The Most Beautiful Machine, 2003
"In this special case the observers are supposed to push the ON button. After a while the lid of the trunk opens, a hand comes out and turns off the machine. The trunk closes - that's it!" -- Ffffffark that's goooood!
ClaudeShannon  technology  designnoir  performance  design  binary  digital  vintage  art  sculpture  prosthetics  consciousness  storytelling  objects  narrativeobjects  machine  artificiallife  mecha 
march 2008 by adamcrowe
Net Surrealism: Original Oil Paintings by Jeremiah Palecek - Techno Viking
"He sees an injustice. steps in. then procedes to wow everyone with his unbeliably hot dance moves." - Save The Dancer, Save the World! [via: Iain Tait | crackunit]
painting  art  heroes  internet  lulz 
march 2008 by adamcrowe
Ben Fry - Genomic Cartography Projects
"The works range from practical tools to conceptual works for alternative methods for viewing data."
bioinformatics  biology  genetics  genomics  mapping  information  design  visualization  maps  art  architecture  BenFry 
march 2008 by adamcrowe
The Opte Project
"The data represented and collected here serves a multitude of purposes: Modeling the Internet, analyzing wasted IP space, IP space distribution, detecting the result of natural disasters, weather, war, and esthetics/art."
internet  maps  networks  mapping  traceroute  damage  art 
march 2008 by adamcrowe
CR Blog - London redefined
"Graf mixes old technology with new in his work, using medium format photography to take the initial shots of a city before removing, via Photoshop, all traces of language and signage including commercials signs, street signs, people and traffic."
london  photography  art 
march 2008 by adamcrowe
Gawker - Celebrity-industrial Complex: Art School's Julia Allison Training Program
Video: "In a crumbling America that can't actually make anything except narcissistic "reality" entertainment, Parsons has taken the ingenious step of launching a class where grades are determined by internet fame."
celebrity  fame  art  narcissism  america  entertainment  realitytv  web  psychology  attention  trenddaq  education  experiencepoints  theadvertisedlife  AndyWarhol 
march 2008 by adamcrowe
Wired - Is Virtual Destruction an Art Form?
"games [are] unique [in] that they allow us to experiment with insanely dangerous physics. Games are only arena of modern life in which otherwise responsible adults are permitted to smash expensive things all to hell, purely for the sheer joy of it."
Burnout  gaming  psychology  art  catharsis  destruction  death 
february 2008 by adamcrowe
Portal, MC Escher Style! (Image)
By anonymous
escher  portal  art 
february 2008 by adamcrowe
KesselsKramer OUTLET
London just become about a billion times better. -- KKOutlet, 42 Hoxton Square, N1 6PB
kesselskramer  do  shop  agency  london  office  interiors  design  art  fun 
february 2008 by adamcrowe
Wired - Creepy Cyberpunk Fantasies Come to Life in Christopher Conte's Sculptures
Gorgeous.
steampunk  cyberpunk  sciencefiction  art  sculpture  technology  robotics  gallery 
january 2008 by adamcrowe
Mediamatic.net -- Art and Advertising, Peter Fend 1994
"I did not understand sufficiently that Advertising is directed to people who would like to live at least somewhat like the Leisure Class, and that if you want to succeed in Advertising you must -- as adman David Olgilvy wrote – believe in the products and lifestyle sought by the Leisure Class. I did not sufficiently believe in most of the products, or attendant lifestyle being offered then by people in Advertising. I was going to that meeting, in 1973, talking about believing in ecology."
*  advertising  art  consumerism  ethics  ecology  PeterFend  quotes 
january 2008 by adamcrowe
YouTube - Stephen Wiltshire draws Tokyo from memory
art  drawing  memory 
january 2008 by adamcrowe
RbkCustom - John Maeda Limited Edition
John Maeda custom designed Rbk shoes. Code is printed inside the shoe. Kinda digital cool, but not really because the material isn't a dynamic display surface: so no pixels, no thermo-optic camouflage. Lame.
geeks  sneakers  design  code  art  JohnMaeda  fashion  Rbk  productnarratives  storytelling  objects  narrativeobjects 
january 2008 by adamcrowe
WORKING Holiday in London - London 310
Ooops!
funny  art  illustration  GwenYip 
january 2008 by adamcrowe
Flickr - Photos from the decapitator
Rather evocative of the French Revolution. 2008. Going to be a fun year!
advertising  activism  art  death  decapitator 
january 2008 by adamcrowe
Adobe - Creative gesture or vapid prototyping? The importance of fictional products
'the transition from the "experience of the artifact" to the "consumption of the idea of the artifact.'... 'Designer as Author' - Same old Lucy Lippard-ian conceptual art ['Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object'] thing. Toys to think with.
toys  objects  narrativeobjects  narrativeactivism  product  storytelling  productnarratives  conceptual  art  prototyping  consumering  consumption  via:chromacomms  performance  design 
january 2008 by adamcrowe
Last FM - GOLDIE: “1997. YEAR OF THE B-BOY” – Will Aston (Trace/True Magazine UK, 1997)
Seminal article (they don't write 'em like this anymore) on Goldie and art and things. Deep.
music  art  culture  goldie  history  1997  last.fm 
december 2007 by adamcrowe
Wikipedia - The Three Graces
"Euphrosyne, Aglaea and Thalia - who were said to represent beauty, charm and joy. The Graces presided over banquets and gatherings primarily to entertain and delight the guests of the Gods."
mythology  art  archetypes  storytelling 
december 2007 by adamcrowe
Wired - Portrait of a 'Halo 3' Forge Artist
"I'm always looking for ways of doing creative things differently." Very Dali
halo  3d  tools  art  painting  portraiture 
december 2007 by adamcrowe
Ain't It Cool - AICN COMICS REVIEWS LOEG: THE BLACK DOSSIER!
It is rather good. I didn't pick up all the references, so thanks for this.
via:danhon  comics  AlanMoore  writing  art  narrativeenvironments  intertextuality  storytelling  transmedia  productplacement  interface  3d 
december 2007 by adamcrowe
Wired - The Art of Surveillance
"Mindful of Google Earth, camera phones, over-the-counter spy gear, reality TV, terrorist-conscious politicians and security-obsessed corporations, these interactive auteurs put their own spin on a surveillance-saturated global culture."
art  design  surveillance  gallery  activism  criticaldesign 
november 2007 by adamcrowe
recreating movement
"Recreating Movement makes it possible to extract single frames of any given film sequence and arranges them behind each other in a three-dimensional space. This creates a tube-like set of frames that "freezes" a particular time span in a film." LOOK!
graphics  animation  art  video  film  digital  information  visualization  time  space  research  software  tools  diagrams  motion  bullettime  editing  interesting 
november 2007 by adamcrowe
New York Times - Pay Me for My Content
"People happily pay for content in certain Internet ecosystems, provided the ecosystems are delightful. People love paying for virtual art, clothing and other items in virtual worlds like Second Life, for instance."
aggregation  content  intellectualproperty  free  virtualgoods  virtualworlds  businessmodels  art  creativity  place  hackersvsvectoralists  economics  immateriallabour  affectivelabour  work  augmentationistsvsimmersionists  immersion  narrativeenvironments  storytelling  objects  narrativeobjects 
november 2007 by adamcrowe
CR Blog - Daniel Eatock’s Editions & Originals show
God comes down and puts on a show. Going!
DanielEatock  design  art  play  inspiration  events 
november 2007 by adamcrowe
Guardian - Shooting Andy Warhol in Exeter
"One of the pieces on show is I Shot Andy Warhol, a hacked version of the 1984 lightgun game, Hogan's Alley. Players take on the role of feminist activist Valerie Solanas who once attempted to assassinate the pop art genius."
warhol  gaming  popculture  art  culture  feminism  parody 
november 2007 by adamcrowe
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