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Le Matignon – Paris

Original post by Kazu

JOGGING, SMOKE BOMB IN AN ELEVATOR, 2010
If we consider Internet art to be a distinct category of art making that uses the Internet as its primary medium or platform, we necessarily distinguish it from other forms in which the Internet does not play a primary role. The objects of Internet art are necessarily immaterial, and it is this immaterial quality that makes them so notoriously difficult to exhibit and archive. For some artists this has led to a kind of hybridization of Internet aesthetics and real world objects, such that they might be purchased or viewed in a real-world setting such as a museum or gallery space. For others it becomes a matter of the careful curation of digital images and documentation in an effort to brand oneself and build cultural capital where there is little possibility for financial compensation. After all, how do you monetize an object whose natural [...]

Original post by Jacob Gaboury

The supreme discipline of art – oil painting – is back. It has been 13 days since a BP oil and gas exploration well blew out, setting fire to the drilling rig, which sank, killing 11 people. Ever since, crude oil has been leaking into the Gulf of Mexico, raising the prospects of a historic environmental disaster. Winds from the southeast have nudged the slick northward, where it floated Saturday near the coasts of Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi and has begun to paint the coastlines.
Finally oil painting has evolved into generative bio-art, a dynamic process the world audience can watch live via mass media. Never before has this art form been as relevant and visible as today – only 9-11 was nearly as perfect, but in the genre of performance art. An oil painting on a 80.000 square miles ocean canvas with 32 million liters of oil – a unique [...]

Original post by Ceci Moss

Mostra d’arte contemporanea
Campobasso,Via Muricchio 1 (ex Onmi)
8 / 24 maggio 2010
orari: 17,30 / 20,30 (tutti i giorni martedì escluso)
L’8 Maggio 2010 alle ore 18:00 negli spazi della Galleria d’arte Contemporanea Limiti Inchiusi di Campobasso si inaugura la mostra dell’artista e designer Rosario Laterza.
L’artista nelle sue opere rappresenta  immagini di sorgenti luminose in movimento plasmate da  un [...]

Original post by Viviana

Mostra d’arte contemporanea
Campobasso,Via Muricchio 1 (ex Onmi)
8 / 24 maggio 2010
orari: 17,30 / 20,30 (tutti i giorni martedì escluso)
L’8 Maggio 2010 alle ore 18:00 negli spazi della Galleria d’arte Contemporanea Limiti Inchiusi di Campobasso si inaugura la mostra dell’artista e designer Rosario Laterza. 
L’artista nelle sue opere rappresenta  immagini di sorgenti luminose in movimento plasmate da  un connubio [...]

Original post by Viviana

From Peter Baldes’s longrunning collection of ‘hypertemps’. Definitely worth spending some time with.

Original post by John Michael Boling

Nowhere is a three-dimensional milling machine that carves a landscape relief on a 70×70×10cm large block of hard foam. The machine receives a stream of live search requests from the german search engines metager and metager2 (www.metager.de) via the internet.
The users search movements erode rivers and canyons on the surface. Search requests that shoot through the internet just for a fraction of a second and generate an answer on the searchers screen, cause the machine to write a constant growing sculpture into the space. The continuous stream of changing search requests defines form and rhythm of this process.
— DESCRIPTION FROM THE ARTIST’S STATEMENT

Original post by Ceci Moss

Original post by Ceci Moss

Star Wars GPS by Tom Tom

Original post by Kazu

Rhizome will be participating in this year’s No Soul For Sale: A Festival of Independents at the Tate Modern. From May 14-16th, more than 70 independent arts organizations from all over the world will present films, performances, exhibitions, and more within the Turbine Hall. If you live in London or happen to be there during that weekend, please drop by and say hello.

For the festival, Rhizome has teamed up with artist David Horvitz to present “Mail Nothing to the Tate Modern. This project invites anyone to track and mail empty packages to the Tate Modern, where they will be displayed unopened in the Rhizome space. The website for Mail Nothing to the Tate Modern will display the movement of all these packages, creating a “mental picture of the vast global infrastructure of shipping.” Visit the website Mail Nothing to the Tate Modern for instructions about participating in this exhibition — [...]

Original post by Rhizome

Original post by Ceci Moss

Beryl Korot describes the impetus behind the innovative 1970s publication Radical Software, elucidating the history of video in art and the impact of mass media on society. Emerging from an independent video community that included media visionaries such as Marshall McLuhan and groups such as Televisionaries, Videofreex, People’s Video Theater, and Global Village, the first issue of Radical Software debuted in Spring of 1970 as a publication by the Raindance Corporation. Beryl Korot and Phyllis Segura (Gershuny) acted as Editors, while Michael Shamburg served as Publisher with Ira Schneider as co-Originator. Early contributors included Nam June Paik, Buckminster Fuller, Ant Farm, Frank Gillette, and Paul Ryan, among others. After eleven issues, Radical Software ceased publication in the Spring of 1974 and is now an invaluable time capsule of an era. This video is published on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the first issue.
— DESCRIPTION FROM ART21

Original post by Ceci Moss

Milano Art Affairs – Associazione Culturale
presenta:
Gemma Detti
“DOWNTOWN”
Sono belle le sere quando la luce scende di colore e dall’oro e dal viola s’immerge nel turchino’. (G. Viogolo)
Nello splendore di un’affascinante città è facile perdersi tra le forme e il colori che la caratterizzano. Le crude linee geometriche e gli indefiniti spazi urbani, regalano agli occhi [...]

Original post by Milano Art Affairs

Milano Art Affairs – Associazione Culturale
MILANO ART AFFAIRS presenta:
Gemma Detti
“DOWNTOWN”
‘Sono belle le sere quando la luce scende di colore e dall’oro e dal viola s’immerge nel turchino’. (G. Viogolo)
Nello splendore di un’affascinante città è facile perdersi tra le forme e il colori che la caratterizzano. Le crude linee geometriche e gli [...]
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Emanuela Del Vecchio: ‘Pop Scene’
Giò Ross a Milano

Original post by Milano Art Affairs

Sabato 8 maggio 2010 si inaugura alle ore 17.00 presso ArtIngegno, via Giolitti 172 (zona Porta Maggiore) a Roma, la mostra  C’Arte delle artiste Gloria Tranchida e Simona Vitello. La mostra è realizza conopere di Arte,  Artigianato e Design realizzate con carta e cartoni riciclati.
ArtIngegno
Presenta
C’Arte
Mostra bi personale di Arte, Artigianato e Design della carta riciclata
DURATA: 7-8-9 [...]
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Fare l’amore a Roma
Tramare tra la moda e l’irreale: Faber art, ovvero l’arte di lavorare con i fili

Original post by Soqquadro

Rosa’s Soho, London

Original post by Kazu

MILANO ART AFFAIRS presenta:
Emanuela Del Vecchio
‘Pop Scene’
Non esiste niente di più onesto che rispondere ad un bisogno.
Il bisogno di Emanuela Del Vecchio è quello di esprimere la propria passione con il mezzo che conosce meglio. Dipinge il mondo della moda con i colori e le luci che la rappresentano.
Declina le icone [...]
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Original post by Milano Art Affairs

MILANO ART AFFAIRS presenta:
Emanuela Del Vecchio
‘Pop Scene’
Non esiste niente di più onesto che rispondere ad un bisogno.
Il bisogno di Emanuela Del Vecchio è quello di esprimere la propria passione con il mezzo che conosce meglio.
Dipinge il mondo della moda con i colori e le luci che la rappresentano.
Declina le icone di [...]
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Schiele a Milano
Hopper a Milano

Original post by Milano Art Affairs

For today’s General Web Content I have assembled a collection of images that repurpose traditional models of data visualization for humorous/bizarre/illuminating effect. This meme has been around for several years now, first coming into mainstream awareness with the emergence of the overwhelmingly brilliant website “rap represented in mathematical charts and graphs,” and continues to be a persistent mechanism for creative expression across the web. (Especially in forums such as b3ta, 4chan, and Something Awful.) The intent of this collection is not to present a best of, but merely to convey a broad overview of the meme. Enjoy.

Original post by John Michael Boling

The object that we call “monitor” is at once ubiquitous, obsolete, and in the end, perhaps a non-object because we gaze into its pixilated illusion, never directly at its shape and mass. Today the beige boxes adorn sidewalk trash piles because their cathode ray tubes have recently given way to the solid-state flatscreen. In a backwards alchemical shift, they have morphed from object of desire into “e-waste.” In this sense, they now monitor the speed of consumption.
— DESCRIPTION FROM THE PRESS RELEASE FOR “MONITOR” AT CLAIRE OLIVER GALLERY

Original post by Ceci Moss

The Next Wave in Music

Original post by Kazu

MTAA, Automatic for the
People ( ) Voting Kiosk, 2008 (Photo: M.River)
In the fall of 2008, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art invited several artists to create a
new work for the exhibition “Art of Participation: 1950 to Now.” One such invitation was extended to
MTAA, a Brooklyn-based duo comprised of Mike Sarff and Tim Whidden, alternately known as M.River
& T.Whid Art Associates. In response, MTAA constructed a poll-based project entitled Automatic for the
People ( ), which asked the audience to vote upon the parameters for a theatrical performance executed at
the conclusion of the exhibition (the title’s empty parentheses refer to an undetermined subtitle).
Technically, the voting consisted of ten different electronic ballots addressing such creative and procedural
elements as duration, space, and props, with each being accessible for one week at a museum kiosk and
remotely online. All ten ballots contained ten options, and the most popular selections were incorporated
into the live finale. [...]

Original post by David Duncan

Unknown Continents from Kristoffer Ørum on Vimeo.
Computer generated landscapes in films and computer games increasingly influence the way we imagine alternatives to our present day lives. In collaboration with Ardor3D, who have worked with among others NASA, the artists have developed a real-time 3D programme. Continents emerge on one globe after another in an infinite series of alternative worlds. Each potentially inhabitable world is a unique computer generated model and exists only while it is observed.
— DESCRIPTION OF UNKNOWN CONTINENTS FROM THE SHOW “ADVENTURES IN IMMEDIATE UNREALITY”
Originally via VVORK

Original post by Ceci Moss

On Top of The World – The Rise of The Obervation Deck

Original post by Kazu

With Windows Real users can experience a absolutely new User Interface. Windows Real was the result of a seminar I gave at Merz Akademie Stuttgart in 2007.
Participants: Christoph Brandin, Julia Doktorowski, David Ikuye, Ingo Kollek, Tobias Mikl, Christopher Molka, Marc Neubauer, Isabel Reuter, Emanuel Schädler, Alexander Schlegel, Thilo Schulz, Paul Steinhilber, Benjamin Wingert

Original post by Rhizome.org Artwork