I have to dig deep, but I think that I’m actually old enough to remember that station idents were once just plain static logos with maybe an added sound effect. This was way before shiny flying 3D logo’s (boring!) became standard practice. The adventurous, art and culture-oriented German-French TV network Arte just rebranded, and in … Continued
News of a collaboration between cult director David Lynch, prolific producer Danger Mouse, and the late, great alt rock outfit Sparklehorse, makes us quiver in our pixie boots! It’s an album, featuring a line-up which reads like a who’s who of indie pop royalty (Flaming Lips, Super Furry Animals, Iggy bloody Pop!) and a beautifully … Continued
Aah, trusty old chatroulette! An endless source of weirdness and time-wastery, social experimentation, and artistic ingenuity. Narcissus is a cultural endeavour which pays homage to the myth of Narcissus (a.k.a his inability to recognize his own pretty face in the mirror), using bespoke software to divert the incoming chatroulette video feed so each person sees … Continued
Way back when film was recorded on tape and digital avant-garde alluded to a Casio calculator watch, a French luminary called Michel Auder started filming his life and his surroundings with his Sony Portapack. Being French and poetic he soon found himself hobnobbing with the likes of Philip Glass and Andy Warhol, and finally filtered … Continued
Playing on the frankly ridiculous moniker given to American-led military actions since the 90s, Coalition of the Willing is a damn goodlookin’ collaborative animation that venerates the potential power of the swarm offensive (a.k.a collaborative, open source, tech-hippy-type activism) as the answer to all our “we all gonna die of over-consumption” issues. Written and directed … Continued
Angry man / digital artiste Franco Mattes of 0100101110101101.ORG (semi-famed for their ballsy Nike Platz installation in Deutschland among other things), pretended to hang himself on Chat Roulette. While he swung for hours in the sinister corner of a slovenly room, a series of mostly revolting human specimens entered the chat to laugh, point, and … Continued
Ooh we love discovering blindingly brilliant talent from the fringes of interactive society! This Angelo Plessas fellow has been busily falling outside our radar for a while it seems, but we´re onto you now buster! Just loving the playful, visual bombshells of his recent works, particularly fond of the proportion/ perception wizardry of On Top … Continued
If all Hollywood celebs had such a mind-blowingly beautiful interactive site, well hellz bellz, wouldn’t the world be a prettier place! Reserve a good few minutes to dig around in this one: the actual content is not all that spectacular but the interactive diggery is ultra-fantastical! Note to Lalalanders: make like Jim and spend your … Continued
Interactive hotshots Champagne Valentine just dropped a sumptuously sinister interactive website commissioned by Tate Modern for the launch of How It Is, the new exhibition by high-brow artworld darling Miroslaw Balka. Combining Flash and Papervision technologies they create the essence of darkness, using complex shading algorithms to allow users to explore a series of dark … Continued
We say yessy to Jawbone.tv! This tasty-looking, week-old website marks the explosion of new, interactive storytelling methods, virals, and experimental innovations in digital arts. “The evolution of story”, apparently! Check this interview with interactive graphic novelist NAWLZ, who’s praises we sang some time ago.
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