Stock footage, movie footage and original clips in an eternal ascending loop from hell to heaven! Yes please! The incredible piece of (so much more than) video art that is Civilization was created for the elevators in New York’s Standard Hotel. Filmographic genius man Marco Brambilla came up with this beyond awesome interpretation of Dante’s … Continued
This simple-as-pudding Youtube-based image generator by NYC programmer David Kraftsow is a potentially infinite source of online creativity that plays to the idea of the web as giant Xeroxer to the world. The gizmo asks you to enter your Youtube URL or a search term (like your favorite web artiste for instance), and instantly turns … Continued
Stemming from the Internet Dark Ages of 1996, UbuWeb started as an experimental platform for “Concrete and Sound Poetry” (don’t ask), and has since expanded to become the go-to site for all things rare and avant-garde. From recordings of Frank O’Hara reading some New York poems, to video paintings by Brian Eno (image), the site … Continued
We blogged about mad-as-a-hatter Chinese artist Cao Fei’s avatar cupid-playing a while back, prequeling the launch of her RMB City project in Second Life. The virtual city, a heady cocktail of urban landmarks of both East and West, officially opened in January 09, and an installation at Serpentine Gallery, London marks this momentous virtual ribbon-cutting. … Continued
Take a minute to enjoy Naked Love: a new online destination exploring the twisted truths of modern-day love in all their gritty glory, on the super-slick website of Robert Redford‘s indie-tastic Sundance Channel. From the mad-as-a-hatter Green Porno antics of Isabella Rosselini to a photo gallery of cult seductresses in the Catherine Deneuve genre, it’s … Continued
The digital genii at Universal Everything have created a generative design system that produces unique, sound-reactive animations every day, forever. That’s right: Forever! Towering magestically among the lawns of the V&A’s ornate 19th-Century courtyard, is the slinky Universal Everything video wall, hatching its endless audio-visual artworks until Febraury 1st (the system keeps on hatching but … Continued
Met 3 very nice artists yesterday at an event in Utrecht about audiovisual art on the internet called re:visie:lab. As a curator and producer of web art, we were invited to do a presentation. Thought it’d be nice to hand you some links to the other projects that were presented – Ethereal Self, Found Tapes … Continued
Technocolr, the Harlequin Lodge is Second Life’s ultra-fantastical answer to the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party. Giving Tim Burton a run for his money, Anita Fontaine‘s triptastic lodge invites visitors to step through the harlequin wallpaper into a world of floating cupcakes and twisted optical massages at every turn. A garish but irresistable fantasy escapade within … Continued
Visual Foreign Correspondents – a monthly series of audio-visual artworks – commissioned a Flash piece by Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries (YCHI). This Korean-American duo has been creating text-based Flash animations scored with classic jazz for about 10 years now. All this time they stayed true to their signature minimalist aesthetic, partly inspired by the title … Continued
This week is Hoogerbrugge’s week. Besides the release of his monograph, Hoogerbrugge just announced the launch of the new Prostress website. Prostress 2.0 is a follow-up to his 2006 web project “designed to explore a cure for the painful side effects of the human condition.” Prostress 2.0 seems to expand on that concept, albeit without … Continued
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