Tonight, at Leo Koenig in Chelsea, the Vienna-based collective Gelitin has built a large wooden box with two extensions, one like a cabinet and one like a top-loading chest. Viewers can place any object into the chestlike extension, close the hatch, and wait while their object is hand-replicated and returned after an indefinite amount of […]
Between You and Me
Patryk Rebisz shot his short film Between You and Me entirely with a still camera. Beautiful.
The White Stripes
I absolutely love The White Stipes new video, The Denial Twist, directed by Michel Gondry. You can see this along with all their other videos at The White Stripes website.
The Hurricane Poster Project
There’s some gorgeous artwork being made at The Hurricane Poster Project. There’s also an interesting pricing plan: prices are raised as the quantity of a poster gets smaller.
M A K E
Check out the awesome visuals up at M A K E. Make sure to watch the Sony “Transform” movie.
SimpleTEXT: a mobile phone enabled performance
SimpleTEXT is a collaborative audio/visual public performance that relies on audience participation through input from mobile devices such as phones, PDAs or laptops.
Trusted Computing
Benjamin Stephan and Lutz Vogel have put together a fine film about Trusted Computing.
Machinima: 3D Game-Based Filmmaking
With the release of The Sims 2 comes a new ad campaign, featuring machinima (pronounced ma-SHEEN-i-ma), a new film genre where video game players capture footage of themselves and then edit it together with narrative. Electronic Arts hired Rooster Teeth Productions to create “The Strangerhood“, a parody of reality TV, to promote their Sims 2 […]
Videogame Aesthetics
David Hayward posted a very topical article about the changing aesthetics of video games. With the ever progressing surge towards true photo-reality in games, the visual effect of games has become banal. Hayward looks at the progression of art history in a similar fashion, proposing that a revolt against photo-realism is imminent. This can even […]
Hidden Microchip Art
CNET’s article, “What art is hiding on your microchip?“, exposes the tiny world of microchip art. More than 10 years ago, Michael Davidson went looking to capture the beauty of microchip circuitry in photographs. In among the transistors and wire traces, he found something unexpected: Waldo. Waldo is just one of many different doodles burned […]