Motion. Stillness. Resistance.
Peter Horvath's generative, video-based triptych that explores three dynamics: motion, stillness and resistance. "Each panel focuses on one dynamic and uses these as visual metaphors for universal emotive and cognitive states taken from and reflecting my personal experiences." The project, commissioned by Rhizome.org, is slated to show in October 2006 at the New Museum in New York. Here.
8:13 PM 7/12/06 |
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Broken Mirror.
According to artist Rich White, these interactive movies were arrived at while he was experimenting with flash. Arrive.
8:13 PM 7/12/06 |
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The Bizarro Starter Kit.
There's a new genre rising from the underground. Its name: Bizarro. For years, readers have been asking for a category of fiction dedicated to the weird, crazy, cult side of storytelling that has become a staple in the film industry (with directors such as David Lynch, Takashi Miike, Tim Burton, and even Lloyd Kaufman) but has been largely ignored in the literary world--- until now. The Bizarro Starter Kit features short novels and story collections by ten of the leading authors in the bizarro genre: D. Harlan Wilson, Carlton Mellick III, Jeremy Robert Johnson, Kevin L Donihe, Gina Ranalli, Andre Duza, Vincent W. Sakowski, Steve Beard, John Edward Lawson, and Bruce Taylor. Grab a copy now!
7:29 PM 7/7/06 |
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Altar-rations.
On the outside, "Altar-ations" appears to be a wedding planner. On the inside, it asks who is really in control of a woman's self-image, sexuality, and gender construction. A flash-based feminist online art project by Juliet Davis. You may now kiss the bride.
1:11 PM 7/7/06 |
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The War Against Art...
Los Angeles' Transport Gallery has featured some in-your-face work: a show by seminal punk photographer Edward Colver called Remember September 10th, featuring an effigy of a lynched Klansman (title: A Well-Hung Klansman), and the traveling show of anti-war posters by the likes of agitprop greats Robbie Conal and Mark Vallen called Yo! What Happened to Peace? But these exhibitions didn't rouse the Los Angeles Police Department the way a one-night showing on April 23 did. With six patrol cars, they shut down the exhibition Mark of the Beast, forcing some 1,000 attendees into the streets, on grounds that it was "offensive and aggressive in nature." The offending works? Culture-jammed corporate logos.
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12:43 AM 7/7/06 |
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Dreamlines.
The author Leonardo Solaas: "Dreamlines is a non-linear, interactive visual experience. The user enters one or more words that define the subject of a dream he would like to dream. The system looks in the Web for images related to those words, and takes them as input to generate an ambiguous painting, in perpetual change, where elements fuse into one another, in a process analogous to memory and free association. The system has been developed in java and php. First, a php script makes a Google image search of the words entered by the user. Then, the java applet retrieves the images one by one, and uses them as input to generate an ever-changing drawing."
11:11 AM 7/7/06 |
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Pop surrealist & underground art for mobile devices.
Start Mobile is offering mobile wallpaper from the world's emerging and underground artists. You browse by artist or category. Some of the featured artists are Yumiko Kayukawa, Amanda Lynn, Fawn Geheiler, Chris Reccardi, Seak...
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5:13 PM 7/8/06 |
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Legend of the Howl...
Howl. Allen Ginsberg's message has stood the test of time better than his medium. Poems don't set our ears on fire like that anymore... Howl!
10:11 AM 7/7/07 |
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9dots.
An audiovisual experiment in sequential communication grid by Pierre Delmas Bouly, 9dots interweave code to build natural environments for the personal sound manipulation and communication. Sound off.
9:43 AM 7/7/06 |
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Profane Earth.
Billed as "poetry in the inhuman condition," Profane Earth is a virtual reality project by Ollivier Dyens. Here.
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Shooting War.
Shooting War is a serialized graphic novel about the future of war, terrorism, and journalism. The year is 2011, and Jimmy Burns, a young anti-corporate blogger has just seen his Williamsburg apartment blown to bits by yet another terrorist attack on New York City. He's recorded the gruesome scene on his videoblog camera -- footage Burns beams live to a freaked-out world and that makes him an overnight media sensation. Exploited by his own network (Global News: Your home for 24-hour terror coverage), enraged by the terrorists, and determined to tell the American people the truth, Burns takes off for Iraq to get the real story of a war that's been raging for more than eight years. Shooting War is written by Anthony Lappe, illustrated by Dan Goldman. Shoot!
5:41 PM 7/6/06 |
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9/11: Wild Conspiracies and Rational Concerns
Even when you cut through the conspiracy theories about 9/11 and head straight for the facts, the government's version still seems fuzzy. More.
4:45 PM 7/6/06 |
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What would Jesus Drive?
It's difficult to know for certain, but this network of eco-evangelicals brings a fact-filled and meaningful perspective to the SUV debate. Drive by.
3:05 PM 7/6/06 |
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Pandemic Rooms.
"A societal paranoia, the darkest of human futures, our response to what may come and what will never come, we are the flu and the fear of flu..." a beta-version of new work by Jason Nelson. Catch it here.
1:32 PM 7/6/06 |
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Lure of the list...
So who are the 'greatest literary theorists' of the age? Awesome idea, eh? Well, Critical Inquiry can tell you who they are, explains Lindsay Waters. In a ranked list... here.
11:43 AM 7/6/06 |
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The Simpsons as philosphy...
The Simpsons is more than a funny cartoon-- it reveals truths about human nature that rival the observations of great philosophers from Plato to Kant... while Homer sets his house on fire, says philosopher Julian Baggini.
That Homer Simpson may turn out to be one of the better thinkers of our epoch is not just a negative comment on philosophy today... Duh.
6:06 AM 7/5/06 |
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Academic Whores and Publishing Pimps.
"What does the closure of erotic text based web site Red Rose Stories have to do with me? Everything, for not only do I believe in free speech, I also believe in free erections. I represent the silent majority of Americans, who appreciate erotic and pornographic material..." More.
6:41 PM 6/30/06 |
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Troy: an alternate reality game...
Created for the ocassion of 'Experimental Gameplay Competition with its theme 'violation,' Troy is what an alternate reality game should feel like in a ludic universe. Uniquely engaging in its own mazy way. Sige
4:44 PM 6/30/06 |
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Speeding...
Speed kills. That used to refer to dangerous driving. Now it more ominously means the insane pace at which we live, cramming into the day too much that is too shallow...slow down.
5:11 PM 6/14/06 |
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Far Out, Man. But Is It Quantum Physics?
It's a great story: how atoms evolved out of fire and bent space and grew into Bach, Chartres cathedral, and Blonde on Blonde. Far out! But atoms are not stuck in the 1960s... Mmm.
1:13 PM 6/13/06 |
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