The Small Stakes is a small design studio set up by Jason Munn which excels at producing band posters. The posters all exhibit an understated lo-fi feel and have been created for artists such as Beck, The Magnetic Fields, Yo La Tengo and more.
0100101110101101.org
0100101110101101.org is the home of digital rebels Eva and Franco Mattes. Creating compelling digital and physical art since 1998 these two seek to obtain ‘the largest visibility with minimal effort’. Their projects include internet collages, fake artists and a computer virus to name a few. I really enjoy their shock tactics and also the convergence / blurred reality between online and physical life.
Taiwa-Hensokuki
Taiwa-Hensokuki is an installation by Yuko Mohri, where two IBM notebooks ‘converse’ with each other with speech synthesis and speech recognition software. As they continue in this process the original message becomes transformed and distorted (perhaps in the same way as in a game of Chinese whispers).
Pawn Shop
Pawn Shop was a brilliant idea for an art store, bringing art by some very high profile artists down to street level in Chinatown, NYC. It also challenged the very nature of the gallery space as unsuspecting patrons could walk in to view the goods, instead finding art. Unfortunately it seems that they have now filed for bankruptcy.
Karsten Schmidt
Karsten Schmidt’s website Toxi has some really great experiments in generative/computational form.
Splatter Exhibition
The Aquarium Gallery in London is currently hosting the Splatter Exhibition featuring all your favourite cartoon characters slicing and dicing each other up. Think Loony Tunes meets Itchy & Scratchy. (via Slash Film)
Michael Seiben
Michael Seiben, an Austin TX based artist/illustrator has got some fresh work.
onedotzero
It’s that time of year again. The onedotzero motion graphics festival is once again upon us. With upcoming events in Denmark, Russia and the UK, if you’re around you should definitely get down to one to check out some of the freshest work in the industry. (Check out the trailers on Vimeo).
WWEK
WWEK (white weekend kites) is a collective researching computational forms in architecture. Some of the concepts are amazing. Definitely worth a look for those of you into generative art or futuristic architecture.
Damien Correll
Damien Correll is a designer from NYC with some pretty fresh work. Shown above is the piece ‘One Shot’ which was created for an advertising campaign to entice young creatives to produce a treatment for an ad spot which would then be created by the sponsor.
