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 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 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.
Pimp My Logo is an awesome motion graphics initiative by Tom Hemeryk. You send in your logo in vector format and Tom will pimp it into a 2 or 3 second motion ident. Some of these idents are absolutely amazing and wouldn’t look out of place on bradcast television.
Karsten Schmidt’s website Toxi has some really great experiments in generative/computational form.
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)
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).
Overnewsed but Uninformed are a collection of brilliant infographics by Stefan Bräutigam. Seeking to show the connections between government and media outlets, so the reader can make a more informed decision about the authenticity of the news they are reading, Overnewsed but Uninformed has an informative and powerful beauty in it’s depiction of these relationships. (Here’s a link to a translated version).
Skate Cream is, ummm, a sculpture of a melted skateboard by New Zealand crew Po-Mo. They’ve got some pretty nice looking T-Shirts too… (Reminds me of ‘Hot with the chance of a late storm’ by The Glue Society).
