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| Pixel Roller - A New Art Tool Mixed media design collective rAndom International, based in London (UK) and Berlin (Germany) have thought out a clever tool for artists, that combines electronic art with old-fashioned handwork: the Pixel Roller. It's like an electronic version of the paint roller: with ultra bright uv leds you paint an image on light-sensative ink. Go have a look for this and other interesting ideas at this site: |
| April 19, 2005 |
| Links: The Somerville Gates and The Crackers |
| February 19, 2005 |
| The Gates There's a lot of fuzz these days about the Gates project of Christo and Jean-Claude in the Central Park, New York. Personally I find this project full of emptiness. Christo and his partner are doing a decoration, because they don't have the inspiration to create a real piece of art. Their works of the past, the wrapping projects, had a certain monumental character, but this is so vain. Famous artists can probably get away with this and maybe they need the money for a comfortable retirement, but these millions of dollars could have been spent so much better on more talented artists. Now there's a lot of hype about nothing and I feel the need for some parody, which you will find if you follow the links below. |
| Links: reich-hollis.mov and water.mov |
| February 10, 2005 |
| Minimal Music Recently I found some short arty movies with minimal music. One is a promotional music video for the ColdCut track titled 'Music for 18 Musicians' on the 'Reich Remixed' album. I suppose Reich refers to Steve Reich, a famous minimal music artist. The other is a shorty about water with music by Philip Glass, from 'Einstein on the Beach'. |
| Links: W.S.'s weblog and artgallery |
| Will Simpson : a visual journal This time I want to point you to Will Simpson, a very modest but nevertheless talented photographer and woodworker. He shows his photographs on his weblog, with an audio-comment to it. And his stunning wooden art objects can be found elsewhere. |
| January 28, 2005 |
| Richard Bolam's Hyperscape The british artist Richard Bolam creates generative art with ancient Mac Classics and Hypercard, an interactive multimedia program abandoned by Apple. Hyperscape 1 is an art installation with 8 compact Macs, one running a hypercard program written by Bolam that determines the output on the other 7 Macs. These interact with the input and the result is an abstract, continuous changing pattern of shapes. His new project Hyperscape 2 is a similar installation but now with sound interaction between 8 Macs. |
| January 26, 2005 |
| Links: CNN News (workshop) and Louvre (Rosa room) |
| Leonardo Da Vinci Today I found news about Leonardo Da Vinci, the italian Renaissance artist: a workshop of Da Vinci was discovered in Florence, in the Santissima Annunziata convent. It has murals with figures that resemble drawings in Da Vinci's 'codex' and a painting in the Uffizi gallery. There is speculation that Da Vinci may have met Lisa Gherardini here. The family of the assumed model for the 'Mona Lisa' had a chapel in the convent. More about Da Vinci: Did you read 'The Da Vinci Code' by Dan Brown and want to see the 'Mona Lisa'? It's at the Louvre in Paris, France, and this museum has a website where you can see (quicktime) virtual rooms of the museum. At the moment it's temporarily shown in the Rosa room (Denon wing - 1st floor - room 13), which is also represented on the web. |
| January 26, 2005 |
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