May 2011
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A comparison of Robert Lang’s design for his “Cooper’s Hawk” with Sarah Morris’ painting, Falcon
ORIGAMI ARTISTS SUE SARAH MORRIS May…
March 2011
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Mark Lombardi’s Information Art →
Installation shot of the Mark Lombardi exhibition on view at Pierogi Gallery (all photos by author)
A solo exhibition of works by Mark Lombardi at Pierogi gallery in Williamsburg,…
The Best Picture on the Internet →
The Best Picture on the Internet – Indeed. Via: @papermonument
February 2011
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EchoEcho: buddy finder
Echoecho is a location-based service that answers the simple question: where are my friends right now?
4dviews
3d modeling based on multi-camera capture
Robots:…
The dead end of collaboration →
Around 2005, three amazing selves – the art duo UBERMORGEN.COM, Alessandro Ludovico and Paolo Cirio – started a collaboration that ended up producing two great works: GWEI –…
December 2010
12 posts
Meta Best of 2010 List →
Every year we pick the best of the best of 2010 lists; the ones that pick the lesser known, the underrated or the overlooked, as well as the ones that cover the best ground. Here’s this year’s…
Manifesta Journal: #10 "The Curator as Producer" →
This issue of Manifesta Journal takes its title from “The Author as Producer,” a lecture delivered by Walter Benjamin in 1934 in which he argues that the presumed autonomy of the creator…
Deitch Breaks Silence On Blu Whitewash →
MOCA Director Jeffrey Deitch has finally broken his silence and spoken to the Los Angeles Times over the recent whitewashing of the Blu wall commissioned for the upcoming Art in the Streets…
Surfing, new regular on Flash Art Italia →
In the last issue of Flash Art (Italian edition) I launched a new regular called Surfing. I’d like to reflect broadly on the way the Internet is impacting on contemporary art. In the…
The Museum of Modern Art, New York : Allora &... →
Allora & Calzadilla, Stop, Repair, Prepare: Variations on “Ode to Joy” for a Prepared Piano, 2008. Modified Bechstein piano, pianist.*
The Museum of Modern Art
December 8, 2010 – January…
PIECE FOUND, DIAMOND CLAIMED! →
PIECE FOUND, DIAMOND CLAIMED! For Ahmet Öğüt’s work titled “Black Diamond”, a small piece has been removed from a wall inside ARTER and buried in 9 tons of coal. If a viewer was…
Free Events in December →
Jill Magid, Becoming Tarden, 2010
I wanted to alert you to a number of events happening this month, organized in conjunction with the exhibition “Free,” now on view at the New Museum….
Funware _playing with software art →
Making and using software can be experimental, humorous and aesthetically rich.
The international exhibition Funware deals with this Fun-factor in software development, and the many ways…
New Style Curators: Do They Exist? →
Left to right: Rex Sorgatz, Ceci Moss, Joanne McNeil, and Paddy Johnson
November 18th I participated in New Style Curators, a panel discussion about online curation at The New…
Now Available in English: Paul Virilio's The... →
Cover image: Joy Garnett, “Freeway” (2009) oil on canvas. 38 x 44 inches.
The Futurism of the Instant: Stop-Eject By Paul Virilio. Translation by Julie Rose.
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Brit Hit 24-Hour Clock Coming to New York City →
Still from Christian Marclay “The Clock” (image from artinfo.com)
Christian Marclay’s video piece “The Clock,” shown at London’s White Cube gallery last month, was the runaway hit…
Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers... →
e-flux - http://e-flux.com December 1, 2010 www.artswriters.org artswriters.org/writing_workshop.html The Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program is
pleased to…
November 2010
23 posts
Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM):... →
YCAM [Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media] , Japan
13 November 2010 – 6 February 2011 Carsten Nicolai and Marko Peljhan, two artists who keep operating on the international stage, team up…
Berlin Biennale 2012 →
Within the framework of the 7th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art in 2012, curated by Artur Żmijewski, artists from all over the world are requested to send in their artist material for a…
NEWS: Bruno Latour Wins 2010 Nam June Paik Art... →
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NEWS: Bruno Latour Wins 2010 Nam June Paik Art... →
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Great BBC Documentary on Ai Weiwei (Video) →
I highly recommend you watch all four parts of this recent BBC documentary about Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, Ai Weiwei — Without Fear or Favor. It is fantastic and informative. Ai is one of the most…
New CinderBlock: Kinect →
I am pleased to announce that Cinder can now support all of your Kinect hacking needs. With the new Kinect CinderBlock, you can very easily obtain depth map and rgb image, and additionally control…
The History of Airport Security, Visualized [Tsa] →
The TSA’s been under fire for everything from overly aggressive screenings to ongoing privacy concerns. That’s where we are. But how did we get here? Like anything else: step…
BENGU KARADUMAN@TODAY'S ZAMAN →
Exploring new ways to see reality, Bengü Karaduman’s first solo show in Turkey is currently on display at the Outlet Independent Art Space in İstanbul’s Tophane neighborhood. Featuring…
Rijksakademie: RijksakademieOPEN 2010 →
Residency 2012 The Rijksakademie Residency in Amsterdam is an international place of research and production for emerging professional artists from all over the world. Resident artists…
Vija Celmins and Joe Scanlan at Jan Mot →
Artists: Vija Celmins, Joe Scanlan
Venue: Jan Mot, Brussels
Exhibition Title: Recent Works
Date: October 30 – December 4, 2010
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Whitney Taps Elisabeth Sussman and Jay Sanders to... →
The 2012 Whitney Biennial will be orchestrated by Whitney photography curator Elisabeth Sussman and former art dealer Jay Sanders, who previously worked at Greene Naftali and Marianne…
Reading The Believer’s 2010 Art Issue →
The Believer: The 2010 Art Issue, Issue No. 76, November-December 2010
It’s easy enough to tell that The Believer is a publication from California from looking at the cover of their…
Processing and Threads →
This year in my ITP Introduction to Computational Media course, we added an two new weeks of material about Strings, server-side programming, and databases. These tutorials can be found…
Streaming video with UDP in Processing →
ITP students Jeff Howard and Alex Vessels are working on a video piece for the upcoming Big Screens show. One of the challenges we’ve always had working on the IAC Video Wall is that…
“The Nightmare of Participation” by Markus Miessen →
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this third part of Miessen’s Participation trilogy encourages the role of what he calls the “crossbench practitioner,” an “uninterested outsider” and “uncalled participator” who is…
Components of Science Fiction #scifi →
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Fredrik Pohl: “A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam“.
As claimed by Fredrik Pohl “A good science fiction story should…
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#IAmSpartacus campaign explodes on Twitter in support of airport joker | Technology | guardian.co.uk
Thousands of tweeters repeat bombing joke in support of Paul Chambers, who lost his appeal…
Fiona Banner at Tate Britain →
I tend to avoid blogging about the most well-known galleries. I doubt they need my posts to attract the crowds. On Thursday however, i went to Tate Britain to see Fiona Banner’s…
Week in Review: November 14, 2010 →
Welcome to Week in Review, our Sunday round-up of the last 7 days of activity here at Contemporary Art Daily. Please subscribe to our RSS feed, follow us on Twitter, follow us on…
William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible →
Watch the full episode. See more ART:21.
Olivier - The French Foreign Legion →
Rineke Dijkstra photographed a 18-year-old legionnaire named Olivier Silva, minutes after he had been accepted into the legion. She photographed him six more times over the course of…
“Creative computing” magazine →
Recently ran across this curious magazine called “Creative Computing“, one of the earliest covering the microcomputer revolution (published from 1974 until December 1985). Readers interested…
İstanbul Modern: Kutlug Ataman →
10 November 2010 – 6 March 2011 İstanbul Modern presents the first retrospective in Turkey by Kutluğ Ataman, a prominent figure in the contemporary art world. Realized under the…
October 2010
2 posts
The Museum of Modern Art, New York: New... →
Elad Lassry. “Herend (Sweet Pea),” 2010. Chromogenic color print.*
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Through January 10, 2011 The 2010 edition of MoMA’s annual photography series…
Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle:... →
Tayfun Serttaş, “From the Studio Osep Archive,” 2009.
Centre for Contemporary Art
Ujazdowski Castle 18 September – 7 November 2010 The exhibition Diverçity. Learning from Istanbul…
September 2010
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International Contemporary Art Prize Diputació de... →
Espai d’art contemporani de Castelló The jury of the International Contemporary art Prize Diputació de Castelló, gathered on September 24th 2010, has decided to give the prize to the…
June 2010
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May 2010
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Novelty and Habituation
Reading Colin Martindale’s book The Clockwork Muse where he attempts to explain aethetic evolution using scientific methods.
Among all properties of all creative works, he focuses on two minor forces that operate against each other and determine historical trends as they are the only consistent forces:
Habituation forces that force poets or artists to express themselves in new ways
The...