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Art: The Image Fulgurator
The Austrian Prix Ars Electronica organized since 1987 has itself long established as an indicator for trends in contemporary media art. Participation by internationally renowned artists from over 70 countries and almost 38,000 entries since it was first awarded demonstrate its high visibility as an interdisciplinary platform for computer artists around the world to showcase their work and projects in art, technology and society.
This year more than 4000 artist from 62 countries participated with their projects. The winners were announced last week and German Artist Julius von Bismark with his project “The Image Fulgurator” won one of the five “Golden Nicas” this year for his submission in the category Interactive Art.
Julius von Bismark describes The Image Fulgurator as a device to physically manipulate photography. The intervention happens while the image is taken and almost imperceptible by the photographer. Only when reviewing…
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Credit Crunch - Graffiti Street Art by Syd TV
The topic of the credit crisis and the issues for people are becoming more and more popular in the UK. This video shows Syd.TV creating a graffiti on this topic together with clips of prominent participants and news reporting…
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Video: Adrian Munsey - The Lost Sheep
We know the 1970s were a strange and sometimes confusing time for many, but for Adrian Munsey this period must have been extra challenging. Demonstrating outstanding Dadaist qualities, Adrian Munsey together with an orchestra of friends (and a few sheep) performs this ode to sheep live and…
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Happy Birthday: Keith
We’ve almost missed it - today would have been Keith Haring’s 50th birthday, but he died of AIDS in 1990.
Below we have put together a capture of what is displayed of his work when you search for his name on Google Images…
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Animation: The old Man and the Sea
This beautiful animation of Hemingway’s saga “The old man and the sea” has been completely hand painted - all 29,000 frames of it. It’s actually more an independent film created by Russian artist Alexander Petrov and Canadian Pascal Blais Productions that helped him to get the 21 minute film onto celluloid with IMAX technology.
It won a series of awards and received an Oscar nomination for Best Animation Short Film…
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Design: Packaging by Carlo Giovani
Brazilian designer Carlo Giovani provides us with a fresh view into package design. Samples of his diverse work available on “his website” include box design for a MTV DVD or the band Turbo Trio and our favorite the Chinese Tea Box…
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Exhibition: Design and the Elastic Mind
If you happen to be in New York this weekend you might want to visit this exceptional exhibition at the MoMa ranging across design, technology and science.
You can get a first taste and explore many of the exhibits on the “interactive MoMa web site” put up for the event and designed by “Yugo Nakamura”…
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Design: Skateboard Artwork
These decks are stunning. Vancouver based artist Nathan Matthews aka Giant Human creates them for various skateboard labels.
Check out his work (he does snowboards too) at “his web site”.
We found some of his deck designs at the following shops/labels…
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Animation: Une Histoire Vertebrale
A beautiful 9 minute short film by Jeremy Clapin. In calm pictures he shows us the emotional state of his main character - a lonely man - and his search for others. Brilliant work that won more than 10 awards…
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Design: Rafael Rozendaal’s web sites
The subjects of Rafael Rozendaal’s web sites range from clouds to blood, from hands to farts, from hills to dollars, from doors to fire. They are interactive, some are like pieces of pop art, others a bit absurd.
His latest creation “colorflip.com” got quite some popularity on various forums the last days and…
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