Tag: ART

Despite what Roger Ebert has said about video games not being art, The Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. will host an entire exhibition next year dedicated to the medium. 'The Art of Video Games,' which runs from March 16th, 2012 to September 9th, will feature interviews with several artists and developers, game footage spanning 40 years, a thorough history of gaming consoles, ...

It's Valentine's Day, and Google is celebrating the occasion with a special homepage doodle, and a new, 'Map Your Valentine' location-sharing service for lovers. The doodle is designed as a pretty obvious homage to Robert Indiana's famous 'LOVE' image, with a heart replacing the first "O" in a re-arranged Google logo, and the second one slanted to the right. Unlike recent homepage doodles, ...

Writers and directors sometimes implore the public to submit brief, incremental elements in order to build a larger story or movie. Brooklyn artist Clement Valla recently embarked on a similar crowd-sourcing project, called 'Seed Drawings,' but her goal was to construct living, evolving artworks. Valla initially created artistic building blocks, and then asked the public -- via Amazon Mechanical ...

Google's Art Project may allow you to visit London's National Gallery and Florence's Uffizi Gallery, but if you want to gaze at the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel from your living room, you'll have to head to the Vatican's website. There, you'll be able to spend your whole afternoon staring at Michelangelo's masterpiece, rendered in a beautiful, high-resolution panorama. Your virtual visit will ...

Multimedia/performance artist Wafaa Bilal has been forced to remove the camera he had attached to the back of his head in December. The camera, which streamed images to Bilal's website and to the Mathaf in Doha, Qatar, was implanted by a body modification artist (read: tattoo guy), but his immune system rejected it. (Also, he was in constant pain.) Bilal had the camera surgically removed on ...

Geeks, tinkerers and amateur engineers obviously love Rube Goldberg devices, those overly complicated, ridiculous contraptions that accomplish mundane, everyday tasks. Akay, a Swedish street artist, has assembled one impressively complex technical apparatus that both defiles and brightens the urban landscape with a single and (seemingly) simple swoosh. Using a bicycle and a diverse array of ...

Share Part art project, part dating site, and part ingenious hacking exercise, 'Face to Facebook' is the brain child of Paolo Cirio and Alessandro Ludovico. The digital artists stole (in their own words) one million Facebook profiles -- everything from interests to photos -- provided that data was public. With their massive collection of liberated data, Cirio and Ludovico began poring over the ...

We've seen the Kinect do some pretty amazing tricks. It's easy to forget, though, that, despite all the hacking and bolting the gaming peripheral to robots, the Kinect is a video camera at heart. Artists Dom Jones and Dan Nixon recorded and processed the footage for a video from a band called Echo Lake using the Kinect. The results are a sublime blend of musical specters performing the song, ...

Google Street View has known its share of controversy and embarrassment in the past, but a new project could do wonders for the virtual tour-guide application's reputation. Google has partnered with 17 international art museums to provide virtual walking tours of their legendary halls. By visiting the Google Art Project, art fans can roam the halls of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, ...

Alexander Chen's Conductor, which is hosted at MTA.me, is an animated map of the NYC subway. Fed with departure data from the Metropolitan Transit Authority in New York City, Conductor traces the train routes before your eyes. But it's just as fun to listen to as it is to watch: As trains pass each other, they produce plucked notes, and you can strum them yourself to make beautiful train track ...

A dancing robot in Germany is providing an entirely new, and high-tech, meaning to the ol' musical phrase "spinning wax." Created by designer Hermann August Weizenegger and composer Michalj Kekenj for Berlin's Made art studio, the Kuka robo-dancer possesses unprecedented moves and skills. According to Wired, "the robot is programmed to process and interpret Kekenj's musical compositions -- which ...

For Yuri Vishnevesky, Weavesilk is a colorful, interactive exercise in creative doodling. After using your mouse to draw on his site's 'night sky' -- simply by connecting dots with lines -- watch Vishnevesky's whimsical program render your scrawl into complex, textured smoke-scapes of psychedelic hues. The young Rutgers student envisions his project as being touch-based, perhaps for the iPhone or ...

Inspired by raindrops, a German software engineer created some dazzling photographs of ink bouncing off the surface of water, a phenomenon that would normally be invisible to the naked eye. According to The Daily Mail, amateur photographer Tobias Brauening rigged a circuit board to trigger a camera shutter, and to open three valves at the same moment. Each valve drops a different color of ink ...

Last week we covered Edward Horsford's impressive images of exploding water balloons, and we just recently stumbled upon Shinichi Maruyama's stunning slo-mo video and photos of thrown liquids. The Queens-based sculptor tosses ink, paint and water with his hands, and shoots the infinite variations with a high-end Phase One P45 camera. Don't miss the video after the break. ...

Aside from inducing a very modern kind of tech rage, the OS X spinning pinwheel of death just lacks the simple beauty of Susan Kare's original icons for the Macintosh in the '80s. For anyone in need of last minute holiday shopping ideas, Tim Shey spotted these signed prints over at Kare's site. Glossy modern OSes may be marked by bevels and drop shadows, but it doesn't get much better than the ...