The Palais de Tokyo in Paris is officially my favorite museum in the world. I was recently treated to the awesome experience of Last Manoeuvres in the Dark by Fabien Giraud & Raphael Siboni: “Since 2007 Fabien Giraud and Raphael Siboni have shared an attraction towards community-based practice, bad taste and the different forms of […]
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diy camera
The Miroslav Tichy exhibit at the Pompidou Center shows a unique kind of outsider art: voyeuristic photographs shot by the Soviet artist using exclusively hand-made cameras pieced together from trash and household odds-and-ends to take complex if imperfect tele-photo and otherwise surprise visions of human nature. You can see all of his hand-made cameras and […]
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freaking surveillance
Annina has found a way to confound the watchers and make them think that the machines they are using against us have turned against them. link
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free art
The works of Felix Gonzalez-Torres are unsettling in a number of ways: first, because you are encouraged to take a piece of the art on display (in these cases, at Art Institute of Chicago). It’s not common to touch, even less to take away artwork from a museum. Second, because the pile diminishes as you […]
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holes in the wall
The Art Institute of Chicago houses a unique collection of meticulously fabricated miniature rooms, the so-called Thorne Miniature Rooms, to depict period interior spaces from the 18th, 19th and early 20th Centuries in the US, Europe, China and Japan. The 68 models a remarkably detailed at the scale of one inch to one foot (or […]
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material memory
in 2005 filmmaker bilge sehir presented a hoax thought experiment called ‘vases sonores‘ (sonorous vases) which hypothesized that the sounds occurring during the etching of ancient pottery were recorded by the ceramic itself as it spun on the wheel, and they could be played back to hear – albeit faintly – the voices of the […]
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webs of influence
I’ve been interested in depictions of the evolution of ideas and cultural movements since posting about Timothy Stotz’s amazingly complex evolutionary diagram of 500 years of art. Here are some other inspiring diagrams of evolution, culminating in the genealogy of Linux distribution, which is the clearest and most accurate because it’s built in to the […]
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visualizing influence
timothy stotz has made a stunning diagram called ‘the flowering staircase‘ to depict the chains of influence in european art from 1435 to 1935. the single image (4 MB download) links well-known painters and sculptors who were in direct contact, collaborated, and influenced each other positively or negatively. while most evolutionary diagrams (aka cladograms or […]
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