RADAR a mobile and web series that I co-created and produce enters its' fourth season. New episodes ever Wed for the next 12 weeks www.babelgum.com/radar
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Bear71 is an amazing project from Jeremy Mendes and Leanne Allison. Produced by the NFB, the project premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Bear71 is a heartbreaking tale of a grizzly bear who after years of of being documented by wireless motion sensored trail cams is struck and killed by a train.
I co-created the installation as well as assisted with extending the social narrative of the project.
This is amazing. What a beautiful and breathtaking process and the results look totally real.
hat tip Dr. Dena.
Using knives, tweezers and surgical tools, Brian Dettmer carves one page at a time. Nothing inside the out-of-date encyclopedias, medical journals, illustration books, or dictionaries is relocated or implanted, only removed.
Dettmer manipulates the pages and spines to form the shape of his sculptures. He also folds, bends, rolls, and stacks multiple books to create completely original sculptural forms.
“My work is a collaboration with the existing material and its past creators and the completed pieces expose new relationships of the book’s internal elements exactly where they have been since their original conception,” he says.
Jonathan Harris’ work centers on memory. We Feel Fine was a powerful data viz project that captured memories by crawling the web for the phrase “I feel” or “I’m feeling” the result was a stunning and moving project. Now Jonathan has a new project entitled Today.
From youtube:
When Jonathan Harris ( http://number27.org ) turned 30, he began a simple ritual of taking one photo a day and posting it to his website before going to sleep, along with a short story. He called this project, ‘Today’.
The Whitney commissioned UBERMORGEN.COM to create CLICKISTAN, an interactive art piece meets funding initiative meets game. Players click their way through a number of mini games on a path to a donation opportunity.
Play CLICKISTAN
Recently stumbled upon Colorbind, an artful game for the iphone / ipod touch. It’s a fun and mellow app where gameplay involves connecting dots as you weave color strips together using your finger. A nice feature is the ability to save the ribbon art you create while playing.
Ryan Watkins-Hughes, founder of the FCKD Mag project, is a deconstructionist through and through. In this latest project, Ryan is making a social commentary on advertisements by purchasing the flashiest, advert filled magazines and altering the covers as well as the ads inside of the magazine. By adding his artwork to the already printed magazine Ryan is replacing the “junk food for the brain” with his own work. Once he hacks the magazines he then “shopdrops” them back on the shelf, to be picked up by an unsuspecting consumer.
Stumbled upon this wicked series that re-imagines 1977 as if the tech from today existed then. View the full set
Erika Iris Simmons uses analog things like vhs tapes, audio cassettes and 8mm film to create her art. “Ghosts in the Machine” is a series that creates 50 portraits using things that have become junk to many.
I spent the last few days at the Sundance Film Festival. When I’m at the fest I always make it a point to checkout the Frontier which is located in the basement of a mall. Its a sprawling space that brings together a nice mix of new media, tech and art. Here are a few pics.
20×200 brings limited edition art to the masses. The site has a threadless type vibe minus the competition but I think sites like Etsy, threadless and now 20×200 are wonderful discovery platforms for collectible and cool items. Would love to see something like this pop up for experimental visual works.
Today my Loveland deed came in the mail. I’m the proud owner of 25 inches of Detroit. I’ve written about Loveland the social ownership meets collaborative art meets urban revitalization project a number of times.
Jerry Paffendorf (founder of Loveland) joined us back in Nov for DIY DAYS LA. Here’s his presentation.
Checkout the other DIY DAYS VIDS
Just returned from a 24 hour trip to LA. Long commute for what turned out to be an amazing set of meetings – more on that another time. But upon returning tonight I was greeted by a package from Hong Kong. A few weeks back I ordered Evan Roth’s book “Available Online for Free – selected works by Evan Roth: 2003-2008.” I’ve been a fan of Evan’s stuff especially the Graffiti Research Lab. Love how his work embraces open source philosophies.
The following short directed by Matt Pyke and animated by Maxim Zhestkov was part of 42×42 a number of short works commissioned by 42 Below. The films needed to be 42 seconds long and surreal.
