Category Art

Primer: experience design

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Synthetic Pubes

Virtual girlfriend

rough footage from drew on Vimeo.
Drew Burrows

Acid trip of the day

For my smoking friends

Set to the music of Kraftwerk, “Autobahn” is an experiment in the art of animation, combining electronic art with manual animation techniques. A multi-dimensional animated tale of the adventures of a futuristic character and his travels through a fantastic landscape, the story is filled with strange apparitions and dangerous places.
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Damien Hirst opens art shop

British artist Damien Hirst opens shop to make his work accessible for more people with art prices ranging from £1,000 to £250,000. A great idea for making art democratic.
Evening Standard

New exhibition about dynamics of global cities at Tate Modern

Global Cities looks at the changing faces of ten dynamic international cities: Cairo, Istanbul, Johannesburg, London, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Mumbai, São Paulo, Shanghai and Tokyo.
Exploring each city through five thematic lenses – speed, size, density, diversity and form – the exhibition draws on data originally assembled for the 10th International Architecture Exhibition at the [...]

Effektsthlm: an exhibition about the climate 7-13 May

An exhibition by students of KTH Kommunikationsdesign (Communications design at the Royal Institute of Technology) presents eleven installations that address the climate issue from a different perspective.
The exhibition takes place between 7 and 13 May in Gallerian in Stockholm.
effektsthlm

At the far end of the long tail

This just fascinates me.
Meatpaper is a print magazine of art and ideas about meat. We like metaphors more than marinating tips. We are your journal of meat culture.

Meatpaper [via we make money not art]

The aesthetics of curiosity

I found this great book in the Tate Modern bookshop, which is a ultra-condensed introduction to the ‘what is art’ discussion, art history, various discourses and aesthetics. I strongly recommend it to anyone that’s interested in art but dislikes the idea investing two years in art history classes.
What does this book have to do [...]