Entries from hypercanvas tagged with 'art'
Street Art - Berlin - Photoshop Palettes on Advertisements
Clever niche speak. Remind people that the ads they are always looking at are not representations of reality. Instantly communicated to any and all designers. Flickr Set via Kottke...
Iphone Sketches
These sketches were all created on the iphone using the "Brushes" program. Very nice. Flickr Set of Iphone paintings...
Bad Apple
When I first saw that Armin Heinrich posted an iPhone app to the App Store called "I Am Rich", I thought: "Brilliant". This program displays nothing but a red gem, and has no function but to display your wealth to...
Looking again at the everyday
Organic video - Example 2 from electro on Vimeo. From Electro: I wrote a loop which goes through the current video frame that it's on, looking at the pixel colours and then plot's the results to a 'canvas'. For...
Advanced Beauty
Advanced Beauty is releasing another DVD. They are releasing one every Monday for 18 weeks, which is pretty exciting. See our previous coverage here. From their site: Advanced Beauty is an ongoing exploration of digital artworks born and influenced...
Internet Art, Net.Art, state of the art?
Back in the day, circa 1998, I fell in love with what was possible to do with art on the net. Then, and now, one of the best versions of net.art I know of is Superbad. Now, the field is...
The Building as Canvas
Yes it is very "Blade Runner", and appropriate that it comes out of China as well. Using LED technology an initiative called "GreenPix" has created a zero energy media wall that takes up the side of a building. From the...
Music Videos
For me, the hypercanvas as a concept was first introduced by MTV. Growing up in Wyoming I had never been introduced to a lot of creative media. When MTV came about it was a revelation. MTV impacted me for the...
Like YouTube for Artists
Rojo TV is a YouTube for artists. They focus only on creative art works. These works are broken up into channels by artists. Although I love the concept, the execution of this site is lacking. There aren't any suggestion tools...
Lilium Urbanus
Joji Tsuruga and Anca Risca created Lilium Urbanus for their SVA thesis. It is a delightful piece of art and a stunning accomplishment. Click the image to watch it. From: We Make It Good....
Visualizing the Art of Consumption
Chris Jordan is a Seattle based artist with a series called "Running the Numbers". It is a series of massive prints (think 60x80 inches) that depict the number of a certain thing that is consumed by the world over a...
Outdoor Art at the Meatpacking District
Google launched their new art themed browsers late last month. As it happens, we stumbled upon their launching show at the Meatpacking District a few weeks back. Projected art engulfed the buildings at the prominent intersection of 9th Avenue...
Simply Incredible
I agree with computerlove, who said about this piece of incredible art: "I have no words to describe this, just watch". Just watch. The new short film by Blu an ambiguous animation painted on public walls. Made in Buenos...
Holy Fire
If you happen to be in Brussels between now and the end of April, you have an opportunity to check out "Holy Fire" presented by iMAL Center for Digital Cultures and Technology. I couldn't sum it up better than...
Beyond the Feel of Computer Generated Art
Brandon Morse....
Giant Steps
Giant Steps, by Michal Levy, is a delightful bit of animation set to John Coltrane. It is a work that plays with delight, reminding me that art can be fun and straight forward. via ComputerLove...
Daily Posting
I've fallen behind lately in posting to hypercanvas and also my daily photo blog: http://www.smatter.tv/eye. Things have seemingly gotten busy, but that seems to happen from time to time. I have also been thinking about all of these blogs that...
Sound Sculptures
"Advanced Beauty is an ongoing exploration of digital artworks born and influenced by sound...is an ever-growing collaboration between programmers, artists, animators and architects. The first release will be a collection of Audio-Visual Sound Sculptures, on High Definition DVD and...
Explorable Art
The Graveyard is a very short computer game designed by Auriea Harvey and Michaël Samyn. You play an old lady who visits a graveyard. You walk around, sit on a bench and listen to a song. It's more like an...
The New Pirates of Digital Graffiti
I wanna be a pirate! [UPDATE]: There is an active discussion going on suggesting that this may have been a paid inclusion in the billboards and not a "hack". The artist skullphone has neither confirmed nor denied that it was...
Who Goes to the Museum?
Art Vent had a brief entry about how the price of entry into the major museums prevents actual working artists, and working folk in general, from seeing much of the current exhibitions. "So the question then becomes, who are museums...
Art Generated From Data Feeds
Noplace is a project by Marek Walczak and Martin Wattenberg through a grant by Creative Capital of New York City. Visual and audio feeds from select sources are combined to create visual/audio collages. Meant to stimulate discussion on utopian landscapes...
Graphic History
Bob Staake has arranged an amazing page of mid-twentieth century poster designs. The work is brilliant, but the arrangement of the page is just as brilliant. It is nice that Bob can let this work speak volumes without adding commentary....
The 'Try Before You Buy' Approach to Art Collecting
I live and work in the gallery district of Chelsea New York. In the five years I've lived between 10th and 11th street I've seen galleries blossom around me taking up every nook like so many weeds. In the same...
20x200
In early January we wrote about a site where you can buy limited edition art prints for ridiculously good prices. It seems we weren't the only ones to take notice. The New York Times wrote a nice article on Jen...
Roll your own art media browser
The creative and resourceful folks at The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis wanted to display some youtube videos in a gallery show. They wanted to display this art on TV's located in the gallery. They have some talented programmers there,...
Digital Media Art Collection
The wide consumer population is concerned with collecting, organizing and using digitized media in a simple way. Years from now this will all be solved and we won't even think about it. For now, it is a little bit of...
YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES
At the New Museum you can view this installation (In Black on White, Gray Ascending, (2007)) by Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries. Some of us remember work by this artist at the Whitney Biennial years back. I love this work...
Dynamic Fun on Screen
Unleash Victor Taba's dynamic work here....
Worth checking out
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3d painting
You probably saw this on Engaget this morning, but I want to spread it too. Using real-time software these artists are painting in virtual 3d space. It just happens to be called graffiti, but that is just how it is...
Give me your content
I found this on ffffound, which found it here. So my question is, in an embedded world where we are all pointing to original sources and not claiming something for our own, are we violating copyright? Interesting thoughts here....
The Art of Time
Mylumi is a duo of artists. Their "Zeitgeist-Clock" is an analog clock with flip panels that change every hour and every minute giving you "the world's tiniest museum". I love this....
Beautiful.
This has been making the blog rounds, but it truly is remarkable. Mark Khaisman is an artist that uses packing tape to make his work. Well, that makes it official, the only thing limiting anyone is imagination!...
Just because it's from Microsoft doesn't mean
it can't ...smatter. The zune-arts.net site is a great example of what I want smatter to accomplish. promote great art, and don't over push your own brand....
Just for fun.
This made my day. via Edward Winkleman via Art Fag City...
Photo A Day
One of my new years resolutions is to get more content into the world. To that end, I've put up a very simple website that serves one new photo a day. So far, I think most of these photos will...
Peepshop
Peepshop is a webstore in the UK where you can pick up some nice limited edition prints of some, mostly graphic, artwork. Editions of 30, signed and really cheap. Although £ 50 just aint what it used to be. Currently...
I love everything about FFFFOUND
In case you haven't been there yet, although of course you have, go to FFFFOUND! it is like heaven for visual people. They call it image bookmarking, but for me it is visual travel. Eventually, I think copyright violations will...
Banksy
I've got to get over to the Banksy show this month. This is the craziest month, but to miss this would be criminal. Of course, Banksy seems to be mainstream now so it doesn't feel so good to go...but there...
Limited Edition and Affordable Prints
Thanks to Wooster Collective, I found Paper Monster. They are a site featuring limited edition art prints by emerging artists. Very affordable and cool. I'll take one for Christmas. Here's a link to the page where you can buy it...
You gotta starta SOMAwhere
I was struck with envy this morning. When I read something about START SOMA mobile wall papers, and clicked onto their site only to find that it was not a horrific imitator, but the real thing. Real art, real artists...
$32 million for fish?
Here we have the world's largest artificial aquarium screen saver. These screens actually are used to display a whole lot of compelling visual content. Thankfully, artists are getting their hands wet in this new liquid crystal future. Here is the...
Joshua Davis
I saw a link on Kottke pointing to Apple's website with a write up on the uber excellent graphic artist Joshua Davis. Marta first found Davis' work in a Wired article some time back. The Apple interview is interesting for...
The kind of art we are looking for
Artist San Base has created algorithms to animate his paintings. The work becomes a never ending evolution of his original idea. This is a form of art we embrace at Smatter and know there are many more like San doing...
File under wow.
I love this flickr set too. Polaroids (which are so vanishing that they matter now) by Grant Hamilton of shapes, color and form. Awesome. Thanks to swissmiss for this....
artnet Art Resource
"artnet is the place to buy, sell and research fine art online" artnet...
Art and the Military
"That's something that tends to happen with new technology generally: the most interesting applications turn up on the battlefield, or in a gallery." William Gibson Discuss......
Street Art in France - Yes!
in_out 1.0 Nancy 15/12/06Uploaded by metavideo...
Design Blog Worth Tracking
Comprehensive design magazine Outnext. Broader coverage than Moco Loco, but along the same lines. Tags let you access entries like New York, LA, World's Best Spas, etc. "OUTNEXT is a web magazine featuring all the things you crave, the best...
Our niche: a true net artform
Last week I read this blog post which is a call to geeks and artists to step up and define a new kind of net art: "I'm waiting - and have been for over ten years - for the arrival...
Art Hedge Fund
As reported in the New York Sun this morning, the Art Trading Fund hopes to develop a hedge fund for the art investing market. Their methods have been tried to some success before, but most are skeptical that art can...
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