There was a time when my sister, cousin and I spent hours playing our Nintendo Super Mario Brothers. It was innocent fun: no killing, no stabbing, no blood. The only violence we inflicted in this virtual realm was squashing mobile mushrooms. Those were the wholesome days.
Photographer Robbie Cooper recorded children of today’s generation during their [...]
Didn’t have much time to explore, but apparently, Zune has created a forum where artists could share their ideas and present their work.
But that’s not the point of this post… Check out the ad that drives to this site! Both gross and poetic, this piece was created by Sibling Rivalry, “two very well experienced, self proclaimed viral advertising [...]
MoMA’s current exhibit, Looking at Music, explores the work of pioneering multidisciplinary artists who combined their craft with music and new media/technology. Parallel to the exhibit, there are screenings of art films which center around music and music videos directed by artists.
One of the featured pieces is this video directed by Andy Warhol for some [...]
Documenting performance art can be tricky. Although the piece is meant for the moment in which it’s taking place, an artist needs to preserve that fleeting moment for archival purposes (for the benefit of all art lovers, i think). Until now, performance art has been documented in photos, videos, catalogs, and viewers’ memories. However, in [...]
When was the last time you fell asleep to a bedtime story? Though it’s been ages for me, I still can hear my grandpa’s warm and gentle voice reading Mongolian fairy tales and lulling me to sleep.
For all those wanting to regress back to that cozy place, artist Susana Mendes Silva offered a bedtime story read [...]
Thanks to Create Digital Music (a forum for musicians using technology), I stumbled upon something called “audio responsive visual” where music is interpreted through programming language, or what is also known Processing. In this video, artist/designer/programmer Robert Hodgin’s (Flight404) visualizes “Lovely Head” a song by British group Goldfrapp. You’ll see that his interpretive code not [...]
Two weekends ago, I had the best Sunday afternoon with my relapeeps. After a nice brunch, my cousins and I went to the Brooklyn Art Museum to check out Takashi Murakami’s fabulous retrospective. When seen in bits and pieces, his art may seem superficial and infantile, flat and cartoonie. But when more than ninety works [...]
What do you get when you mix vodka, music, technology, and a dash of creativity? An awesome interactive music machine dubbed “ABSOLUT Quartet” commissioned by Absolut Vodka and envisioned by artists/technological sculptors/musicians Jeff Lieberman and Dan Paluska. This project is not only a genius combination of creative thought and technological knowledge, but is also a [...]
