More Great Gifs

. . . at Born in 1987, "an exhibition devoted to this overlooked image format native to the web and the computer screen." Keep scrolling down and it loads more.

More Cool Gifs

. . . at Flux Machine. (Thanks, Ben!)

Re- Re-Reading a Really Interesting Essay by Seth Price,

Dispersion (and thanks to Alison Hearst at the Modern of Fort Worth for bringing it to my attention); recommended . . . one thought it inspired: that for each art work shown via GoogleArtProject, the page for that work should include a chat facility where you can "meet" others who happen to be in the same "room" and discuss the work with them, as you might if you were in a bricks-and-mortar museum. (Image: screen grab of Chow time on the Madrid front, artist unkown, from the Museo Reina Sofia via GoogleArtProject.)

Tim Knowles' "Post Box"

"A parcel's journey from London E3 5QZ to Barra HS9 5XW.

"Revealing the unseen world of how mail is delivered to the farthest corners of the UK, Royal Mail gave Tim Knowles unique access to its delivery system. Creating an artwork that captures the experience of a parcel in the post – carried by foot, Royal Mail vans and trucks, a Boeing 737-300 cargo plane, a small Shorts 360 propeller Aircraft and a ferry – this object traveled 20 hours, 22 minutes. A specially constructed parcel recorded its own 902-mile journey through the postal system from London to the Isle of Barra, in a sequence of 20,000 images, a continuous audio recording and a GPS track.

"The artwork consists of a website on which the journey can be followed, and an accompanying book with 155 color photographs selected from the journey. . . .

* * * * *
"Post Box can be experienced at www.e3-hs9.com."

I really enjoyed the slide show here. Knowles is represented by bitforms.

UPDATE: Here's an "after" image of what was shipped.

Animated Gifcopia

Awesome agglomeration of animated gifs at imnotanartist.org. Note the secret messages.

(Thanks, Ben!)

Caleb Larsen's "A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter"

Acrylic, custom electronics, programming, internet connection, online auction (2009). The object continually pings to check whether it's being auctioned on ebay. If not, the object creates an auction. All sales are subject to the condition that the purchaser must "send [the object] to the new owner. The new owner must then plug it into ethernet," so the process can begin again. You can see/join in the current auction here.

Per Larsen, the work is discussed in the catalogue for his 2009 exhibition, The Value of Nothing, which can be purchased or downloaded here. From Larsen via Make.

(So that's what the monolith in 2001 was.)

Monofonus Press's

American Trashcan field recordings is worth visiting even if just to see the header (you have to watch for a bit to get the full benefit).

The entries look cool, too.

"Second Life Performance Night" at Eyebeam

(NY). "Alan Sondheim along with Foofwa d'Imobilite will present a performance using the aesthetics of the Second Life (or see Wikipedia) environment to create an experimental choreography; Lily & Honglei will present The Merry-Go-Around — a virtual installation addressing a series of environmental issues in today’s China; [and] Second Front has discovered a virtual crypt within Second Life and are inviting the public to witness its opening. Together, these three short performances (12-15 minutes each) will sample some of the contemporary trends in Second Life performance art.

"The performances will be followed by a brief panel discussion and a subsequent launch party of Avvie Road — the second DVD of Second Front’s performance works."

More at Eyebeam; wish I could be there.

Kanyeliciou.us-ness

If you or a friend has a website, go here and paste the URL in.

By Pepe, Author No. 34 on nastynets

Click on the image to enlarge. See Pepe on nastynets for more of his stuff; see nastynets for more also-great stuff by other artists.

Update Re- Rick Silva Project

These are frames from animations that are part of Rick's rapidly evolving "blog art" work here (you can enlarge the stills at right by clicking on them, but the work looks much better in the flesh, so I rec. going to the link). All are part of "a landscape/natural phenomena-inspired work that mixes looping video, sound, and images."

UPDATE: This work has made the first cut for a Rhizome commission (congrats, Rick!); you can vote it up here.

New from Rick Silva

This post has been updated and moved here.

Abe and Mo Sing the Blogs

. . . here, is a treasure trove. E.g., the lyrics of the first song are from hansbernhardblog):

September 15, 2005

Breakfast Drugs
12:15

2x500 mg Depakine
1x300 mg Neurotop
0,05 mg Thyrex
250 microgram Seretide
1 Coffee

The entirety of hansbernhardblog appears devoted to simply listing drugs taken mornings and evenings. Abe and Mo sing this post as heavy metal, but their stylistic range is broad.

The subsequent songs are just as good.

P.S.: Love that hairstyle on Marisa -- really.

THE PROGRAM

Me, Bart Weiss, and Dee Mitchell, co-curators of the DVF ' 08's new, new media and video art series, THE PROGRAM. Ok, yeah; in reality, I'm cuter. (Image scavenged by the superb Danette.)

As you may know, the DVF was the first in TX to show video art by Michel Auder, Matthew Barney, Paul Chan, Harun Farocki, Graffiti Research Lab, William Kentridge, Paul McCarthy, Tony Oursler, Pipilotti Rist, Martha Rosler, and Bill Viola, among many others.

This year, the new media and video art portion of the DVF will be presented separately from the rest of the Fest, in an expanded series of programs over a five-week period, with each week's work remaining on exhibit until the next week's is installed.

Nothing's set in stone yet, but it looks like there's a decent chance we'll get to show -- no, I'm afraid of jinxing it. But I will say, I'm really excited about the way the schedule's shaping up.

5 shows over 5 weeks, with openings on 5 consecutive Sat. nites, after-parties, etc. etc. Starting July 26 at Conduit Gallery.

Ink it into your calendar; and tell your friends!

"Accidental Blue Screen" by John Michael Boling

Roll over the blue areas in the pics here.

"cover this YouTube in blood" by Guthrie Lonergan

Go here and follow the instructions. (Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work on YouTube video embedded elsewhere.)

Lots of other fun stuff on his site; e.g., how to hack your own myspace profile.

Artist Plays U.S Military's Marketing Video Game

On March 20, 2008, the fifth anniversary of the date of the U.S.'s latest invasion of Iraq, Joseph DeLappe will enact his ongoing protest and memorial art work within the DoD's online military recruiting and marketing video game, America's Army. Using the login name "dead-in-Iraq," DeLappe will enter the multiplayer game as a player and, forgoing fighting, use the game's features to memorialize US troops killed in Iraq.

More at Eyebeam.

Artists Surveille the Internet: The Listening Post

By Ben Rubin and Mark Hansen. "[T]he messages you see and hear flowing across the grid of 231 vacuum tube screens are derived from a continuous live feed from thousands of internet chatrooms."

Per the U.K.'s TimesOnline, after years of updates and a stint at the Whitney, the piece has now become part of the permanent collection at the Science Museum in London. More, including the Times' own video, at the link above.

Cao Fei’s "iMirror"

. . . a documentary “filmed” entirely in Second Life and directed by her SL avatar China Tracy. Including some slightly hilarious avatar disco dancing and rather long credits at the end, Part 3, below, is 9:28 min.



Part 1 opens with a great quote from William J. Mitchell's Me++: The Cyborg Self and the Networked City: "I construct, and I am constructed, in a mutually recursive process that continually engages my fluid, permeable boundaries and my endlessly ramifying networks. I am a spatially extended cyborg."

More iMirror: Part 1, Part 2.

Info re- current exhibits of Fei's work at Artkrush, which quotes Fei, "[i]n the end, I think this 3-D world is the future world." Which 3-D world?

Shual

Go here and wait a few seconds (speakers rec'd) . . . nice.