art – Page 6 – Adam Norwood

December 22, 2009

FluidPaint: an Interactive Digital Painting System using Real Wet Brushes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkl782OqqmA&feature=player_embedded

FluidPaint: An Interactive Digital Painting System using Real Wet Brushes. An experimental project by Tom Van Laerhoven of the Hasselt University Expertise Centre for Digital Media in Belgium. Unlike previous digital painting applications, this one uses actual water (detected by a surface-level IR emitter) to record strokes on the surface and more correctly models the tip of the brush being used, whether rounded or fanned, and it can even simulate a sponge. Looks like it makes some convincing watercolor-like images.

More info: Brush Design for Interactive Painting Applications (PDF)

(Via John Nack at Adobe)

art, graphics, painting,, simulation, video

December 21, 2009

The Rotating Kitchen

The Rotating Kitchen, an installation by Zeger Reyers that was put into motion at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf late last month, where it will keep rotating for the next three months. Hypnotic, like an inside-out katamari.

(Via today and tomorrow)

art, installation, video

December 11, 2009

Hito Steyerl: In Defense of the Poor Image

The poor image is a copy in motion. Its quality is bad, its resolution substandard. As it accelerates, it deteriorates. It is a ghost of an image, a preview, a thumbnail, an errant idea, an itinerant image distributed for free, squeezed through slow digital connections, compressed, reproduced, ripped, remixed, as well as copied and pasted into other channels of distribution.

[…]

At present, there are at least twenty torrents of Chris Marker’s film essays available online. If you want a retrospective, you can have it. But the economy of poor images is about more than just downloads: you can keep the files, watch them again, even reedit or improve them if you think it necessary. And the results circulate. Blurred AVI files of half-forgotten masterpieces are exchanged on semi-secret P2P platforms. Clandestine cell-phone videos smuggled out of museums are broadcast on YouTube. DVDs of artists’ viewing copies are bartered.³ Many works of avant-garde, essayistic, and non-commercial cinema have been resurrected as poor images. Whether they like it or not.

– Excerpted from Hito Steyerl’s piece in e-flux journal #10

(Via Rhizome)

art, art history, cinema, compression, essay, film, internet, theory, video, video art

December 11, 2009

Punball: Only One Earth (Modified Art Pinball)

Artist-modded classic pinball tables must be all the rage. Seen here: artist William T. Wiley’s Punball: Only One Earth, a modified version of Gottleib’s 1964 North Star table, currently on display at the Smithsonian.

(Via the Smithsonian’s Eye Level blog)

art, games, pinball, smithsonian

December 10, 2009

AAAARG.ORG
Visit the source: a.aaaarg.org

A ‘conversational’ collection of academic theory and discourse on arts, aesthetics, architecture (along with other non-alliterative disicipines), a user-contributed journal. Who needs grad school?

academia, architecture, art, criticism, literature, theory

December 9, 2009

Dreaming the Industrial Body

Dreaming the Industrial Body. I’m not sure that I’m following the info that they’re trying to convey about the sun’s effects on our bodies, but it’s definitely an eye-catching image as far as medical literature goes. From Der mensch gesund und krank [The Healthy and Sick Human], menschenkunde 1940 … . Vol. 2, displayed as part of the National Library of Medicine’s Dream Anatomy exhibit. Speaking of which, check out their cool children’s art page!

anatomy, art, design, illustration, information, life drawing, medicine

November 29, 2009

Pellet Gunn by Tim Beckhardt

A dog, a cyclops, and others kill some time with the help of wormholes and hobbyist self-modification. Made in 2008.

Pellet Gunn by Tim Beckhardt. Not 100% sure that I get the full story, but it’s great in a non sequitur, underground comix sort of way. His line work and hand-filled blacks are nicely composed, and the animation is fun. Extra points for the Philip Guston painting in the background.

animation, art, drawing, humor, risd

October 30, 2009

Roy Lichtenstein Makeup

Pretty awesome makeup job imitating an iconic Roy Lichtenstein pop art print. Not sure who the actual artist / model is, but found via Make.

art, color, comics, cosmetics, costume, fashion, halloween, makeup, pop art

September 18, 2009

Laser Cave Prototype

Interactive Audio Visual installation for
Mekanism’s “After School Special” art show
location: gray area foundation for the arts http://www.gaffta.org/

concept/construction : suryummy
visuals : suryummy
audio : suryummy, herbie hancock, various manipulated retro logos
software : VDMX

This is like a model of the world I wanted to live in when I was a kid, somewhere between Tron’s MCP mainframe world, Cybertron, and Marble Madness.

(Via Make)

art, future, lasers, retro, technology, video

September 12, 2009

Binocular Diplopia and the Book of Kells

How did reclusive monks living in the year 700 or 800 AD draw the intricate lines of the Book of Kells, rendered by hand at sub-millimeter resolution (about the same level of detail as the engraving work found on modern money), hundreds of years before optical instruments became available, hundreds of years before the pioneering visual research of Alhazen? According to Cornell paleontologist John Cisne’s theory, their trick was in the detail and pattern: by keeping their eyes unfocused on the picture plane, the monks could superimpose their linework and judge the accuracy against the template using a form of temporary binocular diplopia (sort of like willing yourself to view a stereograph or one of those Magic Eye posters).

That’s amazing.

art, book of kells, history, ireland, optics, research, science, vision

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