Thomas Pavitte wanted to create the most complex dot-to-dot drawing, so he made a 6,239 dot to dot Mona Lisa drawing. It took him 9 hours and 15 minutes to connect all the dots on the A0 poster. Impressive work.
found at Colossal
Time Print Machine by Paul Ferragut is a printing system using felt pen on blotting paper. The felt-pen ink bleed in the paper for a duration relative to the grey value of a pixel. Every “time stain” gradually recreates any images in a pointillist style. The aim of this project is to emphasize the making process, it can take 20 hours to print one color on a A2 paper.
The series Broken Houses by Ofra Lapid, is based on photographs of abandoned structures neglected by man and destroyed by the weather. The photographs are found on the internet and used to create small scale models. Afterward the models are photographed again, omitted from their background and placed in gray.
found at acidolatte
A few months ago, Nicolas Sassoon made an architectural proposal for the online art collective Computers Club. I already liked it back then, but he produced and released an altered version, in just black and white, for ”STREET SHOW: The Things Between US”. Watch it in HD!
Soundtrack by Sara Ludy.
</frameset> is an exhibition, a monument and an archive dedicated to the HTML tag <frameset>, setup by some students from the Interface Design department at the Merz Akademie in Stuttgart, Germany.
The HTML tag was introduced in 1996 with version 2.0 of Netscape browser. This tag made it possible to divide a browser window into parts and show several HTML documents at once.
A lot has been written about this most controversial tag in the history of markup languages. Already in the year it was created, usability experts announced that it breaks fundamental rules of hypertext and navigation. It was hated in the end of the 1990′s and neglected in the new millennium.
In March 2011 W3C finally removed frames from the HTML5 standard.
</frameset> is a collection of 5205 framesets from Geocities, 100 “No Frames!” buttons and some experiments by the students like the ones below. Check them out!
Caramelldansen by Esra Bayrak
Tangible Closet by Esra Bayrak
Cabinet of Dreams by Saskia Aldinger
Flexible Dancefloor Disco by Saskia Aldinger
Psycho by Salvador Cobo-Jimena
360° by Jan Wenger
GIF MARKET is a new project by Kim Asendorf and Ole Fach. The animated GIF is probably the most popular net.art file format at the moment and it’s only a matter of time till some animated GIFs will end up in art collections.
The GIF MARKET is located on the way to future. It’s not on the destination, much more shortly after the start, but it’s one of the pioneer projects for giving files a value.
The project contains a series of 1024 animated GIFs, each named by a #number. The GIFs show a black line which marks the centre for the 1px large particles rotating around it. #1 is the most unique, it has only 1 pixel flying around, and therefore the most expensive. Down to the end there are so many particles that you can’t see the difference between #950 and #1000.
The price gets calculated by this formula:
PRICE = (SALES / NUMBER) * 16
Each sale increases the price, at the end the #1 will cost 16,384.00€.
BTW, I bought #23 last Saturday at a very low price. It was an excellent investment!
Michael Kukla made these amazing sculptures. He wants to create organic surfaces by drilling and grinding out cellular-like structures in marble or plywood slabs. Very impressive work.
found at Sojamo
Over and Over Again by Jonas Lund: a Website that loads itself over and over again.
Street Show and 0-DAY ART are 2 new art projects which I think are very exciting. Street Show is a new exhibition format developed by Michael Manning. It is based on the Dead Drops project by Aram Bartholl, USB flash drives are somewhere hidden in a public locations and people can add and/or download files from them. The first Street Show is currently taking place in New York and is titled “The Things Between Us”. Michael asked 22 artists to make a piece based on the idea of TRANSFER. So if you want to see the artworks, you’ll have to go to 540 W. 21 St. (@ Eyebeam Center for Art + Technology) in New York City. You better bring you laptop and a USB cable.
The Street Show exhibition format is an experiment in the absurd pursuit of creating scarcity in the distribution of digital media. Visitors to the Dead Drop are free to take a file, delete a file, take all the files and so on ad infinitum, the future distribution of the work is uncertain once installed. It places the power of “ownership” of unique files in the hands of its audience and through this, hopes to reveal something about the culture and consumption of digital media. The work presented on the drive may end up online, be deleted, remixed, vandalized, or perhaps even trolled, its fate is in the hands of those who seek it.
0-DAY ART is something like warez group for net art. Their mission: “WE PUT NET ART BACK ON THE NET”.
Their first release:
2011.07.25 - Street Show: The Things Between Us - Download Torrent - view .NFO
I’m very curious what their second release will be!
