Colin Rosati

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Torn Touch

2013

Ryder Ripps

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I feel pretty good about the piece. I like thinking about the person who aggressively tore this ad off the wall. Who are they? Perhaps they too fancy themselves an artist? Or maybe they are a die hard Android user mad at Apple. Or maybe they were just bored on the platform and wanted something to tug at. I also enjoy the tactile discrepancy between the delicate nature of touch on an iPad (or all technological objects for that matter) and the type of touch that goes into ripping a poster down from a subway wall. This tension is something I think of often, as I find technology to offer the most free and fresh form of expression, yet I also miss making stuff with my hands to the point where I get pleasure out of washing dishes now.. i know.. its sick.

Lorna Mills' GIF for MELODRAMZ.

THE AXIS OF SOMETHING ELSE by LORNA MILLS

Jodi. Geo Goo http://geogoo.net (2008)

Prix Net Art awardees : Jodi and Kari Altmann

http://rhizome.org/editorial/2014/oct/30/announcing-prix-net-art-awardees/

Enrico Boccioletti

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WendyPaint

Online pixel painting program by Kim Asendorf lets you create images using custom made ‘brushes’ (small images themselves). You can even create and share your brushes for others to use.

WendyPaint℠ is an online Pixel Pattern Painter. It is optimized for OS X 10.8, Chrome and Safari.

You can try it out for yourself here, and check out the public gallery here

Michael Manning  2014 WILD FUSION- VOL.IV: Technoeconomicology Am not going to make it to Kansas City to see this show at Bill Brady’s gallery but this intrigues, as a way to present digital painting and collage. Instead of the usual chin-scratching circuit around the perimeter of the gallery, moving from one expression to the next and saying, “I see,” the viewer inscribes a much tighter circle, gawking “into” this tangle of overlapping (literally and figuratively) ideas. Not to say this hasn’t been done — think Maurizio Cattelan at the Guggenheim — but it seems like a good way to answer the naysayers who think this is just commodified abstract painting as usual. A cynic might say this is commodified media art as usual but that’s why we need to be in Kansas City, looking at the individual objects in this cluster. I know (a) it’s a combination of canvas, video, painting, 3D graphics, media quotation and photoshoppery, and (b) it’s probably smarter than any attempt to reduce it to a discussion about medium, or post-medium, based on seeing Manning’s shows in NY recently. The artist’s site gives some additional insight into what might be on those screens and surfaces.

- Tom Moody

Picture Movement

2014

Utopian Slumps Gallery

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PATH

Children are now born into a world where typing takes precedence over cursive writing. Unwittingly the centre of this shift is gestural. At some point perhaps it will be artists who refuse to type. In 1922 Captain Cyril Turner of the RAF dropped oil on his aeroplane’s exhaust pipe and wrote letters in the sky over Times Square in New York City at approximately 10,000 feet. In the late 1960’s artists James Turrell, Sam Francis and Marinus Boezem started to employ skywriting as a medium. As seen in the work of Georgia O’Keefe, Lee Krasner and Joan Mitchell, 20th Century art is characterised most strongly by approaches to the painted gesture. But now in a time where gesture is no longer a daily activity (entering PIN codes in place of signing one’s name for example) perhaps the value of this activity is increased. In this century already so dominated by the use of a keyboard to communicate with others, the advocacy in art for the hand remains staunch. Yet the parameters for this type of movement are in a new set of circumstances.

OPPORTUNITY

The freedoms of the air are a set of commercial aviation rights granting privilege for countries to enter and land in another’s airspace. The sky, a place once of gods, and now freight, is tenuously shared. When we look up we do so as Romantic painters did, as terrified passengers now may, or as children who see figures emerge from brushstrokes. Everyone can see the sky at once but the cloud has been arrested both as a metaphor for data and environmental change. Artists, tourists, delegates and expensive abstract paintings are flown in jets to various locations across the earth in search of admirers. Their messages are written in opportunity, beginning to disperse as vapour before completion. Form is witnessed in the moment of its passing, but in memory it may remain. To fix the movement of bodies on jets or on the dance floor, as in nature morte, is to freeze the reflection. In strokes that are imperfect, those who seek to counter these gaps do so in holding on to something otherwise changed.

- Ry David Bradley

#157 - Ratatatatatatatatatatatatatat:Mode0 Original vs. Processing vs. Compression of a clip from Carl Burgess’s video for Ratatat’s “Drugs.”

WendyPaint

Online pixel painting program by Kim Asendorf lets you create images using custom made ‘brushes’ (small images themselves). You can even create and share your brushes for others to use.

WendyPaint℠ is an online Pixel Pattern Painter. It is optimized for OS X 10.8, Chrome and Safari.

You can try it out for yourself here, and check out the public gallery here

Kim Asendorf