I don't know what these folks are doing here (since their show is in SF right now) but it's worth a look:
MIT LIST VISUAL ARTS CENTER
Artists' Talk by Allora and Calzadilla
October 31, 2007
Please join us for a talk by artists Allora & Calzadilla at 7:00 pm in the Bartos Theater, located in the lower level of the Weisner Building, 20 Ames St.
The third and final movement in a trilogy of site-specific sound-focused installations, Sediments, Sentiments (Figures of Speech) carries forward lines of investigation Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla opened first in Clamor (at the Moore Space in Miami in 2006) and then in Wake Up (at the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago in the spring of 2007). The trilogy of exhibitions comprises a series of works that counterpose militarism and war with adroit manipulations of sound, music, and—in this new project for the first time—spoken word.
Strategically seeking out the sounds of combat as their sonic media, Allora & C ... more »
Posted: October 30, 2007 4:03 pm | 0 comments
Tags: art, exhibition, MIT
Back in the late '90s when I first starting going online, it seemed that the idea of using a website as a medium for artistic expression was still being explored. The first site that comes to mind is Kottke's Osil8. The site featured short, self-contained "episodes" mainly composed in the primitive HTML/JPG/GIF language of the day. (Javascript and Flash were introduced as nearly exotic elements.) Most episodes were ironic, inventive riffs on the burgeoning internet culture.
While the self-reflective nature of Osil8 (using the medium to represent the medium) has in no way been abandoned by the web culture that followed it, what does seem to have changed is the use of the web as a legitimate medium for artistic expression. While there has been a proliferation of sites that serve as the distribution channels for photography, illustration, video and audio, websites themselves are less and less treated as genuine expressions of an artistic impulse.
Another star of the '90s internet that c ... more »
Posted: May 18, 2008 2:28 am | 1 comment
Tags: art, blogs, internet culture
Check out this video uploaded by ChickaBee: Music Digital Animation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kF1FePdhho
This where the line between music as a digital art is blurry. I hate to say that this is just a digitally manufactured masterpiece, but it is. There is no machine out there that does this. Even though that would be awesome.
What are your thoughts on music as art? Is the only thing that makes this art the fact that it's digitally created?
Share!!
More later.
Posted: October 10, 2009 12:10 pm | 0 comments
Tags: art, digital, music
