Filthy Luker Space Invaders Art Attack
Posted by Fabio 30 April 2012
Street artist and interventionist Filthy Luker in collaboration with Red Stripe, transformed Manchester Town Hall into an interactive 80’s arcade game classic. Surprising and engaging the public with its ingenuity.
Doug Foster
Posted by Fabio 30 April 2012
Doug Foster has long been fascinated by the intricacy of the human visual system and how it can be fooled by optical illusion. In 1981 he built a walk-in film installation for his degree show that used projected imagery and large mirrors to incorporate its viewers into an infinite panorama. read more
Lieko Shiga
Posted by Fabio 27 April 2012
Lieko Shiga was born in 1980 in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. She studied Fine Art at the Chelsea College of Art and Design in London, graduating in 2005. During that time she produced a series of images of her neighbors living in a block of East London council flats, drawing inspiration from paranormal photographs popular in the early days of photography. read more
Diego Stocco – Music from a Tree
Posted by Fabio 27 April 2012
In the garden of Diego Stocco’s house there’s a tree with lots of randomly grown twigs. It looks odd and nice at the same time. One day Diego asked himself if he could create a piece of music with it. All the sounds come from playing the tree, by bowing the twigs, shaking the leaves, playing rhythms on the cortex and so on.
Regarding Gardens
Posted by Fabio 26 April 2012
For the Garden of Reason Interaction Programme, Carolina Melis has been commissioned to create an animated film inspired by both the historic gardens of National Trust property, Ham House and Garden, and the estates 17th century owner, Elizabeth Dysart, who held the vision for the garden. read more
Lillian Schwartz-The Artist and the Computer
Posted by Fabio 26 April 2012
1976 documentary about Lillian Schwartz’s work with computers and features excerpts from several of her films. Lillian Schwartz is best known for her pioneering work in the use of computers for what has since become known as computer-generated art and computer-aided art analysis, read more
Lorna Simpson
Posted by Fabio 25 April 2012
Lorna Simpson was born in 1960 in Brooklyn, New York, and received her BFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts, New York, and her MFA from the University of California, San Diego. When Simpson emerged from the graduate program at San Diego in 1985, she was already considered a pioneer of conceptual photography. read more
Shay Aaron
Posted by Fabio 25 April 2012
Miniature food sculptures by Tel Aviv-based artist Shay Aaron. read more