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Ali Kheradyar: Dye

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:30:06 PST

Betty Hair Dye – a dye specifically designed to be safe for pubic hair. The artist discovered this product in 2009, originally developed in Europe for women who wanted to match their pubic hair to the hair on their heads. The colors are traditional blonde and brunette but are also hot pink, red, blue, purple and green.

Ali Kheradyar writes: “I started asking a lot of questions: What was this practice about? The commercialization of the female? Consumerism? Color? Challenging the male gaze, or partaking in female objectification? How are these products appealing? Is this sexy? What do these products say about sex culture and beauty now?” Kheradyar uses the camera to document ideas about sculpture and beauty using her own body.
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western-project

Sick: the Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist (Kirby Dick, 1997)

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:30:00 PST

-Bob Flanagan was a performance artist that made Robert Maplethorpe look like friggin Norman Rockwell. He had himself beaten, freezed, pissed on, sewn, stapled, and nailed. I mean literally nailed. As in, Bob was personally take a hammer, a nail, a board and his penis and do the thing you and I would least like to do with a hammer, a nail, a board, and our penis. Since apparently that wasn’t enough, he sometimes supplemented this penis act holding himself up by the his arms with chains, which was ridiculously dangerous when you had lungs like his. You know, as opposed to the safe way to nail your penis to a board recommended by your doctor.
source: cracked

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Sick Trailer (02:00)
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Remix Gendered LEGO Commercials

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:30:05 PST

The absurd Lego gender stereotyping in each set of commercials create hilarious and insightful juxtapositions when placed into our HTML5 Gendered Advertising Remixer web app (beta version 2). You can easily drag and drop LEGO Friends ads and remix them with any of 10 recent LEGO commercials targeting at boys. Which of the 60 possible re-combinations do you think works best? What differences do you notice about how LEGO markets to boys verse how they market to girls?
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NOTE: Please make sure to upgrade your web browser to the very latest version before remixing.

lego for boys (playlist 10 x 0:31)
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N. S. Harsha

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 20:30:05 PST

N S Harsha’s wide-ranging work includes detailed figurative painting and drawing, semi-abstract panels, sculptures and installations, site-specific projects and community-based collaborations.

Harsha embraces the modern Indian narrative enriched with popular art forms as a platform for a powerful social and political commentary. As the miniature painting format has regularly been used to highlight social and political inequities, Harsha’s reference to them represents an embrace of the tradition updated by his personal idiom to embody contemporary conditions. His large-scale and intricately detailed canvases depict a microcosm of Indian life. The multitude of figures are all animated in unison and focused on an incongruous or comically strange event. Or they are animated by some mutual curiosity. Harsha’s paintings wittily combine rites and rituals common to Indian life with images drawn from world news.
source: herning museum

iniva - nations 2009

Matteo Pasin - risonanza orbitale

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 20:30:05 PST

io (in italian means ego, me, I): natural satellite of jupiter. discovered by galileo galilei in 1610. it’s in orbital resonance with two more satellites: europa and ganimede. these three celestial bodies excert a regular periodic gravitational influence on each other.

risonanza orbitale (06:10)
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Daniel Schüßler

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 20:30:06 PST

Daniel Schüßler (2006): “Zerstörung und Katastrophen sind Türöffner für urbane Neuerfindung und die Entwicklung neuer gesellschaftlicher Möglichkeiten und Modelle. Im Zeitalter des “Clash of the Cultures” und der Verbreitung fundamentaler Werte und Ideologien, ist für mich und meine Werke die Frage der destruktiven Kreativität von zentraler Wichtigkeit. In meiner Malerei werden Entwicklungen und Möglichkeiten des Umgangs mit post- destruktiven Gesellschaften erörtert. Dabei ist die städtebauliche Entwicklung der Architektur als Mittel der Beschreibung eines gesamtgesellschaftlichen Systems zu verstehen. Gemalter und digitaler Bildraum sind in diesem Kontext maßgebliches Instrument für die Frage nach Realität und Fiktion.”
source:Galerie Lichtpunkt

danielschuessler.blogspot

saatchionline

Personas

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 20:30:06 PST

Personas is a component of the Metropath(ologies) exhibit, originally on display at the MIT Museum by the Sociable Media Group from the MIT Media Lab. It has been shown in 7 exhibits around the world since, from Peru to Italy.
It uses sophisticated natural language processing and the Internet to create a data portrait of one’s aggregated online identity. In short, Personas shows you how the Internet sees you.
Personas was created by Aaron Zinman

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Michael Petermann - The Blödes Orchester Stupid Orchestra

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 20:30:05 PST

Arranged like a symphony orchestra, approximately 200 antique vacuums, mixers and washers are transformed into musical instruments.
They form an ensemble that the conductor, harpsichordist and composer Michael Petermann, alias weiserrausch.de, has now completed after eight years of preparation: The Stupid Orchestra.
source: bloodyloud

The Blödes Orchester Stupid Orchestra (03:27)
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Blödes Orchester Stupid Orchestra Making-Of (09:39)
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Brian Kenny

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 20:30:05 PST

Brian Kenny: “I believe that making art is an ideal opportunity to destroy or redefine stereotypes and common beliefs, juxtapose seemingly unrelated ideas and expand notions of beauty and self-awareness. I prefer to work in a spontaneous or stream-of-consciousness manner, with little or no planning or adherence to any specific genre. Influenced by the energy and spirit of street art, I like layering imagery, deconstructing text, incorporating found materials, and references from pop culture, to create a visual panorama that oscillates between autobiography, social commentary and the absurd.”
source: hildamagazine

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The Making of Entropy Parade (02:37)
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Michael Patterson-Carver

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:30:05 PST

Michael Patterson-Carver’ s drawings range from small groups of colorful figures protesting specific issues to political allegories where nazis, klansmen, robber barons and terrorists meet current day political leaders. His drawings address both current and historical struggles and in this way exhibit both ongoing themes of cultural and political repression and the hypocrisy of past and present injustices.
Drawings of protests of suffragettes, Japanese internees and the anti-prohibition and civil rights movements depict battles for inalienable rights that we often take for granted. Exhibited alongside drawings illustrating the present state of the union, Patterson-Carver’s work is a call to action.
source: sorrywereclosed

artdaily

New Museum of Contemporary Art. G:Class

Exey Panteleev's Geekography

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 20:24:17 PST

Exey Panteleev ‘s Geekography. SexUI Sexy HTML Tips Sexy CSS Tips

html css, click css html, html p tag text wrapping with image

3 years of Geekography, backstage (02:56)
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Marta Popivoda - Tunnel 2005

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:30:05 PST

Marta Popivoda (Belgrade, 1982) is film and video maker, but also cultural worker from Belgrade. She is part of the TkH collective of theorists and artists (TkH=Walking Theory), which deals with the problematics of performance paradigm in art, culture and theory. TkH is mostly active on the independent art scenes in Belgrade and Paris. In her solo projects she explores cinema as a medium and format of contemporary art and as a tool of knowledge production.
source: artist site

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Kelly Reemsten

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:30:05 PST

Kelly Reemtsen creates portraits of anonymous women wielding hefty and dangerous tools. The inclusion of the late 1950’s/early 1960’s dresses on the figures suggest that it’s unlikely the women would be engaged in the kind of work the tools are intended for, pointing to dark and perhaps murderous intentions. The haunting work also carries the significance of this paradox, pointing to a time when women were kept at home as housewives while their husbands had careers, subtly suggesting the possible motives of the ominous femme fatales.
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hifructose

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Bartholomäus Traubeck

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:30:06 PST

HuffPost Arts: In the visual realm it is easier to separate form from content, shape from materials. In the audio realm the shape of a song is its content. Your work shows the connection between the aural and visual realms. Do you think the senses of sight and sound are separate? Does what you show about sound translate back onto shape?

Bartholomaus Traubeck: This is an interesting question. I am not sure but i think they are separate. It is our mind that is able to accomplish the translation from, say visual forms to an imagination of fitting sound for a shape. This is what we call the audiovisual experience. If something like this creates a certain atmosphere you can not experience it by taking one sensory input away. I think it could generally translate back onto shape, even in a very practical manner. Just think of how actual vinyl records are made. There is an input that sends a soundwave directly to a cutting machine which is using the sound as instruction for movement. like this sound is translated to shape. Regarding my work, this would probably not work that easily since there is a lot of steps in between and the camera is not that precise. My machine is rather a contraption for generatively producing music that is interpreted by the data in the year rings than an actual sonic representation of the data.
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HuffPost Arts

schroedingerstagcloud (Together with Clemens Schrammel.)

Years (02:13)
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Ursula Neugebauer - von herzen mit schmerzen 2001

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:30:05 PST

Unter dem Titel “…von Herzen, mit Schmerzen…” zeigt Ursula Neugebauer eine zweiteilige Arbeit: der eine Teil besteht aus einer Pflanzung von 3000 Margeritenstauden auf einer Fläche von 200 qm. Die Künstlerin entfernt von allen Margeriten die weißen Blütenblätter - auf obsessiver Suche nach Gewißheit, nach Wahrheit. Mit jeder neuen Blüte setzt die Suche von neuem an, ein ewiges, endloses Dasein in Ungewißheit begleitend. Das Leitmotiv bildet der bekannte Abzählvers: Er liebt mich von Herzen, mit Schmerzen, über alle Maßen, ein wenig, gar nicht.
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artist site

von herzen mit schmerzen 2001 (08:51)
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Lise Sarfati

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:30:05 PST

After living and working in Russia for 10 years, in 2003 the French-born photographer Lise Sarfati decided to drive across America: “Just a road trip from the east to the west, like in the American tradition of photography, but not with the same spirit,” she explained last year in an interview for the online site ASX.
On that first trip she concentrated on the lives of young, middle-class women, much the same kind of people who might make up the audience for her pictures.
source:
FT Magazine

yossimilo

The New Life (04:14)
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Antoni Tapies Dies At 88 Years Old

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:01:07 PST

Antoni Tapies passed away last night according to his family members. He was 88 years old and had been in bad health for some time. Tapies was hugely influential to European Abstract art;
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huffingtonpost

Antoni Tàpies (05:27)
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Allison Kudla

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:30:06 PST

Allison Kudla is interested in using digital media to preserve and discover environments that are in a continual state of flux. She also uses technology in her art to gain greater perspectives on the system in which she exists, with the vision of generating deeply impacting and fully present systemic realities. She hopes for her work to inspire, develop and question the technology it uses, with the pursuit of utilizing art to create meaningful and present experiences that allow us to understand our selves and our habitats in ways no others forms of human inquiry and development could. In her earlier work, she focused on the variation of interiors by producing real-time video/audio renderings using data sensed within the given space. Her more recent work uses data sensed from natural systems to create hybrid bio-mechanical systems. Currently she has been exploring CNC technologies and plant tissue culturing in her time-based botanical works.
source:
Database of virtual art

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Baden Pailthorpe - Formation (difference and repetition), 2011

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:30:06 PST

Baden Pailthorpe is an Australian interdisciplinary artist currently based in Paris, France. Situated broadly in the field of new media, his work explores technologies and their political, cultural and conceptual potential. Pailthorpe’s work has been widely published and exhibited, with solo and group exhibitions both across Australia and internationally. Baden Pailthorpe holds masters degrees from the Université Paris VIII, Vincennes—Saint Denis, France, and the College of Fine Arts, UNSW, Sydney, Australia.
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triangulationblog

Formation (difference and repetition) II, 2011 (08:38)
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Formation (difference and repetition) series 2011, by Baden Pailthorpe
“Made using an Afghanistan-based video game, Baden Pailthorpe’s ‘Formation’ series, explores the aesthetics and dynamics of opposition. In the work, two opposing forces of US soldiers and Taliban combatants follow invisible waypoints side-by-side. Oblivious to each other’s presence thanks to a hacked game setting, the usual violence of this relationship is transformed into a poetic, uncanny rhythm that repeats and amplifies the avatars’ movement.”

70s Blowjob Faces

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:30:05 PST

70s Blowjob FacesThe faces men made while receiving blowjobs in 1970s pornography.

Common Law Cabin - Russ Meyer 1967 (1:09:17)
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