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Award-winning Poet Sekou Andrews Premieres “Love Says”
New film is directed and edited by Mischa Meyer and produced by Optimist and AKKURAT Studios
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Edi Inderbitzin Debuts “Every Waking Hour” Photo Project
Creative director and photographer brings awareness in the battle against depression linked to social media
News
How Yayoi Kusama Channels Mental Illness Into Her Famous Artwork
The short documentary below profiles the life and work of artist Yayoi Kusuma, who channels her obsessive-compulsive disorder into her famed, colorful art. “People ask me...
Augmented and Virtual Reality
See How Microsoft Is Re-Creating 17th Century Technology Using Holograms
Taking viewers back in time, Microsoft partners with French technology company Iconem to deliver an immersive, photorealistic mixed reality experience of the famed Mont-Saint-Michel...
News
How AI Helps Unlock the Secrets of Old Master and Modernist Paintings (Ars Technica)
Here are two ways that machine learning and artificial intelligence have been used in the world of art history and restoration.
Creative Inspiration
Dawn of the MTV Era: Video Art Pioneer Nam June Paik’s Vision
Three-year traveling exhibit opens in London for the groundbreaking Korean-American artist known as the father of video art.
Augmented and Virtual Reality
A Walk on the Frontier of Art, Where the Sky Is the Limit (The New York Times)
At the intersection of art and technology is new works meant for augmented reality and virtual reality apps. “It’s going to have a huge...
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This Immersive Video Installation Makes You Feel Like You’re Part of a Painting
Japanese digital art collective teamLab have added to their already impressive portfolio of immersive art with the new installation Crows are Chased and the...
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Art Billboards “Uninterrupt” the Desert Landscape in New Coachella Valley Exhibit
As part of the Desert X art exhibit taking place across Coachella Valley, artist Jennifer Bolande’s “Visible Distance/Second Sight” turns billboards along the Gene...
News
Microsoft HoloLens Makes Its Art World Debut at the Armory Show
This weekend, duo Studio Drift will debut Concrete Story at the Armory Show, the first major public art exhibition to incorporate Microsoft’s HoloLens in...
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Doug Aitken’s Latest Art Installation Is on the Ocean Floor
Artist Doug Aitken’s latest installation needs special gear to get to. That’s because Aitken’s Underwater Pavilions lives beneath the waves of the Pacific Ocean and is accessible...
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Art Installation Recreates Aurora Borealis Anywhere
In case you can’t make it to the Nordics to view Aurora Borealis for yourself, it’s possible that the Northern Lights can come to...
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Art Installation Recreates the Inner Workings of Analog TV
"The audience is presented with highly parallel lines which contrast the darker space, building panoramic moiré patterns."
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Artist Alex Da Corte Explores the Poems of Rimbaud & Disney Movies in L.A. Solo Exhibit
Da Corte is known for his pop-informed sensibility and embrace of theatricality. In his elaborate set pieces, banal objects and consumer goods serve as...
News
AR Experience Turns All of Miami Into Canvas
Lapse, a new app from multimedia artist Ivan Toth Depeña, turns Miami into a canvas for an augmented reality experience that features several artists and is made...
Expertise
Multimedia Artist Doug Aitken Talks the Intersection of Technology and Art
Cool Hunting talks to multimedia artist Doug Aitken about how he views the intersection of technology and art. “I try to use technology in...
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New Exhibit in Berlin Encompasses a World of Post-Internet Art
The new Julia Stoschek Collection exhibit in Berlin, titled Welt Am Draht (World on a Wire), gathers together 38 pieces of video, photographic, and live...
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Artist JR Uses an Optical Illusion to Make the Louvre’s Glass Pyramid Disappear
French street artist JR has created an optical illusion that makes IM Pei’s famed glass pyramid at the entrance of the Louvre disappear. JR...
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Technology and Textiles Combine in Phillip Stearns’ Art Exhibit
Artist Phillip Stearns’ new exhibit ADC/DAC combines analog and digital artifacts in a novel way: featuring tapestries woven with algorithm processes, neon lights on...
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Ranu Mukherjee’s Video Installation Explores the Many Facets of Gold
Ranu Mukherjee’s three-channel film Phantasmagoric, now playing at LACMA’s Stark Bar, explores the many facets of gold–from wealth status symbol to cultural signifier to...
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Steve McQueen to Have Mutlimedia Exhibit at the Whitney
From April 29-May 14th, the Whitney Museum of American Art will present works from 12 Years a Slave director Steve McQueen as part of...
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Artist Turns Surveillance Footage Into Provocative Art
Artist Dries Deeporter turns public surveillance footage into provocative works of arts. His pieces include “Jaywalking”–a live-feed of an intersection where viewers can choose to...
2016
Ai Weiwei Exhibit Viewable in 360 Degrees with Immersive Experience
“There is huge potential in bringing together the arts and technology to reach wider audiences,” says Fiona Morris, creative director and CEO of The...
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Projection Mapping Brings Sculpture to Life
A 100-year-old marble statue reveals she’s not ashamed of her nude body in the projection mapped piece called “Starkers” by Davy and Kristin McGuire. ...
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A Sunrise GIF Lights Up Times Square at Midnight
Times Square Arts’ latest Midnight Moments installation is a digital sunrise that will light up Times Square for three minutes every midnight in March....
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An Instagram-Fueled Art Installation Makes You Face Your Digital Self
Samsung 837, the electronic brand’s new flagship New York City “store,” doesn’t actually sell anything. Instead it’s a space dedicated to cutting-edge installations and...
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London’s Whitechapel Gallery Celebrates 50 Years of New Media Art with Massive Exhibit
London’s Whitechapel Gallery is celebrating 50 years of new media art with their exhibit Electronic Superhighway (2016-1966), featuring work from pioneers such as Nam June Paik and contemporary...
2016
‘Laura Poitras: Astro Noise’: The Filmmaker Explores and Engages at Whitney Exhibit
The exhibition expands on her project to document post-Sept. 11 America, engaging visitors in formats outside her nonfiction filmmaking.
Consumption
Explore Hieronymus Bosch’s Most Mysterious Painting in Virtual Reality
A slew of interactive projects mark the 500th anniversary of the artist's death.
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Inside Laure Provost’s L.A. Exhibit ‘A Way to Leak, Lick, Leek’
Turner Prize-winning artist Laure Prouvost presents her first solo L.A. show at the gallery Fahrenheit. A Way to Leak, Lick, Leek is a series of...
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The New Museum Presents Cheryl Donegan’s Multimedia Show ‘Scenes + Commercials’
Working across video, painting, and performance, Cheryl Donegan explores the production and consumption of images in mass culture, middlebrow design, and art history. Donegan’s New...
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Laura Poitras Challenges the Viewer with First Solo Art Show
Citizenfour director Laura Poitras’ first solo museum exhibit, Astro Noise, reflects on the very topics that have brought her acclaim as a documentary filmmaker:...
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How ‘Citizenfour’ Filmmaker Laura Poitras Turned the Camera on Herself
Citizenfour filmmaker Laura Poitras documents her own harrowing experience as the target of government surveillance in her new multi-media show at the Whitney, Astro...
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This Calming Cat Video Is Taking Over Times Square This Month
Art duo Peter Fischli and David Weiss are using their month long residency as part of Times Square’s Midnight Moment residence to screen their...
Consumption
Virtually Experience Ai Wei Wei’s Acclaimed Royal Academy Exhibit
"Ai Wei Wei 360" gives audiences the chance to experience the show at a deeper level.
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Video Projections Bring Plight of Endangered Species Home
Artists Lauren Strohacker and Kendra Sollars’s “Animal Land” features enormous projections of endangered species in urban areas. The piece serves as a reminder of...
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Projection Mapping Facilitates Larger than Life Art During Art Basel
As part of Michelle and Bryan Dodson’s Form and Substance series, French artist Joanie Lemercier is having his experimental short films projection mapped onto...
News
Art and Science Collide in Social Piece for Climate Change
360-degree projection makes a case for climate change in Re-génération, a new art/science piece from the Society for Art and Technology (SAT), the NAD...
News
Robert De Niro Stars in Timely Short Film About Ellis Island
French street artist JR’s short film “Ellis” features Robert De Niro telling the story of a man turned away at Ellis Island, from a...
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New Frances Stark Retrospective Is a Fusion of the Analog and Virtual
The Hammer Museum’s UH-OH: Frances Stark 1991-2015 is a mid-career retrospective of the multimedia artist’s work. The exhibition features 125 works, including Stark’s early...
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Alex Prager’s Hitchcockian Short Film Debuts in Paris Show
The 10-minute short "La Grande Sortie" is about a ballerina experiencing the harrowing experience of performance anxiety.