LOS ANGELES — Brazilian artist Valentino Fialdini, who specializes in architectural photography, has made some works of his own using Lego.
An Xiao
Artist and designer An Xiao looks at the intersection of the digital and analog in the 21st century. She photographs, installs, performs and tweets and has shown her work in publications and galleries internationally, including the Brooklyn Museum, Winkleman Gallery, The New York Times and Art in America. She founded and directs @Platea, a global social media art collective. In addition to writing for Hyperallergic, she serves as a contributing columnist for PBS-affiliate Art21. Find her online at @anxiaostudio and anxiaostudio.com.
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An Xiao
LOS ANGELES — Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom is a photographic series by Los Angeles artist Mei Xian Qiu that imagines the Chinese takeover of America.
LOS ANGELES — A book by Scott Pasfield explores the diversity of America’s gay male community.
LOS ANGELES — Designer Genis Carreras attempts to distill complex philosophical topics into clean, minimal posters.
LOS ANGELES — Lots of srsbsns with the arts and technology in the news lately. What caught my eye was a new Center for Arts, Science and Technology at MIT and a new academic journal, the Journal for Digital Humanities.
LOS ANGELES — We rate our friends. We rate our friends’ pictures. We rate our friends’ status updates. We rate the restaurants we frequent. We rate the meals we ate. The shows we watched. The books we’ve read. Why not rate everything? Enter Jot.ly.
LOS ANGELES — If you’re reading this, you probably know the feeling. You’ve just fell in love with a work of art. Now science is trying to figure out how that happens.
LOS ANGELES — It’s hard work being a full-time artist. Sure, outsiders think artists live a free, unencumbered life, full of self-expression and joie de vivre.
LOS ANGELES — QR codes are almost certainly New Aesthetic. Right? Right? After my first post on a QR Code stencil, I was surprised to receive a number of pitches for other QR code-related art. If it’s not a zeitgeist, it’s certainly a trend.
LOS ANGELES — I’ve been noticing more tiny things in my computer these days. No, they’re not ants or crumbs. It’s art, folks. Just art writ small.
