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Artist Takeshi Murata is known for making digital works that at first glance might not look like art at all. His abstract videos take an appropriated source, here, a movie clip of a monster rising out of a pool, and distort it into something almost unrecognizable: a free for all of color, pattern an
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This video for Death Cab for Cutie's new song was art directed by Shepard Fairey and reveals a lot of the street art maestro's touch. The mood of the video is subdued and when explaining the concept for the video on his blog Fairey offers some thoughts about street art in general …
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It seems fitting to kick off our Videodrome day of art videos with one from Nam June Paik, an early video artist from Korea whose multimedia sculptures and installations challenged the boundaries of art making in the 60s and 70s. Here, check out Paik's “Electronic Opera #1”.
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Today, Hyperallergic will be presenting a series of video clips in something we're calling Videodrome. Join us for a video journey that will conjure up the bizarre, educational, surreal, manipulative and magical.
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Osama Bin Laden is dead, but that doesn't mean the vestiges of 9/11's impact on New York City are completely healed. With an infographic, the New York Times checks up on the most visible reminder of the event, the remains of Ground Zero and the construction of new World Trade Center buildings.
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Despite a very public unveiling of his sculpture in NYC, Ai Weiwei remains missing. A commercial solo show of the artist's work will go on display at Lisson Gallery in London while protesting graffiti artists were arrested in Hong Kong. Ai's case still doesn't look good, says Peter Foster.
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The National Endowment for the Arts now funds a hotly-debated form of art: video games. With the newly designated “Arts in Media” program, $10,000 to $200,000 grants from the organization can now be used to fund the production of digital games, multimedia art work and interactive applications.
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In this week's recommended reading … photo essays on Afghanistan and the death of Osama bin Laden, a profile of Barbara Kruger, art won't make you unemployed, how death (or imprisonment) changes an artist's work, Hans Ulrich Obrist talks to Julian Assange, and a profile of suspected WikiLeaks source
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Postcards are the tweets of the mail art world. Since we first transmitted our general call for submissions to the Mail Art Bulletin, we've received dozens of postcards. Today, we're publishing 11 examples from eight artists from as far afield as Belgium, Canada, Uruguay and a number US states (Cali
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Even with New York City's constantly-full calendar of art events, this weekend is packed with shows, activities and sights for the whole family to enjoy. Check out the Festival of New Ideas around the New Museum, plus their Condo show ending this weekend, and see a new public sculpture by sculptor J
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Le Quattro Volte will mess with your perceptions. No hallucinogenic drug or psychedelic trip, this movie creates a heightened sense of reality by slowing actions and narrative down, simplifying them into only their base elements. Events happen quietly in this film, if they happen at all. A man trave
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After a two-month-long public vote, the Smithsonian has released the results of its poll to determine the most important video games in history, for their upcoming The Art of Video Game exhibition. The selection attempts to provide a comprehensive canon of historical video games, but there are a few