Art
For One Month Each Year, an Artist Builds an Instrument Every Day
For nearly nine years, sound artist Ranjit Bhatnagar has produced a handmade instrument each day during the month of February.
Ranjit Bhatnagar
Art
Singing for Shy People with Voice-Activated Instruments
As the Cat Stevens–loving Maude declared to a morose Harold in the 1971 film Harold and Maude, "If you want to sing out, sing out!" But for those of us who are too self-conscious or cursed by shrill tones and off-key octaves, having such belting confidence is hard. For such introverts, Ranjit Bhatna
Art
Twitter as Art
After thinking through the idea of Tumblr as art, I began to find the difference between various social media platforms glaringly obvious. Marshall McCluhan's phrase "the medium is the message" came to mind. How do settings and mediums change or possibly mandate artistic intention? After exploring T
Opinion
Pentametron Pulls Together Iambic Verse from Twitter
LOS ANGELES — Twitter is filled with poetry everyday. The short, pithy updates of 140 characters represent an ideal format for short-form verse, whether that be haiku or heroic couplets. Or, as it turns out, iambic pentameter.
Art
Always Social: Getting Noticed (2008-2010), Part Two
The most striking aspect of social media art is that it contains facets of net.art, by being digital; visual art, by existing on a two-dimensional surface; public art, by existing in spaces used habitually by hundreds of millions of people; and performance art, by being inherently social. Whether th