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I/O Brush (MIT Media Lab, 2005)

I/O Brush is a drawing tool by the MIT Media Lab to explore colors, textures, and movements found in everyday materials by "picking up" and drawing with them. See the video (high resolution) demonstrating the tool.

The Extreme Diet Coke & Mentos Experiments (2006)

The Extreme Diet Coke & Mentos Experiments is an alternative experiment in the field of fountain art by Fritz Grobe (the short one) & Stephen Voltz (the tall one).

Into The Pixel 2006

The Into the Pixel Art Exhibition 2006 at E3Expo features the third series of paintings related to video games.

Nam June Paik (1932-2006)

Magnet TV (1965) - Nam June Paik

Resources
Official site
A small video documentary on Nam June Paik
Wikipedia entry on Nam June Paik

Snow shovel (1915/1945, Marcel Duchamp)

In the year 1915 the artist Marcel Duchamp announced that the snow showel in his studio was a readymade, a piece of art (sculpture). In 1945 he bought another one (which can be seen on the right) and named it "In Advance of the Broken Arm". The interpretation of Rhonda Roland Shearer of these works can be found here.

The Average Shoveler is an art game by Carlo Zanni that might refer to this readymade.

Carsten Höller

Upside Down Mushroom Room (2000) - Carsten Höller

Feric

EUROPART (2005, 25Peaces)

A work by Erik Binder which is part of "EUROPART. Aktuelle Kunst in Europa", a contemporary art exposition of 25Peaces.

Dontclick.it (Institute for Interactive Research)

Dontclick.it explores a clickfree environment. It wants to explore how and what changes for the user and the interface once you can't rely on the habit of clicking.

Distellamap (Ben Fry)

In Distellamap the artist Ben Fry is revealing the operation of code in Atari 2600 games.
On the right the executable code of the Atari 2600 cartridge of "Pacman" is shown (byte data in orange, "go to"-references are visually linked).

Industrious Clock (2001, Yugo Nakamura)

Rasterbator (Homokaasu)

Rasterbator (Homokaasu) is a web service which creates huge, rasterized images from any picture. The rasterized images can be printed and assembled into posters up to 20 meters in size.

Wjbgrafx (W.J. Baker)

Psychedeliscope (Java applet) - W.J. Baker (click on "Open Display Window")

More Java applets

Simon Starling

Shedboatshed (Mobile Architecture No.2) (2005) - Simon Starling

Simon Starling is fascinated by the processes involved in transforming one object or substance into another. He makes us look at things with fresh eyes by drawing us into his own, very particular take on the processes by which objects come into existence discovering unlikely relationships between seemingly disparate objects.

This year Simon Starling won the most important visual art award in the United Kingdom, the Turner Prize.

Resources
-Profile @ the-artist.org
-Wikipedia article

Celestial Mechanics (S. Hessels & G. Dunne)

Celestial Mechanics - Scott Hessels and Gabriel Dunne

Laurie Anderson

Laurie Anderson is an American experimental performance artist and musician. (more)

Resources
-Official website
-Homepage of the brave
-Interview (Oct. 2004) with the Robotics Institute
-Interview (Feb. 2005) with Electronic Musician

For All Seasons (2005, Hahakid)

For All Seasons is a work by Hahakid, also known as Andreas Müller. Download the EXE file for the animation or see the storyboard.

Bannerart Collective

Jason Brooks

Ze Frank

Goodexperience.com interview with Ze Frank

Jason Salavon

Ashok Sukumaran

Blue Yucca Ridge (2003) - Ashok Sukumaran

Ashok Sukumaran is a media artist and architect. His work, which explores the interaction of digital technologies and physical spaces, often imagines a "what could have been" between the disciplines of interactive art, cinema, and architecture. His current interests include interactive public art and experiments in perception-at-a-distance.

Result (video) of a workshop Tangible Typography in 2001.

Sukamaran has won the main prize of the UNESCO Digital Arts Award 2005 - "City and Creative Media" with his "poetic yet pragmatic" project SWITCH.

LeCielEstBleu

David Alfaro Siqueiros

David Alfaro Siqueiros (1896-1974) was an expressionist/social realistic Mexican muralist, a large scale mural painter in Mexico in the 1920s and 1930s.

Resources
An Image Bank for Everyday Revolutionary Life
David Alfaro Siqueiros @ EPdLP.com (es)

Florentijn Hofman

Pet Gotohda

Beat13

Beat13 - Beat13 gallery

Moving Canvas (2005)

Moving Canvas by Frédéric Eyl, Gunnar Green and Richard The. . . .

Guido Vrolix

Microbo

Microbo - Microbo fotolog

Hype Gallery

Nice online flash-gallery of (audio)visual art.

Franco Purini

26. Identificare (1993, Franco Purini)

Gallery
Article (Italian)

Christ and the lamb (1988, Jeff Koons)

Jeff Koons' kitchy neo-rococo mirror "Christ and the lamb" (1988, 201 x 140 x 18 cm, Groninger Museum) is an interesting art object. When you look closely you can see the shapes of a person and a sheep.
Christ has been referred to in the Hebrew Bible as the Lamb of God.

Article on Jeff Koons: Christ and the lamb - sculpture (ArtForum, September, 1993 by Robert Rosenblum)