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The Creative Cycle

By Brodie Lancaster | February 1st, 2012 in Art | Locale:

The First Cycle played before Bora Bora-based designer Borre Akkersdijk’s Paris fashion week show, intended to show the process of creating the garments in the collection.

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Tree Ring Records

By Nerida Little | January 31st, 2012 in Art | Locale:

In Austria, a record player has been modified to play tree slices as piano music.

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Shaking Up A Not-So Still Life

By Angela McCormack | January 27th, 2012 in Art | Locale:

Clever guy Scott Garner has tipped art into the fourth dimension with his impressive work “Still Life” where a fairly un-striking scene topples into the extraordinary.

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The Popular Workshop’s Magnetic Personality

By Nerida Little | January 24th, 2012 in Art | Locale:

San Francisco’s studio gallery The Popular Workshop introduces you to degaussing artist Hunter Longe in the first of a series of short films.

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The Vernacular Typography Project

By Lauren Vadnjal | January 23rd, 2012 in Art | Locale:

For the last ten years it has been Molly’s personal mission to archive photographs of unique typography from around the world on her site vernaculartypography.com—now she wants your help to fight the mega-capitalists destroying our art and culture.

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Art And Data: Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

By Nerida Little | January 13th, 2012 in Art | Locale:

Mexican artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer installs a poetic building site in the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.

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Monster Of The Earth In Visual Poetry

By Lauren Vadnjal | January 12th, 2012 in Art

This conceptual motion piece by Nathaniel Whitcomb leaves delves well into the deep, using otherworldly sequences of jellyfish layered with resonant poetics on a consuming score—all shot with an iPhone.

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Light and Jazz Installation by Sydney Cash

By Beatriz Areilza | January 11th, 2012 in Art | Locale:

Sydney Cash is a sculptor that uses mirrors to manipulate light as if it were a solid volume. In this project with with musician Romain Collin and director Yaara Sumeruk, he takes light sculptures to another level by using music to trigger interaction between music and light. The result is this beautiful live Jazz music and light installation comissioned by The Falcon – a renowed music venue in Marlboro, New York.

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A Period Of Concealment

By Lauren Vadnjal | January 9th, 2012 in Art

Seven Days of Menstruation is a new video by artist Annie Wong, and it’s exactly what it sounds like. Within the unwritten practice of tight-lipped, alluding concealment, this video breaks the period rulebook simply by talking about it.

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Rey Parla’s Viral Collaboration

By Lauren Shipman | December 23rd, 2011 in Art | Locale:

Created as a dialogue between the approaches and techniques of scratch film artist Rey Parla and digital movie maker Michael Betancourt, Viral Underground combines scratch, glitch, analog processing and digital compositing to create a hybrid art film reminiscent of white noise, visualised.

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