Rihanna exploits #seapunk genre in SNL performance, genre is now over

#Seapunk is a genre that doesn't really have any music, it is just an 'aesthetic' that involves 1990s electronic vibes, Second Life and virtual reality graphics, and failed Microsoft Windows aesthetics. The 'movement' never really had a following, but it was just kinda funny that a musical genre existed only in the context of a Tumblr/Twitter hashtag. This 'visual aesthetic' may or may not be popular on the internet, which means it is 'kewl', which means that mnstrm 'artists' will exploit it and 'bastardize' 'what once was pure.'

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Roy Ascott's LPDT2: Telematic Embrace

Video Trailer for The Museum of Glitch Aesthetics

Dial-up sound 700% slower (Creepy)

Your True Love Pina & Viola

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[IMG MGMT] What Relational Aesthetics Can Learn From 4Chan

Is it still necessary to define art by intent and context? The gallery world would have us believe this to be the case, but the internet tells a more mutable story. Contrary to the long held belief that art needs intent and context, I suggest that if we look outside of galleries, we’ll find the actions, events and people that create contemporary art with or without the art world’s label. Over the past 20 years, the theory Relational Aesthetics (referred to in this essay as RA) has interpreted social exchanges as an art form. Founding theoretician Nicholas Bourriaud describes this development as “a set of artistic practices that take as their theoretical and practical point of departure the whole of human relations and their social context”[1]. In reality, art erroneously known to typify RA’s theorization hasn’t strayed far from the model of the 1960’s Happening, an event beholden to the conventions of the gallery and the direction of its individual creator. In her essay Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics, Claire Bishop describes Rikrit Tiravanija’s dinners as events circumscribed in advance, using their location as a crutch to differentiate the otherwise ordinary action of eating a meal as art[2]. A better example of the theory of RA succinctly put into action can be seen in anonymous group activities on the internet, where people form relations and meaning without hierarchy. MORE

Recognizably Anonymous

How did a hacker group that rejects definition develop such a strong visual brand?

The loosely affiliated and ever-changing band of individuals who call themselves Anonymous, have been variously described as hackers, hacktivists, free-expression zealots, Internet troublemakers, and assorted combinations thereof. By all accounts the group has no clear hierarchy or leadership, or even any internal agreement about what exactly it is. READ MORE

Remembering Steve Jobs: Hungarian Sculptor Builds Tech Wizard's Bronze Statue

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A Cheap Grab For Exposure: The Occupy The Internet Exhibition

Why is Occupy The Internet now an “exhibition of leading net artists“? Launched two weeks ago at fffff.at, the original project was a simple call: embed a script that runs an army of animated gif protesters on your website to show your support for the Occupation movement. The post asked for animated GIF submissions that would then be “called up for duty”, and has since been installed on over 875 websites. MORE

ANONYMOUS: A SHARED IDENTITY IN THE ERA OF A GLOBAL NETWORKED SOCIETY.

On September 29th, 2011 on the occasion of the festival 'TodaysArt 2011', CuratingYouTube will open the online exhibition „Anonymous: Shared Identity in the era of a global networked Society' at the Speed show 'Landscape Deconstructing Social Networks and Web 2.0'.


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The truth will be unveiled soon...A project by #IOCOSE

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the color of... (beta)

This is a system created to find out the colour of anything, by querying and aggregating image data from Flickr, a popular online photo sharing community. It is an attempt at answering a potentially complex and abstract question in an objective manner, by using simple algorithms on data originating from subjective human perceptions.

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People Starring at computers/EXCLUSIVE: Apple Store Sets Secret Service on Spy Camera Artist

People Staring at Computers from Kyle McDonald on Vimeo.

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interresting show at w139

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Woman gets tattoo of 152 Facebook Friends

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Rosa Menkman

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Aids 3D - Art Talk

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0100101110101101.org Internet cornucopia vs. high art constipation

We wanted to make a work about Internet’s overflowing creativity vs. high art fixation with originality. We found a cat meme collage circulating online, and we ended up making this fake sculpture by art-star Maurizio Cattelan with it. It’s a small yellow taxidermy bird perched atop a birdcage that imprisons an angry-looking taxidermy cat.

The piece has been exhibited at Inman Gallery Annex, in Houston, TX, for a month now as a work by Cattelan, and will be there through January 15, 2011. We thought, let’s wear the mask of a famous artist and see what happens: Will people realize it immediately? Will they say ‘this is his worst work ever?’ Or will they love it?

The reception by the art world has been enthusiastic so far. Who knows what’s going to happen when they find out it’s a prank.

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