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2012: The Year According to Julian Bleecker
Julian Bleecker
Jan 10
For a futurist, our request might have been unwelcome: look back. Thankfully, artist and technologist Julian Bleecker agreed, offering his top 10 moments from 2012 in a list that ranges from acts of God (Hurricane Sandy) to the completely man-made (Instagram and “computational photography” cameras) to the pop cultural and artistic (Frank Ocean, Tom Sachs, and the death of the Beastie Boys’ Adam Yauch).
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Digital Arts
Via pewinternet.org
Jan 7
A new Pew study, “Arts Organizations and Digital Technologies,” finds that of more than 1,200 arts organizations surveyed 77% agreed that digital technologies “played a major role in broadening the boundaries of what is considered art.”
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Art Tweets
Via huffingtonpost.com
Jan 3
Plenty of Walker friends make HuffPo’s list of top art tweeters, from artists in our collection to critics, art bloggers, and institutions. Listed: MASS MOCA, Raymond Pettibon, Carolina Miranda, Museum Nerd, Tyler Green, and others.
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Online Art Conundrum
Via artinfo.com
Dec 2012
With investors pumping money into online art sites, Julia Halperin asks, “[C]an a cultural sector that typically relies on exclusivity, personal contact, and (often) opacity make an effective transition to the web?” Then there’s the monetization question.
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Cindy Blinks
Via studio360.org
Dec 2012
What happens when contemporary artists, including Alex da Corte and Joe Kay, try their hands at making animated GIFs: Bruce Naumann-like loops of a perpetually lit/extinguished candle or an Untitled Film Still featuring a blinking Cindy Sherman.
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GIF in 3D
Via rhizome.org
Dec 2012
Calling the animated GIF “one of the internet’s most creative canvases since its availability,” Rhizome looks at a new development—GIFS that transcend their two-dimensional context. Behold: 3D animated GIFs.
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Game Collection
Via moma.org
Nov 2012
“Are video games art? They sure are, but they are also design, and a design approach is what we chose for this new foray into this universe,” writes architecture/design curator Paola Antonelli on MoMA’s acquisition of 14 games, including Pac-Man and Tetris.
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New Current
Via thecurrent.org
Nov 2012
The Current, MPR’s rock station and a frequent Walker media partner, launches a new website Thursday, designed by former Walker new media designer Justin Heideman. Now in beta, the site has a responsive design, new HTML5 audio player, and more.
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GIFability
Via rhizome.org
Nov 2012
Rhizome analyzes the importance of “GIFability” of various media, and looks at how GIFs recontextualize and help circulate the original media. This GIFability is important, “because in a sense, no work has been completed until it has been GIFed.”