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Augmenting Art
Via huffingtonpost.com
Jun 2012
Noting the continuing overlap of art and advertising, ad agency Brilliant After Breakfast says it’s created an augmented reality iPhone app to “hijack” works at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. In one click, put a can of Coke in the hands of a boy in a classic painting.
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Eyeo Online
Via qwikcast.tv
Jun 2012
Going on now at the Walker, the Eyeo Festival—which highlights the convergence of technology and creativity—is webstreaming its talks. Speakers include New York Times graphic editor Amanda Cox, MOMA design curator Paola Antonelli, and others.
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Online Collections Vision
Via intk.com
Jun 2012
Next up after the launch of the new Walker website is a new collections site, says senior new media specialist Nate Solas, which aims to make the art object the center of a cluster of contextual, engaging, and scholarly material.
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The Dark Arts: What to See at Northern Spark 2012
Slideshows
Jun 2012
By anyone’s measure, the inaugural Northern Spark festival last June was a wild success. From dusk to dawn, people discovered the Twin Cities in a new light while making the rounds to some 100 projects by more than 200 artists. This year’s all-nighter, on June 9, features more projects, concentrated in downtown Minneapolis for easier navigation. Here are a few happenings that piqued our interest.
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Residencies Everywhere
Via youtu.be
May 2012
NASA’s only artist in residence Laurie Anderson tells SVA’s 2012 grads there should be artist residencies everywhere, including Congress and the Supreme Court. “Artists have a unique point of view. Why isn’t that part of the bigger picture in our country?”
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Happy Moog Day
Via mashable.com
May 2012
Wednesday’s Google Doodle honoring synthesizer pioneer Bob Moog (1934-2005) is Ryan Germick’s homage to “a patron saint of the nerdy arts.” Fittingly, the playable doodle has 19 knobs, one wheel, a switch, and four tracks that let you record 30 seconds of audio.
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Tweaking Techno-Utopianism
Via good.is
May 2012
Kickstriker, a satirical crowdfunding platform for military missions, critiques both KONY12-style activism and techno-utopianism—"the belief that every problem can be solved through the creative application of technology.”
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G8 Street Tweets
Via designboom.com
May 2012
Thanks to a tweet-fed mobile street-painting robot, citizens kept out of this weekend’s G8 summit at Camp David can have a say: 40-character tweets about global poverty and hunger will be stenciled using water-soluble paint on nearby streets.
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Top Museums Online
Via artinfo.com
May 2012
From the International Center of Photography’s “dramatic” site to the Hirsshorn’s “of-the-moment” page to walkerart.org (“a dynamic blog and news resource rather than a stale well of information about ongoing exhibits”), Kyle Chayka picks his top 10 museum websites.