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Weiweicam.com Shuttered
Via bbc.co.uk
Apr 2012
That didn’t take long: Ai Weiwei has been ordered by authorities to shut down the four webcams he was running in his studio to show his activities 24/7. Wednesday morning he tweeted: “4 minutes ago the cameras have been shut down. byebye to all the voyeurs.”
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8-Bit Garden
Via washingtonpost.com
Apr 2012
After taking Monday off, Art News From Elsewhere is playing catch-up. Sorry we missed Google’s April Fool’s prank, which turned Google Maps into 8-bit video game graphics, with sites like the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden turned into pixelated renderings.
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Artists Online
Via artinfo.com
Mar 2012
Kyle Chayka rounds up the best artist websites, and it’s a pretty diverse list, from Baldessari and Banksy to Wim Delvoye, Takashi Murakami, and Andrea Zittel. If collectives were included, though, we’d add Superflex.
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1,000 Fireflies
Via northern.lights.mn
Mar 2012
For this year’s Northern Spark, a Minneapolis dusk-to-dawn art festival June 9-10, David Rueter is creating a bike “synch mob.” The Kuramoto Model (1,000 Fireflies) will synch up LED lights on 1,000 bikes to mimic firefly behaviors.
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Screenshots of Despair
Via designobserver.com
Mar 2012
“Let’s get the crowd involved in documenting these weird, almost accidental moments, when the default algorithms that undergird the realm of the connected remind us, quietly but somewhat naggingly, that we’re all alone.”
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Virtual Hadid
Via broadmuseum.msu.edu
Mar 2012
In anticipation of the opening its Zaha Hadid-designed facility on the Michigan State University campus this fall, the Broad Museum of Art hired artists John Fillwalk and Adam Brown to create a virtual museum mirroring Hadid’s architecture.
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Art Tumbling
Via flavorwire.com
Mar 2012
While the Walker’s Tumblr blog doesn’t make the cut, some of our favorite sites do. Flavorpill rounds up its favorite art-related Tumblr pages, including Museum Nerd, Hyperallergic, and a “blog by the so-called Jeff Kooons.”
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Against Cyber-Censorship
Via rsf.org
Mar 2012
Monday is World Day Against Cyber-Censorship, and Reporters Without Borders notes that while Arab Spring activists have made great use of online tools over the past year, countries from Bahrain to Vietnam keep struggling for a free internet.
