Happy holidays - may yours be joyous and religious (or not) according to your custom, without fear of omnipotent gods or news anchors telling you the right way to celebrate them. [Sudden lighting bolt fries computer.]
December 2011
CCDS montage (2)
Below are some other recent drawings I did on the Computers Club Drawing Society blog; they are thumbnails, not the full-sized versions.
Top to bottom, left to right:
Statuary
Bird of Prey (D-7 Class)
After Jim Steranko
Map of the Island
Flagellant
After Ray Parker
The moire patterns in the Bird of Prey and Flagellant thumbs are resizing artifacts but I kind of like them.
Art or Not? Yes
Art or Not is an amusing concept based on the late '90s proto-meme site "Hot or Not." In "Hot or Not" the user rated pictures of girlfriends by clicking a radio button, which then took you to the next picture. It might have been boyfriends, too. With Art or Not there are no limitations placed on what can be rated, in the spirit of Marcel Duchamp, the art and technology websites will soon tell us (it only launched yesterday).
Early indicators suggest the site is easily spammed. Anything with a whiff of "net art" or possible institutional support brings out the usual narcissists and tamperers.
Computers excel at tabulating and number-crunching; we know this. Every commercial social media site promotes ratings of people and things. Art or Not brings this systematic tyranny of the majority to a supposedly sacred realm that has in fact been de-sacralized at least since Pop Art.
"My Robot Can Eat Your Robot"
"My Robot Can Eat Your Robot" [mp3 removed]
Have been keeping scrupulous notes on how pieces were made, mostly for my reference in case I wanted to come back to something. This has a tendency to demystify the work, which isn't always desirable. #krypt