(modification by 82times of a drawing by Sara Ludy)
this version somewhat degraded by jpeg compression
Made using "add a pillow" app, an HTML5 cloud based program that pulls pillows from department store websites into your iPhone (TM) where they can be added to the artwork of your choice. Naw, just BS-ing--but it sounds plausible--coming soon to an "art and technology" website.
(modification of a drawing by Michael Manning)
Interior 1 is ruffling some decorator sensibilities. [drawing deleted from CCDS - the comments by "paul" were so stupid they were making me vomit]
Loosely inspired by Bertrand Lavier.
screenshot of interactive work, Unfolding Object, by John F. Simon, Jr. (2002)
Guggenheim Museum
OK, nine years is too new to be vintage--thought it was older when the post title was written and now I don't want to change it. Also, not known is whether it works because it's been tinkered with to keep it functioning on current browsers. (Another Simon piece, Combinations, for example, was made before pop-up blockers.)
Ben Fino-Radin, the Victor Frankenstein of internet art, has just given 20,000 volts to another zombie artwork.
Petra Cortright's VVebcam was removed from YouTube because of her use of spam tags as art.
That's unfortunate because the spam was the least interesting aspect of the work.
(In 2007, before YouTube was bought by Google, it was funny to ironically draw traffic to your post through the use of sexual and other hot-button words. That landscape--the context of the artwork--has changed utterly, and Google's removal of the piece now validates it as a bit of 2007 idealism in need of cleaning up in the new corporate environment where color coded badges for workers are the norm.)
Who'd have guessed this YouTube-based artwork would be "taught in academic curricula" when I linked to it in Mar 2007. That post and a discussion four days later with Paddy Johnson probably doomed this guerrilla effort to a future of respectability but I have no regrets.
Trying to remake a piece that relies on "defaults" (YouTube + dancing webcam graphics that can still be seen in this Make magazine video--still on YouTube) isn't too exciting, though. Better if Fino-Radin just did a little homework, beyond looking at a Vice magazine interview from earlier this year, to document the piece through its contemporaneous accounts on the web. That's what we're doing here.
These works "found on the internet" have almost nothing in common beyond grids of circles. Bury was a European proto-Op kinetic artist and Downing was a member in good standing of the Washington Color school, painting large "stain" style canvases on cotton duck.
Am guessing the Downing work above is vastly larger than the Bury in real life. The Bury suggests lunar phases as well as cartoon googly eyes all looking left. Am not sure of the medium.
Downing was a student of Kenneth Noland's and worked almost exclusively with dots and uninflected pigment. Like Paul Feeley's work, his canvases give a softening touch to otherwise precise, machinelike patterns.
Speaking of Noland & Co, Washburn gallery is showing some early 1960s Ray Parker paintings. Am looking forward to seeing them later in the week. Parker would be considered a second generation Abstract Expressionist but that '60s work, with its large bold color blobs, forges a missing link between Rothko and the Noland school.
To bring our theme of computer-represented abstraction full circle (commencing with the jpegs above), here is a simulated Ray Parker, painted last night.
