Craig Phares

Tag: art

  • Fallen Art

    Platige Image has produced Fallen Art, a short animated movie that takes place at an old, forgotten military base somewhere in the Pacific. You can preview the opening sequence on their site, and I absolutely love the character concept paintings.

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  • artificial.dk

    I just stumbled upon artificial.dk, a website devoted to the promotion of net art, software art, and other computer based art forms. There’s some groundbreaking work going on in the world of digital art. Put aside some time in your day to browse through Artificial’s…

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  • Insert Object, and Out Comes an Artful Replica

    Tonight, at Leo Koenig in Chelsea, the Vienna-based collective Gelitin has built a large wooden box with two extensions, one like a cabinet and one like a top-loading chest. Viewers can place any object into the chestlike extension, close the hatch, and wait while their…

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  • The Hurricane Poster Project

    There’s some gorgeous artwork being made at The Hurricane Poster Project. There’s also an interesting pricing plan: prices are raised as the quantity of a poster gets smaller.

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  • SimpleTEXT: a mobile phone enabled performance

    SimpleTEXT is a collaborative audio/visual public performance that relies on audience participation through input from mobile devices such as phones, PDAs or laptops.

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  • Videogame Aesthetics

    David Hayward posted a very topical article about the changing aesthetics of video games. With the ever progressing surge towards true photo-reality in games, the visual effect of games has become banal. Hayward looks at the progression of art history in a similar fashion, proposing…

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  • Hidden Microchip Art

    CNET’s article, “What art is hiding on your microchip?“, exposes the tiny world of microchip art. More than 10 years ago, Michael Davidson went looking to capture the beauty of microchip circuitry in photographs. In among the transistors and wire traces, he found something unexpected:…

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  • rAndom international

    rAndom international is a team of three RCA graduates – Flo Ortkrass, Stuart Wood, and Hannes Koch – who all have a real digital-age aesthetic. I want me some PixelTape!

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  • 8861 miles

    “A collaboration between 2 danish artists, one living in Denmark (Peter), the other living in Australia (Lene). 8861 miles apart their work takes form in sketchbooks, travelling back and forth between the continents.”

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  • Pop Surrealism

    I just read the TRAFFIC Magazine article interviewing Kirsten Anderson, and started on a quest to find out more about Pop Surrealism. Soon I realized that this is what many of my painting peers in art school were doing without even knowing it. Here are…

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  • Art Tracing Module 002

    Sustain Ability recently completed an interesting conceptual project. Two artists paint a painting, attach a global positioning device, and leave the painting in a public place. They allow it to be abducted, and then monitor its location using Google Earth, where its travel patterns are…

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  • Wired Covers Steven Sacks, Founder of bitforms

    In Wired’s article, “The King of Digital Art”, Steven Sacks discusses how he’s planning on taking new-media art to the mainstream public.

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