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Artist Crush: Jon Koko

August 17th, 2015 · No Comments

This is the artwork of Jon Koko who works mostly in digital although you’d never know by the look of his work. He exhibited his work last year at Thimar/Westling Galleri in Karlstad, Sweden.

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Holger Lippmann: Isometric Iteration

August 17th, 2012 · 1 Comment

I’m not a huge fan of digital art as a genre I guess because it often feels lacking in emotion or humanness, but when done well, like this work is by Holger Lippmann of Berlin, it is truly breathtaking.

“when i came back to germany in 1994, i moved to berlin, right in the middle of the electronic music boom, i started pretty radically to work with computers (only), i knew i have to work the same way like the music i was listening to was made… since then, none of the fascination of working with software and internet based networks has abated… deep inside i’m a painter and i always was. so i see my work best described in the traditional context of painting… these works shown here, are programmed and recorded as vector files, thus they are unlimited scaleable without a loss of quality.” – artist profile on flickr


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A New Global (Digital) Culture

June 15th, 2011 · 2 Comments

Martin Grasser and Jiyun Ha (aka 2ppl) are friends from Art Center who co-produced GFS using photocopiers and newspapers from all around the world. What they created was a wealth of new imagery, all appropriated from existing imagery. Their idea is very simple yet also pretty mind-blowing.

The Global from Scratch Project is an installation which attempts to capture the emergence of a new global culture born out of technological advances… (which have) eliminated many of the boundaries that in the past have separated people into unique geographic and nationalistic cultures. As these cultural traditions begin to fade and change, we see a new culture, a global culture, created almost from scratch.

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Xerox paintings – the artists’ favorites from GFS.

 

Design Crush: GIF Art

April 14th, 2011 · 5 Comments

Works by Brandon Jan Blommaert via I’M REVOLTING.

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Picks of the Week: Imaginative, Digital

April 8th, 2010 · 4 Comments

Artist of the day: Tanya Johnston

November 25th, 2009 · No Comments

I am, admittedly, in a weird head space after having lost an old friend who should have been with us for another fifty-plus years. It’s made me think a lot about the larger, arguably unanswerable questions in life that religion would help answer if I were religious. Instead I often turn to art and music to play that role.

I recently discovered Tanya Johnston on Design for Mankind and her moody, cerebral work is really resonating with me. I tend to enjoy art that is more aesthetic than conceptual, but Johnston’s illustrations work for me because they are still fundamentally aesthetic, and the conceptualization is not so far fetched.

Johnston’s artist statement begins with, “Drawing from symbolism, semiotics, psychology, science and culture, my process of creation attempts to synthesize linear and non-linear thinking. Through my work I explore the realms of reality as illusion, and illusion as reality.” This is a rather abstract explanation, BUT I buy it because it makes sense in the context of her work. Plus it is clear through her artist statement, titles and quotations that Johnston simply seeks to provide clarity around her work.