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Destroy the music machine: ‘Remixing’ John Cage’s classic 4’33” on the way to a UK Xmas #1
12.10.2010
01:06 pm
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  Cage Against the Machine..‘4.33’ Mr. Scruff Remix! by Mr Scruff

Three silent cheers for Dave and Julie Hilliard! They’re the couple behind Cage Against the Machine, the grassroots Facebook effort to bring a new recording of composer John Cage’s famous “silent” piece 4’33” to #1 in the UK charts this Christmas over whichever bullshit song wins the UK TV pop contest X Factor this year.

The Hilliards named CATM in hat-tip to last year’s successful Facebook campaign to boost Rage Against the Machine’s raw 1992 tune “Killing in the Name” into the Christmas #1 over whatever crappy tune won the ’09 X Factor. This year, indie-ish artists like Imogen Heap, Fyfe Dangerfield, Scroobius Pip, The Kooks and Heaven 17 popped into the studio to not play their instruments, and the single will be released by the Wall of Sound label. And instead of one single charity, the proceeds from sales of the new 4’33” benefits FOUR. Factor that in, Simon Cowell, you tit-head.

The race to #1 starts December 13. Here’s where you can sign up for a reminder and chart-eligible link to download the single.

Here’s an added plus: the wonderful conceptual flexibility behind 4’33” has allowed CATM to solicit remixes from both some innovative producers and you:

So go to it, give us a four minute thirty three second audio snapshot of your life. Record it on your phone, your Mac, PC, recorder, dictaphone, walkperson, whatever and share it here.

Check some out…
 

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Posted by Ron Nachmann
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12.10.2010
01:06 pm
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Uncut version of David Wojnarowiscz’s censored video ‘A Fire In My Belly’
12.09.2010
11:22 pm
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Last week David Wojnarowiscz’s video “A Fire In My Belly” was removed from the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery’s exhibit, ‘Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture.’ The version pulled from the exhibit was actually just an excerpt from the original 21 minute film. Here’s the uncut version of “A Fire In My Belly” courtesy of the estate of David Wojnarowicz and P.P.O.W Gallery, New York.

Unlike the shorter version, the original video does not contain Diamanda Galas’s vocal track. I find the silent version more haunting.
 

 
Via TB
 
Previously on DM: Smithsonian bows to religious and conservative extremists and pulls AIDS video from exhibit.

Posted by Marc Campbell
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12.09.2010
11:22 pm
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Odd Star Wars family portraits
12.08.2010
04:16 pm
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Odd Star Wars family portraits by artist and blogger Steven Quinn. You can veiw more of Steven’s work over at his Flicker account.
 
See more portraits after the jump…

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Posted by Tara McGinley
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12.08.2010
04:16 pm
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Extremely deep zoom into the Mandelbrot set: Infinitely psychedelic
12.07.2010
02:07 am
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The beautiful and infinite geometry of our Universe is echoed in this vivid fractal journey generated by Chris Korda using the Mandelbrot set. Worlds within worlds within whorls.

Korda describes the making of the video:

This is an extremely deep dive into the Mandelbrot set, to 2^316 (binary). In decimal that’s 1E+95, or 1 with 95 zeros after it.
The video was rendered using my own fractal software, called Fractice, which supports distributed processing using a client/server architecture. The render took five months, using a cluster of up to 20 dual-core PCs on a LAN, all running the Fractice rendering server. The actual number of servers varied over the five-month period but averaged around 15. Rendering only occurred at night.

 

Posted by Marc Campbell
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12.07.2010
02:07 am
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Paa Joe’s Elaborate Hand-Carved Ghanaian Coffins
12.06.2010
10:11 am
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The Jack Bell Gallery in London are currently exhibiting a small selection of sculpted coffins by the Ghanaian artist Paa Joe. The four works on display are all iconic symbols of Ghanaian life:

The golden African eagle, fish, Air Ghana jet, and Cocoa pod are testament to the vibrancy of West African culture and the ability and imagination of the local artists.

These works blur the line between art and craft. Reflecting the ambition or the trade of the person for whom they were made they are not dead things but are instead a manifestation of and indeed an affirmation of life. The works are wholly African and are a contemporary embodiment of traditional tribal burial rituals and art practice. They link back to pre-colonial West African sculpture but also recall the pomp and extravagance of ancient Egyptian royal tombs and perhaps – in contemporary Western art practice they recall Jeff Koons. They too are kitsch, Paa Joe, like Koons, plays with scale and with a work like the Jet, with material and commercial ostentation.

Paa Joe is the foremost coffin-maker of his generation, who was apprenticed by Kane Kwei – the man credited with beginning the 20th century tradition of figurative coffins. Paa Joe’s work is held in museum collections around the world including the British Museum in London. The exhbition Paa Joe: Taking It With You is at the Jack Bell Gallery until 15 January 2011.
 
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With thanks to Douglas Steindorff
 
More of Paa Joe’s coffins after the jump…
 

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Posted by Paul Gallagher
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12.06.2010
10:11 am
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Stanley Kubrick street graffiti
12.05.2010
03:28 pm
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Imagine walking down the street and seeing this! Pretty great, huh? 

(via Das Kraftfuttermischwerk)

Posted by Tara McGinley
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12.05.2010
03:28 pm
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Nils Völker’s Interactive Installation One Hundred and Eight
12.05.2010
10:20 am
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One Hundred and Eight
Hundred and Eight One
and Eight One Hundred
Eight One Hundred and…you get the picture.

One Hundred and Eight is an interactive wall-mounted Installation made German designer by Nils Völker. The display mainly consists of ordinary household garbage bags, which are selectively inflated and deflated in turn by a two colling fans.

Although each plastic bag is mounted stationary the sequences of inflation and deflation create the impression of lively and moving creatures which waft slowly around like a shoal. But as soon a viewer comes close it instantly reacts by drawing back and tentatively following the movements of the observer. As long as he remains in a certain area in front of the installation it dynamically reacts to the viewers motion. As soon it does no longer detect someone close it reorganizes itself after a while and gently restarts wobbling around.

 

 

Posted by Paul Gallagher
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12.05.2010
10:20 am
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Has the acid kicked in yet?
12.04.2010
05:25 pm
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Artist Will Sweeny makes the leap from designing club flyers, t-shirts and illustrating graphic novels to animation and the result is gorgeously psychedelic.

This video has been selected for the Guggenheim Museum’s YouTube Play biennial of creative video. The inaugural event showcases the most innovative online video from around the world and the judges including Stefan Sagmeister, Darren Aronofsky, Takeshi Murakami and Laurie Anderson.

Directed by Steve Scott.

Music: Birdy Nam Nam’s “The Parachute Ending”
 

Via bigactive.com

Posted by Marc Campbell
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12.04.2010
05:25 pm
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Tin can drum kit
12.04.2010
04:50 pm
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Helmut Smits is a multidisciplinary visual artist based in Rotterdam who uses found objects and trash to create inventive and witty sculptures and installations.
 
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Via Illusion360

Posted by Marc Campbell
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12.04.2010
04:50 pm
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How to be a successful artist
12.03.2010
08:24 pm
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Hennessy Youngman cuts to the chase with this instructional video on how to be an artist. I find his insights invaluable and have used them to advance my own artistic career. I take inspiration from wherever I can get it.
 

 
Via Lost At E-Minor

 

Posted by Marc Campbell
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12.03.2010
08:24 pm
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