What is Pictorem? Located in Montreal, [link url=”https://www.pictorem.com?refer=QQ2JCL5BR3″]Pictorem[/link] is a team of photography professionals, who are well-known for making many types of art prints. While the company has its primary operations in Canada, they serve clients from all over the world. Their diverse range of art products are used in offices, commercial buildings, schools, museums, …
Printers are not all created equal, and this applies to the ones designed for printing on canvas as well. Canvas has a GSM (Grams Per Square Meter, a common definition of thickness of materials) of between 280 and 430, which means it is a much heavier material than your regular printing papers which are much …
Rick Silva‘s is an artist with a focus on animated gifs, with a unique twist that separates him from the plethora of animated gifs available on the Internet nowadays. FYI, we’ve also featured some of his previous work here. His site where he uploads his new pieces is called Antlers WiFi. A combination of photography …
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Zilvinas Kempinas is a Lithuanian born artist reknowned for his physical installations, utilizing the tape of old VHS casettes. “Flying Tape”, pictured here, suspends the magnetic tape, almost magically, between electric fans. UPDATE: You can also see another installation “Tube” that we’ve featured in this post.
We are aware of the work of Zilvinas Kempinas, we’ve featured some of his previous work, such ass Double O (which was made up of electric fans folding up magnetic tape, seemingly in a perpetual motion machine.) However we hadn’t known about this other installation called “Tube”, which also utilized magnetic tape (Zilvinas apparently always …
An almost perfect approach to modern technology and the inherit fragility of it is “56 Broken Kindle Screen” by Sebastian Schmieg and Silvio Lorusso. Further than speak to the junkiness of technology, the imagery created when the screens break is collage-esque, collapsing multiple pages and/or images into one. This accidental art is a great example of …
Hello World by artist Valentin Ruhry, is made of dozens of “rocker switches” which are lit up to give an effect of a digital display. For those that are knowledgeable in computer programming, the name will be self evident that this is a nod towards the digital eco-system. For those not knowledgeable, “Hello, World” is …
Ever wonder what you get when you throw aluminum foil on a digital scanner? Neither have I! But after looking at the work of Bruno Levy I’m sad that I didn’t think of it first. The work comes across as spooky, sort of a modern ghost story in the digital age. Remember the movie “white …
Ever wonder what a structure made of moving glad might look like? Well look no further. “Floe” is one such sculpture, deemed “kinetic glass” and comes from the minds of four artists from the Royal College of Art in London. Lida Marinkova (who has a background in textiles), Ozgun Kilic (who has a background in …
The Edge Effect, 2012 by Daniel Kukla “The Edge Effect” is a term used in ecology when two distinct terrains and ecosystems meet each other. Daniel Kukla documented this edge effect at the meeting of the Mojave and Sonoran desert in Southern California’s Joshua Tree National Park. Using a large mirror on an easel, he …
A perfect addition for us, Robert Strati utilizes Adobe Illustrator to digitally print diagrams. These diagrams can represent all kinds of data, including architectural drawings, music, sky and star mappings. Turning data into abstract representations is the fundamental aspect of all map making and data visualizations. As we’ve learned in recent years through the explosion …
AntiVJ is back with another banger, and this one is a permanent installation. Its placed on Wroclaw, Poland in the Hala Stulecia building, a historic place originally decided by famous architect Max Berg in 1913. The installation is called O (OMNICRON), and is meant to be a permanent installation in a new museum of Architecture. …
Artist Sergio Albiac is the mind behind this complex achievement, a “Viedorative Portrait of Randall Okita”. Albiac speaks to the “emotional and interactive painting” a references that he is no longing simply using physical appearances to create a portrait, but rather something more fundamental to the human experience, such as emotions, memories and relationships. In …
81 points of view is the work of Sebastian Schmieg which works to utilize out-of-date technology, such as slide projectors, to make an interactive display where the final product (the slide projections) are as much as a part of the exhibit as the mechanic device itself. Leveraging the obsolete technology to create augmented reality (something …