June 27, 2008
June 24, 2008
June 23, 2008
Amusementality sister-blog
DD now has a splinter blog, Amusementality, an entertainment blog, which will cover tv, music, anime, art and sexy stuff that I can’t post on this here respectable publication. Go there now, go there repeatedly, and if you’re interested in becoming a contributing author, drop me a comment.
June 20, 2008
June 18, 2008
Giger’s Skeleton Bar
The Skeleton Bar in Gruyere is something of a Sedlec Ossuary in space, where the bones decorating the interior are not human, but something else. The bar was designed by H. R. Giger, who is most famous for his design work on the film Alien, which earned him an Oscar. His style tends to present human bodies and machines in a cold, co-dependent relationship, dubbed ‘biomechanical’. Originally an architect, Giger got into painting as a form of art therapy for his nightmares. His work can be seen on several music albums, including ELP’s Brain Salad Surgery and the insert to the Dead Kennedy’s Frankenchrist, which was involved in an obscenity lawsuit. There used to be a number of Giger bars in America, Japan, and Switzerland, but many have closed down, notably New York’s legendary club Limelight used to have a bar with fake embryos floating in pink-fluid filled jars. Interestingly, Giger was a personal friend of Timothy Leary, which may help explain the psychedelic elements of his art.
Skeleton Bar, Funtasticus.com
Sedlec Ossuary Gallery
February 7, 2008
Yuko Shimizu talk in NYC
Tomorrow, February 7th, graphic artist Yuko Shimizu will be part of a talk with Nathan Fox, Sam Weber, and Eddie Guy at the Katie Murphy Amphitheater, 27th St. and Seventh Avenue, NYC, 7:30-8:30PM.
February 5, 2008
Evoke psychadelic cathedral
Evoke, a cool audio-visual project in York, England, allowed people to use their voices to send patterns of color up the facade of the York Minster cathedral, symbolizing the rise of prayers towards God.
Evoke, Haque.co.uk
May 2, 2007
Kasia Ozga exhibit opening, Paris
Naked Lunch
The lovely Kasia Ozga - sculptor, painter, time-based artist, and judoka - is having an exhibition opening tonight at 6:30pm (18h30) in the Foundation des Etats-Unis, Cite Universitaire, Paris, France. The exposition last thru May 10th.
January 18, 2007
Victimless leather, disembodied meat and pig wings
The University of Washington has a fascinating ongoing project, Tissue Culture & Art (TC&A), which blurs the line between the living and artificial by creating semi-living entities, perplexing vegetarians worldwide. First, they made Victimless Leather. Cultured in incubators from animal cell lines, nourished with antibiotics, the tissue was attached to a polymer matrix in the shape of a coat. The result is a leather coat that did not require the death of an animal, and as an aesthetic bonus, has no stiches, having been grown in one piece. Second, TC&A made Disembodied Cuisine, growing skeletal muscle over biopolymer as a potential food source. Though it does require an initial biopsy, while the semi-living meat is growing in a lab, the animal can heal. So, semi-living tissue may one day lead to meat for vegetarians and a significant decrease of animal suffering. Other TC&A projects include Pig Wings, which grew wing-shaped semi-living objects out of pig tissue, and Semi-Living Worry Dolls, traditionally used in Guatemala to ward off worries, these seven miniatures represented the TC&A’s worries: biotechnology, capitalism, demagogy, eugenics, fear itself, invisible genes, and the fear of hope.
January 17, 2007
May 12, 2006
Art of Science exhibit in Princeton
The second annual Art of Science exchibit opened recently in the Friend Center of Princeton University. The juried show features paintings, sculptures, videos and poetry, a total of 55 works produced in the course of scientific research. The top three winners were:
1) Jennifer Rea, "Mitosis," which depicts cell division superimposed on a floral fabric
2) Melissa Green, "Isolated Hairpin," a computer simulation of turbulent air flow
3) Qiangfei Xia, "Easter Bonnet," a photograph taken with an electron scanning microscope of a tiny piece of metal melted by a laser onto a silicon chip
Admission is free and open to the public from 9 am to 6 pm, Monday through Friday.
Art of Science Competition, Princeton.edu
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