Matthew Davis, a Berlin-based artist, made these surreal paintings. Davis puts his brush in oil and lets it drip into small pools. Then he lets it dry for a couple of days and adds a new layer of oil to the painting to create a multi-dimensional look. It creates an extra meaning to the paintings [...]
[Art] Oil dripped paintings by Matthew Davis
January 18, 2012
[Art] Eerie street-art by Iemza
January 17, 2012
Iemza is a street artist from France. Unfortunately there isn’t anymore information about the artist but these mural artworks are eerie and very monstrous. These series consists of faces and monsters and it appears Iemza makes his art on abandon houses or walls which make the image come to life! Great set of photos and [...]
[Art] Dwelling Series by James Nizam
January 11, 2012
The Vancouver based-artist James Nizam made these visual artworks named Dwelling Series. He graduated from the University of British Columbia in 2002 and he graduated with a BFA in visual arts. With group shows in the Vancouver area, he now has forthcoming group shows in London, Barcelona and Rotterdam.
[Art] Explosion by Joschi Herczeg and Daniele Kaehr
January 3, 2012
Two artists Joschi Herczeg and Daniele Kaehr made these series of photos, named Explosion. ‘In their series Explosion, they built a custom-made detonator, which is connected to the cameras and synchronized to snap a photo at the very moment of the explosion. In this way, they were able to capture motion and time in a [...]
[Art Monday] Brad Kunkle
December 5, 2011
The painter Brad Kunkle likes to keep things simple. When you click the ‘about‘ button on his site, the only information you will read is: “Brad Kunkle was born in Lehighton, Pennsylvania in 1978 and has a BFA on painting from Kutztown University. He lives and works in New York City” That’s it. When we [...]
[Art] Le Guess Who? in photos by Nick Helderman
November 29, 2011
You may know Nick Helderman from his project during Incubate 2011. His latest project is for Impossible. A team of photographers that saved the last Polaroid production plant for integral instant film in Enschede. Because of this, The Impossible Project team made sure that more than 300.000.000 (!!) perfectly fine Polaroid camera’s can still be [...]
[Art] Smoking children
November 25, 2011
“Titled “The beauty of an ugly addiction”, Belgian photographer Frieke Janssens confronts viewers with questions about the general smoking ban introduced in Belgium some months ago. Surrealistic, melancholic and theatrical but especially controversial pictures of smoking kids are used to visualise the contradiction of the unhealthy cigarette and the immense attraction of smoking.” (Via I [...]
[Art] Drawings by Julian De Narvaez
November 14, 2011
We found these wonderful drawings on InspireFirst, and we’re absolutely hooked. They’re made by Julian De Narvaez. Born in Bogotá, Colombia, he graduated as a graphic designer on la Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano in 2002, and he got a Web Design Creation degree on the same University 2 years later. His paintings are small fairytales, sometimes [...]
[Art] ‘White Silence’ by Pavel Tereshkovets
November 11, 2011
“In the days of moslem sex-shops, oil-hunting and antismoking campaigns people do realize more and more that they are consigned to absolute loneliness and isolation. The human race keeps on growing and now its population has become so numerous that it doesn’t matter anymore how many people are there on the planet. New cities, tons [...]
[Win] Win 2×2 tickets for the STRP Expo & Matthew Herbert!
November 8, 2011
Did we tell you we really love STRP Festival in Eindhoven? Well, we do. And we’re not just talking about the music here. The 5th edition of STRP Festival is also about 50 years of Dutch media- and technology art. Together with the pioneers, heroes of today and tomorrow’s talent, the STRP EXPO brings you [...]
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Sonic Acts Festival – Traveling Time
February 10, 2012
The Sonic Acts festival is well-known for interdisciplinary projects and the focus on developments at the intersections of art, technology, music and science. The festival consists of live performances, a conferance, film programme and an exhibition. The fourteenth edition will take place 23-26 February at various locations in Amsterdam The theme for this edition is ‘Travelling Time’ and offers an [...]