Brett Ian Balogh creates beautiful abstractions that document the mass media’s airwave occupation.

DIY music community newspaper SHOWPAPER is collaborating with Urban Green Initiative on “Scene & Captured” an art show that “explores waste solutions for the music scene”.

Rocket Gallery presents “Book A Table: Coffee Tables & Artists’ Books” – an exhibit that examines the social function of the coffee table as a space for identifying one’s social status.

The Spam Book tackles the annoyances of internet porn, email spam and viruses as culturally relevant media theory.

ArtPrize is an exhibition and art competition where artists are matched via the website’s network with conventional and unconventional spaces in Grand Rapids.

The London Underground is now opening up its future reputation to the public with a competition to re-design fabric moquettes…

Last month we wrote about the Reburbia competition that challenged architects and urban planners to appropriate the soon-to-be vacant ruins of suburban sprawl (aka big box stores and mini-mansions) for more efficient uses. The grand prize went to Calvin Chiu’s Frog’s Dream: McMansions Turned into Biofilter Water Treatment Plants. It’s a design that turns bloated mini-mansions into wetlands, providing an organic filtration system for a nearby city.
Chiu explains the project:
In response to the anticipated future, the Frog’s Dream project attempts to re-establish a sustainable relationship between city and suburbia. It proposes to transform the vacant McMansions, at the periphery of [...]

Over the last couple of years, we’ve chronicled the rise of brands creating pop-up stores to earn street cache. In an interesting twist of art imitating advertising, Amsterdam-based artist Laurence Aegerter has created the Opening Soon/Opening Now series of pop-up events and stores that address gentrification within Amsterdam (part of the Red A.I.R. program). Staging the project within a former brothel over the course of the past year, Aegerter has transformed the space into a library, a Turkish snack bar, a golf club and a soon to be functioning public swimming pool among others.
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Cultural critic Paul Virilio has said that the speed at which something occurs can change its very nature; moreover, what happens quicker will always dominate the slower.  In this sense, the creation and subsequent circulation of ideas is dependent on the speed of distribution. We’ve seen this come into play with the rise of the blogosphere as a primary source for information, and  the subsequent move of print media to digital.
ExperimentaDesign is an international design, architecture and creativity biennale that addresses this very affect of time– more specifically speed and acceleration–on design. Opening on September [...]

Media artist YoungHyun Chung has created Digital Wheel Art, an interactive system that allows for physically challenged individuals to create paintings and drawings. Utilizing common technological tools like Nintendo’s Wiimote, users can control onscreen brushstrokes  by moving through space. Watch a demo below.

Digital Wheel Art from YoungHyun Chung on Vimeo.
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In the post-Damien Hirst art world utilizing taxidermically prepared animals can prove challenging. Claire Morgan’s sculpture installations takes on this task, and sublimates the physical and emotional weight of The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living (Hirst’s iconic shark suspended in formaldehyde), and turns it into lithe abstractions. Morgan, obsessed with the differing depictions of nature, utilizes suspension and repetition to turn the animal’s body from a display piece to an experimentation with light and movement.
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Whether its former U.S. Senator Ted Stevens making an erroneous analogy about the Internet’s infrastructure or the Chinese firewalls that block access to Twitter, the Internet’s uninhibited access to information attracts (often ill -informed) advocates for Internet censorship. F.A.T. or Free Art & Technology make light of this phenomenon with the introduction of the Ctrl+F’d bookmarklet. Named in homage to Rush Limbaugh’s ignorance of the control-f command, Ctrl F’d allows users to censor popular websites in the same way that companies and organizations attempt to do so with sensitive online documents.
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The casualties of catastrophic events not only affect the victims but can extend to rescue workers and inhabitants of the surrounding areas. However, risking the lives of rescue workers may now be limited with the aid of artificial intelligence. Pink Tentacle points us to a version of the Tokyo Fire Department’s Robo-Q. The machine–manned from a different location, is able to transmit video and images of victims to the machine’s pilot; the pilot, in turn, navigates the machine to handle the victim and protect he or she within its shell.
Below is a demonstration.

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