Artist Tim Tate has created miniature reliquaries to digital video that memorializes this modern technology. Tate grew up enjoying the powerful influence of video and wanted to create a glass capsule to preserve these artifacts.  After experimenting with DVD players encased within glass, Tate realized a custom video player without moving parts would have to be developed.  He partnered with a electronic optics company and over the course of year developed a little video system that could loop video without the need of repair.
The result of the project is a series of memorials to modern video that bridge the gap [...]

Miami-based artist Jen Stark creates wildly beautiful sculptures by cutting and layering concentric cutouts of colored construction paper (try saying that ten times fast). Her sculptures have received a great deal of press (including Wallpaper*, while she was still in art school, and Wired, among others), but check out her equally beautiful animations, which are completely memorizing.

“Streaming Gradient” by Jen Stark from Jen Stark on Vimeo.

[via Computerlove]

Ryan McGinness, an artist based out of New York known for his graphic-inspired installations, recently released a new book entitled No Sin/No Future.  The book is a compilation of his impressive designs and features an insight into the way he forms his ideas.  Scans from scrapbooks and partially completed pieces give a brief glimpse into the process that goes into his intricate works of art. For those in the Ohio region, one can enjoy McGinness’ work in person at the Cincinnati Art Museum. Cool Hunting describes his work:
One of the best ways to view the intricacies of McGinness’ work is [...]