Part-commentary on the nature of art, part-political gesturing and a dash of community building, The Box Game is a mobile art exhibit/roadside attraction looking to gain answers from anyone and everyone for what really is inside of a tall black box. In collaboration with Black Hole Space, artists David Horvitz and Lukas Geronimas began their venture at Coney Island on February 28. Read More »

“The most important effect that the digital process has had for me in respect of my art practice is that it has given me the freedom to play beyond set boundaries. The use of the word ‘play’ by no means suggests a non-serious or trivial inference: Play is fundamental to all art and in the digital process we have found an important and exciting form of this, giving new possibilities of such a fluid and dynamic nature that its importance cannot be overstates.” — Robin Doherty in Art of the Digital Age

Not to be confused with this form of digital apoplexia, digital art is traditional art (sculpture, installation, and performance, among others) redefined within a digital context, offering “more precision than the human hand” and less room for chaos. For those of us digital art neophytes curious to learn more, School of Visual Arts presents Technocultures: The History of Digital Art: A Conversation tonight at 6 p.m.

To get a taste of what’s in store, Flavorwire sat down with SVA’s Computer Art Department Chair, Bruce Wands, who will moderate tonight’s panel; find our interview after the jump.

Read More »

Oh Internet, so vast and mighty, man’s solution to streamlining a global collective consciousness. But wait! What’s this? With unlimited accessibility comes the removal of a certain da-sein, an unbridled distraction from “reality” at-large… hundreds of RSS feed posts, streaming e-mails, sidetracks, social networking sites, and YouTube would appear to make the web less benevolent ruler and more sneaky trickster, whose overwhelming selection (provided by the hub of mental interconnectedness) dominates our lives.

Introducing Leslie Miles, whose self-named corner of the universe cleans up the excess to provide you with pure art in an effort “not to be everyone’s tenth favorite blog, but rather ten people’s favorite blog.” We interviewed him in order to find out more about how.

Read More »

Ancient in practice but always novel in theory, taxidermy’s literal ‘movement of skin’ on dead creatures makes us think ‘why’? For the only New York City-based taxidermist (who recently opened her studio in Brooklyn), former painter Melissa Dixson, taxidermy is “an art object, rather than trophy or natural history specimen.” Recently featured in the New York Times “One in 8 Million” series, Dixson’s taxidermy is a way to bring nature indoors in the form of fine arts objects (several of her pieces were sold at an exhibition held by Moss in May of last year).

Read More »