77 Million Paintings

77 Million Paintings.
Conceived as 'visual music' and using 'self-generating' software, three hundred of Brian Eno's hand-drawn images are cut-up, rearranged and realigned to produce infinite variations. Completely random, entirely original, constantly evolving, the results come to life on luminous screens in a brilliant display of colour, shape and form. To complete the experience, layers of ambient sound interweave to create a mesmerising soundscape.
Shown at the Venice Biennale and the Milan Triennale, as well as in Tokyo, London and San Francisco, 77 Million Paintings will run throughout the whole of LUMINOUS as a free event in The Studio at the Sydney Opera House from 26 May to 14 June 2009.

source: Luminous

Soda -Jerk

Soda-Jerk is a collaborative team of 2 Australian sisters who are digital remix artists. Their practice is a combination of paper and digital collage, scratch video and popular culture sampling, Soda Jerk sources material from popular culture such as record covers to Elvis films, hip hop music and Stanley Kubrick creating new narratives and meanings.

Soda-Jerk’s feature length movie Pixel Pirate II: Attack of the Astro Elvis Video Clone is made of samples from over 300 films and songs. It is referred to by the artists as a sci-fi/biblical epic/cheesy romance/action flick. The story goes that space pirates abduct Elvis Presley as part of a scheme to destroy the Ten Commandments of Copyright Law, laid down by Moses in prehistory.

source: geekgirl & sodajerk

This post is a part of the Ada Lovelace Collection. Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of blogging to draw attention to women excelling in technology. Find out more at findingada.com.

Interview on Radio National Artworks

Wholly, Holey, Holy

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'Wholly, Holey, Holy' by Talisa June 2008

Papal Folly

This work is a new edition to my activist art series of Holy Cards.

I aim to infiltrate and disseminate a series of holy cards with alternative messages for the pious when the pope visits Sydney in July. This one is about the current pope's ban on condoms, a decision that has dire consequences for people without access to sane HIV prevention education.

To see more Unholy Holy Cards visit Good Golly God

image created by Talisa using photoshop

Triptych Portraiture

Year 11 students create a visual narrative portrait within set constraints of a triptych composition using digital imaging software.
See the exhibition here.

Not a Tree

Rather odd mini manhole covers inscribed with the word TREE dot the streets down at the Rocks in Sydney, presumably for access to tree roots for watering. I photographed some and added text and a tree shadow using photoshop.
With a nod to Magritte, who painted The Treachery of Images 1928 with text "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" translated to "This is Not a Pipe", I made this image as a protest about urban sprawl and deforestation of native bushland. Cities are often built on the most fertile, abundant soils with largest rainfall.

image: Talisa Tulip 2008

500 Years of Female Portraits

500 Years of Female Portraits in Western Art
by Philip Scott Johnson

Music: Bach's Sarabande from Suite for Solo Cello No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007 performed by Yo-Yo Ma

For a complete list of artists and paintings visit http://www.maysstuff.com/womenid.htm

Brainland

This fabulous art work is by NZ cartographer Sam Brown.
Recently featured in the journal, Neuron, in an issue focusing on mapping our neural wilderness.

Brainland. Featuring...Endocrine Islands. Isle of Sleep. Attention Lookout. And, Neuron Rocks. Holiday destinations with a difference.

The data for the image was adapted from a photograph of a human brain and used to model the three-dimensional terrain. The topographic model was then used to create contour line data and relief shading and for map compilation.

Seen on the All In The Mind blog.

Folk Tales

My year 10 Visual Art class used digital imaging to illustrate the traditional folk tales they studied during English lessons earlier in the year. The signs and symbols in the tales are very specific and the characters archetypal.

This image by Geoffrey illustrates 'Iron John' a male rite of passage story written by the Brothers Grimm about the wild man within who helps men face the responsibilities of adulthood.

The class works are exhibited online here.

Seeing Red

Chatres Cathedral digitally modelled in milk crates by artist Lauren Brown as her graduating piece, part of a series of 3 digitally manipulated photographs of 3 french gothic cathedral naves, made from milk crates.

She worked from images of the interiors of the churchs and in building them, got to know and study the cathedrals intimately. she recently visited Notre-dame in Paris and said walking into the church was like a home coming - that she already knew what it was going to look like and how she would feel. She reported that she even found herself doing the sign of the cross out of habit - almost genuflecting before remembering that she wasn't in the catholic school system anymore and could just walk on by. Visiting Notre-Dame you probably feel uplifted anyway, whatever your creed or otherwise, but for her, it was a special little nod and a wink to the beginning of her art career and a nice nudge to keep going.

Golden Tarot

Kat Black created this tarot deck using digital imaging software with rich Renaissance and Medieval paintings as source material. The images portray historical archetypal symbols and meaning in a contemporary way.

"Golden Tarot has been collaged completely from artwork of the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance.
From a time of violence, pestilence and oppression came poignant images of gentle beauty and human frailty.
They speak to me of a truth that is timeless, and hope that flowers even in the darkest conditions. I hope that they also speak to you".

- Kat Black, artist/author of Golden Tarot.

Activist Art 11

A collection of images by my students who have been depicting and ethical issue that concern them. This one called 'Barbie's Sick' was made in response to the unhealthy proportions of the famous doll. If a human being had the foot size of Barbie she would fall over, the skinny neck would not support a skull and brain and her back would probably break!

Roar

(image by talisa)

Feeling Manipulated

Digital Imaging by Anthony Cortese