In case you have never seen a performance of 8-Bit music, this is what one looks like.
(figure on right via thekraken, dump)
tom moody
"Floorswabber"
"Floorswabber" [mp3 removed]
A fairly straight-up techno-house tune with scattered nerdy elements. Again, this is mostly Reaktor "groovebox" presets, played live by changing "snapshots" and muting/unmuting tracks. I altered all the snapshots before playing and feel that in most cases I added hooks that weren't there. The ravy organ part that plays twice was added later.
Horizontal Infinity
shortened vers. of GIF by thekraken.
From Boris Groys' Art Power, pp. 16-17:
The artist of the ancien régime was intent on creating a masterpiece, an image that would exist in its own right as the ultimate visualization of the abstract ideas of truth and beauty. In modernity, on the other hand, artists have tended to present examples of an infinite sequence of images--as Kandinsky did with abstract compositions; as Duchamp did with readymades; as Warhol did with icons of mass culture. The source of the impact that these images exerted on subsequent art production lies not in their exclusivity, but instead in their very capacity to function as mere examples of the sheer variety of images. They are not only presenting themselves but also act as pointers to the inexhaustible mass of images, of which they are delegates of equal standing. It is precisely this reference to the infinite multitude of excluded images that lends these individual specimens their fascination and significance within the finite contexts of political and artistic representation.
Hence, it is not to the "vertical" infinity of divine truth that the artist today makes reference, but to the "horizontal" infinity of aesthetically equal images...
See also, Portrait of Boner, A Young Man, 2010 (by timb, Boner, anon., etc)
Update: Another Boner portrait, though they really need no augmentation.
sketch_h6, sketch_h7
Originally posted to dump.fm. These refer to other posts, artworks, and in-jokes there that would be impossible to untangle so I will not try. "Dank Cats" is an album name proposed by glasspopcorn and the deer drawing is by him.
Update: A moving version of the top collage by Seacrestcheadle.
Bad Idea from Brody Condon
...as noted by Rhizome (but not described as such):
In coordination with Saks Fifth Avenue and the PS1 Greater New York Exhibition, Brody Condon was invited to contribute a project to be displayed in the Saks window on 50th St. Brody’s proposal was to film a performance inside Saks itself. To his surprise Saks was familiar with his work and agreed.
The piece, a modification of the Trisha Brown work Accumulation (1971), is a floor-based dance performance based on various seizure-like movements choreographed by Stephen Lichty, who is himself familiar with movement disorders.
-- DESCRIPTION FROM DIS MAGAZINE
In the accompanying photos the "seizure-like movements" are all by attractive female models, of course.
My comment:
Why is Saks' green light for this a "surprise"? Guess everyone's forgotten heroin chic and Diesel's "dead teenagers" campaign. And name-checking Trisha Brown, how wonderfully correct.