art as criticism
internet scatology
It was once said that the literary idealist looked at the front of a house and the naturalist went around back and looked at the garbage. It wouldn't be unfair to say that the "art and technology" websites are our idealists, never daring to acknowledge that the internet is a sewer out of which the occasional blossom of "art" emerges. But who are our naturalists?
credits: Mad Magazine-style Dump.fm logo (my screenshot of a frankhats post under the Dump header); Funky Toilet by Diamondie on deviantart.com ("This is for the Pixel Pop Art competition, my first pixelation ever. If a toilet isn't an everyday item, then what is?")
more sonny john moore
This photo of the still-living Skrillex was run through an auto-glitch utility that is currently making the rounds.
You can drop any photo into this website, set your preferred "glitch rate," and the page spits back an aesthetically pleasing scrambled image somewhat resembling a 3D glasses mishap at the local multiplex.
found landscapes
Once a work of art has colonized your brain you see it everywhere. The landscape piece Duncan Alexander contributed to a recent Nicholas O'Brien-curated show at 319 Scholes has had that effect on me. Was surfing around the website of the Metropolitan Museum and spotted it on a Google cache page. See the red arrow in the screenshot below (not the black one):
And then I found its original location on the Met website. It seems to have acquired a drop shadow but the style is unmistakable.
