John Whitney, Catalog 1961!  

Whitney reengineered a WWII anti-aircraft gun sight to create these animations. The number of simultaneous parameters look rather complex for such an early computer system. They appear autonomous as well.  An example of the beginnings of artificial intelligence as early as 1944?

1. “I don’t do drugs. I am drugs.” – Dalí

2. “Every morning upon awakening, I experience a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dalí.” – Dalí

3. Salvador Dalí on the television show What’s My Line?

Schwitter’s Merzbauten, an ongoing work that spanned a decade.  The dadaist has received a spike in interest as of late and efforts to restore his rural studio in England where he spent the last 18 years of his life have begun.

My Saab died, wish I could replace it with another Swedish machine.

Majoring in Painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Michael Ciervo creates beautifully cold images that exhibit a certain sense of displacement. The nearly completely desaturated images mimic the fluidity of watercolors though he employs oils in these paintings.
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Kate Mccgwire’s Vex, 2008

Kate Mccgwire’s Heave, 2008

Detail of Vex:

Emily Valentine’s Pair of Pugcocks, 2008

Emily Valentine’s Red Shepard

Goodness, Graphite on paper

Detail

Figure Studies by American photographer Bill Durgin, visually amputating his subjects via contortion and perspective.




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A very worthwhile video showcasing the properties of ferrofluids in the context of the visual arts.

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Kapoor’s White Out 2004.