new work from rineke dijkstra currently on show at the temporary stedelijk in amsterdam
…a group of schoolchildren are in a serious discussion regarding the meaning of picasso’s painting, however we do not see the painting (the weeping woman, 1937) itself. the children are encouraged to look carefully at this artwork for prolonged periods and then discuss it, and it’s amazing what they come up with…
interesting work from frenchman georges rousse, although i still think the undisputed master of this technique is swiss artist felice varini
(via ‘archibald kobayashi’)
…a computer-driven sentence-generator made by Janet Zweig. The sculpture is made of 1200 resin lipsticks powered by 1200 stepper motors, controlled by 60 circuit boards. The software invents and writes a new line of text, using rules and a lexicon written by the artist, and displays it on the sign when triggered by a motion detector…
(via today and tomorrow)
the man responsible for introducing the world to the theory and beauty of fractals benoit mandelbrot has died…
i’ve blogged this fella ‘helmut smits’ before, but thanks to FFF for reminding me to have another look… he has a similar mind to ‘daniel eatock’
