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Abstract Christmas tree sparks protests in Brussels 

An updated version of a post made earlier today, now with a video from BBC News

A minimal voxelesque Christmas tree with projection mapping and a staircase to view from it’s top hasn’t gone down well with some …

Thousands of people have signed a petition against an abstract light installation replacing the traditional Christmas tree in Brussels city centre.

More than 11,000 signatures have been gathered in the online petition and a Facebook page attacking the new feature has been launched.

Critics accuse officials of opting for the installation for fear of offending non-Christians, especially Muslims.

Maddy Savage reports.

Glitch Throw Pillows by Stallio 

A wide selection of pillows with colourful digital glitch aesthetic by Benjamin Berg available from Society6.

See the entire collection here

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Studies in Broadcast Colour by Eamon Donnelly 

Prints of close-ups of RGB CRT television screens:

‘Studies in Broadcast Colour’ by The Island Continent is an exploration into the way colour is rendered and translated through the red, green and blue channels of obsolete Cathode Ray Tube or CRT television sets. Taken using modern digital SLR photography of a static colour broadcast via a 1988 Phillips Natural 14″ CRT Tube Television, this is part of an ongoing series of colour, moving image and archival television studies magnified through the RGB CRT screen.

Link to original post here - photos of print versions can be found at BOOOOOOM! here

Dongi Lee 

Four examples of recent work by South Korea’s most well-known Pop Artist:

Gallery 2 presents Dongi Lee’s solo show Garden of Uncertainty. Lee has spearheaded pop art in Korea and is well known for the character, Atomaus. The exhibition brings 13 paintings he produced from 2007 up to the present together, focusing on showcasing the broad spectrum of his world through diverse pieces we have never met under the same roof.

Mixture of seemingly inharmonious elements

Lee has attempted to combine the medium of acrylic painting with diverse subject matter and expressive methods. He created the Atomaus character through the combination of two celebrity cartoon characters, Atom (Astro Boy) and Mickey Mouse. Since 1993 when Lee first conceived Atomaus, he had no intention of lending any identity to the character. Likewise, he would not give any identity to this exhibition. In the show jolly, familiar works like Atomaus Eating Noodles and Flower Garden are harmonious with pieces that address profound, gloomy themes such as death and violence. His pieces on display vary in medium: animation images, SF images, and abstract images. In the Double Vision series produced in 2008, Lee fused heterogeneous genres into one scene.

Diverse references of K-drama, K-pop, art history, and philosophy

His work refers to pre-existing images rather than creating ones. Lee referred to Robert Morris’ conceptual work for I-Box; appropriated Caravaggio’s painting for A with the Head of A; and reinterpreted Freud’s portraits and religious themes. Works addressing his recent concern for K-Pop, or the Korean wave (Hanryu, the increase in popularity of South Korean entertainment and popular culture) is dominant. (In the art scene the term K-Pop is used to refer to different meanings, pop art that was pervasive since the late 1990s in Korea.) One example is a work that portrays Super Junior, an idol group. Lee took the motif of a Woman with a Mobile Phone from the image repetitively appearing in Korean dramas. He views drama characters perfectly manipulated as imaginary images similar to animation and game characters. Lee points out that contemporary people gradually become accustomed and desire to identify themselves with such images. These images have ambivalent features, sublimity and abstractness despite their superficial existence.

More examples of this exhibition can be found here. There is also an old site by the artist dedicated to his cartoon creation, Atomaus’, here

Vincent Van Gogh - Colourblind? 

Japanese scientist posts a theory on his Tumblr blog, asada0, tests an idea that came from a stimulated colourblind experience with the artist’s work:

The other day, I experienced the “Color Vision Experience Room” at the event of the Hokkaido Color Universal Design Organization (HCUDO), where I had invited to speak. The event’s main objective was to educate the public about the diversity of color vision which exists in our society. The event also sought to promote the idea that any time we make choices about colors, we should take this diversity into account.

The “Color Vision Experience Room” uses illumination filtered by an optical filter - providing a modified spectrum of light. In this room,  the person who has normal color vision sees color the same as the person who has protan or deutan color vision. These types of color deficiency mean that certain color combinations are difficult to differentiate. I was impressed by the effort and thought that had made this room a reality.

I was able to view various items in the room, and it turned out that experiencing modified color vision by the naked eye had a stronger impact than experiencing it on a computer display in simulation. This was a revelation to me.

There were prints of Vincent van Gogh’s paintings in the room. Under the filtered light, I found that these paintings looked different from the van Gogh which I had always seen. I love van Gogh’s paintings and have been fortunate to view a number of the originals in various art museums. This painter has a somewhat strange way to use color. Although the use of color is rich, lines of different colors run concurrently, or a point of different color suddenly appears. I’ve heard it conjectured that van Gogh had color vision deficiency.

However, in the van Gogh images seen in the color vision experience room, to me the incongruity of color and roughness of line had quietly disappeared. And each picture had changed into one of brilliance with very delicate lines and shades. This was truly wonderful experience.

It goes on to experiment and examine the idea, (above, the images on the right are the originals) and the author insists that this is purely a theory.

You can read more of the essay here

Insane in the Chromatophores 

Cypress Squid? Close examinations of the colour-changing skin of a Cephalopod, reacting to ‘Insane In The Membrane’ by Cypress Hill - video embedded below:

Via Backyard Brains:

During experiments on the giant axons of the Longfin Inshore Squid (loligo pealei) at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA; we were fascinated by the fast color-changing nature of the squid’s skin. Squids (like many other cephalopods) can quickly control pigmented cells called chromatophores to reflect light. The Longfin Inshore has 3 different chromatophore colors: Brown, Red, and Yellow. Each chromatophore has tiny muscles along the circumference of the cell that can contract to reveal the pigment underneath.

We tested our cockroach leg stimulus protocol on the squid’s chromatophores. We used a suction electrode to attach to the squid’s fin nerve, then connected the electrode to an iPod nano as our stimulator. The results were both interesting and beautiful. The video below is a view through an 8x microscope zoomed in on the dorsal side of the fin.

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Applying Sunblock - Visible vs Ultraviolet Light 

Seeing how the lotion has different visual properties in different light - via Life Pixel

Sunblock being applied to face in visible light & ultraviolet UV light. As you can see this sunblock absorbs UV light rays and therefore appears to be black in the UV only video. In visible light it looks like ordinary lotion.

You can see the video version at Life Pixel here (scroll down to video)

Zineth 

Free game combines a colourful low polygon world with game elements of Tony Hawks Skateboarding and Prince Of Persia. Developed by The Arcane Kids as a student project:

Zineth is a student game made over a few months meant to celebrate speed, movement, and twitter.

Here is the release trailer, embedded below:

Details of where to get hold of the game can be found at their Tumblr blog here

The Art Of Tomokazu Matsuyama

Fantastic work from Japanese artist whose paintings combine the old and the new, and the flat with the fluid - a layered technique that, in some ways, combines various notions of art from Modernism to the current Adobe aesthetic.

The smaller images above do not do the works justice - click on them for a higher resolution version to note some of the details, how parts can be Pollock-esque yet others are controlled by pattern.

Check out more of the artist’s works at his website here

Further Abstracts by Alma Alloro

Geometric abstract animated Gifs formed with graph paper and coloured pens:

“Further Abstracts seems to be a forming contemporary statement on the classic theoretical and ideological assertions of Alloro’s later studies in the Bauhaus University of Weimar, Germany. In pen drawings on architectural paper, later developed into short frenetic animation pieces, Alloro revives the Bauhaus movement’s celebrated core symbols (the triangle, square and circle), only to subvert their refined ideology of functional beauty. Replacing iconic solid colors with a hyper-saturated radiance, the bare technical grid-aesthetics of these corrupted Bauhaus designs render the modern myth of functionality obsolete. Lacking a decisive objective or directing ideology, Alloro’s practice parades these founding modernistic national elements into an amusing low-tech salad of dysfunctional glitch. Just like the action of a frustrated web user, stubbornly re-clicking on a computer icon whose link is broken, the line between distinct function and abstract causality breaks down.” — Gabriel S. Moses

There are 6 of them (and better quality as the examples above diminished from reducing the file size), but you can check them all here

Via Today and Tomorrow

Streaming by 라다운

Art series features noisy depictions of city scenes which are created using coloured electrical wire. Artist’s statement (via Google Translate, with obvious errors):

Everything that I live in an era of rapid change, or any other individuals. Each day of civilization due to its products are coming more and more accelerated way of life is not easy to adapt to.

Why is it so fast and the spirit of human life that is not working on the question of motivation was unraveled. At the heart of these changes invisible ‘flow’ has. ‘Flow’ is the result of using network communications, I think.

My work flow of the material invisible wires that connect at the same time the visual material is also an important motif. Such work is growing rapidly in the image of the wire material attached to the phenomenon of modern civilization visually and feels close to gekkeum are shown. Not sure the combination of colors unknown to the modern civilization has brought rapid change and conflict, human insecurity shows the development of the world more communication between people is becoming more active as easy. I called the wire as a medium for audience questions and these times are trying to communicate.

Popsicolor

New iOS app to turn photos into watercolour-like images with a contemporary style. Created by the same guy who made Percolator, and created in 7 days. Video below:

Popsicolor 1.0 from Tinrocket, LLC on Vimeo.

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