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"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?” Albert Einstein. I first saw this site about a year and a half ago, and was delighted that its content was as interesting as its name was humourous. Since then its undergone a redesign, so I now submit it for yo... read more

tags: art, computer, information, research

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You know that creepy feeling you get when a the eye's in a portrait painting seem to follow you around the room? Well, this piece of art, literally, does just that. The piece, called The Opto-Isolator was featured a show at the Bitforms gallery, in New York in November. The Opto-Isolator... read more

tags: art, artist, C++, computer, electronic, eyes, Gallery, gaze, Golan, interactive, interactive, Levin, robotics, vision

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I'm sure that this site has raised a few eyebrows in the art world! This new site for the Saatchi Gallery, and it is really breaking new ground. The site is designed with an intentionally low-fi, 'porn site' aesthetic, complete with flashing links, bad typography and text boxes in the shape of... read more

tags: art, cultural, Gallery, interactive, self-promotion

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This site has been running for 6 years. The site is conceived by two artists, Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher. The basic idea is to set 'assignments' to anyone, anywhere who wishes to participate. The site has become a gallery space which people use to display their work. Some people (American... read more

tags: american, art, assignments, community, creativity, Film, Gallery, love, prestel, website

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Spanish design shop Bestiario produce some great visualisations of networks, but perhaps one of their best is this 'illuminated water' image. It made me say 'wow' in a way few Flash pages are likely to. There are more of these in the 'lab' section of their site: http://www.bestiario.org/web/bes... read more

tags: art, interactive, visuals

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A fellow designer Lukas Marti recently developed this website for a gallery in Zurich. What is worth highlighting is how the artists are showcased on the site. Instead of preselecting the artists work as most galleries/exhibitions/portfolios tend to do, the work is gathered from Google. All con... read more

tags: art, Artists, Gallery, google, Internet, search, Switzerland

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This is a 24 minute, three-screen digital presentation. It is non-linear, juxtaposing high-resolution, classically stylised images of teenage revolution against apocalyptic images of globalisation, oil-conflict, new technologies, military industrial disaster capitalism, - framed in a low-resoluti... read more

tags: Animation, art, Award, Biennale, installation, Russian

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From the early 80s onwards, a colleague of mine, Tim Milne, ran Artomatic, the finest screen printing company in London, which was incidentally one of the earliest residents in Shoreditch (but that's a whole other story). By the 90s he had moved the company from Curtain Road to open a shop in Cle... read more

tags: 2.0, advertising, art, blog, branding, creativity, design, image, information, print

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A super-simple, online picture editing tool for anyone who needs a quick picture edit for their website or Facebook page, but who doesn't have access to or is daunted by PhotoShop. Great for dynamo london members who have so far hesitated submitting a project because they don't know how to pre... read more

tags: 2.0, art, free, image, web

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