The pieces that this site is perhaps most notable for are the mirrors, sometimes made of things that are not naturally reflective. For example: the wooden mirror, which, taking the image from a videoacamera, activates selected actuators, causing some of the wooden panels on a display to tilt downward. Those panels, appearing darker because they are now in shadow, create the darkened region of a mechanically created, pixelated moving image of the person standing before the "mirror". In the artist's own words, "Rozin creates installations and sculptures that have the unique ability to change and respond to the presence and point of view of the viewer". Videos and photos of some of his work are included.

The "floating numbers" projects, said to be made for "the Jewish Museum" by Art+Com. Which Jewish museum it was, is left unspecified.

Humans do have instincts - how else can one explain why so many people, handed that plastic padding stuff, will compulsively spend so much time on an activity that practically nobody claims to enjoy. "Pop! pop! pop!" Somebody created simulated bubblewrap, and unlike Officemax, has left the addict with an unlimited supply of what he craves. There is no escape.

Temporarily improving a piece of public art in New York

The personal blog of an artist in training (Michelle Kinsey Bruns, according to her Youtrube profile) who works in stained glass, and promises to document her work in progress and flesh wounds. Hoping that she's joking about the wounds, or was - the most recent post on her blog is dated Dec.8, 2006.

Pictures from somebody who wrote that last blog on my bookmark page, as a student artist.

Blog of the artist who created the .swf in the page linked to by my last bookmark (look below), with more interactive art pieces.

A computer graphic with adjustable paramaters, said to illustrate the concept of the harmonics of a weighted string. The graphic display, itself, is poorly documented - we don't know what we are seeing, but we know that it can't be the chain, itself, as the movement is generally circular, not linear and largely screen filling, even for small perturbations. The pictures are, however, pretty, and this is a mildly enjoyable toy. Without further clarification, though, I can not, in good conscience, do as others have done and classify this as "science" or "physics" because no real learning is taking place.

Site for a collective that focuses on the interesection between art and technology, especially biotechnology. See link below, on my list of bookmarks. Steve Kurtz, the artist mention in the previous page bookmarked, is a member of this collective.

Just because the federal authorities are wrong, that doesn't mean that they're wrong. Story about an artist whose media includes the use of harmless microorganisms (bacteria are not invariably pathogenic, contrary to some seem to imagine) who, having been mistaken for a bioterrorist by a few emergency medical technicians and FBI agents who had seen one too many episodes of 24, found that the agency's response to discovering that it was wrong was to try to find some charge, any charge that it could trump up, in order to cover its posterior.

The visitor is provided with a list of buttons and no explanations. He is to do his own exploring. Each button releases a set of objects, each moving according to its own set of rules, that can, when a click is held, leave behind colored trails or make colored marks of a different sort. Mildy amusing, maybe more so if you care for abstract expressionism, which is the genre one tends to end up working in with this tool kit, almost inevitably.

Another interactive art piece. Holding down a right or left click, one finds that a ribbon of whiteness is left against the black background. "Don't you mean a white ribbon, Joseph?" Not exactly - the whitness, itself, is treated as a kind of liquid, that flows according to rules one is left to decipher. There seems to be some sort of extrapolation from what one draws - quick movement narrowing the ribbon, slow movement broadening it - as if the cursor were a brush that a white liquid was flowing off of - to what is seen as one releases the click, and the whiteness left behind starts to move of its own accord. Close forms seem to move to new locations more slowly than open ones, which snake across a screen on which opposite sites are identified - go off the top edge, and you come in from the bottom edge of the black box where the ribbons move.

Not at all vandalism - the artist creates his shortlived pieces by creating very large stencils, and then cleans the dirt off of walls in the areas left uncovered by the stencils. No paint is involved, but maybe a little embarassment for local officials, as local residents are reminded of just how clean their air and surroundings aren't.

He builds houses of cards, which probably doesn't sound very interesting, but these houses are to those you've probably seen as a mansion is to a shed - far larger, more elaborate, and probably much more artistically constructed. Not the same thing at all. Photos are shared and a few frequently asked questions, like why these things don't collapse, are answered.

Right click, holding the click draw the cursor across the screen, and the software creates a little rounded wedge shape. Release the click, and the wedge shape, formed, is instantly reflected along a few different lines to create the beginning of a snowflake like figure. Insert a few more strokes, and you can quickly and easily create a nice looking stylized snowflake that you can set to rotate in two or three simulated dimensions, in a mannermanner that is surprisingly attractive , given how little work you just did. One flaw is that if you'd like to save that moving image you just created, there's no way to do so; right clicking on the image, you don't save the snowflake, you save the .swf file you used to create the moving snowflake.

Enjoy the fun of tagging, without trashing anybody else's property or getting arrested. Use simulated spraypaint, rollers, brushes and a paintball cannon on a simulated white wall, save your masterpiece and compare it with the virtual vandalism of others. While I haven't seen anything measuring up to the quality of one of the murals under the Illinois Central Gulf / Metra Electric tracks on the South Side, yet, I also haven't heard of anybody getting rolled over by the El after slipping while using this program, so there is that. People seem to love it. Now, if only we could find ways for them to get virtually stoned, virtually burn down buildings and get into virtual fights, while settling for the use of virtual weapons and virtual gasoline before going to their virtual homes to make virtual babies before they virtually turn 13, Mom's old neighborhood would be a lot more pleasant on the weekends. Not that any ambivalence about the concept of this page, or suggestion that it makes light of a practice that is intimately connected with gang territoriality (with its impressive body count), should be read into that. Pshah. Englewood is lovely this time of year. We are where we are, and I suppose that's what we get to laugh about, for better or worse, even if an eyebrow or two has to go up along the way.

Photorealistic work done by an artist who is said to use bic pens, paper and nothing else to create his art. Really.

How a trick was done

Amazingly, this one is nudity free, or at least seemed so during a careful 9 minute and 53 minute examination that I repeated just to be careful, so I should be able to link to it. Again, we see the sculptural effects on the fire that consumes one of the temporary structures destroyed at the end of Burning Man, but we also see a little of the personal relationship some of the participants have with the event. I think that they might later regret destroying momentos of those they've lost, but at the time, they seem to view this as being a healing act. Why that would be, we're left to guess.

A webboard for digital artists and musicians. Bookmark from Furl.