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Fred Tomaselli

Fred Tomaselli is a painter who collages together magazine images, pills, leaves and other found objects to create stunning geometric images. His work is concerned with mystical experience, rock music, natural history and personal experience, among other things.

His gallery has some images to see.

He currently has a show at the Brooklyn Museum.

Here's an interview he did with Philip Taffe.

His reworkings of New York Times covers are particular favorites of mine.

Sol Lewitt's Sentences on Conceptual Art

Read them here.

Pastor to church leaders: Get off Facebook or step down

Story from APP.com. Read it here.

Noah Kalina

Noah Kalina has been taking a picture of himself every day since 2000.

Peter Freitag

He's not the only one to artfully remove nudes from photographs, but the collages in Peter Freitag's Private Stages playfully reveal the process and the hand of the artist in these interesting and beautiful pictures.

Ansen Seale's slit-scan camera pictures

Ansen Seale uses a slit-scan camera to capture these strange images. These are not manipulated digitally or on a scanner, but rather his camera repeatedly captures a single column of pixels displays them side-by-side. What you end up with is a record of what moves through the vertical slice of the camera. Interestingly, non-moving parts of the image are rendered as static horizontal bars. Only the moving objects make any discernible image, the opposite of how we normally think of photography.  

From his statement on the Temporal series:

Mark Hosler of Negativland

If you're interested, here's Mark Hosler of Negativland talking about some of his experiences with the band over the last thirty years. 

Ashes in the Night Sky

Bill McDowell's Ashes in the Night Sky uses the scanner as camera to create beautiful and ethereal images.

from his statement:

Derek Brueckner

Derek Brueckner manipulates bits of digital images to create expansive repeating cell-like structures. Take a look at his images.

From his statement:

Two Relationships to a Cultural Public Domain

Next week's reading can be downloaded from here as a pdf.

Vik Muniz

Vik Muniz is a Brazilian-born artist who lives and works in New York City. Much of his work is done by drawing with various (non-paint) materials such as chocolate syrup, caviar, diamonds, junk, earthworks and beans (seen above) and exhibiting photographs of the results.

Says Wikipedia: "His early work grew out of a post-Fluxus aesthetic and often involved visual puns and jokes."

Here are his website, Wikipedia page and Ted Talk.

Sebastiaan Bremer

Dutch artist Sebastiaan Bremer creates his works by drawing and painting on photographic images. 

From Wikipedia:

"Bremer turns photographs, found or snapped, of himself and his family into trippy, dusty memories that reveal the subconscious and the real world in one blink of an eye. He invents a poetic braille made up of text, personal symbols and ghostly shapes that, when integrated with their complex grounds, disappear again, buried in a sea of suspended dots. By slowly and laboriously painting on top of quickly taken snapshots, Bremer slows down time to render a hauntingly beautiful interior landscape."

eBoy uses isometric projection, just like in old 8-bit video games

For those of you interested in the peculiar geometry of the isometric projections used in eBoy's pictures, here are a couple pages from Wikipedia that discuss the various types of perspective that allow them to move around modular buildings to any place in their pictures.

Graphical Projection
Isometric Projection

Sovietskya Photoshop circa 1987

Of course it's not actually Photoshop, but this Russian computer program did some of the same things that Photoshop does.

Found on Boing Boing: