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Trite Hyperallergic cartoon about graduate school by Lauren Purje with advertisement for the Rhode Island School of Design’s 2013 graduate thesis show
Slogans For The Early 21st Century
Novelist, designer and visual artist Douglas Coupland has summed up the uniqueness of the early 21st century—as opposed to the 20th century—succinctly with funny yet thought-provoking slogans.
*Face recognition algorithm
Venus of Google - Matthew Plummer-Fernandez
“The Venus of Google was ‘found’ via a Google search-by-image, googling a photograph taken of an object I had been handed over in a game of exquisite corpse. The Google search returned visually similar results, one of these being an image of a woman modelling a body-wrap garment. I then used a similar algorithmic image-comparison technique to drive the automated design of a 3D printable object. The ‘Hill-Climbing’ algorithm starts with a plain box shape and tries thousands of random transformations and comparisons between the shape and the image, eventually mutating towards a form resembling the found image in both shape and colour.”
Venus of Google, 2013
From the Long Tail Multiplier Series/ Algorithm
27.2 x 14.9 x 8.0 cm
z-corp powder 3D Print
// swimming pool with passage // tile, grout, acrylic // 2011 // eduardo coimbra //
Thank you again for all of your generous offers and help over the past week and a half. We have regrouped, evaluated our losses and are super excited to announce that we have decided to move forward and relocate Open Space. We are now collecting donations that will go toward equipment that was…
To mark the launch of McKenzie Wark’s new book The Spectacle of Disintegration, Verso Books have offered Rhizome readers in the UK a chance to win a 3D printed Guy Debord action figure.
The figure is part of a limited edition run of 200 made by Wark, who was inspired to delve into maker culture because of Debord’s own investment in craft as evidenced in the twelve handcrafted issues of Internationale Situationniste. (You can read more about this in Brendan Byrne’s recent interview with Wark on Rhizome). It’s important to note that you can also make your own Debord figure based on Wark’s 3D model, which will be released under a Creative Commons license.
Esther Stocker The term “alike” may attract our attention, but in fact means nothing at all :: Channa Horwitz Orange Grid
Drawings of Imaginary Friends by Rina Goldfield
(pictured: ???, pencil on paper, 8.5” x 11” Alyssa Kosmer’s imaginary friend.
He was a birdman, like a Quetzalcoatl, but with a head like a black wolf. The birdman had feathery wings but no feathers on his muscular body. He wore only a tiny tight skirt, like the kind Mayans wear in illustrated elementary school books.)
Kids at WIELS
I don’t like to repost without attribution and there isn’t any for either the photograph or the piece in the background, but this is absolutely wonderful. Let me know if you know authorship details
