Art

This Kinect installation turns normal human beings into freaky flower gods

Le Vent Nous Portera, or The Wind Will Carry Us, is an absolutely wonderful Kinect installation that takes you to a surreal forest with a billion stars in the open sky where you masquerade as a mud-person who casts glowing hydrangeas from your palms. It’s like the moment right before you die after y

Watch packing peanuts turn into high art

As you can see in this wonderful, foam-swirling installation, one man’s packing peanuts are another man’s art. The piece “36 Ventilators, 4.7m3 Packing Chips,” showing now through July 11 in Switzerland, creates the illusion when viewed from outside that the Art Museum Lugano is awhirl with packing

Scrambled books of Shakespeare illustrate the travesty of digital photos

Digital photos are great, except when they’re not. As this series of books containing digitally compressed copies of Romeo and Juliet show, Jpegs are gradually turning the Web into a sinkhole of blurry, bad photography.  Because Jpegs are lossy, whenever you save or edit a digital photo in the forma

Cory Arcangel mines digital Warhol art from old floppy disks

Working alongside Cory Archangel, the artist best known for removing everything but the clouds from Super Mario Bros., a team of archivists and forensic experts has extracted early digital artwork of Andy Warhol from some corrupt disks.  The art is what you’d expect to find Warhol doodling on his ho