Eugen Erhan and Tudor Muscalu have some fun (pun?) with words in their Fredo & Pid’Jin comics – see the rest of the panel above on their website: Link – Thank Eug!
Posted by Alex in Art on August 8, 2006 at 4:03 pm
Neatorama reader Greg Fiorini self-nominated his blog Hemingray9, which is all about Dada.
I only have a vague inkling of Dadaism, so, I looked it up on wikipedia:
According to its proponents, Dada was not art — it was "anti-art". For everything that art stood for, Dada was to represent the opposite. Where art was concerned with aesthetics, Dada ignored aesthetics. If art were to have at least an implicit or latent message, Dada strove to have no meaning — interpretation of Dada is dependent entirely on the viewer. If art is to appeal to sensibilities, Dada is to offend. It is perhaps then ironic that Dada became an influential movement in modern art. Dada became a commentary on order and the carnage they believed it wreaked. Through this rejection of traditional culture and aesthetics they hoped to destroy traditional culture and aesthetics.
And on the actual name "Dada":
The origin of the name Dada is unclear. Some believe that it is a nonsensical word. Others maintain that it originates from the Romanian artists Tristan Tzara and Marcel Janco’s frequent use of the words da, da, meaning yes, yes in the Romanian language. Others believe that a group of artists assembled in Zürich in 1916, wanting a name for their new movement, chose it at random by stabbing a French-German dictionary with a paper knife, and picking the name that the point landed upon. Dada in French is a child’s word for hobby-horse. In French the colloquialism, c’est mon dada, means it’s my hobby.
It has also been suggested that the word "dada" was chosen randomly from the Larousse dictionary.
I think now I understand Dada less than before. Which is probably the whole point of it.
The above is Marcel Duchamp’s L.H.O.O.Q., which mocks the Mona Lisa.
Dada [wiki] | Greg’s website: Link (complete with a patron saint!) – Thanks Greg!
Posted by Alex in Pictures on August 8, 2006 at 4:01 pm
After finishing his awesome Futurama’s Bender case mod, Jan Erik Vangen went on to build a Leela case mod (complete with an "eye" webcam, and a "thumb" USB thumb-drive!)
Audiopad is a composition and performance instrument for electronic music which tracks the positions of objects on a tabletop surface and converts their motion into music. One can pull sounds from a giant set of samples, juxtapose archived recordings against warm synthetic melodies, cut between drum loops to create new beats, and apply digital processing all at the same time on the same table. Audiopad not only allows for spontaneous reinterpretation of musical compositions, but also creates a visual and tactile dialogue between itself, the performer, and the audience.
Audiopad has a matrix of antenna elements which track the positions of electronically tagged objects on a tabletop surface. Software translates the position information into music and graphical feedback on the tabletop. Each object represents either a musical track or a microphone.
It’s a new way to make music! Link – Thanks Alex Lommel!
Posted by Alex in Art on August 8, 2006 at 1:00 am
Neatorama reader Patz Fowle explained to me the story behind this particular ceramic sculpture called "Gone Fishing … in His Head":
The story behind this porcelain piece is, on his commute to work each day this guy wishes that he was going fishing instead of going to work. He wishes this so much … that he has become the thing that he wishes for.
Way back in 1970 developed an original technique for hand building in clay called the PATZ PROCESS ceramic technique, I use that process to create my one of a kind ceramic sculptures and I guess that’s what makes my work look so different. I love showing my work in art exhibitions and I enjoy traveling nationally and internationally teaching my ceramic technique to others. If anyone has a cool art gig out there, contact information may be found at www.patzfowle.com
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