The wall as palimpsest, scraped away to reveal faces of the past hidden in the layers. wonderful work by the artist Alexandre Farto

metrocards by atslopes

Momento

every frame of a movie turned into a barcode. be sure to check out the site to see the striking differences in mood between all the films.

Van Gogh paintings as pie charts by Arthur Buxton

Tara Donovan is without a doubt one of my favorite artists.

Her Pins series at Pace Gallery is nearly made just for me. Gradients tediously constructed from the density of the heads of straight pins stuck in giant board. I’m in love.

Liu Bolin Hiding in the City No. 93- Supermarket No. 2, 2010

French artist Armelle Caron deconstructs city maps and reorganizes them into neat and tidy rows.

Twin Peaks 20th Anniversary Art Exhibition in Los Angeles. Opens February 12th

The Universal Now by Abigail Reynolds.

Relief sculptures using found photographs of the same place taken at different times.

I love these. She has other folded photographs,some awesome crochet work. and currently has a solo show in Seattle at Ambach & Rice

Post it drawings about management by Marc Johns

Included in an exhibition with the theme of Manager in Zurich

Approximately 1,376 Silos, Water Towers, and other Cylindrical-Industrial Buildings

by Jenny Odell

Be sure to check out the other satellite collections as well the ministry of approximate travel

what is approximate traveling? In order to travel approximately, I made use of any source of information I could find online, relying especially on Google Street View, photo databases (Panoramio, Picasa, Flickr), review sites (Yelp, TripAdvisor, CitySearch, Insider Pages), and virtual tours of monuments, restaurants, hotels, etc. I transported myself into one place after another, both by writing a travel narrative and by superimposing myself onto photos I found online. The people I “met” were disgruntled hotel reviewers, restaurant ravers, and anyone who took the time to upload their story in one form or another to a site like Google Maps.

graffyard makes past graffiti made visible after it has been cleaned up.
It’s a nice example of encoding the visual history of the city onto itself. One can imagine a future where city walls have a secondary digital presence and all advertising, graffiti and signage takes place via a persistent visual augmented reality system. The city becomes a contiguous blank canvas, a physical platform encoded with embed tags for the reality we want to see. Maybe.

In the vein of recent art exhibitions I did not see one of my favorite artists Jan Dibbets, the conceptual photographer that held a large influence on me during my last two years in architecture school had a recent exhibition at the Gladstone Gallery. His obsession with the horizon is still unwavering, and collision of perspective and flatness still hold strong,

I couldn’t love something like this more. Clever hidden in plain sight street art that creates a small moment of delight for the few people that catch a glimpse at the right time.

via Wooster Collective

Gagosian London is having had an exhibition of art inspired by J.G. Ballard, titled Crash.
Sadly I missed it.

History of the Sky captures the fluid atmospheric phenomena above the San Francisco Exploratorium in timelapse format. Each frame is a single day, shots taken every 10 seconds.

Stunning.

Watch in HD on the youtube

Photographer and Mathematician Nikki Graziano photographs math found in nature

Artist Jörg M. Colberg creates images that are compressed with a customized jpeg compression scheme.

ajpegis a new image compression algorithm where the focus is not on making its compression efficient but, rather, on making its result interesting.

ajpeg is intended to go the opposite way: Instead of creating an image artificially with the intent of making it look as photo-realistic as possible, it takes an image captured from life and transforms it into something that looks real and not real at the same time.

Seriously awesome work by James Hopkins. Be sure to checkout the Balanced Works on his website.

I don’t remember seeing this in particular at the Swiss EXPO.02 but a number of artists working together under the name Waterproof “imagined a(n) (im)possible scenario wherein the water level in Switzerland rises to 1400 meters (4600 feet), turning the landlocked, Alpine country into an island nation, its rocky peaks rising above a vast ocean.”

The series of images over at Pruned show an imaginative take on how the Swiss might deal with their new situation.

via Pruned