Wednesday, January 25, 2006

Pixar at MOMA: 20 Years of Animation



Featuring over 500 works of original art on loan for the first time from Pixar Animation Studios, the show includes paintings, concept art, sculptures, and an array of digital installations. These works reveal the intricate, hands-on processes behind Pixar’s computer-generated films—including Toy Story, A Bug’s Life, Toy Story 2, Monsters Inc., Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Cars, and numerous shorts.

Monday, January 23, 2006

Turning Games Into a New Kind of Art



NY Times / ROBERTA SMITH

The collage technique that helped ignite 20th-century modernism has mutated through photomontage, found objects, assemblage and appropriation. A recent manifestation, endemic to the expanding field of digital art, is hacking, and video games and their offshoots are ripe for the picking.

This Time, the Revolution Will Be Televised



NY Times / RICHARD SIKLOS

CONVERGENCE is back, but it is not what it used to be. Following its release after about five years in the halfway house for overblown business ideas, it has been swiftly rehabilitated in the form of various online-offline business ventures.