photo courtesy of Jonathan Monaghan

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[hairy dongle concept sketch]

[video of robotic hand/ muscle wire experiment]

[muscle wire hand]

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Femanon
Youtube Video
Femeanon was one of the first “art gifts” inspired by and placed back into the internet. The idea first stemmed from asking general questions about art and beauty posted on Yahoo Answers and Omegle. To get an idea of what the audience thought to be beautiful lead to a critic on physical beauty and body image. Based on data extracted from users a average beauty prep time was revealed. This video which has a ten hour run time of ten hours in which i apply makeup in slow motion. This exaggerated act represents the average amount of time the average Yahoo Answer spends achieving “beauty” in a given month.

Beauty Debate

What is beauty? Do we care? In contemporary art, beauty is a controversial topic of discussion: Is beauty too sentimental? Does contemporary art ignore beauty? Can artificial concepts of physical beauty trap women? Is masculinity and beauty mutually exclusive?

For its First Annual Invitational Show titled Beauty Debate, TheDetroiter.com invites 18 established and emerging artists from New York, Michigan, Illinois, and California to explore concepts of beauty in contemporary art. These artists will create a dialogue about beauty that will challenge and delight viewers.

The show features rising stars, such as Man Bartlett (New York), who has been featured in Art in America, ARTnews, and LA Weekly, among other publications. The show also features established artists like Tim White-Sobieski (Berlin/New York), who is a critically acclaimed international multimedia artist whose work has shown at the Prague Biennale, the Lyon Biennale, and the Bucharest Biennale. And there will be a selection of local favorites that are also rising stars, such as Topher Crowder and Brian Barr. (A complete list of participating artists is below.)

Prior to the show, TheDetroiter.com will moderate a panel discussion with some of the artists and some art critics at The Boll Family YMCA theatre on February 29, 2012 (beginning at 7 p.m). Among others, panelists include Tate Osten, Director of Kunsthalle-Detroit Museum; Vince Carducci, art critic and Assistant Dean and Interim Chair of Fine Arts at College for Creative Studies; Travis Wright, reporter for WDET, cultural editor for Metro Times; Hrag Vartanian,co-founder and editor of Hyperallergic.com (one of the most influential art blogs); and Stephen Maine, artist, writer, and curator (he is the art book editor for art critic David Cohen’s artcritical.com).

Panelists:

** Colin Darke, artist, curator, writer, Editor-in-Chief TheDetroiter.com

** Tate Osten, Director of Kunsthalle-Detroit Museum

** Rebecca Hart, Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Detroit Institute of Art

** Vince Carducci, art critic and Assistant Dean and Interim Chair of Fine Arts at College for Creative Studies

** Travis Wright, reporter for WDET, cultural editor for Metro Times

** Rishi Jaitly, Program Director, Detroit John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

** Stephen Maine, artist, curator, writer, teacher (via Skype from New York)

** Kianga Ellis, Owner Kianga Ellis Projects (via Skype from New York)

** Hrag Vartanian, Owner Hyperallergic.com (via Skype from New York)

** Robin Grearson, writer, curator, teacher (via Skype from New York)

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Get Ready Makerbot! Here is the first completed leg meeting all the qualifications to be printed on the new Replicator!

CLICK HERE to play with the sexy leg

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My romantic Valentine’s Day evening consisted of teaching myself to etch circuit boards. Thanks to this wonderful YouTube video, Jameco Electronics, and a few bottles of champagne I managed to make a few feeble attempts at etching circuitry. I would like to implement this material into my studio practice. I started by creating two circuit boards. One is an actual circuit board, a Ethernet Arduino compatible controller board to be precise and the other is not a circuit board at all but a painting by Bernard Frize. My goal is to create a functioning circuit board from a work of art. Don’t ask how… I’m not even sure yet… but thats how art and science works.

[Ethernet Arduino compatible controller board]

[Bernard Frize painting courtesy of Joshua Abelow ]