Archive for the 'Art+Music' Category
Uncanny artwork, museum exhibits, musical performances, and other alternative aesthetic presentations not covered elsewhere.
Pop Song as Product Placement: Doublemint “Forever”
Sunday, August 31st, 2008If you watch the latest Doublemint gum TV commercial — featuring Chris Brown dancing in the dark with the product’s new “slim” package — you might be wondering: gee, that song and dance is nice but what happened to the infamously kitschy jingle and the wholesome set of twins?
The ad itself is a twin: it [...]
Autonomous Improv and the Player Piano Effect
Sunday, July 6th, 2008
Wade Marynowsky’s weblog, Autonomous Mutations, highlights current uncanny art projects and other manifestations of das Unheimliche and is full of fantastic and unique examples of the aesthetic (like Karakuri ningyo), links to Machine art, and also references to uncanny theory.
I say he features the “aesthetic” of the uncanny because his blog is an offshoot of his [...]
“Voice of Julio” by David Byrne and David Hanson
Friday, July 4th, 2008
Meet Julio — the singing robot.
“Voice of Julio” is an art project by David Byrne (Mr. Big Suit from the rock band, Talking Heads) and David Hanson (creator of “conversational character robots”) currently on exhibit at the “Machines and Souls” exhibition in Madrid (ends mid-Oct 2008). Julio is made of electrons and rubber, but sings with Byrne’s [...]
