If I say leaf, what color comes to your mind? In most likelihood, you’ll answer green for spring and summer and yellow or red for fall. That’s an easy one. Now, what if I tell you words like «daily » or « media », what color comes to your mind? A team of scientists from M.I.T. answered that question by giving every word of the English language a color. The result is available after the jump.
Furthermore, I use this orginal idea to search for the « color » of artists like Paul Gauguin and Marc Chagall.
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In today’s Web, domain names are all taken. One has to resort to a name that has little to do with the content of the site, such as Flickr.com for posting pictures.In 1996, when the Web was still in its infancy, populated with computer geeks, technicians and engineers, who would have made the link between art and technology? Therefore, it appears as no surprise that one would find an aerospace consultancy firm when entering ART.COM in his or her Mosaic browser [watch it here].
Specifically, the Advanced Rotorcraft Technology offered a small profile of their company on the homepage. Probably realizing that too many people were looking for art pieces when typing that domain name, they relocated to flightlab.com. ART.COM began offering art reproduction in 1998 [watch art.com in 1998 and today].
Such a long time ago and so recent…
19 pictures, Japan
According to the newspaper Le Devoir, Quebec City will soon have around ten manholes created by local artists. Inspired by the Manhole Cover Art movement, we have to thank Folie-Culture, a non-profit organization that creates awareness through art for mentally-ill members of the community. The manholes will be inaugurated on June 5, 2008 in the Xi’an park in the St.Roch borough of Quebec City (location).
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In the spririt of Web 2.0, the art community now has its MySpace space: MyArtSpace. The stated goal is to create links between artists and allow them to display and sell their works. A rough estimate gives me 1600 galleries active. Not bad!
A video montage of street artist Banksy putting his creations on the walls of the Met in NYC. This troubles me as I’m not sure I would have seen the difference between his creations and the legitimate paintings in the museum!
Could videogames bring us the design of tomorrows’s human habitat? That’s at least the feeling one gets after watching submissions from SCIFI and the Seoul Association of Architects for a new building on the Huan River. Their arcology reminds me of the ones provided in Simcity 2000.
The ancient Roman Via Flaminia can now be walked on, thanks to a new virtual museum at the Roman Museum of the Diocletian Bath. Using data collected from satellite, scans and ancient texts, a team of 20 architects, archeologists and computer experts recreated the famed road. If you don’t know, this road connected ancient Rome to the northern city of Ariminum (Rimini).
While in the virtual museum, users can create avatars à la Second Life to travel on the road. The idea is to allow tourists the opportunity to see difficult-to-access monuments and landmarks.
I’m wondering what is the point of this type of re-creation. Does computer science of art history benefit from this or is it simply another way to create entertainment with an historical background? In that case, how is it different from other theme parks where visitors are taken in an alien world or undersea? So many questions, so little answers :o)
The exhibit of Picasso drawings and paintings from 1946 has been extended at the Quebec National Gallery in Quebec City until February 17th 2008. This exhibit has been made possible because the Picasso Museum in Antibes, where the paintings are kept, is closed until this summer.
I visited the exhibit in November. It wasn’t an exhilirating experience, especially considering the 15$ entrance fee, which I found quite expensive for the scope of the event. But still, if you have the chance to come to Quebec city in the coming weeks, it’s worth checking out.
Marc