#art

46 items tagged art.

Anna Hook — Artwork and writings by Anna Hook, my mother: greeting cards, ink drawings and short essays, kept here so they stay reachable.
Annabella Cards — Greeting cards of butterflies, birds, pandas and other nature themes, printed, and hand-coloured for small orders.
The Birds Collection — Elegant bird illustrations in various styles.
Butterfly Collection — Colourful butterfly designs, hand-coloured for small orders.
Panda Card — Black and white panda illustration, popular when the Panda visited Calgary from China.
Penguin Collection — Charming penguin illustrations.
Save The Tiger — An oil-painting postcard to raise awareness about the plight of the tiger.
The Chess Game — Copyright Anna Hook, 1978. An intricate chess-themed ink illustration.
Christmas Card — A holiday card with decorations in bright colours.
Anti-Fur Drawings — Ink drawings made in support of banning the use of furs.
Anti-Fur Drawing I — Ink drawing advocating against the fur trade.
Anti-Fur Drawing II — A powerful illustration showing the reality of the fur trade.
Two for the Road — Anti-fur advocacy art.
The Fur Is For… — A thought-provoking illustration.
Anti-Fur Drawing V — A powerful anti-fur message through art.
The Discreet — Buñuel and Surrealism — On Buñuel's comedy of a dinner that never quite happens.
Anna Hook — Bianca — A short film by Anna, with her ink drawings set moving.
Black and Blur — consent not to be a single being
The Art Spirit
On Media, Games and Attention — Written while a games developer in San Francisco, on media, play and where attention goes.
LEGO: Construction Set — The construction set as a way of thinking about software and systems.
The Case for Mountain Biking on Mars — A speculative piece, recovered in full from the archive.
A Poem by Todd Kelsey — Todd Kelsey wrote this for us, touched by the idea we were working on.
Poetry — Poets I was reading in 1996: Yvonne Trainer, Karen Connelly, Michelangelo, Shakespeare, Eliot, with notes on why.
A Still Life with Midjourney — My mother Anna's creative practice, up until her death, and what the new image machines do to that lineage.
Principles of Art, Math and NFTs — How artists are using public ledgers as an extension of their practice.
Visual Design Becomes Language — Visual design tools are changing how we work, how we communicate, and who we are.
Flowers, Fruit and Fishes — Three interactive parametric visualisers of natural forms that resist entropy.
Burning Man 2011 — Wore the Lightsuit: 300 addressable LEDs, an Arduino, and a lot of sewing.
Burning Man 2001 — 94 photographs survive in the archive index; the images themselves do not.
Ethereal Forest — A community where the forest and the network meet. I keep coming back to it.
Aaron Hibell — Music for wide landscapes and long drives. On heavy rotation.
Aridity Lines — TBA21 Academy — A sound collection I return to; oceanic, dry, and strange.
Writing-on-Stone — Hoodoos on the Milk River and the largest concentration of rock art on the North American plains.
Sound Crystals — A WebXR sound-crystal field.
Game credits — Credited game work, catalogued by MobyGames.
Zero Theorem — A 3D visual communication and performance system: puppetry and real-time worlds.
Lightsuit — Wearable LED fashion, hand-built for Burning Man 2011: 300 addressable lights, an Arduino, and a lot of sewing.
Blox — Tell stories in 3D by editing an ordinary text file: objects, relationships, and what they do over time, played back as an interactive 3D experience.
Videos — Clips from the YouTube channel and talks recorded by others: experiments, trails, talks and family footage. Each page here is a summary; the video plays on YouTube.
My Friend's Noise Rig — A friend showing off a modular noise setup.
Oakland Fence — Animation Sequences — Testing animation sequences for the Oakland Fence project.
She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not — With sound.
Dance Dance Brainy — Gestural interfaces, playfully: an earlier talk, on O'Reilly's channel. Dated by the video upload.