The Beginning of the ENDD

Full disclosure: you don’t need to vape to evaporate. The cultural cloud of incipient imagery and smoky soul-searching surrounding e-cigarettes is fully open to dialogue and debate, as Rhizome’s forum this past weekend — This is the ENDD, the E-Cigarette in Context — clearly demonstrated. But the event went far beyond vaporous vanity. Formally and juridically referred to as Electronic Nicotine Delivery Devices (ENDDs), these steamy avatar-like gadgets were the object of relentless analyses throughout… [read more »]

February 24th, 2014

Introducing Bieber Art Map!

It feels like it was only yesterday when Justin Bieber made his edgy street art debut, but since then he’s gone global — and there’s a new interactive site to show it. Developed by Bob Jeusette and Tom Galle, Bieber Art Map sets the new standard in international Bieber tracking for beliebers worldwide. So, keep your eyes peeled for your neighborhood Bieber Art show, and make sure to submit the next sighting to Bieber Art… [read more »]

February 19th, 2014

Amalia Ulman | Delicious Works

Not even all the plastic flowers in the world will make your house more beautiful or your tits look bigger. Let’s start from there. Delicious Works, a solo exhibition of new work by Amalia Ulman, will be presented this Friday at Smart Objects. Exploring the tense interrelationships between social stratification, class imitation and seduction, Ulman’s work scrutinizes questions of hierarchy entailed in human relations such as charity, empathy, and other social matters. She is one… [read more »]

February 18th, 2014

NSA 4 KIDZ!

What better way to foster widespread subservience toward mass surveillance and the erosion of privacy than through… games? Meet CyberTwins™ Cyndi™ and Cy™ as they create a CyberSafeSpace for you and your kids to learn all there is to know about digital encryption and secure data programming! As you follow them on a fun-filled adventure, you will meet other friendly characters such as Crypto Cat® and Decipher Dog® — all part of the CryptoKids® gang.… [read more »]

February 12th, 2014

Kelela | The High

Slithering out of a thick undergrowth of heavy 808s with serpentine elegance, Kelela croons “My lips are creeping up your neck.” As she curves and coils, her voice nestling softly in our ears, a sense of uncertainty surfaces: “you shiver and try to pull back.” In ‘The High’, we are exposed to the dark underside of desire, stung by substances that are at once chemical and amorous. The fragile balance between experimentation and addiction is… [read more »]

February 5th, 2014

BHQFU | Artist Residency Program

Free school BHQFU will be hosting a summer-long artist residency at its Alphabet City loft beginning June 1st. The program will be shared among 5 artists of different backgrounds and will consist of 24/7 access to their fully accommodated studio space. Details below. You can find their application form here.

February 4th, 2014

ASMR Part 3 | VioletsVoice

In the third installment of our ASMR series (we expect that you’ve memorized what it stands for by now), the spotlight is dominated by a virtuosic ASMR prodigy by the name of VioletsVoice. In addition to her ‘braingasmic’ whispering videos, Violet has also made a name for herself as a breathtaking role-player — see for yourself! BONUS CLIP: You can even relieve your anxiety in French!

January 29th, 2014

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McKenzie Wark | Information-Commodification

McKenzie Wark has written A Hacker Manifesto, Gamer Theory, Telesthesia and other books on net criticism and contemporary culture. He has produced a 3D-printed limited edition Guy Debord action figure to celebrate the launch of his recent book, The Spectacle of Disintegration, and currently teaches Culture and Media at The New School. Marvin Jordan I noticed that you have been actively engaged in recent debates surrounding Accelerationism — its historical and political significance in the… [read more »]

January 27th, 2014

Daughter breastfeeds father to save his life!!

In a stunning feat that defies human imagination, Roman daughter Cimon keeps her father Pero alive by a courageous act that can only be defined by love. #PaparazziPainters portray the two caught in the act — a scandal forever known as ‘Roman Charity.’ See various depictions of the baby’s mama’s daddy’s scandal below:

January 22nd, 2014

Should I take off all your clothes now?

Post-K-pop heartthrob, super-producer, and #vapelife icon YEN TECH is back with a sultry, spine-tingling hit. T.R.O.U.B.L.E.’s vaporized eroticism is steamy, sensuous, and fairly uncomfortable. The sterile, high production video had a dream-team production: directed by Priz Tats, produced by artist Rachel Milton, sets by artist Brian Khek, and on point styling by Lauren Elder and Ramsey Alderson.

January 9th, 2014

Amalia Ulman’s Social Strata Lingerie

From her limited edition #sociallyconscious collection, artist Amalia Ulman is offering a one size, one color lingerie set that marks the wearer’s body as a reflection of social stratification. Brand new and with tags, this is the very last set of Social Strata Lingerie! Put the ‘gal’ in egalitarianism, and buy a set for $50.00 here

November 27th, 2013

Nguzunguzu | “Mecha” Music Video

In their techno-apocalyptic new video, Nguzunguzu foreshadow the ominous fate of our world with destructively danceable fervor. Recontextualizing a filmic landscape in which the last surviving element of entertainment is destruction itself, “Mecha” is as timely as it is prophetic. Directed by Jude MC, the work repurposes myriad images of contemporary sci-fi and action films and synchronizes them with spine-chilling accents of alien percussion. The enduring, doomsday-like aura of the video evokes a social commentary… [read more »]

November 22nd, 2013

Mirror Mirror | Melting People EP

Liquifying memories of grunge with splashes of psychedelic revival, Mirror Mirror returns with a radiant new EP, “Melting People.” As the title implies, the sonic experience is an immersive one, weaving velvety threads of reverb through smokescreens of pop that unify the listener with a droning, dream-like coherence. Lyrically, the songs evoke the dissolution of physical bodies as they become superseded by virtual identities, softening our real selves with nebulous auras of nostalgia and digitization.… [read more »]

November 21st, 2013

NGUZUNGUZU | SKYCELL EP

The latest drop from Nguzunguzu implicates its title in the production itself: like a celestial molecule amputated from the organism of the sky, it brims with heavenly harmonies. For all its astral qualities, Skycell isn’t all atmospheric and weightless, but rather it manages to fuse its space oddity-like eeriness with deeply grounded rhythmic roots. The constellations of chopped samples and dark matter orbit around a common point of gravity — the inexhaustible beats. Amid the… [read more »]

November 7th, 2013

SETH — Fish Oil

Styled by: Haley Wollens Peep the latest work from SETH, the new experimental duo synergistically composed of artists Gobby and Jamie Krasner. Their audiovisual trip, “Fish Oil,” looks and sounds like it teleported from a futuristic space-pop-time continuum right into our screens, destined to nestle deep within our psyche. The narrative glows with telepathic vibes and unfolds under a paranormal conception of time, all while the dream-drenched beat resonates with stacked layers of vocals and… [read more »]

October 28th, 2013

Physical Therapy — I Did

Video edit: Steven Grisé Physical Therapy returns with a twisted demonic vendetta against the mysterious murders of our artistic idols. Hovering over the stomping hypnosis of the beat, we hear a hauntingly detuned vocal — presumably the producer’s own — moaning the names of the deceased, as if to conjure up their ghosts at the very center of the dance floor. The scary cracks and pingpong pops play with our sanity as the club increasingly… [read more »]

October 23rd, 2013

EXCLUSIVE | Princess Nokia – Versace Hottie

Meet Princess Nokia (Wavy Spice’s alter ego!), the bumpin’ new queen of femcore self-sufficiency. In “Versace Hottie,” the grimy, jungle-inspired beat resembles our accelerating heart-rate as we approach the goddess herself, trembling in sweat, just before getting turned down. Just like her bra and panties, no one can touch her. We are all equal in the eyes of this bossy introvert: equally disposable, that is. Princess Nokia raises the stakes of authentic vanity with righteous… [read more »]

October 16th, 2013

DIScuss | Liberate Visa, Occupy Bitcoin

The newest contender on the debit card market goes by a name at once familiar and financially fishy: Occupy. While the former bankers and corporate executives behind the project bear no tangible relation to the dispossessed that the Occupy movement is supposed to represent, they still found it strategic to make use of the name as a brand for their alternative banking venture. After all, #Occupy is not copyrighted. If we were naïve enough to… [read more »]

October 7th, 2013