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The high art trend of launching mobile museums into the wild is gaining steam with the latest “artcraft” coming in the form of the H Box. The structure was produced by fashion brand Hermès and designed by architect Didier Fiuza Faustino, who calls his work “a nomadic object informed 1970s space landing crafts.” Inside the H Box films by international creators such as Su-Mei Tse, Yael Bartana, Dora García, Judit Kúrtag, Valérie Mréjen, and Shahryar Nashat are shown. The next stop for the artcraft is Yokohama, Japan from September 13 to November 30. (link, via dvice)

Jonathan Mak’s Everyday Shooter ended up as something of a concept album for the abstract shooter hardcore afficionados. Eight completely different levels, in theory, forty-something minutes of an all-guitar soundtrack for your geometric senses. Check the yt above for complete demonstration of the first three levels and embrace godly love - although it was originally released on the PlayStation platform, it’s now available on Steam (been for a while) and according to what Kotaku writes, the game will be available for the PSP around November. (via wired)

Synthespians (Gibson’s version of personality constructs) are on the rise thanks to Image Metrics, the guys behind GTA’s animations. Their artificial construct, Emily (on the yt above) is controlled by a new system that takes facial control down to the pixel level - that, the extreme focus on the perfect timing of eye movements and the subtle imperfections and asymmetries make the constructs into real humans. Sites fantasize about chatbots and CG movies that pwn live-action ones. Yes please. Longer history on synthespians and idorus later, on the new version of PD. (via Times Online via Technovelgy via IO9)

Because sculpting light is relatively easy, just check up on Christian Cerrito’s blog for more pictures and also details, such as “EL wire + Armature Wire + Solder + Clear Heat Shrink + Turntable + Inverter + Batteries + Base Block + Hot Glue” and then some. (via sir, i exist!)

World War’s a new CG short directed by Vincent Chai, recent graduate of University of Hertfordshire, UK: brimming with pre-Hiroshima era urban landscapes, gritty bullet-time robot kung-fu, Wolverine claws and an atomic bomb. Given that it’s really an amateur project, it’s amazingly fun (all done with Maya, Photoshop, Premiere and After Effects). Check the bonus features on Chai’s site! (via dvice)

Interesting how I got back to some old roots just in a day - found a long interview with one half of Breyer P-Orridge, Genesis P-Orridge - whom a couple of you might know from Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV and its direct transfiguration PTV3, Thee Majesty and lots of other cooperative works (from XPK to Download, and then some), then found myself digging through longish histories of The Process and TOPI as well. The Radar Magazine interview is an insanely touching piece of work that got me interested in the sheer will and love that formed Breyer P-Orridge into life. So much more to say, so much silence. (link, via technoccult)

“The comic value is a murderer and a rapist.” Seriously. Repo: The Genetic Opera! has been one twisted piece of work that we’ve been expecting for quite some time and thank God, heaps of smart and relevant footage appears on YouTube, thanks to user Eftelsander who started posting excerpts and trailers like *snap snap* rapidfire. Surgery graft fetish boytoys, Paris Hilton cunt injections, future sluts and sleazy kink all the way. Check the “Zydrate Anatomy” scene above, below, a brief behind-the-scenes with Ogre of Skinny Puppy.

Icon II: Siddharta Gotama in gas mask, sculpture by Samuel F. Stimpert. (link, via ectomo)

Seriously, if last month’s penis-thieving stories from Africa didn’t cut through your transjournalistic immune system, this won’t either. Madrid artist Jaime del Val is walking around the city, projecting his dick onto public buildings, claiming “it is a means of power”. At least he’s right about that. According to the Metro, Mr del Val actually claims to have a serious message to promote as a self-identified ‘pangender cyborg’. He says his visual actions are part of a multi-protest against homophobia, surveillance, control and consumer society. (via boingboing gadgets, via metro)

Hitch has just sent us this lovely picture of Belgian conceptual artist Wim Delvoye’s gothic machine, one of many. Delvoye’s just been to Budapest a couple of months ago, that I came to know with pity - although he’s been here with the Cloaca contraption afaik (that’s pretty similar to the one having presented at Linz, the Ars Electronica festival) and he’s got so many more interesting, weird constructs - very similar to the majestic and gigantic ornamented vehicles of the Warhammer 40K universe.