art does matter

Music video previews by animator Romane Granger evoking the ecosystem of life on the ocean’s floor using clay.  Follow her on Vimeo and Instagram.

UK animation studio Uncle Ginger created an animation responding to the script by Helen M. Farrell, ‘What is Bipolar Disorder?’ “We wanted to find a way to aid the script by simply and sensitively communicating the disorder to people with little knowledge of it, without oversimplifying or belittling the huge effect it has on so many people on a daily basis” Hugh Cowling, Uncle Ginger co-founder. (Source: Computer Arts, February 2018)

Australian artist Freya Jobbins´ surrealist sculptures, created with doll parts, aim to question modern consumerism #womensart. Reposted from @womensart1 on Twitter

Martin King’s ‘melencholia’. See more animations by Martin King here. 

The story of a woman whose hand has a mind of its own. Invisibilia, NPR’s radio program and podcast, fuses storytelling with science. Found here.

Born on this day,  Paula Modersohn-Becker was a German painter and one of the most important representatives of early expressionism. In a brief career, cut short by postpartum embolism at the age of 31, she created a number of groundbreaking images of great intensity.(Source) Interesting read about her here.

Enough said.

In Richard Mosse’s “Incoming”, the artist follows migrants with a thermal military camera as they flee Syria, Iraq and elsewhere, turning them into a teeming mass of ghosts. Read more here. See Mosse’s work in the National Gallery of Victoria at the moment.

Follow the painting process. This is a painting by Yuehua He took a few hours. The video is a compilation of clips from the whole thing. See the rest of the artist’s paintings here.

Taking the right risks: Dave Wood, GBH’s design director and Sue Daun, ECD at Interbrand, debate the importance of taking risks, and highlight the factors that come into play when risk taking in small or large agencies. (Source: Computer Arts magazine)

When the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) appointed world-renowned conductor Sir Simon Rattle, it asked The Partners to evolve its brand to celebrate both Sir Simon and the emotional power of music, and to help it engage with a broader audience. Sir Simon’s conducting movements were captured via motion data technology and then transformed by digital artist Tobias Gremmler into a series of powerful animations. (Source: Computer Arts magazine)

Annabelle Creation by David F. Sandberg in paper and ink. Illustrations are hand-drawn with ink on cartridge papers, folded and assembled. Post-edited on Adobe Premiere.

Prague-based 3D artist Filip Hodas has flipped the shininess of pop culture on its head with Pop Culture Dystopia, his new series of digital paintings that depict pop cultural icons (including Hello Kitty’s face, the Coca Cola can, the McHappy Meal box and more) as giant, decayed robots. Found here.

These quiet, everyday moments have been captured beautifully by Australian painter Zoe Young. All of these pieces are from her series titled “Space Between Hours”. Found here.

The explosive abstract portraiture of Los Angeles based artist Justin Bower is currently featured in a new exhibition at MOAH (Lancaster Museum of Art and History), “Thresholds”.  His digital-looking, hand-painted portraits constantly question how much we will allow technology to permeate and destruct our daily lives? Found here.

On September 8 at UrbanGlass, a multidisciplinary performance will symbolically freeze, remix, and replay Trump’s overblown rhetoric. Found here.

Camelia Pham is a second-year graphic design student at the Accademia delle Belle Arti di Frosinone in Italy.