Net Art Anthology

Understanding is a rotating neon sculpture on the Brooklyn Bridge Waterfront, which reads “Understanding” in red. It’s nice enough, but relies on the viewer for any interpretation. For a better understanding of “Understanding” here’s the Creed’s music video. Critic Terence Trouillot rightly complained at this week’s Review Panel that the video, which promotes Creeds new album, made the public sculpture seem like an ad. [Purple.FR]

NSFW abstraction! [Gitlab]

Bizarrely photographed architecture. [Dezeen]

Selldorf Architects have been contracted for the Frick’s expansion. Selldorf promises not to touch the Frick’s garden. [The New York Times]

Rhizome’s symposium, “Net Art Anthology” will launch October 27th and there’s already a lot of build up to it. The non-profit will be preserving 100 important net art works from yesteryear.  The article mentions that Youtube deleted Petra Cortright’s “VVEBCAM” for what reason I can’t possibly fathom. What it doesn’t mention are the online bloggers who talked about this work when other critics could not. Tom Moody was the first to discuss this work critically, and that important work should be archived too. [The New York Times]

Why video games are art—a surprisingly thoughtful article given the publisher—and accompanied by some incredible looping videos. [CNN]