An eventful week by all accounts, it saw chaos on the world’s financial markets as well as on the streets of London. But it was also a week that saw pioneering net.artist Olia Lialina’s famous piece My Boyfriend Came Back From The War (MBCBFTW) turn 15 years old. Cue everyone moaning about how old they feel. The Saved by the Bell crew got brutally murdered, and we took a look at Russia’s burgeoning audiovisual art scene. We also ruminated on why the robopocalpyse won’t be happening just yet, and we met the winners of our Art Hack Weekend, run in collaboration with Eyebeam. We also looked over the career of trailblazing experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage, one time teacher of South Park’s Matt Stone and Trey Parker.Here’s some other happenings on the web that may’ve slipped you by:· 8-bit world: Shawn Smith creates pixel sculptures of animals and caged fire. Want.· Stark warning: Iron Man exoskeleton is 5 years away. File under heavy metals.· Horsing around: Artist Marion Laval-Jeantet injected herself with horse blood plasma for her performance piece May the Horse Live in Me, which explores the human-animal dynamic. She also donned some prosthetic hooves too. Watch the vid here, read more about it here.· London-based visual artist Jesse Kanda has a new experimental short film out called Dutch Wife. It’s wild, you should go watch it.· When Kubrick made The Shining his 17-year-old daughter filmed it. Watch Vivian Kubrick’s intimate 35-minute “making of” doc on Google Videos (alongside an explanation of the hotel’s Escherian design). [via Kottke]· A one-year-old baby was interviewed and showed a fundamental disrespect for authority figures.
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