Digital
Collage Links
(spontaneous
expulsions
have been discontinued)
SITO
is a collaborative arts group, somewhat devoted to collage art.
The Artchives include
a wide variety of mediums including Collage
and Photomanip.
Synergy is the
collaborative arm of SITO. The directories PANIC
and LASTWEEK, contain
the latest images in the weekly PANIC collabfest.
Hygrid is one of
the ongoing projects (an ever expounding, expanding grid). This Report
Page shows new additions. The newest addition to sito is gridcosm.
Robert
Dada's Anti-Art Productions Collage from several neo-dadists.
The Soundbite
Kiss 50's imagery and Romance Novel covers (very accomplished).
Stephanie Evans Giantess'
Page. Very realistic.
Juxtapositions Ironic
sociopolitical Morph-pegs!
Mike Swartzbeck is a consistent PANICKER,
his online stuff includes;
Vaguely Shakespearean
collages based on Shakespearean themes
Human-Generated ten-year
retrospective of Macintosh painting, and
Mike "msb" Swartzbeck's
ongoing page of current work.
Urban Light is filled
with computer manipulated multimedia of the city of Boston.
If you don't visit Club
Salsa I won't speak to you anymore. Well actually you can't anymore so don't bother. Dave
McKean had done up this commercial product site (though you'd hardly
guess) with his gritty cut, paste and paint style.
Here are two very stylish pages with rather
professional wares.
Michael Betanacourt has a wordy
collage novel online, but this ad
parody is much nicer.
Christina Hoffenbaker fills her Gallery
Grotesque with a series of political collages, each with a feedback
form.
Scott Hacker and friends have a nice site
called the Birdhouse. Lots
of digital collage and multimedia.
The British hiphop/techno/??? group Future
Sound of London has a surreal little art page up. I like the economical
web design, especially the asterick map table that you can use to plot
your way through the images much better than other methods (like... feeble
human memory). The pictures (and sounds... AIFF) are smooth daliesque fantasy
pics, each one an image map. Graphics by this
person.
I found an archive of exhibitions at the
@art gallery.
I have only looked through one exhibit (Leonardo) from last year and pulled
these fine collage type links. (NOTE: these all lead to big grainy gifs)
Martina Lopez has restructured family portraits to produce In
the way of Tradition. Excellent photomontage style work mixing black
and white photos with backgrounds from old paintings.
Stephan Golding has produced Road
to Necropolis a pictorial story of concentration camp victims (the
story of Shoah). Grittier photomontage style.
Jeff
Murphy shows a series of collages of circuit boards and fruit. I usually
perk up at the mention of circuit boards, but I suppose their symbolism
can become a bit cliched. The grapes and pears pictured are usually stuck
with fishhooks or had symbols carved into them.
The slightly misleadingly named PixelCraft
is Australian artist Graeme Whittle's page. His gallery
contains some lovingly polished compositions with a worked over digital
paint style; more illustrative than cut'n'paste. Some great stuff and it
all comes in shallow Cornellish box/frames. A nice tight background too.
Speaking of boxes, look at Webmuseums Joseph
Cornell page or get the same stuff from Mark
Hardens Art Archives (at the U of texas) and look up Cornell
(and Schwitters,
and Another SITOstyle
collab art project is the Copyright
Cafe. I think this one started as a media studies project, there's
a lengthy text
on the subject of net collaboration you can peruse.
You will find some of the best political
mass media meets heartzenfelder photomontages on the internet at the
Konstrukto art
zine. This is a very polished effort by Australian AndyPC.
His design is a very cool contemporary mix of bold constructivist graphic
design and silliness (aimed mainly at the Aussie political scenesters).
It takes forever to load (there are lots of jpg's segmented with animgifs
to wait for) but it is worth it!
Fluxus
contains collage
data.
Columbine
is a sitoian with an excellent site, a hell of a sense of style and very
beautiful black backs. Great band
in the odds and sods pile.
Just for the record,
I am extremely deficient in my duties, i.e. my sense of organization, the zeal
for an authoritative grasp of the subject, and most of all my vocabulary.
I should really have a link of art sites with collage sections, here's
one, 1000 points
of art has one labelled collage.
The high point being Mister
Winston Smith's tribute page with lots of old school photomontage.
Yes, there are many souls struggling to
bring some sense of distressed beauty to this blandly pixelated wasteland.
Domenic Ali is one of them.
The integration of found images with his technique in these digital works
is really excellent.
These counterfeit U.S. stamps are a fascinating appropriation of media with a very ironic-political intent.
Naturally collaged/distressed imagery by way of poster hoardings from Marshall Soules.
Peter Baldes has a wonderful set of perl script based collages in the rauschenburg tradition (literally), completely random, completely colourful...
Conor McGarrigle runs the Stunned artzine, and has some of his fine artboxes on show.
Oh... and the links to my collages are here.
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