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Art Is

Screenshot from 2014-09-30 00:10:02

Definitions (and similar) of art from Twitter via the Streaming API. Very much inspired by “We Feel Fine“.

Code in the Streaming Aesthetics repos (see previous post).

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Streaming Aesthetics CLI 2

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Running counts of art-related terms and names from Twitter’s firehose Streaming API displayed in an (oversized) command-line console.

Code here (in the streaming_aesthetics_cli directory)):

https://gitorious.org/robmyers/streaming-aesthetics/

https://github.com/robmyers/streaming-aesthetics/

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Streaming Aesthetics CLI

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Running totals of various terms matched in Twitter via the streaming API.

A cultural analytics/telemetry dashboard.

Kinda.

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CAD – HDP Topics Of Press Releases

Topics chosen from press releases on the Contemporary Art Daily blog using gensim’s Hierarchical Dirichlet Process model:

exhibition, work, art, works, new, artist, one, gallery, museum, also, paintings, link, time, space, like, painting, york, artists, first, show

art, works, work, exhibition, artist, new, paintings, one, link, museum, painting, also, gallery, space, first, time, series, like, artists, solo

art, works, work, exhibition, new, artist, space, gallery, link, museum, one, form, time, paintings, also, first, painting, artists, sculpture, sculptures

art, exhibition, work, new, works, artist, gallery, painting, space, link, one, like, museum, paintings, first, berlin, solo, also, film, two

art, exhibition, work, new, works, artist, gallery, zobernig, also, one, link, space, two, secession, painting, words, form, like, time, paintings

great, art, offers, artist, exhibition, museum, new, works, work, solo, one, berlin, kudo, photography, world, first, exhibitions, objects, gallery, link

art, new, works, exhibition, work, museum, exhibitions, york, recent, artist, link, gallery, photographs, one, space, berlin, present, artists, oil, sculptures

exhibition, new, art, chapter, works, work, york, artist, paintings, gallery, production, museum, video, link, lieske, basel, made, 2008, sculpture, painting

paintings, white, works, one, zobernig, exhibition, painting, canvas, space, form, work, words, new, paint, gallery, two, like, even, v, also

exhibition, work, space, art, new, gerber, also, artist, paintings, works, tompkins, clear, light, model, ground, rees, link, waves, mason, like

one, new, work, exhibition, art, works, time, hope, artist, paintings, link, first, york, pistoletto, contemporary, gallery, amnesia, kawara, museum, ttinger

paintings, new, works, artist, work, exhibition, wood, sculptures, painting, nicola, series, woolford, first, art, meise, peter, buggenhout, link, sculpture, materials

new, painting, art, oehlen, exhibition, york, paintings, sculptures, work, solo, gallery, albert, one, works, artist, merkel, fecteau, exhibitions, mauss, 2011

works, exhibition, new, painting, images, art, paintings, artist, otto, knapp, lassry, also, link, visual, light, tovborg, hein, image, design, based

art, new, works, museum, exhibition, baldessari, pies, t, work, artist, bernstein, one, pittman, paintings, images, gallery, like, 2009, first, well

works, painting, paintings, exhibition, work, series, art, new, artist, also, one, bessone, green, hylden, gallery, color, link, time, gilliam, like

works, riedel, artist, work, art, exhibition, like, sander, new, objects, also, michael, seem, images, world, paintings, artists, link, form, object

works, exhibition, new, artist, paintings, series, present, one, time, gallery, link, wohnseifer, mosset, tone, museum, reid, solo, pittman, tones, box

exhibition, work, film, sculptures, neill, art, camp, new, genzken, paintings, gonzalez, torres, artist, also, works, artists, sculpture, yes, mmk, wall

new, art, work, exhibition, beery, artist, images, meo, gallery, paintings, link, early, show, york, objects, also, space, body, oehlen, like

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Contemporary Art Daily Most Frequently Mentioned Named Entities

Named entities mentioned fifty or more times by press releases in the Contemporary Art Data blog dataset (NLTK):

“John”,50
“Palais”,50
“Portikus”,50
“Fine Arts”,52
“Milan”,52
“Belgium”,53
“Venice Biennale”,53
“European”,55
“MoMA”,55
“Stedelijk Museum”,55
“America”,57
“Chinese”,57
“Rome”,59
“Japanese”,60
“Born”,62
“Kunsthalle Basel”,62
“Tate Modern”,63
“Basel”,64
“British”,64
“Swiss”,64
“New Museum”,65
“Hamburg”,66
“Italian”,66
“San Francisco”,66
“Zurich”,67
“New”,75
“Munich”,78
“University”,81
“NY”,82
“New York City”,83
“Japan”,84
“French”,86
“Kunstverein”,86
“Amsterdam”,89
“Frankfurt”,92
“Brussels”,94
“Italy”,97
“Martin”,98
“California”,100
“USA”,100
“Untitled”,102
“American Art”,104
“Kunsthalle”,105
“Tokyo”,112
“United States”,112
“Cologne”,119
“Whitney Museum”,123
“Switzerland”,130
“France”,131
“Europe”,132
“German”,150
“Vienna”,150
“Chicago”,161
“Art”,244
“Modern Art”,247
“Germany”,288
“American”,297
“Museum”,344
“Los Angeles”,374
“Paris”,454
“Berlin”,536
“London”,585
“New York”,1214
“Link”,1499

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Facecoin at The New Sublime

Facecoin installed at The New Sublime

(Image copyright @shardcore)

Facecoin is being shown in the show The New Sublime at The Phoenix Gallery in Brighton from September 6th-28th 2014.

You can read about Facecoin at The New Sublime here. It’s in some amazing company in the show, do get to see it if you can.

Facecoin is sublime not in the sense of being delightful but in the sense of being an attempt at cognizing the aesthetics of an encounter with a phenomenon overwhelmingly greater than oneself. Rather than God, the landscape, a storm or some other natural or supernatural event, for Facecoin that phenomenon is the activity of cryptocurrency software. The inhuman scale and super-Stakhanivite work of Bitcoin’s network of computers forms an economic Skynet of loving grace. Facecoin offers a way in to contemplating this, and thereby provides an encounter with the sublime.

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Simple Word Frequency in Contemporary Art Daily Press Releases

A simple word frequency count of press releases on Contemporary Art Daily (note split city names):

art:4511
exhibition:4422
work:4160
works:3906
new:3659
artist:3073
one:2195
gallery:2156
museum:1901
paintings:1898
link:1875
also:1765
space:1671
painting:1666
time:1521
like:1493
york:1462
first:1390
artists:1307
show:1282
objects:1230
solo:1222
two:1193
series:1179
form:1077
made:1058
contemporary:1027
world:985
images:978
present:967
sculptures:907
exhibitions:902
sculpture:892
well:873
way:865
group:849
image:832
life:805
film:794
forms:775
different:760
berlin:723
years:721
within:703
body:700
london:675
based:661
material:660
part:656
history:656
three:655
process:650
many:637
recent:636
often:623
2009:614
wall:610
materials:609
installation:607
practice:604
artistic:601
large:599
photographs:597
modern:595
lives:594
light:584
even:581
visual:579
2010:575
2008:568
black:567
since:566
together:556
object:554
use:552
including:551
would:543
white:540
born:536
american:524
become:521
place:518
pleased:516
used:507
another:502
viewer:498
2011:498
self:497
paris:495
early:493
abstract:492
could:491
point:483
room:483
something:482
around:482
project:482
back:476
language:471
drawings:468
subject:466
human:464
include:464
making:459
make:457
los:457
people:457
angeles:454
elements:453
production:453
various:451
created:451
view:449
color:445
surface:442
much:440
video:437
experience:437
title:436
yet:435
sense:432
still:432
found:431
photography:427
paper:427
presented:425
rather:425
social:418
shows:418
always:418
2012:417
city:417
pictures:412
paint:410
seen:408
using:406
galerie:405
hand:403
text:392
see:392
painted:390
create:390
public:388
working:383
2007:381
things:379
culture:379
historical:377
nature:377
idea:375
arts:375
past:374
kunsthalle:372
cultural:371
design:370
long:368
canvas:367
media:366
may:364
presents:363
installations:362
included:361
second:359
reality:356
pieces:355
scale:354
piece:354
relationship:354
whose:353
exhibited:352
specific:352
conceptual:350
thus:350
kind:350
year:350
drawing:346
produced:345
order:343
architecture:341
physical:341
last:341
context:339
formal:337
abstraction:337
spaces:337
individual:336
collection:334
narrative:334
political:333
sculptural:333
shown:331
figures:329
without:327
approach:326
becomes:323
real:323
meaning:323
almost:321
set:321
germany:321

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Topics From Press Releases On Contemporary Art Daily

TF-IDF of 25 topics extracted using LDA on press release texts from Contemporary Art Daily:

york, works, work, two, surface, space, solo, show, ribbeck, present, paper, paintings, painting, ortman, one, oehlen, new, manders, made, link, life, gallery, forms, form, first, exhibition, canvas, butzer, based, artists, artist, art
yang, within, time, series, sculptures, quinlan, practice, photographs, objects, like, light, images, also, york, works, work, two, space, show, present, paintings, one, new, made, link, life, gallery, form, first, exhibition, artist, art
sone, place, otto, ontani, knapp, image, floyer, figures, every, even, buren, baer, time, series, light, images, also, works, work, space, present, paintings, one, new, made, link, life, gallery, first, exhibition, canvas, artist
wesley, television, southend, serios, prangenberg, polaroid, order, neill, mirren, mellor, love, los, kowanz, jacques, inherent, goiris, film, clay, camp, angeles, andr, acting, time, like, also, work, show, one, link, exhibition, artists, art
world, way, sculpture, installation, different, film, image, time, series, sculptures, objects, like, light, images, also, works, work, two, space, show, paintings, painting, one, new, made, link, gallery, form, first, exhibition, artist, art
shifu, real, rat, oogway, mullican, matt, m, heikes, book, bear, animals, animal, world, film, even, time, like, images, also, works, work, two, paintings, painting, one, new, link, life, form, exhibition, artist, art
smith, museum, john, contemporary, baldessari, sculpture, los, film, angeles, image, like, images, also, york, works, work, space, solo, show, present, paintings, painting, one, new, made, link, gallery, first, exhibition, artists, artist, art
yet, well, weiner, sound, rosenkranz, merz, melotti, hypnosis, human, gilbert, foulkes, early, darboven, color, boetti, blue, artistic, mullican, matt, world, within, works, work, space, one, new, link, gallery, exhibition, artists, artist, art
three, self, room, mayer, many, jarman, ground, gerber, frue, creed, created, world, different, time, series, like, also, works, work, space, paintings, painting, one, new, link, life, forms, form, exhibition, artists, artist, art
something, paris, materials, kwade, fontaine, everyday, claire, berlin, 2010, world, way, different, image, time, series, sculptures, objects, like, also, works, work, space, show, one, new, made, link, gallery, form, exhibition, artist, art
years, vienna, recent, process, meise, martin, lives, kelm, galerie, exhibitions, paris, berlin, museum, image, series, objects, images, york, works, work, solo, paintings, painting, one, new, link, gallery, form, exhibition, artists, artist, art
history, artistic, museum, world, sculpture, time, series, sculptures, practice, objects, like, also, works, work, two, space, solo, present, paintings, painting, one, new, made, link, gallery, forms, form, first, exhibition, artists, artist, art
v, rather, kind, idea, back, another, abstract, way, place, image, time, series, like, also, works, work, two, space, show, paintings, painting, one, new, made, link, forms, form, first, exhibition, artists, artist, art
wall, spaces, pistoletto, mirror, michelangelo, material, kunstverein, become, materials, contemporary, image, within, objects, like, also, works, work, two, surface, space, present, paintings, painting, one, new, link, gallery, form, first, exhibition, artist, art
wong, together, snake, palermo, may, left, gutai, florence, day, body, material, back, years, martin, human, time, objects, like, also, works, work, two, one, new, link, life, gallery, forms, first, exhibition, artist, art
modern, london, including, group, born, 2009, 2008, recent, lives, exhibitions, berlin, museum, contemporary, series, also, york, works, work, solo, show, present, paintings, painting, one, new, link, gallery, first, exhibition, artists, artist, art
urban, ten, strunz, strau, past, much, minamikawa, klaus, guyton, apple, years, color, image, time, like, also, works, work, space, solo, present, paintings, painting, one, new, link, life, gallery, form, first, exhibition, artist
williams, release, queenland, pirgelis, peter, larry, lara, geys, dibbets, city, camera, buggenhout, blind, bell, almarcegui, back, materials, museum, mullican, series, sculptures, objects, works, work, space, show, painting, new, link, exhibition, artist, art
visual, upon, tobias, subject, since, rehberger, project, production, price, political, others, nashashibi, labour, jochims, jackson, homo, economicus, economic, colour, carlo, burr, berlin, self, sculpture, image, works, work, link, exhibition, artists, artist, art
woolford, various, things, talent, stand, richard, pryor, overton, mccarthy, kunsthalle, house, holzer, hayes, drawings, donelle, counter, bern, years, materials, like, works, work, two, space, show, paintings, one, new, link, first, exhibition, artist
lee, american, modern, including, 2009, history, exhibitions, museum, contemporary, world, time, series, objects, like, also, york, works, work, space, solo, show, paintings, painting, one, new, made, link, gallery, first, exhibition, artist, art
white, social, offers, morris, great, cahn, black, group, body, well, world, time, like, also, york, works, work, space, show, paper, paintings, painting, one, new, link, gallery, form, first, exhibition, artists, artist, art
zobernig, historical, blues, process, exhibitions, museum, contemporary, sculpture, time, sculptures, objects, like, also, works, work, two, space, solo, paintings, painting, one, new, made, link, gallery, forms, form, first, exhibition, artists, artist, art
words, video, sometimes, shaw, red, nathalie, music, marshall, lines, films, dubuffet, double, djurberg, berg, barry, ball, zobernig, black, way, sculpture, figures, series, sculptures, works, two, space, paintings, painting, one, link, form, exhibition
would, want, thought, think, thing, still, see, say, right, really, people, never, know, get, could, always, things, much, kind, back, something, well, world, way, even, time, like, also, work, show, one, art