MUD Foundation Kicks Off the Third Year of Media Under Dystopia, a Hybrid Exhibition Program Supporting Artists Working at the Center of Art + Technology


MUD Foundation announces Media Under Dystopia 3.0: WASD, a new exhibition that features projects by artists that explore ideas of collaboration, performance, extractivism, and the intersection of physical and digital realms. At its core, the exhibition centers around the use of the internet as its own creative medium.

“WASD” keys became the standard for moving around virtual worlds on the left side of our keyboard interface. First used in 1986 in “Dark Castle,” a video game made by Silicon Beach Software, WASD keys became the primary form of navigating virtual spaces moving forward. The WASD edition of Media Under Dystopia 3.0 takes on the idea of WASD keys as a conceptual framework that invites participants and visitors to navigate the space of the internet as an artistic metaverse.

Each of the works call upon visitors to experience and engage

MAKING A MARK: Portrait Artist of the Year

 Do you think you know who is going to win Portrait Artist of the Year this year? Can you work out – in advance of the Semi-Final on Wednesday 23rd November – who will make the Final?

Why not have a go after reviewing this year’s semi finalists – SEE BELOW – for Portrait Artist of the Year?

Don’t forget the challenge for the eventual winner – who has to paint a £10,000 commissioned portrait of Sir Lenny Henry for the National Portrait Gallery. 

  • He’s a big man and a big personality 
  • So, in my book, that means the artist has got to be somebody who has demonstrated at some stage the capability of “going big”.

BELOW are listed 

  • all the Heat Winners alongside their self-portrait and heat painting. Links to websites are embedded in their names and other social media sites are listed if identified.
  • PLUS MY REVIEW of

End of the year SALE coming up!

For the 1st time in the existence of my on line shop, I am heading to be acquiring an stop-of-the-yr sale, for two seeks in November! This is absolutely big information. I normally do not lower price any of my resources but I’ve resolved to this 12 months for the reason that:

  • I want to endorse my Collage Art Basics on the net class.
  • I will need to decrease inventory just before my (two) new titles arrive from the printers.
  • I want to apparent out stock of a handful of titles that I will not be supplying again.

What’s going on sale?

My Collage Art Basics on line training course is on sale for 20% off. This program teaches you the essentials of collage and give you a definitely very good basis for getting confidence and talent in building.

I’ll also be offering several guides on sale, some up

The best underrated movies of last year to finally watch

To describe 2020 as one of the most tumultuous and unconventional years in recent memory feels like a gross understatement. The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted every sector of life, including the simple pleasure of watching. Theaters and multiplex chains across the world shuttered their doors and the result was a release schedule thrown into a tailspin and an industry scrambling to program streaming platforms. There were lofty attempts to return things to normal; in September 2020, Christopher Nolan bet big in the face of the pandemic and pushed ahead with the release of his science fiction action thriller Tenet, a decision which resulted in a deflated box office and the film’s subsequent release on home video just a few months later. The rollout looks quaint compared to the new normal, in which a movie like A Quiet Place Part II hits theaters in May then appears on Paramount Plus in

Close-Up Photographer Of The Year: 20 Stunning Winning Images

For its second year and with more than 6,500 photos from 52 countries in competition, the Close-up Photographer of the Year (CUPOTY) organization, devoted to close-up, macro- and micro-photos, has announced its remarkable winning images.

The annual photography competition gave the first prize of £2,500 and the CUPOTY trophy to a nighttime shot of an eel larva spotted off the island of Lembeh, Indonesia, by Galice Hoarau, a French photographer and professor of marine molecular ecology.

“Peering through the darkness with your flashlight can be stressful the first time you do it,

Dominion’ Preview Teases A Regular Summer Movie Year

All those who attended final night’s press screening of F9 at the TCL Hollywood theater ended up gifted with the initial community look at the teaser for Colin Trevorrow’s Jurassic World: Dominion. Yes, I noticed the tease past evening (yes, I drove there and again for the teaser, mostly since it’s been effectively about a yr because I engaged in such nonsense), and it does the career. For those seeing F9 in IMAX theaters when it opens domestically in particularly 10 days, you will get a two-section tease.

1st, there is a prehistoric prologue of sorts, offering one thing vaguely resembling an origin for the franchise’s star T-Rex. In spite of fears that the movie would get bogged down in “Unrequested Origin Story Metropolis,” the scene as it existed is no various than the “Sméagol finds the ring of power” prologue of The Lord of