BlackFlash Magazine

OPTIC NERVE 2013

Submissions are now being accepted for the 5th annual Optic Nerve Image Contest. Go to: www.blackflash.ca/opticnerve for application information. Submissions are viewed by a panel of judges, and the winner receives $500. The winner as well as the honourable mentions are published in an issue of BlackFlash Magazine.  Last year, the judges of the contest included: [...]

LUGO 2013

BlackFlash Magazine presented an artist project by Biliana Velkova and Egan Davis at the Mendel Art Gallery’s art party fundraiser: LUGO Biliana and Egan created photos with guests throughout the night, with some specially made puppets and costumes. The photos appear on Biliana’s Instagram account (@missbiliana). BlackFlash printed small prints for guests to take home [...]

Jessica Eaton Nail Art

Jessica Eaton‘s work has inspired this nail art by Bande Des Quatres, a boutique jewelry line concieved by Montreal-native Erin Wahed and hand-crafted by Canadian jeweler Janis Kerman. Bande Des Quatres posted this photo on instagram: instagram.com/bandedesquatres  

Best of “Best of 2012″

Once again it is the time of year every art media outlet presents their Best of 2012 list. At BlackFlash we love this time so much that we can’t get enough “Best of” lists. So much that we decided to create a list of our favorite “Best of” lists. We hope you enjoy the list. [...]

The Gamer Is Present

There was a time when my brother, my sister and I sat on the bed in our spare room suggesting actions for my dad to pilot Roger Wilco around worlds in the Sierra-made game Space Quest. Now all grown up and big enough to the play video games on my own I was excited to [...]

Cindy Sherman’s impostor

This week’s episode of This American Life is about people pretending to be people they’re not. In it Ira Glass tells a story about he and his friend visiting a Cindy Sherman exhibition and having a woman introduce herself as Sherman in the gallery. I won’t ruin the rest of the story because I won’t [...]

Watch a brief history of John Baldessari

Narrated by Tom Waits. It’s fast, fun, and informative. Created by the guys that made Catfish.

Aram Bartholl’s projects

Through PBS’s online program Off Book, I recently discovered Aram Bartholl‘s work on the F.A.T. Lab website. The Free Art and Technology (F.A.T.) Lab describes themselves at “an organization dedicated to enriching the public domain through the research and development of creative technologies and media.” Bartholl’s work uses a special mix of humour and tech savy [...]

Watch a short history of the animated Gif

This video produced for PBS’s online series Off Book is very interesting but doesn’t get to the bottom of the age old question: Is it pronounced [G-if] or [J-if]?   Also this Gif mashup they created is pretty cool too:

See Keith Haring’s journals one page at a time

Keith Haring’s journals have been scanned by The Keith Haring Foundation. They are posting one page per day for the duration of his exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum. The above page shows a cipher chart created by Haring in from what appears to be a 1971 journal when Haring was 13 years old. Check out [...]