Brian Eno Q&#38;A: The Infinite Art of 77 Million Paintings
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Best known for his work as a musician and composer, the multitalented artist also creates "generative" visual art.
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Works by the most famous names in British art over 60 years form the centre of a retrospective show.
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British artist Damien Hirst's latest solo show "Beyond Belief" at London's White Cube gallery, which closes this weekend, has taken $250 million in sales in just five weeks, the gallery said on Friday.
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Joe Grand has never really thought of himself as an artist, but on Saturday night, he&#39;s having his first gallery opening.Grand is a hardware hacker: He&#39;s at home with a soldering iron in his hand and&#160;the guts of some electronic device opened up in front of him. A former member of the L0pht Heavy Industries hacker collective, he designed the programmable conference badges used at this year&#39;s Defcon 15 hacker conference and a cheap RFID reader, soon to be on store shelves at Radio Shack.His show, called &quot;When Electronics Become Art,&quot; is happening at the 20 goto 10 gallery, on the fringe of San Francisco&#39;s notorious Tenderloin district. It&#39;s the kind of place where you&#39;d expect to see a hacker art exhibit: It&#39;s populated by junkies, liquor stores, and dive bars. Gallery owner Christopher Abad says the space was filled with old TVs and other junk hoarded by &quot;dumpster-diving meth heads&quot; before he moved in earlier this year.Abad, a noted hacker in his own right, says that Grand&#39;s work is good enough that it deserves the kind of attention you get in a fine-art gallery setting. &quot;A lot of the stuff that I&#39;ve seen him work on is pretty interesting, and it&#39;s rare for hackers to get any kind of credit outside of that community or any exposure at all,&quot; he said. &quot;At best you get to see some movie where it&#39;s all completely embellished.&quot;Though 20 goto10 also has the typical fine-art exhibits and book readings you&#39;d expect from a gallery, it&#39;s a bit of a hacker experiment. Abad featured another technology-themed installation in the gallery&#39;s first show this past February: a system that could be used to spoof caller ID, check other people&#39;s voicemail and launch unsuspecting man-in-the-middle attacks.Abad says he wants 20 goto 10 to be a venue that goes beyond the standard hacker conference. The gallery environment lets people gather information at their own pace.&quot;When Electronics Become Art,&quot; includes the Defcon badges Grand has designed as well as a &quot;Curtain of Shame&quot; of malfunctioning badges, a Marquee sign with the word Kingpin (Grand&#39;s hacker moniker) cut into Nintendo and Atari circuit boards and a modified searchlight from a US Army M-60 Patton tank.There will also be an interactive RFID exhibit and what Grand calls his Lichtenberg Lighting Frame -- a large acrylic block he picked up at a Boston flea market with a tiny multi-color LED&#160;display in the middle.But one of Grand&#39;s favorite pieces is a hacked up Atari computer called Atari K-9. While visiting his family, last Thanksgiving, Grand found a floppy disk containing a program that he&#39;d written for the Atari when he was eight. He created a custom display for the machine to &quot;make it look like it was created by Atari in the 80s&quot; and got his old program to run on the Atari. It&#39;s a silly graphic of K-9, the robot dog, from the 1970s TV series Dr. Who, but Grand sees it as a kind of collaborative project with his eight year-old self. &quot;It&#39;s basically to pay tribute to my past. I grew up with an Atari 400 computer,&quot; he said.Grand makes his living running his design company, Grand Idea Studio, and he&#39;s currently filming an engineering TV show, due to air next year on a popular science cable channel,But does he consider himself an artist? Maybe electronics aesthete would be a better description.&quot;Engineering and electronics does have this simple, beautiful way about it. If something is done in a really elegant fashion, then it could be considered art,&quot; he said. &quot;Sometimes I&#39;ll open up a product to see how it&#39;s made ... and there&#39;s a lot of beautiful design work that goes on.&quot;&quot;It&#39;s hard for me to consider myself an artist, because what I do to me doesn&#39;t seem like art,&quot; he added. &quot;People can call me an artist. I still consider myself an engineer and a hardware hacker.&quot;&quot;When Electronics Become Art,&quot; runs through Nov. 8 at 20 goto 10, 679 Geary Street, San Francisco. The show opens on Saturday, from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m., and gallery hours are 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Thursday and Friday; 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. on weekends.
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Is Elton John's fortune going multimedia? The British pop star, who usually makes his living tickling the ivories, netted &#36;900,000 Thursday night by auctioning off a collection of photographs taken by some of the world's most famous photographers.
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The thriving art world has something to teach the classical music world.
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Can one orchestraâs audacious experiment save classical music?
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Can digital musicians, artists and other media creators free themselves from the tyranny of popular software design? Commentary by Momus.
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By PHIL MILLER ARTS CORRESPONDENT  SCOTLAND'S national orchestra has made an overture to the power of the internet, by opening a new online service linked to nearly 60,000 musical recordings.
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A three-canvas painting by the figurative artist Francis Bacon is to be auctioned in London next month, where experts estimate it will break the record for the sale of any British or Irish work.
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A record number of original works by Banksy are expected to fetch up to Â£300,000 in total at a London sale.
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It's an art collection that could hold as many as 80 works by Vincent van Gogh and nearly half-a-dozen by Paul Cezanne, that is if the champions of a dead Dutch furniture dealer are to be believed.
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Take a peek at one of the world's largest collections, amassed over three decades by self-proclaimed Star Wars completist Steve Sansweet.
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Brian Eno's new art installation, made up of constantly evolving digital canvases of sight and sound, gets its North American premiere for three nights only this weekend in San Francisco.
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An artist known for contrasting nature and culture continues to explore visual and behavioral patterns with new videos.
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Paintings by Pink Floyd founder Syd Barrett raise thousands of pounds in an auction of his belongings.
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Plus: At 80, fractal discoverer Benoit Mandelbrot says he has much math work left to do. [News.com Extra]