If you’ve ever wondered what thinking about nothing looks like, here it is. It’s the result of an experiment by artist Gustav Metzger, who hooked himself up to a robotic carving machine—while thinking long and hard about absolutely nothing.
The machine takes EEG signals—essentially the electrical signals from the brain, measured through the scalp—and then uses them to dictate the patterns it cuts into a piece of Portland Stone. The result’s rather beautiful, and itself looks like some kind of abstract artwork depicting a human brain. The sculpture is on display at the Work Gallery in London until February. [Design Week]













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What a load of shit! Art has now become making up some completely random idea that may or may not produce some sort of item at the end of it.
I’m going to be an artist and make nothing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monochrome_painting Too deep for you…
What about the fine work of Marin Creed.
http://martincreed.com/site/works/work-no-79
Balls a spelling error. *Martin
What a load of shit! It’s not less of an art (or non-art) just because you don’t like it.
It is art by definition and it is art because it expresses the person’s state of mind at that time. And it is art because it engaged us to have this conversation, even though we disagree.
Best piece of art I’ve ever played is Tetris
Surly this is just a visualisation of his failure to visualise nothing?
Am I the only person who can see golf balls ?
I thought it was a moulding error where a bunch of ping pong bats and golf balls had become fused together.
He should have made another one while he was actively thinking about stuff for comparison. Might be more science than art then, but at least I’d like it more