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Stop what you’re doing and gawp at these perplexing architectural collages

What’s the difference between art and architecture? Here’s Archdaily’s Vanessa Quirk with a run of the mill definition:  Art is a form of self-expression with absolutely no responsibility to anyone or anything. Architecture can be a piece of art, but it must be responsible to people and its context.  What, then, does one make of Matthias Jung’s architectural collages? The German designer cuts up architectural features and pieces them together against ethereal backgrounds in order to create otherworldly designs. Jung’s end results—collections of doors, arches, and windows with some bricks to fill the gaps—are definitely not livable, but that won’t…

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This glitch art recreates the hell of cubicle work

Glitch art comes in all shapes and sizes, and much of it is very, very bad. (Google it and you’ll see a lot of low-rent ghost imagery and, um, that one dreamy picture of Kurt Cobain?) The work of Wayne Edson Bryan cuts a different figure, though. It starts with process: Bryan actually hand-makes the artwork, printing off paper, cutting and reassembling it back into sharply geometric, almost Mondrian-esque compositions. They’re richly textured, evoking blown-out dot matrix printing and cathode-ray feedback in equal measure.  While this inspires images of immense, three-dimensional collages, the actual works are only presented as digital…