Category Archives: We Make Art Not Sex

Dita von Teese will have none of your being offended at pole dancing

On a little visit to LA morning tv, Dita deftly turns the conversation away from why she’s not “offended” at people thinking she’s a stripper and towards how much success she’s had taking inspiration from naked girls in history. Her new Cointreau-sponsored show debuts in Hollywood on Wednesday, July 22.

Art porn from your inbox by Elliott Burford

(via kottke / archive at geekologie)

We Are Not Having Real Sex Anymore

Edouard Leve, SÉRIE PORNOGRAPHIE, SANS TITRE, 2002 (via meaghano)

“We Live In Public” x2

Film critic Karina Longworth has an early review on this doc about Josh Harris, Pseudo.com, & the webcam phenom he drove with “We Live In Public”: “Harris and his girlfriend Tanya moved into a loft outfitted with motion control cameras in every room, broadcasting their relationship 24 hours a day to an audience of eager [...]

An archive of broken hearts

At the online archive of The Museum of Broken Relationships, users/artists may upload photos, emails, and texts from lovers past, with an option to lock these messages until they have mended enough to share them with others. A physical museum has launched in Singapore, and will be traveling the world with its relics — cell [...]

“Hitachi Magic Interview”: with hope, a new video series from Siege.

Ace photographer and long-time (now former) Nerve contributor Siege has been working more in video these days. Here, model Justine Joli answers a simple question with one significant off-camera assistant. Has Siege gone a little Warhol? No. He enjoys his muses getting off.

Universal sex ed, including for imaginary creatures

(”Love will find a way” tee, via)

What Was The Future Once: “We Live In Public”

Counting down to the moment when webcam girls are the future again, but only if they’re unevenly distributed on MySpace and YouTube, let’s remember those depressingly prescient days in 2000 and 2001, when it looked like anyone could be naked and fuck in online public and it might not always be through the pay-per-lens of [...]

The Moaning Lisa: Arthacking the wii with 200 womens’ orgasms

Created by Matt Ganucheau, as presented at Arse Elektronika, orchestrated by Vienna-based art/tech rabblerousers monochrom (you remember them, from the Future of Sex “Sex Hacks” salon), video by sex hacker supreme, qDot.

When Porn Confessional Gets Off YouTube

thanatos

And I’ll never forget my first exposure to this video, “thanatos,” when it was screened at the American Film Institute as part of Pixelodeon, the first festival of online video. There’s nothing like watching video meant for the web in a theatre full of strangers. Even more so when it’s playing a game [...]