Jurgen (jtwine) has perhaps the most relevant posts on twitter.
And his page is beautiful.
Other artists there post stuff to #twitterart?
The little twitter bird logo scares the fuck out of me so I can't say much on that.
However I will say that Jurgen Trautwein makes lots of goodness.
Much of it is on the web here and here for starters.
The drawings! And photography. Music.
He handles black better than most.
Not that he can't handle white.
Or color.
He lives in San Francisco.

I am sorry to report that a couple weeks ago Millie Niss, a superb, 36 year old electronic artist and (often Oulipian) poet from the Buffalo NY area, departed from this earth. However her Spork World lives on. I never met or talked with her, and to be honest was only vaguely familiar with her work until recently. Just wanted to shout out to the NET that I feel she left us with some really great stuff! For instance the Regex Haiku Generator is some of the most wonderfully succinct programmatic poetry I've seen. As with many of her online works, an Adobe Flash application is employed with a rare sense of outrageous straightforwardness. Functionally inviting yet often confounding in effect...

As one can discover, many of her creations are not as playful as these. Some are rather intense, dynamic, unrelenting. Speaking for myself only, I feel her oeuvre is like a breath of fresh air in certain spheres of the media arts where swift, pack-minded fashion and technical cleverness/materiality have often reigned. Millie went beyond.

Recently came across the website/portfolio of James W. Morris and was reminded of how much I love the art made by hardcore software engineers. I had almost forgotten, since much of the digital art I've been seeing out there lately falls into other categories. With coders who make art (or artists who go code-deep) there is often just something sublime about the wrestling with form, wandering variations, unexpected palettes, naming/documentation logic... all sorts of decision or procedural eccentricities to savor, and James is an adventurous example. For starters his unique website is built upon a CMS tool that he himself programmed from scratch. In his code section he has many colorful CSS/tag based works (a medium I have a fondness towards) such as the CSSNAKETRIX shown above. Music, paintings, video games, download-able tools... there is much to explore. This is good shit, please enjoy.

I really really like the ODOYGIANT. Not much I wanna say here about the Dodi Giant with so much Gope but not Obey, so I provide you link only, explore the situation yourself. Link. Link. His facebook fan club just hit 4000, are you one of them? Does remind me of another great viral project (done primarily offline) by Justin Simoni...

This is the first post of the new Read Stuff (about others) blog to balance the existing Read News (about me) blog. I'm sick of always talking about myself, and so are you. This place used to be just a page of hard-coded links, which I'm posting below. These are mostly artists/people I know, but many are just those whose work I cherish. The delicious linx: