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Posted by Sebastian on Apr 05, 2009
A subtle intervention by Canadian artist Lauren Marsden in which she knitted covers for street signs on every street which she has lived in Victoria.
The knits were based on the actual size, colors and dimensions of the signs.
In a slightly similar project, Lauren covered a lamp post with images of bark to make it look like a tree.
Related: Jagtvej Street Name Hack
Posted by Sebastian on Apr 05, 2009
The popular illustrator and New York Times blogger Christoph Niemann designed the bathrooms in his new apartment with pixel drawings made of colored tiles.
The drawings were inspired by famous artists and the creative process is documented on his blog. Nice stuff.
A documentary-like video showing how to create sustainable graffiti.
As it says: "Fuck Roundup. Grassfitti can't be stopped."
If you're in Copenhagen before March 15, don't miss the exhibition 'Til Vægs' (To The Wall) at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.
The recently appointed acting Director Maria Gadegaard was asked to take over amid a turbulent time when there was basically no budget as well as an empty calendar and exhibition space to fill out.
Consequently she turned the problem into an opportunity and invited 40 local artists and asked them to paint and draw directly on the walls, thereby avoiding expenses for travel, transportation, insurance, materials etc. Paint was sponsored by Dyrup (a paint manufacturer) thus further reducing costs.
The result is impressive - like walking through an overdimensional visual book with every page offering something new - and the exhibition has received tons of much needed public as well as critical acclaim.
Image: Snapshot of Ida Kvetny's piece.
• www.kunsthalcharlottenborg.dk
Oeps Crew are two anonymous girls (supposedly) from Copenhagen who create small graffiti-inspired motifs using plastic beads
Their work can be found in galleries as well as urban spaces around the world. However, their unique urban tags are never up for long as they are quickly removed - or 'stolen' - by fans.
Check the Oeps Crew website for documentation as well as gallery updates.
"But what are we going to read?"
During Buy Nothing Day, adverts in a London tube train were replaced with white paper by The Space Hijackers - a group of anarchitects who oppose the way that public space is being eroded and replaced by corporate profit making space.
Related: Delete
Posted by Sebastian on Jan 15, 2009
Greece based designers Kathryn Sanderson and Aristidis Skarpetis are behind the online store ALBINO, which sells a variety of white T-shirts that you can colour-in yourself.
Each shirt comes with 3 color markers of your own choice and you can add additional markers to your order.
Albino is not exactly the first ever to sell colourinable tees online. Even Marks & Spencer have a similar product. However, Albino is solely focused on one kind of product and they've managed to create a unique and personal universe around it.
Currently, Albino tees are printed in more than 70 different styles.
Too bad the tees are for kids only.
A few months before the senseless events on 9/11, the performance-group eteam took part in the LMCC artist in residence program that had studios on the 91st and 92nd floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center.
On the night of March 29 2001, the eteam created a temporary light-sculpture using illuminated windows in the North Tower to spell their name in capital letters. To create the letters, they needed 279 'dark' and 127 'light' windows on 7 floors (from 89th to 95nd). The event was carried out in collaboration with 12 offices located on the respective floors.
During their stay, the eteam did another site-specific event called Quick Click in which they made photographic portraits of people in the studio from a helicopter hovering outside the building.
Related: MIT students already carried out similar window hacks in the 90's. See also the famed Blinkenlights project in Berlin, launched on september 12 2001.
Posted by Sebastian on Sep 06, 2008
Appeel is an analogue interactive installation based on thousands of colored stickers placed in a grid on a wall.
People are invited to co-create by removing one or more stickers from the grid and sticking them onto something else (walls, people, objects) thereby helping the installation develop in new directions.
Interactive art doesn't get much more simple and intuitive than this.
Posted by Sebastian on Sep 06, 2008
Image Fulgurator is a camera-looking device that is used to smuggle visual information into other people's photographs.
The Fulgurator can be used anywhere where there's a another camera nearby that is being used with a flash. It operates via a reactive flash projection that enables an image to be projected on a surface the exact same moment when someone else is photographing it.
The intervention takes a few milliseconds and will most likely leave the targeted photographer puzzled as the motif he/she just photographed will suddenly contain an extra visual layer, somewhat like a watermark.
Image Fulgurator is a project by the artist Julius von Bismarck, who just recieved a Golden Nica Award at Ars Electronica for his work. Apparently he's about to patent the device - hopefully in order to block commercial misuse of the concept.
Related: SMS guerrilla-projector + Hello Mr President
• juliusvonbismarck.com + videodocumentation on youtube.
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Contact: Sebastian Campion