Archive for the 'Art' Category
Yayoi Kusama – Obliteration Room
Posted on Janeiro 11, 2012 - Filed Under Art, Interactive | Leave a Comment
The obliteration room 2011 revisits the popular interactive children’s project developed by Yayoi Kusama for the Queensland Art Gallery’s ‘APT 2002: Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art’. In this reworked and enlarged installation, an Australian domestic environment is recreated in the gallery space, complete with locally sourced furniture and ornamentation, [...]
Theatre for one
Posted on Novembro 15, 2011 - Filed Under Art, Experience, Performance | Leave a Comment
Theatre for One is project conceived by Christine Jones , a freelance set designer.
Theatre for One is a portable performing arts space for one performer and one audience member, that turns public events into private acts.
You can check a video here.
Limelight: Saturday Night
Posted on Novembro 14, 2011 - Filed Under Art, Experience, Social | Leave a Comment
Limelight: Saturday Night is a project created by Sans façon taken place in 2010 in six cities across the UK and America, where a selection of sidewalks has been turned into a impromptu stages by turning streetlights into theatre spotlights. The result is an astonishing mix of reactions.
The simple intervention replaces two streetlights with [...]
The Balloon Hat Experience
Posted on Outubro 4, 2011 - Filed Under Art, Creativity, Documentary, Social | Leave a Comment
The Balloon Hat Experience brings a smile to your face, artists Addi Somekh and Charlie Eckert take the simple art of balloon twisting and take it to new level, with a world full negativity and bad news, they travel around the world with the humble intention of making people smile and laugh. Enjoy.
Diego Stocco – Music From A Dry Cleaner
Posted on Setembro 21, 2011 - Filed Under Art, Creativity, Interactive, Music | Leave a Comment
Awesome video.
Yolanda Domínguez – Poses
Posted on Agosto 29, 2011 - Filed Under Art, Fashion, Performance, Social | Leave a Comment
Yolanda Domínguez is a Spanish artist who works from what is disquieting, handling situations that are sensitive and disturbing for the spectator. Her aim is to generate social criticism and a reaction.
“Poses” is a direct criticism of the absurd and artificial world of glamour and of fashion that magazines present. Specifically, the highly-distorted image of [...]
People Staring at Computers
Posted on Julho 8, 2011 - Filed Under Art, Digital Culture | Leave a Comment
Artist Kyle McDonald has created software which photographs people using public computers as part of his project ‘People Staring At Computers.’
McDonald’s ‘photographic intervention’ took place after he installed the software on public computers around New York – including the Apple store – over three days. Taking a photo every minute, the application collected over [...]
Alexandre Arrechea – Orange Tree
Posted on Junho 1, 2011 - Filed Under Art, Street Art | 25 Comments
Orange tree, 2003-2010
lacquered aluminum
7 meters height
Location/ Bronx Museum for the Arts, NY.
Photo: Ed Emrich
Via Alexandre Arrechea
The Dumpster Project
Posted on Maio 3, 2011 - Filed Under Art | Leave a Comment
Brooklyn-based artist Mac Premo has archived much of his life through collected objects. He is about to move to a smaller studio, which means he needs to say goodbye to a lot of his stuff. He will do so by using them as the raw material for one enormous collage, created inside [...]
Be Your Own Souvenir
Posted on Abril 13, 2011 - Filed Under Art, Interactive, Social, Technology | Leave a Comment
Be Your Own Souvenir, a project by Barcelona based blablabLAB.
This past January, the installation connected passersby with the arts and technology, allowing people to become active collaborators with blablabLAB . Each visitor assumed the dual role of producer and consumer, with the help of customized software . The system invited each guest (acting [...]