Archive for the 'Social' Category
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 Burma Installation
Posted on Novembro 7, 2011 - Filed Under Social | Leave a Comment
In 2010, Burma held its first elections in 20 years. As part of its campaign to help free Burma’s 2,100 political prisoners, Human Rights Watch created a giant installation at New York’s Grand Central Station. Consisting of hundreds of prison cells, a closer look reveals that the cells bars are actually pens.
Visitors could remove the [...]
Museum of Obsolete Objects
Posted on Outubro 7, 2011 - Filed Under Digital Culture, Documentary, Social, Technology, Trends | Leave a Comment
Museum of Obsolete Objects was created by the german Digital Agency Jung von Matt/Next .
Sadly, as our daily lives become more and more digital some things fall by the way side as they are replaced by newer, «better» devices.
Let us not forget those fallen appliances, tools and gadgets and relive those bygone times by taking [...]
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.
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 [...]
Improv Everywhere – Carousel Horse Race
Posted on Agosto 1, 2011 - Filed Under Experience, Interactive, Performance, Social | Leave a Comment
Another one from Improv Everywhere.
You Are What You Eat – MARK MENJIVAR
Posted on Julho 26, 2011 - Filed Under Photography, Social | 5 Comments
You Are What You Eat, a project by Mark Menjivar, is a series of portraits made by examining the interiors of refrigerators in homes across the United States.
He explains about the project:
For three years I traveled around the country exploring food issues. The more time I spent speaking and listening to individual stories, the [...]
Lea Redmond – The World’s Smallest Postal Service
Posted on Julho 13, 2011 - Filed Under Creativity, Experience, Services, Social | 20 Comments
The WSPS began in 2008 as a quirky little social art project. Postmaster Lea Redmond sets up her tiny roaming office in cafes and shops in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond and offers a teeny tiny letter transcription service to passers-by. At these appearances the letters are transcribed by [...]
James Bridle – Robot Flâneur
Posted on Junho 16, 2011 - Filed Under Digital Culture, Experience, Social | 13 Comments
Robot Flâneur is a project made by London-based writer and programmer James Bridle, which claims to be an explorer for Google Street View. It allows you to virtually stroll the streets of nine different world cities. The website tends to re-examine Charles Baudelaire’s concept of the flâneur — a person who walks the [...]
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 [...]