Archive for the 'Social' Category
James Bridle РRobot Fl̢neur
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 [...]
Museum of Broken Relationships
Posted on Março 9, 2011 - Filed Under Art, Creativity, Social | Leave a Comment
A museum dedicated to broken hearts founded in Croatia. Authors of the concept Olinka Vištica and Drazen Grubišić decided to set up the museum after consoling friends over their failed romances.
The Museum of Broken Relationships is an art concept which proceeds from the assumption that objects possess integrated fields – ‘holograms’ of memories and emotions [...]
The Swimming Cities of Serenissima
Posted on Fevereiro 24, 2011 - Filed Under Art, Creativity, Performance, Social | Leave a Comment
‘The Swimming Cities of Serenissima’ is a great project initiated by the artist Swoon, where a crew, consisting of almost 30 artists from the United States, is sailing the Adriatic Sea from Slovenia to Venice, and, once in there, offering exciting performances to the locals.
Before the experience in the Adriatic Sea, [...]
The Future of Art
Posted on Fevereiro 16, 2011 - Filed Under Art, Digital Culture, Documentary, Social | Leave a Comment
The Future of Art an immediated autodocumentary
What are the defining aesthetics of art in the networked era? How is mass collaboration changing notions of ownership in art? How does micropatronage change the way artists produce and distribute artwork? The Future of Art begins a conversation on these topics and invites your participation.
IOCOSE
Posted on Janeiro 31, 2011 - Filed Under Art, Experience, Interactive, Social | Leave a Comment
The IOCOSE collective has been working in Italy and Europe since 2006. It organizes actions in order to subvert ideologies, practices and processes of identification and production of meanings. It uses pranks and hoaxes as tactical means, as joyful and sound tools.
Empathy Box is one of their projects, they explain in their website:
“As often [...]
Ondrej Brody and Kristofer Paetau – A Live Garden Gnome
Posted on Novembro 25, 2010 - Filed Under Art, Interactive, Performance, Social, Street Art | Leave a Comment
Work by Ondrej Brody and Kristofer Paetau, they explain in their website, where you can also see the video:
Bad Ems is a small town in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the county seat of the Rhein-Lahn rural district and is well-known as a bathing resort on the river Lahn.
In october 2010 the artists Ondrej Brody and [...]
The Majestic Plastic Bag
Posted on Agosto 27, 2010 - Filed Under Advertising, Documentary, Social | Leave a Comment
The Majestic Plastic Bag is a mocumentary part of an environmental campaign that talks about a serious issue but with a twist.
It talks about a journey of a ordinary object into his final destination, the Pacific garbage patch.
About the Pacific garbage patch, VBS TV has done some interesting documentaries:
Via: Osocio, VBS
KKProjects
Posted on Outubro 26, 2009 - Filed Under Art, Social | Leave a Comment
KKProjects is based on the St. Roch neighborhood of New Orleans in six previously abandoned and destryoed structures: a former bakery, a storefront, and four 1800’s houses. Each structure houses a site-specific installation for a three month exhibition period. Local and international artists are invited to work with the spaces as they find them, as [...]
The Marshmallow Test
Posted on Setembro 22, 2009 - Filed Under Social | Leave a Comment
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