The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction

In an interesting comment on Scienceblogs.com, Claire L. Evans writes: In his seminal 1991 essay, “The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction,” the video artistDouglas Davis writes that digital bits “can be endlessly reproduced, without degradation, always the same, always perfect.” Digital Decay from universe on Vimeo. The statement follows the above video […]

Danish Designs Centre bullying Danish design talents

Bureau Detours, a talented Danish architecture-, design- and building studio, recently launched the humorous Dennis Design Center initiative; a temporary design center owned by “Dennis”, a fictitious art-enthusiast character (supposedly from Rotterdam in the Netherlands), who set out to change public space in and around Prags Boulevard as part of the recent Metropolis festival. The […]

BOMB: A manifesto of art terrorism // #streetart

Artist Raymond Salvatore Harmon has put together BOMB, a manifesto of art terrorism, as he bluntly puts it: “BOMB is part personal reflection, part social critique. A pointed and opinionated observation about graffiti culture, media terrorism, art “education”, corporate control, and the ills of the current art world.” Watch the trailer: BOMB: A manifesto of […]

Street art interventions

Intervention art using posters and spray painting (from Manchester in the United Kingdom). Narcélio Grud is a Brazilian artist and the video is part of a series of intervations that the artist has made through many countries around Europe.

How New Yorkers feel about art

Check out this interesting video made by our fellow Dane Christian Svane Kolding interviewing New Yorkers about their view of art (as also highligted in the brilliant Brain Pickings blog). How Do You Feel (About Art)? from svanes on Vimeo. By the way, sorry for the low posting frequency, I am a bit busy with […]

“Dead Drops” – an anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public space #art_activism #newyork #fatlabs

FAT Labs’ Aram Bartholl has launched a new inspiring project. He writes: ‘Dead Drops’ is an anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public space. I am ‘injecting’ USB flash drives into walls, buildings and curbs accessable to anybody in public space. You are invited to go to these places (so far 5 in […]

Using augmented reality to hack public space #berlin #improvedreality

With artists being pushed further and further away from city centers in urban areas across the western hemisphere – mainly due to gentrification and rapidly growing real-estate prices – the natural canvasses of the cities are increasingly being conquered by commercial messages rather than, say, street art. A development that is changing the faces of […]

Big Bang, Big Boom: The Story of Evolution, Told in Graffiti // #blu #streetart

The Amazing Brain Pickings blog recently made me aware of the latest creation by Italian street artist BLU; a stop-motion movie illustrating the story of evolution in the most brilliant way – and it becomes even more impressive when knowing that it was appearantly made with no post-production. Read the original post at Brain Pickings […]

Tetris Everywhere!

Flickr user group L-plate Big Cheese has curated an impressive and funny gallery titled Tetris Everywhere, which shows the tetrism that is all around us. Watch gallery @ Flickr

0100101110101101.org strikes again #tacticalmedia

Brooklyn-based art activism group 0100101110101101.org has once again made a brilliant and thought-provoking tactical media strike – this time titled ‘No Fun’ and targeting the development in the contemporary online mediascape. From their subsequent press release: “Thousand of people watched powerless while a person was hanging from the ceiling, slowly swinging, for hours and hours. […]