Shirt Installations By Kaarina Kaikkonen
Using hundreds of second-hand shirts Finnish environmental artist Kaarina Kaikkonen has built countless installations. "Through my work I try to search my constantly changing outline. I need an outline to understand myself more clearly - to understand where the internal ends and the external begins," said Kaikkonen. The shirts are organized by color on each side …
Portable River By Luzinterruptus
Spanish urban light art pioneers Luzinterruptus is an anonymous artistic group arranging urban interventions in public spaces. Their latest project named ‘Portable River’ is an installation that questions the way we view – and monetize – water. The artists created a moveable, individually-wrapped river on the street, with 2.000 transparent and illuminated bags, including a …
Bird On A Wire Interactive Installation
Bird on a Wire is a charming projected interactive display created for a pair of storefront windows at the corner Mercer St. and Washington Pl. in Manhattan, NYC. By calling a number passers-by can set birds perched on telephone wires into motion while listening to their flocking sounds on a cellphone. Each bird is individually …
Count For Nothing By Katrin Korfmann
In this series of photo collages the progression of time becomes visible by layering several recordings of a given place together to construct a singular image. Various instants in time are being linked as if they took place at the same moment, offering a spatial experience of the progression of time. Korfmann explains, that "the …
The Art Of Light/Neon Installation/Creation
Lee Jung, represented by One And J. Gallery, was born in 1972 and currently lives and works in Seoul, Korea returning to Korea upon completed her M.A. in Photography from the Royal College of Art, UK. South Korea are the places where she created and photographed this series of text-based light installations. Lee Jung placed …
Digital Enhancement – Interactive Sound Installation
"Since my childhood, I have always been fascinated in automata and other complex devices. Having a background in electronics and art, it was just a matter of time for me to modernise an antique musical box. It's old rattling mechanical workings in combination with it's pretty yet sometimes clanking sound has always been charming me. …
Department Of Urban Betterment
John Locke is a New York based artist and his last project DUB 002 is an attempt for urban betterment. Locke provided some telephone booths with an individual book library, where he encouraged the people in sharing the initial selection of books. He concentrated mainly on pay phones as they are both anachronistic and quotidian. …
Lady and the Tramp by Jaqueline Bradley
Jacqueline Bradley is a Canberra based artist who makes sculptural objects. Her work explores ways of engaging with the surrounding environment, ideas of home and a sense of place. These objects take the form of sculptures, installations and costumes, made from building materials, household objects, fabric and wallpaper. She currently works from her studio at …
The Speed Book – Real Life Google Pins
For a growing number of people, virtual activities on the internet are becoming more significant than the lives they actually lead in the real world. Others are skeptical or even alarmed by the seemingly inevitable technological developments in our digital age. In his work, Aram Bartholl investigates this dichotomy and the blurred dynamics in between …
Streetlampforest Installation by Sonja Vordermaier
‘Streetlampforest’ by Sonja Vordermaier is a collection of 30 european streetlamps from different origins and times: Amsterdam, Berlin, Erfurt, Leipzig, Glasgow, Innsbruck, Milano, Hamburg, Prag, Cagnes-sur-mer (France), Sarajevo, Stuttgart, Belgrade, Lippstadt, Munich, Sofia, Trieste,Wolfsburg and Vienna. ❚…
INFINITY (Double Möbius Strip)
"The Möbius strip or Möbius band (pronounced UK: /ˈmɜːbiəs/ or US: /ˈmoʊbiəs/ in English, [ˈmøːbi̯ʊs] in German) (alternatively written Mobius or Moebius in English) is a surface with only one side and only one boundary component. The Möbius strip has the mathematical property of being non-orientable. It can be realized as a ruled surface. It was discovered …
5 Million Dollars, 1 Terabyte Sculpture
Illegal downloading is threatening the industry's ability to operate properly, resulting in commercial loss. 5 Million Dollars 1 Terabyte by Manuel Palou is a sculpture and art project on offer at Art 404 Gallery consisting of a 1 TB Black External Hard Drive containing $5,000,000 worth of illegally downloaded files. You can view the full …
Content is Queen: A Generative Video Painting
What a great idea! “Content is Queen” is a video art series by Sergio Albiac of generative portraits that reflects on the foundations of democracy against the resilient nature of structures of power. At the same time, is a paradoxical dialogue and strange marriage between the banal and utterly majestic: to create the series, the …
When Worlds Collide
Over the past decade, Wang Qingsong has solidified his place among the top echelon of Chinese contemporary photographers. His more recent pictures are following in the footsteps of Crewdson and Wall, but with a more caustic and cynical point of view. "Since turning from painting to photography in the late 1990s, Beijing-based artist Wang Qingsong …
Château-Vacant was here
Montréal-based design studio and collective Château-Vacant creates images and videos thinking with objects and spaces in an art(istic)-way. They're also involved in illustration, photography and graphic design. I love the way the "walk around", to work with elements they found outside and make installations in a way to say: "We were here."…
Forgotten-About Bits of Urban Infrastructure
This is the work of German street artist EVOL. He uses stencils to turn everyday outdoor objects, such as electrical boxes in to miniature skyscrapers. If you simply glance at these pictures it becomes difficult to distinguish them from the real thing. The work above ist entitled "Plattenbauten" is part of the Buildings series and …
Footnotes to Public Space
"Good news for anyone who was up till now unfamiliar with the works by Harmen de Hoop. For the first time, his work - which is the result of many years of production fever – will be shown in a voluminous book. With much humour and irony, he makes us observe public space in a …
BotoxCloud, a 3-Dimensional Jigsaw Puzzle
SAQ has developed a reactive modular lighting system which propagates like cloud structures mimicking the complexity of weather patterns. This project is an extension of the exploration of architectural pluralism SAQ first began in their Bikini Berlin project, which began construction in January 2011. SAQ as a studio is involved in a long-standing search to …
Urban Traps for Subcultures
Urban Traps is a project where Jeff Greenspan and Hunter Fine lay traps for certain subcultures. The goal is to protect neighborhoods from infestation and collect different species for further study. Beware of the Hipster Traps.…
Emil Kozak Design Studio
Emil Kozak is from a small town in Denmark, and was inspired to take on graphic design with a clear and forceful typographic style as a result of his life long passion for skateboarding. Yet, there is always an unexpected surprise: obscure references, playing with words, codes and hints. ”I hope that my work can …
Sculptures Made of Bread
Yesterday I received from my neighbor Jochen Glaser an exhibition catalog of the German artist Hans Panschar. The title of the catalog is "Hard Bread" and features sculptures and installations by Hans Panschar made of bread. At first it sounds very bizarre, and at a second glance it's still bizarre. The credo of Panschar might …
Book Sculptures Expose Alternate Histories and Memories
"The richness and depth of the book is universally respected yet often undiscovered as the monopoly of the form and relevance of the information fades over time. The book’s intended function has decreased and the form remains linear in a non-linear world. In this work I begin with an existing book and seal its edges, …
One Car, Ten Artists – Volvo Art Session
10 artists (C-Line, Yummi Industries, Daim, Pius Portmann, Donovan Gregory, Blackyard, Nevercrew, Michel FR, Sukibamboo, Wes21) repeatedly painted, sprayed and remodeled at the VOLVO art session the VOLVO S60 and turned it into a creative work of art. Photographer Michel Comte documented the ephemeral works of art, he says "I was thrilled by the energy …
