Artist Benjamin Anderson’s ‘Just Add Water’ paintings.
Reblogged from TEAiM.
I think this is a good example of creative co-branding, however, is it too forced and obvious? In other words, what’s there for the people at these events besides free product and art? Is it missing fluidity? Is it borderline sophomoric? Talk among yourselves.
Dazed and Tiger are gearing up for their Chinese New Year’s event in London’s Chinatown
“Chinese New Year in London’s Chinatown next Thursday with Dazed’s series of specially curated film, art, music and photography events. These represents three of the Tiger Lucky 8 events with an additional five events taking place all around the UK. Representing the elements of the Chinese zodiac; Earth, Wood, Metal, Water and Fire, the events have been curated by Josef Valentino, the brains behind the Worthless pop-up exhibition. ‘When Tiger Beer invited me to curate ‘The Tiger Lucky 8’ I was adamant to work with a collection of talent who would revolutionize the way people interacted with Chinese New Year. The end result is a series of diverse and engaging exhibitions that respond intuitively towards the five elements of the Zodiac, whilst also demonstrating a rich breed of talent from across the UK,’ explains Valentino.”
new band: The Finches
French artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot creates works by drawing on the rhythms of daily life to produce sound in unexpected ways.
For his installation in The Curve, Boursier-Mougenot creates a walk-though aviary for a flock of zebra finches, furnished with electric guitars and other musical instruments. As the birds go about their routine activities, perching on or feeding from the various pieces of equipment, they create a captivating, live soundscape.
(via Boing Boing)
The Wannabe Warhol
Plain weird, but interesting. Read more about Damon Dash’s “hippie art collective” aka “DD172”
“You can spend hours at 172 Duane Street, in Tribeca, and still have no clue what’s going on here…DD is for Damon Dash, the 38–year–old fallen hip-hop impresario who thought it would be cool to start a hippie art collective right smack in the middle of one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in Manhattan. It is, in short, the kind of scene you hoped still existed in Manhattan, but feared might have gone away.”
(via The New York Observer)
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MOCA says Jeffrey Deitch is its new director
and one more reason why LA is the new NY!
(via Flavorpill)
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Kaws and Kiehl’s collaborate to support and foster artistic expression. I like.
100% of net profits for Kiehl’s Limited Edition Creme de Corps Holiday Collection will support RxArt, a non-profit national organization, committed to fostering artistic expression and awareness through the challenging, yet rewarding task of engaging young patients through contemporary art in pediatric hospitals.
About KAWS
Brian Donnelly, professionally known as KAWS, began his artistic career as a graffiti artist in the early 1990s, and since then has built an identity that had its genesis in guerilla imagery added to billboards and bus shelters. Through his company OriginalFake, he has released limited edition works. In addition to Kiehl’s, he has collaborated on design projects with Commes Des Garcons, Marc Jacobs, and A Bathing Ape. Recently he has worked with Kanye West to create the cover art for 808s & Heartbreak which appeared on a Times Square billboard. In 2009, his art was selected for the cover of the annual “Best of New York” issue of New York Magazine. Born 1974 in New Jersey, KAWS graduated with a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York. He is currently working on his first solo museum show at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, opening June 2010. A book titled KAWS, a survey of his work, will be published by Rizzoli in June 2010.
About RxART
RxArt, a non-profit organization, is committed to fostering artistic expression and awareness through the challenging yet rewarding task of engaging young patients through contemporary art in pediatric hospitals. By curating installations in hospital settings, RxArt provides a humanistic and creative surrounding that helps to relieve stress and anxiety, while increasing appreciation for contemporary art. Kiehl’s Since 1851 has been supporting RxART since 2002. For more information on RxART visit www.rxart.net.
(photo by moi)
Harakiri School Girls, a painting by Makoto Aida.
Aida received his MFA in 1991 from Tokyo National University and lives and works in Tokyo. He is represented by Mizuma Art Gallery in Tokyo and has had solo shows at London’s IBID Projects and at Lisa Dent Gallery in San Francisco. His group shows include The American Effect: Global Perspectives on the United States, 1990-2003 at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the XXV Biennale de São Paulo. His work is in the collections of the Tokyo Museum of Art and the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art.
Aida’s videos, installations, paintings, and manga books treat terrorism and pedophilia as artistic fodder. Though Aida tackles his subjects with conscious irony, the results can still be offensive. One example is Imagine, a painting that puts the viewer in a pilot’s seat headed straight for an abstract target — the World Trade Center. The video I-DE-A, from the same 2005 show at Lisa Dent, is a shot of Aida’s naked back; while looking at pink Japanese characters spelling out “beautiful little girl,” the artist pleasures himself for 50 minutes.
Harakiri School Girls is representative of Aida’s work on young females, many of which are amputees. He contorts young, stifled bodies as if they were delectable treats ready for consumption (Edible Artificial Girls, Mi-Mi Chan is the most obvious example). In other illustrations, the women have stubs for hands and legs and sport nothing except dog collars. The artist’s work makes its viewers see society’s cruel misogyny — it comes as no surprise that Aida was a frequent political activist in college. (LM)
Makoto Aida
Harakiri School Girls, 2006
(via my sister’s wall)
The Eyewriter
Behold the latest ocular assault weapon from the Graffiti Research Lab, openFrameworks, The Fat Lab and The Ebeling Group: The EyeWriter. It is a low-cost eye-tracking apparatus + custom software that allows graffiti writers and artists with paralysis resulting from Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis to draw using only their eyes.
The goal of the hardware component of the EyeWriter project is to make the most simple and inexpensive eye-tracking head-set possible to use with the “EyeWriter” software suite. Obviously, there are numerous ways to make eye-tracking hardware. Many of these designs, especially those produced for academic research projects (Open Eyes ), have already been published openly on the internet.
Our functional design specifications are as follows:
1. The EyeWriter should be as inexpensive as possible
2. The fabrication and assembly of the system should require only common hand tools
3. Whenever possible components and parts should be available for purchase locally versus online
4. The camera should produce 640 x 480 NTSC video
5. The camera should be sensitive to near-field IR light
6. The camera should not auto-iris (or auto-iris should be disabled in the camera’s driver).
7. IR LEDs should be used to illuminate the pupil
Beyond that its up to you… this instruction set details a solderless variation of the EyeWriter that uses a hacked PS3 Eye and a pair of stunnas we bought on Venice Beach and suggests other possible EyeWriter configurations.
(via Make Zine and Anne Montone)
Great new low-fi video concept and a great example of participatory media.
(via BBH Labs)
Reblogged from mr. matt spangler.
Anna the Red makes brilliant character bento, often with a nod toward anime and video games. Her Kyaraben transforms the traditional Japanese lunch box into a work of art. Recently, someone from Google took notice of Anna’s bento prowess and invited her to help promote Google Chrome by making the logo out of food. She began with a sketch, and ended up with the Google Chrome logo realized in boiled broccoli, fried red peppers and scrambled eggs. If you’ve ever wanted to see the dilligent work that goes into this niche art form, check out the fast-paced video. Delicious.
(via Josh Spear, Trendspotting)
