November 12, 2009
(Photos by Philipp Haas)
Armsrock's latest work, done during the the Glow- Forum of Light in Art and Architecture, in capture citizens of Eindhoven engraved with an etching needle on a series of 18 x 18 cm photo-slides, The slides developed in black and projected with Pani projectors through out the city of Eindhoven.
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October 1, 2009
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September 3, 2009
Sniff from karolina sobecka on Vimeo.
SNIFF is an interactive public projection project by Karolina Sobecka with software design by Jim George. The dog follows the person, reacts to taming and sudden gestures.
Sniff will be hosted by Not An Alternative at their The Change You Want To See gallery space during Conflux Festival.
Stop by September 17-20th after dark and play with the puppy! 84 Havenmeyer Street, Storefront, Brooklyn, NY 1121
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August 25, 2009
Photo by Dani Bevervanso
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August 21, 2009
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February 13, 2009
Photo by Moenen Erbuer
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January 10, 2009
"Concerned with questions of memory, place, and identity, Shimon Attie gives visual form to both personal and collective memories by introducing histories of marginalized and forgotten communities into the physical landscape of the present. The Writing on the Wall project (1991-1993) took place in Berlin’s former Jewish quarter, the Scheunenviertel neighborhood. There Attie projected slides made from pre-Holocaust photographs of the neighborhood’s Jewish residents and shops in the same (or sometimes nearby) locations where the original images were taken. He then photographed the resulting scene. A woman from the past looks out the window of a building now scrawled with graffiti. A pigeon shop with cages stacked on the sidewalk is restored to an otherwise empty street. The life and industry suggested in the projections of the past strike an unexpected counterpoint to the crumbling facades and apparently abandoned places of the present.
Using modern Rome as his backdrop, in The History of Another (2001-2002), Attie projected fragments of historical photographs of Roman Jews onto the city’s ruins and excavation sites. The resulting pictures conflate three distinct historical moments, that of ancient Rome, Roman Jews at the turn of the century, and modern Rome with its new construction and continual efforts to conserve relics of the past. By projecting historical photographs onto ruins and also including in his frame elements of contemporary Rome, Attie creates an environment in which time becomes visible and compressed rather than invisible and expanding, like our normal perception of time. Dividing our attention carefully between three moments in the human history of this place, he implies that history might not have anything to do with time, but might be better thought of as a continuous, repetitious loop that contains both stone ruins and, less tangible, human presence.
Born in Los Angeles in 1957, Shimon Attie lived in Europe for seven years before moving to New York in the fall of 1997. He has exhibited widely in both the United States and Europe, including shows at the Institute of Contemporary Art, London; the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. His work is held in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Berlinische Galerie, Berlin; and the Jewish Museum, New York."
Photos and text nicked from the website of the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago.
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August 18, 2008
Artist: JAYBO
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February 20, 2007
Paul Notzold, working with Federico Hatoum, have been working on a community drawing tool that allows you to use SMS to draw on buildings. The piece will debut in the Streets of Rome, Italy from March 1 - 3. TXTual Healing and TXT-A-Sketch will both be on view as part of the Urban Portraits show at rialtosantambrosio
You can see video and photos here.
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January 23, 2007
After posting a piece yesterday on the site about John Fekner and Don Leicht and respecting older artists who paved the way, Benn Young shot us an email encouraging us to look into the work of Krzysztof Wodiczko. If you've been following the site for the last few months then you know that we've become mildly obsessed with guerilla projections. We agree with Benn that to explore this area without highlighting the work of Krzysztof Wodiczko would be a huge mistake.
The image above comes from the CECUT Project which was done in 2001 by Krzysztof Wodiczko, Adam Whiton, Sung Ho Kim.
"The purpose was to use progressive technology to give voice and visibility to the women who work in the "maquiladora" industry in Tijuana. We designed a headset that integrated a camera and a microphone allowing the wearer to move while keeping the transmitted image in focus. The headset was connected to two projectors and loudspeakers that transmitted the testimonies live. The women's testimonies focused on a variety of issues including work related abuse, sexual abuse, family disintegration, alcoholism, and domestic violence. These problems were shared live by the participants, in a public plaza on two consecutive nights, for an audience of more than 1,500. projections on the 60-foot diameter facade of the Omnimax Theater at the Centro Cultural Tijuana(CECUT)
The headset was connected to two projectors and loudspeakers that transmitted the testimonies live. The women's testimonies focused on a variety of issues including work related abuse, sexual abuse, family disintegration, alcoholism, and domestic violence."
Make sure to watch the short video here.
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January 5, 2007
As as obsession with guerrilla video projections continues, we've found another terrific resource in the website Urban-Projection.com. Started by Basti, a student of communication in Stuttgart, Germany, the site is off to a great start. Be sure to check out the blog.
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January 3, 2007
For the last year or so, Sara and I have been receiving over 300 - 400 emails a day. Every once in a while we open an email and our jaw drops. I look over at Sara and say - "Holy Shit."
This is one of those instances.
From Jimmy comes a link to the website of Jean-Christian Bourcart. The projections above, called Collateral, were done Tivoli in New York State in 2005.
Jean-Christian writes -
"I projected photographs of mutilated and dead Iraqis on American houses, supermarkets, churches, and parking lots. I was thinking of this new generation of kids who will be traumatized for life by growing up during wartime. It was a desperate gesture: my personal protest for the lack of interest for the non-american victims. I found the images on the web. Some American soldiers post their own pictures on a website. They would show a cut leg with the caption: “where's da rest of my shit?” Or a blown up head with the caption: “need a hair cut” .
I could not help thinking of those images as some kind of restless ghosts that endlessly wander in the intermediate level of the web. I took care of them like a embalmer would; downloading, revamping, printing, rephotographiing, then projecting them as if I was looking for a place where they would rest in peace and at the same time haunt those who pretend not to know what was going on. "
If you can stomach it, we highly recommend that you check out the full gallery of photographs on Jean-Christian Bourcart's website.
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December 29, 2006
Done by Sportlife, a chewing gum brand in Holland.
(Thanks Sheldon!)
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""WOW! How much did this cost? Looks nice, can me and a couple hundred of my homeless friends live in it?"
In August, Ivan, an artist/activist in Miami, began doing guerrilla projections of images on the new building developments that are appearing in and around downtown Miami.
He continued to do them until one night he and his friends were pulled over by the Miami police with their guns pointed inches from their head through the driver and passenger side windows. After two hours of being called anarchists and that what they were doing was "not art" and just "fucking around" he decided to stop doing the projections to work on other projects.
You can watch a seven minute video of some of the best scenes and phrases from the projections by clicking here.
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April 6, 2006
From Pip Shea come these photos of recent projections done on a power station cooling tower in the latrobe valley in South Eastern Australia. The tower is 90 m high and about 50 m wide. Good stuff.
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