August 18, 2008
Seen On The Streets Of Berlin
Artist: JAYBO
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| February 20, 2007
TXT-A-Sketch
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
Krzysztof Wodiczko
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
Basti's Site on Urban Projections
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
Collateral - The Projections of Jean-Christian Bourcart
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
We Love Projections (Even If Sometimes They're Done by Brands)
Done by Sportlife, a chewing gum brand in Holland.
(Thanks Sheldon!)
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Projections in Miami
""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
Power Station Projections in Australia
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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