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In Strange Culture, filmmaker Lynn Hershman-Leeson tackles the bizarre case of Steve Kurtz, an associate professor of art at SUNY/Buffalo and founding member of the award-winning art and theater collective Critical Art Ensemble, whose interactive projects include the examination of biotechnology and the issues surrounding it. Kurtz’s life suffered an upheaval of Kafkaesque proportions following the unexpected death of his wife, Hope, of heart failure in May 2004.
Technically, the U.S. government’s sham, extortionist case against prominent artist and activist Steve Kurtz has been over since June 11, 2008, when the Department of Justice failed to appeal the judge’s dismissal of the case against him, but the gravity of the orginal assault on creative freedom and civil rights can never be over estimated, and the toll it took on Kurtz and his colleagues is almost impossible to fathom.
Krzysztof Wodiczko, (Projection on South Africa House, Trafalgar Square, London), 1985
Krzysztof Wodiczko is one of the primary inspirations for any public projection art. This is some of what he said about his famed intervention in South Africa, which lasted a mere 2 hours – for almost 25 years now.
Art for Ransom. A project developed at the student design competition put on by the Art Directors Club of Denver.
Nina Bovasso, Botanizing on the Asphalt. Photo: Lauren Van Haaften Schick. Location: At the southern end of Hudson River Park beginning on West Street just north of Chambers Street, NYC. The Re:Construction Initiative
Karin Bravin: “I am committed to helping insure [sic] that art is experienced beyond the confines of galleries and museums. By making art available and accessible we hope we are doing positive things for culture and for the community. Ideally, I would like to see that instead of hurrying by a construction site, viewers will stop and take the time to consider their surroundings and experience something new.”
via Flavorwire
Interesting story about public art from the back of a truck, but perhaps even more interesting newspaper sketch journalist.
Sleeping where you don´t want to be? in a cheap hotel? In the ikea funished guest appartment of the theatre? On the sofa of a friends friend? raumlaborberlin has designed their own mobile dream hotel for workshops, group exhibitions, symposions and festivals.
Anyone who is going to be in New York next Thursday, should not miss Duke Riley’s epic battle on the grounds of the 1964 Worlds Fair in Queens, Those About to Die Salute You.
Matt Roberts and the Mobile Performance Group performed at the 1st 01SJ Biennial/ISEA2006 Symposium and made a great impression. Below is a clip from one of their latest roving public art projects, an interactive shopping cart. Very cool.
I’m not sure today’s NYT article, In Los Angeles, Art That’s Worth a Detour is a trend or even particularly new, but it is a nice slide show.
The 2009 Everyday Poems for City Sidewalk poetry contest is now open! Contest guidelines here.
On April 25, the Public Ad Campaign organized the New York Street Advertising Takeover. Over 80 artists whitewashed 128 illegal NYC signs and painted their own artful messages.
If you have a few minutes, click through Thomas Hawk’s, flickr set “Graffiti, Stencils and Public Murals and Art.”
“Tomason” refers to useless street objects that happen to look like conceptual art.
Experiment in Art, Design and Architecture in the Landscape
Led by Ann Hamilton and Michael Mercil
June 14-30, 2009
http://www.arch.wustl.edu/Summer_Programs
Are the iPhone and iPod Touch new spheres for public art?
It seems that we gallop through life in a haze
And don’t notice the things we race by every day
Until a time comes when a change will occur
That will cause us to notice, stop and confer
We talk to our neighbors; ask “was that always there?”
“I never saw it before”, the neighbors declare.
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