Tuesday
Apr102012

sticker installation by kids

Yayoi Kusama made this installation by giving kids thousands of stickers to kids and allowing them to do what they do naturally, but in an art museum.  This was on exhibit at the Queensland Art Gallery until March 12, 2012. 

Monday
Nov142011

Haircuts by 5th graders

From the Fusebox website, "Haircuts by Children is a performance about wild haircuts, power and trust. We challenge our audience and viewers to set their vanity aside, relinquish control, and trust that a 10-year-old has the creative ability, dexterity and responsibility to command a sharp pair of scissors."  This performance project is brought to you by the Canadian group Mamalian Diving Reflex, who explain the ideas and theory behind this multi-site project in the video below.

Sunday
Jul242011

Graffiti and text messaging: new literacies

In issue 6 of the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, Karla Diaz talks about relationships between graffiti and text messaging.  Both readers and writers of text and graf must have thier own particular skills and functional knowledge of the language, she says, but these languages also cross over and influence each other. 

Sunday
Jul242011

So Yoon Lym

So Yoon Lym is a Korean born New York painter who looks at hair braiding patterns and topographic photos.  She calls this body of work The Dreamtime.  If you look at closeups of her work, you can see she has painted it one hair at a time.

Wednesday
Mar022011

Megumi Naitoh

Megumi Naitoh did a series of iPhone portraits that I saw at NCECA.  Small ones were made of clay and plaster, and these larger ones are ceramic tiles.  This combination of hi and lo tech makes me excited to make clay and wood surviellance cameras for spring.  It also opens up the possibilities for the italian glass tiles I am itching to use.  Anonymity seems so super special now that facial recognition software is built-in to most cameras and image hosting sites.