Posts tagged art
Self-Portrait Machine - we make money not art
Jen Hui Liao’s Self-Portrait Machine is a device that takes a picture of the sitter and draws it but with the model’s help. The wrists of the individual are tied to the machine and it is his or her hands that are guided to draw the lines that will eventually form the portrait.
Encastrable is a series of guerrilla art residencies held inside gardening and DIY megastores in the Paris area. The project was initiated by Paul Souviron and Antoine Lejolivet. (via Encastrable, guerrilla art residencies inside DIY megastores)
Schönbrunn Zoo in Vienna is host to a fascinating series of temporary art installations by Christoph Steinbrener and Rainer Dempf. In one animal enclosure, the German duo have half-submerged a car in a watering hole used by the resident rhinos. (via Pruned: A Zoo in Vienna)
A 125 foot hallway - English in one direction / Japanese in the other.
From the Yokohama Triennale 2008. MIRANDA JULY
“”Art magazines and art blogs are the journalistic equivalent of studio art, while an art review in a newspaper is like public art.
For an art critic, the death of newspapers is the death of potential connection to wider worlds. Everyone who reads this blog has a preexisting condition, otherwise known as an interest in art.
“ If people say they don’t like my work, I feel like a failure”
