Felipe Castelblanco is a Columbian artist based in Pittsburgh, PA. For “We Paint Houses” project, the artist put up street advertisement-“We paint houses, and you set the price!” The people who called the number got a painting of their houses that was done by laborers, instead of painting the walls of the houses. Read more.
Fulguration means “a flash like that of lightning”, and Bismarck’s “Image Fulgurator” closely fits that description. The device operates via a “reactive flash projection”, that is, it projects an image on an object at the exact moment that a photograph is taken. In effect, it is a means of manipulating the photographs without the knowledge or consent of the photographer. Unlike conventional image manipulation, “Image Fulgurator” physically alters scenes, which makes it an attractive instrument for détournement.
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Disclaimer: Satterwhite doesn’t include much information about this project on his website. I attended a lecture he gave at Bard college, and this is from memory.
“Model It” is a performance in which Satterwhite dances in front of various storefronts to songs that his mother wrote. His performance is extraverted and swanky – a puzzling counterpoint to his mother’s incoherent, rambling music. It is an intensely personal work, emblematic of an ongoing creative dialogue between Satterwhite and his mother.
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“Time/bank” is a currency created by the founders of the e-flux journal, Julieta Aranda and Anton Vidokle. Drawing influence from existing time banks, “Time/bank” proposes time as a unit of economic exchange, by way of “Hour Notes” (one is shown above). Interestingly, 2009 also saw the introduction of the Bitcoin, the open source cryptocurrency. Since Time/bank relies on fixed measures of time, it is both straightforward and stable, in opposition to today’s opaque and volatile cryptocurrencies.
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Puzzle Facade brings the experience of solving a Rubik’s cube to the urban space. It transforms the Ars Electronica’s media facade, into a giant Rubik’s cube, inviting passers-by to engage with an interactive experience that takes place in the city of Linz (Austria).read more
“Occupy the Cloud” takes the form of three banners in front of a brutalist office building in central London. On each banner is a symbol, from left to right: the lightning bolt of the international squatters’ movement, the @ symbol (acquired by MoMA in 2010) and the Cloud symbol. The banal corporate aesthetic of the banners belies the polemical tone of the three symbols read sequentially. Taken together, they suggest that the Cloud is a prime site for political intervention. The installation is timely and ominous in the wake of the 2013 NSA revelations.
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Unsuspecting pedestrians will be tickled, stretched, flicked or removed entirely in real-time by a giant deity.read more
Anthony Discenza is an artist based in Oakland, California. Since late 1990s, he has been focusing on the the omnipresence of mainstream media. For Minna Street Sign Project, which the artist described as his”ongoing semi-guerilla street sign project”, he has been manipulating the public by using what they experience in there everyday life. Read more.
The CutUp Collective is an East-London based street art group that rips down billboard ads, cuts them into rectangular pieces and reposts them in such a way as to create an image completely different from the original. In doing so, the Collective subverts advertising (in a technique called subvertising) to call attention to the effects of consumerism and corporate image production in the city.
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Joshua Allen Harris is a street artist and a photographer based in USA. He became famous with his “The Inflatables” project. For this project he gathered plastic trash bags around New York City, shaped them in some animal forms, placed them on subway grates, and the gusts from the trains were strong enough to inflate his creatures. Read more.