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.
CV Dazzle is a series of looks that prevents current facial recognition software from identifying the wearer’s face. In an age where Facebook uses your family album as machine learning data sets, this provides a sense of privacy and security against automated eyes. Read More
A knit sculpture that prevents others from viewing your work on your computer, this piece provides “privacy, warmth and concentration in public spaces”. Read More
“L.A.S.E.R. Tag” combines a beefy projector and a high-powered laser to create gigantic and ephemeral tags. Used to aid Tibetan protesters in 2008, L.A.S.E.R. tag provides a large-scale platform for people to voice their opinions. Read More