“From December 2010 to January 2011, Brooklyn-based artist David Horvitz drove up the West Coast from Mexico to Oregon, stopping to take pictures of himself staring off into various vistas as a part of his latest project, Public Access. Horvitz took each of his images — a collection of pensively photobombed beaches, bridges, lighthouses, and creeks — and uploaded them to their proper Wikipedia pages, adding to and sometimes replacing the images already there.”
(P.S. Horvitz may be Brooklyn-based, but he’s South Bay-raised. His website is here.)
Is Banksy in town, doing some unique publicity stunts for his Oscar-nominated documentary, “Exit Through the Gift Shop”?
Street-art buffs and bloggers have been abuzz this week with sightings of new paintings that appear to be the work of the mysterious British graffiti master.
There’s the one in Westwood that’s been dubbed “Crayola Shooter,” on the back of an Urban Outfitters in the UCLA neighborhood. Then there’s one known as “The Charlie Brown Firestarter,” spotted on Sunset Boulevard, that features the Charles M. Schulz-created character with a cigarette in his mouth and a can of gasoline in his hand. Soon after the “Firestarter” went up on the side of a fire-damaged building, someone cut it off the side of the structure.
A third piece, depicting a girl with a sledgehammer, has also been an object of speculation.
Banksy’s website (www.banksy.co.uk/) offers some clues.
For the full story, visit L.A.Times
In case you missed this. Great Wired story about tech-meets-high-art genius.
reblogged via laughingsquid:
Trying to scramble to find last minute gifts? (We are, too!). Not to worry. Brain Pickings and Society 6 have partnered to bring you some great, new art from independent artists.
Some of that fantastic art appears on iPhone cases. We are partial to these floating elephants.
Credit: Brainpickings.org
Ballet + The Phone Booth.
We’ve been posting a lot lately about the convergence of mobile with the art world. Artists (and even those who want to be artists) trying their hand at creating new types of art on the mobile platform.
Here’s more evidence that this will be a growing field. Ambient Design Ltd. sponsored the first MobileArtCon at NYU over this past weekend. From the San Francisco Chronicle:
Organized by the iAMDA (International Association of Mobile Digital Artists), the conference is bringing visual artists, designers, musicians and app developers together from around the world to discuss art and music created on handheld touchscreen devices (iPhones/iPads, etc.) from a creative, technical and historical perspective. The event features artist presentations, app demonstrations, and forums by app developers.
“It is a delight to see Artrage on the iPad. I come from a more traditional media background, so this app suits my creative process perfectly. This app takes fingerpainting to the next level, you wouldn’t imagine real paint emulation like this to be possible on the iPad. That is why we are so excited to have Ambient Design support MobileArtCon!” said Mia Robinson, Co-Founder iAMDA.
Would you like to see more of these events? Have you tried to create visual art on your iPhone, iPad, BlackBerry, Android, or other device?
Earlier today we wrote about a surrealist artist, mobile phone photography, and now we’ve started a mobile gallery of photos that our readers have sent us. (We’ll keep posting your phone art, as it keeps rolling in).
As an important aside, two things. One, if you were going to see an exhibition of iPhone art, (yes, people are really trying to create art with their phones), this would be the exhibition to see: iPhone Art Show: Pixels at an Exhibition
Two, as some deep background on the Hipstamatic phenomenon and where Impressionism and photography meet, check out this piece in the Atlantic. A thoughtful piece on history and where tech and art meet: “Hipstamatic and the Time When Photographs Looked Like Paintings”
