Post Guernica now!

Art has power. Here is how much:John T. Unger, an artist and longtime commenter on Collision Detection, recently announced an intriguing art project called "American Guernica: A Call for Guerilla Public Art". He's calling upon artists nationwide to post replicas of Guernica,...

Spiral Jetty up close

If you look from a distance,From Rozel Point, the Jetty is just a doodle on the landscape. It is art as ornament, Smithson-made bling-bling for Mother Nature.(- Tyler Green)But if you come up close,You also begin to see that the entropy at work here at Spiral Jetty is not...

Figure, out

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Art-of-Focus

Michael Takeo Madruger's net art works on Turbulence are calm, seemingly monotonous. They fear focus as dates fear the morning - it takes away the clarity of feel. Some of them are quite political, others personal, all of them seem to play with our ability to see - or rather,...

Another Polish controversial art scandal

I have never seen the Polish performance group Suka Off live. Which means I am not a very comptent person when it comes to judging their shows.But several influential people in Poland recently decided that it really doesn't matter. If you know the story, or have seen a...

Portrait (feeling of the day)

Decomposition, Tomasz Żołnierek (2005?)

Technorati: photography, art, contemporary art, vvoi

Bad gender art?

I've been thinking about my last post. What do I actually think of this feminist art revival? The question is: can we judge it as good or bad art? Why does it appear to be an ethical and not aesthetic choice? I mean, say I appreciate this type of art. Could I still consider one of these works bad art?...

Sex, Art, Feminism and national culture

The Gallery of Polish 20th-Century Art at the Krakow National Museum just reopened (Polish link) with a brand new look. (Unfortunately, this doesn't apply to the Museum's website, which still seems like an archaeological exhibit rather than an important European venue...

Wodiczko in Warsaw

We have to see the relationship between what is being said and how it’s being transmitted. For people to open up and come closer to those who are conveying difficult truths, it may be easier through a spectacular project. So there is a function of the spectacular here,...

Joints: The meeting of bodies

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Art + Landscape = Artscape

Here is a project I participated in a short while ago:The Logical Picture of the Facts is the Thought, group project (by artLAB) (2005) The inhabitants of the city of Penafiel, Portugal, were temporarily deprived of their most beautiful landscape. The entire Lovers’...

Little fish jumpin'

Vvoi, Urban Fish (2004)

Technorati: photography, installation, art installation, art, contemporary art, vvoi

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Playing with Picasso

Rodney Graham, untitled (2005). From the exhibition Picasso, My Master at the Johnen Galerie in Berlin. The exhibition will be moving to the Warsaw (Poland) Raster Gallery as part of a project of exchanging the physical spaces of the two galleries.As you can read in the...

Amusing

18.12.04, 1 mbot, china ink on paper, 115 x 130 cm Symbiotic Art Manifesto[Making the Artists that make the Art]1) Machines can make art2) Man and machines can make symbiotic art3) Symbiotic art is a new paradigm that opens an entire unexploited field in art4) Object...

Art as Self-Promotion

I purchased 24 30-second commercial spots on two New York television channels, Channel 4 and Channel 9, and 21 spots on three Los Angeles channels, Channel 5, Channel 11 and Channel 13. My «ad»consisted of a series of names: «Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Rembrandt,...

ExperimentaDesign (2)

Below is the second part of the review of ExperimentaDesign. Engage (commissioned/created by Erik Adigard, a designer working with such companies as Apple, Microsoft and Sony, also engaged in new media art projects) shows some possibilities of a politically and socially...