Posts Tagged ‘art’
minimum wage machine: makes you work
April 8th, 2010 by lifeproof
Blake Fall-Conroy is a sculptor, for who it is important to make a social or political statement within his work. His new work-in-progress is titled Minimum Wage Machine, which actually makes you work for minimum wage. He introduces the machine to his readers at his website: The minimum wage machine allows anybody to work for minimum [...]
Tags: art, artistic production, Blake Fall-Conroy, Minimum Wage, minimum wage machine, NY state minimum wage, Oh Gizmo, Powerhouse, Raymond Scott, sculptor, sculpture, They Might Be Giants
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miru kim: naked in istanbul
April 6th, 2010 by lifeproof
Miru Kim, a controversial artistic photographer (illustrator and arts event coordinator) based in New York, “who has explored, documented, and photographed various urban settings such as abandoned subway stations, tunnels, the Croton aqueduct, catacombs, factories, hospitals, and shipyards.” Her Naked City Spleen is a series of photographs that include images of herself nude in above mentioned [...]
Tags: art, Berlin, Croton aqueduct, exhibition, illustrator, Istanbul, London, Miru Kim, Naked City Spleen, New York, Nisantasi, nude photography, Paris, Photography, Seoul, Soda Gallery, Soda Gallery Istanbul, Soda Istanbul
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ezgi genc: movies for your dowry
April 6th, 2010 by lifeproof
“Le petit yubbié” is a custom handmade toy workshop by Ezgi Genç and Çağrı Akyurt from İstanbul. She has an ongoing personal art exhibition at Milk Gallery since last week: Dowry Movies (Çeyizlik Filmler). For this exhibition, she interpreted some of the contemporary movies, such as Persepolis, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Amelie and others, [...]
Tags: Amelie, art, Çağrı Akyurt, Çeyizlik Filmler, Dowry Movies, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, exhibition, Ezgi Genç, Istanbul, Le petit yubbié, Milk Gallery, Persepolis
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strassenkoeter: art for the homeless
March 21st, 2010 by lifeproof
German artist duo, Strassenkoeter, has prepared a series of photo illustrations for Hinz & Kunzt, the homeless magazine in Hamburg. The magazine is Hamburg’s largest employment project for the homeless wants to give homeless people help themselves with another chance and give a perspective. Strassenkoeter attracts attention to the problems and hardships of the homeless as [...]
Tags: activism, art, artist duo, Design You Trust, german artists, Germany, Hamburg, Hinz & Kunzt, homeless, homelessness, public service, social criticism, Strassenkoeter, Strassenköter
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