DIY residencies in DIY stores

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matin d'automne

Paul Souviron and Antoine Lejolivet's Encastrable series is guerrilla art "residencies"/interventions at Paris-area megastores--mainly Home Depot like places. The artists create amusing tableaus using the materials stocked by the store.

[via WWMNA]

15 Criteria that Define New Media Art

After much research, the Near Future Laboratory has come out with a list of the top 15 criteria that define interactive & new media art.

Here are a selected few:

15. It doesn't work

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13. Your audience looks under/behind your table/pedestal/false wall/drop ceiling or follows wires to find out "where the camera is"

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11. Your audience "interacts" by clapping/hooting/making bird calls/flapping their arms like a duck or waving their arms wildly while standing in front of a wall onto which is projected squiggly lines

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0. There are instructions on how to experience the damn thing

See the full list (plus 3 bonus criteria) at Near Future Laboratory's blog.

Windows Washing Machine

By Harm Van Den Dorpel. I do wish it would rotate faster. Van Den Dorpel says:

Sculpture made out of a 'normal' personal computer, an electrical tincan-opener, an alu-frame and two roadbricks.

The computer rotates 360 degrees around its axis. All desktop elements such as windows, buttons and scrollbars respond to the constantly changing direction of gravity: they fall to the bottom of the screen all the time.
A little stone is attached to the mouse which is also connected to the computer and functions as a balancing receptor. When the computer rotates, the mouse clicks and releases by the changes in gravity.

[via Cecil Moss on Rhizome]

Subway ventilation bag art

Taking a cue from Marilyn Monroe's famous subway grate scene in The Seven Year Itch...... Artist Joshua Allen Harris creates street art by tying plastic bag animals to subway ventilation grates.










[via Make]

Fake living statue

Living statues (where street performers pretend to be statues for tips) are hugely popular in Barcelona. A few weeks ago artist/prankster Mark Jenkins set up a real, non-kinetic sculpture that appears to be a "living sculpture."




[via BoingBoing]

Golan Levin & Andrea Boykowycz's "unfunny" finger puppets

Golan Levin has some very funny Dutch masterwork recreations on his site. Even funnier is what he has to say about trying to show them at a Dutch art show:

My partner Andrea made all of the costumes and spent a long time crouched underneath a cardboard box while I carefully positioned her fingers. It was a new experience for me when the show's curator refused to exhibit the work he had commissioned, even though it was already listed in the catalogue. The explanation he provided was that the photos "weren't funny". About a week later I received an even more puzzling request to exhibit the project in a Taiwanese digital art festival.