tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-134109732024-09-14T18:45:07.809+10:00黑 鳥 Musings on contemporary art issues. Graffiti, street culture, urban painting, new media art, Second Life, blogging, internet resources, music, film, video & anything else that comes up. London Edition.blakkbyrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07423688484166623548noreply@blogger.comBlogger1747125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13410973.post-37959775002487223542013-09-02T18:45:00.001+10:002013-09-02T18:45:41.905+10:00

The thing that is interesting about Fairey is the mechanism of his career's success. How he integrates his commercial and personal art practice, his influences and his history are the topics of this talk at the Art Center. In the following question and answer session he also comments on his actions in the Hope case.  From March 2012. "Should art be profitable? Shepard Fairey says yes. The

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Memorabilia 66 Norlington Road, Leyton, London E10 6LA 6th July - 15th July 2013 Curated by Carne Griffiths http://www.carnegriffiths.com/ "What? … Memorabilia – is an exhibition of artwork and found objects inspired by childhood memories. The exhibition will be curated by Carne Griffiths who organised the 100sqft exhibition in 2009, which travelled from London to New Orleans and featured

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  'STAR WALLS' 16th May - 9th June The Stone Space, E111HG London, United Kingdom An exhibition of artwork inspired by the ‘Star Wars’ universe, in honour of Stuart Freeborn, the head special effects make-up artist of Star Wars, who was born in Leytonstone. Artists taking part in the exhibition include Elliott Ashton, Sarah Carpenter, Cristabel Christo, Jeff Cox, Rupert Greyling

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'It's All Fun & Games Until Someone Gets Hurt' By The London Police Stolen Space The Old Trueman Brewery Brick Lane London 10.05.13 - 26.05.13 They're comin' home, They're comin' home, They're comin', TLP is comin' home! And so it's back to East London again for UK exports: 'The London Police,' for their first solo art show in England since 2009. This time around, the Amsterdam based

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CARTRAIN: This Way Up Press Launch Thursday 16th May Open 17th May - 30th May GRAFFIK GALLERY 284 Portobello Road, LONDON W10 5TE Notorious offender of all things art Cartrain returns with a provocative solo show THIS WAY UP. At age 20, Cartrain has been painting his iconic street art on the streets of London since he was 14. His artwork is collected by everyone from the rich &

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My Idea of Fun opens on April 26th at Stolen Space Gallery, The Old Truman Brewery  91 Brick Ln, London E1 6QL article http://i-donline.com/2013/04/my-idea-of-fun/ Interview http://www.hungertv.com/feature/get-to-know-david-shillinglaw/ VIEW CATALOGUE / PRICE LIST Closing Day "SUNDAY IS FUNDAY. To celebrate the end of My Idea Of Fun I will be at Stolen Space Gallery

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CAN? at CULTIVATE: A STREET ART FLAVOURED FIRST THURSDAY THREE WEEK GROUP SHOW…  CAN? An exercise in transplanting the art of the street, and the strands of street art’s associated culture, in to the gallery environment, especially the slightly alien Vyner Street environment, our not so alien, rather uniquely positioned, corner space and our ever open street-level front door.

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The Aviary Subject Index - May 2011 Blakkbyrd Cultivate London Blakkbyrd & MoMA Modern Art Artists/Exhibitions Sylvie Tillmann - London Pictoplasma - NY Abner Preis - Superheroes Sacha-Goldberger New Media   You Blew it Up - London People Staring at Computers Secret History of Social Networking Protest and media - de balie Pick n Play - Stockholm Oddstream Festival - Nijmegen

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(̶n̶̶o̶) love (̶l̶̶o̶̶s̶̶t̶) The Wayward Gallery, London proudly presents the second solo exhibition of German artist Sylvie Tillmann. Photos from the opening night can be found on facebook here Tillmann’s work can be considered as a series of studies, which inspire various contemplations. Akin to the processual character of scientific study, the processual character of art itself is

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Contentious 17 - 20 Parr Street, London, N1 7ET 15th - 17th March 2013 Curators: Robert Ford, Blair Zaye, Lyn Blackburn and Tracy Allen "The first one in the series, CONTENTIOUS ONE will be an eclectic mix of London based painters, printmakers, photographers, performance artists & makers. London has proven itself to be one of the hubs of the art world. This series of shows aims to build

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DIA DE LOS MUERTOS Cultivate Gallery in Vyner Street, London  1st November to 4th November Curated by Sean Worrell "We’re not trying to recreate an accurate authentic reconstruction of a Mexican Day of the Dead celebration, we’re just celebrating the celebration in our on cross-pollinating way." Gallery Exhibition Page: http://www.cultivatevynerstreet.com/ShowDiaDeLosMuertos.html

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"In the graffiti underground, Piece Books—or sketch books—have been a secret weapon for the mysterious artists who pioneered the culture back in 1970s New York. Reebok explores this history through the eyes of graffiti legends like Cope 2, Erni "Paze" Vales, West, SP.One, Wane COD, Rime MSK, Chino BYI, Ewok 5MH, PEZ, How and Nosm. "When Rembrandt went bankrupt in the C17th,

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In July-August 2011, five street artists were invited to NHH Norwegian School of Economics to give their comments on capitalism directly on the schools huge white walls. The project was a collaboration with the Nuart Festival, and what Escif, M-City, EINE, DOLK and Hyuro came up with can be seen from this video. For more information, visit CAPITALISM.NO "From Ad busting critiques to

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" "People Staring at Computers by Kyle McDonald “People Staring at Computers” is a photographic intervention. I wrote a simple application that took one picture every minute. If it found a face, it uploaded the photo to my server. I installed the app around NYC over three days, collecting more than a thousand photos. Before sharing the photos online, I decided to exhibit them in the same

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Pictoplasma NYC CONFERENCE: 4 + 5 NOVEMBER 2011 PARSONS THE NEW SCHOOL FOR DESIGN TISHMAN AUDITORIUM 66 WEST 12TH STREET, NEW YORK EXHIBITIONS: 3 - 6 NOVEMBER 2011 The PICTOPLASMA NYC FESTIVAL once more stages ... a ... celebration of contemporary character culture, with a dense, extended weekend program of inspiring artist presentations, conference lectures, animation festival,

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Inside Outside: Art on both sides of the law Follow artists from 4 cities on 3 continents who blur the lines between legal and illegal art. http://www.babelgum.com/insideoutside

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The futuristic 1963 series "Space Patrol" ("Planet Patrol" in the US) was an extraordinary, but not widely distributed, puppet show set in the year 2100. For further investigation, the ultimate Space Patrol resource is undoubtedly: http://homepages.tesco.net/~space.patrol/SpacePatrol/Home.htm . ========== +++++++++++++++++++

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As any 5-year-old is all too happy to point out, most things look like other things. The ongoing slapfight over patent infringements that’s defining the mobile technology market these days is largely based on everyone’s little black-or-white rectangle looking identical to everyone else’s. No company appears more intent on blocking everyone else from selling tiny black rectangles than Apple

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In this three-part series the BBC's technology correspondent Rory Cellan Jones traces the hidden story of social networking, from the early days of computing and the 60s counterculture through to the businesses worth billions today. http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/shsn

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 Social protest has become almost inseparably linked to a plethora of media images and messages distributed via internet, mobile phones, social media, internet video platforms and of course traditional media outlets such as newspapers, radio and television. A popular category to have emerged recently is the 'twitter-revolution'. In almost all cases (Iran, Tunisia, Egypt, London) the

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Abner Preis Kickstarter from Harlan Levey Projects on Vimeo. I picked Abner Preis as an upcoming talent to watch back in 2007, and his name keeps cropping up throughout Amsterdam events blogged here on Blakkbyrd. Abner on Blakkbyrd Now he's off to the States with his Superhero Project. ======================= “Trained as a painter, Abner Preis has been making waves over the past several

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sacha goldberger website sacha goldberger book pictures sacha golberger @ facebook via viciouss vé source http://jeffblind.blogspot.com/

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7u0ij9D5S4Y In a new approach to mobile coupon distribution, McDonalds is inviting consumers in Sweden to earn free food by interacting with a giant digital billboard using their mobile devices, in a campaign called "Pick n' Play." Mobile phone owners passing a digital out of home sign in Stockholm are encouraged to partake in a giant game of pong, which they

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I recently set up a Blakkbyrd Twitter account and started using it to follow arts news. I trawled through several friends' following lists to quickly find the feeds that interested me including @MomaModernArt from the USA which I assumed was associated with the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Approx 2 weeks after I opened the account I received a direct message to my email account. It was

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"... death found Kais al-Hilali in more traditional revolutionary fashion this week: at night, in a hail of bullets fired by unknown assailants barely an hour after he finished his latest work."I was standing by Kais as he painted," recalled Abdullah al- Zawway, a Benghazi businessman sponsoring his art. "He was doing a large caricature of Gaddafi on a roundabout which we're renaming

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