Nicht neu, aber noch immer aktuell. Und immer wieder. Peter Kennard & Cat Picton Phillipps: “Photo op” / Blairaq.

Sterben im Billy-Regal: Preik hat eine nette Sarg-Ikea-Anleitung im Programm – “KLÄPS” – der Gag ist natürlich schon lange von der Realität/Kunstwelt eingeholt worden. US-Künstler Joe Scanlan hat bereits 2002 Do-It-Yourself-Särge aus Billy-Regalen hergestellt – und eine entsprechende Installationsanweisung gleich mitgeliefert. Mehr zu Ikea: Hier, hier und hier.

Mehr Luftballons braucht die Welt, Remmidemmi, Yippie Yippie Yeah! Via & via

Wieder mal eine Street-Art-Ausstellung in Berlin: “Das Ausstellungsprojekt und Kunstfestival Urban Affairs präsentiert auf über 900 qm, vom 5. Juli bis zum 3. August, aktuelle Positionen zeitgenössischer Urban Art und Streetart. (…) Gelegen in einer alten Industrieruine, bietet das neue Kulturzentrum in Berlin-Friedrichshain den optimalen Ort für die diesjährig größte Urban Art Ausstellung in Deutschland! Alltime-Favorites wie 6@Artist, Just, Evol, Xoooox und viele andere werden für ne geile Show sorgen!

“Aparat zur minimal-invasiven Manipulation von Fotographien”, von Julias von Bismarck. “It intervenes when a photo is being taken, without the photographer being able to detect anything. The manipulation is only visible on the photo afterwards. In principle, the Fulgurator can be used anywhere where there is another camera nearby that is being used with a flash. It operates via a kind of reactive flash projection that enables an image to be projected on an object exactly at the moment when someone else is photographing it. The intervention is unobtrusive because it takes only a few milliseconds. Every photo another photographer takes of an object at which the Fulgurator is also aimed is affected by the manipulation. Hence visual information can be smuggled unnoticed into the images of others.” Technik hier, Beispielvideo einer Intervention hier. Via Mail, Danke, Mart!

“Autonomous Public Art Workshop” ist ein subversives Seminar an der Kunsthochschule von Madrid. “The course consists of over twenty-five lectures and screenings that study a wide spectrum of the history of unsanctioned public art in depth: graffiti, postgraffiti, free muralism, urban intervention, creative activism, outsider public art.” Dozent ist Javier Abarca – unter anderem auch Sprayer, Blogger, Fotograf. Auch die neuen Ergebnisse stecken wieder voller großartiger Ideen. Note 1 – und weitermachen!

Alicia Calle, “Emergency exits”: The artist points out unobserved holes in the street fabric and signals them as supposed ways to escape the urban maze. What could be seen as a positive comment aiming to send some relief to the trapped city dweller turns into a grim farce as it becomes clear that the hole could not be used even as a place to hide out.

Lucia Yela, “Remembering”: The artists comments on the flat painted shapes that mark the former presence of a graffiti tag, an element of the city landscape that is as ubiquitous as unnoticed. The interventions can work as whispered homages to the taggers defeat, or otherwise signal the ultimately persistent presence of the tag. Indeed, it is the original act of the tagger which decides the placement and form of the final shape.

Sara Esteves, “Untitled”: As an unaffected poetic comment on her surroundings, the artists places a rainbow-colored bunch of balloons on a derelict building, creating a stark contrast that speaks about neglect, love, and the inevitable pass of time.

Adrian Canizal, “Untitled”: Through an extremely abrupt change of context, the artist plays with conceived ideas about graffiti. The violent switch of scenarios brings up issues concerning graffiti and how heavily its very nature depends on the surface it’s on.

Pablo Rubio, “Incommunications”: A series of non-signs that co-opt everyday DIY public communication techniques to convey a poetic content.

Carlos del Solar, “Shack in the center of Madrid”: A shack made out of wood, cardboard and plastic suddenly appears in the middle of a plaza in the center of Madrid. On it, one of the ubiquitous standard “for sale” signs one can find in every street in this town. A comment on the extreme housing situation that has been developing these last years, with prices doubling and quadrupling while square meters get to barely livable minimums.

Via: Inicios

UBERMORGEN.COM hat den dritten Teil seiner EKMRZ-Trilogie gestartet – nach GWEI (Google Will Eat Itself) und Amazon Noir (The Big Book Crime) kommt nun: The Sound of eBay (SoE). In Zusammenarbeit mit Stefan Nussbaumer (Soundcoding), lia (Visualcoding), Grischinka Teufl (Theorycoding), Erich Kachel (Scriptcoding) und net culture lab verwandelt “SoE” die eBay-Daten wie Passwörter oder gekaufte Produkte in elektronische Musik. So erhält jeder eBay-User einen persönlichen Song. Theorie hier, und scharfe Teletext-Porn-Bilder “Teletext Babez” von Lizvlx gibt´s hier.

Wunderbare Interventionen, Skulpturen und Performances im öffentlichen Raum: Harmen de Hoop. Via

Auch ein Hobby: Dirty Car Art! Via

Neue Meisterwerke von Blu gibt´s hier. Und: Das erste Blu-Buch mit gesammelten Werken. Via