This news is a bit old, but on July 4th 80 artists participated in the Art Intvention known as “In Plain Site.” Several Spanish as “Nosotras te vemos,” “modeerf,” and “todo por uno sueno” were written in the sky over 80 different sites including detention centers, immigration courts, and former Read more…
Since we have been doing so much coding with Processing, I decided to look other ways code is incorporated into art. In my search I found the blog post “Code == Art.” The post talks about code poetry and using sorting algorithms as art as well as using code to Read more…
As I was doing research for my artist presentation, I stumbled upon a lot of articles related to Afrofuturism. For those who don’t know, Afrofuturism is a cultural aesthetic and movement that aims to reimagine both the past and the future for the African Diaspora. This article explains how Afrofuturism Read more…
As I was looking up ideas for the Tiny Monument project, I found this sculpture that uses origami folding to imitate a flock of birds. The sculpture is full of 400 “birds” hang from the ceiling and move together in a coordinated pattern. Together they imitate a flock of birds Read more…
This week, we read we read about intervention art or art that is in conversation with its location and the public. After watching the video “Chalk,” I was immediatley reminded of the Reddit’s 2017 April Fools activity. For 72 hours, Reddit had a 1000 by 1000 pixel image up on Read more…
Since our Poster Activation project involves the exploration and manipulation of typography, I decided to look into designers working with typography and found some cool artists. One designer named Jenna Myung did a lot of interesting and creative work for the organization Food Not Bombs. Her work can be found Read more…
In a lot of article presentations, we talk about the intersection of art and politics, and the specific conflicts black artists struggle with in trying to speak about their racial identities was especially prevalent in our most recent presentation. I found an article an interesting article that discusses a related Read more…
Ray Wong is an designer who often posts his art to instagram. All of his pictures make really interesting use of typography and color, often letting the words become the art instead of just interacting with other images. https://www.instagram.com/designedbyray/?hl=en
As I was thinking about how to use color in our Invisible Cities I found painting by Joan Snyder called “Weeping Cherry Tree & Thee.” In the picture, she used paint drips to convey the idea of blooming cherry tree and blocks to create a landscape behind it. A lot Read more…
I found this article about how 3D artists are using CGI to create photo-realistic yet fantastical and impossible spaces. While the pieces are beautiful on their own, we could also potentially use them as inspiration for some of our future assignments since, like us, the artists are taking real world Read more…