Delete! Delettering the Public Space was a huge public installation
that took place on Neubaugasse in Viennain June 2006. During this two-week period, all signage have been covered by yellow
foils and plastic. All signage (barring those needed for safety),
company logos, advertising, symbols and pictograms were obscured in
order to focus on various aspects to this art project organized by
Christoph Steinbrener and Rainer Dempf.
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Graffiti Research Lab and friends hacked together a high powered projector with some computer components and a camera to track the writings of a 60mW Green Laser on the side of a building in Rotterdam and project it as blue graffiti. See the video.
Dedicated to the increase and diffusion of information about how the nation's lands are apportioned, utilized, and perceived.
The Center for Land Use Interpretation is a research organization interested in understanding the nature and extent of human interaction with the earth's surface. The Center embraces a multidisciplinary approach to fulfilling the stated mission, employing conventional research and information processing methodology as well as nontraditional interpretive tools.
The organization was founded in 1994, and since that time it has produced over 30 exhibits on land use themes and regions, for public institutions all over the United States, as well as overseas. Public tours have been conducted in several states, and over ten books have been published by the CLUI. CLUI Archive photographs illustrate journals, popular magazines, and books by other publishers, and have been used in non-CLUI exhibitions, and acquired by art collectors.
The CLUI exists to stimulate discussion, thought, and general interest in the contemporary landscape. Neither an environmental group nor an industry affiliated organization, the work of the Center integrates the many approaches to land use - the many perspectives of the landscape - into a single vision that illustrates the common ground in "land use" debates. At the very least, the Center attempts to emphasize the multiplicity of points of view regarding the utilization of terrestrial and geographic resources.
Conteners is a nomadic art center organised around merchandise containers, the 6mx2,5mx3m giant Lego blocks that one encounters along all the roads and in all the ports of the world..
Each year, the Conteners team selects at least 3 international ports and invites artists (from all artistic disciplines) in each city to take hold of a container in order to create a work of art in it.
From one to three months , artist and container are residents in a specific territory. The container, an empty and sensitive object, functions in the same way as a sponge, absorbing and compiling the elements that are an essential part of the local and popular memory and of the work in progress. The artist seizes all these elements in order to inhabit the container that will be used as a canvas, a mini concert hall, a performance theatre, a projection space, the basis of an installation...
After having been on display in the town they were originally created in, all those artistic units travel via road, rail or sea to successively compose an itinerant art centre, a great funfair of mobile art in each of the three container cities.
Through its mobility, this convoy of the arts reaching out to its audience in obsolete industrial areas and ports on the fringe of city centres redefines the relationships between society, its artists and their works...The]] www.conteners.org web site is a kind of “black box” for the project, and gives information in real time on the genesis, the progress and the situation of the container artworks, each of which are provided with a georeferenced chip card.
At the crossroads of art, science and industry, Conteners forms a network of energies, ideas and works to reinvent creativity in a world dominated by trade. At once a tool for creation and a collective work of art, a nomadic museum and an ephemeral installation, this mobile silo and symbol of standardisation aims at becoming the vehicle of the container generation dreams and utopias.
Containers are symbols of globalisation and of a growing uniformity in exchanges, but they can sometimes make up alternative, humanistic and sometimes tragic spaces : drug smuggling devices, hideouts for illegal immigrants, anti sniper walls, emergency housing during great natural disasters...As containers embody at once mobility and isolation, restriction and openness, gravity and antigravity, they offer artists a space for the imagination, an opportunity to redefine the artistic process, from the moment the work is created till the moment it encounters its audience at the four corners of the world.
© Tony West
On 8th March 2005, Steve Messam and six gallant volunteer artists floated seven large red inflatable balls, ranging from 6ft to over 12ft diameter on the tranquil waters of Grasmere, Cumbria. The half-mile long installation remained on the lake for 4 days before a change in wind direction and overnight gales forced the removal of the temporary piece.
The other idea of the installation is to challenge people's ideas of things in the Lake District landscape and to raise awareness of the inovative arts scene in the Lakes.
The piece was supported by the Cumbria Tourist Board, the National Trust, the Lake District National Park Authority and South Lakes District Council.
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