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Monday, October 22, 2007
Nada Surf - an urban projection
tip o' the hat to Ben Harrison for this one... Very clever urban projection... and a tune you can sing along to.
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Sunday, March 18, 2007
the battle of the projections begins
The battle of the projections is now well underway. The entrance of spectacle into the public sphere moves onto a new plane (as it were). The UK will be a key place for this, given the appetite of marketeers for ambient advertising, and given the high profile of innovative public artists like Banksy or Gromley in defining the public art enterprise.
Beyond urban screens we have urban projections - the use of high powered mobile projectors to put guerrilla images on public facades. Advertisers have been very quick to seize upon the R & D efforts of artists, and now we're in a period where the artists and the advertisers are contending, with the public authorities of the city watching bemusedly.
See the story at Metro News UK.
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Sunday, January 07, 2007
beyond urban screens - urban projections
There's a new urban art movement out there- even less intrusive or damaging to property than stickers - "urban projections", the temporary projecting of images on buildings. It is being used more and more by institutions (see our coverage of Orange's projections in London, 2003), but now also by street or urban artists.
Just be because it is non-damaging to property doesn't mean it isn't strong or confrontational. The police in Miami harrassed artist Ivan for projecting the words "WOW! How much did this cost? Looks nice, can me and a couple hundred of my homeless friends live in it?" on the sides of fancy new developments. Or think about Jean-Christian Bourcart, who projects images of Iraqi casualties onto the sides of American houses, supermarkets and churches, in a project he calls collateral. Direct.
This is driven by, among other things, cheap computer projectors. for some how-tos, see Urban Projection.
Or of course you can track courtesy of the good folks at Wooster: Wooster Collective: Projections ArchivesLabels: urban projections
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