Mathieu Tremblin, Tag Clouds, Nantes - unurth | street art
"This is my "Tag Clouds" project, where I translate graffiti calligraphy into Internet keywords. This time I made compositions with several names I found during a walk around a district of Nantes"
dear collector/ dealer
i am selling signed/ sealed 50 euro (x 33) euro promissory notes:
http://irational.org/heath/promissory_notes/heath_bunting_promissory_note_example.jpg
backed against the Heath Bunting Collection:
http://irational.org/cgi-bin/heath_bunting_collection/report.pl
i also have:
1 x 10 euro
3 x 20 euro
1 x 40 euro
1 x 60 euro
2 x 100 euro
1 x 150 euro
Heath Bunting collection - Report.
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Abandon Normal Devices (AND) is a regional festival, taking place across the Northwest and is a catalyst for production and experimentation at the intersection of Digital Culture and New Cinema. AND invites us to consider what are our normal devices? Why and how might we abandon them?
AND is driven by a unique collaborative partnership between three of the UK’s leading organisations in the exploration of art and digital culture;
Cornerhouse in Manchester
FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) in Liverpool
folly in Lancaster
The festival forms part of WE PLAY, the Northwest cultural legacy programme for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Just after posting the txtBOMBER I came across Chalkbot. They are so obviously connected that I thought I'd add the Chalkbot. The Chalkbot is just a really big txtBOMBER!
Chalkbot
txtBOMBER
The txtBOMBER is a one-hand-guerillia-tool - a machine not much bigger than a pressing iron - that generates political statements on the fly and immidiately prints them on any flat surface.
If you feel you are part of our modern viewless generation, the txtBOMBER is the perfect tool for you! Just switch it on, it's powered by a strong battery. And move it along a wall. It's that easy to show your?its?someones? opinion of something?someone?! Hell! You should reconsider if you are keen enough to use it!
The txtBOMBER has seven build-in pens to "print" the letters and a micro-controller-brain (Arduino), no need for a computer or any other brain.
txtBOMBER on the Behance Network
txtBOMBER
The txtBOMBER is a one-hand-guerillia-tool - a machine not much bigger than a pressing iron - that generates political statements on the fly and immidiately prints them on any flat surface.
If you feel you are part of our modern viewless generation, the txtBOMBER is the perfect tool for you! Just switch it on, it's powered by a strong battery. And move it along a wall. It's that easy to show your?its?someones? opinion of something?someone?! Hell! You should reconsider if you are keen enough to use it!
The txtBOMBER has seven build-in pens to "print" the letters and a micro-controller-brain (Arduino), no need for a computer or any other brain.
Blueprint Magazine - Architecture & Design
In a small shed on an industrial park near Pisa is a machine that can print buildings. The machine itself looks like a prototype for the automotive industry. Four columns independently support a frame with a single armature on it. Driven by CAD software installed on a dust-covered computer terminal, the armature moves just millimetres above a pile of sand, expressing a magnesium-based solution from hundreds of nozzles on its lower side. It makes four passes. The layer dries and Enrico Dini recalibrates the armature frame. The system deposits the sand and then inorganic binding ink. The exercise is repeated. The millennia-long process of laying down sedimentary rock is accelerated into a day. A building emerges. This machine could be used to construct anything. Dini wants to build a cathedral with it. Or houses on the moon.
Hand-Drawn Maps of London: Where The Streets Have No Names - Londonist
This freehand drawing of London includes every road in central London minus the labels (with two exceptions). It is the work of worldofchris, who describes his methods thus:
I photocopied the pages from the A-Z, stuck them together, pinned them to the wall and then drew it 'from life' as it were... I have a very poor visual memory, I can only really work from life.
More maps needed. We're still on the lookout for further instalments to this series. No matter what your artistic skill, we're interested in seeing your interpretation of a local area or (as in today's example) London as a whole. Send entries to tips@londonist.com.
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Hive are offering a chance to be part of their collaborative Arts and Heritage Task Force, and help save the enigmatic and awe-inspiring Maunsell Sea Forts. These structures, also known as the Redsands Forts – are towering concrete and metal structures that were built as coastal defences for the protection of London from bombing during the Second World War. Constructed on shore, then floated 6 miles out into the Thames Estuary off the coast of Whitstable these forts accommodated search-lights, intelligence-gathering, and anti-aircraft guns. 70 years later, they seek to accommodate you!
Arakawa, Artist Who Tried to Halt Aging, Dies at 73 - Biography - NYTimes.com
Arakawa, a Japanese-born conceptual artist and designer, who with his wife, Madeline Gins, explored ideas about mortality by creating buildings meant to stop aging and preclude death, died Tuesday in Manhattan. He was 73.
“This mortality thing is bad news,” Ms. Gins said by phone from her studio on Houston Street. She said she would redouble her efforts to prove that “aging can be outlawed.”
Saatchi Online - Blog On News, Views, Diaries, Photo-Journals
Michael Xuereb
'Big Plans', 2008
Repetition as a technique is used in many of Xuereb's other works. One of the strongest is 'Big Plans' (2008) a series in which building plans and maps are multiplied and layered on top of one another. Through this simple but effective approach the viewer sees the order and logic of maps as though through a prism. The plans become new constellations where the forms and patterns whose meaning we take for granted are obscured, revealing fresh viewing possibilities.
Parade Market of Ideas May 23, 2010 - Critical Practice Chelsea
Markets are good at convening and distributing resources. Based on the model of the ancient bazaar, Parade will convene a Market of Ideas in which 'stalls' staffed by artists, academics, urbanists, geographers, environmentalists, health workers, anthropologists, economists and others exchange their knowledge with the milling public.
The Market of Ideas is convened to explore the distribution of public knowledge, embody peer-2-peer exchange, and build communal resources.
462 – Gridding London « Strange Maps
American cities are gridded, and thus easily readable and navigable. Their Old World counterparts are older, messier and much more confusing. That is the conventional wisdom, and London stands as a prime example of the latter, with an organically grown, bewilderingly chaotic street layout.
Entry #417 on this blog discussed a proposal to impose an hexagonally-based order onto London’s maze of streets and squares. But does London really need to be shoehorned into an externally-imposed grid? It already has one, even if it is not neatly symmetrical.
This map, produced by Matthew Lancashire, shows central London as a relatively simple grid of main thoroughfares, connecting a few dozen central points, demarcating some of London’s better-known areas.
Please join VAMOS Architects, LGNLGN, and Junk Jet magazine for the U.S. launch of the Junk Jet n°3 flux-us! flux-you! issue. To celebrate, Junk Jet and Vamos Architects will each create a dynamic installation, Jetistics: The Analysis of Junk and I Know You.
Festivities begin at 6:30.
Drinks sponsored by Brooklyn Brewery and Original Sin Hard Cider.
JETISTICS: THE ANALYSIS OF JUNK.
THE JUNK OF ANALYSIS?
After three years of publishing the experimental magazine Junk Jet, it is time for a serious analysis of junk. Therefore, Jetistics reports revealing details and secrets of world’s most important periodical publications dealing with junk data. As evidence, the presentation tracks and compares changes over time, showing overall trends and local details, analyzing patterns and breaks of junk.
For the storefront of VAMOS Architects, Jetistics builds, in neo-neo-classicist style, a monumental micro-architecture, or an architectural micro-monument.
What you see is what you jet: junk data, statistical landscapes, golden rate graphs, bumps charts, purchase waves, classical façade, trend analysis, random walks, empirical measurements, data paths, dot-dash plots.
http://junkjet.net
I Know You
In the spirit of engagement, VAMOS Architects will create I Know You, a physical diagram of a social network. With help from residents, businesses, and visitors on the block, the project will emerge throughout the course of the day.
VAMOS Architects is a sociologically-driven design firm led by Evan Bennett and Silvia Fuster. Collaborators and clients include Macro Sea, DBI, Calvin Klein, DvF, and Chris Blackwell/Island Outpost.
http://www.vamosarchitects.com/
These events coincide with the first annual North Third Block Association’s block party, which celebrates the block’s unique mix of businesses: bookstores, design shops, boutiques, chocolatiers, restaurants and bars.
VAMOS Architects Storefront
100 N 3rd Street (Between Berry and Wythe)
Brooklyn, NY 11211
Subway: L, Bedford stop
Saturday, May 8, 2010
6:30-10:00 pm
This is a website for walkers, artists who use walking in their art, students who are discovering and studying a world of resistant and aesthetic walking, anyone who is troubled by official guides to anywhere, urbanists, geographers, site-specific performers, town planners and un-planners, urban explorers, entrepreneurs and activists who don’t want to drive to the revolution.
Cartography and Migration in Networked Space
Symposium #1 of 3
10am to 7pm, 15 May
Nottingham Contemporary
Joining forces with Nottingham Contemporary as part of their forthcoming Uneven Geographies exhibition, Tracing Mobility, the first of Radiator’s three international symposia, examines the emergence of a new art space, a space born out of the technology used to control and divide society.
Presentations by artists and speakers from diverse fields as geography, urban theory and computer science will explore what constitutes being nomadic these days and how developments in networked and open source infrastructure are transforming our expectations of ‘Place’.
Participants include; Frank Abbott (UK); Active Ingredient (Rachel Jacobs); Heath Bunting (UK); Simon Faithfull (UK/DE); James Kennard (UK); Plan b (Sophia New & Dan Belasco Rogers) (UK/DE); Robin Bhattacharya (UK/CH); Kasia Krakowiak (PL); Krzysztof Nawratek (PL/UK); Kate Rich (UK); Michelle Teran (CA/DE); Open_Sailing (Ollie Palmer) (UK); Gordan Savicic (AT/NL); Trebor Scholz (US); Basak Senova (TR); Société Réaliste (HU/FR); Joanna Warsza (PL); Mushon Zer-Aviv (IL/US)
BBC News - Plans for Austria's Nazi-era towers spark controversy
Scattered through Vienna are six huge anti-aircraft towers, a grim reminder of the city's Nazi past.
The flak towers were put up during the Second World War between 1942 and 1945. They were built in pairs in parks in the heart of the city.
Guns to shoot down Allied fighter planes were placed high on the concrete bastions and hundreds of civilians took shelter inside during bombing raids.
But the architectural historian, Ute Bauer, who is taking part in a study of the towers, says their main purpose was propaganda.
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