Bookmarks tagged with Artprojects
The Institute of Social Hypocrisy
The Institute of Social Hypocrisy is an artificial organization that fronts an artist-led project in the centre of Paris. The ISH is conducted in the form of a protracted performance piece and its very existence is brought about by inviting collaboration with other participants. Each player and event contributes vital information and connections that allow the Institute to progress.
Filipa Oliveira+Miguel Amado
Filipa Oliveira+Miguel Amado have been working internationally since 2009, having shifted their focus from conventional exhibition formats to critically engaging, participatory projects informed by the relationships of aesthetics and ethics within artistic practice.
Machine Project
Machine Project is a non-profit community space in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles investigating art, technology, natural history, science, music, literature, and food
Let's Re-make the World
The Library of Radiant Optimism is a collaborative project led by Bonnie Fortune and Brett Bloom.
Experimental Station
Taking its name from a speech given by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1901 ("The Art and Craft of the Machine"), the Experimental Station exceeds even Wright's dream of a place where art and technology would embrace one another under the same roof, where such an encounter would lead to new ideas and innovative designs and practices.
SOL 2012
SOL, a continuously staffed library in the high mountains. The SOL research facility will preserve backups/copies of scientific and cultural achievements important to mankind. SOL will aim to safeguard important world culture and literature from future natural and unnatural calamities. In the event of a global crisis, the SOL station will be prepared to reintroduce lost knowledge, and even help to re-establish society again.
Mataha Foundation
The Mataha Foundation’s mission is to ensure the continuation of human culture. The organization contributes to this goal through research, preservation work and the promotion of art, science and spirituality. The Mataha Foundation pursues this goal by realizing and supporting holistic projects that draw on knowledge of the past and present to enhance the cultural, scientific and spiritual prosperity of future generations.
Monument Museum
MONUMENTMUSEUM is an independent platform to present new ideas about the term 'Monument'
Nomadic Milk - Esther polak
The project will follow dairy transporters (PEAKmilk brand) and Fulani nomadic herdsmen in Nigeria, tracking both their routes with GPS (Global Positioning System).
Rachel Sussman
My work is landscape-based, rooted in a subtle exploration of humanity’s complex relationship with nature and, by extension, with itself. I employ formal devices such as restricted color palates, careful consideration of the tensions between grounds and selective use of line and shape to further the dialog between aesthetics, content, and form. What results in the work is my own unique visual system, imbued with cultural, natural, and scientific context from my travels all over the world
The Arctic Circle
The Arctic Circle is a nexus where art intersects science, architecture & activism - an incubator for thought & experimentation for artists & innovators who seek out and foster areas of collaboration to engage in the central issues of our time.
P.A.P.A. (Participating Artists Press Agency)
Alarmbells are ringing. What we need is step back and see the world as the astronauts saw it and ask ourselves how are we managing that? Big cities are the new centres to be connected into a global society that works together.
Antfarm
RAF Reduce Artflights
RAF / Reduce Art Flights is a campaign which upholds that the art world – artists, curators, critics, gallerists, collectors, museum directors, etc. – could or should diminish its use of aeroplanes. It was initiated by the artist Gustav Metzger (born 1926, Nuremberg, Germany; lives in London, UK).
Mobile Institute
The Mobile Institute is an art platform createdby artists. It values the need of a more open platform for art development and its various exhibited forms, through the application of interdisciplinary art practices. It maintains to function as an auxiliary system, collaborating with institutions and artists.
UnPhotographable
Unphotographable is a catalog of exceptional mistakes. Photos never taken that weren't meant to be forgotten. Opportunities missed. Simple failures. Occasions when I wished I'd taken the picture, or not forgotten the camera, or had been brave enough to click the shutter.
Defaced Monuments - Sam Durant
An ongoing collection of statues, sculptures, memorials, markers and monuments that have been intentionally or unintentionally altered, damaged or destroyed as a political statement or during a political protest.
Julia Meltzer and David Thorne
Los Angeles-based artists Julia Meltzer and David Thorne produce videos, photographs, installations, and published texts. From 1999 to 2003, their projects centered on state secrecy and the production of the past. Current works focus on the ways in which visions of the future are imagined, claimed and realized, specifically in relation to faith and global politics.
Eternal Sunset
Eternal Sunset endeavours to ensure you can enjoy the sunset live from any location, at any time. As the sunset moves westward, Eternal Sunset continuously tunes into different webcams, chasing the sunset around the globe. This service is currently provided through the use of 239 west-facing webcams across 47 countries.
N.E.W.S.
n.e.w.s. is a horizontally-organised, cumulative knowledge-based website for contemporary art and new media framed by curatorial contributions from around the globe, bringing together voices and images from North, East, West and South. n.e.w.s. reflects geographic diversity and facilitates a framework for collaboration, content and visions of change outside the normal parameters of the established art world networks.
Contemporary Image Collective
The Contemporary Image Collective (CIC) is an independent non-profit artist initiative founded in 2004 by a collective of artists and professional photographers, focusing on the visual image and the development of contemporary visual arts and culture in Egypt.
White Elephant Collective
The White Elephant Collective is a Berlin based international artists group that specializes in these unique but forgotten places of a city. Our goal is to find, investigate and eventually reactivate these locations through site specific exhibitions and events.
Discarded Object Poster Project
home [Cityscapes]
Cityscapes provides a common meeting place where people can share their experiences of the places where they live and have lived, or visited, even of places they've imagined, read about, hope or have hoped to visit. Cityscapes is not only the reflection of a physical community but of a shared imaginative space.
The Zymoglyphic Museum
The world's only repository for the study and display of Zymoglyphic art, artifacts, and natural history. The creative output of the region relies mainly on the assemblage of natural objects. The museum also presents special exhibits on related topics in natural object assemblage, and maintains a curiosity cabinet of items that reflect the spirit of Zymoglyphic culture. zy'-mo-glyph'-ic, adj. [Gr. zyme leaven + Gr. glyphe carving] 1. Of, or pertaining to, images of fermentation, specifically the solid residue of creative fermentation on natural objects. 2. The collection and arrangement of objects, primarily either natural or weathered by natural forces, for poetic effect