culture jamming artists

1. Michael Aaron Williams is an artist creating street art.  He creates portraits of the homeless on cardboard and places them throughout the city in London. He wants people walking by to notice them, and even take them home.

"This series are all done on cardboard and depict the homeless. They are put up and are able to be taken down so that they can be taken home. They are therefore extremely delicate. Its interesting because just like the actual homeless, the people on the street ignore the pieces and many times see no worth in them. However, Some people have and are encouraged to take these home where the pieces can survive."

 Michael Aaron Williams' website 

 2. A british bank gave money towards a bike rental program, and had their logo on the bikes. People added stickers to the advertisements to change the meaning.
Barclays Bikes Busting Article

Chance Project

My idea-
1. carry your camera with you on Monday and Tuesday
2. take a photo of the scene in front of you at 2PM, 4PM, and 6PM
3. In photoshop, create a canvas that is 6 inches tall and 4 wide.
4. Divide canvas into 3 sections
5. On the top section, place all the 2PMs, the middle section 4PMs, and so on.
6. for the 1st pic make it 100% opacity and the second 50%

tada

My Version

Amber's Version

My extended body

There are two aspects to my new body:
- To avoid verbally expressing something my ears change color. They are mood changing. When i'm shy they turn pinkish in color, when i'm anxious they're purple, etc.
- I thought it would be interesting to have a defense mechanism like other animals (porcupines, skunks, blowfish), so whenever I feel frightened my skin develops a skin like that of a cactus.

My idea is mostly just so I can non-verbally communicate and that as humans, we don't really have physical defense mechanisms. They are mostly psychological. I wanted to take a natural-animalistic approach to my body.

I have used various tools: the magic wand, the marquee tool, the polygonal lasso tool, layers,  and i edited the photos a little bit

 

 

Artists working with "extended body"

Here are two artists that I found interesting working in robotics and extended body:

1. Sonia Cillari- "“GATC/life is an immersive experience inside units of life." 

This is a virtual reality project. In a cube-like room there are 3D projections of genes and cells. 

GATC/Life 

2. Seemen Organization- artist Kal Spelletich and 40+ other artists working in robotic, interactive art. They encourage the audiences to interact with the robots and other machines. Some of their work even incorporates bio-feedback: where it can read heartbeat, movement, respiration, etc. 

http://seemen.org/

- EKG UNIT triggering flaming ring: The fire ring pulses with one's heartbeat 

-Monkey on your Back: person puts on gloves and monkey robot. The gloves have EKG and flex sensors to activate the monkey. The EKG picks up the volunteer's heartbeat and moves the tail and spine of the monkey. 

Zach Roberts' Facebook

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/profile.php?id=100001563905538

Zach Roberts is a 20 year old boy, whose selective interests include video games, some rock music, and food. His social life is entirely online, where he interacts with other gamers each day and several hours into the night. He has unnatural relationships with the characters he encounters, or plays in the virtual world. He idolizes the female characters--their strong personalities and more proportional bodies. He doesn't care to interact with others outside of the virtual world due to his belief that mortals can't match up, and he'd end up disappointed by their flaws. 

Google Earth

 Artists working in Google Earth
1. James Dive's 'God's Eye View'
 He uses the satellite images of Google Earth and 3d objects to recreate some scenes from the Bible

2. Bill Guffey uses Google Street View as inspiration for his paintings & here is his blog
Bill Guffey paints scenes from Google Street View. With the program, he felt like he could travel the world outside his rural home in Kentucky. He has created an entire series: one painting for each state in the U.S.

My Google Earth Assignment 

Here I have documented all the places i've lived and a memory attached to them. This assignment brought about some interesting perspectives and thoughts. When I think of home I never think of a house or location, I think it's more about people or memories that make a place home. This also made the term seem so fleeting and artificial. There's nothing stable about it, although originally stability would be a word that might come to my mind when I think about my home.

Pack Rat Series