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Artist caught using stolen photos for $20,000 Calgary art installation

09 Dec

Image by Derek Besant via Avenue Calgary

A public art installation in Calgary has been removed after it came to light that the artist behind it, Derek Michael Besant, used copyrighted photos as part of the project without permission.

Besant was commissioned by the city of Calgary a couple years ago to create the $ 20,000 CAD / $ 15,500 USD art exhibit as part of the city’s 4th Street S.W. Underpass Enhancement Project. The resulting exhibit, which was located in the 4th St. S.W. underpass, featured large Polaroid-esque images showing blurred individuals with brief quotes overlaid onto them.

The individuals in the images were allegedly travelers with whom Besant had interacted in the underpass. Local publication Avenue Calgary reported in 2015 that Besant had spent a couple days in the underpass with “a camera, notepad and recorder” to get images and quotes from people who passed through. However, that lie fell apart after a Calgary traveler noticed that one of the project’s images resembled UK comedian Bisha Ali.

He sent Ali a note about it, at which point she began deconstructing the lie publicly online, pointing out that at least a few of the other images were also portraits of comedians. Ali detailed the entire saga in a long Twitter thread accessible here.

This is a pic of the rest of the installation. I CAN NAME SOME OF THE COMEDIANS FEATURED: pic.twitter.com/4DEaWM5xXC

— Bisha K Ali (@bishakali) November 27, 2017

Late last month, Canadian publication MacLean’s unraveled the rest of the story, reporting that the images were swiped from the 2015 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and that the artist had recommended to Calgary Head of Community Services Kurt Hanson that the city take down the exhibition.

In a tweet on the matter dated November 29th, Ali reported that Calgary was taking down the art installation:

Calgary! Apparently, they are taking the installation down today. For the record, I want my giant face so I can put it up across from my toilet seat. Can someone go save it? .@comedysavage Would also like his, for whatever he’s gonna use it for.

— Bisha K Ali (@bishakali) November 29, 2017

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Trippy Tiles: Optical Illusion Installation Will Mess with Your Brain

14 Oct

[ By SA Rogers in Design & Fixtures & Interiors. ]

Looking at this picture, it seems pretty obvious that something is seriously wrong with the floor… right? And yet, as we should all know by now, things aren’t always as they seem, no matter how hard our brains try to reconcile the fact that a flat surface can look so believably sunken on one side. It’s kind of hard to wrap your mind around the fact that the effect is achieved simply by warping the shape of the tiles as they’re applied to the floor.

The new entrance floor at Casa Ceramica #Manchester now try and process that this floor is actually flat!! #tile #floorporn #decorporn #decor #tileporn #architectureporn #tiles #trippy #tilelove #love #lookbook #lovetiles #largeformat #largeformattiles #decor #design #detail #designer #decorporn #illusion #instagood #interiors #innovation #illusionist #ihavethisthingwithtiles #ihavethisthingwithfloors #roomdecor #roomforinspo #lovetiles #architectureporn #alice #aliceinwonderland

A post shared by Casa Ceramica Tile Company (@casaceramicatiles) on Feb 25, 2016 at 11:46pm PST

Casa Ceramica Tile Company created the illusion for the entrance to their own showroom in Manchester, UK. People must have had a hard time believing that the tiles are really flat from initial photos posted to Instagram and Twitter, because the company posted subsequent photos and videos of the installation process, saying “Like our entrance floor made from tiles #sorrynotsorry.”

They are actual tiles pic.twitter.com/7HvTqz9jHP

— Casa Ceramica (@casaceramica) September 22, 2017

Apparently, the illusion only works from one direction, and when visitors are exiting the building, it looks like a normal tile walkway.

Here’s how to navigate our floor! #tiles #Manchester #Lovetiles #Illusion #Aliceinwonderland #CharlieAndthechocolatefactory pic.twitter.com/fn8kV2Wcz9

— Casa Ceramica (@casaceramica) September 22, 2017

Unsurprisingly, the illusion blew up on Twitter and became something of an internet sensation. You might dig through the company’s website or Instagram hoping for more optical illusions, but it looks like most of their work is pretty standard. Maybe this project will get them some fun commissions.

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A Toddler Peers Over the US-Mexico Border Fence for JR’s Latest Installation

12 Sep

[ By SA Rogers in Drawing & Digital. ]

Set on scaffolding just across the rust-red fence marking the border between Tecate, California and Mexico, street artist JR’s latest installation is a towering statement on immigration issues in the United States. A one-year-old boy named Kikito peers over to the other side with all the innocence and naiveté of childhood, just days after the current U.S. administration announced its intention to end the DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) immigration program.

The site-specific work is precisely angled to create the illusion that the child is grasping the top of the fence, looking out onto the Californian terrain. Like most of JR’s works, the 70-foot-tall image is rendered in black and white; the child is from the local community on the Mexican side of the border. Curated by Pedro Alonzo, the work asks onlookers to consider the fate of the 800,000 ‘Dreamers’ whose parents wished them a better future.

“Some people dream about fantasy worlds, I dream about walls,” JR told The New York Times in a phone interview. “I wonder, is this kid worrying about what will happen? What does he think? At one year old, you don’t see the frontier or which side is better… people will always migrate. When we built walls, people built tunnels. When we closed places, they went by water. The history of humanity is the story of people migrating.”

“For this little kid, there are no walls and borders.”

The installation will remain in place through October 2nd, and you can pinpoint its exact location at JR’s website.

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Splitting Bricks: Architectural Art Installation Tears a London Building Apart

10 Aug

[ By SA Rogers in Art & Sculpture & Craft. ]

A London building appears to have fallen victim to an earthquake tremor or foundation collapse, with a jagged section of its brick facade split in half and threatening to collapse altogether. But the deteriorating appearance of this otherwise pristine structure isn’t quite what it seems. Artist Alex Chinneck used 4,000 bricks to create the effect of a ripped piece of paper to create ’Six Pins and a Half Dozen Needles,’ a nearly 66-foot tall sculpture outside a mixed-use complex known as Assembly London.

With the paper reference, the artist pays tribute to the site’s former life as home to the publishing company Hammersmith. Chinneck says he spent months scanning torn sheets of paper to find just the right pleasing edge for the split. The sculpture blends into the main building behind it, partially obscuring a few windows, and its elevated position makes it a real eye-catcher. It’s two bricks deep, and took 14 months to complete, with the help of structural engineers, steelworkers and brick makers. Its stainless steel framework is bolted and welded to the building behind it.

Chinneck previously dropped jaws and raised eyebrows in London with two particularly dramatic installations: an upside-down car clinging to a curling piece of pavement outside the Southbank Centre, and a brick facade sliding off the front of a building in Kent. Unlike these previous works, however, ‘Six Pins’ is permanent.

“The work was onceived to engage people in a fun and uplifting way,” says Chinneck. “Although we use real brick, it was designed with a cartoon-like quality to give the sculpture an endearing artifice and playful personality. I set out to create accessible artworks and I sincerely hope this becomes a popular landmark for London and positive experience for Londoners.”

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This art installation re-imagines photographic equipment as weapons

14 Jan

Shoot Portraits, Not People: Jason Siegel’s photographic ‘weapons’

Photo by Jason Siegel

Glance at a piece from Jason Siegel’s ‘Shoot Portraits, Not People’ art installation and you might think you’re looking at a high-powered weapon. But if you look closer, you’ll quickly see that guns and grenades are all made up of photographic equipment.

Siegel is a Denver-based lifestyle photographer, with a professional portfolio that includes work for clients in the clothing and music industries. Stepping outside of the printed image for this project, he gathered over 200 pounds of cameras, lenses, flashes and other pieces of equipment for this project. He worked with metal sculptor Keith D’Angelo to build the weapons and military paraphernalia, a process you can get a glimpse of in the behind-the-scenes video below.

‘Shoot Portraits, Not People’ opens today at BLK MKT gallery in Aspen, and will run through the month of January. See more of Siegel’s work by heading to his website or following him on Instagram and Facebook.

Via PetaPixel

Shoot Portraits, Not People: Jason Siegel’s photographic ‘weapons’

Photo by Jason Siegel

Shoot Portraits, Not People: Jason Siegel’s photographic ‘weapons’

Photo by Jason Siegel

Shoot Portraits, Not People: Jason Siegel’s photographic ‘weapons’

Photo by Jason Siegel

Shoot Portraits, Not People: Jason Siegel’s photographic ‘weapons’

Photo by Jason Siegel

Shoot Portraits, Not People: Jason Siegel’s photographic ‘weapons’

Photo by Jason Siegel

Shoot Portraits, Not People: Jason Siegel’s photographic ‘weapons’

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Cut Grass: Sutured Landscape Installation Stitches Open Lawn Back Together

27 Nov

[ By WebUrbanist in Art & Installation & Sound. ]

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Ground Operation is a conceptually simple earthwork: an incision made in a grassy landscape is pealed back then stitched back together, much like an open wound after an injury or surgery.

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French artist Estelle Chrétien sliced open the ground then wrapped electrical cables through it like shoelaces, either in the process of being tied or becoming undone (a mystery left for the observer to unravel, as it were). Her use of cabling is also very intentional, meant to raise questions about what we put into the Earth and how we use it — a surfacing of the secret infrastructure that lurks below.

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Similar techniques, themes and materials can be found in other works by the same artist, who has wrapped hay bales in crocheted covers and put boots on trees.

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“While in Portugal, I learned how to crochet, and I had this piece of blue agricultural baler twine in a box and the idea of [making a hay bale wrap] came to me,” she says. “When I went back to France, I made it and put it in a field just before farmers stored their bales. I liked working in the middle of a barley field, but most of the work was made at home, so I decided to work outside with my hands more often after that.”

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Heavenly Vaults: Virtual Reality Ceiling Installation in a Gothic Cathedral

13 Oct

[ By SA Rogers in Art & Installation & Sound. ]

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The ceilings of Paris’ Saint Eustache Church are once again alive and flickering with a surreal display of abstract imagery as artist Miguel Chevalier projects ‘Voûtes Célestes’ onto its vaults, nave and transepts. Installed for the annual Nuit Blanche (All-Nighter) event, the live light show flashes, ripples and glows along to musical improvisations by the church’s organist, envisioning imaginary sky charts created by Chevalier in real time.

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Blankets of stars and other celestial bodies glimmer in the dark, transected by neon lines in green, red and yellow that crackle light lightning and ripple as if being blown by wind. The lights interact with the architecture of the church, blurring its actual form and creating trompe l’oeil effects. At times, the entire ceiling seems to disappear, putting on display an imaginary sky full of colorful lights.

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“These suspended universes accentuate one’s impression of the monument’s loftiness and lightness,” says Chevalier. “Visitors are invited to stroll around, to sit in the pews, and to lift up their eyes toward the heavens. These digital constellation of pixels immerse visitors in an atmosphere bathed in light while opening unto infinity.”

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“The installation releases radiant energy into this space of plentitude. Amplified by Saint Eustache’s organ music, the installation induces a spiritual and contemplative feeling of elevation. Light, color and movement create a poetics of matter and elaborate a new aesthetics of virtuality.”

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Forest of Resonating Lamps: Brilliant Interactive Illuminated Installation

06 Sep

[ By SA Rogers in Art & Installation & Sound. ]

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Dangling from a darkened ceiling like strange bioluminescent blooms, hundreds of high-tech lamps respond to the movements of people in the room, glowing in a particular color that resonates outward, spreading to more and more lamps. This chain reaction shifts as observers navigate the space, contrasting with the patterns created by others. ‘Forest of Resonating Lamps’ is an immersive installation by Japanese collective Teamlab, created for Maison et Objet 2016.

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Occupying the junction of art and technology, the installation is not just about a single decorative object, beautiful as it may be. The lamps themselves are made of Murano glass and equipped with LED bulbs, hung from the gallery ceiling in a space with mirrored walls that multiply them so they seem to go on forever, a la Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Room installations.

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As an observer approaches a lamp, it shines brightly, emitting a color tone that is transmitted to lamps nearby. If you’re the only person in the room, the light is entirely centered upon you, but as soon as someone else enters, you become aware of the ripple effect created by their own movements. While the lamps seem to be scattered randomly throughout the space, they’re actually placed to form a continuous line from select lamps that act as starting points.

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“The planar arrangement of the lamps is staggered in zigzag to fill a space, staying in a perfectly ordered grid,” says Teamlab. “This is the first constraint. The second constraint is the height and width of the room and the pathway that people walk through, thus creating a ‘boundary condition.’ The third constraint is that all the lamps, when connected to its two closest lamps three-dimensionally, form a unicursal pattern with the same start and end points.”

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“The arrangement of the lamps thus created is beautiful not only in an immobilized, static kind of way, but more so in a dynamic way caused by people approaching these lamps. It demonstrates the space of new era: the space freely designed through digital technology, and adapting the change and movement made by people’s existence in it.”

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Go Big or Go Home: Athletes are Larger Than Life in Rio Art Installation

04 Aug

[ By SA Rogers in Art & Street Art & Graffiti. ]

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Athletes have arrived in Rio for the Olympics on a massive scale in the form of two monumental photographic installations supported by construction scaffolding, one looking like he’s about to back flip over an entire building. French artist JR brings his signature black-and-white style to the streets for a dramatic addition to his ‘Inside Out Project,’ a global series bringing real people and their personal stories to public spaces through art.

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The athletes depicted aren’t household names – in fact, they’re not even Olympic athletes who will be physically present in Rio for the Games. The first, installed on the roof of a large residential complex, represents Mohamed Younes Idress of Sudan. “He lives and trains in Cologne, Germany,” says JR. “He missed out on the qualifications for the 2016 Rio Olympics but he is there some how.”

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The second figure appears to be that of a diver about to leap into the adjacent ocean. This installation rises from a rocky jetty overlooking the water in the Barra neighborhood. JR says he’s been working on this new technique, with the images supported by metal beams, for almost a year.

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We previously featured JR’s large-scale work of urban camouflage outside the Louvre in Paris, where a black-and-white photographic installation made the museum’s iconic 11,000-square-foot pyramid by I.M. Pei seem to disappear. Other ‘Inside Out Project’ installations have included massive paste-ups inside Paris’ Pantheon building as well as covering a mass area of the ground in New York City’s Times Square.

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Light Touch: Sensual Installation Lets Visitors Feel Luminescence

12 Jun

[ By WebUrbanist in Art & Installation & Sound. ]

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In a new light art installation dubbed Sense of Field, Tokyo artist Hitomi Sato lets visitors simultaneously see, touch and shape shimmers of light all on sides.

The immersive experience is facilitated by thousands of transparent tendrils extending from two walls opposite one another. Each visitor walking between them,touches bristles on both sides, creating waves of motion that can be both seen and felt.

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Perspective matters: observers outside the installation see it all from another angle, experiencing the setup differently primarily as a function of gleaming luminosity. Once engaged through physical contact, sensations multiply as clothing and skin brush beads of heat and illumination.

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Of her work, the artist says that “when [she] sees the shimmer of light, images of various natural light comes to her mind. For example, ripples on the water’s surface, sunlight through the leaves of trees, rays from a break in the clouds, and the reflections on window’s glass.”

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Posts Tagged ‘installation’

Artist caught using stolen photos for $20,000 Calgary art installation

Trippy Tiles: Optical Illusion Installation Will Mess with Your Brain

A Toddler Peers Over the US-Mexico Border Fence for JR’s Latest Installation

Splitting Bricks: Architectural Art Installation Tears a London Building Apart

This art installation re-imagines photographic equipment as weapons

Shoot Portraits, Not People: Jason Siegel’s photographic ‘weapons’

Shoot Portraits, Not People: Jason Siegel’s photographic ‘weapons’

Shoot Portraits, Not People: Jason Siegel’s photographic ‘weapons’

Shoot Portraits, Not People: Jason Siegel’s photographic ‘weapons’

Shoot Portraits, Not People: Jason Siegel’s photographic ‘weapons’

Shoot Portraits, Not People: Jason Siegel’s photographic ‘weapons’

Shoot Portraits, Not People: Jason Siegel’s photographic ‘weapons’

Cut Grass: Sutured Landscape Installation Stitches Open Lawn Back Together

Heavenly Vaults: Virtual Reality Ceiling Installation in a Gothic Cathedral

Forest of Resonating Lamps: Brilliant Interactive Illuminated Installation

Go Big or Go Home: Athletes are Larger Than Life in Rio Art Installation

Light Touch: Sensual Installation Lets Visitors Feel Luminescence

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