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Colourful banners to light up city (Vancouver Sun)

Wouldn't it be great to have something like this (based on a virus invading the artist's computer) be digital/ computer-generated, instead of in the same old technique of ...?screen-printed banners? C'mon, so it's a nice pattern -- but if it derived from "a virus that invaded [artist Bratsa] Bonifacho's computer," why not make it viral in form?

Tags: vancouver, bratsa_bonifacho, art, art_projects, public_art on 2008-05-15 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Colourful banners to light up city
Vancouver artist Bratsa Bonifacho unveils his works at city hall
Catherine Rolfsen,
Vancouver Sun
Published: Wednesday, May 14, 2008
VANCOUVER I The city's gloomy skyline is about to receive a shot of colour as hundreds of dazzling artworks are strung up for the 50th annual street banners display.
"I decided I had to do something very colourful, because the city is so rainy, so cloudy," said Vancouver artist Bratsa Bonifacho, at the unveiling of his works at city hall Tuesday.
And he has: the six works -- which will be hung in various combinations this summer along the Burrard and Cambie street bridges, Georgia and Burrard streets and the Georgia and Dunsmuir viaducts -- are bursting with neon pinks, electric blues and brilliant oranges.
The intricate banners, composed of grids of stylized letters and symbols, come from a series entitled Habitat Pixel, which is inspired by a virus that invaded Bonifacho's computer.
Rather than frustration, Bonifacho was seized with fascination when "the whole screen jammed with numbers and pixels."
The final works look cryptic, and they are: Bonifacho said the banners are encoded with secret messages.
"But I'm never going to reveal it," he said with a laugh.
"It could be Latin, it could be French. It could be Chinese."
At Tuesday's unveiling, Mayor Sam Sullivan presented Bonifacho with a $1,500 honorarium and thanked him for creating "a visual feast for the pure enjoyment of the public."
The tradition of Vancouver street banners dates back to the B.C. Centenary in 1958, when a team spruced up the city by flying banners as well as stringing strands of dogwood blossoms over Granville and Hastings streets and floated a dragon on Lost Lagoon.
Jack Shadbolt, Tony Onley, Gordon Smith and Bill Reid are among the artists whose works have been displayed on the banners over the years.

London crime statistics sculpture - data visualization & visual design - information aesthetics

Room-sized installation -- a landscape/mountainscape terrain "generated by datasets relating to the frequency & position of urban crimes." Not sure over how long a period of time the stats were compiled, though, and how they cumulatively (literally) added up to create the "Mountain Fear" model. Interesting attempt at data visualization, at any rate.

Tags: sculpture, aesthetics, statistics, data_visualization, london, crime, art on 2008-05-02 -All Annotations (0) -About

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PingMag - The Tokyo-based magazine about “Design and Making Things” » Archive » Art On Tokyo’s Construction Fences

Great piece with examples of construction fences that got the artistic treatment. Fabulous stuff, as always, from PingMag & Tokyo.

Tags: pingmag, tokyo, grafitti, construction_fences, art on 2008-04-22 and saved by2 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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The Many Facets Of Tomoko Sawada - PingMag

This is beautiful, and incredible. Tomoko Sawada works, I guess, at the interstices of art and acting, a whole new calibre of performance art perhaps? It's incredible stuff, at any rate. "Who is she?" asks the article. Obviously so talented that it's easy enough to want to look, but tricky enough to make you think.

Tags: art, avant_garde, japan, performance_art, ping_mag, tomoko_sawada on 2008-02-26 -All Annotations (0) -About

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“I am eternally optimistic; I am Chinese” - The Art Newspaper

First time I've tagged something under "gunpowder," but Cai Guo Qiang's art deserves its own tag and niche. I love this guy's work (although, admittedly, I haven't had a chance to see it in person, even though it was displayed at the Seattle Art Museum). Just to give an idea of this man's thinking: "Gunpowder is a spontaneous, unpredictable and uncontrollable medium. The more you learn to control it, the more obsessed you become with the material. It is like making love with your husband or wife. The outcome is unpredictable and the same results are never guaranteed. Furthermore, in using gunpowder I can explore all my concerns: the relation to notions of spirituality as well as an interest in spectacle and entertainment, and the transformation of certain energies—such as violent explosions—into beauty and a kind of poetry. An artist should be like an alchemist using poison against poison, which is very much a philosophy from Chinese medicine. Turning something bad into something good…countering the force. It’s the whole idea of the alchemist, using dirt, dust, and getting gold out of it. From gunpowder, from its very essence, you can see so much of the power of the universe—how we came to be. You can express these grand ideas about the cosmos." This is philosophy and art, not just tired old ideology and art. Brilliant stuff, truly. On the Olympics -- a salient topic for us, in BC, given that next-door Vancouver will host the Winter Games in 2010 -- Cai Guo Qiang notes: "The Olympics combine the entire country’s efforts, and can do a lot of previously unimaginable things. You can display your work in front of an audience of billions, but at the same time it can feel like you’re making the work for yourself. Through this event, one can contemplate and better understand what “Chinese culture” is. One needs to think about the past, present, and future of China and its relationship with the world." That makes me think it's the most significant statement yet (for the non-athlete) on the Olympics: time to step beyond petty "me me me" memes, and really think in bigger terms...

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I understood quickly the value of the underground. I was always very unwilling to align myself to any particular group.
When I was a child, the Chinese government did not allow citizens to buy flowers because it was a very bourgeois thing, but since my hometown of Guangzhou was far from the capital, I could buy flowers from farmers and go home and paint them. I associated this bourgeois act with being an artist. I didn’t want a nine-to-five job. I wanted to live freely.
Gunpowder is a spontaneous, unpredictable and uncontrollable medium. The more you learn to control it, the more obsessed you become with the material. It is like making love with your husband or wife. The outcome is unpredictable and the same results are never guaranteed. Furthermore, in using gunpowder

I can explore all my concerns: the relation to notions of spirituality as well as an interest in spectacle and entertainment, and the transformation of certain energies—such as violent explosions—into beauty and a kind of poetry. An artist should be like an alchemist using poison against poison, which is very much a philosophy from Chinese medicine. Turning something bad into something good…countering the force. It’s the whole idea of the alchemist, using dirt, dust, and getting gold out of it. From gunpowder, from its very essence, you can see so much of the power of the universe—how we came to be. You can express these grand ideas about the cosmos.
The Olympics combine the entire country’s efforts, and can do a lot of previously unimaginable things. You can display your work in front of an audience of billions, but at the same time it can feel like you’re making the work for yourself. Through this event, one can contemplate and better understand what “Chinese culture” is. One needs to think about the past, present, and future of China and its relationship with the world. You can use this platform to tackle the topics of ritual and ceremony. In brief, it can be an opportunity for self-growth.

TAN: How tolerant and supportive are the authorities towards the new cultural and artistic boom?

CG-Q: The higher the level of the official, the broader their vision becomes. They tend to pursue newer things and are more ambitious and tolerant to new culture than their subordinates. The Chinese government has changed more drastically than it appears to the outside world.

Deconstructing Installation Art: Home

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Art & Science Symposium - Edmonton Cultural Capital of Canada

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Behind Bars, He Turns M&M’s Into an Art Form - New York Times

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Colourful banners to light up city

Vancouver artist Bratsa Bonifacho unveils his works at city hall

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