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Fairy tale or horror story - join the debate | RUDI - Resource for Urban Design Information

"Urban designer and artist collaborations: what value do they bring?"
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The event did not focus on ‘how to do’ public art, but rather aimed to stimulate debate and throw up challenges to what some are coming to regard as a too-often standardised way of creating public spaces.
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Tags: public_art, artists, urban_design, collaboration, public_space, rudi on 2009-05-08 -All Annotations (11) -About

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Ned Kahn: Ned Kahn Studios

Great website showcasing Ned Kahn's (typically public) art projects.

Tags: ned_kahn, art, public_art, art_projects, land_art, environmental_art, design on 2009-02-03 and saved by 2 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Inhabitat » Solar LED ‘Leaf’ Streetlights by Jongoh Lee

Street lights that look like plant leaves...

Tags: inhabitat, public_art, infrastructure, street_lights on 2008-09-09 and saved by 2 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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"L.A. vision: a towering sign," by David Zahniser (LA Times) - Astani Enterprises Inc

File this under "life imitates art"? There's a fascinating battle happening in LA over whether or not Sonny Astani, businessman and developer, should be permitted to install a new kind of LED-generated image, 12 stories above the street and 14 stories tall, on the side of his 33-story condo building currently under construction in downtown LA.

The inspiration? Opening scenes in Blade Runner of downtown LA, showing "a skyscraper-sized advertisement portraying a Japanese woman smiling before popping a snack into her mouth. Astani says an image, such as that of a flying sea gull, could now even travel from one building to the next."

I have to admit this sounds really cool, but I can see why many factions in LA would oppose this, too. We're all familiar with the really bright illuminated advertisements -- even Victoria has a small version of one, installed outside the arena on Blanshard at Caledonia. It's bright, too bright. But Astani proposes a much more modulated, artistic, and dimmed level of lighting. If the images could look as subtle -- yet powerful -- as Blade Runner's, it could work, but there's no garantee, that if permitted, subsequent developers would follow in that "artistic" style.

Another aspect is this: the proposal, if it's art, also calls into question just how intrusive public art should be in public space. Does it have a right to be so intrusive as to be impossible to ignore? Can I, as a citizen, be obliged to register public art -- and admittedly, it would be impossible not to register this project?

Is part of what captures my attention/ imagination regarding this project its uncanny fusion of subtlety and assault, packaged as visual stimulus?

Another question: is this an art form that expresses a corporate and anti-pedestrian city ("...neighborhood anchored by Staples Center and L.A. Live, the hotel and entertainment complex that includes the recently opened Nokia Theatre"), fitting for LA where people don't walk anyway (but just wait: it'll show up soon enough on the very v

Tags: astani, advertising, billboards, outdoor_installations, public_art, public_space, los_angeles on 2008-05-26 -All Annotations (0) -About

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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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Downtown to be painted with digital light

Downtown Vancouver's corporate buildings will be "grafitti-ed" with laser art, as part of Cultural Olympiad. See http://2007.newformsfestival.com/neograf for more info.

Wish we had something comparable in Victoria (hint, hint!)...

Tags: downtown, grafitti, light_art, neograf, neografik_project, nomlg, public_art, vancouver on 2008-03-11 -All Annotations (0) -About

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