On New Year’s Day I received a call from a journalist at Israel’s Ma’ariv Magazine. The interview was folded into a feature on shopdropping. The piece discusses the Anti-Advertising Agency’s shopdropping workshops from early 2007 and the People Products 123 project with Amanda Eicher. if you can read hebrew, check out the 2 page spread.
Light Criticism was mentioned in a ModArt Magazine, along with the GRL, Jason Eppink, and Krzysztof Wodiczko. The story is called “Windows and Wallpapering: Questions about Art, Technology and Poetic Interference” by Elizabeth Haines and you can read most of it at the F@ Lab site.
Light Criticism was mentioned in a ModArt Magazine, along with the GRL, Jason Eppink, and Krzysztof Wodiczko. The story is called “Windows and Wallpapering: Questions about Art, Technology and Poetic Interference” by Elizabeth Haines and you can read most of it at the F@ Lab site.
In late August the Estonian national newspaper, Ekspress, published an interview with me about advertising and public space. Merit Karise, the interviewer, has supplied an English version below.
As a result of this interview Merit was invited to give a “presentation about alcohol advertising and youth at a roundtable that took place in our Parliament on Oct 9th, and where MPs, the representative of our President and rep. of Chancellor of Justice took part.” Since then there has been talk about bringing her to the Economic Affairs Committee of Parliament where legal changes in alcohol advertising regulation can be made.
By the way, the article references my work as/with the Anti-Advertising Agency, and an interview I did with Rob Walker for Murketing’s Q&A section.
Interview for Estonian Ekspress, August 30, 2007 (Merit Karise, teacher of advertising and advertising critique at Tartu Art School)
You don’t paint on canvas and you don’t show two flickering TV screens facing each other in an empty gallery. Your gallery is the public space of cities and often you don’t give any sign to your viewer that it is art that she/he is seeing. Why is that?
I think there’s 2 reasons for that.
One, is that the white cube and “modern art” don’t come naturally to me. I grew up in my parents furniture shop and worked in garages though my teens and twenties. When I started art school, I had never been to a contemporary art museum. My creative background was punk rock, film and radio. When I made art, I wanted the people I knew to understand it - the people who worked with me in the motorcycle shop, or the friends and family I had. These were working class people more than “cultural class” people. I realize now that I walk in both worlds, but at the time I got started I was very much in the former. When I finally started going to museums, a lot of the work I just didn’t understand and it didn’t speak to me. Read on…
In July a television producer, Hiroshi Noguchi, came to the OpenLab and documented some of the projects we were working on for a public television program in Japan called “NY Streets.” The segment included a piece on AddArt and the drawings I was doing at the time with Julia Schwadron. I’m not allowed to post the video, so I grabbed some stills.
I was hoping my voice would be overdubbed and looking forward to hearing the Japanese version of me, but instead I was subtitled. Oh well.
PeopleProducts123, an Anti-Advertising Agency project with Amanda Eicher was written up in the May/June 2007 issue of Print Magazine.
PeopleProducts123, an Anti-Advertising Agency project with Amanda Eicher, was adapted by a group in Estonia and collectively featured in some local newspapers.
AddArt appeared in El País, a newspaper based in Spain on Thursday 7/5/07. They mention another plugin developed in the OpenLab, Michael Mandiberg’s The Real Costs.
Richard Blakely made a quick video about Simmer Down Sprinter at Eyebeam’s recent 10th Anniversary Party. The video is available on Kotaku.com, a gawker site on gaming, along with Cory Arcangel’s I Shot Andy Warhol game, which was also set up at the party. Watch the video and see me attempt to give my most eloquent, on the spot description of the piece.
A couple pieces on AddArt have showed up in the Canadian Press. The CBC Consumer Life section has a piece on Banner Ads and AddArt, but more interesting to me is Radio Canada’s French-Canadian internet reporting (scroll to the last post on the page). Growing up in California my spanish is better than my french, so I don’t know what they’re saying, but it’s strangely satisfying to hear someone behind a news desk talking about the project in another language.
