Archive for July, 2008
Fail Whale - by Yiying Lu
Sunday, July 27th, 2008
Yes, this is the Twiiter Fail Whale. I just couldn’t resist, with the artist being in the tech news so much lately. Also, I just created a twitter account for Today in Art so follow me if you have an account.
artist & website: Yiying Lu - http://www.yiyinglu.com
Rush Hour - by slinkachu
Friday, July 25th, 2008
“Little handpainted people, left in London to fend for themselves.”
artist & website: slinkachu - http://little-people.blogspot.com/
Trailheads - by Patrick Dougherty
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC.
artist & website: Patrick Dougherty - http://www.stickwork.net/
fragment.140.05.01 - by Tim Borgmann
Monday, July 21st, 2008
strange Fishes - by Robert Hodgin
Saturday, July 19th, 2008
visualization of Radio Head track
artist & website: Robert Hodgin - http://www.flight404.com/blog/
video - http://www.aniboom.com/Player.aspx?v=210097
2:22 - by Joshua Davis
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
City of Shadows - by Alexey Titarenko
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
BMW Kinetic Sculpture
Monday, July 14th, 2008
This will be the first of a new series of posts, though I do not yet know what I will call them. When I created this site, I wanted to deliver art in a sterile, gallery like environment and I did not want to let my opinion shape the mind of users about the work in one way or another. I have strayed from this concept occasionally, but these new posts will be more opinion based and will hopefully spark some interesting conversation.
So, the first topic is the new series is the BMW Kinetic Sculpture created by Art+Com. Now art for commercial purposes is nothing new, but art created by agencies or creative businesses for customers for advertisement seems to be growing in popularity. I think this “kinetic sculpture” has some real potential, but falls a little short. I really enjoy some of the motion, but the static words displayed on the wall seem forced and unnecessary.
The second thing that bothers me, and my major issue with this piece, is the way it is tagged as being created by a creative agency. In my opinion art should be attached to the individual artist or artists involved. I know that sometimes anonymous art can be powerful, but that is not the case here. In this case Art+Com gets all of the “credit” while we have to search to find the names of those who actually did the work.
So the reason for featuring this is to pose this question:
Can art be created by agency or creative group? And, is the term sculpture being used too loosely here?
See the BMW Kinetic Sculpture here or the youtube video (less quality and worse music) below:
