Art Installation Made From 10,000 American Apparel Shirts

Sure American Apparel has always considered it’s Tees art- but now the artists themselves have begun to use them as a medium. For this year’s Shenzhen Biennale, Los Angeles based design group Ball-Nogues Studio have come up with a full-scale installation using 10,000 AA shirts. The result is something one part Cristo, one part pure downtown LA.

Hard on the heels of our story about ArtPrize comes news of another artistic endeavour that's tapping the power of the crowds. It's not contest-judging that the crowds will have a hand in this time, however; rather, through a microfinance model much like the stock market, consumers can invest in—and profit from—public art projects they like.

Unveiled earlier this year at TED Palm Springs by New York media company Fame Theory, Trust Art is a social platform that aims to commission 10 public works of art over the next year. A select group of artists were invited to propose their dream projects and to realistically assess what it would take to bring their projects to life—including material costs, travel and other logistical expenses. The Trust Art website includes descriptions of those projects and costs, along with current updates. Each project is then assigned a certain number of shares—equal to twice its funding target—and half of those shares are automatically assigned to the participating artist. The rest are put up for sale, and consumers are invited to become shareholders in any project with as little as USD 1, giving them access to the artists and network of shareholders as well as special events. Next spring, each public project will be represented by a private piece of art that will be publicly auctioned. Proceeds from those sales will first go toward paying for the auction and paying back shareholders relative to their individual contributions; after that, the rest will be split 50/50 between the artists and the network of shareholders—again, relative to how much they originally invested.

The initiative's website explains: "Trust Art is a radical experiment in raising capital for social art. Its starting point is the assertion that social art can more easily raise social capital (i.e. networks of people interested in and talking about it), and therefore it should be able to more easily raise financial capital (because this is more easily raised as groups grow). So Trust Art exploits social networks of people (some already connected, some newly connected) to add value to social art."

Ultimately, Trust Art hopes to exist as an ongoing open platform whereby any artist can propose a dream project and get funded by the crowds. One to watch—or get involved with?

Website: www.trustart.org

Inflatable Dinosaur Measures Air Quality

The Huntington Beach Art Center in California is currently holding an exhibition of three site responsive installations entitled “Land, Sea, Air” until September 6th.

One of the three exhibits is “Prana”- an inflatable dinosaur that measures and visualizes the quality of air in Huntington Beach. Every ten seconds, Prana collects new data from the cross-government agency website airnow.gov, and changes color (utilizing an internal light) from green to red based upon the information it receives.

You can view a gallery of the exhibit here.

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Louis Vuitton will publish a book on Art and Creation

On September 21st Louis Vuitton will publish a book on Art and Creation. It will cover fashion, art an architecture. Given the kind of readers this book wants to appeal, what is better than a promotional animated book trailer animated by a young artist?



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China Pushing Forward Creative Industry Zones

One of the major ways that the Chinese government has been pushing forward creative industry in China is through the development of creative industry parks or zones. According to Eugenie Birch, chair of the University of Pennsylvania’s Department of City and Regional Planning, “China’s investing heavily in the knowledge worker writ large, and this has become another part of that investment…And when China does something, it does it at full force.”

The most common creative industry zones consists of an old factory or warehouse converted into an area designed for art galleries, entertainment venues and offices for designers, architects, artists and other creative types. Beijing’s 798 Art District stands out as the most well-known archetype that many developers attempt to replicate.

There are still many obstacles that creative industry needs to tackle before reaching a level of maturity seen in other countries. One of the central challenges is understanding how to foster grassroots creativity, starting with students and young creatives who all too often lack the means to develop their talent. However, the 20+ zones in Beijing, 70+ in Shanghai and many more scattered throughout the country are a welcome development for creatives looking to become a part of China’s creative industry.

Related PSFK Post: The Rise of Creative Industry in China

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Visionaire 55: Magazine Turned Pop-up Book

Visionaire, the multi-format art and fashion magazine, continues to impress with their 55th issue. This holiday issue was engineered by Bruce Foster and utilizes complex 3D environments with classic pop-up techniques.  The entire magazine is presented in a sleek enclosure of magnetized latches and dark purple housing.  Visionaire began in 1991 and now publishes three times a year, each issue with a drastically different format for delivering cutting edge artistic presentations.  Its pages serve as a springboard for budding artists and designers, allowing them surprising artistic freedoms within the given theme.

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New Math

New Math is an interesting concept from writer and artist Craig Damrauer, illustrating the meaning of words and ideas using arithmetic equations.

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WOW: New reality but old art

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wow dance stars and their prototipes

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Scott McCloud: Understanding comics

cott McCloud bends the presentation format into a cartoon-like experience, where colorful diversions whiz through childhood fascinations and imagined futures that our eyes can hear and touch.

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Why play is vital -- no matter your age

A pioneer in research on play, Dr. Stuart Brown says humor, games, roughhousing, flirtation and fantasy are more than just fun. Plenty of play in childhood makes for happy, smart adults -- and keeping it up can make us smarter at any age.

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Sound Visualization Jewelry

The Sound Advice Project creates custom bracelets of any sound’s waveform. Although the project is aimed at parents who want to make anti-drug message bracelets for their kids, the concept seems full of interesting possibilities.

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Banksy about crisis

Since becoming increasingly commercial and globally successful, London-based street artist Banksy has decided to sell one of his sought after pieces for pennies – or rather, literally a penny. With the help of sponsors Brahma beer and Artichoke Ltd, Banksy is allowing art buyers and enthusiasts to bag a bargain in the recession. The initiative is based upon an online lottery with which you register, where you’re allotted a number to take along to a secret venue on 27th March, where a winner will be picked at random. The piece for sale, Trolleys, is currently on display at a pop up store in Carnaby Street and worth around £2,500.

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