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My Favourite Landscape

Paul Destieu, My Favourite Landscape, 2007:

“My Favourite Landscape is made of 500 70 x 50 cm offset prints. It is a reappropriation of the well known Windows XP desktop : Green Hill. Taking advantage of the weakness of the computer, it sets the common bug out of its context, on a wall, expending it to a much bigger scale. The famous picture finds a new landscape shape out of its usual frame.”

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10 types of contemporary artworks we had enough of

This is a first draft, I’ll be working more on this list, then publish it as a complete guide to contemporary art new cliches. Maybe.

In the meantime, feel free to add yours!

1. people covered up in paint

2. minimal concrete sculptures

3. upside down stuff

4. miniaturized stuff

5. sliced stuff

6. neon light written stuff (especially literary quotes)

7. works unveiling art system’s contradictions

8. underwater stuff

9. invisible works of art

10. all kinds of pranks (you’re not funny)

update: here are some interesting addictions that popped up in my facebook profile:

11. skulls or other “cool” objects covered in diamonds (Manolo Remiddi)

12. all videostuff with “talking heads” (Aristarkh Chernyshev)

13. performance art involving nude bodies (Alexei Shulgin)


update n.2: Bruce Sterling just made his comments on the list, and added a very good one:

n.14 electronic-art installations with snarled, kinky, foot-snagging wiring

Dead Drop

Dead Drop is a project Aram Bartholl made as a part of his ongoing EYEBEAM residency in NYC:

“Dead Drops’ is an anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public space. I am ‘injecting’ USB flash drives into walls, buildings and curbs accessable to anybody in public space. You are invited to go to these places (so far 5 in NYC) to drop or find files on a dead drop. Plug your laptop to a wall, house or pole to share your files and date. Each dead drop contains a readme.txt file explaining the project. ‘Dead Drops’ is still in progress, to be continued here and in more cities.”

It reminds me a lot of a project I was involved in a couple of years ago. It was the “USB Gallery“, a public usb driven art gallery (an idea by artists Christian Posani and Francesco Carone). We had the same idea of spreading usb ports around the city, but in the end we didn’t :-)