Posts Tagged ‘conceptual’

ITP

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

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I made it to the ITP show at NYU on Tuesday night. I have to admit I was a bit surprised -not exactly in the best of ways – with the show.
Some of the work was pretty good, be it technically or conceptually but in all, most of it was just so so. One of the things that struck me the most, was the fact that a lot of the projects were fairly simple ideas (which is a good thing in itself) yet their actual final presentation seemed incomplete and pretty ad hoc. If the idea isn’t the most complex thing, then at least the production of it should be impeccable.

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Want to Die for Art?

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

German artist Gregor Schneider is seeking a volunteer to die while on display in a gallery. “Unfortunately today, death and the road to death are about suffering. Coming to terms with death — as I plan it — can take away the pain of dying for us,” he said in an article published by Die Welt.

Read the CBC article here.

I’m working on some initial thoughts after the jump, I’ll finalize that posting later on.

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Bureau of Workplace Interruptions

Saturday, October 20th, 2007

bureau workplace interruptions

The Bureau of Workplace Interruptions is, in their own words: a ‘time stealing agency’. By harnessing ‘interrupting technologies’ they create temporal ruptures in the daily workplace routine. After submitting your request for interruption, they’ll consider the appropriate way to contact you based on occupation, workhours, etc. By working directly with employees, they ‘promise is to create interruptions that challenge the needs of our users and the social and economic conditions of the modern workplace’. Of course, the Bureau will strive to keep their actions invisible to your employer.

via [guerrilla innovation]