Some Very Sad News.. Gawker is reporting Young Artist, Dash Snow has died. Here’s the story from Gawker. http://gawker.com/5314284/dash-snow-downtown-artist-said-to-be-dead-of-overdose.. The story is also on the New York Times Website.. We at MAO loved his work.. particularly his totally brilliant artist books. He is a NY artist we at MAO will certainly miss. RIP.
Archive | July, 2009
Art and Code
Golan Levin has announced that many of the talks at Art & Code are available online to watch here. Below is a video of Ben Fry and Casey Reas talking about Processing and above Golan himself talking. Make sure to check out openFrameworks too.
Art & Code was a conference and continues to be an online [...]
Art Gallery 101
This week marks the publication of Edward Winkleman’s How to Start and Run a Commercial Art Gallery. For those familiar with Ed’s writing from ArtworldSalon—not to mention his own blog—the book may come as a surprise. Although fully qualified to speak as an art-world insider, armed with the requisite attitude …
Living Light
A project that caught my eye a while ago is ‘Living Light’ by The Living, architects in New York. It is a permanent public pavilion in Seoul that visualises air quality data from the city. Although according to their website it hasn’t been completed yet, images are starting to appear.
The lines represent neighborhoods so, broadly [...]
Shit We’re Diggin’: Evan Roth’s Graffiti Taxonomy: Paris, 2009
Evan Roth’s latest graffiti taxonomy project is now on display at Fondation Cartier’s Born In The Streets – Graffiti exhibition in Paris. It’s a study of the stylistic diversity found in Parisian graffiti tags. Evan photographed over 2,400 graffiti tags from April 24 to April 28, 2009 found in each of Paris’s 20 districts. Photographs were then archived, tagged and sorted by letter. The ten most commonly used letters by Paris graffiti writers were identified for further study (A,E,I,K,N,O,R,S,T and U). From each letter grouping, eighteen tags were isolated to represent the diversity and range of that specific character. Evan explains that the sets are not intended to display the “best” graffiti tags in Paris, but rather aim to highlight the diversity of forms ranging from upper case to lowercase, simple to complex and legible to cryptic.
Here’s a video, but be sure to also check out Fondation Cartier’s website for more info.
Graffiti Taxonomy: Paris, 2009 from Evan Roth on Vimeo.
