The Banksy Film: Exit Through The Gift Shop

admin — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:51:48 +0000

Well it looks like urban guerrilla legend Banksy has finally gone and got a film of himself done. Doing what he does. Mainly on walls. With Stencils. Being dubbed a “Street art disaster movie” I’m intrigued to see how it turns out. No doubt a heady, action packed, tongue-in-cheek adventure with a healthy dose of anti-capitalism awaits.

Park City piece of four. Promoting the film.

Official Trailer

Grinding raises a good point, asking:

Am I wrong in assuming he’ll just throw up a bittorrent server and we’ll all have our own guerrilla screenings?

A brief tour of flickr finds some of his work. A little gallery with my personal favorites available below.

Exit Through The Gift Shop is due to open in UK cinemas on 5 March.

Decode: Digital Design Sensations. V&A Digital Art Exhibition.

admin — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:48:47 +0000

From the 8th Decemebr 2009 till the 11th April 2010. The Victoria & Albert Museum in London will be hosting a unique exhibition. Decode: Digital Design Sensations exploring the creative applications of Data.

Decode: Digital Design Sensations showcases the latest developments in digital and interactive design, from small, screen-based, graphics to large-scale interactive installations. The exhibition includes works by established international artists and designers such as Daniel Brown, Golan Levin, Daniel Rozin, Troika and Karsten Schmidt. The exhibition features both existing works and new commissions created especially for the exhibition.

Decode is a collaboration between the V&A and onedotzero, a contemporary arts organisation operating internationally with a remit to promote innovation across all forms of moving image and interactive arts.

Visitor Information

8 December 2009–11 April 2010

Daily 10.00–17.30
(last ticket sold 16.45, last entry 17.00)
Fridays 10.00–21.30
Exhibition closes 15 minutes prior to the Museum closing.
(last ticket sold 20.45, last entry 21.00)

Closed 24–26 December

Victoria and Albert Museum
Cromwell Road
London SW7
+44 (0)20 7942 2000
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Radiohead: 3D Open-Source Music Video

One of the featured exhibitions, which initially came to my attention in 2007, is Radiohead’s ‘House of Cards’ Music Video. The video was created using no cameras or lights. Instead, 3D plotting technologies collected information about the shapes and relative distances of objects. The video was created entirely with visualizations of that data.

Recode Decode – Your chance to participate in the Decode Exhibition

As part of the exhibition, Karsten Schmidt was commisioned to design a digital identity for the exhibition using open-source code. Members of the public are being invited to take this source-code and come up with their own interpretations. A number of the recoded works submitted will be chosen by the V&A and CBS to appear on London Underground digital screens to promote the exhibition.