I remember seeing KAWS work in San Francisco when I was temping in downtown office buildings. It was a black and white ad for something in a Market Street kiosk and there was a green, multi headed snake attacking the model in the photo. I remember studying it trying to figure out if it [...]
Throughout the media circus that is our election season, few have thought to query: but what do the Dutch think? Luckily, Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei and Jonas Staal have been in residence at InCUBATE here in Chicago working steadily on The Barack Obama Project. Their work hones in on the marketing of racial identity [...]
Come see the the Graffiti Research Lab’s DVD which draws sordid connections between the Graffiti Research Lab and the Anti-Advertising Agency. The back story of the AAA/GRL collaboration, Light Criticism, will be exposed, as well as an inside view of the Aqua Teen Boston Terror Meltdown of 2007 you’ll never see elsewhere!
Anti-Advertising Agency cohorts, [...]
I’ll be giving a short talk for part of Gelf Magazine’s Non-Motivational Speaker series. If you haven’t seen Abel Raises Cain, it’s great. And Ron English you’ve probably seen already. From Gelf’s site:
Culture jammers and pranksters will be this month’s topic. Featured speakers are Alan Abel, perhaps the most infamous prankster in American prank [...]
Ray Beldner: The Word on the Street March 28- June 14, 2008 at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art
From the exhibition description:
The Word on the Street, neon signs by Ray Beldner, is an installation in the gallery’s front windows at 560 South First Street. The Word on the Street is part of the ICA’s “Night [...]
This show includes some favorites of mine, Matt Siber and Hank Willis Thomas, and the site includes an Educator’s Guide for all you teachers. Nice!
This group exhibition brings together photo-based work that mimics or addresses the language of advertising and product photography as well as work that mines or alters catalogues, print ads, products, [...]
PeopleProducts123 reconnects labor and products through improved packaging which features images and stories about the workers who make them. This improved packaging is placed in stores using a technique called shopdropping, the opposite of shoplifting, in which items are clandestinely left in retail environments.
PeopleProducts123.com has downloadable pdfs so that anyone can print [...]
Today in the NY Times, CNN, and news stations across the country you may have heard about bomb scares in Boston that turned out to be guerilla marketing. It’s well known that marketing steals ideas from artists. But the connections are rarely so clear as they are in this case, and we don’t [...]
