QR codes rule!

QR Cloud Project by Golfstrommen

I for one, am a great fan of QR codes - I think they're a really interesting and interactive way of connecting with your consumers and encouraging more online/digital interaction. In Japan, they're a big thing, featured almost everywhere, from magazines to shop windows to product aisles in supermarkets - it's a quick way for consumers to get more information on a product and to receive exclusive deals/coupons. It's also a way to track who your consumer is - though slightly bordering on privacy issues, I think QR codes should be embraced more in today's marketing world. Using it across different media platforms and channels will be interesting and maybe even using it for branding purposes as this company has started doing: an application that allows you to barcode your online profile and identity as a branding tool!

http://jumpscan.com/

Anyway, you can only imagine my excitement when Golfstrommen came up with the idea of using QR codes as a new way to disseminate art! Genius! I love the idea of making art consumable like products - in today's byte-sized and snappy culture, taking the time out to really enjoy and savor the arts is a luxury. So, having the ability to access art while you're on the go and having stored into a digital database for later viewing is a great way to go about promoting the arts to a wider audience! Imagine having QR codes at museums, where you can download a thumbnail of your favorite artwork with a quick discussion about the work, all on your phone! two thumbs up!

For more information on the project, visit http://golfstromen.nl/work/qr-cloud-project/

Color me bad!

Softlab studios has designed a fabulous installation at the Bridge Gallery in NYC entitled "Chromatex.me". Printed on high gloss paper and held together by paper clips (?!) the installation will transform the gallery into a virtual color tunnel/vortex. I can just imagine how great it'll be...it's like walking into a real life visualization of a 3-d vortex drawing.

full story here

it's all a matter of perspective

brilliant typography work/installation by joseph egan + hunter thomson.





http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/8/view/11093/joseph-egan-hunter-thomson-anamorphic-typography.html



which also brings to mind the work of Felice Varini - I love the play on perspectives and interactivity between the viewer and the work.


the last piece by varini was done in Singapore as part of the Singapore Biennial in '08? coolness! props to my peeps!!

pass the paper bag please...

In the event that you got slightly queasy from looking at creepy people, let me lend you a helping hand and pass you a paper bag...(sorry for the lame joke)

not just any paper bag, but one that has been meticulously handled to form a 3D miniature of a tree that hangs delicately from the roof of the paper bag. From McDonald's to Tiffany's to any form of paper product, Japanese artist Yuken Teruya creates minute pieces of work that resemble shadow theatre and speaks very much of a Japanese aesthetic of intricate handiwork

creepy old men...

Recently came across the work of Bernardi Roig...

all i can say is that it's creepy, but sublime in a 'Twilight Zone' kind of way. It's also kind of transfixing - maybe it's all the light. But i like it..in fact i'm fascinated by his work!

They are almost like happenings, yet at the same time they have a Dan Flavin quality to it - 'interventions' between the 2D and 3D plane I believe was what I got from that lecture on conceptual art... It's contemplative, eerie, voyeuristic in some sense and yet perfectly calming...

it's a hawt mess... in a good way.

Bernardi is represented by Claire Oliver in NYC

:: not for the faint of heart ::

Saw this artist's work at the Scope Art Fair in NYC last year - Jordan Eagles is a NYC based artist who suspends, encases and permanently preserves animal blood in plexiglass and UV resin. Like a scene out of a gory b-grade horror flick, Eagle's works can make you nauseous and mesmerized all at once. It's like driving by a car wreck, you don't wanna look, but you can't help it... morbid but interesting.

In his own words:
"This technique is designed to retain the blood’s natural colors and textures and to expose its finite details. When lit, the works become more translucent, cast shadows, and project a glow onto the wall behind them. This effect reveals multiple layers of organic material floating in clear resin and makes the works appear as if they are illuminated from the inside. For the blood-lit environments, I use overhead projectors to shine and enlarge patterns from translucent blood panels into spaces. The color photographs document models covered in blood light. The blood light abstracts their bodies and appears as new layers of skin, epidermal diseases, tattoos, and natural birthmarks. The materials and luminosity in this new body of work relate to themes of corporeality, mortality, spirituality, and science—regenerating the blood as sublime."

Vampire Bill and Vampire Eric would be big time collectors of his work... and might even prove useful in case of emergencies or a 'blood famine'..haha!

Jordan's work is currently on show in "Re-Creation", Ogilvy's debut exhibition at its new office, The Chocolate Factory

:: Technicolor dreams... ::

Brooklyn based artist Jeremy Earhart creates trippy fluorescent/black light sculptures that border on rave party/kitsch/creative genius! Doesn't hurt that they're really pretty as well.

In his own words:

"My work feeds on symbols culled from the annals of Young America, allegorical religious imagery. By taking these symbols out of their original context and layering them together my work creates an arena for debate, personal contemplation and escape from our current socio-political condition. It also questions what these images mean while exploring how they are interpreted and/or rethought within our contemporary context."

Jeremy is represented by Goff + Rosenthal Gallery in NYC.