Archives for posts tagged ‘commerce’

Ryan Mandell

Ryan Mandell Work from Social Velocity @ Redux Contemporary. “The psychological state of a society, its tendencies, hopes, and fears, are illuminated by the structures it chooses to create, and the ways in which those structures are used. Architecture is initially born from, and dictated by human need and desire. However, once a structure is […]

Absis Minas

Absis Minas Work from Free Money. “Communication is an outmoded form of communication. Lack of ambiguity and totality of statement can be achieved only through action: kissing, hugging, cumming, beating, maiming, bombing, killing. Or it can be achieved by making everything the same – a compression of all words into the holy syllable “blah,” and […]

Marysia llewandowska and Neil Cummings

Marysia llewandowska and Neil Cummings Work from Museum Futures. “It explores a possible genealogy for contemporary art practice and its institutions, by re-imagining the role of artists, museums, galleries, markets, and academies in the world dominated by a shrinking public sphere.” – Marysia llewandowska via i heart photograph.

Andrew Norman Wilson

Andrew Norman Wilson Work from Virtual Assistance. Virtual Assistane will be showing at Extra Extra‘s new space @ 1524 Frankford Ave in Philadelphia starting January 7th at 6:00. “Andrew Norman Wilson and Akhil C. The Virtual Assistance project began with research geared towards unpacking the relational system of Get Friday, a virtual personal assistant service based in […]

Alessandro Ludovico and Paolo Cirio

Alessandro Ludovico and Paolo Cirio Work from Google Will Eat Itself. “One of Google’s main revenue generators is the “Adsense”* program: It places hundreds of thousands of little Google text-ads on websites around the world. Now we have set up a vast amount of such Adsense-Accounts for our hidden Web-Sites. For each click we receive […]

Stephanie Syjuco

Stephanie Syjuco Work from her Temporal Aggregate/ Social Configuration (Borrowed Beuys) and Unsolicited Fabrications: Shareware Sculptures. “My recent projects use objects and surfaces that look strangely familiar, manipulating conventions of style and structure to create “mixed-use” items. I have focused my work on issues of “illicit capitalism”—bootlegs, knock-offs, and the reworked commodity—in an attempt to […]

Sebastjan Leban & Staš Kleindienst

Sebastjan Leban & Staš Kleindienst Work from Buy Your Own Art Experience. Catalog available here. “One of the fundamental problems of the art world, the art market and last but not least art in general is their attachment to the original as some kind of fetish, which of course is properly evaluated as all the […]