Culture Jamming

Bubble Project by Ji Lee

Since corporate ads dominates in public space, Ji Lee posts blank speech bubble stickers on top of ads in New York City to encourage people to write their thought or comments. People get involved with this project by filling the blank and transform "corporate monologues into open public dialogues."

Indetermancy

Luis Pascual, my partner's recipe.

Step 1:
Take a total of 12 photos, 3 photos for each topic/subject.

• make sure each photo is roughly the same size & dimension.
• make sure to desaturate or make all photos black & white.

Step 2: Divide all the photos into 12 equal quadrants, and create a blank layout sheet (also similar in size & dimension to the photos) also divided into 12 equal quadrants. 


Step 3:
For each photo you roll a set of dice (2 die) twice.

• First roll determines which piece to take from each photo corresponding to the number rolled.
• Second roll determines where the piece will be placed on the "blank layout" according to the number rolled. 

1. If a number is rolled again the piece on that number and all the images before it gets moved down one space. 
2. If there is a piece in slot#1 and has to be moved down, then it gets moved to slot#12 and so on and so forth.

3 photos from each subject:

• Organic
• Living
• Mechanical
• Technological

Extended Body

I thought about what part of my body I want to enhance with technology. I'm not fond of the idea to embed artificial or robotic materials in my body because it sounds painful, and then I came to think that I was satisfied with my body and its ability (it's obviously not perfect but I feel comfortable enough with it).
I got my idea from a conversation I had with my friend. She referred Karl Lagerfeld on fur that it has to be for the rich because, she explained, if fur were produced massively,that would degrade the value of fur. Though unsure about fur, I do appreciate leather's functionality, yet, in a way, I took that skin from animals. I realized how human skin was so weak and sensitive that we take animal's skin to cover our skin. So in the picture, I strengthen my skin....by growing fur. If the technology became developed enough to invent some sort of chemicals to have stronger skin, we would not have to kill animals or strip off their skin while they are alive.

Artists working with robots

Tweenbots by Kacie Kinzer

This tiny robot has a objective, to go across Washington Square Park, but it can only move straight. It needs to be guided by humans to achieve the goal.

Dean Kamen's Artificial Arm 

(this is not an artwork, but I post this anyway).

The inventor of Segway invented this advanced prosthetic arm, Luke Arm, for returning soldiers who lost their arms. 

The user controls the arm by nerves, muscles, and foot pedals.

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Chance Project

1. Identify your favorite adjective.

2. Google the images of the adjective you picked.

3. Look at the clock and see where the the short hand is on.
(If the short hand is between 1 to 5, count 1 as 13, 2 as 14, 3 as 15, 4
as 16, 5 as 17)

4. Pick the images first appeared on Google and as same number as the
short hand is on.

5. Choose a self-portrait that describes or matches the adjective.

6. Using photo editing software, make all the images
20% transparent.

7. Combine them all into one image.

8. Reverse the tone.

9. Take a break from working on this project..

10. Identify your least favorite adjective.

11. This time, look at your cell phone and identify the hour hand when
you last time made a phone call.

12. Repeat the same procedure (Step 4 to 8).

13. See what you got!

Lucky

Cute

Google Earth Art

Google's World by Alejo Malia on Flickr

Alejo Malia's series called "Google's World" represents some of the elements that we see in Google Maps in the realistic setting. I think that this series signifies today's way of using a map and, in a sense, that it is  not only a virtual reality, but happening in reality because, with GPS, Google Maps guides us as we move. Only thing is that we just don't see those icons in reality. But, this series intrigues me to put virtual icons into reality.


Space Junk Spotting by SAŠO SEDLAČEK

Space Junk Catalogue: KMZ File

Using Google Earth, the Slovenian artist created a catalogue of junk exist in outer space.The dilemma of this garbage dump is that the owners of space junk shirk their responsibility, but then they claim their ownership, thus it makes it impossible to clean up or recycle the garbage in space. The theme of his project is to question the limit of dumping garbage into space and the owner's responsibility of space junk, and suggest the possibility of recycling. Based on a database of a U.S. government-owned space observatory, he mapped the position of space garbage and the information of each piece of junk on Google Earth.

Stolen Identity

Aya Kowashi's facebook

My persona, Aya Kowashi, is a Japanese high school girl born and living in Tokyo. She's interested in cultural exchange particularly American (pop) culture. She only exists on facebook. 

The idea of creating my persona is a stereotype (I have) of Japanese girls. I have been overly thinking and analyzing Japanese girl's behavior I have few friends who are self-conscious and the problem I have with those girls is that they strive to look cute thought what they do doesn't appear to be cute to the others eyes. On her facebook, Aya uses many emoticons, hearts, stars, exclamations marks. She thinks adding those extra decorations are cute and will look cute to the others, too. But the fact is that Japanese culture tells girls what is cute and the girls just follow what the culture tells them, so "extra decorations are cute" is generated by the culture, not her true opinion. So, the behavior of Japanese girls is superficial and truly driven by their unconscious self-consciousness, and that's what my persona is.