M-CITY visited Mexico during the month of August 2011 leaving six walls in different areas of the city and the country.
This visit was thanks to the collaboration between MAMUTT and the Antique Toy Museum Mexico. Gonzalo, from MAMUTT says that in January, Roa is going to hit the town… let´s wait for more beautiful pieces!
Nice video showing all the process of one of those murals..!
Designed and Produced by Katy Beveridge.
Sound Design by Stefan Neidermyer.
“This is a piece created to question whether it was possible to film animation in realtime. I developed this project based on what is being done in animation right now as well as a lot of primary research into the history of animation techniques.”
Through a clever shift of perspective, Korean artist Junebum Park transforms the most ordinary of environments into extraordinary scenes in which the artist’s hands interfere with the forces and currents in a way that is both comic and timely.
one take impromptu film made in Tokyo by Dennis Wheatley and Stefan McClean.
“We were sitting in this sushi bar pondering how best to set up a camera to film things all by itself whilst we were in Tokyo.
Take our hands out of the equation… let the camera have its own journey.”
Hektor is a portable Spray-paint Output Device for laptop computers. It was created in close collaboration with engineer Uli Franke for Jürg Lehni’s diploma project at écal (école cantonale d’art de Lausanne) in 2002.
On May 3rd 2008, artists Robin Hewlett and Ben Kinsley invited the Google Inc. Street View team and residents of Pittsburghs Northside to collaborate on a series of tableaux along Sampsonia Way. Neighbors, and other participants from around the city, staged scenes ranging from a parade and a marathon, to a garage band practice, a seventeenth century sword fight, a heroic rescue and much more…
Street View technicians captured 360-degree photographs of the street with the scenes in action and integrated the images into the Street View mapping platform. This first-ever artistic intervention in Google Street View made its debut on the web in November of 2008.
An incredible cast of real-life characters contributed their time, energy and talents to creating pseudo-street life on Sampsonia Way. Please check out the scene breakdown and the participant page to learn more about the artists, groups and participants that made Street with a View possible.
“Wherever they go, they try to make something that makes sense for the neighborhood, and the community. And they always make something positive, something the artists hope people can enjoy — regardless of whether life has greeted them with great fortune. Armed with a vision and their cans of spray paint, El Mac and Retna will transform a forgotten wall into a piece of art.”
A short documentary which chronicles a first-of-its-kind public art mural project which took place in Rochester, NY in July 2011. The project involved local artists and a group of four artists from Cape Town, SA who shared their talents. Several murals were painted in hopes of inspiring the Rochester community.
In reference to Pierre-Joseph Proudhon who was a French politician, mutualist philosopher and socialist. He was a member of the French Parliament, and he was the first person to call himself an “anarchist”. He is considered among the most influential theorists and organisers of anarchism.
Proudhon, who was born in Besançon, in a house very close to the wall I´ve painted.
His best-known assertion is that Property is Theft! (La propriété c´est le vol) contained in his first major work, What’s property?
The Happiness Hat, by Lauren Mccarthy, is a wearable device that detects if you’re smiling and provides pain feedback if you’re not. An enclosed bend sensor attaches to the cheek and measures smile size, a servo motor moves a metal spike into the head inversely proportional to the degree of smile. Through repeated use of this conditioning device you can train your brain to smile all the time. This is the first in a series of Tools for Improved Social Interacting.