Beneath Dignity was performed in September 1971 by artist Stuart Brisley, who had worked the previous year in a community of miners. This is what influenced Beneath Dignity, which reflects his sympathy and empathy for the miners that he worked with and their lowness and loneliness. The materials which he employed were water, chalk, powder (flour) and paint (black and white), and his work was spread out over 5 days, during which he amassed a large audience.
The ARTECHOUSE (combination of art, tech, and house) is an American innovative art space and destination for immersive and interactive art exhibitions — it focuses on artists who utilize innovative combinations of art and tech, and features an augmented reality cocktail bar.
Side note: pls I want to take a field trip
Uno Moralez is a Russian artist that focuses on pixelated lines and strange ideas. His gifs are especially interesting, considering that the pixelation gives them a strange feeling and they normally do not include color.
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British artist Tony Cragg regularly uses materials like plastic, fiberglass, bronze, and Kevlar to create fluid 3D sculptures and art installations. As someone who normally does graphics and more cartoon-ish art, Cragg’s fluidity is what I’m trying to work towards.
The Heads of State is a graphic design collaboration consisting of Jason Kernevich and Dustin Summers — together, they’ve worked on award-winning posters, book covers, branding, and illustrations for clients such as Nike, the New York Times, Starbucks, Penguin, and many musicians. Here is a link to an interview of them.
Here’s a link to some parodies of IKEA instruction manuals. I just thought they were witty and would be good inspiration for 1.2.
Kwon Young-woo (1926-2013) was an artist who specialized in dansaekhwa, a Korean genre of monochrome painting. Young-woo’s uniqueness came from experimenting with Korean rice paper, hanji, and Chinese ink, meok, which he would cut, rip, tear, and layer in order to add texture. While we are mostly working with digital artwork, I think this is an important example of how small things such as tweaking texture can affect the mood and aesthetic of a piece.
Foundations of Art, Design, + Digital Culture 