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In the News
Who is Poster Boy? NEW!
Henry Matyjewicz says he's part of an art revolution that's bigger than one person. In his first interview since his arrest, he talks to MATT HARVEY about what Poster Boy means as a movement. From New York Press, February 18, 2009.
Environmental Artist – Anna Garforth
Mossenger is the brainchild of London-based artist, Anna Garforth. Inspired by guerilla gardening collectives, who aim to enrich dilapidated public spaces, and Andy Goldsworthy, a British artist who creates site-specific art installations from materials and tools found on site, Anna is currently working on an on-going moss street art project.
Ephemeral Art’s Lasting Impression: An Interview with Marc and Sara Schiller
That Mushroom Cloud? They’re Just Svejking Around
Anarchists in the Aisles? Stores Provide a Stage
Banksy, the celebrated graffiti artist, is caught in the act for first time
Leo Fitzmaurice: temporary art interventions
"Artist Draws 'Clean' Graffiti from Dirty Walls"
"Urban Outsider Artists Evoke Society's Margin"
"Spray can prankster tackles Israel's security barrier "
"Culture: Shepard Fairey Has a Posse"
Blogs
The Art of the Prank
Here you will find insights, information, news and discussions about pranks, hoaxes, culture jamming & reality hacking around the world - past, present and future - mainstream and counter culture.
Art Threat
Art Threat is a blog about politics and the arts. They write about political art of all genres, discuss policy as it pertains to culture, and showcase artists whose work inspires social change.
Whether your passion is video or visual art, design or drama, music or literary musings, they’ve got you covered by a blanket of information and eye candy.
Environmental Graffiti
Born in May 2007, Environmental
Graffiti is an eclectic mix of the most bizarre, funny and interesting environmental news on the planet. We search the vast realms of the internet on behalf of all environmentalists who don’t take themselves too seriously and compile it into a daily blog.
Groundswell
At the Groundswell Blog, we seek out and report on artists from around the globe who are using their talents for social change. We report on unique ways of communicating ideas about social justice, particularly through art and design.
Just Seeds/ Visual Resistance
Our blog covers political printmaking, socially engaged street art, and culture related to social movements. We believe in the power of personal expression in concert with collective action to transform society.
Rebel Art
REBEL:ART ist das internationale Medium und Netzwerk für Culture Jammer & Adbuster, Hacktivisten & Net Aktivisten, Street Artists & Street Vandalen, Post-Dadaisten & Retro-Neoisten, notorische Nervensägen & subversive Störenfriede.
Urban Communication
This is the official weblog of the Urban Communication Foundation. It is devoted to the ongoing discussion of the intersection between urban form, technology and communication.
The Wish Jar
Explorations of the familiar, by Keri Smith, author, illustrator, and guerrilla artist.
Collectives
The
Abbie Hoffman Brigade
The purpose of the Brigade is public propagation of activist art in a variety
of media and settings. The purposes of the art work varies dependent upon issues
generated within the public context. From the moment of conception all works
are public domain- there are no copyrights, only human rights.
Art
Attack International
During the past twenty years, Art Attack has expressed the multi-disciplinary
ideas and forms of over thirty artists through collaborative work. the composition
and roles of the group changes in response to the changing opportunities that
are presented to them. the process and result of the work is public and most
often the constructions are temporary. the realization of the work is shared,
responsive and visible; and is informed by the collaborative process including
neighborhood dynamics, and the interactive processes of site acquisition, resource
exploitation, design, and implementation.
Artists Meeting
Artists Meeting (A.M.) is a research project and experiment in the development of a local art community. Artists Meeting is the attempt to break through forms of current art production that are highly individual, precarious and uncritical, and reconnect to collective practices from former periods.
The Barnstormers
The Barnstormers are a collective of New York/Tokyo-based artists
who create large-scale collaborative paintings, films and performances.
Beige
Beige is a multimedia programming collective.
The
Billboard Liberation Front
Interventions with advertising, includes manifesto and tactical strategies.
Blue
Bricks
"This web-site represents an effort to engage with the environment
that surrounds us in a creative, original and active way. This is intended to
benefit the environment and its occupants. This engagement will add oddity,
colour and new ideas into our surroundings."
The Cacophony
Society
The Cacophony Society is a randomly gathered network of individuals united in
the pursuit of experiences beyond the pale of mainstream society through subversion,
pranks, art, fringe explorations and meaningless madness.
The
Center for Tactical Magic
The Center for Tactical Magic engages in extensive research,
development, and deployment of the pragmatic system known as Tactical Magic.
A fusion force summoned from the ways of the artist, the magician, the ninja,
and the private investigator, Tactical Magic is an amalgam of disparate arts
invoked for the purpose of actively addressing Power on individual, communal,
and transnational fronts. At the CTM we are committed to achieving the Great
Work of Tactical Magic through community-based projects, daily interdiction,
and the activation of latent energies toward positive social transformation.
The Coalition
to Raise Aesthetic Consciousness
An organization dedicated to
raising the level of aesthetic awareness and reflection of the man and woman
on the street. CRAC was formed several years ago by a small enclave of ordinary
citizens concerned about the ever-increasing uglification of our world. Includes
their manifesto, membership opportunities, Operation Ugly-Aware, and news.
Critical
Art Ensemble
Critical Art Ensemble is a collective of five artists of various
specializations dedicated to exploring the intersections between art, technology,
radical politics, and critical theory.
The Cut Up Collective
CutUp are an anonymous collective of artists based in East London, who work in outdoor intervention, film and sound installation. Their work focuses largely on the processes of disruption inherent in the everyday and on the reconfiguring of pre-existing systems within the urban environment.
The
Deconstructionist Institute for Surreal Topology
The Deconstructionist Institute for Surreal Topology specializes in Revolutionary
Studies, and the advancement of Applied Autonomy.
e-Xplo
Based in Berlin and New York City, e-Xplo includes Heimo Lattner,
Rene Gabri, and Erin McGonigle. e-Xplo develops maps, routes, sound and film
materials as reflections of a multifaceted investigation into location, context,
social identity, landscape, and the public space of information.
Flux Factory
Inc.
Welcome to Flux Factory Inc. A 501 (c)(3) not-for-profit organization
supporting innovation in things.
General
Idea
A site dedicated to the work of General Idea formed in 1969 by AA Bronson, Felix
Partz and Jorge Zontal.
Glowlab
Glowlab - Collective working in psychogeography and an international project
called Active Slumming.
Guerrilla
Girls
Guerrilla Girls official website - fighting discrimination with facts, humor,
and fake fur since 1985
Illegal Art
Illegal Art, started in the summer of 2001, is a collaborative of artists whose goal is to create interactive public art to inspire self-reflection, thought and human connection. Each piece is then presented or distributed in a method in which participation is simple and encouraged.
Improv Everywhere
Improv Everywhere causes scenes of chaos and joy in public places. Created in August of 2001 by Charlie Todd, Improv Everywhere has executed over 80 missions involving thousands of undercover agents. The group is based in New York City.
Instant
Coffee
Instant Coffee is a service oriented artist collective that initiates
and facilitates the creation and execution of artist's projects.
The
Institute for Applied Autonomy
(IAA) was founded in 1998 as a technological research and development
organization dedicated to the cause of individual and collective self-determination.
Our mission is to study the forces and structures which affect self-determination
and to provide technologies which extend the autonomy of human activists. Technologies
include "Little Brother," a propaganda robot, and "Streetwriter,"a
custom built, computer controlled industrial spray painting unit that prints
text messages onto pavement.
Just Seeds
Justseeds/Visual Resistance Artists' Cooperative is a decentralized community of artists who have banded together to both sell their work online in a central location and to collaborate with and support each other and social movements.
Madagascar
Institute
The Madagascar Institute is an art combine in Brooklyn that specializes
in large-scale sculptures and rides, live performances, and guerilla art events.
Northern Arts
Tactical Offensive
Northern Arts Tactical Offensive - a collective resurgence of
radical art - "purveryors of the finest subversive political street art."
The
Organism
A site by the collective, The Organism. Includes the Institute for the Preservation
of Bad Art and pyschogeographical projects.
The
Pink Bloque
The Pink Bloque was founded in 2002. Its first organized protest was May Day
and took issue with wage inequities. Since then it has protested the U.S. Patriot
Act, the Transatlantic Business Dialogue and the war in Iraq, familiar targets
for protesters.
The Praxis
Group
The Praxis Group is a Minneapolis-based unit which stages site-specific, unsanctioned
and unsolicited projects within the confines of public spaces which are privately
owned.
REBAR
REBAR is a collaborative group of creators, designers and activists
based in San Francisco. Rebar’s work ranges broadly in scale, scope and
context, and therefore belies discrete categorization. It is, at minimum, situated
in the domains of environmental installation, urbanism and absurdity.
Reclaim
the Streets
Reclaim the Streets is a direct action network for global and
local social-ecological revolution(s) to transcend hierarchical and authoritarian
society, (capitalism included), and still be home in time for tea.
Reverend
Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping Gospel Choir
Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping Gospel Choir believe
that Consumerism is overwhelming our lives.They stage campaigns such as retail
interventions to stop the shopping!
REPOhistory
REPOhistory began in Manhattan in 1989 as a study group of artists,
scholars, teachers, and writers focused on the relationship of history to contemporary
society. It grew into a forum for developing public art projects based on history
and a platform for creating them.
Scultura
Home page of the activist art group, Scultura, headed up by Mike
Garibaldi.
Space Hijackers
The Space Hijackers are a group of Anarchitects which was set up at the beginning of 1999. Our group is dedicated to battling the constant oppressive encroachment onto public spaces of institutions, corporations and urban planners. We oppose the way that public space is being eroded and replaced by corporate profit making space.
Spiral Q Puppet Theater
Reflecting both its origins and its evolution, Spiral Q has designed a unique model that connects our five program areas (Peoplehood, The Education Initiative, Neighborhood Parades and Pageants, Performances, and The Living Loft) into an emerging citywide Urban Arts Democracy.
Spurse
Spurse is an international architectural collective with no fixed
content or members. Since 1998, they ahve been dedicated to experimentation
with a trans-urban milieu, producing numerous interventions ranging from buildings
to performance to installation to texts.
Temporary
Services
Temporary Services is a group of three persons: Brett Bloom,
Marc Fischer, and Salem Collo-Julin. We embed the creative work we present within
thoughtful and imaginative social contexts and strive to create participatory
situations. We champion public projects that are temporary,
ephemeral, or that operate outside of conventional or officially sanctioned
categories of public expression.
Visual
Resistance
Visual Resistance is a crew of 8 or 9 artists and activists based
in Brooklyn. We first came together to organize the No RNC Poster Project in
summer 2004. We use art to transform and liberate public space. We are involved
in local struggles around public space, urban development, freedom of speech,
and political repression.
The
Wooster Collective
The Wooster Collective was founded in 2001. This site is dedicated to showcasing
and celebrating ephemeral art placed on streets in cities around the world.
Workhorse
Studios
Formed in 1996, Workhorse Studios is the vision of Logan Hicks,
a classically trained artist who cut his teeth on the urban Baltimore street
scene, currently resides in Los Angeles. Workhorse is active in the urban arts
scene, and also does commercial design work. They are collaborating on a new
project with the Wooster Collective from Boston.
The Yes
Men
The Yes Men have impersonated some of the world's most powerful criminals at
conferences, on the web, and on television, in order to correct their identities.
Art and Activism
Bill Fisher
Page on censored work in Georgia, public arts proposal, etc.
hosted by printmaker and activist Bill Fisher.
Art-Anon
Art-Anon is a loose confederate of New York City-based artists
interested in hacking into the established power structure and offering a self-empowering
alternative to all other repressed or disenfranchised folk.
Bikes Against Bush
Bikes Against Bush is an interactive protest/performance occurring simultaneously
online and on the streets of NYC during the Republican National Convention.
Using a wireless Internet enabled bicycle outfitted with a custom-designed printing
device, the Bikes Against Bush bicycle can print text messages sent from web
users directly onto the streets of Manhattan in water-soluble chalk.
Nobody Died
"Nobody Died When Clinton Lied" is a guerilla slogan campaign
spreading the word via t-shirts and bumperstickers. The web site also keeps
a blog of viewer sightings.
BTS
Break the Silence Mural and Arts Project (BTS) is an arts/activist
group committed to using creative projects to facilitate social change and greater
awareness of the complexities of the conflict in Occupied Palestine.
Billionaires for Bush
Billionaires for Bush is a strategic media and street theater
campaign whose combustible mix of humor, savvy messaging, grassroots participation,
and cutting edge internet organizing tools will flush out the truth about the
Bush administration's disastrous economic policies and help turn the fatcats
out of power in November.
Flash Mobs
Flash mobs are sudden gatherings of people at a predetermined
location at a predetermined time. People in flash mobs usually perform
according to a written script, then disperse quickly.
The Surveillance Camera Players
The Surveillance Camera Players protest against the use of surveillance
cameras in public places by performing specially adapted plays in front of these
cameras.
Republic Art
Republic Art is a transnational research project exploring and developing progressive
practices of public art.
http://www.wsu.edu/~amerstu/smc/art.html
Art activism links
Public Art as Social Intervention
Public Art as Social Intervention, a site housed at Concordia University in
Montreal and created for symposium on public art. Includes examples of interventions
and an extensive bibliography.
Art in the Public Interest
Art in the Public Interest (API) is a nonprofit organization that supports the
belief that the arts are an integral part of a healthy culture, and that community-based
arts provide significant value both to communities and artists.
Santarchy
Each December for the last 10 years Cacophonous Santas have been taking to streets
in major metropolitan areas and generating a bit of naughty Noël mayhem.
It all started back in 1994 when several dozen Cheap Suit Santas paid a visit
to downtown San Francisco for a night of Kringle Kaos. Things have now reached
Critical Xmas and these infamous Santacons are now held in over a dozen cities
each year.
Graffiti and Street Art
20 Masterpieces of Green Graffiti
Welcome to the world of green graffiti – masterpieces crafted in moss and grass. Here you’ll find some of the most incredible works of this rare and unusual art form and how to make it yourself.
50mm Los Angeles
L.A.'s first Graffiti Art website established in 1996 by Too
Tall Jahmal and designed by veteran L.A. graf artist Unit One. Check the gallery
for freights, bombs, productions and more.
Art Crimes
A gallery of graffiti art from around the world.
Banksy
British art activist
Guerrilla One
Great archives of guerilla art work
Little People - A Tiny Street Art Project
Little handpainted people left on the streets in London to fend for themselves.
Obey Giant
Obey Giant Art, a guerilla stickering/postering group? individual? started by
Shepard Fairey. Gives guerilla tactics and an extensive list of links to other
guerilla sites.
Reverse Graffiti - 35 great works
Welcome to the world of reverse graffiti, where the artist’s weapons are cleaning materials and where the enemy is the elements: wind, rain, pollution and decay. It’s an art form that removes dust or dirt rather than adding paint. From the blog, Environtmental Graffiti.
Robbie Conal and Art Attack
Robbie Conal and Art Attack. L.A. based painter and guerilla posterer Robbie
Conal.
Ron English's billboards
Artist and culture jammer Ron English's illegal billboards. Check
out the article about him from the link, "Here's the Latest Billboard Event."
Space
Invaders
Space Invaders has inspired a form of street art, championed
in partular by an artist named "Invader". Using ceramic tiles, Invader
cements together mosaic images of traditional Space Invader aliens, bonus spaceships,
and variations on those themes.
Stencil Archive
A site that focuses on documenting stencil art around a number
of cities.
Stencil Revolution
One of the best and most complete art stencil websites with
tons of images, artist profiles, tutorials on stenciling methods, news on art,
links, etc.
Stensoul
Site of Peat Wollaeger, St. Louis stencil and graffiti artist.
Streetsy
Streetsy is a daily street art site whose goal is to create the largest curated street art site on the web. Streetsy defines street art as being art created in public places, often without permission. Street art is made in a number of mediums, including stencils, stickers, posters, paint, and sculpture. In mathematical, political, criminal, and philosophical terms, streetart is a subset of graffiti.
Urban and Adventurous Artists
Incomplete encyclopedia of Urban & Adventurous Artists. Includes a great
annotated history and illustrations of public projects.
WK Interact
Street artist who's hit the big time doing projects for Adidas
and Dr. Martens. Large scale figurative public work.
Urban Intervention
Bon Marche
Collaborative artists, Sylvia Winkler and Stephan Koperl performed this intervention on the street following a busy market day in the Bastille area of Paris. After the vegetable market they collected the leftovers and
used them to cook a meal, which they ate on site.
Tonefield
Tonefield: A 'field of tones,' covertly installed by TMP in public spaces stretching from the Williamsburg bridge to Greenpoint (Brooklyn, New York), in operation from September 23 - October 1, 2005. Piezo-devices emitting tones of 4,000Hz from cracks in concrete, street signs, traffic signals, garbage and all manner of urban detritis. A spatio-temporal composition 'conducted' by the drifting of an incidental audience and those seeking out TMP's re-shaping of the Williamsburg drone-scape. The text,"Tonefield" or the Power of the Ephemeral in Urban Space, is written by Sabu Kohso.
The Urban Prankster Network
Social network page for groups and pranksters around the country to network and share projects.
Culture Jamming
Abrupt
Abrupt’s culture jamming page
Adbusters
Adbusters - We are a global network of artists, activists, writers, pranksters,
students, educators and entrepreneurs who want to advance the new social activist
movement of the information age. Our aim is to topple existing power structures
and forge a major shift in the way we will live in the 21st century.
Anti Advertising Agency
The Anti-Advertising Agency co-opts the tools and structures used by the advertising and public relations industries. Our work calls into question the purpose and effects of advertising in public space. Through constructive parody and gentle humor our Agency’s campaigns will ask passers by to critically consider the role and strategies of today’s marketing media as well as alternatives for the public arena. Our work may result in traditional advertising formats - signs, posters, postcards, and stickers - or more conventional artistic formats - performance, installation, artists books - or some combination of the two.
Manifestos
http://www.brucemaudesign.com/incomplete_manifesto.html
Burce Mau Design's Incomplete Manifesto.
Written in 1998, the Incomplete Manifesto is an articulation of statements exemplifying Bruce Mau’s beliefs, strategies and motivations.
http://imoralist.blogspot.com/2008/02/improvised-artistic-device.html
Michael Buitron's manifesto advocates the use of "Improvised Artistic Devices."
http://www.spacehijackers.co.uk/html/manifesto.html
The manifesto of the UK based group, The Space Hijackers
http://www.spunk.org/library/anarcfem/sp001291.txt
Valerie Solanas' SCUM Manifesto was written in 1967 and published in 1968, the year she shot and wounded Andy Warhol.
http://www.transhumanist.biz/extropic.htm
Extropic Art Manifesto of Transhumanist Arts
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Labyrinth/8584/howto.html
How to write a manifesto
http://www.stuckism.com/manifest.html
a list of links to manifestos
http://www.aisling.net/bus/cheapart.htm
Here is the Cheap Art Manifesto, originally distributed by the
Bread and Puppet Theater in 1984.
http://www.abrupt.org/CJ/manifesto.html
Culture jamming group Abrupt’s manifesto
http://www.pugzine.com/arch12.html
Antonin Artaud's manifesto
Other links
Resurrected Dead
A Hot Weather Activity for Lonely Asphalt Near You (Toynbee style)
Peel Magazine
Peel Magazine - stickers, stencils, and street art - site includes
subscription info, a forum for sticker discussions, and more.
Guerrilla Innovation
Copenhagen based Sebastian Campion has put this fantastic site
together demonstrating "TECHNOCULTURAL TRENDS, RESEARCH & CREATIVE
INTERVENTION." Public art and web site categories are Activistic, Architectural,
Audible, Cinematic, Conceptual, Graphic, Scientific, Sensorial, Strategic, Surface,
Wireless.
ARTEXTE Information Centre
ARTEXTE Information Centre, Quebec, provides an extensive, searchable
database of public art projects done in Quebec and Canada since the 1960's.
WIPP - Sandia National Lab
An awesome design challenge for the public realm. Sandia National
Laboratories charged a panel of outside experts with the task to design a 10,000-year
marking system for the WIPP (Waste Isolation Pilot Plant) site, and estimate
the efficacy of the system against various types of intrusion.
Bread and Puppet Theater
The Bread and Puppet Theater (often known simply as Bread &
Puppet) is a politically radical puppet theater, active since the 1960s, currently
based in Glover, Vermont. Its founder and director is Peter Schumann.
The name Bread & Puppet derives from the theater's practice of sharing its
own fresh bread, for free, with the audience of each performance as a means
of creating community, and from its central principle that art should be as
basic to life as bread.
Poetic Terrorism
The concept of poetic terrorism as described by anarchist writer Hakim Bey (Peter Lamborn Wilson) from his book, T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism.
Printed Matter
Printed Matter, Inc. – the world’s largest non-profit dedicated to
the promotion of publications made by artists in a book like format.
Fluxus
FLUXUS PORTAL FOR THE INTERNET
Negativland
Counter culture group Negativland’s site
Creative Time
For 30 years, Creative Time, a New York-based nonprofit organization, has commissioned
and presented adventurous public arts projects of all disciplines. From the
Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage, Grand Central Terminal, and Times Square to milk
cartons, the Internet, and billboards, Creative Time has supported artists in
invigorating our urban landscape.
Free Words
FREE WORDS is a book which belongs to whoever finds it. 3000 copies have been
produced by artist Sal Randolph and are being distributed free worldwide. The
books are placed on the shelves of bookstores and libraries creating an art
situation that infiltrates public and commercial space.
http://www.ibiblio.org/stayfree/9/adbusters.htm
More Culture Jamming info
Bureau of Public Secrets
Bureau of Public Secrets’ Minimum Definition of Revolutionary Organizations.
Not Bored
NOT BORED! is an anarchist, situationist-inspired, low-budget, irregularly published,
photocopied journal.
The Gunk Foundation
The Gunk Foundation – a charitable organization awarding grants for the
production of non-traditional public art projects. Site contains info on applying
for grants and an archive of previous recipient work.
Situationist Inernational and Psychogeography
http://socialfiction.org/psychogeography/index.html
Generative psychogeography
http://www.socialfiction.org/index.html
Psychogeography site. Self described carthographic sadism, gabber avant- gardism,
disco socialism, peripatetic hedonism, autonomous spacetravel
http://www.nothingness.org/
Links to Situationists International and Social Anarchism, and a great list
of on-line Art and Culture links.
http://www.monoculartimes.co.uk/city-tours/psychogeography/workingdefinition.shtml
Working definition of pyschogeography
http://www.notbored.org/organization.html
The question of organization for the Situationist International, written by
founder Guy Debord in 1968.
Articles
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerilla_art
Guerrilla Art definition and citations, from Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia.
http://r-s-g.org/carnivore/press/cotter.htm
"Doing Their Own Thing, Making Art Together", an article
by Holand Cotter about contemporary artists' collaboratives.
http://gregorysholette.com/writings/writing_index.html
A large list of articles and links written by Gregory Sholette,
one of the founding members of REPOhistory.