Positive Disturbances

Game about becoming poor

2010-10-25T22:32:00.001-07:00

An educational/serious game about the experience of being/becoming poor. Targeted at students of secundairy schools in Europe. All video is actual ingame footage. Game is made in UNITY3D and can be played in a standard webbrowser

A project by Grin Bvba - www.grin.be

Het adobe online Museum?

2010-10-24T08:37:00.000-07:00

Why construct expensive museum buildings? Look at this online museum with a first exhibition of Tony Oursler. Next exhibition is Mariko Mori.
http://www.adobemuseum.com/

Da Vinci and a Stella Artois?

2010-10-23T10:02:00.000-07:00

Stella Artois has unveiled The Trap at the corner of Bloor & Avenue in Toronto. The installation, which will "tour" other major international cities, is 5 meters high & weighs more than 2 tons. In the middle of The Trap sits a pint of Stella. The campaign includes an online game, "Le Defi" & some cool coasters. According to Maria Guest, marketing manager of Stella Artois, the installation demonstrates the lenghts someone might go to in order to protect their Stella. The Trap is an impressive structure of steel and wood which looked like something out of a Leonardo da Vinci sketchbook.

Agency: Lowe Roche Toronto & Jack Morton & HBSource.

Stella Artois "The trap"

The road communicates with you!

2010-10-23T09:39:00.001-07:00

MINI of BMW is using advanced technology to communicate directly with drivers through talking billboards called MINI Motorby. Instead of seeing billboards with the same mind-numbing casino ad, these boards feature a changing array of unique, personal and unexpected messages which are triggered by the MINI owner utilizing Radio Frequency Identification Technology (RFID)â€”the same kind used in passports and credit cards. The billboards generate customized content to owners carrying active RFID tags in real-time, using information provided by the owners. Messages will be spelled out in lights on billboards in New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Miami locations.

I want you to want me!

2010-10-23T09:09:00.000-07:00

I Want You To Want Me chronicles the world’s long-term relationship with romance, across all ages, genders, and sexualities, gathering new data from a variety of online dating sites every few hours. The system searches these sites for certain phrases, which it then collects and stores in a database. The data is presented as an interactive installation, displayed on a 56” high-resolution touch screen, hung vertically on a wall in a dark room. On screen is an interactive sky, whose weather (sunny, cloudy, rainy, snowy, etc.) can be controlled by the viewer. Through the sky float hundreds of blue (male) and pink (female) balloons, each representing a single dating profile. The brighter balloons are younger people; the darker balloons older. This is a project by Kem Samvar and Jonathan Harris

Surviving the office...

2010-10-23T08:55:00.001-07:00

Last year in the Kiasma museum of Helsinki (Finland) I saw the work 'Return of the Strange Trainee' by the artist Pilvi Takala. The artist stayed for two months in a company of one of the sponsors of the museum : Deloitte. Her strange behaviour caused different reactions from the employees who couldn't understand why she got the job. Later on these reactions such as angry mails to the director or funny remarks were recollected and presented in the museum.

You don't have to visit the museum to disturb it

2010-10-23T08:43:00.000-07:00

In coöperation with the firm Siemens (directeur Philip Maertens) the artist Kris Vleeschouwer created the work Glassworks. Each time someboy dropped old glass in a container somewhere in the city, a machine in a museum dropped a glass on a museum floor.

This project was realised by Arteconomy - Julie Vandenbroucke

Art along the road

2010-10-23T08:29:00.000-07:00

For the lightning company Modular in Flanders, the Belgian artist Bart Stolle created a work on a huge ledscreen outside the company. Modular is situated along one of the big roads in Flanders. On a daily basis car drivers could see the LED screen will they were passing by. Each day, they saw one part of a film which shows the development of an organic form to a cube. For the artist a reference to the dialogue between nature and culture.

This project was realised by - De Nieuwe Opdrachtgevers - Belgium - Therese
Legierse

Create your own Sol LeWitt -Superflex

2010-10-23T07:25:00.000-07:00

Open publication - Free publishing - More charles esche

Digital Reconversion of a street : Pin Lane

2010-04-26T22:03:00.001-07:00

Artistic Influence : Michael Lin

2010-04-16T02:12:00.000-07:00

MICHAEL LIN (1964, Tokyo) is internationally known for his painted walls and floors that reproduce on a large scale traditional floral motifs inspired by Taiwanese textiles. Lin's installations are environmental and designed for public spaces and exhibition architecture. His works of art are not only decorative. The ornaments of the works have hidden symbolic meanings and sometimes make tough cultural statements. The works also stimulate interaction between people, they become platforms for conversation.

Architectural Influence : Hundertwasser - Darmstadt

2010-04-15T23:30:00.001-07:00

Die nach Entwürfen von Friedensreich Hundertwasser errichtete Waldspirale von Darmstadt ist Highlight des Bürgerparkviertels am Rande des Stadtkerns. Ein Gebäude mit Vorbildcharakter, errichtet von der Darmstädter Bauverein AG, das Wohnraum nicht auf Kosten von Natur und Mensch entstehen lässt, sondern ein gemeinsames Erlebnis von Stadt und Natur verwirklicht. Erstmal in Deutschland wurde hier im Bau Recycling-Beton verwendet. Friedensreich Hundertwasser definiert die Idee eines individuellen Wohnens, das nicht von alltäglichen Normen bestimmt wird. So entwirft er eine Fassade, die keinem Raster folgt, Fenster, die aus der Reihe tanzen und Baumieter beherbergen. Seiner Überzeugung, dass in der Abkehr von linealgeraden Normen und der Hinwendung zu erlebbarer Natürlichkeit die Freude am Wohnen und Leben zurückkehrt, wird hier Ausdruck verliehen. Die Außenanlage der Waldspirale führt zu einem Bistro & Cafe, einem Reisebüro, einem Souvenirshop und einem Restaurant und ist frei zugänglich."

Artistic Influence : Olafur Eliasson - Waterfalls Brooklyn Bridge

2010-04-15T23:18:00.000-07:00

Internationally acclaimed artist Olafur Eliasson brought a sight of monumental proportions to the shores of New York City. He created four man-made waterfalles in the historic New York harbor. They became a sublime, breathtaking element into the heart of New York’s waterfront.

Artistic Influence : Anri Sala - video Dammi i Colori - 2003

2010-04-15T23:11:00.000-07:00

Although we aren't specifically informed of the fact, the video Dammi i Colori of Anri Sala shows a big painting project in the city of Tirana. (Albania), initiated by the mayor of Tirana (and a former friend of Sala) : Edi Rama. This video is Sala's crystallisation of his friend's dizzyingly intensity to create a better life for the city. The video shows people hurry back and forth across gangplanks, serious faced, getting on with the day. Above them, painters paint. A montage of buildings, with motifs that hint at a number of designers. Some seem to resemble the odd-shaped Hundertwasser apartment buildings in Vienna, though this might be a trick of the colour scheme. The camera closes in and pans, blanketing us in orange, then blue, then grey where the brushes haven't reached yet.

2009-11-21T00:24:00.001-08:00

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