Projects tagged
Installation
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The Guerrilla Girls Call Out Art-World Inequality
Read more: The Guerrilla Girls Call Out Art-World InequalityIt’s women’s history month, and your favorite radical feminist avengers want you to go ape. The Guerrilla Girls have been making noise about gender and racial inequality in the art world since 1985. Fighting discrimination with a sense of humor…
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‘What Would Thoreau Do?’ Community Builds Replica of Walden Pond Cabin to Block Pipeline
Read more: ‘What Would Thoreau Do?’ Community Builds Replica of Walden Pond Cabin to Block Pipeline“The authority of government… is still an impure one: to be strictly just, it must have the sanction and consent of the governed.” Inspired by such lines from Henry David Thoreau’s 1849 essay “Civil Disobedience,” a local timber-frame builder in…
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Project Ukko
Read more: Project UkkoAlex King describes Project Ukko in detail for Huck Magazine (March 17, 2016): “Moritz Stefaner’s Project Ukko turns climate and wind data into an immersive art installation that allows viewers to explore the future of the planet.” “We live in…
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Open Plan: Andrea Fraser at the Whitney
Read more: Open Plan: Andrea Fraser at the WhitneyThe average crow takes less than two hours to travel from Sing Sing maximum-security prison to the Whitney Museum of American Art, institutions separated by just 32 miles of land along New York’s Hudson river. Yet few humans journey between…
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Artist Relocates Abandoned Detroit Home
Read more: Artist Relocates Abandoned Detroit HomeAs art projects go, it’s pretty audacious. Ryan Mendoza, an expatriate American artist living in Berlin, Germany, and Naples, Italy, has torn down an abandoned two-story house in Detroit, shipped the pieces overseas and rebuilt it for display in Europe.…
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Small World Machines
Read more: Small World MachinesA new, three-minute ad by Coca-Cola, “Small World Machines,” starts with a relatively straightforward premise: India and Pakistan do not get along so well. It ends with the promise of peace: “Togetherness, humanity, this is what we all want, more…
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Waterpod Project
Read more: Waterpod ProjectWaterpod™ was a floating, sculptural, eco-habitat designed for the rising tides. It launched in the summer of 2009, navigate down the East River, explore the waters of New York Harbor, and docked at several Manhattan piers on the Hudson River…
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Activism by Duplication: “Untitled” (Death by Gun) (1990)
Read more: Activism by Duplication: “Untitled” (Death by Gun) (1990)Activism through print media is often done through duplication: posters, flyers, magazines, manifestos. But with these media, each individual duplicate holds the same, political message. In Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s “Untitled” (Death by Gun) (1990), a stack of posters are placed in…
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Art faculty member Tom Loeser explores social interaction through handcrafted functional furniture pieces
Read more: Art faculty member Tom Loeser explores social interaction through handcrafted functional furniture piecesTom Loeser is currently the Chair of the UW-Madison Department of Art, and specializes in woodworking and furniture. From his studio on the east side, he produces many functional and beautiful furniture pieces. He’s also a vibrant community member; he…
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Wind Trees in Paris
Read more: Wind Trees in ParisTraditional wind turbines may require vertical shafts higher than 40m and spinning blades over 50m long in order to capture wind energy efficiently. While these devices are some of the best at capturing clean energy, their height and shape put…