Nicklee Hoogervorst 9/11

MEDIA

Deze kinderen wisten niks af van de gebeurtenis

Deze kinderen waren wel ingelicht over de gebeurtenis

 

CREATOR& ABOUT

Nicklee Hoogervorst, een 2e jaars studente aan de docenten opleiding van de willen de Kooning Academie. maakte een kleurplaat van de aanslag op 9/11. Tijdens haar project bij Cultual Divursety heeft zij onderzoek gedaan naar het reactie vermogen van leerlingen van de basisschool uit groep 3 en 4. Ze deelde de klassen op in twee groepen. De eene groep werd wel ingelicht over de aanslag en de andere groep moest het doen met de kleurplaat

RULES
Door dat Nicklee Hoogervorst heel groep 3 en 4 gevraagd heeft om de kleurplaat in te kleuren krijg je een collectie van verschillende fantasie en invalshoeken met een het zelfde uitgangspunt de kleurplaat.

De fantasie van kinderen uit groep 3/4
Een kleurplaat van 9/11

COMMENTS
Ik vind het super interesant om te zien hoe de gedachtengang en fantazie van kinderen werkt en hoe ze een afbeelding en of een gebeurtenis op hun eigen manier interpreteren en zich eigen maken.

LINKS
http://www.nickleehoogervorst.nl/

 

 

SHOE COLLECTION / Chiharu Shiota – ‘lebensspuren (traces of life)’

ABOUT

torstrasse 166, berlin, germany, 2008. Installation with 600 shoes and ca. 13.000 m thread. these shoes were collected from people who didn’t want to use them anymore.

CREATOR

Chiharu Shiota

RULES & RESTRICTIONS

Those who want to give their shoes can do so, but only if they use a red threat to connect it to the building.

COMMENT

I like this artpiece a lot, it’s very free in it’s form, but still has it’s restrictions.

LINK

http://www.chiharu-shiota.com/en/

Cornell Fashion Collective

Flyer

About

The Cornell Fashion Collective, formerly the Cornell Design League, is a student-run organization that provides members of the Cornell community with an outlet to express creativity in fashion and fashion management. Each spring, our organization presents a professional runway show featuring the talent of students who both design apparel and manage the operations of the show. Our organization gives students, both undergraduate and graduate, the opportunity to practice design, demonstrate their talents, and learn how to produce a large-scale fashion event.

Creator

President Megan Rodrigues
Vice President Nicole Fitzsimmons
Models and Designers Cameron Giles
Marketing Akilah Chandler
Events Gabrielle Ben-Yaish
Graphics Ellen Pyne
Secretary Dana Lee
Faculty Advisors Anita Racine & Van Dyk Lewis

Rules

The event gives undergraduate and graduate students the opportunity to practice design and and learn how to produce a large-scale fashion show.

Comments

The students learn how to produce a fashionshow. This is a good way to learn about organization and working on a team. The experience could be usefull for anything you will achieve in your future carreer.

Links

The Cornell fashion show:
http://www.cornell.edu/video/cornell-fashion-collective-runway-show-2015

Cornel University:
http://www.human.cornell.edu/fsad/fashion/appareldesign.cfm

Cornell Fashion Collective:
http://www.cornellfashioncollective.com/

Shot of the 30th FashionShow

 

 

Crossing the water

About
Remy Jungerman is an artist who was raised in Surinam. With his work ‘crossing the water’ he is pointing out the cross over to the geometric form from the modernism to the African diaspora-perpective. These panels represent the fact that he is stepping of the  restrictions in form and colour of his inspiration ‘De Stijl’, he trades these for the influences of ‘winti’ rituals. He uses traditional fabrics, but the batik based textiles of the brand Vlisco. Vlisco is a the last connection for the titel ‘crossing the water’ it has relation to Indonesia and Africa as well.  “each fabric has a specific meaning in the winti rituals”. For him this is a symbol for the economic and trades between different cultures where he lives in. He wants to show that globalization is a thing that is happening for ages already. The titel refers to the pattern of cultures when you cross the water.

Creator
Remy Jungerman.

“Although I work from a culturally traditional premise, there are direct connections with De Stijl”.

Rules/Restrictions
– Expression of the winti ritual.
– The ritual colours in the work.
– Using of Vlisco.
– It has the mix between western and non-western culture.
– he uses traditional ‘non-western’ technics.

Comments
He mixxes ‘western’art with ‘non-western’ art, so he is questioning the question do we need to divid this still? He blends cultures, because he knows what it is to be in between those cultures. He makes this combinations timeless. And the beauty is that the ritual in this matters is making the art, besides this he really uses the traditions, the meaning of the winti in his work. I can identify with his work, that is why it attracts me a lot.

The Red Bull Collective Art Collection

Exhibition Valencia

ABOUT

It is an evolution of the concept of “Cadavre Exquis” in which each collaborator adds to the Collective Art through being allowed to see the end of what the previous artist contributed. Participants are free to choose if they want to paint, draw or scribble their work or just to create it digitally with design software. Anyone was able to participate on the project. You could just sign up on the website:
http://www.redbullcollectiveart.com/nl/how-it-works
Eventually they showcased a 1.3km-long artwork in London that combines graphics, artworks and photography in a giant visual game of Cadavre Exquis. Also they showcased the collection worldwide.

CREATOR

The artists involved come from 85 countries. The full set of artworks can seen on the Red Bull Collective Art website: http://www.redbullcollectiveart.com/

RULES/RESTRICTIONS

The only rule to participate, was to start your artwork at the point where the artist before you ended. It is like the game you used to play when you were younger, you drew a doll with friends, one drew the head, the other drew the belly etc.. and it ended up like a weird doll.

COMMENTS

I think it is a good project, because different artists were able to show their work to the world. Any individual could just sign up and participate.

LINKS

http://www.redbullcollectiveart.com/

Example of the Cadavre Exquis game

Hong Hao Things

ABOUT

Hong Hao starts with scanning objects and goes on to reconstruct the whole image using his PC. Though the chosen items (what he calls “My Things”) can be common object from our day-to-day life such as money, trash, chocolates, medicines, and things in a round shape, and there is hardly any specific meaning in each, the unparalleled enumeration of cumulated objects in his works brings a strong impact on us, and we can not help feeling the sense of awe. As is often the case, the assembled and repeatedly used objects in our everyday life tend to be catabolized when it comes to their functions and meanings, yet this is not the case for the works of Hong Hao. While money, chocolates, and books, all these bring happiness into our life, we all know that teetering over the edge leads us to facing misfortune in a pit on the way.

CREATOR

Hong Hao was born 1965 in Beijing and made his first education 1989, at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing where he was studying print-making. Typical for the work of Hong Hao is that he’s collecting day-to-day life objects which are not really special for the normal user, and ask with his work what the function and meaning of these things are for us. He shows also how people deal with waste in big cities like Beijing where he also lives. In his work is the chaotic state in which he lives and also the outcome from the sensibility of the experience of the dramatic change in and around him.

RULES/RESTRICTIONS

the essence of Hong Hao’s work is basically the technique that he’s using (scanning) and the fact that he use the visual strategy of quantity to make is arranged pictures powerful. This small and for us not worthful  things became in this way  more importance and make the picture to one big thing witch is also a bit frightening if we think about how much waste we produce.

COMMENTS

Even this project is not untypical Opendesign Project it is still very interesting to see how Hang Hao put’s the views on a important problem of wasting stuff that we not even perceive in our big city lifes. Hao shows how interesting it is that we collect unworthiness thing without even knowing it in the way we waste them witch is a fact that with is part of our biology development.

MEMORY

ABOUT

‘Memory’ is an interactive installation and consists of merely a tablet equipped with a camera, custom software and a wooden frame. Programmed to recognise human faces, the installation saves the faces of its spectators and then superimposes them endlessly. The displayed result is an ‘average’ face, calculated from all the faces it has seen and thereby a visualisation of the history of all the people that stood still to take a look at it.

CREATOR

The maker and creator of the project is Korean studio SSBKYH, consisting of Shin Seung Back and Kim Yong Hun. Their collaborative practice explores social and cultural impacts of technology.

RULES / RESTRICTIONS

There is only one interactive portrait which captures the results, but everyone is allowed to participate. The only requirement is to look at it with your face. In order to be able to create the ‘average’ face, the ideal approach would be to let people participate only once; however, it is unclear if this is an official rule for the project.

COMMENTS

Intriguing and funny; but I would like to know in which countries the portrait has been exhibited. It would be interesting to understand which regions are responsible for creating the ‘average’ face. What if every continent had its own ‘Memory’ portrait?

Tom of Finland stamp collection

ABOUT: A stamp collection Tom of Finland. Collection is designed as tribute to Finnish homoerotic artist and gay icon Touko Laaksonen.

CREATOR: The Tom of Finland postage stamps are the work of designer Timo Berry and are based on drawings by Touko Laaksonen.

RULES: The stamps are based on Touko Laaksonen´s drawings.

COMMENTS: I honor Finland being so bold to publish homoerotic stamps even though there was lots of opposition to the brazen representations in some quarters.

LINKS: http://yle.fi/uutiset/tom_of_finland_stamps_on_sale_monday_finlands_biggest_seller_ever/7459075

NASA´s travel poster collection

ABOUT: In late December, 2014, the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s (fictional) Exoplanet Travel Bureau released these 1930s-style travel posters depicting three exoplanets as destinations – hypothetical, so far – for future travel.

CREATOR: NASA´s Exploration Program. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena CA.

RULES: The posters depict hypothetical scenarios on real planets discovered by NASA‘s Kepler telescope. Each of NASA’s poster designs highlights a feature of a planet that could draw visitors, including stronger gravity for extreme sports and double sunsets.

COMMENTS: I really like these 30´s look posters and I think it is interesting to imagine what life, or holiday, could be on those discovered planets.

LINKS: http://earthsky.org/space/nasas-way-cool-retro-posters-for-futuristic-space-travel

2015 Furniture Collection by Colonel

ABOUT: Isabelle Gilles and Yann Poncelet, founders of French design brand Colonel, have prepaired a collection using traditional craft techniques such as woven rattan and marquetry with colourful accents. Colonel´s 2015 collection comprises a sideboard, a wardrobe, a table lamp, a set of pendant lamps and an armchair.

CREATOR: Colonel

RULES /RESTRICTIONS: Their key inspiration for the collection was to use traditional techniques and craftmanship like caning and marquetry and to mix them with light wood and bright colours, to make it more contemporary,

COMMENTS: I really like the collection: it is light and simple but yet really interesting. Furniture has touch of scandinavian style mixed with 60´s style and I love that their main idea was to use traditional techniques and craftmanship.

LINKS: http://www.moncolonel.fr/en/