PHOTOGrAPhEr PAUL OCTAVIOUS TAKES HIS PROJECT TO INSTAGRAM
Chicago-based, Photographer & Designer, Paul Octavious has been cranking out some incredible projects. One in particular has me checking his Instagram feed on the regular. The Book Collection features stacks of books Paul arranges in a obsessive color wheel fashion to resemble numbers.
Here’s the best part, the project is currently in an interactive phase through his Instagram. You submit your favorite number and tell him why it’s meaningful to you and you might just find that he’s stacked it, posted it and thanked you for adding to his project the following week. Right now he’s only accepting numbers 1-100.
http://instagram.com/pauloctavious
INTERACTIVE SWING INSTALLATION
The 55,000-square-foot space at the Park Avenue Armory is housing a large-scale multimedia installation titled the event of a thread by visual artist Ann Hamilton. Audiences are invited to revisit their childhood and ride the 42 swings that have been set up.
It gets even cooler though - a towering giant billowing white curtain that separates the hall, sways back and forth, it’s motion controlled by the movement of the people on the swings.
“In addition to the swing-controlled curtain, there are stacks of cages containing 42 homing pigeons and a station at which two readers speak into microphones. The text they are reading imparts knowledge that guests to the exhibit are free to choose to listen to. Knowledge is, after all, a choice one makes to attain. There is also a station where the artist herself is positioned, viewing the entirety of the exhibit through a mirror as though she can only gauge the success of the event by evaluating herself.
The intricately involved installation as a whole can be interpreted in a variety of ways though it’s clear that the experience depends on interactivity. The exhibit’s statement reads: A multisensory affair, the work draws together readings, sound, and live events within a field of swings that together invite visitors to connect to the action of each other and the work itself, illuminating the experience of the singular and collective body.”
The event of a thread is currently on display at Park Avenue Armory through January 6, 2013.”
via MyModernMet
LIFE SIZED MONOPOLY STREET ART SPOTTED IN CHICAGO
While walking in the Chicago neighbourhood of Logan Square Christopher of Colossal happened upon an enormous stack of Monopoly ‘Chance’ cards. After some diligent sleuthing he figured out that the cards were part of an awesome interactive street art installation by an artist/art collective known as Bored, who described their motivation behind this delightful project:
“the goal of this entire project has been to present something different than a stencil painted on the ground or a poster pasted to a wall. Something 3-dimensional that can be picked up, beaten down, kicked, yanked, grabbed, and broken. And if someone ever put forth the effort to remove it, like a weed it will always grow back. And if left alone it will evolve into something different.”
Visit Colossal to view more photos of the life-size Monopoly game scattered across the streets of Chicago.
