Installation

Linzi Rigsby, design and illustration with a watercolor twist.

If you’ve been walking the streets of San Francisco you may have caught this guerrilla poster campaign drawing attention to the BP oil spill in the gulf. Great to see artists covering up some mind-less advertising with activist messaging. BP cares – about profits, their stock price, executive bonuses, etc – just not about you or the environment.

Very nice work, gotta say.

Be Yourself Movement (BYM) is an Italian art collective with an agenda. The group has made some uninvited collaborations with advertisements found on billboards, bus stop shelters, and the walls of subway stations throughout various cities across Europe. Their mission: to rally against the “daily bombardment of messages that aim to impose upon us one collective thought, one way of being and living and one appearance.” Whether BYM has any influence on people’s thoughts about consumerism and identity or not, the result is something interesting to look at while waiting for public transportation.

I think we’re going to see more and more backlash towards advertising. This visual pollution is taking up too much of our lives in the name of mass consumption.

In a culture in which people are easily lured by the appeal of status-enhancing symbols, I find beauty in derelict cars and unkempt landscapes. I have always been interested in painting vehicles and scenes that have defined the evolution of the American landscape.

Life in 2050 is a forthcoming exhibition created by Transmission for the 9th Sci-Fi-London Film Festival.

Graphic design studio Transmission have set the dial 40 years from now and commissioned 22 leading and emerging contemporary artists from around the world to create an original piece of work depicting their vision of what life will be like in 2050. The eclectic mix of contributors include Universal Everything, Alex Trochut, Mario Hugo, Tom Muller, Dan McPharlin and Tom Gallant. For a full list of artists please visit the website: www.life-in-2050.com.

LIFE IN 2050

22nd April – 4th May.
Monday to Sunday, 11 – 7.
Admission is free.

Proud Central Gallery
32 John Adam Street, London, WC2A 6BP
Nearest Tube: Charing Cross
www.life-in-2050.com

Life in 2050 is a contemporary art exhibition curated by Transmission for the 9th SCI-FI LONDON Film Festival.

www.thisistransmission.com
www.sci-fi-london.com

Badass stencil artists John Grider and Michael Fitzsimmons of BrokenCrow.com (Minneapolis / St. Paul, MN) paint Lion Man on Minneapolis wall. August, 2009.

Bennett Robot Works: Original Art Robot Sculpture made from found objects.

Paul Smith currently has a display of these robots in his Fifth Avenue shop in NYC.

Kinetic Sculpture at the BMW Museum in Munich. Shot with a Panasonic Lumix LX3 in 1280×720/24p.