A galera por traz do Eyewriter está lançando um formato de arquivo projetado especialmente para armazenar dados de movimento de grafite (cordenadas X, Y e Tempo) para que estes poçam ser lidos e interpretados facilmente por qualquer computador. O formato GML tem como objetivo, ser uma ponte entre tinta e código para promover a colaboração entre artistas de rua e hackers.

Confira e apoie: http://www.graffitimarkuplanguage.com/

Visto na Rua Mena Barreto no Rio de Janeiro: Poesias são bem-vindas nos Muros de Giz! Um local para expressão coletiva.

As poesias escritas no muro são fotografadas e postadas no flickr set da iniciativa, de tempos em tempos o muro é limpo e aberto para novas poesias.

Totalmente aprovado.

Nas universidades mundo a fora, a integração entre arte e tecnologia vem sendo feita de forma sistemática nos presentiando com uma série de projetos e novos caminhos para arte. Em Karlsruhe, na Alemanha, os designers Martin Fussenegger e Michael Sebastian Haase e o engenheiro Julian Adenauer criaram um rôbo que  lê, interpreta artes digitais e dispara bolas de paintball criando de pinturas incríveis em fachadas de prédios. Nomeado FacadePrinter, ele pode ser usado para fins artísticos mas também em situações de calamidades públicas.

Eu tenho certeza que no Brasil, já existe uma série de pessoas apoiando essa integração, porém muitas instituições de ensino ainda tem dificuldades de abraçar arte e tecnologia dentro de um mesmo departamento. Quando isso acontecer por completo, não só teremos respostas para a pergunta inicial como estaremos participando da criação do novo paradigma da arte e nossas fachadas nunca mais serão as mesmas.

FacadePrinter.org via Make

Who is the target of art now?

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

Italian artist Blu wows everyone with his amazingly crafted wall animation.
More of his work on blublu.org

Although I am positive that the name of an art work doesn’t make it an better art piece, I do think it’s important. Picture yourself, wondering through a contemporary art gallery, imagine you know nothing about formal Art (at least you didn’t study it), you stand in front of what seems to be a group of 8 randomly displayed, white “marshmalowish” balls sitting on a room filled with sand. You are in front of the a contemporary art installation, and you think: what the Hell? next, puzzled, you go to the name plate and it says: Untitled, 1998 Mr. Artist – Rocks; sand and marshmallow. what the F@&k! you almost feel like screaming. Houston we have a problem. Yep, I have been there too my dear reader! The name was the only clue to bring some understanding to the object without post graduating in the history of arts. People get angry, many feel very bad. What a sad story, at least in my opinion.

In order to fight for the democratization of art we have to fight for more satisfied art consumers, I am starting today a movement against Untitled artworks, for the sake of the mere mortals who don’t have a degree in Art but who just want to have a go in understanting the story being told by the artist, on the fly, on the spot. How we are going to do this? No, please, lets not come up with sticker tags, or barcodes…that after you scaning it with your iphone, link to the wikipedia article of that art work. Lets give this artists some homework to do! send them letters! require some explanation =) they will like it.

I didn’t do my homework I have to confess, ’cause the art object up there still features the Untitled flag. Well, ok, at least I am here, writing about it.

But the problem of my Untitled art object is still not solved.

Here is what I propose:

Deal?

Until now, a total of 19 Artists collaborated with 36 Artworks until today, Letsevo’s Favorite Picks are:

Sextafeira from Amnd (Brazil)
~ so many possibilities ~ from opaquEpiphany (Australia)

Thanks for all contributions! It very exciting to see all of your creations! Spread the word, push the button.

Not so long ago I had the chance to know the work of Blu. Now I had to post this amazing painting animation he did in Berlin.

Link to Video
More of his work at www.blublu.org

Wanna be part of it? Hit the scan button and Lets evo.

I just could not not participate….

This is my concept. It came from a photo I took in 2003 when I first got in Germany. As a Brazilian, I was amazed by the aesthetic of trees during the hard winter when all the leafs fall. The “greener” look of the naked branches was my way of illustrating the life that resists in them during the cold.
Go do your own design or participate on the voting

We are all artists, aren´t we? Our collaborating artist Voe (actually, that’s the artist “me”), has just created a Flickr group for the Scan Heads Art Project. Everyone with a scanner or a near copy machine can participate. Just hit the scan button and let the artist inside of you do the rest. All your art pieces can be uploaded in a snap and shared for everyone to see.

If you haven’t already found the contemporary artist YOU, here is a chance to start.

I got a chance to be modified in an experiment made by my friend Jochen Leinberger, who wrote a small program that reads each pixel of and image and transforms it into a geometry shape (in this case, a sphere) and scales it in coorelation to its color value. Its similar of what a photoshop filter does, the diference is that his program can generate a vector graphic file (.SVG) of the result which can than be endlessly scaled and even be sent to a CNC mill Machine.

Jochen is experimenting with scientific phenomens, digital processes and aestetics questioning the frontiers of algorithims and the real world.

And I am trying to convince him to create some algorithim skateboard graphics. Until that happens, I suggest everyone interested to keep track of his thoughts on his website Explorative Environments

Program Screenshot

While adventuring myself in the Flickr Archives I bumped into Steven Is R “kickflip melon” bed to bed ollie photo. Just made my day. Make sure to check his flickr photos, this guy is evo.

“Steven is R” in Flickr

I did this illustration after listening to a really good album from the producer and MC Iky Castilho from my home town Rio. Iky´x Tape Vol 1 is an awesome example of rio´s rap scene featuring DJ Babao and various MCs. The album is complete downloadable at the website.

“I am going to chage the world before the world changes me” ( Iky – Eu vou mudar o Mundo)

Thanks Chico for lending me this amazing Tape. Lets Evo Recommends

As my friend Jochen Leinberger came back from Belgium and showed me the work of Panamarenko I felt I had to share with you. Panamarenko is an artist, a dreamer, his art pieces resemble fantastic voyages from our dreams as childs.

His maschinelike sculptures bring back the romantism that technology took away from us.

Works like his are able to take my mind back to places It has´t even been before.

Check his work, build your dreams, send a picture.

Jochen, thanks for sharing.

The maker of this piece of Art is the Engineer Reinhold Eichhorn who works at Braun electronics. He did the whole work buy hand at his home workshop. And you could tell that his is not playing by taking a closer look at the saddle, It hiddenly screams “No pain no game”.

We are trying to convince him to show some of his building technics used on this bike.