Delete! + Today
I’m really digging this project, DELETE! The idea is to cover up all ads in urban spaces.
I’m not quite sure why the artists went with bright yellow for the cover up. I think the project would be better to have colors that merged the ads more into the background. I guess these guys are into the idea of censoring, but I think the idea of camouflaging is more interesting than yet another censor (YAC).
Not really into, but that’s okay: I followed this link to a group called Creative-Geeks that are appropriating imagery from Linux and Open Source to make traditional media prints and other representations. It is interesting that this is being made, but I wanted to let the OSS world in on some contemporary art and new media knowledge: Linux and Open Source is considered more contemporary art in and of itself rather than people making art about Linux. Does that make sense? My reasoning for getting into Open Source and Linux back in the day was that the artwork I found myself bent upon focused on developing systems and communties rather than byproducts, and hence, I got into OSS because I wanted to learn from the best on how to make systems and communities.
In many ways it is quite tongue-in-cheek that I got involved with art-type and creative applications which seem very much embracing some kind of past art tradition. Rather, I got involved with these projects (Inkscape and OCAL) because of the communities and novel collaboration strategies. Honestly, right now, I could plow into submitting Inkscape and/or OCAL to art festivals and competition and those projects would be displayed and discussed, but the actual byproducts, the images and clip art, would not be talked about so much. Maybe this would have been the case in the 80s when vector graphics first came out through imagery by April Greiman, but the art game is onto collaboration, large scale systems, and haphazard combine-a-words like transvergence now (However, much respect to RBE who is rockin out at SJSU and has some successful interviews in SWITCH this issue.).
