Interactive • Public • Installation Art

A different take on interactive art in installed in public spaces.

Artist, Zhang Zhaohui, Beijing, China Zhang Zhaohui

 

Performance Artists Marina Abramovic and Ulay test the comfort level and bias of museum goers in 1977.

Nam June Paik

Electronic Highway, Nam June Paik

Nam June Paik

Banksy, San Francisco, CA 2010

Claes Oldenburg, Cleveland Ohio 1986

"RollFilm" is from an exhibit of "Yugo Art" that intially an installation in Grand Central Station in New York City.  It was a so popular that is was a touring exhibition including Washington, DC, in 1995. Students in Kevin O'Callahan's class at the School of Visual Arts were given the following assignment:

Yugo's were inexpensive cars in Yugoslava.  During a civil war between Serbia and Croatia, production quality dropped and parts became scarce.  Yugo owners in the United States were left with a car that with a problem in maintaining their vehicles, many of them falling into disrepair and of little use.

Problem: Given this Yugo automobile as a point of departure, give it a new life other than the one it was intended to have.

Logo Branding

Branding your business is a key to the identity and marking of your company and products.  Here are some local surf inspired logos:

Founder, Jack O'Neill is the pioneer of the wetsuit Santa Cruz, CA.

 Founder Bill Stewart is the pioneer of the Hydrohull design. San Clemente, CA

Design by Jim Phillips, Santa Cruz, CA

 

Talented Tim Stamps, former Head Shaper for Legendary Harbour Surfboards.  Here's well on his way to being a legend.  Here's his mark, Seal Beach, CA

Legendary shaper Bob Pearson, based in Santa Cruz, CA.  Pearson shaped a big wave board called a "gun" for legendary surfer and waterman Jay Moriarity.  Pearson was featured the Hollywood feature, Chasing Mavericks.

High performance short board by renown, shaper Al Merrick of Channel Island Surfboards.  The board design is named after "Bunny Chow",  a South African street food comprised of a hollowed out quarter loaf of bread filled with curry.  Needless to say this Durban treat is a hit with hungry surfers.

Well respected shaper and co-founder of NHS.  Haut Surfboards fronts the Santa Cruz Board Builders Guild.

Hawaiian Island Creations Dot.  Classic design is timeless.

Photorealism

Also known as hyper-realism, super-realism, Photorealism is a style that serves as a link between representational systems of painting and photography. Photorealism developed in hte 1960's and 70's as a reaction to the detachment of Minimalism and Conceptual art, which did not depict representational images. Photorealists frequently used a grid technique to enlarge a photographic reference to scale.  Many of the Photorealists used an airbrush to create their paintings.

Robert Bechtle

Gran Torino, 1974

Paul Staiger

PSA, (There She Is), 1969

Chuck Close