Tuesday, March 10, 2015

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.



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