Reminder

This post is t remind myself to go to Fairey's exhibition on December 1, 2007 - January 14, 2008

http://www.merrykarnowskygallery.com/

OBEY: Art in aggression

From Wiki: Andre the Giant Has a Posse is a street art campaign based on a design by Frank Shepard Fairey created in 1986 in Charleston, South Carolina. Distributed by the skater community, the Andre stickers began showing up in nearly every big city across the U.S.A. Later, when Fairey was a student at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), he released his manifesto. At the time Fairey declared the campaign to be "an experiment in phenomenology." Over time the artwork has been reused in a number of ways and has become a world-wide movement, following in the footsteps of Ivan Stang's Church of the SubGenius and populist World War II icon "Kilroy Was Here". At the same time, Fairey's work has evolved stylistically and semantically into the OBEY Giant campaign.

I was fascinated by the form of Fairey's art. Originally the art has started out as a inner joke between Fairey and his fiends. In the most part, they were just trying to have fun. But with this uncleared intention they've created an unique kind of art. Unlike the commercialized billboards and ADs, The art OBEY is distributing a message with uncleared intention which resulted an open-ended interpretation. Therefore the audiences were forced to analyze the art only based on the image. This might be frustrating for some people, but to me it's all about having fun expressing ourselves. Looking at Shepard Fairy's art in part inspired me on my thesis project. I've been searching for ways to change today's design mentality in the field of architecture. I'm against both design for maximum efficiency and stylistic architecture. I despite stylistic and iconic architecture because these are just cheap ways to promote the clients, the designers and their architecture. Low class stuff. Designing for maximum efficiency is a rude way to treat our guests with high taste. Lame. I'm passionate about making expressive, sophisticated and friendly architecture. And it shouldn't be cheap.

Detaching from Material

I just read an article on PBS about our addition to paper. In one part of the article there is a description of the feeling of permanency a book has. it leads me to think about the role of materials in our everyday communication. We are accepting more and more virtual information which are not materialized. We write and draw things in computer and have store them into a form of numeral script. It can only be retrieved through electricity. It's scary.

So beware that the texts on this post you're reading does not physically exist. original post

Today, I hate the damn computer.

I'm so tired of hearing people talking about new technologies. The concept of technology is threatening our society--the society of Art. Art used to be about us human. now the focus of art is shifting away to glorify technology. Unlike us, the computers, ipod and flat-panel displays don't have any feelings. No matter how smart these things get, their method of receiving information is data processing. There's no creation in processing, only data reconfiguration. A smart computer can collect the data from an environment and process it by a set of strict rules the output the data back to the environment. It will never be creative and give you a REALLY unexpected result. That's why the culture of technology is boring. Everything is so defined and expected.

I hate computers so much, I hate what it's doing to my free time, my health and my life. But I still have to sit here typing this post in front of my computer.

Fuck.

Space of inner self... (The Cell, 2000)