conceptual Archive
sculpture
Five years after Electrolux made arty vacuums with plastic sea debris, a Chinese performance artist vacuumed the air in Beijing…and made a brick. Armed with a 1,000-watt vacuum cleaner, the artist
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tech toys
Italian-born, Brooklyn-based, artist Fidia Falaschetti unveiled a new edition of his Social Security Cameras at Miami’s SCOPE art fair this week. 2015 sees the reprisal/update of his Facebook, Google, Instagram,
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industrial
All this talk about drones and no action, right? (Just kidding!) Well, last year Barcelona-based designer Axel Brechensbauer revealed this whimsical study for a proposed U.S. peace drone,
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sculpture
The increasingly “cloud-based” nature of collecting is a trend I’ve been following, and I’m not alone. Netherlands-based designer Lucas Maassen and Raw Color question the meaning of “ownership” in the
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sculpture
For people who philosophically feel that “form follows function” Jeremy Hutchison‘s work [previously] must seem like stepping off a cliff. Hutchison takes practical objects and renders them impractical,
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sculpture
Swiss-born, Berlin-based artist, Julian Charrière has collaborated with Julius von Bismarck on Some Pigeons are More Equal than Others. The project is about dying 35 pigeon in the city of
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sculpture
Iain Baxter& is a Canadian early pioneer in conceptual art. At the time I write this, he is 76. In 1966, way ahead of his time, he and
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industrial
Remember Diddo Velema’s designer gas masks? The Dutch designer returns with a new rumination on the culture of consumption. He calls it The Cure for Greed: What exactly
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sculpture
When you want to sit in an Aeron chair made of astroturf, collect a Hello Kitty covered in moss or diguise yourself as a house plant, you need to talk to Makoto
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industrial
Argentinean artist and designer Luciano Podcaminsky has created the perfect final resting place for the cast of Jersey Shore. Sundead comments on the fatal effects of suntanning. The full-sized coffin, Sundead,
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