Logo Heist

Banksy (The Culture Jammer)

Banksy is the most famous culture jammer of present day. He does a lot of adbusting and billboard banditry with a political spin. He also is an incredible artist who works in painting, sculpture and culture jamming. He has gained notoriety by traveling the worlds' major cities and infiltrating his own controversial advertisements. 

Here's some of his awesome work:

The one below is in San Francisco on the wall of Public Works:

Supposedly this piece was purchased from the property owner. 

Mark Dery Response

" In an era of network news cutbacks and staff layoffs, many reporters are reluctant to pursue stoies they know will upset management. 'People are more careful now... because this whole notion of freedom of the press becomes a contradiction when the people who own the media are the same people who need to be reported on."

This is why I do not watch television, other than jersey shore, because I do not trust the information from television networks.

"There's a big difference between simple crime like holding up a 7-11 and creative crime as a form of expression...Creative crime is...uplifting to the soul...What better way to survive our anthill society than by abusing the very mass media that sedates the public?"

I love that there are infinite way in which to culture jamm! like subvertising, media hoaxing, audio agitprop, billboard banditry.

"Drink Coca-Cola--it makes you fart"

Burden Vicar (My Chance Project)

Indeterminacy  Project: BurdenVicar

This Chance art piece includes:

1         18”x24” watercolor piece of paper that will be marked into 9 quadrants

Acrylic paints

Printed google images

Printed Microsoft word documents

Online generators

Follow these Steps:

1.       Equally Draw 9 quadrants on the paper

a.       Number them out: 1 (at the top left), 2 (at the top middle), 3 (at the top right)
                              4 (at the next row down left), 5 , 6………..etc

2.       Choose your first quadrant using the random number generator:

Using the random number generator: www.random.org   (making sure to make the min: 1 and max:9)

If it repeats a number, press it again until you use up all of the quadrants

3.       Use the random color generator to choose the color of the quadrant:

http://www.kareno.org/js/colors/

Then using acrylic paint, paint the whole chosen quadrant with the chosen color. Blend colors to your best ability to get to that color. Don’t worry if you cannot get the exact color. Try your best!

*Repeat steps (1.), (2.) and (3.) until you finish all 9 quadrants.

4.       Choosing subject matter (a)

Go to: http://watchout4snakes.com/creativitytools/RandomWord/RandomWordPlus.aspx to choose your subject. Make sure to make the “word type” is set to a “noun” and the “complexity” is set to “obscure”.

                                Then…………..

A.      Go to Google images and type your new randomly chosen word

B.      Then use Random number generator: www.random.org  with a min: 1 and a max: 100

C.      Then this number will choose your google image. For example: If you got a 1, then the first google image that shows up for your word will be your image. If you get 45, count down 45 pictures from the top to the bottom

D.      Print out this image

E.       Cut out image so there is no background, and only the subject (preferably use a x-acto knife)

5.       Choosing Subject matter (b)

Go to: http://watchout4snakes.com/creativitytools/RandomWord/RandomWordPlus.aspx to choose your subject. Make sure to make the “word type” is set to a “noun” and the “complexity” is set to “obscure”.

                                                Then…………..

A.      Go to Google images and type your new randomly chosen word

B.      Then use Random number generator: www.random.org  with a min: 1 and a max: 100

C.      Then this number will choose your google image. For example: If you got a 1, then the first google image that shows up for your word will be your image. If you got a 45, count down 45 pictures from the top to the bottom

D.      Print out this image

E.       Cut out image so there is no background, and only the subject

6.       Then…… use subject matter (a and b), put them into random paragraph generator:

http://watchout4snakes.com/CreativityTools/RandomParagraph/RandomParagraph.aspx

subject matter (a) into primary subject box

subject matter (b) into secondary subject box

7.       Then copy and past the paragraph into Microsoft word.

a.       To choose the font of the paragraph:
 copy and paste the whole list of Microsoft word fonts from(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/924623 ) 

b.        Paste the list into the random list generator ( www.random.org/lists  )
*HINT- Make sure to keep this website open in its own tab/window throughout your whole process.

c.        Use the first font in the list.

d.       Then use random number generator to determine the font size ( www.random.org)  with a min: 8 and a max: 28.

e.        Finally choose the color of the font by using the same random color generator http://www.kareno.org/js/colors/
***Again use the best of your ability to estimate the chosen color in Microsoft Word

f.        Print out paragraph

g.        Cut paragraph so there is no white border. (To the best of your ability)

8.       Place paragraph in the middle of the colored quadrant, then place the googled images on either side of the text but inside the quadrant.

*** Repeat Step (3.) (4.) (5.) (6.) and (7.) until you fill up all quadrants!

Then you’re done!

You just made a Burden Vicar!

Congratulations!

Francis Ting's Indeterminacy Project:

Supplies

1.     12x12 in. canvas

2.     Triangle

3.     Ruler

4.     Pencil

5.     Tape

6.     5 ultra fine tip sharpies in different colors  (One must be Black, which will be reserved for labeling coordinates)

7.     Internet access

8.     Microsoft Excel

Method

1.     Take the 12x12 inch canvas and make small 1 inch incremental marks along the four sides using a ruler, pencil and tape. 

2.     Label the marks on the top and bottom in alphanumeric order (A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K.).

3.     Label the marks on the left and right 1-11 (Start from the bottom with 1 and work up to 11).

4.     Use the raw lists excel worksheet I’ve made to import into random.org’s random sequence generator. Paste the revised lists into a new worksheet labeled randomized lists.

a.     The first list is of all 121 possible coordinates on the canvas grid. Copy Column A (cell 1-cell 121) into random.org’s sequence generator.

b.     The second list is of eight possible combinations of line types: thick solid double, thick solid single, thin solid double, thin solid single, thick broken double, thick broken single, thin broken double, thin broken single. This must be done 4 times (to make a total of 32 cells)—just copy and paste the new sequence in Column B of the new worksheet.

c.      The third list is of the four possible colors to be used. I’ve used fuchsia, salmon, chartreuse and yellow—fill in your own colors, reserving the Black sharpie for labeling coordinates). This must be done 8 times (to make a total of 32 cells)—just copy and paste the new sequence in Column C of the new worksheet.

d.     Coordinate #33-#121 in Column A of the new worksheet may be deleted to avoid confusion. There should be a total of 32 coordinates—each will be one of 8 possible line types and of 4 possible colors.

5.     Use the Randomized Lists worksheet to plot coordinates on the canvas grid. Once coordinate #32 is plotted, create the last line leading back to coordinate #1.  Label each coordinate (in black) according to its assigned number to avoid confusion.