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Monday, December 13, 2010

Tabor Robak

Content-Aware Military Vehicles, 2010

Tabor Robak's webpage. Last pic is from the software Carbon, which can be downloaded over at the State. Make more art as computer games, plz.

Sunday, December 12, 2010

E.T. Project

"With the insertion of artist edition kitsch into the second-hand store industry I attempt an analysis of commodity flow and second-hand  bric-a-brac capitalism and simultaneously generate critique of art object value (the thrift store is momentarily converted into venue for the avant-garde and the  second-hand shopper inadvertently becomes collector of fine art).

120 ceramic E.T. figures were slipcast over a 10-month period from a single plaster mold purchased from a second-hand store in 2009. Once glazed and serialized The E.T.s were then circulated through donation to area thrift stores where they were priced, shelved and sold to the public." - Joe Yorty