‘Voeux d’Artistes’ (Artists’ Wishes) 2015

2015/10/26 | by Eric Bourdon | Comment

NOVEMBER 13-22, 2015 – MARSEILLE, FRANCE

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Free entrance from 12pm to 7pm

Invitation to Voeux d’Artistes – pdf(fr) [1Mo]

www.voeuxdartistes.org

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Jul

9

Greece’s gorgeous street art shows anger about bailouts

2015/07/09 | by Eric Bourdon | Comment

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Protests aren’t just limited to demonstrations […] Some have taken a quiet yet bold and defiant stance, using enormous and pointed pieces of street art to vent their frustration with the EU and Greek government. The pieces range from murals on partially collapsed buildings to sweeping wheat pastes spanning multiple building stories. In bright color and striking drawings, they demonstrate the difficulties facing the Greek people.

Greece’s gorgeous street art shows anger about bailouts
by Dustin Drankoski (June 29)

Photo : A man walks past a graffiti made by street artist N_Grams that read ”NO” in German but also ”YES, IN” in Greek language in Athens, on Sunday, June 28, 2015. (Petros Giannakouris / Associated Press)

Dec

14

All the faces of Earth…

2013/12/14 | by Eric Bourdon | Comment

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An independant studio in Berlin is tracking the faces that can be found all over the planet, using satellite photos provided by Google Maps. The process called pareidolia we use to detect meaning in vague visual stimuli (clouds, inkblots, but also everyday life data, familiar faces, known objects…) and usually implemented by the temporal lobes of the brain, is partially managed by advanced face detection algorithm and face tracking library, pushing the automatic face tracking capabilities far beyond those of your digital camera…

More on http://onformative.com/work/google-faces

Jun

6

Pareidolia

2013/06/06 | by Eric Bourdon | Comment

“Pareidolia is a psychological phenomenon involving a vague and random stimulus (often an image or sound) being perceived as significant, a form of apophenia. Common examples include seeing images of animals or faces in clouds, the man in the moon or the Moon rabbit, and hearing hidden messages on records when played in reverse.

The word comes from the Greek words para (παρά, “beside, alongside, instead”) in this context meaning something faulty, wrong, instead of; and the noun eidōlon (εἴδωλον “image, form, shape”) the diminutive of eidos. Pareidolia is a type of apophenia, seeing patterns in random data.” (Wikipedia)

The first & most usual kind of pareidolia is imagining creatures in the clouds. You can see good examples with Richard Carlson photographies here :

Cool Clouds for “Kids” of all Ages

Photo by Dr. R. E. Carlson

May

12

Geometric body painting

2013/05/12 | by Eric Bourdon | Comment

The big interest of bodypainting seems to be the possibility it offers to directly ‘paint’ the reality (and what more perfect part of the reality than the human body ?) without having to make any kind of representational work. You just put the paint on the bodies, and the power of painting ‘shines’ ; in such case the reality is used to its best potential in the service of the painting itself.

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In this sense, the optimal kind of bodypainting would be one that uses the body as a support for any type of non-representational painting. One of this kind is the work of Yasmina Alaoui who paints the photographies by Marco Guerra with layers of ink geometric drawings.

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