Here is a detail of the card:
Now again, this is just an example. I wish for these to be real printed cards photographed next to pieces of design not photo manipulations. Each card will only be in place long enough to take the photograph and perhaps document the reaction of passersby then removed. It is not my intention to be a vandal or to promote vandalism.
Hello - Great idea—even better if you actually located and named the designer/developer of the pieces. Might be tough but surely not impossible. I feel this would add weight to the project goal. Cheers!
ReplyDeleteCheck out the work from Mother in London around 2001 for an art fair - exactly the same I'm afraid, great work.
ReplyDeletejdf: Absolutely it would. However, early on in the conception stage of this project it was decided that many, if not most, of the photographs be submitted by outside sources.
ReplyDeleteThe intention being that whatever people choose to photograph speaks volumes about what they consider to be 'art worthy'. Because of the lack of direct control I would feel it to be too much to ask potential submitters to conduct hours if not days/weeks of research to track down a mystery designer. That being said though I would definitely prefer that the designer if known be cited.
Chris: I would love to see this stuff! A brief search didn't yield any results, and it doesn't surprise me that this type of project has been done before. It is also reminiscent of few scenes from the film (Untitled). However, this project is hoping to take these photographs and and compile them into a book, leaving a lasting resource to examine contextual relationships.
Maybe you could upload an .ai or some file to use as a pattern.
ReplyDeletewhy not leaving the cards in the place?
ReplyDeleteif just glue it with tapoe, it isn't vandalism... I love the idea of a city with hundreds of cards. I will see (if I'm in time) what I can do in Amsterdam!
This is not a new idea it was done by an artist called paul richard in 1990's. He had several exhibits and it was also used as an advertising campaign for gallery (i think moma in SF)
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Williamthrliar: Yes, I have heard of very similar projects and am aware of the 'un-originality' but, it is my intention to focus on the highlighting of the bueaty and functionality of industrial design therefore I will only select photographs that feature functioning or in-use pieces and no organic pieces like dogs or trees.
ReplyDeleteJeroen: your at your own risk I think here (in Oklahoma, USA) it could be construed as littering. I don't want to get any one a citation if I can help it.
Odazurk: Can do. I will see if I can get this up sometime today.
great idea!
ReplyDeletei'll see what i can do in wroclaw (poland) ; )
Paul Richard started doing that in 1997. Two ad agencies already ripped him off. Are you planning on crediting Paul Richard, the originator?
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hhanewold: Ripped off seems like rather strong language, as does originator, seeing that Mr. Richard seems to only be fine tuning the works of Marcel Duchamp and other Dadaists. Also his 1997 work "Untitled, glass, bricks, bugs, and stuff" is a perfect example of his different approach and project intention. That being said, after having seen the similarity of his work to this project it does seem only fitting to credit his work.
ReplyDeleteWrong. What you're doing is a Paul Richard rip off. Duchamp said if you take an object into an art space (gallery or museum) and remove it's usefulness it could become art. Paul Richard said don't do anything to it-just put an art label on it and it could become art. Duchamp created the Ready Made and Richard created Designated Art. And if someone puts a museum label on a street object (fire hydrant) it's called a Paul Richard rip off.
ReplyDeleteI think wold is right. I'm in Chelsea N.Y. and I've seen Richard's art labels around for years. I saw one on a stand pipe in Soho bout 12 years ago. I thought yours was his. No biggy, he paints too and I don't think he ever sold one of his street installations.
ReplyDeleteGoogled Paul Richard's Designated Art. Did you see his before you started your context project? It looks just like his.
ReplyDeleteHow bout-Context Project, An attempt to create a clear line between an original idea by an artist and a stolen idea by a company.
ReplyDeleteI say company cause I noticed you don't have a name.
hhanewold: I see your point. And, as I mentioned before, the similarity between the two projects is too similar to not credit Mr. Richard. My difference, no matter how slight you think it is, is to only designate pieces of industrial design. Not interesting found compositions. Also not to include the name of the project or photographer. Also, these didactic cards are not intended to stay in their environment. They are to be photographed, and then compiled into a book. Then every submitter will be briefly interviewed as to their reasoning behind labeling a specific piece of design. That is the extent of the project. The photographs of the design piece and cards are just as important as the opinions of the submitters. And I would appreciate if you would participate as you have added insight to this project with your constructive criticism.
ReplyDeleteEric: Under the post "What It Is" It is stated that this is an Undergraduate Independent Study Course at the University of Central Oklahoma. My name is Adam LeNaire, this is stated at the bottom of the blog, and now at the top as the ending of the most recent post. The money I stand to make from this is probably in the negative therefore I believe it would be a bad decision for a company to undertake. I use the contextproject2010 moniker in order to not have my personal email abused.
Last year guys from Improv Everywhere did very similar thing as well:
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I am a visual artist who was engaged in Renegade Art in New York in the late 1990's, early 2000's. That is how I first met Paul Richard, seeing his museum-style plaques affixed to objects or lots. One thing I have noticed---in New York especially---is that not many wanted to acknowledge or give credit to this "Renegade School" (whose heyday I would place between 1997 and 2001; Paul Richard,
ReplyDeleteTom Modern, James De La Vega are just 3 examples), yet everyone seemed to be interested in lifting or co-opting from it. Madison Avenue especially. Credit where credit is due is all I am saying. Richard pioneered "Designated Art," others: the Ready Made, Fluxus Art, Dada etc. The difference is that DA is site specific, and mimics what museums do. I really think it's time for the art world to recognize more contemporary art movements other than the East Village in the 1980's. That's all the seem to know about.
I would like to designate art this moment.
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words, puncuation.
I am beginning to wonder if some of these posts are seeing this image out of context through linked pages or something. It is pretty clear that the image is a photoshopped image used as an example of what could be submitted (OK undergrad in Devonshire?!). It is unfortunate that the example matches Paul Richard's work so exactly because it seems that many comments are about that particular example not the goals of this project (to examine and document what a minimally directed group of people perceive as "art worthy" objects from an everyday environment). The distance between Duchamp to Koons to Richard is no more broad than the jump from Richard to this project. It is perfectly ironic that anyone would get bent out of shape about Paul Richard not being cited as a direct source of inspiration. Clearly he was not, as Mr. LeNaire had never seen his work. Mr. Richard is merely the originator (I presume) of a concept that was used in a different context without credit to the originator of the concept. I bet there is a fire hydrant designer chuckling to himself somewhere...
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