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Black on White, Gray Ascending
The New Museum of Contemporary Art
Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries, Black on White, Gray Ascending. 
Photo by Carolyn Wachnicki  

Matias Faldbakken-http://art-documents.tumblr.com/post/199883432/matias-faldbakken

Withe Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam, the Kunstverein Munchen

Jenny Holzer goes to the limits of free speech at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Ar

A glowing installation of text made with LED signs

(Above) For Chicago, 2007, 10 electronic signs with amber diodes. Installation: Jenny Holzer, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art. ©2010 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Photo: Colin Davison

Using DNA as a code for text in contemporary art and poetry

April 16th, 2010 by Corrie Van Sice
Eduardo Kac, from Genesis

Exhibition proposal draft: Textual information

Brief description of art work (s)

My piece will be large scale and wall-based; using hand-cut stencils the piece will be applied to the wall using black paint and have Perspex pieces, to create the effect of the QR code collapsing. There will also be a photographic mounted piece, and small QR codes which can be scanned by the viewer using a smart phone. The work’s theme is denying access, and is based around coding; I am denying access to the meaning of the work, by having most of the work coded with QR codes and Morse code. The QR code will be collapsing into the Morse code, from which writing will extend onto the floor.

Vernon Fisher 1986

Text art by unknown artists

Parastou Forouhar, from the series Schriftraum (Written Room), 2011 *

“The Persian script is turned into an ornament. Covering the white walls of the museums, the characters serve Forouhar as ‘paper’ for her own text. The room becomes a ‘writing room’. Whereas the white walls of the gallery room are raised to a universal norm and an unmarked instance, the Oriental ornament stands for difference or the deviating. The writing is also strange, if not alien, because it is illegible for Western visitors – as an “incomprehensible” text it becomes a pure ornament. In defying attempts by Western visitors to assign it meaning, the script remains locked into its irreducible pictorial graphicness and indissoluble representation… Even if one has a command of Persian, the characters prove to be nothing more than word fragments and syllables, which are not subject to a linear order. The script ornamentation covers the whole room – the ceiling, the floor, and the walls. Viewers entering the rooms are surrounded by patterns, forcing them to give up their sovereign, distanced standpoint.”— Alexandra Karentzos, from “The Location of Art”

Have started on the Morse code aspect of this test piece

Another update of my large scale test piece

A few text based pieces that i have come across

Test Piece: before start actual piece.

This is a smaller scale test piece, black and white acrylic on wall paper backing. Each Small square measures 1inch this has taken just over a week and is difficult to do as the black on white is all ways out of focus. I can only do it for a couple of hours at a time with small breaks other-wise I get a head ache but this in itself adds to the fact that just creating this piece courses visual problems and barriers for me.

Access Denied: Exhibition piece

I have been working on my idea for my exhibition piece which is based around the idea of coding, and how I am denied access to certain text due to the fact that I can not read back on white, white on black. so I am turning the tables so that the viewer can experience what it is like to be denied access, to what something says. using a combination of QR codes which I have embedded a message and Morse code as well as a single line of text, which when translated spells out my frustrations and confusion relating to the problems that I am faced with on a day to day basis.

This is the main QR code that I will be using which is embedded with the message, 'Ignorance only makes my life harder.' this will be painted or stenciled using custom made stencils and painted at a scale of about two meters by two meters onto a white wall. parts of the code will be missing and crumbling away as it breaks into Morse code which snakes its way down the wall ten in to text which bleeds onto the floor.

There will also be an actual scan able QR code of this piece, as well as three more with the links for Irlans UK, Mental Health UK and the UK dyslexia sites.

Artist film: Wasteland

Watched one of the most amazing artist films I've seen to date Wasteland is about Brazilian artist Vik Muniz who is based in Brooklyn, and was filmed are three years. in collaboration with the people who worked as garbage pickers, at the worlds largest rubbish dump, they recreates photographic images of themselves out of the rubbish. this is an incredibly moving and powerful film about a group of proud and dignified people who are seen as the lowest of the low by there own country. Muniz gives them the chance to  show the world that they are not only an incredible intelligent and proud group of people but evidence of the true power of the human spirit.

"Director Lucy Walker has great access to the entire process and, in the end,offers stirring evidence of the trans-formative power of art and the alchemy of the human spirit."

I highly recommend this film and borrowed it  from Anna so i could watch it again.

“Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times,” Mark Twain.

Smoke painting at The Armory. 

"Luis Cruz Azaceta (Havana, 1942) is an artist whose work carries the indelible imprint of displacement. The solitude, cultural and linguistic isolation, and the certainty of no longer belonging anywhere has marked his view of the world since he immigrated to the United States from Cuba at the beginning of the sixties. Throughout his career, his works have continually exuded that feeling, whether veiledly or explicitly. His perspective is that of a displaced individual attempting to find a personal route in the midst of that strange labyrinth that is identity."

From: http://www.luiscruzazaceta.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=909&Itemid=61

2007. Out House. 

Photos, stuffed animal. ropes on wood.

24 x 22 x 8". 

http://www.luiscruzazaceta.net/index.php 

Luis Cruz Azaceta

Even if i didn't like his art i would love him simply for his artist statement.

ARTIST STATEMENT
1 fence
2 fences
3ences
one wall
two walls
three walls
the border is the sea
blue, deep. Dense
transparent, mysterious, deadly
shark infested
guns
speeches
slogans
barbwire & guaguanco
across
the north
cold, clean & rich
the exile begins
border language one
border color two
border ghetto three
uprooted
in transit
on wheels
not here
nor there
spic
Spanish, Hispanic, latino
Coffee, fear & hope
Diaspora and rock & roll
Split, split, split
Caught between 2 cultures
And the sea
Mirror, mirror, mirror
Urban jungle, urban beast
A piece of bread
And a daiquiri
A hole
A gun
A knife
And a dream
Alienation, creation & determination
Biting the edge
With a brush, ideas & nails
Confronting reality
At the foot
Of the abyss
Drowing
Fighting
Surviving
Living & loving
Border line
With
The American dream

Waiting…

Luis Cruz Azaceta
August 11, 1996

david shrigley

I really like these as they are an unusual and quirky use of text.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. Aristotle

olaf breuning

Work shop with Robert Luzar

Pretty much got my plan(idea) for exhibition it will look some thing like this

Art & Language, Study for Projekt 74 Index, 1974

HANDMADE TYPE a typography experiment by Tien-Min Liao

Access Denied: working/ideas on final piece

Using the idea i had of denying access to the viewer as to what my working says i have worked on a few more test pieces and have decided on the text as well as what will be embedded into the QR codes and what is coded in to the Morse code.

http://artsnotfair.com/page/2/

Still from “I AM PART OF YOU” a HTML project by Brian LaRossa. Booth #2 Section A

Jason Rhoades

Untitled (Chandelier)

2004