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January 2012 Digital makes a return to New Zealand for a couple of exclusive gigs in the North Island & to headline 2 festivals in the South Island.
presented by Fast Eddies; produced by ARTIVIST : creative.
Digital aka Steve Carr is the primary musical moniker. This Ipswich based producer is known exclusively for his old skool beatz and dubby B-lines but a short conversation and a little investigative listening indicate this is one producer likely to pull a few seriously weighty tricks out of the bag. Digital has been involved in music all of his life, particularly reggae. Main influences being from his father having run a sound system for about thirty years. His musical tag & skills come from his knack at tampering with electronic equipment from the early age of fourteen. From about 1989 to 1991 Digital was busy running around playing reggae with sound systems, till the fateful period when all this rave business crept in. Around 1991 the scene started to grow heavily in Ipswich and the surroundings areas. Digital started hiring out his sound system to various promoters having raves in and around Ipswich, this is when he started checking out the scene and its music.
The work of Haha explores the power of mass media within Australian popular culture. The reality TV phenomena, the religion of sport, criminal lifestyles, get rich quick & instant fame becomes the obsessions, the new virtues of the 21st century.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ha-ha/sets/
>> view INSIDE OUT PROJECT ARTIVIST : Taupō
B&W portrait photographs collected for submission to theJR/Inside Out Project
"peeps with a story... from Taupō. simple." ARTIVIST : JoFF Rae has had a personal submission to JR's Inside Out Project accepted & has started on a group submission as Inside Out Project Taupō. here's the backend of the detail to the project...
"This is cool. Street Art has never been so accessible or popular & JR has won the TED prize... so he makes the whole World his gallery & we get to help him by being in his exhibition."
INSIDE OUT is a large-scale participatory art project that transforms messages of personal identity into pieces of artistic work. Upload a portrait. Receive a poster. Paste it for the world to see.
INSIDE OUT is a large-scale participatory art project that transforms messages of personal identity into pieces of artistic work. Everyone is challenged to use black and white photographic portraits to discover, reveal and share the untold stories and images of people around the world. These digitally uploaded images will be made into posters and sent back to the project’s co-creators for them to exhibit in their own communities. People can participate as an individual or in a group; posters can be placed anywhere, from a solitary image in an office window to a wall of portraits on an abandoned building or a full stadium. These exhibitions will be documented, archived and viewable virtually.
INSIDE OUT is a collaboration between the artist JR, the TED Prize and you.
JR speaks to Al Jazeera
group statement: "ARTIVIST : creative by any means necessary! developing an environment conducive to being creative - urban & fine art & acts in Taupo, NZ"
ARTIVIST : JoFF Rae submitted the photograph above with a personal statement on art & madness... http://www.insideoutproject.net/#/sp/392Po
Inside Out Project Taupō < click here for detail on group action plan for Taupō, Friday 14 October 2011
Nuku’s piece represents the body of an ancestor. He sculpts in the ancient Maori tradition, but uses modern-day materials such as polystyrene and plexiglass.
With his installation piece, the artist once more places sacred objects from Polynesia in a respectful environment outside the mundane museum display case. At the same time, he is giving a nod to the giant, Antigoon.
Tracey Tawhiao
Matariki EXHIBITIONS 2011
Taupo Museum - June 03 to July 12
Ngā Hauwāhine e Whitu
our seven sisters
&
Ngā Mata Kakā
beacons of light
th'ink Director Eleazar Bramley is curator of these fine exhibitions.
The exhibitions involve two fine art group shows from Tūwharetoa artists, specialist artists talks & installations... Ngā Hauwāhine e Whitu / our seven sisters & Ngā Mata Kakā / beacons of light
th'ink a company based in Taupō making art & design for practical needs & wants... th'ink
th'ink artistic & graphic design of print material, logos & marks / th'ink website & graphic design with that touch of sophistication & artistic style / th'ink screen print custom t shirts to order / ... th'ink
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artivist
Artivist is a portmanteau word combining “art” and “activist“. Artivism developed in recent years while the anti-globalization and antiwar protests emerged and proliferated. In most of the cases artivists attempt to push political agendas by the means of art. Yet this is not political art as it was known before, in the sense of artworks being political. The artivist is often involved in Streetart or Urban Art, Adbusting or Subvertising.
In some cases, Paris in 2003 for instance, artivists were arrested for acts of political art that verged on property destruction. A typical short term goal of artivists is to reclaim public space, especially by subvertising or destroying ads in urban areas or city transportation systems. Nevertheless artivists engage in different media like the internet not only for actions which could be described as hacktivism.
Often the acts of artivists can be refererred to as part of the larger concept of Culture jamming.
There is a chapter on Artivism in It’s Bigger Than Hip Hop by M.K. Asante, Jr.
Asante writes of the artivist:
“The artivist (artist + activist) uses her artistic talents to fight and struggle against injustice and oppression— by any medium necessary. The artivist merges commitment to freedom and justice with the pen, the lens, the brush, the voice, the body, and the imagination. The artivist knows that to make an observation is to have an obligation.”
creative
creative |kriːˈeɪtɪv|
adjective
relating to or involving the imagination or original ideas, esp. in the production of an artistic work : change unleashes people’s creative energy | creative writing.
• (of a person) having good imagination or original ideas : Homer, the creative genius of Greek epic.
noun
a person who is creative, typically in a professional context.
DERIVATIVES
creatively adverb
creativeness noun
THE RIGHT WORD
Everyone likes to think that he or she is creative, which is used to describe the active, exploratory minds possessed by artists, writers, and inventors (: a creative approach to problem-solving). Today, however, creative has become an advertising buzzword (: creative cooking,: creative hairstyling) that simply means new or different.
Original is more specific and limited in scope. Someone who is original comes up with things that no one else has thought of (: an original approach to constructing a doghouse), or thinks in an independent and creative way (: a highly original filmmaker).
Imaginative implies having an active and creative imagination, which often means that the person visualizes things quite differently than the way they appear in the real world (: imaginative illustrations for a children’s book).
The practical side of imaginative is inventive; the inventive person figures out how to make things work (: an inventive solution to the problem of getting a wheelchair into a van).
But where an inventive mind tends to comes up with solutions to problems it has posed for itself, a resourceful mind deals successfully with externally imposed problems or limitations (: A resourceful child can amuse herself with simple wooden blocks).
Someone who is ingenious is both inventive and resourceful, with a dose of cleverness thrown in (: the ingenious idea of using recycled plastic to create a warm, fleecelike fabric).
by any means necessary!
Jean Paul Sartre
The phrase is from a translation of a sentence used in French intellectual Jean Paul Sartre‘s play Dirty Hands:
“ I was not the one to invent lies: they were created in a society divided by class and each of us inherited lies when we were born. It is not by refusing to lie that we will abolish lies: it is by eradicating class by any means necessary.” ”
— Jean Paul Sartre, Dirty Hands: act 5, scene 3. 1963
Malcolm X
It entered the popular culture through a speech given by Malcolm X in the last year of his life.
“ We declare our right on this earth to be a man, to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary.” ”
— Malcolm X, 1965
