Things used to be easy and unambiguous. You found advertisements in magazines and on billboards, art in galleries and museums, and people expressing themselves by means of graffiti and defacing of private/public property was thought of as a nuisance by most. This is an oversimplification, but bear with me.
Over the years, as the urban environment got denser, it also got more cluttered with ads, and street art took on a new poignancy and presence. Today, anyone in an urban environment is subjected to thousands of commercial advertisements, but also non-commercial messages per day.
Building on the work of kinetic installation artists such as Fischli & Weiss and makers of Japanese educational TV show Pitagora Suitchi, ClustaRack advertise their print media stacking product with a witty and slightly unbelievable video of a printshop Ruby Goldberg machine.
Motion Portrait has created a flash application that looks at your cursor with it’s eyes. The software allows you to upload any 2D photograph and it will spit out a 3D character like this one that follows your cursor.
