The artistic approach of the New
York-based newcomer Aakash Nihalani is minimalist - in the best sense of
the word. With radical consequence he has reduced his pictorial
language to geometrical forms, lines and planes.
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Akay, also known as Karl Adam Warrol, is one of the first Swedish graffiti-influenced street artists, and has received international attention. When he quit graffiti, he started his street art project
Akayism.
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The works of Albin Ray speak for themselves and for their creator.
Implicitly, they must, as little is known of this nomad who moves
between Vienna and New York.
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In his work, the media artist Aram Bartholl exams the relationships between network-data- world and our everyday-life-space: "In which form does network-data-world manifest in our everyday-life-space? What flows back from cyberspace into our physical space? How do digital technologies influence our everyday activities?"
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Das Pseudonym der 1981 in Bogota, Kolumbien geborenen Künstlerin Bastardilla steht
im Spanischen schlicht für "kursiv".
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Benjamin Gaulon (born 1979) is an artist whose work focuses on planned obsolescence, consumerism and disposable society. He has previously released work under the name "recyclism".
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BLU is the pseudonym of an Italian artist who has deliberately decided to conceal his real identity. What little is known about him is that he lives in Bologna and has been active in the street art scene since 1999.
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The multitude of signs and signal-systems which influence the appearance
of and imperceptibly determine our everyday movement in urban
environments, serve as the primary material for the Louisville,
Kentucky-born artist Brad Downey.
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In 1982 Charlie Ahearn directed the hip hop classic movie Wild Style. Yes Yes Y'all 2002 co authored by Charlie Ahearn is an oral history of the first decade of hip hop with many photos by Ahearn.
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Chris Sugrue is an artist and programmer
from the United States. Her works experiment with the often magical or
illusory possibilities of technology creating fictional worlds that
bleed into reality. These software-driven artworks have taken the form
of interactive installations, live audio-visual performances, and
algorithmic animations.
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There is hardly anyone in Vienna or in
the small Styrian community of Semriach, who has not encountered at
least a single pictorial or sculptural intervention of Christian
Eisenberger.
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After several years of experimenting with classical New York Graffiti styles, he developed his characteristic 3-D style, inspired by calligraphy, architecture, and design.
Not uncustomary, the career of the
Vienna-based artist Deep Inc. began in the graffiti scene in the western
neighborhoods of the city in 1994.
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"In just a few moments, the Berlin-based
writer, Dtango creates complex murals, which consist of a single
continuous line
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Ellis Gallagher is known primarily for chalk drawings made by outlining shadows in the streets of New York City. Gallagher was born on September 9, 1973. He is a native New Yorker living in the
Greenpoint section of Brooklyn. Before his chalk drawings he was a graffiti writer, working in NYC mostly.
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Besides his engagement as co-founder of Graffiti Research Lab (GRL), in
recent years the Michigan-born Evan Roth internationally emerged with a
versatile artistic portfolio of collaborative and solo, on- and offline
projects.
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Founded by the artists James Powderly and Evan Roth, the international
network Graffiti Research Lab., is preoccupied with the mission of
providing cheap, open-source communication technology to artists,
graffiti-writers, communications-guerillas and political activists.
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The artist labels himself "a maverick hobbyist dabbling at the fringes
of robotics, chemistry, writing, pyrotechnics, graffiti, art, tattoos
and rock n roll."
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As a teenager living in Queens, New York artist John Fekner painted text outdoors for the first time in 1968. While attending graduate school, he met Don Leicht, an art student from the Bronx. A few years later in 1976-78, they shared a studio at P.S. 1 where their first collaborations began.
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Know Hope is internationally known for his poetic and often melancholic
artworks, which pertain to the precarious nature of human existence and
revolve around the world of feelings connected with the human
predicament. In this context one finds in his work the recurring motifs
of hearts and hour-glasses, suggesting the fragile and easily broken
nature of existence.
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The American artist, Mark Jenkins (b.
1970) is predominantly working with the profane material of packing
tape, he employs to take casts of his body and everyday objects, such as
children's playthings.
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Born in 1985 in Santiago de Chile, Max
Schaffer discovered his ability and passion for the arts in public
spaces in his teenage years. His early murals on school buildings in
Mexico and Cuba would be the prelude to his career in the arts.
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Im öffentlichen Raum wurde der 1963 in Troyes, Frankreich geborene OX künstlerisch
erstmals in den frühen 1980er Jahren aktiv. Die von ihm mitbegründete Künstlergruppe
„Les Frères Ripoulin" begann 1984 Pariser Plakatwände als Ausstellungsflächen für
eigene Kunst zu okkupieren.
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The
omnipresent, multi-talented Busk belongs to the most prominent activists
in Viennas Street Art scene. In the mid-90s the Vienna-born artist
developed his passion for character sets, fonts and styles through
graffiti.
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Princess Hijab is an anonymous street artist working primarily in Paris. Her art centres on veiling the main characters on subway advertisements using black paint.
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Seine Artworks sind ironisch, poetisch aber vor allem provokant. Sam3 malt am liebsten
Silhouetten auf Hauswände - ob in groß oder ganz klein spielt dabei keine Rolle.
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The formation "Sabotage" was founded by artist Robert Jelinek in the
area of the Documenta IX in Kassel in June 1992.
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