POLITICAL ARTISTS

Public Record (sound political art, and the sound of our politics)

eichu — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:16:06 +0000

Public Record is a group of artists takes political and societal issues and incorporates it into their own art. They make sound into their political practice. I enjoy seeing something different such as their political artwork using sound. I love how they mentioned Walter Benjamin and said “Benjamin challenges artists to pursue sustained and committed relationships with social movements.” They believe in sharing their art with others, so their website is full of sound clips of their work related to politics.

http://www.publicrec.org/directory.html

David Hume Kennerly

eichu — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:26:03 +0000

David Hume Kennerly is a political photographer for many years. He has been all over the world and has photograph eight wars. He received the Pulitzer Prize for his photos of Vietnam war and was appointed as a personal photographer for Gerald Ford. He is one of the most renown photographer of our time, he has received many recognitions and awards. He captures the moment when people doesn’t seem to know and capture the subject’s real expression and special moments. His work gain so much recognition that he photographs for the United States of America government for many years.

http://www.kennerly.com/

Photo Philanthropy

eichu — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:36:00 +0000

Photo Philanthropy is a Organization which helps photographers to help social changes through photography. Photographers work with charitable organizations and document the stories from the people all over the world. This is a great organization to help photographers be able to connect with people all over the world and document stories of the people. I like how the organization connect viewers to see different photographers’ work and see the stories of different people. The organization not only help professional photographers, but as well as amateurs and students. There are many inspirational stories and photographs that you don’t see everyday.

http://www.photophilanthropy.org

Sama Alshaibi

eichu — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:41:35 +0000

Sama Alshaibi is born in Iraq to an Iraqi father and Palestine mother. She is now an American citizen living in the States and teaching in post secondary institution. She is a multi-media artist who produces photographs and video art. Her content is all about suffer and the displacement of loss. She uses her own body as the main subject to depict the history of her homeland and societal issues of her original country.

I admire her art and courage to render the history and the current affairs that is heavily looked at today. Her photographic and cinematic skills are full of stories behind them. I enjoy watching her video art “Goodbye to the Weapon,” where she uses old clips and super 8 to create a piece of a woman trying to escape the from Iraq-Iran before the war. Do check her website out : http://www.samaalshaibi.com/#

鄭智禮 Howard Chilai

eichu — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:55:30 +0000

Howard Chilai from Hong Kong creates digital art from designs to art based on current affairs. He tries to share Hong Kong culture and history to other people all over the world. He focuses on social issues of Hong Kong. He did one video project about BODY GENDER which is based on a woman feeling that she is not being treated well in Hong Kong. STIFFEN WATER is another piece about natural life and appreciating water and the natural elements that are with us everyday. The project involves with playing sound and frequency of five different source: toilet, shower, pipe, urinating, and water dripping into tank. He is an interesting artist to look at who is able to produce designs and create conceptual and artistic artwork.

Check out his website:

http://www.chilaihoward.com/

Nalini Malani

eichu — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:03:30 +0000

Malani Malini is an artist whom was a refugee of the Partition of India. Her artwork is mainly focused on feminist theories and issues. She works with various of medium from two dimensional drawing and painting to digital media art. She fills her artwork with narratives concerning the female gender. Her narratives focus around women in society and historical issues. Many of her work contains taunting imagery and dialogues. I am amazed of how she uses drawing and painting with digital media.

http://www.nalinimalani.com/index.htm

Political from Photomanipulation gallery

eichu — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:17:50 +0000

This site is full of amazing photo manipulation from using a variety of political images.

I really enjoy looking through these images because as a photographer myself, I am get scare to use political images with my own work. After seeing many different artists’ photo manipulation, I feel quite inspirational. Using historical political images can help us remember the past social issues.

check this site out:

http://news.deviantart.com/article/99607/

Chris Jordan

eichu — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:49:53 +0000

Andrew introduced me to Chris Jordan during my presentation and after checking him out, his artwork is just mind blowing. His images are evoking and really brings to a wake up call to what we are doing to our environment, or even ourselves. Every time you zoom in from a large scale image, you realize it is made out of a certain entity. The statistics that he provides are just astonishing: with the paper cups that we use each day, number of prisoners in the states, deaths from smoking, breast augmentation, and many more… It is amazing how us human beings are not aware of all the things we are consuming each day and being so careless to how it will affect our planet or even ourselves. His creation in these large scale photographs are to show how unconscious we are of our surrounding and culture.

Chris Jordan’s website:

http://www.chrisjordan.com/

Chris Jordan on TED:

http://www.ted.com/talks/chris_jordan_pictures_some_shocking_stats.html

Art Spiegelman: Comics and Politics

eichu — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:26:51 +0000

To people who loves comics should watch this video…

Art Spiegelman was born in Sweden, but his parents were Polish-Jewish refugees and ended up in New York. Art was a well known underground comic artists during the 60′s and 70′s. His most announced work is “Maus” and “Maus Part II” Which both are reflection of his personal life. In Maus, it was about his elder brother (Richieu) whom died before Art’s birth. He was sent to live with an aunt during WWII because she was living in a safer part of town. The aunt poisoned herself, her niece, her won daughter and Art’s brother Richieu. Maus Part II is dedicated to Art’s brother and as well as his own daughter. He won several awards for his work Maus and as well as the Pulitzer Prize Letters award in 1992.

Spiegelman is an influential comic artist that brings all sorts of politics into his artwork. He stated that “visual parts of the comics goes directly into the brain and bypass a lot of other information….Images have multi-valid meaning.. and cartoons have high definition images.” I usually don’t read a lot of comics, but I think now I should start after listening to Spigelman’s interview. Comics are similar to novels, expect comics sometimes express the opinions through images than using words that are hard to articulate to the audience. His comics are detailed and full of intriuguing images and information of his own life experience and thoughts. I strongly suggest checking Spiegelman out!!

http://www.vimeo.com/6733060

Interview with Daily Cross Hatch:

http://thedailycrosshatch.com/2008/10/08/interview-art-spiegelman-pt-1-of-2/

Barack Obama x Z-Trip x Shepard Fairey x Fresh Pressed

eichu — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:36 +0000

http://www.vimeo.com/1991906

Barack Obama’s “Yes We Can” speech remixed and re-visualized using Z-Trip’s mix, Shepard Fairey’s “Hope” pasting at Fresh Pressed Los Angeles, and Lenny Mesina’s editing. (Be sure to stay through the end credits for a special message!)

Art Direction + Design – Shepard Fairey
Music – Z-Trip
Editor – Lenny Mesina
Location – Fresh Pressed
Installation Team – Nick + Z
Photography – Nick Toga + Mike Adler
Producer – Jonathan Sample
Production Assistant – Meara McDonald