Stretch your paycheck is an interactive performance where you can stretch your paycheck and get a souvenir picture that you can download, print, and share. Send to your boss, your congressman, or to the bill collector!
On Friday March 9th, Stretch Your Paycheck was at the the Cleveland Institute of Art Lunch on Friday.
If you got your picture taken stretching your paycheck – you can download your picture at the Stretch Your Paycheck website.
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This week I made a new large stretchable image for my Stretch Your Paycheck interactive performance. The new money image is a Euro paycheck that features a 100 Euro bill.
I am heading to Helsinki this weekend for Camp Pixelache, a festival/conference event where I will be presenting my work, and also plan to invite others to stretch their paycheck. The event focuses on the main theme of “DIWO” – or Do It With Others – and I am interested to see how stretching the Euro translates and is received and interpreted. This year, the Euro has been critiqued and discussed, and it will be interesting to see what meaning the piece has to others. There are others coming to the festival from Spain, England, France, Finland, Sweden, Hungary and other countries – so it will be interesting to see what money slogans and sayings other countries have.
Stretch Your Paycheck is a interactive performance where individuals are invited to stretch a large latex image of money, get their picture taken that they can later download as a souvenir picture online. The pictures can be saved or sent to a bill collector, Senator, or your boss.
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http://stretchpaycheck.tumblr.com/
Today I just submitted 45 images to the Digital Billboard Art Project, a project where artists can submit images to be displayed on a public digital billboard. My images will be shown from May 28 – June 24, 2012 in the Detroit Metro area (Macomb County), MI.
I submitted slides about food – and made a series of images where foods are shown in both abstract and recognizable views, combined with words and slogans often used by advertisers to promote packaged food. A tomato with the word “SAME GREAT TASTE,” a papaya with the words “50% LESS FAT*” and images of rice, soybeans, a peach, and cheese are in the series.
Each of the food featured in the series has an interesting story related to genetic engineering or modern farming practices. I am interested to have the images show in Detroit, a city where it is reported that over half of the residents do not have easy access to nutritious food.
The Billboard Art Project is a project that acquires digital billboards normally used for advertising and repurposes them as roadside galleries – showing images from artists. Types of work that may be displayed include images created specifically for the billboard as well as images of previously made art adapted to the format. No two Billboard Art Project shows are alike; each city features new work.
The project was started by David Morrison, who got interested in this venue when seeing test images on a new billboard being played in 2005. He writes, “ Advertising is so epidemic and pervasive that people pay good money for clothes so that they can advertise corporate entities like Polo, Tommy Hilfiger, and their favorite sports team… So, when you see a billboard that isn’t telling you what to buy or who to trust, it carries the impact of the unexpected.”
In 2010, he acquired 24 hours of time from Lamar Advertising in October 2010. The billboard time was purchased and a date set. When he was discussing the project with a friend, he immediately asked to participate, and soon a call for artists was sent out through email. At this first project, the Richmond Virginia Art project had over 30 participants with images that ranged from being serious to comical.
This year upcoming shows include other locations such as Richmond, VA; Salem, OR; Albany, NY, and Atlanta, GA. The Detroit show is unique in that the images will be up in a month. I will post again when the show opens, and also when the documentation of the billboard is up.
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On Thursday April 26th is the first in-person activity related to my new project Food Font.
Anyone who is eating lunch in the student lounge at school will be invited to participate. The plan is to have interested students, faculty and staff to work on making 2 CIA (Cleveland Institute of Art) food alphabets. People will be invited to make a letterform out of some of their lunch food. Each letter will be photographed and will be part of the 2 CIA font sets that will be used in the Food Font interactive design tool that I am developing this Summer.
We will be creating 2 fonts:
The CIA Vending machine food font (made of food from the vending machines)
The CIA Packed Lunch font (made of food from food from packed lunches)
Food Font is a project comprised of food and design workshops, font making activities and the use of the interactive online design tool Food Font which will be accessible at www.foodfont.com. The project supports education, interaction, and communication about food, health, and design.
I’m excited to do this first in-person activity and to test out some of the techniques I will be making into printed directions and resources so that others can do a Food Font workshop. We’ll see how it goes!
It’s official! On Friday night the official announcements were made for which films will screen at the upcoming Santa Cruz Film Festival.
My animation short Vegetare will be screening at the film festival which occurs in Santa Cruz, CA on May 10-19, 2012.
Vegetare is screening with 2 other films, To Make a Farm (Steve Suderman) and 10,000 Trees (Sarah Ginsburg, Sarah Berkovich.)
There are two screenings which are scheduled for: 4:00 pm on Friday May 11 and 1:00 pm on Saturday May 12.
santacruzfilmfestival.org/