Banksy is known all over the wolrd for his creative graffiti technique and the social and political messages behind all of them. Recently his art has reached new grounds as people started preserving his street graffitis. Angelina Jolie payed as much as 200.000 British pounds for one of his works.

So a smartass who wanted a slice of the anonymous artist glory uncovered his secret identity? Frankly, who cares!

I’m afraid that the whole thing is Banksy’s latest creation in an amazing set up involving friends, his agent, former neighbors, his alledged parents and the media themselves to expose how gullible they (we) are.

The picture that Banksy used to fool the Mail on Sunday into believing it was him in Jamaica four years ago

We are all monkeys and we intend to keep it this way.
Banksy we love you!

Here’s some of Banksy’s works on the walls of Barcelona
Sample works on Banksy’s website
Buy his book, buy his book, buy his book, buy his book Wall and Piece

Here’s a picture:

Check Bartholl’s other projects where he explores the interactions between the web and the physical world.

www.datenform.de - Aram Bartholl’s website

More light graffitis by Lichfaktor in Flickr.

10:05: Presentation of various Net-Art projects Alexei Sholguin Desktop Art

• Bust Down The Doors by Young Hae Chang.
• Pioners and most influential artists from the 90s Jodi. (I often show their works but often crash your computer)
• A project that shows what happens when you totally screw up with blogs.

18:10: Talks about her involvment in Rhizome.org in 2005 Database, lo-fi, dirt style, public art, online celeb, on and off line art. How online art translates into real life. Internet art takes a lot of different forms even offline.

• “Internet pop art” Paperrad.org
• Review of Rhizome’s ArtBase

18:15: How internet has gone offline and moved into galleries in the form of objects
Artist felt the pressure to make money with internet art. Need to make objects to make money (bits don’t sell, atoms do)

• Rhyzome supports this artists through grants, exhibits, shows, etc.
• Michael Bell-Smith electronic tapestries on FoxyProduction.com

Cory Arcangel & Paper Rad super Mario Movie
18:20: How artists with web 2.0 and social networks MyOwnSpace.fr

• Distributed Artwork. Artists on wireless and mobile devices. Huge thing happening now.
• Pigeons writing a pollution map of San Diego

18:25: Shiftspace

• Application you can download and use it to paint space in the internet. A kind of a second layer of the net and color your own spaces and see other people’s. Artists as contextual content producers online.
• Networked Nature
• The representation of nature from the perspective of network culture. You don’t need a connection to talk about how digital culture.
• The C5 Lansdscape Initiative: A community of nerds looks for sublime spots in California. Technology used to give a different perspective on nature.

18:30: Timeshares shows on Rhizome.org Fultilines:
Automatedbeacon.net: Monitoring what people search on Google
The Dumpster: A visualization of romantic breakups for 2005 taken from letters in MySpace, Friendster, etc.
18:35: What makes an artist? People posting to Flickr?

• Zidane’s headbutt festival. How fast temporary communities spred out about a common subject.
• 13 Most Beautiful Avatars on 2nd Life

Professional surfer. Web surfing considered art.
18:40: Nastynets.com. Ars Electronica Award winner for this year.

• Trevor Paglen works on uncovering confidential information and transforming it into art.

18:45: Artists produce tools. A trend in today’s art. Fundrace.org: A database about who gives money to each candidate in the US campaigns.

• whiteglovetracking.com: Video editor
• TheRealCosts.com: Firefox plugin to track your CO2 emissions while you travel

18:50: Rhizome.org an online comunity created 10 years ago. Now with presence online and in art galleries.

Here it is for your viewing pleasure.

If you want to buy it go to Eboy.com and you should be able to find a link to an online service.

Here’s a zillion pictures of the project at Amorphic Robot Works, the New York based company building the robot.

Via Wired 15.03: PLAY:
In March, Citroën unveils the Totemobile, a million-dollar-plus robotic sculpture that’s sure to drive potential customers to its Champs-Élysées showroom. The venerable French automaker gave free conceptual rein to artist Chico MacMurtrie and his team at Brooklyn’s Amorphic Robot Works.

Photos by Quim Massana

Go create: jacksonpollock.org

btw: here’s where you use flash and a .org domain.

Here’s my first e-pollock:

Via Aníbal Estrella

From November the 8th till December the 11th, art galleries, exhibition halls and artist workshops will open their doors for the 6th edition of Barcelona’s Contemporary Art festival (BAC), art that leaves no one indifferent. Just see it for yourself in Li Wei’s poster of this edition.

Art Mobs have produced unofficial audio guides for MoMa, and they’re available as podcasts for you to download.

So instead of listening to the monotone voice of the official MoMa narrator, you could be listening to art students talking about what a painting would say if it could talk or what the soundtrack for a still image could be.

Invitations are open to anywone who wants to cook an alternate audio guide to the MoMa. Art Mobs will add it to their podcast feed.

I wonder what the alternative audio guide for MACBA (Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona) would say about the huge bed installation by painter Antoni Tàpies?

http://mod.blogs.com/art_mobs/