| |
|
| ROBERT
SMITHSON |
ANDY
WARHOL |
TRACY
EMIN |
 |
 |
 |
| I
feel we are going in circles |
I
have a hangover |
Yeah,
I got laid last night |
| RENVALL
BROTHERS |
SOL
LE WITT |
ON
KAWARA |
 |
 |
 |
| I
feel like dancing tonight |
Try
to see it from another angle |
Remember
the day we met |
| GORDON
MATTA CLARK |
JEFF
KOONS |
JOSEPH
KOSUTH |
 |
 |
 |
|
It's
over, honey |
You
gotta show me some balls |
Let's
get pissed |
| FRANK
STELLA |
LOUISE
BOURGEOIS |
WALTHER
DE MARIA |
 |
 |
 |
|
Don't
be so square |
You
are a fucking creep |
Last
night was thunder and lightning |
| BRUCE
NAUMANN |
JOSEPH
BEUYS |
MARCEL
DUCHAMP |
 |
 |
 |
|
Good
point |
I
need your help |
Piss
off |
| SARAH
LUCAS |
PAUL
MCCARTHY |
RICHARD
LONG |
 |
 |
 |
|
Are
you in for vegetarian |
You
are lying |
Stone
head |
Modern art says it all. by jacob Lillemoses
Modern art and mobile telephones. It sure seems like an odd couple, those monumental works of genius masters and these pocket size instruments that connects people through ephemerical communication networks. But nevertheless Duchamp would probably welcome the dumb congeniality in seeing his mass produced urinal transformed into pixels, distributed in endless numbers and signed by whoever, whenever. For Smithson the little screen would be another interesting non-place for the Spiral Jetty and his institutional critic. Little doubt that Warhol would find it “exciting” to have his name associated with the handy, hip and commercial gadget. And although he mostly dealt in filt and fat Beuys would appreciate this updated digital version of his idea of “social plastic” and his dictum that “everybody is an artist.”
By transforming these 18 works into simple pixels based icons and attaching a line of text related to love, sex, relationships, partying or jokes Modern Picture Messages intends to re-interpret and re-vitalize the works in the context of 21st century youth culture. It uses the mobile telephone as an exhibition space that adds a new communicative dimension to the works in which they connect people by carrying information between them. As opposed to their exclusive presentation in the space still known as the white cube the mobile telephone displays the works as messages for everyday use and a wide non-institutionalized audience. They gain street credibility, expressive force, emotional substance and are integrated into fast line life of the first true generation of the network community. Who ever said modern art would not?
This project was made for ROTHO, a project by Marcus Renvall / Supported by NIFCA.
So far these picturesmessages is not available for real download for mobilephones, use them for inspiration on do-your-picture-yourself-pages.
All pictures are made for standard b/w Nokiaphones. 90x60 pixel bitmap.