City Wipeout
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Cities are filled up with our commercial culture. The city-dweller’s field of vision is dominated by advertisements. Architect and researcher Pasi Kolhonen wants to reveal with City Wipeout just how many images, texts and signs are invading our everyday environment. The installation consists of pictures which unveil an ordinary face of the city centre. The pictures are reflected one-by-one on the wall. The user interface allows the spectators to wipe the view clean of everything but the advertisements, signs or logos. All that remains is the blanket of advertising that covers the entire city.
At the moment, Pasi Kolhonen is studying the effects of advertising on city space at the University of Art and Design Helsinki. More images. Check the work at SAUMA, an exhibition of 16 innovative design concepts and prototypes from Finnish designers and artists. You might already know some of them: TileToy, Urban Olfactory installation and Mukana. The show runs until September 20, at World Financial Center Courtyard Gallery in NYC. |
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Matt Siber has similar work with two different approaches here and here.
Interesting approach.
One of the worst aspects of the visual pollution by billboards and all
is the constantly growing use of these supersized, several stores high posters that are killing any sense for perspective, thus killing urban archticture itself.
Have fun in the 5th most expensive city in the world :)
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pK
Well we need to figure that out whether we can just all the ads from the city for the sake of environment. Marketing people might try to ban this kind of thing.
By the way I got to know this interesting business quiz today.
I like their "The Love or Money test " thingy
Find out if you are more enamored with money or love.
See how is your result guys.