Street Artist’s Participatory Art Project Takes Shape Around the World [VIDEOS] In the months since TED Prize Winner JR’s global participatory art project was announced, nearly 10,000 huge posters created from photos submitted by people around the world have been sent out as the French artist looks to transform urban landscapes with portraits.
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Now, JR is starting to document what he calls the Inside Out Project through video uploaded by those that have taken to his call to action and pasted their portraits in the streets. The YouTube channel, launched Thursday at TED Global in Edinburgh, Scotland, also includes a short film by Director Alastair Siddons, who will be releasing one new video each month documenting the project. The first film in the series shows how the project evolved in Tunisia following the country’s recent revolution.
You can see some of the videos below, with projects taking place in locations ranging from Bronx, NY to Lima, Peru: Image courtesy of James Duncan Davidson / TED. Louis Vuitton : Young Arts Project. HumanKindWall. Louis Vuitton launches community website for aspiring artists - TNW UK. French Fashion house Louis Vuitton has teamed up with five arts institutions in London to launch REcreative as part of the Louis Vuitton Young Arts Project.
The website is set to feature content for young people, and provide them with access to the arts world. It will also provide a platform for sharing ideas, whilst displaying and promoting their work. From today, aspiring artists can upload their work and share it on the site and across the online community and, needless to say, users can sign-in with their Facebook log-in details. Kaiser Chiefs Invite Fans to Create (and Distribute) Their Own Album. The Kaiser Chiefs‘ are inviting fans to participate in — and profit from — the distribution of their new album, The Future is Medieval, by creating individual, customized versions of the new body of work.
Visitors to the site are invited to select 10 songs out of 20 recorded by the band for the new release, design the cover, and pay £7.50 to download the album. For those fans that want to try their hand at selling their unique version of the album, the site will offer an album page on Album HQ, where album creators can subsequently earn £1 for each copy of sold of their custom album.
We’ve been tracking alternative distribution models for digital music as of late and found this to be one of the more unique experiments we’ve seen. There’s been crowdsourced songwriting and album funding, streamed albums with storytelling components, but inviting fans to customize their own version of the album (including artwork) and to partake in profitting from its distribution and sale?