Wiki Loves Art
Visual contribution to Wiki Loves Art publication
Wiki Loves Art is a international event where museums and cultural institutions temporary opened their doors for a free content photography contest. Participants competed to take photographs aimed to illustrate the Wikipedia articles. This initiative wants to show that copyright laws are way behind the cultural practices on the internet.
For Wiki Loves Art publication, artists and designers were ask to remix these pictures as a positive contribution to the international debate about copyrights.
Pinar&Viola contributed with a series of ecstatic patterns and still lifes. In the still lifes, classical iconographic statues are combined with 3D computer graphics which are copies of contemporary icons. These virtual celebrity busts were rendered by users of a popular life simulating video game, The Sims, then uploaded on the internet for other gamers to play with.
The shared, remixed, and re-used 3D busts are connoting digitalizing and the current copy/paste culture. The ecstatic patterns are Pinar&Viola's creative comments to symbolize the free-for-all internet culture. The wild virtual cosmos lets us copy like never before. Pinar&Viola cut out of first-class paintings, ardently copy-pasted their flowers, to mutate them into an ecstatic pattern design.
Visit Wikipedia and the Flickr image pool for more information concerning the project.
Wiki Loves Art was exhibited at
Eddie The Eagle Museum, A Place in Space
During the exhibition, At the end of the Universe Pinar&Viola's Wiki Loves Art work was exhibited.
Material: Digital print on aliminium
Pattern and still life no:1 - Eve listening to the voice of Adam
Pattern: Built up from the painting Maria met Kind in een Bloemenkrans by Frans Ykens.
Photographed by: 23dingenvoormusea at Noordbrabants Museum, NL
Marble statue: Eve Listening to the Voice of Adam by Edward Hodge
Photographed by: art_traveller at Victoria and Albert Museum, UK
3D computer graphic Angelina Jolie: Generated by Flajko
3D computer graphic Brad Pitt: Generated by jameLia
Still life no:2 - The Queen of the Underworld
Pattern: Built up from paintings Irissen, Vase of Roses, Oleanders by Vincent van Gogh
Photographed by: pachango, Trevortittle and Lisa O'Hara, a.k.a. Griannan at Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA
Marble bust: Proserpine, queen of the underworld by Hiram Powers
Photographed by: pohick2 at Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA
3D computer graphic Amy Winehouse: Generated by enriquemt0
Still life #2 - Emperors
Pattern: Built up from the painting Bouquet of Flowers in an Urn by Jan van Huysum
Photographed by: Beesnest McClain at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA
Marble busts: Emperors Augustus, Constantine and Caracalla
Photographed by: philophilosopher at Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA
3D computer graphic Barack Obama: Generated by enriquemt0
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