In 1913, Marcel Duchamp labeled everyday objects as art. Those “readymades” are now in museums. Now, artist Ji Lee has taken a classic Duchamp readymade and put it back into the everyday context of the street. Duchamp Reloaded

These machines built to repeat a carefully calculated miss approach over and over by Michael Kontopoulos absolutely stimulate my interest getting to a world where the machine’s ‘live’ has way more character than the actual outcome. Love it! 

Saw this wonderful piece at the Be[com]ing Dutch exhibition in Eindhoven last week. Now we know why they did not make it into teh finals again this year…

David Byrne is activating the Maritime Building’s Sound in NYC, a fromer ferry station, by the use of engines that set specifis parts of the building into vibration to release the objects natural ambient sound.