Sadly it's been a slow week that's passed me but I'm gonna make a promise to show more of my art work in my next post, meanwhile I've been wanting to make something political for sometime now:
http://www.noisefestival.com/protest
The Noise Festival is giving us the chance to make and show protest art, the deadline for submission is the 14th of December, there's a lot of info on it found in the above link.
I think the best protest art has a look and feel of parody and propaganda, it has that connection that it needs in order to establish breaking an audience's apathy. However, it still needs to have the purpose of inspiring people and I can't help but see protest and art having a viral function that is created in order to be adopted by others. Memes seem to be a good way of doing this since their is no real authorship, it's for people by people. I remember as a child how people would draw the stuzzy or batman, they became memetic because they were so easy to draw and that's one fundamental rule of creating an icon. The trick is what every advertiser knows, be memetic and memorable. At this moment I've got a sketchbook at the ready so that I can be responsive to what's going on. Next post, promise.
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