Graz goes Pleasantville

Most highly recommended news article: Singapur liegt an der Mur, the Zeit magazin, 4.6.2009. (c) Christian Wagner

Assembly09 / Pixellab

Some random takes from the Assembly 2009 Designfestival in Graz - Official Website
The Pixellab: Analog production of digital art/efacts.Graz 2009

Design Camp in Graz

Saturday, 23th May, 10 am; Schaumbad, Freies Atelierhaus Starhemberggasse 4, 8052 Graz

Lendwirbel 09

Blockparty in Lend/Graz. 7th to 9th May. Official Website

Recording the crisis

Why we’re taking photographs of beautiful people, whilst we are in the midst of a paradigm shift and the economic crisis is spreading?
Brain Ulrich shows himself surprised on his blog that not more artists react to environmental conditions. Inspired by his post Cara Philips wrote an interesting post The nature and purpose of photography, discussing why the contemporary photographic art scene behaves in this passive way. In the course of reading her interesting post, I came across some statements regarding differentiations of photography: art photography, amateur works, etc. Well – to be honest, I’m still confused about what in photography is denoted as art, as amateur work or scrap. But that’s an other story.

Never mind. Independently, I started taking photos of the artifacts of ongoing occurrences.

Selected Exposure: Car storage at a car production site, Graz
© Christian Wagner

Exhibition Photo Graz 08

The exhibition Photo Graz 08 shows two selected photographs of the work destination unknown. open from 19.12.2008 to 11.1.2009 | Künstlerhaus Graz

A representative cross section of the styrian photo scene.
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