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Big Ideas in Art and Culture: Steve Lambert

 

Steve Lambert is an American artist who works in a variety of media, commonly using print and communication vehicles as a means of developing a dialogue with his audience.  He has produced interactive scoreboards, letterpress posters, signage and postcards. One of Lambert’s best known projects is The New York Times“Special Edition”, which announced the end of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan following the 2008 American election.

Lambert uses art as a bridge to connect uncommon, idealistic, or even radical ideas with everyday life. He carefully crafts various conditions where these ideas can be discussed with people to produce a meaningful exchange. Often this means working collaboratively with the audience, bringing them into the process or even having them physically complete the work.

He has collaborated with well-known art collectives such as the Yes Men and the Graffiti Research Lab, and other organizations such as Greenpeace. He is also the founder of the Center for Artistic Activism, the Anti-Advertising Agency, Add-Art (a Firefox add-on that replaces online advertising with art) and SelfControl (which blocks grownups from distracting websites so they can get work done).

SURVIVE. RESIST: Walter van Broekhuizen

 

Walter van Broekhuizen's Green Room is a room for a tree – a round space that changes the natural context to create another way of experiencing and looking at a tree.

The artist states that he is interested in the creation of an authentic space. His art considers the mental and physical experience of space, observation and perception and how the power of the human condition can influence them.
 
Walter van Broekhuizen studied at the Akademie Sint Joost in Breda and attended the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam where he was a finalist of the Prix de Rome for Drawing in 1998. Walter has worked as an artist in South Africa, Norway, France,Indonesia and Canada, and has exhibited internationally. His commissioned work can be seen throughout the Netherlands.
 
He lives and works in Amsterdam.

SURVIVE. RESIST: Broken City Lab

 

Broken City Lab installed its intervention "REFLECT ON HERE" directly in front of the Kitchener City Hall.  A sign built with 8-foot-tall letters coated in retro-reflective material, which refelcted the lights of each turning vehicle from dusk until dawn. REFLECT ON HERE called on people to think about the infrastructure of the city, the attempt to create place with architecture, and the materiality of the text itself.
 
Broken City Lab is an artist-led interdisciplinary creative research group that tactically disrupts and engages the city, its communities, and its infrastructures to re-imagine the potential for action in the collapsing post-industrial city of Windsor, Ontario.