Art Workshops: Unleash Your Inner Artist

Somehow corresponding to the war on Mexico declaration by loosely linked hacking group Anonymous I have some interesting news for everyone being interested in hacking… Due to the amazing success, the Netherlands Media Art Institute extended its The Art of Hacking exhibition, which focuses on the artistic side of hacking, until November 26th, showing works by Heath Bunting, The Yes Men, Übermorgen.com and others. As it is written in the press-release, the artists in this exhibition highlight the imperfections of our surroundings and daily lives. The projects subvert, improve on or circumnavigate official systems and practices and offer alternatives. Superficially, hacking is often associated with spreading online viruses and other digital attacks. Officially these criminal activities are not really known as hacking, but as cracking. The real practice of hacking is done based on far more positive and artistic motives. It’s a state of mind and there are elaborate ethical codes within the hacker community. ...

“Backjumps” goes into the next round - The popular street art and urban intervention exhibition project with its long history opens the doors for the “Backjumps 4.2 Junior Issue” at the end of this week and will in addition to an exhibition present workshops for kids and still-kids… As usual, the line-up includes the big names of the international urban art scene: Victor Ash (Copenhagen), Martha Cooper (New York), Dave the Chimp and Poet & Aski (Berlin), Delta and Pips Lab (Amsterdam), Jonone and Skki (Paris), Mode2 (London). ...

The last weekend was marked by the “United Colours” street art festival, which takes place in Berlin for the first time. Two workshops, one on graffiti characters and one on stencil art, called on to participate and the concept seems to work… The “United Colours” street art festival is a collaboration between the famous ATM Gallery and the RosengARTen in Berlin-Mitte and will run until the end of this week. They present a mixture of creative entertainment, do-it-yourself workshops with professional help by local urban artists and live-paintings. ...

Graffiti Workshop | Famous writer Loomit explains in a recorded presentation workshop in front of a huge crowd of students of the Leuphana University how to do graffiti. It’s the first video clip from the urban art project “ARTotale” in Lueneburg. He shows how to create perspective letters - starting with the shades right through to the lights and insides. It’s a quick, but interesting video workshop for those of you, who never made graffiti on their own. ...