TimeBomb is the brainchild of digital artist Lukasz Karluk (Holler) and Sydney sculptor/painter KissKiss (Stupidkrap.com).
The installation merges the latest in programming wizardry and traditional wildstyle graffiti and allows the audience to interactively unlock the secret history behind a graffiti wall.
Nine street and studio artists were invited to contribute to the TimeBomb piece by painting layers of different style on the ‘wall’ while being continuously documented through time-lapse photography.
The final installation will appear as two giant graffiti walls suspended in the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. One painted wall will be real, the other a projected double, interacting with the viewers movements to reveal the layers of graffiti swirling backwards in time.
Interactive art: if the walls could talk
The history of the wall is a story of creation and destruction, friendships and rivalries. Works are thrown up, covered up and then eventually buffed and repainted. Street artists work with the impermanence of this medium all the time and are often unwitting participants in collaborative art projects over long periods of time.
Behind the work
Lukasz Karluk is a technological tinkerer, online interactive developer, generative computer artist, visualist for live music events and anything interesting and experimental that comes his way.
Check out our exclusive interview with Lukasz where he discusses TimeBomb and the work of digital installation artists. There’s also another timelapse video of the TimeBomb art work.
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KissKiss (Madeleine Boyd) is a sculptor and installation artist working out of the Worlds End Studio in Surry Hills, Sydney. Her images, sculptures and art-toys convey a love of beauty, voodoo and destruction in a wild world and she brings a characteristic punk-pop approach to watercolours, drawings, hand-coloured prints and screenprints on paper.
Installations and artworks created by KissKiss have been exhibited at the MTV Gallery, Urban Uprising Gallery, National Grid Gallery, The Opera House, China Heights Gallery, Retrospect Gallery, Gaffa Gallery, Gallery 44, Blank Space, as well as within arts festivals and art-rock nights in Sydney, Australia. Installations and artworks created by KissKiss have been included in the Great Escapes Festival, Playground Weekender and Splendour in the Grass, 2008.
Check out our exclusive interview with Maddi where she discusses TimeBomb and the work of artists in relation to digital.
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Stupidkrap.com is an artist-run portal and on-line store, featuring limited-edition high-quality art prints and collectables by leading Australian artists. Their online portal is modeled after international artist run initiatives such as Pictures On Walls (UK), FecalFace.com (USA) and Juztapoz magazine (USA). Stupidkrap can also be found on Facebook and MySpace.
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Holler is a digital marketing agency with offices in Sydney and London. Holler is the sole digital agency for Lion Nathan in Australia and produces award-winning work for brands such as Tooheys Extra Dry, Samsung, Channel4 and Universal Music. You can see more of their work over at Flickr.
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The artists
DMOTE (Shannon Peel) is one of Sydney’s most prolific graffiti writers and also an established global artist. He’s been pretty busy since relocating from Sydney to California. As well as acting as Art Director for RVCA his graphic design company Upstairs Collective has worked with Absolut Vodka, MTV, Sony, Reebok, Ksubi, Something Else, Schwipe, Syncanicity and Colab Sunglasses. You can check out more of his work on Art Crimes.
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Sydney artist Numskull’s latest work blends oil paints, illustration and screen printing but he’s equally happy working on the walls of Sydney. His background is in graffiti, stencil and street art and he was a featured artist at the 2006 Sydney Stencil Festival. His work has been featured in YEN, Without Reason and The Brag and he’s just recently finished a successful solo show at the China Heights Gallery in Surry Hills.
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Originally from Perth, Kid Zoom has been busy making his mark on the streets of Sydney since arriving in January 2009, most recently with a large wall piece at the Oxford Art Factory. He’s also just finished a month-long exhibition at the Boutwell Draper Gallery and earlier this month he collaborated with self-proclaimed ‘billboard liberator’ Ron English on a series of new street installations.
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Roach is a graphic artist, typographer and graffiti writer with a growing reputation. His work has recently been exhibited at the Boutwell Draper Gallery and the SemiPermanent design conference in Sydney. Roach is also a curator for the new series of Go Font Yourself exhibitions, events which showcase Australian and international artists who create typographic artworks.
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Bennet is an artist from Sydney who is currently exploring the theme of one man’s trash being another man’s treasure and the ‘values’ of mass produced everyday objects. His art is heavily influenced by the built environment around him and his pieces mix acrylic paint and spray, mashing up familiar imagery with more unfamiliar elements.
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John Doe’s character paste ups and lettering pieces first hit the streets of Sydney in 2007 during a quick stop over from his native London. Since returning to Australia in 2008 he’s been commissioned for murals on display at the Oxford Art Factory and Mayz Lane. John Doe is currently one of the directors of the Oh Really artist run gallery in Newtown.
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Creon is a stencil artist working out of a studio in Surry Hills Sydney. His emotional and colourful stencils convey the intense and often ludicrous experiences of youth in the city. His work is exhibited at the Oh Really gallery. He is currently a member of the sketch collective for the popular Sketch A Rhyme hip-hop performance group, appearing at Carriageworks and other festivals in Sydney.
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Ben Frost is most well known for his confronting and often controversial Pop Art paintings. His dynamic paintings are complex mash-ups of popular culture that savagely critique our media- and advertising-obsessed society. His now infamous 2000 exhibition and art prank ‘Ben Frost is Dead’ saw him fake his own death and was branded ‘tasteless’ when the art world and national media actually believed his demise. Ben was an invited artist at the 2002 Primavera exhibition at the Sydney MCA and his next show is at Brooklynite Gallery in New York. Ben’s work has appeared in magazines including Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Australian Art Collector, Empty and Monster Children, and he was a contributing illustrator for over three years to Black + White Magazine.
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