A exhibition of “illegal art” that appropriates other art and cultural clutter, like corporate logos, is coming to NYC and Chicago. Illegal Art: Freedom of Expression in the Corporate Age is sponsored by Stay Free, an excellent zine-cum-magazine that focuses on issues of intellectual and artistic freedom within a hyper-private-corporatized society. Wired News has an article on it today.
I’ve always enjoyed collage and appropriative art, and considered myself a collage artist. This sort of creative expression is a reasonable reaction to having one’s metnal environment saturated by exhortations to buy that masquerade as art.
I was thus inspired to reappropriate this piece to my own design:
Mad props to John at diymedia.net from whose logo I’ve shamelessly stolen inspiration.
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