Art Crimes: Bristol, UK
Matt Smith – Photographer / Artist, based in Bristol. check him out.
http://www.graffiti.org/bristol/index.html
VANDALISM.
We live in an information-rich society, constantly bombarded by data, imagery, and statistics thrust under our noses, supplied direct to you, the individual, in a huge variety of ways, for an equally huge and diverse spectrum of reasons. Newspapers, TV, radio, the internet, advertising, marketing, politics, even entertainment, all help to frame and govern our view on the world, its history, present, and its future.
Information is probably the most powerful social tool for the new Millenium; yet rarely are we encouraged to examine the motivations of those who own the means of producing such information, the conditions applied to its manufacture and presentation, and the undeclared subtexts and agendas present within it. To sift through this huge volume of input for truth and relevance requires an increasingly sophisticated sensibility, although for the most part, in pursuit of the maintenance of the status quo, we are asked simply to accept what is put before us
