Superflex was an artist collective with a strong focus on discussing copyright issues in their artwork. They created a guarana drink and competed with the worlds biggest guarana company over copyright issues just to bring them to the front of the newspapers and the front of people’s ideas about copyright infringement. They’ve opened stores to make statements about branding and how brands are practically open source material in our world because so many people are familiar with them and use them every day.
Brett Cook had a strong focus on artwork in a community setting. His work started out as an anonymous, social collaboration in the community using spray paint as his medium. He gained an anonymous fame through these actions but eventually changed his focus. He then started going into communities and doing portraiture of local people on an iconic scale. He showed focus on everyday people. His most recent projects are very VERY community intensive. He decided to go into a community and attempt to unite the people through a series of goal oriented community building exercises. A lot of his work is socially oriented now and is very different than where he started.
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