Persuasive Text part 2

1. Persuasive Textpart 2 • is text art? • why is that? • why is that not? • when is that? Thanks to elisederinger (2009)

2. conveying information parking directions - perfectly legible for those going in the right direction; nonsense to those going the other way

3. train station - berlin, germany

4. belgrade, serbia

5. stating the obvious - san francisco, california

6. text tattoos are permanent reminders of values, affirmations, or experiences. affirmation tattoo

7. vonnegut tattoo

8. ouija board tattoo

9. reminder tattoo

10. sometimes text plays games

17. how do artists use text?

18. sometimes text is hard to understand, or doesn’t look like writing at all. ann hamilton - myein

19. ann hamilton - myein

20. hans haacke

21. bruce nauman

22. justice department, washington, d.c.

23. journalism museum, washington, d.c.

24. keith haring

25. jenny holzer

26. jenny holzer

27. jenny holzer

28. lauren marsden

29. lauren marsden

30. robert indiana

31. current asu grad student nic wiesinger “the van that thought out loud”

32. merlin carpenter

33. bruce nauman

34. bruce nauman

35. tracey emin - everyone I have ever slept with