Monochrom & BLF: The Great Firewall of China at Google

by Scott Beale on May 15, 2008 · 8 comments

monochrom and The Billboard Liberation Front recently joined forces up to create “The Great Firewall of China” at the Google headquarters in Mountain View as part of monochrom’s Sculpture Mobs project. Boing Boing TV was there with the full report.

monochrom & BLF: The Great Firewall of China

Here’s the press release and photos from the installation.

Coincidently, the action took place the same day as Google’s annual shareholders meeting and a news crew from the local ABC affiliate (KGO Channel 7) happened by as the Sculpture Mobs installation was in progress, including it in their report, referring to monochrom and BLF as human rights activists.

photo by Johannes Grenzfurthner

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1 johannes May 15, 2008 at 9:27 am

Human Rights Activists!
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

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2 el tejano May 15, 2008 at 9:47 am

is that an art installation? looks almost like someone littering a fence . . .

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3 Wisecat Willis May 15, 2008 at 10:05 am

yeah, that ‘great wall’ ain’t so ‘great’… c’mon people, you gotta put more effort into stuff before you call it a ‘thing’….

sheesh

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4 johannes May 15, 2008 at 2:15 pm

More effort?
We just had 5 minutes. It was a sculpture mob after all!

And we needed to maintain a low standard of political metaphor to give American citizens a chance to understand it. From an aesthetic perspective, The Great Firewall is radically mediocre. In the end, China’s stoic indifference to Western art insanity is quite impressive.

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