We Are Bad's invectives against sport as class-cleansing and social engineering have been appearing on and around the fence of the London Olympic site over the past couple of months. Mute presents the first in a series of specially commissioned posters, made available here in hi-res for home printing

The BBC's Live Sites 2012 program is set to roll out 60 big screens in urban centres around the UK by 2012. Considering the vague agenda currently guiding their use, Richard Wright asks whether these big screens will ever open themselves to creative use or simply remain giant TVs controlled by giants
 

In an interesting intervention into the debate initiated by Claire Bishop [see http://www.metamute.org/en/exodus] on the social instrumentalisation of art, Building magazine has revealed plans for a dual (at least) purpose 'productivist' public sculpture to be sited at Stratford Station. Firmly in the tradition of the kind of useful monuments scattered across the east end (another good example is the sculpture adorned with CCTV in Weaver's Fields, Bethnal Green) it appears now that most public art must not only charm, but also serve (and police), its public through social function. Rest assured, whether the outcome turns out to be public sculpture or street furniture the core artistic and educational attributes of this commission 'as an anti-terrorist barrier to prevent cars driving into Station Plaza' will be fulfilled :