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Zygmunt Bauman "La solitudine del cittadino globale"
University.it (Comunicati Stampa) - Milano,Lombardia,Italy
Zygmunt Bauman è professore emerito di Sociologia nelle Università di Leeds e Varsavia. Tra le sue opere in italiano: Modernità e Olocausto (il Mulino 1992) ...

La novità abita nei pop-up store
Il sociologo Zygmunt Bauman dice che oggi viviamo in una società liquida. Liquida perché l'identità e l'appartenenza hanno perso significato e le strutture ...

E il naufragar m'è dolce nel mondo liquido di Bauman
L'Occidentale - Roma,Lazio,Italy
Il tema dell’ultimo libro di Zygmunt Bauman è come sempre molto accattivante, largamente sentito e legato all’esperienza quotidiana di tutti noi abitatori ...

Afferrare Proteo: dire l'indicibile nel Paese dei misteri
Carmilla - Italy
Anche Zygmunt Bauman, in Paura liquida ha insistito sulla necessità di scongiurare la «catastrofe inevitabile» narrandola «nel modo più appassionato e ...

Raffaele e le anime nere di Verona educazione di un neonazista
La Repubblica - Italy
Identità, insegna Zygmunt Bauman, è un concetto agonistico. È come un grido di battaglia. Fragile e perversamente "coraggioso", Raffaele sente quel grido, ...

Comunicato della mostra : Virginia Monteverde - Città Liquida
TK - Italy
È in questa massima di Zygmunt Bauman (Vita liquida, Editori Laterza) che Virginia Monteverde ha trovato la perfetta quadratura verbale del suo lavoro ...

Mondo Liquido. L'arte ai tempi di Zygmunt Bauman
Arte.go (Comunicati Stampa) - Italy
Secondo uno dei più prolifici pensatori della nostra epoca, Zygmunt Bauman, viviamo immersi in una modernità-liquida. L’uomo della società attuale compie ...

Lunedì 5 maggio dalle ore 19.00
Napoli.com - Napoli,Campania,Italy
Così avviene nella sua recentissima personale, ove, ispirandosi alle teorie di Zygmunt Bauman, oltre che alla propria esperienza di grafico pubblicitario, ...

Love will tear us apart … again (… and repeat)
On Line opinion, Australia -
... a culture which - as Zygmunt Bauman, the poster boy of contemporary social theory, might say - is preoccupied with “moving on” and “letting go”. ...

La dicha de comprar
El Norte de Castilla -
... a la sagrada ceremonia de la compra y acuden en tropel al centro comercial como «compañeros de alegrías consumistas», en palabras de Zygmunt Bauman. ...

Muerte programada y exterminio
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Tal como sostiene Zygmunt Bauman, durante el curso del proceso civilizador se ha dado una nueva orientación a la violencia y se ha redistribuido el acceso a ...

Inauguramos el índice líquido
Mercado -
Y encontré estas líneas de Zygmunt Bauman. "Hay líquidos- dice Bauman- que en pulgadas cúbicas son más pesados que muchos sólidos, pero de todos modos ...

Como Il Cavaliere, pero por izquierda
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“Un fantasma sobrevuela el planeta: el fantasma de la xenofobia” advierte parafraseando a Marx el sociólogo Zygmunt Bauman en su brillante ensayo Liquid ...

De las teorías de soberanía al racismo de Estado: la inscripción ...
Rebelión -
Tal como lo afirma Zygmunt Bauman, al considerar al Holocausto como “un inquilino legítimo de la casa de la modernidad; un inquilino que no se habría ...

Breves problemas de la humanidad
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Señalando un cruce explícito entre Zygmunt Bauman y TS Eliot, Culturas líquidas en la tierra baldía cuestiona la “burbujeante política posdemocrática (que) ..

El amor en los tiempos del ciberespacio
Anodis -
Ya lo dice el sociólogo alemán Zygmunt Bauman en su gran libro Amor Líquido, donde asegura que vivimos relaciones líquidas que jamás se solidifican y unen, ...

BusanBiennale 2008

The BusanBiennale 2008 unfolds at the Busan Museum of Modern Art , Gwangalli Beach and APEC Naru Park between September 6th and November 15th under the theme of 'Expenditure'. Culture is more closely related to wasteful activities where products are released and consumed to go back to the beginning of the cycle, rather than activities of production, construction, preservation, and augmentation. In this regard, the theme of the Busan Biennale 2008 promises to exhibit a distinctive philosophy of 'Expenditure' and a vivid scene of contemporary art through a variety of artworks created by artists invited throughout the world, including paintings, photographs, videos, installations, outdoor sculptures, etc.

http://www.busanbiennale.org/

YouTomb

"What is YouTomb?

YouTomb is a research project by MIT Free Culture that tracks videos taken down from YouTube for alleged copyright violation.

More specifically, YouTomb continually monitors the most popular videos on YouTube for copyright-related takedowns. Any information available in the metadata is retained, including who issued the complaint and how long the video was up before takedown. The goal of the project is to identify how YouTube recognizes potential copyright violations as well as to aggregate mistakes made by the algorithm."

YouTomb

Tgcom - YouTomb: il "cimitero" di YouTube

THE STORE

"THE STORE
Kuratorius Adam Carr

Menininkai:

Saâdane Afif, Oliver Babin, Stella Capes, Tomas Chaffe, Jason Dodge, Gintaras Didžiapetris, Claire Fontaine, Liam Gillick, Loris Gréaud, Arūnas Gudaitis, Henrik Plenge Jakobsen, Gabriel Kuri, Matthieu Laurette, Juozas Laivys, Flávia Müller Medeiros, Darius Mikšys, Jonathan Monk, Paola Pivi, Dan Rees, Hannah Rickards, Yann Sérandour, Dexter Sinister, Andreas Slominski, Superflex, Ron Terada, Mungo Thomson, Mario Garcia Torres, Tris Vonna-Michell

Tulips & Roses

via http://uovomagazine.blogspot.com/

The Vincent Award

"The Vincent Award is an important biennial award to stimulate European artists whose work is highly relevant to the art of today. For every edition five artists are nominated and invited to an exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam."

An international jury has announced the names of the artists shortlisted for The Vincent Award 2008. The artists in the running are: Francis Alÿs, Peter Friedl, Liam Gillick, Deimantas Narkevicius and Rebecca Warren.

http://www.thevincentaward.eu/

Liam Gillick

Liam Gillick / e-flux: "Liam Gillick will be the artist presented at the German Pavilion during the 53rd Venice Biennale in 2009. The curator of the German Pavilion is Nicolaus Schafhausen, director of Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam."

Ein Holzweg - Tagesspiegel
Der britische Künstler Liam Gillick soll auf Einladung des Kurators Nicolaus Schafhausen 2009 den Deutschen Pavillon auf der Kunstbiennale von Venedig.

Ein Brite für Deutschland - Welt Online
Kuratoren lassen sich leicht ärgern, wenn man sie nach der Herkunft ihrer Künstler befragt. Besonders die Kuratoren, die den deutschen Beitrag auf der ...

Die Zukunft verhält sich anders - sueddeutsche.de
Wie die Süddeutsche Zeitung erfuhr, soll der britische Künstler Liam Gillick Deutschland 2009 auf der Biennale in Venedig vertreten. ...

Liam Gillick im deutschen Biennale-Pavillon in Venedig - artnet Magazin Wenigstens einer hält die nationale Fahne hoch! Wolfgang Börnsen aus Bönstrup, dem Abgeordneten und kultur- und medienpolitischen Sprecher der ...

Ein Engländer im Deutschen Pavillon - Kunstmarkt.com
Das gab’s noch nie. Ein Ausländer bespielt den Deutschen Pavillon auf der Biennale in Venedig. Kurator Nicolaus Schafhausen hat den Engländer Liam Gillick ...

Börnsen: Auswärtiges Amt - falsch verstandene Künstler ... - news aktuell
Berlin (ots) - Anlässlich der Bekanntgabe des Künstlers für den deutschen Pavillon auf der 53. Kunstbiennale in Venedig 2009 erklärt der kultur- und ...

Pop-Nobelpreis für Pink Floyd und Renée Fleming - sz-online -
Der britische Künstler Liam Gillick soll Deutschland 2009 auf der 53. Kunstbiennale von Venedig vertreten. Wie die Pressestelle des Deutschen Pavillons ...

Kunstbiennale in Venedig Die Zukunft verhält sich anders - Kultur - sueddeutsche.de

Liam Gillick: Three Perspectives and a Short Scenario / Kunsthalle ... -vernissage.tv

wikipedia.org - Liam Gillick

http://www.airdeparis.com/liam.htm

http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/gillick.htm

http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/2003/projects_79.html

more about Liam Gillick on this blog

FLUX-FEST

"FLUX-FEST launches on 25 June and continues untl 13 July 2008

VIVID presents a season of events celebrating the spirit of Fluxus, featuring rare films, publications, music, performances and Fluxus miscellany. The season kicks off with dumplings and films and draws to a close with a special performance in association with Capsule's Supersonic festival."

VIVID

Jeremy Bailenson

How Second Life Affects Real Life, Time Magazine
- Bailenson's research suggests that the qualities you acquire online — whether it's confidence or insecurity — can spill over and change your conduct in the real world.

Jeremy Bailenson

in italiano su azpoint.net Il nostro Alter Ego digitale influisce sulla vita reale

Ashley Bickerton

Lehmann Maupin is pleased to feature a special installation by Ashley Bickerton as part of our participation in Art 39 Basel. The artist will re-create his Balinese studio from the bamboo walls to a specially designed floor and beaded entries. Also on view will be new works by Tracey Emin, Tony Oursler, Christian Hellmich, Adriana Varejao, Mickalene Thomas, Mr. and Hernan Bas.

Ashley Bickerton, Hammock No. 2, 2008

Bickerton's work on view in the booth will continue to explore the raucous adventures of his blue "20th Century-Man" with new works that are a fusion of painting, photography and sculpture. According to Leslie Camhi's recent review in the Village Voice , "The remarkable works on view at Lehmann Maupin‚ eight large paintings set in elaborately carved wooden frames, and two bronze sculptures‚ depict an inner reality, a monstrous hybrid of exotic beauty, expatriate rapaciousness, and end-of-the-world angst.). At the booth, Bickerton intends to delve deeper into aspects of the paintings shown in this exhibition to further reveal his somewhat apocalyptic vision.

Since opening in October 1996, Lehmann Maupin has organized and curated exhibitions for an array of international contemporary artists working in all media. These exhibitions examine the work of both emerging and well-established artists whose work impacts contemporary art and culture. The gallery has given important artists their first one-person exhibitions in New York including Kutlug Ataman, Tracey Emin, Anya Gallaccio, Shirazeh Houshiary, Do Ho Suh, and Adriana Varejão.

Founded by partners Rachel Lehmann and David Maupin, Lehmann Maupin first opened in SoHo, and moved, in September 2002, to its present location in Chelsea. A second New York gallery space opened in late 2007 at 201 Chrystie Street in Manhattan's new cultural hub, the Bowery area.

For more information please visit www.lehmannmaupin.com

ev a exhibition

e v+ a exhibition of visual+ art is an annual exhibition of contemporary art, the premier exhibition of its kind in Ireland. e v+ a takes place in Limerick, Ireland every year in late spring and early summer (March to June) for between 10 and 12 weeks. Curated each year by a different, single, invited curator of international standing, e v+ a presents the work of Irish and international contemporary artists in a range of venues and settings, formal and alternative, throughout the city of Limerick. The artists, their works, and the venues and settings are determined each year by the decisions of the curator, in response to both the nature of the work submitted, and to the curator's own response to the canvas of Limerick city.

ev a exhibition of visual art, Limerick, Ireland

"Vertrautes Terrain – Contemporary Art in/about Germany"

"German Art" or "Art from Germany" is a construction with a fictive exhibition tradition. After all, national classifications usually have little to do with the reality of artistic practice. Nonetheless, issues specific to a certain country in the search for history, genealogies and movements, have been a constant factor throughout art history and in the art scene. In terms of exhibitions, the overview show is the most common format. In connection with this, coordinates in artists’ biographies indicating where they live and work are granted commensurate weight, since these serve as an initial determination of their position within the art-system. Often they are accordingly linked with supposed national or local traits, which are meant to be reflected in artistic production. Through rhetoric from cultural politics and curatorial rhetoric – quite often supported by the art market – the attempt is made to derive national representation via the findings on origins. This is particularly visible in the prominent English case of "Young British Art" whereby a movement was successfully construed and marketed. Similar approaches and successes show that this is a recurring phenomenon, for example: "Art from Russia" (SOZART) and "Art from China" (1990s).

There have been numerous presentations that have dealt with the question of Germany as a place of origin and site of production, ranging, for example, from the legendary exhibition "Von hier aus – Zwei Monate neue deutsche Kunst in Düsseldorf" in 1984 to "Made in Germany" in Hannover, 2007. Nonetheless, a thematic confrontation in terms of culture has occurred only indirectly. History, to begin with, makes a dialogue regarding the content of one’s own nation awkward and problematic.
Yet analysis and involvement with the apparently familiar and also foreign terrain of Germany remains particularly interesting and important in today’s situation of self-evident, trans-national communication, where, in Europe, decision-making power at a national level is in danger of dissolving. On the one hand, we can observe the apparent leveling-off of national differences, whereas on the other hand, local settings and particularities are being ascribed with new meaning.

The project "Vertrautes Terrain – Contemporary Art in/about Germany" thus positions itself against this backdrop as a resonating space for the complex confrontation with works by artists who reflect on Germany in a variety of extremely different ways as a space of history, art and the social. This concentration on the situation in Germany is devoted to exploring an "imaginary cartography" tracking down issues related to content and form, symptoms and virulence in art against the backdrop of its socio-political and socio-cultural present. A subordinate role, only, is given to the geographic mapping of Germany based on current art zones and centers, such as the so-called marketing-tool label "Leipziger Schule" or the incessant pull towards Berlin.

The project is based on inquiries into history, memory, cultural situation, identity, biographical references, structures, symbols, relations to form, clichés and representational politics: What do artists from various nationalities find interesting about Germany today? Where do references to Germany emerge? Does an "identity in doubt" (Hans Belting) lead to (various kinds of) explosiveness in artistic works? What aesthetic and artistic qualities can be found in works that refer to German culture, history, people or places? What roles do the historically established seal of quality and the contemporary hype (from the Romantic through to the "Leipziger Schule") play in the international perception of Germany from outside?

"Vertrautes Terrain – Contemporary Art in/about Germany" with approximately 70 German and international artists, is intended as a process as well as a current snapshot. In this way, the exhibition is, last but not least, shaped by shared and clearly shifting ideas of what the term "Germany" means.

In order to expand this line of questioning beyond the fine arts and point out possible parallel developments and references in other cultural fields, such as literature, music, theater, dance, design, fashion and film, at the heart of the exhibition is a "resonating space" conceived together with the artist Heiner Blum. The three-dimensional realization of the metaphoric "resonating space" is a transdisciplinary work space, temporary exhibition space and venue. The complexity of the theme should thus be taken into account in lectures, discussions, actions, presentations, performances, guided tours and stagings with various cooperation partners, allowing visitors to approach the content from various sides.

Curated by Gregor Jansen and Thomas Thiel

Terrain

VIDEOEX FESTIVAL

VIDEOEX FESTIVAL
Internationales Experimentalfilm & Video Festival
Freitag 23. Mai - Sonntag 1. Juni

JUBILEE - VIDEOEX feiert seine zehnte Ausgabe

Die Videoex 2008 zelebriert zehn Tage lang mit einem umfangreichen Programm und über 200 Filmen das «Andere Sehen».

Der Internationale Wettbewerb präsentiert unter anderem den Gewinner der Internationalen Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen (arte Preis) «Kempinski» des Franzosen Neil Beloufa, den Gewinner des EMAF-Festivals «Plot Point» des Belgiers Nicolas Provost und natürlich die neusten Werke von Experimentalfilmstars wie John Smith, Martha Colburn, Pip Chodorov oder Ian Helliwell.
56 Werke -ausgewählt aus den über 1800 Einsendungen aus 53 Ländern - die Verdichtung eines audiovisuellen Moments!

Der zweite Fokus des Festivals liegt auf der «Gaststadt London». Highlights hier sind das gerade an der Berlinale präsentierte Künstlerporträt «With Gilbert & George», der kontroverse Rolling-Stones-Film «One plus One» von Jean-Luc Godard und der erste Punkfilm «Jubilee» des Kultregisseurs Derek Jarman. Glamour, Punk- und Popvisionen bieten Peter Whiteheads Swinging 60s-Doku «Tonite Let's All Make Love in London» mit einem Soundtrack der frühen Pink Floyd und «The Punk Rock Movie» vom DJ Don Letts. Die Entwicklung des Experimentalfilms in der Themsestadt wird in Filmprogrammen mit Werken aus den 30er Jahren bis zur heutigen Zeit nachvollzogen. Dem zeitgenössischen Londoner Experimentalfilm widmet das Videoex drei Programme, kuratiert und präsentiert von Mark Webber(Kurator u.a. auch für Tate Modern, London). Über 100 lange und kurze Filme bieten einen Überblick zum experimentellen und unkonventionellen Filmschaffen der britischen Metropole.

Das Festival bietet Experimente aber bringt auch Musen und Stars einer Underground Szene auf die Leinwand: Marianne Faithfull und Tilda Swinton haben Auftritte in zahlreichen Festivalfilmen (z.B. auch in «Glitterbug» von Derek Jarman mit dem Sound von Brian Eno), dem Enfant terrible Leigh Bowery, Künstlerfreund, Modezar und Exzentriker, ist der Film von Charles Atlas «The Legend of Leigh Bowery» gewidmet.

Nicht zu verpassen sind dann noch die Schweizer Premieren von Isaac Juliens Werken «Fantôme Afrique» und «True North» und die Spezialprogramme zur «Interferenz zwischen Film und Performance» in der Gessnerallee oder die «Night of the Underground» im Festivalcenter.

Das Festivalcenter im Kunstraum Walcheturm ist der Ort der «Expanded Cinema»-Liveacts: AVVA aus Japan / Österreich und Metamkine aus Frankreich, der Australier Robin Fox und als einheimische Gäste das Projekt Hurrliburrli.

Im Kunstraum Walcheturm das Festivalcenter, mit Tickets Infos, Installationen, Live Expanded Cinema Performances und die Festivalbar.

Vollständiges Programm auf www.videoex.ch

HCI 2008: Culture, Creativity, Interaction

HCI 2008: Culture, Creativity, Interaction
1-5 Sept. 2008, Liverpool, John Moores University, UK

HCI researchers, students and practitioners are invited to HCI 2008 to be hosted by Liverpool John Moores University, UK, next September (1st - 5th).
HCI 2008 is the 22nd running of the British HCI conference; one of Europe's largest and longest running HCI conferences.

Accepted papers will be archived in the ACM Digital Library and the BCS eWiCS Library.

The tag line for 2008 is “Culture, Creativity, Interaction” reflecting the fact that in 2008 Liverpool is the European Capital of Culture. Throughout the year there will be cultural events ranging from community arts to headline events such as the Turner Prize. In the week before the conference there will be the Annual Beatles Week and immediately afterwards Liverpool will host the British Academy Festival of Science. The Biennial Festival of Contemporary Art also takes place, starting September. Our cultural theme reflects not just events in Liverpool but also recent developments in HCI where the arts and humanities offer us both new insights and new challenges. Though “culture” is not the only theme for the conference we hope to reflect the cultural events happening in the rest of the city and on Merseyside. Our hope is that culture will be a unifying theme for the various strands that form the HCI family of disciplines.

http://www.hci2008.org

Creativity Day

Creativity Day

Biennale Alessandria

Biennale di Alessandria VideoFotografiaContemporanea

Shapes of time

Da sabato 31 maggio al 31 agosto 2008

Giovedi 29 maggio 2008 press preview esclusivamente su accredito dalle ore 15.

Venerdì 30 maggio 2008 vip preview su invito, dalle ore 18 alla Cittadella (via Pavia) cocktail cena e performance dei ConiglioViola “RECUPERATE LE VOSTRE RADICI QUADRATE“ .

Sabato 31 maggio 2008 vernice dalle ore 17 alla Cittadella (via Pavia).
Apertura ufficiale delle altre sedi dalle ore 15.

Sabato 14 giugno 2008 opening Jessica Dimmock “Il nono piano” in collaborazione con Forma dalle ore 18.
Dalle ore 16 convegno “Video arte in Italia mercato e collezionismo” .

Sabato 9 agosto 2008 performance Barbara la Ragione “ragli” in collaborazione con Rossano Mastrota. Ore 21 Cittadella (via Piave)

Biennale Alessandria

TALENT PRIZE 2008

Premio Fondazione Roma Giovani Artisti - TALENT PRIZE 2008

La Fondazione Roma, ente privato che opera a sostegno del progresso economico e sociale della collettività, indice, in partnership con la rivista “INSIDEART”, organo di informazione e di opinione specializzato in arte contemporanea, il Premio Fondazione Roma Giovani Artisti-Talent Prize 2008.

Si tratta di un concorso aperto a giovani artisti, fino all’età massima di 35 anni, che vogliano esprimere, attraverso forme diverse di arte visiva – pittura, scultura, fotografia, video installazioni – il proprio talento artistico.

“Il Premio Fondazione Roma Giovani Artisti – dichiara il Prof. Avv. Emmanuele Francesco Maria Emanuele, Presidente della Fondazione Roma – è una delle molteplici iniziative di questa Istituzione nel settore dell’ Arte e cultura e rappresenta una occasione, cercata, fermamente voluta e costruita con entusiasmo, per favorire la creatività artistica ed affermare la centralità dell’arte nella sua dimensione universale, come strumento di dialogo, di incontro e confronto. Anche una occasione – continua Emanuele – per scoprire e valorizzare giovani talenti, che aspirano ad esprimere la propria fantasia, creatività e competenza artistiche e a conquistare un adeguato spazio nel mondo della cultura e delle arti”.

Le opere degli artisti che parteciperanno al concorso saranno sottoposte alla valutazione di una giuria composta dal Presidente Emanuele e da critici di rilevanza internazionale (Enrico Crispolti, Anna Mattirolo, Ludovico Pratesi, Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Guido Talarico, Nicoletta Zanella). La stessa giuria procederà a scegliere le opere che verranno ammesse in finale. Una prima selezione su immagine digitale, una seconda selezione su opera originale e la valutazione complessiva del pregio artistico dell’opera, nonché delle competenze e qualità che emergeranno dal curriculum di ciascun partecipante, saranno i principali parametri di valutazione e selezione delle opere finaliste.

Al vincitore verrà riconosciuto un premio in denaro, sarà dedicato un apposito servizio sulla rivista “INSIDEART”, ed una scheda personale all’interno catalogo del Premio Fondazione Roma - Giovani Artisti 2008, appositamente redatto per l’iniziativa.

A conclusione del concorso, la Fondazione Roma allestirà presso le proprie sale espositive del Museo del Corso una presentazione pubblica delle opere dedicata ai finalisti e alle rispettive opere in concorso.

Sui siti www.museodelcorso.it e www.insideitalia.it è possibile reperire informazioni dettagliate e scaricare il bando completo per la partecipazione al concorso. Il termine ultimo per la presentazione delle domande di ammissione è il 15 luglio 2008.

Fluococktail

OGGI mercoledì 21 maggio dalle ore 19.00

la LITTLEITALY ARTGALLERY presenta "Fluococktail" di Andy



via Voghera, 25 - 20144 - Milano
wwww.littleitalyartgallery.com

Vote For Art

I Vote For Art :: Browse, rate and buy art the easy way

"‘I Vote for Art’ is a brand new place to buy great art at a reasonable price. Please have a look around ... If you like a piece, make sure you click on the thumb to vote for it. Or perhaps you could even buy it"

via startupblog.wordpress.com/

Susan Robb

"Thanks to Seattle artist Susan Robb, recycling is an intimate challenge for her dealer, Scott Lawrimore of the Lawrimore Project. Opening Thursday in her exhibit titled 'The Challenge Nature Provides' is a sculptural installation she's calling the 'DIGESTER.'"

read all Susan Robb takes recycling art to a very personal level

P-I art critic Regina Hackett
Art To Go blog at blog.seattlepi.com/art

Biennale of Sydney 2008

"For the 2008 Biennale of Sydney, international artist Christoph Büchel plans to create a punk rock band with four members over 80 years old. The band will rehearse the song God Save the Queen by the Sex Pistols. This is a unique opportunity to be part of the 2008 exhibition."

Biennale of Sydney 2008 | Australia's Festival of Contemporary Art

‘Scrapyard’ workshop

19-23 May 2008 at iMAL, Brussels

Conducted by Jonah Brucker-Cohen (US)
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and Katherine Moriwaki (US)
> http://www.kakirine.com

This workshop is a new version of the ‘Scrapyard’ workshop series and will focus on the relationships between the Internet and the physical worlds.

Workshop attendees learn how to build a variety of projects from found and/or discarded objects which will be augmented with embedded computing and connected to the Internet.

New Brave World

Runa Islam

Runa Islam, die 1970 in Bangladesch geboren wurde und heute in London lebt, reflektiert in ihren Projektionen und Installationen die Ästhetik und den Illusionscharakter des Mediums Film. In ihrer Factory Ausstellung zeigt die Künstlerin neben zwei in den letzten Jahren entstandenen 16-mm-Arbeiten die soeben gemeinsam mit dem Mumok produzierte 35-mm-Filminstallation Empty the pond to get the fish.

Mit dieser neuen Arbeit knüpft Islam an ihre vorangegangene Beschäftigung mit dem filmischen Apparat an und rückt das Verhältnis von sprachlicher und visueller Wahrnehmung in den Mittelpunkt der Auseinandersetzung. Die Künstlerin „schreibt“ in diesem Film mit der Kamera, das heißt, sie bewegt eine 35-mm-Kamera wie einen Stift, dessen Verlauf Buchstaben und Wörter ergibt. Die Bewegung der Kamera führt dabei zu einer widersprüchlichen Wahrnehmung der Räume, Objekte und Handlungen vor dem Aufzeichnungsgerät, die nur ausschnitthaft wiedergegeben werden und von denen nur zu sehen ist, was durch „die Sprache des Films“ in Erscheinung tritt. Gedreht wurde Runa Islams neues Filmprojekt im ehemaligen Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts – einer modernen Glas- beziehungsweise Lichtarchitektur mit filmischen Bezügen, die der Präsentation bildender Kunst diente und gleichzeitig mit einem Kino ausgestattet war.

Ebenso wie Runa Islams neue Filminstallation thematisieren ihre 16-mm-Projektionen Be The First To See What You See As You See It (2004) sowie First Day of Spring (2005) die Grundlagen des Films und lenken die Aufmerksamkeit der BeobachterInnen auf ein komplexes Zusammenspiel von formalen Elementen und gesellschaftlichen Inhalten. Analytik und Sinnlichkeit werden dabei in vielfacher Weise verschränkt. Die Werke Runa Islams veranschaulichen die visuelle Kraft, die Konstruktion und die gesellschaftliche Bedeutung des filmischen Bildes. Sie fordern die Wahrnehmung heraus und machen dabei nicht zuletzt den Akt der Betrachtung mitsamt seinen psychologischen Grundlagen selbst zum Gegenstand der Auseinandersetzung.

Kurator
Matthias Michalka

MUMOK: Runa Islam

Nathalie Djurberg

dal comunicato: "The Goetz Collection is screening in BASE 103 seven short animated films and an associated sculptural group by Swedish artist Nathalie Djurberg (*Lysekil, 1978). In contrast to the subtle irony of Francis Alÿs, whose work is being shown at the museum concurrently, Djurberg’s films are notable for their black humor.

Djurberg reveals a versatile talent in her works. She is her own director and cameraman, and also handles the technical implementation herself, including making the costumes, the plasticine figures and the papier mâché/plasticine scenery. Every image is shot with a mini-DV video camera in the protracted stop-motion technique, though frequently traces of the shooting process, such as for example the strings of the puppets or the artist’s own hands, are left visible, which gives the films an air of faux unpolished naivety. Her partner Hans Berg composes the often unsettling electronic soundtrack, which in part reinforces the atmosphere of the films but often underlines the cruelty of the darkly grotesque scenes.

In Djurberg’s works, viewers are confronted with complementary pairs of themes such as power – impotence, care – abuse, violence – love, masochism – sadism, or monstrosity – vulnerability. In Hungry Hungry Hippoes (2007) for example, three semi-naked, strongly sexualized female figures in sexy tricot underwear reminiscent of hippos in their huge corpulence are playing a dreadful game in a changing room with a delicate, naked black boy that oscillates between loving care and abuse. Djurberg deliberately manipulates viewers’ perception by making them voyeurs, who react with both fascination and repulsion.

Hungry Hungry Hippoes, 2007, filmstill

Nathalie Djurberg graduated from the art academy in Malmö (Sweden) in 2002 and had her first solo show in Sweden the same year. She has exhibited at well-known institutions worldwide since 2004. Internationally she is considered one of Sweden’s most promising up-and-coming young artists. She lives in Berlin."

http://www.sammlung-goetz.de/

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"Protest as medium - media of protest"

Symposium: Precarity and Protest
Friday, 06.06.2008, 14.00 pm- Saturday, 07.06.2008, 14.00 pm
University of Lucerne

Symposium, organised by SNF-Project "Protest as medium - media of protest".

How to analyse the increasing precarity of social live and work relations? Which social theories and methodologies allow for an adequate description and explanation of the phenomenon precarity? How to describe the relations between precarity and forms of social protest from the side of the precarious? The symposium "precarity and protest" will explore such questions, taking into account various perspectives such as regulation theory, governmentality studies, post-operaism, discourse analysis.

mit

Ulrich Bröckling (Universität Leipzig)
Sabine Hark (Universität Potsdam)
Serhat Karakayali (Universität Frankfurt am Main)
Jürgen Link (Universität Dortmund)
Oliver Marchart (Universität Luzern)
Marianne Pieper (Universität Hamburg)
Bernd Röttger (Universität Jena)

www.protestmedia.net

Shaun Gladwell

"Shaun Gladwell's position as one of the nation's brightest young art stars has been confirmed with the announcement that he will be Australia's chief representative at the 2009 Venice Biennale."

http://maddestmaximus.com/

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A Step In The Right Direction

"‘A Step in the Right Direction’ (ASRD). The shoes combine advanced footwear with wearable technology; with every step, these sneakers detect Wi-Fi wireless Internet hot-spots and display the result via three LEDs."

A Step In The Right Direction - TFOT (the future of things):

Waves - The Art of the Electromagnetic Society

Waves - The Art of the Electromagnetic Society

PHOENIX Halle Dortmund, May 10 - June 29, 2008

Artists:

Robert Adrian X http://alien.mur.at/rax/BIO/ Norbert Math (AT)
Michael Aschauer (AT) - http://m.ash.to/
Erich Berger (AT) - http://randomseed.org/
Bureau d'Etudes (F) - http://utangente.free.fr/
Jonah Brucker-Cohen (USA) - http://www.coin-operated.com
Paul DeMarinis (USA) - http://www.stanford.edu/~demarini/
Evelina Domnitch / Dmitri Gelfand (BY/RU/NL) http://www.portablepalace.com/
Mark Fischer (USA) - http://www.stufish.com/
Bulat Galeyev (RU) - http://prometheus.kai.ru/
Joyce Hinterding / David Haines (AUS)
Hivenetwork (GB)
Derek Holzer (USA) - http://www.umatic.nl/info_derek.html
Martin Howse (GB) - http://scrying.org/doku.php
Luke Jerram (GB) - http://lukejerram.com/
Voldemars Johansons (LAT) - http://johansons.info/
Aaron Kaplan / Doron Goldfarb (AT) -
Jacob Kirkegaard (DK/ D) - http://fonik.dk/
Bas van Koolwijk (NL) - http://www.basvankoolwijk.com/
Anthony McCall (USA) - http://www.anthonymccall.com/
Marko Peljhan (SLO) - http://makrolab.ljudmila.org/
Oskars Poikans (LAT) -
Julian Priest (NZ) http://www.banffcentre.ca/faculty/
Martins Ratniks / Clausthome (LAT)
RIXC (LAT) http://www.rixc.lv/
Scanner (GB)
Nina Sobell (USA) - http://ninasobell.com/
Adam Somlai-Fischer (HU) / Usman Haque (GB) / Danil Lundbäck (SE) / Bengt Sjölen (SE)
Take 2030 (F/GB)
Evamaria Trischak (AT) http://4816.nsew.at/
Udo Wid (AT)
Franz Xaver (AT)

Wireless communication is, in this day and age, a given in all realms of society. Yet what manner of artistic potential is presented by the electromagnetic waves perpetually enveloping us today? And how might these influence our psyche?

From 10 May through 29 June 2008 the Hartware MedienKunstVerein Dortmund (HMKV) is presenting – in cooperation with the Ars Electronica, Linz (European Capital of Culture 2009) and with RIXC, Riga – the exhibition Waves – The Art of the Electromagnetic Society in the PHOENIX Halle Dortmund.

Electromagnetic Waves as Artistic Material

Waves presents nearly 30 (media) artworks that regard electromagnetic waves not only as carriers of information but moreover as artistic material. The exhibition treats electromagnetic waves as the medium connecting people, nature, and technology – giving rise today to entirely new electromagnetic landscapes.

The range of topics addressed by the exhibition includes both electromagnetic waves with their aesthetic and societal potentials as well as the interplay between industrial waves technologies – such as mobile telephony, WLAN, or Bluetooth – and human social reality. Interpretations by over 35 international artists incite the public to explore and better understand their own electromagnetic environments. Waves is being presented in the scope of the North Rhine-Westphalian festival ‘scene:austria in nrw’.

program : http://www.hmkv.de/

http://www.thenextlayer.org/node/506

via derwesten.de/nachrichten/kultur

Street View a Milano

"Google Street View -- il servizio che accompagna Google Maps e mostra fotografie ad alta definizione delle strade di 30 grandi citta' americane -- potrebbe causare problemi se fosse introdotto nell'Unione Europea, secondo quanto ha detto oggi l'agenzia Ue per la protezione dei dati"

Per Ue Street View di Google potrebbe causare problemi privacy�|Reuters.it:

Google Street View - Soon in 3D? at Educating Silicon

more about street view on this blog weblogart

Google cede alla privacy, via le facce da Street View - La Stampa

Google fotografa Roma e Milano Anche l'Italia su Street View - La Repubblica -

Roma, Street View terrorizza le folle - Punto Informatico

Second Life Community Meeting 2008 in Berlin

"Detailierte Informationen zum Event, zur Anreise und Übernachtungen in Berlin, gibt es auf der offiziellen Webseite www.sl-treffen.de. Im Forum von www.SLinside.com finden sich Beiträge für Mitfahrgelegenheiten und Übernachtungsangebote von Berliner Second Life Usern.

Das Second Life Community Meeting 2008 wird organisiert von www.medienkontrollzentrum.de, REBEL - alternative prim wear, www.YOUin3D.com und www.SLinside.com."

Second Life Community Meeting 2008 in Berlin - Online News & PR-Portal

http://weblogart-secondlife.blogspot.com/

15 Quadriennale d’arte

La Quadriennale di Roma apre la sua quindicesima edizione e ritorna nella sua sede storica che fu il Palazzo delle Esposizioni, dove sarà l’unica mostra in programma per tutta l’estate 2008. A questo 15° appuntamento partecipano un centinaio di artisti, ciascuno presente con un’opera molto recente, in molti casi realizzata appositamente, talvolta in situ. Accanto a questa che è prassi della kermesse, la Commissione ha affiancato un omaggio a Luciano Fabro (Torino, 20 novembre 1936 - Milano, 22 giugno 2007), a un anno dalla sua scomparsa.

http://www.quadriennalediroma.org/

15 Quadriennale d’arte - [Agora' magazine]

2008 Ypulse National Mashup

The 2008 Ypulse National Mashup is the only grassroots event that brings together youth media and marketing professionals from brands, agencies and the non-profit sector to share best practices for reaching today's totally wired youth.

Learn how to harness social media and technology in ways that are ethical, authentic and add value for youth. This event will be filled with interactive, thought-provoking discussions and presentations covering media and marketing topics related to:

• Social networking
• Online video
• Podcasting
• Blogging
• Wireless
• Virtual worlds
• Instant messaging
• Video gaming
• Online music
• And much, much, more

2008 Ypulse National Mashup

SOCIAL NETWORKING CONFERENCE

"The Social Networking Conference are the largest events that cover the mobile Social Networking industry, the business social networking and enterprise social networking industry. The next event will be held on July 10 - 11, 2008 at the Mission Bay Conference Center at UCSF in San Francisco, USA. The San Francisco event will focus on the mobile internet community market as well as business/enterprise social networks. The event will discuss: Business strategies, mobile technologies, enterprise/business social networking in the USA, Europe and Asia, software, partnerships, venture capital, legal issues, mobile, internet and traditional social media marketing, background search and mobile payments."

SOCIAL NETWORKING CONFERENCE

Crystal skull

"The crystal skulls are a number of human skull models fashioned from blocks of clear or milky quartz crystal rock, claimed to be pre-Columbian Mesoamerican artifacts by their alleged finders. Contemporary mainstream scientific opinion is that the skulls are instead of 19th century European manufacture. None of the specimens made available for scientific study have been authenticated as pre-Columbian in origin.

The skulls are often claimed to exhibit paranormal phenomena by some members of the New Age movement, and have often been portrayed as such in fiction, most notably in the movie Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull."

Crystal skull - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Traces du sacré

Through a large selection of paintings, sculptures, installations and videos, Traces du Sacré brings together some 350 major works including a number of pieces displayed for the first time in France by close to 200 internationally-renowned artists.

The asserted play of the multidisciplinary approach, around the Traces du Sacré, makes use of all of the Centre Pompidou's components – Videodance, the Cinemas, the spoken Reviews, Society Forums, Live Entertainment, the Ircam (Institute for Music/Acoustic Research and Coordination) and the Public Information Library – to provide films, videos, a show, concerts, a cycle of conferences and a literary colloquium with the exhibition .

To enrich the exhibition Traces du sacré (Centre Pompidou, May 7th - August 11th 2008), a new multimedia system is accessible to listen to curators and figures from the world of culture and the art. Visitors can also record their own comments, using the multimedia guide or their mobile phones. Afterwards, visitors will be able to access their audio comments on Internet, modifying, annotating and indexing them, thanks to the software Lignes de temps, before publishing them on a collaborative web site developed for this event.

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C'e' del sacro nell'arte di oggi - LASTAMPA.it