DG EAC - European Year of Intercultural Dialogue (2008)
"The European Year of Intercultural Dialogue (EYID) 2008 recognises that Europe’s great cultural diversity represents a unique advantage. It will encourage all those living in Europe to explore the benefits of our rich cultural heritage and opportunities to learn from different cultural traditions. "
eArte - Portal de Arte e Cultura
"O eArte é um Portal de Arte e Cultura constituído, de forma inovadora, por diferentes 'espaços-culturais' ('sites virtuais'), geridos directa, autónoma e facilmente pelos seus parceiros. Para obter mais informações sobre o eArte e o seu modo de funcionamento, ou para obter o seu Tutorial e Manual de Utilizador."
"The İstanbul Museum of Modern Art is hosting a video program titled 'Love and Politics, in a minor key' until March 23, accompanying the museum's ongoing retrospective of the late architect-painter-short story writer Cihat Burak.
The artists whose work is presented in the program are Italy's Alessandro Pessoli, Japan's Hiraki Sawa, New Zealand artist Boyd Webb and Dutch artist Saskia Olde Wolbers, all of whom delve into love or politics in their respective works ... " read all TODAY'S ZAMAN
"... This is a highly impressionistic account of Ryan Trecartin’s sensationally anarchic video “I-Be Area,” which made its debut in the Elizabeth Dee Gallery in Manhattan last fall. The piece caused a stir, in part because most people had never seen anything quite like it before, certainly not in an art gallery."
read all Video Art Thinks Big: That’s Showbiz - New York Times
MIT News
"Adam Kumpf , graduate student in media arts and sciences, designed EscHome, a wearable office consisting of a chair and a desk embedded in a pair of black pants.
A garment that provides the comforts of work--structure, stability, solitude--amid the pressures at home, EscHome's chair and desk are made from lightweight carbon fiber rods, aluminum joining blocks and fabric to match the pants."
The complexity of simplicity - financialpost.com
John Maeda, the world-renowned graphic designer, visual artist and computer scientist who was named by Esquire magazine as one of the 21 most important people of the 21st century, talks to Karen Christensen about simplicity, complexity and the downsides of CC-ing.
Bonnefantenmuseum maastricht
"John Baldessari laureate for Bonnefantenmuseum art award
Last weekend, the American John Baldessari was selected as the B.A.C.A. Laureate 2008.
According to the jury, which was made up of Bice Curiger, Robert Storr and Alexander van Grevenstein, Baldessari forms an important bridge between the visual culture of Pop Art and Nouveau Realisme and the crop of artists/photographers who belong to a younger generation."
Kota Ezawa : "Lennon Sontag Beuys" St. Louis Art Museum.
Jan. 11 to April 20. Free. www.slam.org
Kota Ezawa, a German-born artist working in San Francisco, has created a distinctive mode of working in the burgeoning field of media arts. His videos are produced by hand-tracing pre-existing film and video footage with a computer software program. The resulting images are flattened and abstracted and strangely idealized. A few years ago, Ezawa attracted a lot of attention with a work based on the final moments of the O.J. Simpson trial.
For the St. Louis Art Museum's New Media Series, he will show a 2004 work based on documentary footage of three major cultural figures of the late 20th century: John Lennon, art critic Susan Sontag and sculptor Joseph Beuys. Lennon appears with his wife, Yoko Ono, during their honeymoon, which they turned into a media event. Beuys lectures about his concept of "social sculpture," and Sontag about photography's potential to prompt a "moral awakening." All three were artists and thinkers interested in how art and life intertwine.
http://www.cca.edu/gallery/artist/270
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