Milano sotterranea

Milano sotterranea

Milano, capitale indiscussa del lavoro e della moda, nel corso del tempo ha subito grandi e rapide trasformazioni che ne hanno mutato profondamente l’aspetto. Ogni giorno i suoi abitanti la percorrono, per lo più senza rendersi conto della millenaria storia della metropoli sempre più soffocata dal traffico e da numerosi problemi. Ma che cosa è rimasto della Milano celtica, romana e medioevale? E’ stato scoperto tutto o rimangono ancora delle zone da indagare? Alla Milano che vive alla luce del sole ne sopravvive un’altra, quasi del tutto inesplorata che conserva le tracce e le testimonianze storiche di un passato che sembrerebbe dimenticato. Cripte, pozzi, cunicoli, canali, fonti costituiscono la cosiddetta Milano sotterranea, un mondo sconosciuto, pressoché dimenticato, che negli ultimi vent’anni gli speleologi dello S.C.A.M. (Associazione Speleologia Cavità Artificiali Milano) hanno esplorato e studiato: dai celebri e sconfinati sotterranei del Castello Sforzesco, ai più moderni bunker e ricoveri antiaerei, passando per catacombe e passaggi segreti. Una Milano inedita, segreta, densa di misteri e leggende.

Node 08 - Forum For Digital Arts

Node 08 - Forum For Digital Arts:

"NODE08 is dedicated to the arts of digital media. Whether its about media art, controlling lighting systems, interactions with the real world, synaesthetic experiences or video projections into 3d spaces – either way, software becomes the central working media. The focus of this event lies in the workshops and speeches in which artists, designers, architects and the technical minded share their knowledge and works by means of various exhibitions and situations with the Luminale audience. Meet renowned artists from all over the world and developers who – inspired by the many possibilities – realize a great deal of their projects employing the software project vvvv, which started out in Frankfurt am Main."

Douglas wins video art award

Douglas wins video art award:

"Stan Douglas has won the $10,000 Bell Award in Video Art for 2008, the Canada Council has announced.

The prize has been awarded annually since 1991 for exceptional contribution by a video artist or artists to the advancement of video art in the country and to the development of video practices through videotapes, installations or web-based video art."

Easter MySpace Comments - Easter Comment Graphics

Easter MySpace Comments - Easter Comment Graphics:
"Easter MySpace Comments - Easter Comment Images"

Dream Amsterdam 2008

Forma : Programme : Current : Public Realm Projects : Ryoji Ikeda - Dream Amsterdam 2008:

"Following Spencer Tunick's acclaimed presentation in 2007, Ryoji Ikeda will create new work for Dream Amsterdam 2008. Ikeda's commission for Dream Amsterdam Foundation presents his first large–scale artworks for public spaces and marks a new direction in his artistic career."

Social Networking Unplugged

Social Networking Unplugged

Manchester city-centre
1 - 5 May, exhibition continues till 17 May

Freeing urban space, making it come alive

Futuresonic 2008 presents the first comprehensive and creative look at social networking by an art festival, featuring a major conference plus artistic interventions across Manchester connecting this theme to Futuresonic's long-standing interest in social and participatory artworks which re-imagine the city.

Manchester city centre will be overrun with 'unplugged' social networking - featuring newly commissioned artworks and many world firsts from an array of international artists across the city.

Digital culture burns bright with a vision of being not in isolation but in groups, placing the relations between people first. Websites such as FaceBook and MySpace have introduced millions of new people to online social networking, but these sites also centralise web traffic and produce conformity. 40 years after people took to the streets of Paris in 1968 calling for society to be abolished, join us as we go in search of the social today.

All artworks and exhibitions are free.


Artworks in Social Networking Unplugged include:


In the gallery


My_Contacts (commission / world premiere)
Thomson & Craighead

Signals (commission / world premiere)
Thomson & Craighead

Flat Earth
Thomson & Craighead

FSF 'the free social foundations project' (commission / world premiere)
Simon Yuill

Terms of Endearment (commission / world premiere)
David Merrit and Julian Priest

Friends (commission / world premiere)
Aram Bartholl


All around you


Rubbing Shoulders (commission / world premiere)
Grennan & Sperandio

Chat (uk first)
Aram Bartholl

WoW (uk first)
Aram Bartholl

Time stops in Manchester (commission)
Improv Everywhere

In Search Of the Social in Manchester (commission / world premiere)
Single Cell


City locations


MySpace-OurSpace-YourSpace (commission / world premiere)
plan b

Small Gifts: Give what you can, take what you need (commission / world premiere)
Rajni Shah

Wang Ba Manchester (commission / world premiere)
picidae (Christoph Wachter & Mathias Jud)

They Live (In Second Life) (commission)
Paul Sermon

Pub Safari (commission / world premiere)
You And Me featuring Cybersonica

Last.fm Lounge (commission)
Last.fm & Futuresonic

CD-Recycled 45rpm (commission / world premiere)
Aleksander Kolkowski

The Last Gallery
Gavin McClafferty

Manchester Ponto de Cultura
FreeSpaceManchester

The Piccadilly Social (commission / world premiere)
FutureEverything & Martin Stockley Associates

Plus more artworks announced soon.

The exhibition will tour to Leeds and London in 2008 and 2009 as part of the Social Networking Unplugged World Tour, presented as a part of a new creative collaboration between Futuresonic and Nuffield Theatre.

For info on the Futuresonic Conference: The Social Technologies Summit and the rest of the Futuresonic 2008 festival visit
www.futuresonic.com/08/conference

For more info and to buy advance tickets now visit
www.futuresonic.com

the Sensor Squid

Students use technology to spark creativity :

"Archie is a soft, 6-foot-long blend of cotton and polyester fabric formed into a rough replica of a squid, with an elongated head and 10 tentacles. Embedded within are small electronic devices that make Archie something special: the Sensor Squid.

He is a tool to achieve what his makers call “tangible interface design,” “interactive tactile collaboration,” and “computer-human interaction,” all designed to enable “creativity interventions.”"

FESTIVAL MONDIAL DE L'ART NAIF

FESTIVAL MONDIAL DE L'ART NAIF

The objective is now clearly identifiable for this 4th Festival (from 22 March till 27 April 2008), as we must assure the perenity of this unique cultural event in France and solidly anchor this Festival as part and parcel of the cultural scene. Our ambition is to make Verneuil one of the capitals of Naive Art in the world. All this is gradually taking form, year after year.
Even if everything is not going as well as we would like, we can however express verbally our dreams, and more importantly, permit all the amateurs and lovers of this such particular art form, to keep on dreaming . Even better, she shopkeepers and businesses are also starting to have faith in the Festival as though we have woken the sleeping beauty which is Verneuil, after 6 years of drowsing. One must say that this year, the programme will be particularly inviting.

»digital sparks« Awards 2008

Die »digital sparks« Awards 2008 gehen an:

• Click & Glue. Ein System, das sich selbst einsperrt von Jana Linke, Universität der Künste Berlin
• Rauschen & Brausen I – IV. Videoinstallation von Daniel Burkhardt, Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln
• Wartende Maschinen. Zur Ästhetik des Hinterhalts von Hannes Waldschütz, Hochschule für Künste Bremen

»digital sparks« Honorary Mentions 2008 - Lobende Erwähnungen wurden ausgesprochen für:

• Rechnender Raum. Digital-kinetische Skulptur von Ralf Baecker, Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln
• Rückblende. Ein interaktiver Animationsfilm von Nils Deneken, Universität Duisburg-Essen
• SARoskop. Installation von Martin Hesselmeier, Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln
• schüchterne lichter. Interaktive Installation von Mey Lean Kronemann, Fachhochschule Potsdam
• Sensisphere. Eine vollkommen intuitive, interaktive Rauminstallation von Benjamin Mayer, Martin Spengler, Fachhochschule Augsburg
• touched echo. Performative Installation von Markus Kison, Universität der Künste Berlin

netzspannung.org/digital-sparks

berlinbiennale - 5th berlin biennial

berlinbiennale - 5th berlin biennial:

"On March 20, 2008, the 5th berlin biennial for contemporary art, entitled When things cast no shadow opens the first of five alternating, artist-curated solo shows at the Schinkel Pavillon. The first exhibition will feature works of Swiss-born and Paris-based designer Janette Laverrière, selected and presented in collaboration with artist Nairy Baghramian."

Festival Futuro Presente

Festival Futuro Presente - festival delle arti contemporanee - Rovereto

Quest'anno FUTURO PRESENTE è dedicato al rapporto tra arte e nuove tecnologie che verrà indagato attraverso la presentazione di performance, proiezioni e installazioni dei più importanti artisti contemporanei che fanno della commistione tra creatività e tecnologia la loro arte, non mancheranno inoltre gli incontri con gli artisti e gli studiosi del settore.

Thinking Digital

Thinking Digital Conference -

"The Thinking Digital conference is an annual event where 400 outstanding individuals gather to take part in an exclusive conversation about technology, ideas and our future."

Wim Delvoye in Budapest

"Wim Delvoye
February 16 - March 23, 2008"

An event of the LOW Dutch-Flemish Cultural Festival, Budapest 2008
www.lowfesztival.hu

You can love it or hate it: Wim Delvoye, enfant terrible of the contemporary scene, makes art that cannot go unnoticed. These provocative works, which make emphatic use of antagonisms, flout conventions and dogmas. His raw honesty and grotesque humour will make you both laugh and wonder.

It is impossible not to notice a kinship with earlier Belgian art. His works resonate with Ensor's scatological/obscene humour, Magritte's austere absurdism, Broodthaers' interest in the unspoken rules of the world of art. Delvoye's art celebrates paradox, which is based on the Belgian surrealist tradition, the conjoining of two different elements/ideas in the same work. The gas cylinders painted in the style of Delft porcelain; the teak wood concrete mixer with baroque ornamentation; painted glass windows with sex scenes; excavators in the style of gothic cathedrals: they all reference, in their peculiar manner, the history of Flemish art.

His creative methods extend from simple drawing to real tattoo, from stuffed animals to bronze casts, from installation to live pigs, from lipstick marks to X-ray photos. If his works are often heavy, massive, they are always vibrant with playful ideas and an ironic overtone.
Beside the pigs tattooed with elaborately detailed Harley-Davidson and Walt Disney motifs, his probably best-known work is Cloaca, which he has prepared in eight versions. The large installation is a complex device that models human digestion. It has a mouth, a stomach, a duodenum and a pancreas, containers with enzymes, and a belt conveyor, which produces, when regularly fed, the end result, i.e. excrement.

Born in 1965, Wim Delvoye lives and works in Gent. He earned international recognition with such high-profile exhibitions as the Venice Biennale in 1990 and 1999, and the Documenta 9 in 1992.

Museum Ernst Budapest


more about Wim Delvoye on this blog - here and here

Spiral Jetty

Spiral Jetty est menacée par les projets de forage d'une compagnie canadienne:

L'intégrité de l'oeuvre emblématique du Land Art, Spiral Jetty, qui déploie sa gigantesque tête de violon de 1500 pieds de long dans les eaux salines du Great Salt Lake en Utah, est menacée par les projets de forage d'une pétrolière canadienne."

La Spiral Jetty a été créée en 1970 par un pionnier du Land Art, Robert Smithson.

Mathieu Beauséjour

Dans l’installation 1 1/2 Métro Côte-des-Neiges, Mathieu Beauséjour propose une relecture, littérale et fi gurative, de la proclamation du manifeste du FLQ qui fut diffusée sur les ondes de Radio-Canada pendant la crise d’octobre 1970. Choisissant de réamorcer plutôt que de désamorcer cette bombe télévisuelle, il a entrepris de la déloger de son emplacement historique pour lui élire un nouveau domicile. La stratégie de dédoublement et de distanciation utilisée par Mathieu Beauséjour déracine le manifeste de son sol culturel et brouille le lien politico-linguistique qui est au coeur de cette protestation

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The Paradox of Water

"The Paradox of Water is an exhibition juried by Mary Sabbatino, Vice President and Partner of of Galerie Lelong in New York City.

Artists were invited to submit works in all media that explore the significance and diversity of water as it relates to beauty, pollution, politics and destructive forces as well as how water affects our lives, other cultures, and all living beings. Deadline for entries was January 11, 2008.

Artists:
Mark Abrahamson
Karen Barto
Marion Belanger
Nina Bentley
Jocelyn Braxton Armstrong
Todd Cahill
Nicaela Callimanopulos
Pali Dacanay
Amy Dolego
Hagitte Gal-Ed
Kathy Goodell
Sandra Gottlieb Emilio Grossi
Constance Hanna
Erik Hanson
John Harris
James Hull
Peter Iannarelli
Robert Lamothe
Jia – Jen Lin
Mary Jo Lombardo
Jane Lubin
Anton Marc
Barbara Milot

Shayok Mukhopadhyay
Florence Neal
Jaanika Peerna
Mary Quinlan
Kevin Robinson
Lauren Rosenthal
Ehud Schori
Debbie Smith
Terry Spring
Jim Sugerman
Deborah Weiss
Joan Wheeler"

Westport Arts Center: Events - Visual Arts

Phenomenal Weather

"Coming March 8, 2008, through November 30, 2008, Phenomenal Weather is a family-friendly exhibition that showcases the astounding variety of weather events that take place around the globe and explores the subject through interactive displays, objects and images.

Approximately eight hands-on displays invite visitors to better understand weather phenomena - from the extreme to the everyday - and the science behind them.

* Hurl a hurricane toward North America in the computer activity “Create-a-cane”
* See and hear a real tornado in a mock storm-chasing vehicle
* Learn how weather is a response to heat imbalances created by the energy of the sun
* Watch a lab-created snowflake grow.
* Try to split light into a rainbow of colors using prisms and mirrors
* Learn about cloud patterns and then test your skills in forecasting the weather"

Bruce Museum : Current Exhibit:

time machine

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How to Make Perfect Hard Boiled Eggs

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visiting Paul Klee Zentrum in Bern

Inside the video - visiting Paul Klee Zentrum during Genesis – The Art of Creation (http://www.paulkleezentrum.ch/ww/en/pub/web_root/pro/wechselausstellungen/genesis_theartofcreation.cfm) - the two bears in Bern - and Ivo Soldini exhibition

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Scrabulous

Scrabulous | An amazing word game enjoyed by millions of players!

"Scrabulous is the coolest word game enjoyed by millions of users! Besides regular Scrabulous, you can also play Scrabulous over emails, get an adrenaline rush with Scrabulous Blitz, or just practice with the computer."

MULTIPLES

JOSEPH BEUYS. MULTIPLES

from 28/02/2008 to 25/05/2008
Centro Julio Gonzalez - Galería 1

“If you have all my multiples, then you have me entirely.” Joseph Beuys

Of all the possible approaches to the work of Joseph Beuys (Krefeld 1921 – Düsseldorf 1986), the most enlightening and meaningful one is offered by his editions of objects, photographs, prints and films – in other words, his multiples. In their combinations they provide a concentration of the social and political thinking and creative activity of one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. These groups of objects and documentary items must be considered as veritable “coded messages” which reveal and faithfully exemplify the ideas and work of this charismatic figure, especially his commitment to art capable of criticizing the art scene of his time and influencing and “healing” society.

http://www.ivam.es/

Itinerari a Milano

Itinerari a Milano:

"In occasione delle giornate del Salone del Mobile che si terra' a Milano dal 16 al 21 aprile 2008, il Centro di Architettura ACMA organizza tre giornate di itinerari per visitare le piu' importanti opere di architettura del secolo scorso.
- il razionalismo a Como, con la Casa del Fascio, il Novocomum e l'Asilo Sant'Elia di Giuseppe Terragni;
- i quartieri realizzati nella periferia di Milano nel corso del Novecento e nei primi anni del secolo attuale, dal QT8 di Piero Bottoni, al Gallaratese di Carlo Aymonino e Aldo Rossi, all'intervento di Metanopoli a San Donato Milanese con il palazzo per uffici di Gabetti e Isola, alla nuova sede della Mondadori di Oscar Niemeyer e il complesso progetto della Bicocca di Vittorio Gregotti.
Gli itinerari comprendono inoltre la visita alle principali opere realizzate a Milano dagli anni '20 al dopoguerra, tra cui il Grattacielo Pirelli, la Ca' brutta di Muzio, la Montecatini di Gio' Ponti, la Torre Velasca di BBPR e la Casa Rustici di Terragni.

Per ulteriori informazioni e iscrizioni
www.acmaweb.com"

Dino Buzzati: un percorso nell'arte contemporanea

"Dino Buzzati: un percorso nell'arte contemporanea

Tre incontri, tre passi sulle orme artistiche di Dino Buzzati nell'immenso poliedrico mondo dell'arte contemporanea

Tre incontri per conoscere lo scrittore bellunese nella sua veste forse meno famosa ma altrettanto innovatrice e deflagrante per potenziale innovativo e capacità sperimentatrice.

Un percorso di "avvicinamento" graduale all’artista e successivo alla demolizione dei tanti pregiudizi che costellano ancora l’arte contemporanea e che determinano il più delle volte avversità, rigetto o la spiacevole e ricorrente frase "lo potevo fare anch’io".

Si arriverà così all’analisi delle opere di Dino Buzzati per concludere con la visita finale ad uno dei musei più interessanti e vivaci nel panorama nazionale: il Mart di Rovereto

COMUNE DI PEGOGNAGA:

intervallo video

birds and bread

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Bianco-Valente
Opere video e ambienti 1995-2008
A cura di Emma Zanella, Vittoria Broggini
8 marzo – 25 maggio 2008

La Civica Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Gallarate (GAM) prosegue il calendario espositivo riservato agli artisti di nuova generazione con una mostra personale di Bianco-Valente (www.bianco-valente.com), coppia di protagonisti dell’arte italiana attivi da dieci anni, il cui curriculum vanta numerose esposizioni in Italia e all’estero.
Vengono presentate opere video e ambienti visivi e sonori, partendo dalle realizzazioni degli anni Novanta, come Untitled (1998), per arrivare ai lavori più recenti, Tempo Universale (2007) e soprattutto The Effort to Recompose my Complexity (2008), nuova opera ambientale prodotta appositamente per la GAM.
L’occasione giunge in concomitanza con la III edizione del Festival Filosofarti (2-10 marzo 2008), e offre al pubblico la possibilità di una ricognizione sulla ricerca estetica di Bianco-Valente, la cui poetica evidenzia il dialogo tra le arti visive e le scienze, riflettendo sui possibili legami e i comuni percorsi.
Bianco-Valente fanno uso di una tecnologia lontana dall’high-tech, estremamente poetica e legata alla visione, ai fenomeni della percezione, al ricordo. Dell’immagine elettronica gli artisti colgono la natura evanescente, virtuale e metamorfica. La spazializzazione del suono e della visione nelle opere offre, in più, un esempio di viaggio percettivo indubbiamente evocativo.
L’attività degli artisti trova con la mostra alla GAM una rilettura critica sistematica capace di rendere conto, attraverso un’antologia di opere, dello spessore e dell’evoluzione del loro pensiero artistico. Il genere non è lontano dalla suggestione pittorica arricchita della dinamica del tempo, elemento costantemente indagato dai due artisti, nonché tema centrale del convegno Eternità presente. Senso ed esperienza del tempo nella società digitale, in programma il 7 marzo 2008 dalle 10.00 alle 18.00 presso la Sala Martignoni di Gallarate.

http://www.gam.gallarate.va.it/

AND THE BEAT GOES ON

"AND THE BEAT GOES ON…Three Shows – Three Openings – One Night (03/10/08)

NEW PALTZ -- Save the last Saturday in March for the opening of three special exhibitions at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at the State University of New York at New Paltz. Beat and Beyond: Photographs by Allen Ginsberg, A Discerning Vision: Photographs from the Collection of Howard Greenberg; and [b]Reading Objects 2008 will all open with a reception on March 29th from 4 – 6:00 p.m."

Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art (SDMA): News

On relative loneliness

Dal 19 marzo al 18 maggio 2008 la Gamec – Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo presenta On relative loneliness dedicata a Victor Man, la prima personale che un museo dedica in assoluto a questo artista rumeno accompagnata da una monografia completa del suo lavoro.
La mostra, a cura di Alessandro Rabottini, è parte della programmazione di Eldorado, la project room della GAMeC dedicata ai più interessanti artisti emergenti della scena internazionale.
Victor Man (Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 1974) è salito alla ribalta internazionale con la sua partecipazione al padiglione rumeno in occasione dell’ultima edizione della Biennale di Venezia, confermando così un percorso artistico che, in pochi anni, lo ha imposto come una delle voci più intense e singolari della giovane arte internazionale.

current moon

CURRENT MOON

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