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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"

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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

http://www.bos2008.com/revolutionsonline/

‘Scrapyard’ workshop

19-23 May 2008 at iMAL, Brussels

Conducted by Jonah Brucker-Cohen (US)
> http://www.coin-operated.com
(search on this blog)
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.
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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/

read all The Sydney artist, the outback and Mad Max - Arts - Entertainment - smh.com.au

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