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Olia Lialina posted her thoughts on Times Magazine‘s reflective cover magazine on nettime: Though people in my blogosphere (Livejournal) are proudly making pictures of their reflection on the aluminum foil on Time’s cover and celebrate Time’s arrogant gesture as a recognition of modern online culture and their modest input to it, I can’t get rid […] Read Moredisturbing beauty
… ok, the threat by mobile phones (to which she refers) just recently has been dismissed as no longer relevant, but nevertheless there are interesting relations and a fantastic worldview to be discovered at Mary Mattingly’s project website. link to Mary Mattingly: Second Nature – a text on M. Mattingly’s photography She developes a scenario […] Read More
ghostly appearances
… before now eflux joined in publishing the announcement of the latest exhibition at the Kunsthaus Dresden with an remark about a hype on ghosts – wood s lot had these great links on the blog (.. and I regret that I did not found the time to blog this draft earlier): from Youtube excepts […] Read Moreexplore some listening …
Shara Worden’s (of My Brightest Diamond) … … songs distil stories to their most distressing points of contact: a phone call, an injured horse, a dragonfly caught in a spider’s web. She doesn’t share all the information — just the stuff that matters. The effect is a sensational compression of time, in which an entire […] Read More
space for changing identities .. more than just ..
… symbolic capital of /sub/cultural economies. Thanks to some prize winning (2006 AESOP prize) the selected article by Kate Shaw, as the best paper in the planning field, published in a European Journal during 2005, has gone online for free. Reading the paper titled ‘The Place of Alternative Culture and the Politics of its Protection […] Read MoreKyoto Gold Standard
Public smog is an ongoing conceptual project, that subtitles itself: Public Smog is Kyoto Gold Standard. It is a park in the atmosphere that fluctuates in location and scale. Public Smog … consists of a gesture in which the artist buys and withholds carbon gas emission credits from international trading markets in order to create […] Read More
Discourse of Display / Display of Discourse
The translate project continues its discussion on ‘visuality’ with the upcoming conference Another Visuality. The Discourse of Display / The Display of Discourse. This is the third part of a seminar which discussed the hypothesis of a possible relational paradigm as a critique of the representational paradigm at the centre of museum activity, that is […] Read Moreimpelled by the re-enactment of re/mediation
Wooster Group’s latest production ‘Hamlet’ is based – as they describe it themselve – on the reversal of Richard Burton’s Hamlet (1964), which was based on the idea of transferring a Broadway Production to cinema. But here they now rewind the process into an editing of the existing film to extract fragmentic pieces for construction […] Read Moremedia perspectives
.. continuing on media practises from different perspectives: After pointing to the important display of early media art in Madrid now some insights to media activism: In Memoirs of a Video Activist Joanne Richardson reflectes on media activism especially concerning Europe’s eastern areas and at the same time she clearly points out typical problems and […] Read MoreFirst Generation in media …
First Generation: Art and the Moving Image, 1963-1986 is the title of a recently opened show at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina SofÃa, Madrid. It assembles early video and video performance work mainly focusing from their own collection with emphasis on specific approaches to the medium during the first 25 years. It includes […] Read More