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• Today An Ant Ballet at FutureEverything
Ollie Palmer's Ant Ballet is a three-year research project into control systems, paranoia and dancing insects, and has culminated in the world's first ballet to exclusively feature ants. The projected insects is part of the FutureEverybody Art Exhibition at the 1830 Warehouse in Manchester continue ... (more)
• Sony World Photography Awards 2012
object to paying £7.50 to see and exhibition which title starts with the name of a brand. I feel cheated when the show closes with a shop selling goods manufactured by the above-mentioned brand and i don't look kindly to being forbidden to take pictures (which i do purely for documenting reason) because that would mean that i won't shell more ££ to buy the booklet of the exhibition. That said, the photos selected and exhibited are so remarkable that i still feel like recomm... (more)
• Links for 2012-05-15 [del.icio.us]
Portrait of the artist: Bill Viola, video artist | Culture | The Guardian 'I fell into a lake aged six and saw the most beautiful world. My work is about getting back there' ... (more)
• Links for 2012-05-13 [del.icio.us]
London 2012: army to use 'sonic weapon' on Thames during Olympics American-built 'long-range acoustic device', used by US military in Iraq, can produce deafening 150db levels at one metre ... (more)
• My Name Is Janez Janša
The film that inspires you to google your name again.... My name is Janez Janša is a documentary film about names and name changes, focusing on one particular and rather unique name change that took place 5 years ago, when three artists officially changed their names into the name of the Prime Minister of Slovenia, Janez Janša continue ... (more)
• American Dreamers
Does the American dream still exist? What is its future in an era in which the promise of happiness and economic prosperity seems to clash with an increasingly complex and difficult scenario? continue ... (more)
• The Chronocyclegraph
The museum of photography in Antwerp has a number of fascinating show right now. One of them is an installation by Zoe Beloff that takes as its point of departure America's longest running comic strip to explore the influence of cinema on the movement of the body and the mind. Beloff's exhibition contains a number of historical documents. Some of them show intriguing photos of sportsmen and factory workers in movement. They are called chronocyclegraphs. I had never heard of... (more)
• The Immortal, life-support machines keeping each other alive
A number of life-support machines are connected to each other, circulating liquids and air in attempt to mimic a biological structure. The Immortal investigates human dependence on electronics, the desire to make machines replicate organisms and our perception of anatomy as reflected by biomedical engineering continue ... (more)