
Links for 2008-07-05 [del.icio.us]-
Segreti a Pechino | Dweb
Dagli indovini del tempio dei Lama al bar di Starck. Due giovani creativi cinesi svelano il meglio e il nuovo della capitale
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Yesterday Interactivos? workshop: Immodesty multicam system- Back to the latest Interactivos? at Medialab Prado in Madrid. Subtitled Vision Play, this edition offered artists and other creative people the opportunity to create prototypes for exploring image technologies and mechanisms of perception, using open hardware and open code tools.
When it comes to exploring image technologies in a striking and poetical way, i'd say that Karolina Sobeka is certainly one of the most talented artists i've ever met. A couple of years ago, she developed the mesmeriz... (more)

3 days freshfacedandwildeyed 08- While in London i went to see a few photography exhibitions. And yes! i realize i wrote a couple of days ago that i'd focus on the RCA show this week but i can't keep that promise, i'm starting to bore myself. Now one of those photo shows is called freshfacedandwildeyed and it marks the launch of an annual exhibition presenting the most striking work by visual arts graduates from BA and MA courses across the UK. There were 25 photographers selected. Some of them had all my attention:
Dewars be... (more)

Links for 2008-07-04 [del.icio.us]-
Lucha Libre: Mexico's masked wrestling | Travel | guardian.co.uk
As Mexico's Lucha Libre comes to London, Georgia Brown travels to Mexico City to meet the men behind the masks. Photographs by James Leech
24 heures - Les corps de quatre Gabonais ayant tenté de fuir leur pays sont empaquetés dans du plastique près de Gabosep, le 1er juillet 2008. - 20minutes.fr
Les corps de quatre Gabonais ayant tenté de fuir leur pays par la mer sont empaquetés dans du plastique près de G... (more)

London Biotopes: Exploring potential City - Body ecologies- The largest part of the pharmaceuticals and chemicals we take go through our bodies and eventually end up in waste water. As water and waste treatment plants haven't been designed to filter them, the content of our medicine cabinets are eventually passed into the water supply. In London, tap water comes from surface water which implies that traces of our medicine can end up in our drinking water. This results in local differences in tap water, based on the food and drugs we ingest.
Tuur van Ba... (more)

Links for 2008-07-03 [del.icio.us]-
Au feu du design conceptuel - lesoir.be
Kits « Burn-Me Pieces » : Marti Guixé interroge le changement de fonction du feu devenu un sport, le produit d'un style de vie et non plus une nécessité.
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Signs of Life- Funniest project seen at the RCA show. You won't need my explanation, just have a look at the video:
Signs of Life was created by Freddie Yauner (of the highest popping toaster in the world fame) a graduate of the Design Products department, Platform 11 . Because it was exhibited where you'd expect to see an emergency exit sign i did believe that it was a real one for a moment.
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Life Support - Could animals be transformed into medical devices?- Instead of following my natural instinct and turn this blog into the usual happy bordello where unrelated posts follow one another, i'm going to try and focus my reports over the next few days on the projects i saw last week at the RCA Graduate Summer Show in London.
Revital Cohen's final project at the Design Interactions department looked at how cross-breeding man with machines or other species can open up new design opportunities and a space for debate (see her previous project the Telepre... (more)

Links for 2008-07-02 [del.icio.us]-
In the hands of people smugglers: child migrants risk all to rejoin families in US | World news | The Guardian
The number of minors deported after trying to cross the border is soaring
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Links for 2008-07-01 [del.icio.us]-
Genova, polemiche per la birra che piace anche al Papa - Galleria - Repubblica.it
brilliant ad for italian beer that "germans like too"
NFT - Not For Tourists - New York - City Guidebooks, Maps, Urban Neighborhoods, Travel
Panorama accused of shoddy treatment of bloggers
BBC faced accusations of dubious ethics for the way its flagship current affairs programme Panorama dealt with bloggers who contributed to its investigation into Primark's clothing manufacturers.
placeboKatz: dress in... (more)

Yesterday On Top of the Fold: Art-
Steve Lambert's Add Art project (a 2008 Rhizome Commission co-developed with the artist's colleagues in the Eyebeam R&D lab) offers home-delivery art exhibitions in the form of your Firefox browser window. Internet users who download Lambert's free open source plug-in will see an aesthetic overhaul in the sites they visit, as advertisements are replaced by visual art created or curated by a different guest, every two weeks. The project is a perfect outgrowth of Lambert's involvement with the An... (more)

Yesterday robert overweg-
robert overweg's 'hidden persuaders' project. as he explains: "magazine ads are digitally retouched and ridden from their products, branding, and other type, leaving the bare visual surroundings...eroticized glitter and abstracted glamour unfolds. esthetics of consumption are laid bare in the process." see more here.
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3 days Rhizome News: The Quiet Storm-
Understated, conceptual gestures predominate in "Quiet Politics," a timely group exhibition currently on display at New York's Zwirner & Wirth. Felix Gonzalez-Torres' single string of lights "Untitled" (for New York) (1992) hangs from the ceiling of the front room and ends, in a tangle, on the floor: an arrangement, at once elegant and casual, that the artist relinquishes to the person installing the work. Lining the gallery hallway are photograms from Lisa Oppenheim's series Multicultur... (more)

3 days UV Tagging-
Initially, Elliott Malkin's new work, Graffiti for Butterflies, reads like a science fair project. One can just see the riveting subtitle, "Directing monarch butterflies to urban food sources along migratory routes in North America" taped-up in bold letters across the top of a trifold sign affixed with statistical charts and photographic evidence. In truth, this mostly internet-based project is a perfect spoof of the recent spate of R&D art experiments that saturate the web, performing rath... (more)

3 days [no title]-
"Fragments from the Edge of Los Angeles (detail 1)", 2001,
Preliminary image for "The Triumph of Democracy", 2008,
"ether machine", 2007,
"www.automaticcity.com", 2007 by Benjamin Edwards.
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3 days Alexander Hahn and Yves Netzhammer-
Yves Netzhammer, Furniture of Proportions (preparatory sketch), 2008; Courtesy the artist and Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt, Germany; Copyright 2008 Yves Netzhammer
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
July 10 through October 5, 2008
Room for Thought pairs two computer-generated video installations by Swiss artists Alexander Hahn and Yves Netzhammer that reveal a fascination with internal landscapes of the mind. Hahn's single-channel, interactive video projection Luminous Point (2006) allows t... (more)

Rhizome News: Headed for the Hills-
Why are new media artists so cool? Because they get to play with toys like spectroheliostats. What's a spectroheliostat? Google won't say, but it's probably some color spectrum device related to the heliostat, which uses a giant mirror to track the motion of the sun. Talk about painting with light... On July 5th, this device will be used in Solar Hills, a collaborative installation by British artist Liliane Lijn and Berkeley-based astrophysicist John Vallerga. Stationing themselves in the ... (more)

André Avelãs: Untitled / Performance / Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland-
In the context of the group show "Word Event"; at Kunsthalle Basel, artist André Avelãs installed his sound-installation "Untitled (Kunsthalle Basel)" consisting of used loudspeakers, amplifiers, record players and mixing consoles. The installation has been set up in different venues already, the first time in 2005 -- "Untitled (Rietveld)" -- and since then always changes a little bit. This video documents AAndré Avelãs performance on the occasion of the opening of t... (more)

TODAY - Mobile Application-
TODAY is a piece of generative design for mobile phones.
It's an application that visualizes personal mobile communication. It sits on the periphery of the machine, monitoring our connectivity through the number and type of calls we receive, subtly displaying them back to us, in the form of a generative graphic. Here, the visual result is a figurative and seemingly abstract picture -- the story of your day. Some days will be really colorful and wired, others quieter and more reflective, eithe... (more)
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