signs of urban migrants

Two projects working directly with young migrant generations ..
The Portable Life. Signs of urban migrants.Migrantas has been working since 2001 on projects related to migration, identity and dialogue between different cultures. Their projects combine tools from the social sciences, graphic design and the visual arts, and put them at the disposal of reflection on …

TV and Video Pioneer in arts

... remembering Nam-Jun Paik

Charlotte Moorman in concert Paik So langweilig wei moglich (part1) via ubu web.

Just some examples of his multi-layered work which started out from Fluxus attitude but was entirely dedicated to an artistic research into new media adaption – including audio works – and especially to the influencing …

tomorrow is our permanent address ..

... McLuhan claimed some decades ago but nowadays we are simply already immersed and embedded …
Arthur C. Kroker (editor of ctheory) states that we live in the electronic culture that he (McLuhan) prophesied. And since he wrote about it, technology has become more pervasive, but silent. It’s invisible.
An elder article (written 2005 to …

Virtual Electronic Poem

Under the coordination of the Virtual Reality and Multi Media Park/Turin three Universities worked on the reconstruction of The Poème Électronique (mpg link of the original projection) a Corbusier / Varèse / Xennakis project for the first EXPO after WWII in 1958.

“I will make not a building but an electronique poem in which …

a revolt that never ends

Antonio Negri – A revolt that never ends – a 2004 documentary which … profiles the controversial life and times of this university professor, philosopher, militant, prisoner, refugee, and so-called ‘enemy of the state.’ It traces Negri’s roots in the history of radical left-wing movements in Italy during the Sixties and Seventies, illustrated through …

middle east news – forget bagdad

Short review from the weekend’s conference/screenings/concerts on middle east: What started as the show ‘The Iraqi Equation’* became now continued under the very vague title ‘Middle East News’. Thematically presented lectures, films and concerts were not so much angeled around the major view point of Iraq but attempting to cover various aspects of the …

a space of one’s own

This small, but intriguing performance video associates thoughts about the wish and need of a certain enclosure … “But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction – what has that to do with a room of one’s own?”
(first sentence A Room of One’s Own V.Woolf)Certainly ‘Enclose’ stands for a …