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Kyoto 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 …
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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 …
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impelled 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 …
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media 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 … -
First 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 Sofía, 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 …
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POVs from a very different perspective
In an An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales (1995) neurologist Oliver Sacks concludes that “defects, disorders, diseases… can play a paradoxical role, by bringing out latent powers, developments, evolutions, forms of life that might never be seen, or even be imaginable, in their absence”.linkThe expression to be feeling like an ‘anthropolgist on …
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MigMap – Europe’s present day migration policies
An interesting project in virtual catography with carefully done visualisations is MigMap – Governing Migration / A Virtual Cartography of European Migration Policies >>> linkMigMap conveys a picture of how and where the production of knowledge is currently taking place in the area of migration – and of who is participating in and has …