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under fire again
Jordan Crandall’s UNDER FIRE mailinglist started into a new season of discourse: UNDER FIRE is an ongoing art and research project that explores militarization and political violence. It delves into the structural, symbolic, and affective dimensions of armed conflicts: the organization, representation, and materialization of war.This time the project publishes its major contributions on a ...
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failing the Greenberg test: net art
.. via several mailing lists and blogs the ‘Art of Sleep’ presented by Y0UNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES is being past around. It is but worth to look up their website as well…. Commissioned to coincide with Frieze, the hottest art fair at a particularly market-driven moment, The Art of Sleep features an insomniac narrator who ...
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making lemonade
via apophenia I came across the disentanglement of the lonelygirl15 experiment … more episodesThey are telling their story, truth or fiction. Of course, this makes many people very uncomfortable. They want blogs and YouTube and MySpace to be Real with a capital R. Or they want it to be complete play. Yet, what’s happening is ...
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weaving and lacing
stand as metaphers for two interesting projects of CITA (center for information technology and architecture ) discovered via PLSJ: – weaver : Weaver seeks to explore the potential intersections between an intelligent surface and its inhabitation. As a collaboration between architecture and textile design, the aim is to explore the spatial potential of a continually ...
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the attempt to make the I(o)T* heard
is the concern of Meghan Trainor’s recent project 16 Horsepower:16 Horsepower is a performance piece in which I scan pieces of ceramic and graphite embedded with RFID tags to trigger different sounds from an audio database culminating in a series of tracks triggered by a RFID chip in my arm. This piece aims to help ...
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the author as filmmaker on the hive mind
The beauty of the Internet is that it connects people. The value is in the other people. If we start to believe that the Internet itself is an entity that has something to say, we’re devaluing those people and making ourselves into idiots. (link)Jaron Lanier writes in his recent article for the edge about the ...
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Creation of a meme …
These sheeps have been posted the last weeks all over, but now they became almost meta examples for the new outspreading meme* of crowdsourcing – let see how long it lasts …...... At least as rightfully mentioned here the neogolism should not be mixed up with commons-based peer production. the sheep market * What’s in ...
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Génération-Précaire / precarious generation
With no relevant or encouraging diagnosis forthcoming, society was left in the dark about its symptoms and in danger of succumbing to further crises. This quote refers to Ignacio Ramonet analysis – according to the recent events in France – how profoundly the situation around the french intellectual has changed published in the recent issue ...
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china
... some aspects concerning different viewpoints: First here to be recommended a still ongoing platform at Berlin’s HKW titled China – Between Past and Future mainly showing work of younger artists living and working in China. The accompanying show titled Between Past and Future focuses on the developments of new forms of expression during the ...