disconnecting / space of absence

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.. there is some unwanted irony in this reversal of technological appliance: after all the efforts taken to interconnect these floatables want to occur as disconnected islands which create room for ‘exclusive connections‘ .. (via) The data that portrays our lives and lifestyles is accessible by so many individuals and organisations that it can longer […] Read More

chain

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… can also refer to the initiation of a reaction … relinking me back to a recent post on N.Klein’s essay Inside the Stomach of the Dragon: The Victory of the Entertainment Economy on reblog journal We all essentially live inside the stomach of the “entertainment” dragon. As a result, it would be near impossible […] Read More

synthesizing interstitial spaces

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The works of the inflatables by A. Rewakowicz posted here brought up the term of cultural displacement and just these days I came across the recent article of Darko Suvin on Displaced Persons in New Left Review where he is more specificly looking into the subject of exiles, èmigrés, expatriates and refugees, as well as […] Read More

accepting performing instructions online

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Chris Barr is available on Thursdays is a performance project accepting instructions via website visitors ‘to investigate issues of authorship and collaboration, body and self as commodity, and artist as social organizer’.While the scedule can be viewed and edited via the website documentary material will only be collected through the audience. Read More

inflatables_2

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Another artist (see inflatables_1) working with inflatable nomadic homes is Ana Rewakowicz, who defines her work as related to cultural displacement – ‘exploring the relations between temporal, portable architecture, the body and the environment in a culture and society of global and technological developments’. The website of her recent exhibition can be viewed here (sorrily […] Read More

announcements_1: ambientTV.NET / Doors of Perception / New-Media Art

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– ambientTV.NET understands itself as a space and tool providing facility for networked performance: The performance incorporates geographically distant real spaces into the theatre space. The narrative grows out of telematic feedback, and the interplay between real spaces and imaginary realms. Daily life’s occupation – Streetwalking, food preparation or conversing – are presented as a […] Read More

… seeing through the eyes of ….

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Out of Zana Briski’s project Kids with cameras developed the film Born into Brothels which just won an oscar for the best documetary. (early report on WorldChanging) Kids with Cameras is proud to work with Red Light Films on the award-winning documentary that shows how our organization started: “In Calcutta’s red light district appear a […] Read More