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2009-11-22T00:00:00-08:00

As art critics face sudden planetary extinction | Beyond The Beyond
The digital revolution has profound effects on the status of art criticism. With newspapers and other printed media in decline, the traditional platform for critical reflection on art has shrunk or shifted towards electronic (web-based) media. At the same time the presence of art criticism on the internet is mostly limited to the “blog” – a format that celebrates an impressionistic, subjective and often populistic point of view. More substantial forms of web-based criticism are still rare to be found.

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2009-11-20T00:00:00-08:00

Life on Mars star's turn in Marks & Spencer ad attacked over 'sexism' | Media | guardian.co.uk
"Oh come on, it's Christmas," he says. "That girl prancing around in her underwear." The ad ends with M&S's regular lingerie model, Noemie Lenoir, doing twirls in a forest while scantily clad.

Shelter of the day

2009-11-19T18:42:33Z

Part of Thomas Demand's show Nationalgalerie, Haltestelle is a large-scale photograph of a paper model resembling a nondescript rural German bus shelter, which happens to be the place just outside of Magdeburg where a teen pop band were waiting for their school bus every morning. continue

Feedforward. The Angel of History. Part 1: Wreckage and countermeasures

2009-11-17T14:48:50Z

The exhibition addresses the current moment in history where the wreckage of political conflict and economic inequality is piling up, while globalized forces--largely enabled by the "progress" of digital information technologies--inexorably feed us forward continue

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2009-11-19T00:00:00-08:00

The Frankenfood that improves you - Times Online
Wageningen is Europe’s biggest research centre in food science and its Restaurant of the Future is a key laboratory. Opened a year ago, it now has a vast amount of data on the eating habits of its staff and students. This it uses to test products and ideas for food scientists, governments and the food processing industry whose business model is dependent on being able to put “new” and “improved” on packets and selling them to you.
Tiny Tim - Tim burton moma - Jezebel
Creations by artist and film maker Tim Burton on display at the Tim Burton media preview at The Museum of Modern Art on November 17, 2009 in New York City.
Action Alert: Tell the New York Mets to say no to Hebron’s racist, violent settlers | Adalah-NY: The Coalition for Justice in the Middle East
The New York Mets are allowing the Hebron Fund, a Brooklyn-based non-profit supporting violent and racist Israeli settlers living in the West Bank City of Hebron, to hold a fundraiser at Citi Field on November 21st. The Mets have to date refused to cancel the Hebron Fund dinner despite a letter from 11 US, Palestinian and Israeli organizations (click here for the full letter) documenting that the Hebron Fund, by supporting Israeli settlements in Hebron, violates international law and the Obama administration’s call for a freeze in Israeli settlement construction in Occupied Palestinian Territory. The letter also demonstrates that the Hebron Fund actively promotes racial discrimination against Palestinians, and it supports, at least indirectly, violence and the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their homes in Hebron.
Open Call: Eyebeam Fellowships 2010 | eyebeam.org
Eyebeam is seeking applications from artists, hackers, engineers, designers, curators, and creative technologists to participate in our Fellowship program. Fellows at Eyebeam spearhead new research and develop new work.
Open Call: Eyebeam Residencies Winter/Spring 2010 | eyebeam.org
You've got big ideas. You could use a little time and money, not to mention support and inspiration, to create a visionary project. Apply now for Eyebeam's Winter/Spring 2010 Residency cycle. Residents are granted a $5,000 stipend and 24/7 access to Eyebeam's state of the art digital design and fabrication studios at their Chelsea facility.
POST OIL CITIES
POST-OIL CITIES: Girona_Escenaris de Futur L’objectiu d’aquest taller és analitzar i proposar intervencions per a la independització del petroli de la ciutat de Girona i la seva àrea d’influència davant dels reptes del Peak Oil i del Canvi Climàtic.

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2009-11-18T00:00:00-08:00

Front | Kitchen
Kitchen Budapest now opens the call for 2010! We are offering guest researcher positions for dedicated professionals, artist, engineers, interested in the convergence of new media and actual spaces, cultural experiences, new communities, interaction design and are highly motivated to create such projects in teams.

Book Review - Art and Electronic Media

2009-11-15T09:10:20Z

A comprehensive, timely international survey that addresses the relationship between art and electronic technology, this volume explores the presence and meanings of mechanics, light, graphics, robots, virtual reality and the Web in the art and visual culture of the last hundred years. It also considers the reaction, development and future of artistic practice in the face of new technology continue

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2009-11-17T00:00:00-08:00

Pro-Israel lobby group bankrolling Tories, film claims | Politics | The Guardian
At least half of the shadow cabinet are members of the Conservative Friends of Israel (CFI), according to a Dispatches programme being screened on Channel 4. The programme-makers describe the CFI as "beyond doubt the most well- connected and probably the best funded of all Westminster lobbying groups".
Chemicals in plastics ‘feminising’ baby boys, says study - Telegraph
Those exposed to high doses in the womb are less willing to join "rough and tumble" games and are less likely to play with "male" toys such as cars.
Why conceptual photography is having a prized moment | Sean O'Hagan | Art and design | guardian.co.uk
This year's Deutsche Börse prize seems designed to blur the lines between conceptual art and contemporary photography – perfect for provoking debate and grabbing public attention

Mark Amerika retrospective at the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens

2009-11-13T12:43:05Z

Developing projects on the net, filming with mobile phones, remixing common moments and figures of today`s culture in an VJ-like audiovisual rhythm, Amerika redifines the characteristics of today's culture and opens up the possibilities for new interpretations and thoughts from the audience itself continue

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2009-11-15T00:00:00-08:00

Computational Aesthetics on Graphics, Visualization and Imaging
Artistic submissions are invited across the broad range of mediums covered by Computational Aesthetics.
Regretsy - Handmade? It looks like you made it with your feet
regretsy a site dedicated to the worst items on Etsy.
BBC NEWS | Technology | Digital cloud plan for city skies
A giant "digital cloud" that would "float" above London's skyline has been outlined by an international team of architects, artists and engineers.
Belle de Jour revealed as research scientist Dr Brooke Magnanti - Times Online
The secret life of Dr Brooke Magnanti, an obscure research scientist, is revealed today as she unmasks herself as the writer behind the pseudonym Belle de Jour.

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2009-11-14T00:00:00-08:00

McDonald's advertises for staff to work at Guantánamo Bay - Telegraph
McDonald's is advertising for staff to work at Guantánamo Bay, in what might be the perfect opportunity for anyone looking to see out the recession in warmer climes.
Jerusalem Dispossessed | Activestills
If Jerusalem is to remain the symbol of peace and tole-rance it cannot be a ghetto for anyone or owned by any particular group. In the same year that Israel celebrates 40 years of the so-called “unity” of Jerusalem, the city has been divided by force, discrimination and injustice. In the “holy city” of 2007, it seems that the only god is “security” and real estate. Israeli policy is drawing a twisting path of a wall that more than anything ensures more conflict, suffering and despair. The future of Israel cannot be built by blocking the potential of the other. Any negotiation taking place while facts and borders are aggressively being determined according to one side’s interests, is just an illusion. Without real freedom and respect of the other’s right to live in dignity, there is no basis for political negotiation. October 2007
Resisting the Capitalist Production of Space.
“Ten Days for Oppositional Architecture” takes up the task of exploring possibilities and conditions of a socially committed architectural practice. Therefore the narrow boundaries of the profession have to be left behind. We hence invite activists, geographers, architects, planners, and economists representing different critical approaches to discuss and develop concepts and practices that not only try to oppose and challenge the capitalist mode of production of space, but also try to go beyond it – strategies of de-commodification, re-appropriation and alternative production of space.
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We, a broad coalition from over 20 countries, of hundreds of thousands of citizens, users, consumers, organizations, artists, hackers, members of the free culture movement, economists, lawyers, teachers, students, researchers, scientists, activists, workers, unemployed, entrepreneurs, creators… We invite all citizens to make this Charter theirs, share it and put it into practice. We invite all governments, multinationals and institutions urgently to listen to it, understand it and enforce it.
Provisions Library » Blog Archive » Activist Listening
Raqs Media Collective reaches well beyond the confines of the art world to appeal to communities both on and off line. “Raqs” translates into “dance” in Farsi, Arabic, and Urdu. But founding members Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula, and Shuddhabrata Sengupta once jokingly stated, however, that raqs stands for “rarely asked questions.”
'Vomit on the table' and speak like a 1950s hipster | Culture | The Guardian
The Guidelines: Random notes from pop culture
Israel 'personally attacking human rights group' after Gaza war criticism | World news | guardian.co.uk
Human Rights Watch denies having political agenda or seeking funds from Saudi Arabia
L'arte formato reportage Milano celebra McCurry - Recensioni - Arte - Repubblica.it
Grande mostra sul maestro, pluripremiato dal World Press Photo Award. Oltre 200 scatti da Beirut alla Cambogia, dall'11 settembre alla ragazza di Peshawar

Venice Biennale: Juan Burgos at the pavilion of Uruguay

2009-11-11T07:22:02Z

Burgos expands urban apocalyptic visions which proliferate in daily life. His starting point is a children's storybook, from which he constructs a delirious collage. Anything is possible in his productions. With amazing dexterity he cuts, pastes, digitally photocopies and photocopies again, the result of which he fits into a fascinating stage design. Within these metaphors, there are, mingled with a large cast of characters, iconic elements of national images continue

Venice Biennale: Danish and Nordic Pavilion

2009-11-11T06:40:54Z

The curators approach the topic of collecting, and the psychology behind the practice of expressing oneself through physical objects. Why do we gather items and surround ourselves with them in our every day lives? Which mechanisms of desire trigger our selection? continue

East of Nowhere - Contemporary Art from post-Soviet Central Asia

2009-11-10T14:03:13Z

The exhibition, located in the beautiful but cruelly un-heated Fondazione 107, uses photographic works, videos, installations and sculptures to document a moment of extraordinary transformation for an area that is five times bigger than Europe. The result is bold and exciting with its mix of "globalization", acceleration, pre-soviet and islamic traditions continue

Portraying the mafia

2009-11-08T06:24:03Z

Letizia Battaglia's pictures, because of the corruption, silence, violence and suffering they laid bare, played a crucial role in the anti-mafia campaign. They show anti-mafia Judge Cesare Terranova shot in his car, corpses of mafiosi found by the road, tears of the wives and mothers when they discover the scene of the crime, arrests of the mafia boss, teenagers pretending to be though guys with attitude and guns continue

A Guest + A Host = A Ghost - Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection at DESTE Foundation in Athens

2009-11-04T19:01:22Z

In a series of symbiotic encounters and parasitic relationships, the solo presentations are often interrupted by incongruous presences or perturbed by unusual juxtapositions: drawings by Kara Walker surround a tomb by Urs Fischer; Maurizio Cattelan's homeless man kneels down in front of Kiki Smith's Bat Woman; Robert Gober's haunted rooms incorporate Gregor Schneider's architectural fragments, etc. continue

Rechnender Raum (Calculating Space) at the Share Festival in Turin

2009-11-04T17:43:00Z

Calculating Space is a delicate sculpture made of sticks, strings and little plumbs. The fragility and transparency of its structure reveals as much as it hides the logic and functioning of the machine. Its units operate like a very basic artifical neural network continue

November programme for the VivoArts School for Transgenic Aesthetics

2009-11-02T08:59:35Z

The VivoArts School for Transgenic Aesthetics Ltd., Adam Zaretsky and Waag Society's temporary research and education institute on Art and Life Sciences, will be focusing this month on body art continue

Venice Biennale: the Finnish pavilion

2009-11-02T08:13:04Z

This year the wooden pavilion, designed by architect Alvar Aalto in 1956, hosts a collection of Fire & Rescue Museum by Jussi Kivi. The artist's museum project is based on his long-term passion of collecting every imaginable item that ever has had something to do with firefighting continue

Smoke and Hot Air

2009-10-29T08:37:24Z

The installation echoes the artist's concern for the relentless threats against Iran made by many countries in recent years. Sentences that include "attack Iran" are scavenged from Google News and spoken using a text-to-speech synthesizer. The voice is then picked up by a microphone, analyzed, and translated into rhythmically corresponding smoke rings from a quartet of smoke ring makers continue

Book Review - Installations by Architects: Experiments in Building and Design

2009-10-28T16:14:50Z

Like paper projects designed in the absence of "real" architecture, installations offer architects another way to engage in issues critical to their practice. Direct experimentation with architecture's material and social dimensions engages the public around issues in the built environment that concern them and expands the ways that architecture can participate in and impact people's everyday lives continue

The pavilion i wish i hadn't missed at the Venice Biennale

2009-10-26T14:25:14Z

Everyday, someone cleans the marble floors of the Palazzo with a mop dipped in water mixed with the blood found on the site of murders committed during the drug wars in Northern Mexico. How long will traces of it remain on the sole of your shoes? continue