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Praeter naturam - beyond nature

2010-08-31T14:20:30Z

Last Saturday i finally dragged myself out of the armchair and visited the 'Park of Living Art' in Turin. Although the 'interactive' displays i saw in some of the rooms were appalling, I'll be forever grateful to the place for bringing to Turin exciting artists: Michel Blazy, Andrea Caretto and Raffaella Spagna and now Brandon Ballengee continue

Magazine review: Future Exhibitions

2010-08-28T15:47:56Z

This year's Future Exhibitions aims at highlighting the exhibition's spatial relationship to the visitor. How can architecture, stage design and technical innovation enhance the visitor's overall experience? In conversation with some of the leading actors in the field, Swedish Travelling Exhibitions examines innovative techniques and explores the exhibition medium of the future continue

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Catalan town fears bullfighting ban will extinguish its fire bulls | World news | The Guardian
Death may not be the goal, but tradition of taunting animal with flaming torches on its horns exposes politics behind ban

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2010-08-30T00:00:00-07:00

Wim Delvoye plaatst gotische toren op dak Bozar — brusselnieuws.be
Brussel heeft er sinds zaterdag een gotische toren bij. Op het dak van het Paleis voor Schone Kunsten prijkt een zeventien meter hoge toren van de hand van kunstenaar Wim Delvoye. De toren maakt deel uit van Delvoyes solotentoonstelling die vanaf 20 oktober in Bozar loopt.
PSFK CONFERENCE LONDON 2010 - Ideas - Futurists- Eventbrite
For the PSFK CONFERENCE LONDON we gather the people behind some of the most inspiring British and European projects that we have covered on PSFK.com. These brilliant creative minds will present their work that explore innovation at intersections of fields that include art, design, branding, retail and technology.
A long tailed macaque monkey adopts a kitten in the forests of Bali, Indonesia - Telegraph
The reserve is inhabited by about 340 monkeys in four groups. It is considered sacred by locals and visited by about 10,000 tourists each month
Yasmin List: [Yasmin_discussions] Benefits of art science collaboration to science and engineering
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Nille Svensson

2010-08-25T08:06:14Z

Nille Svensson, former member of Sweden Graphics, is a designer/graphic artist/illustrator i met in Stockholm a few months ago and the guy is so absurdly talented he doesn't even have a proper website. See for yourself: continue

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2010-08-29T00:00:00-07:00

Eadweard Muybridge | Photography review | Art and design | The Observer
Whether showing us what water droplets look like when hurled from a bucket, or revealing the slow, destructive hand of nature, Eadweard Muybridge almost magically made time visible in space, as a new show at Tate Britain will reveal

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2010-08-28T00:00:00-07:00

Une partie d'une église sert de mosquée pour les musulmans | RTBF INFO
Depuis 2006, l'église Saint-Etienne du Terraillon, située à Bron, en banlieue de Lyon (France) accueille dans son enceinte des musulmans qui utilisent une partie des locaux pour leur culte, a indiqué jeudi le journal "Le Progrès", sur son site internet.

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2010-08-27T00:00:00-07:00

Make your own bike lane
Inspired by an urban street painting intervention in Berlin, the Helsinki based collective Länsiväylä asked people to join a guerilla operation to paint a bike lane on Hämeentie, one of the main roads leading through the Northern part of central Helsinki. During the day Hämeentie has very intense car traffic and causes a lot of noise in the neighbourhood.
artlaboratory-berlin.org - Artists in Dialog. Alex Toland and Myriel Milicevic. Wunschgarten: Wild Urban Offshoots
Art Laboratory Berlin is pleased to announce the opening of the exhibition Wunschgarten: Wild Urban Offshoots by the artists Alex Toland and Myriel Milicevic - the second exhibition in our ongoing series Artists in Dialog.
Foto Sismycity, il sisma dell'Aquila alla Biennale di Venezia - 1 di 10 - Repubblica.it
Alla Biennale di Venezia 2010 c'è spazio anche per il terremoto dell'Abruzzo, grazie a Sismycity, un progetto fotografico, realizzato nell'arco di un anno, sulle conseguenze del sisma che ha colpito L’Aquila e il suo territorio. Sviluppato dall’associazione fuori_vista, Sismycity racconta i danni che il terremoto ha provocato e le ferite profonde che la popolazione, a sedici mesi dalla scossa del 6 aprile 2009, porta dentro, avendo visto sbiciolarsi, insieme agli edifici, il tessuto sociale e i rapporti con la collettività. La mostra fotografica è in programma, come evento collaterale, a Palazzo Ducale, Loggia Foscara dal 28 agosto al 30 ottobre

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2010-08-26T00:00:00-07:00

ELEKTRA in KOREA / Elektra en CORÉE - blog.elektramontreal.ca
ELEKTRA is invited in Korea to present several artists within two differents events taking place between August, 28 and September 30, 2010.
McDonald's lawyers make a meal of Italian restaurant's name | World news | The Guardian
A Sardinian snack bar owner who incurred the legal wrath of McDonald's for daring to use the prefix 'Mc' on his shop front has become an unlikely hero for Italian politicians and food campaigners fed up with the global clout of the American hamburger chain.
Fat fingered sumo wrestlers given iPads - Telegraph
Japanese sumo wrestlers have been given iPads to communicate because their fingers are too fat to use a standard mobile phone
10 ways data is changing how we live - Telegraph
The availability of new sets of data has changed the way we live our lives: here are 10 examples of data which have changed everything from how we assess wars to how companies deliver milk.
Facing jail, the unarmed activist who dared to take on Israel - Middle East, World - The Independent
Lady Ashton said she was "deeply concerned" that Abdallah Abu Rahma was facing a possible jail sentence "to prevent him and other Palestinians from exercising their legitimate right to protest against the separation barriers in a non-violent manner".

Book review: The Map as Art, Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography

2010-08-24T15:12:42Z

Artists play with both the material and the content of the map. Paper plans are all over the book but so are maps made of artist's hair, drawn on the body, printed onto the sand or turned into large-scale installations. Some maps have a clear activist, political agenda, others are infused with mental visions, covered with alien-abduction sites, etc continue

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2010-08-25T00:00:00-07:00

Mogens Jacobsen: Democratic Dazzler v.2.0 (2010)
Democratic Dazzler is not targeting the human visual system but surveillance cameras and electronic sensors. It utilizes a powerful 850nm infrared flash and is thus invisible to the human eye.
Who still wants to learn languages? | Education | The Guardian
according to Language Matters, a recent report from the British Academy, as many as a third of university language departments have closed in the last seven years. "There are regions in the UK," concluded the report, "where there is virtually no substantive higher-education language provision."
Russia orders £2000 inflatable copies of planes, tanks and missiles to fool enemies - Telegraph
He said such models were designed to fool satellite and air reconnaissance and that the United States and China had invested heavily in replicas of their own hardware.
Building 1: Treasure Island, San Francisco (Slideshow) - The Bay Citizen
Built in 1939, this architectural copycat of Berlin's Tempelhof airport has been through war and a film shoot
BBC News - Swiss campaign for referendum on death penalty begins
Campaigners who want to bring back the death penalty in Switzerland can begin a process that may force a referendum on its return, the government says.

Gilpin Family Whisky

2010-08-23T07:54:27Z

Large amounts of sugar are excreted on a daily basis by type-two diabetic patients especially amongst the upper end of our aging population. Is it plausible to suggest that we start utilizing our water purification systems in order to harvest the biological resources that our elderly already process in abundance? In James Gilpin's scenario, sugar heavy urine excreted by patients with diabetes would be used for the fermentation of high-end single malt whisky for export continue

Postopolis, marijuana, Olympic games and going to prison for art's sake

2010-08-20T08:01:10Z

Where we get a lecture on the perils of drugs from the curator of the Drugs museum in Mexico, revisit the wonderful design of Mexico '68 and meet an artist who voluntarily spent hundreds of hours in prison striking deals with inmates continue

Postopolis DF - 2 activists from Mexico

2010-08-19T04:08:18Z

Meet two activists from Mexico. The first is hackarchitect Ehécatl Cabrera who believes that since architecture is not able to answer the many issues that the city has to face, we should raise and 'make the city ourselves'. The second is Tijuana-based Raúl Cárdenas from Torolab who was in Mexico to present his Institute of Waste continue

Postopolis DF - notes from day 5 (first part)

2010-08-18T05:22:49Z

The last time i blogged about Postopolis was two months ago. The idea of getting to grips with a report that had to chronicle a criminally long day was a bit intimidating. The fifth day of our blogathon in Mexico DF started at noon and ended at 10 pm. We were braced for the worst but the whole day was over in no time, thanks to some brilliant presentations and a friendly weather. No time to yawn nor complain continue

Book review: Urban Interventions - Personal Projects in Public Spaces

2010-08-16T08:06:30Z

This perceptive work brings art to the masses and helps us to rediscover our every day surroundings. It challenges us to question if the cities we have are the cities we need while adding a touch of magic to mundane places and situations continue

FILE Festival - the installations

2010-08-12T08:40:18Z

The main exhibition of the FILE festival in Sao Paulo showcases some of the most exciting artistic productions in the field of electronic and digital arts. The sound installations were particularly good. So good that my little round-up features mostly sound pieces continue

Book Review: Berliner Luft

2010-08-10T08:04:34Z

Berlin in photography. The campy, the ostalgic, the decadent, the sexy and the never boring continue

War of Internet Addicition

2010-08-09T09:32:22Z

The movie that received most attention from both the public and the members of the File Prix Lux is War of Internet Addiction, a machinima advocacy production that voices the concerns of the mainland Chinese World of Warcraft community. Although the machinima was created with WoW players in mind, the video strikes a chord with the broader public by pointing the finger to the lack of Internet freedom in the country and conveying a general feeling of helplessness continue

American Documents

2010-08-06T05:48:57Z

Fifty years after The Americans of Robert Frank, and practically at the same time as the reconstruction of the then pioneering exhibition "New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape", FotoMuseum, through the exhibition American Documents, offers a comprehensive overview of the documentary trends in American photography from the 1970 until now continue

What is American Power?

2010-08-04T09:42:50Z

In this series of photos and installations in public space, Mitch Epstein explores and questions the 'power' that lays at the core of the United States. 'Power' in this case stands for both strength and energy. Over the course of 5 years he traveled through 25 states to photograph nuclear reactors, oil refineries, mines, rigs, abandoned gas pumps, wind parks, pipelines as well as their environs continue

Heart Chamber Orchestra

2010-08-02T14:33:28Z

Using their heartbeats, the musicians control a computer composition and visualization environment. The musical score is generated in real time by the heartbeats of the musicians. They read and play this score from a computer screen placed in front of them continue