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Links for 2010-02-08 [del.icio.us]

2010-02-09T00:00:00-08:00

New Topographics: photographs that find beauty in the banal | Art and design | guardian.co.uk
With its stark yet oddly romantic images of American factories, intersections and trailer parks, William Jenkins's 1975 exhibition rewrote the rules of landscape photography. Does it have the same impact today?

Crowbot Jenny

2010-02-08T06:55:31Z

Crowbot Jenny is a manga character. She is a socially-awkward girl who prefers to spend time surrounded by technology and animals rather than with humans. She built the Crowbot. Perched on her shoulder, the crow-shaped robot can vocalize a variety of crow calls to control and converse with her bird army continue

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2010-02-08T00:00:00-08:00

Interiors | Craftivism | Life and style | The Observer
Inspired by the plight of inmates on death row, the Black Panthers, and the spirituality of the planet, Carrie Reichardt's west London home is a message board in mosaics

The Gesundheit Radio

2010-02-07T07:45:08Z

Developed in 1972 to protect early microprocessors from dust, the Gesundheit Radio featured a sneeze mechanism that expelled dust from inside the casing every six month. A bellows system extracted dust from inside the unit, blowing waste from two outlets located on the front continue

East Side Stories. German Photography 1950s-1980s

2010-02-05T20:55:09Z

30 black and white pictures from photographers who portrayed life at the time of the GDR, mostly in a way that steered away from the official GDR iconography continue

The worst condition is to pass under a sword which is not one's own

2010-02-04T18:31:22Z

Michael Rakowitz explores the influence of science fiction genre imagery on the design of Iraqi monuments, military uniforms and weaponry under Saddam Hussein, while illuminating aspects of the US-Iraq conflict over the past few decades continue

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2010-02-05T00:00:00-08:00

Video: Fishing on horseback in Belgium | Travel | guardian.co.uk
Oostduinkerke on the West Flanders coast is the only place in the world where you will still see the 500-year-old tradition of fishermen trawling for shrimp on horseback.

Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize

2010-02-02T02:03:42Z

An award and exhibition that celebrate contemporary portrait photography, whether it's editorial, reportage or fine art. Not very rock 'n' roll but consistently good continue

Lyon Biennale - The ex-sugar factory

2010-01-31T09:36:15Z

Paintings on silos, a new capital of Asia, typographic wallpapers, replica of Shanghai hardware store, EU Green card lottery and porcelain human bones for a biennale that celebrated contemporary artists who believe that art has to offer more than a spectacle continue

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2010-02-01T00:00:00-08:00

Anna Fox: Deutsche Börse Photography Prize - Telegraph
Whether she is shooting English village rituals, cakes made by her young sons, her mother’s cupboards or the clothes of a punk-musician friend, one may depend on the documentary photographer Anna Fox to spot an odd angle.

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2010-01-31T00:00:00-08:00

Video: Tracey Emin, Paula Rego and Mat Collishaw at the Foundling Museum | Art and design | guardian.co.uk
Britain's first home for abandoned children, now the Foundling Museum in London, featuring artists Tracey Emin, Paula Rego and Mat Collishaw. Here they talk about what it's like to install art in this unique space, and how responding to the museum's history touched on experiences that are painfully close to home – from Emin's abortive pregnancies to Rego's relationship with her mother
DIGITAL ART IN BELGIUM
There are a good number of festivals in Belgium that function around emerging artistic practices, among them being Almost Cinema, Artefact, Courtisane, City Sonics, Happy New Ears, Jonctions, Transnumériques, VIA and lastly Cimatics,
Gangster used Facebook to intimidate enemies from cell - Crime, UK - The Independent
Jack Straw, the Secretary of State for Justice, has announced a crackdown on prisoners using Facebook after it emerged that a gangland kingpin has spent the past two months using the social networking site to intimidate his enemies.
Fluff flies as fashion writers pick a cat fight with bloggers - News, Fashion - The Independent
They were fashion's Young Turks: the scant few voices of criticism in a sea of superficiality. But fast forward one season, and fashion bloggers are facing a backlash for falling under the spell of the big design houses they set out to debunk.

Manipulating Reality - How Images Redefine the World

2010-01-28T07:51:53Z

In today's mass-media society, only what becomes image is considered real. In a process of reversal, the representation of the world comes to replace the world itself, a world in which the user operates digitally continue

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2010-01-30T00:00:00-08:00

http://outlawbiology.net/
On Friday, symposium panelists invite you to learn about do-it-yourself biology, open source science, at home medical genetics, bio-art and DNA chemistry, citizen science and novel ethical engagements with science at the cutting edge. On Saturday, an exhibition and workshop open to the public will offer participants hands-on lessons, discussions, and demonstrations of creative, scientific, practical an impractical ideas.

Manipulating Reality - The Day Nobody Died

2010-01-28T04:11:39Z

Broomberg and Chanarin's works questions the role of embedded reporters today. Their task is to take photographs of what happens in the war zones but in accordance with the rigid directives of military command. The images that do not comply are eliminated and only those that make it through the strict censorship process are published continue

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2010-01-29T00:00:00-08:00

Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin - International Center Of Photography
In their "Forest" series, Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin explore the politics of landscape in Israel. Since Israel's founding in 1948, over ten million pine trees have been planted within the country's shifting borders. The resulting forests appear eternal, a picture of untouched natural beauty. However, say the artists, "These forests are planted on the ruins of Palestinian villages evacuated since 1948. They are a political construction, designed to obscure the layers of history evident in the landscape." These depictions of Rabin Park and The Saints' Forest challenge our readiness to attribute exclusively positive values to the growth and nurture of the natural world.
Should we let the ICA die? - Times Online
Arts observers say that other organisations are looking on nervously — the crisis at the ICA is being seen as a measure of the effects of the recession on arts venues and organisations more generally.
McDonald's launch McItaly burger | Life and style | guardian.co.uk
If ever there was a sign of the moral bankruptcy of Silvio Berlusconi's government, it is the sight of a McDonald's apron wrapped around the svelte frame of the Minister of Agriculture, Luca Zaia as he helped launch the new McItaly range of burgers.

Lyon Biennale - Pedro Reyes

2010-01-27T11:54:48Z

Two artworks i discovered at the Lyon's 10th Biennale for Contemporary Art. Both by the talented and socially-engaged Pedro Reyes continue

Craftwerk 2.0: New Household Tactics for the Popular Crafts

2010-01-26T09:39:02Z

The exhibition explores the new "updated" textile crafts that are developed by a new generation of serious amateurs, innovative craftsmen, engaged entrepreneurs and political practitioners. Once again the home is the workshop where economic and ecologic innovation happens - not only in the labs of the industrial expertise. After decades of outsourcing, the new modes of production are in the hands of the layperson continue

Super K Sonic Booooum

2010-01-25T09:08:55Z

Nelly Ben Hayoun's installation/performance attempted to demonstrate the visual equivalent of one of those massive sonic booms that take place inside Super K each time a neutrino meets an electron of extremely pure water. As ultra-pure water doesn't exactly abound in London night clubs, the designer used the water from the nearest fire hydrant and turned the place into a 15 by 5m long swimming pool continue

Book Review - Chroma: Design, Architecture and Art in Color

2010-01-22T10:41:34Z

Designers and architects have to make decisions regarding color every day. But how does one find the necessary inspiration? The appropriate color? How do other designers and artists deal with the issue? With "Chroma," the Greek word for color, as its title, this illustrated book provides answers to these questions and makes it clear that color is much more than mere decoration - it is one of the central problems of creative work continue

Winners of Europan Norway - the Vardø site

2010-01-20T13:59:34Z

Each of the winning projects for Vardø, a city swept in darkness 2 months of the year, is fascinating in its own way. Taken together they form a truly thought-provoking perspective on what young architects can bring to local urban challenges continue

20.12.53 - 10.08.04

2010-01-18T16:47:55Z

Moira Ricci delves into the photographs of the past following the tracks of her mother, whose dates of birth and death provide the series with its title and indicate the time span covered by the images. Digital processing of old family photographs enables the artist to appear beside and observe her mother while remaining an extraneous figure, a sort of ubiquitous ghost hovering on the edges of the images and events continue

Playlist - the physical dimension

2010-01-18T06:42:34Z

Music take center stage in the exhibition but Playlist has also a very physical dimension that deals with the pleasure of manipulating and tweaking the devices and the aesthetic delectation in the vintage look of the game arcades and handheld consoles continue