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bjartlab：V2people + Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen | We need money not art
Urban Screens
Since the first Urban Screens event in 2005 in Amsterdam, related international conferences have taken place in Manchester in 2007 and Melbourne in 2008. The INC and the MediaLAB are proud to present a day-long program dedicated to current Urban Screens research and practice, in Trouw Amsterdam on 4 December 2009. The event will include a seminar with lectures by Urban Screens researchers and professionals, followed by the launch of the Urban Screens Reader, which is produced by the INC and the University of Melbourne.

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

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

How Waterstone's killed bookselling | Books | The Guardian
"The emphasis given to the few is staggering," says Mark Le Fanu, general secretary of the Society of Authors. "It's our mid-list authors, who may not write the most commercial books but who often write the best, who are suffering. The big corporate publishers dominate the shelves and squeeze out smaller publishers."
Notes on an art crisis | Art and design | The Guardian
This recession will bring a sea change in the way we look at, write about, and make art. Adrian Searle reveals what he's looking forward to
Middle class shoplifters help themselves - Telegraph
Middle class shoplifters are stealing luxury items like iPods, cosmetics and even fresh meat in an attempt to maintain their lifestyles in the face of the recession, according to a survey.
Revolution on paper: Mexican Prints 1910 - 1960 at the British Museum, review - Telegraph
An exhibition of prints at the British Museum reflects the social and political upheavals that gripped Mexico over the past century. Rating: * * * *
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Cómo es transformada nuestra idea de Naturaleza a partir de los procesos graduales de manipulación tecnológica? Cómo es alterada nuestra idea de Máquina cuando ésta comienza a emplear para su funcionamiento un sustrato orgánico? Dónde trazamos los límites entre lo natural y lo artificial? Tienen estos límites algún sentido?
Gabura: a terrifying vision of a world devastated by climate change | Environment | guardian.co.uk
In Gabura global warming is a bleak reality as villagers face rising sea levels, failed crops and devastating cyclones
Rhizome | Support Rhizome
Rhizome’s 2009 Community Campaign is now underway! The goal is to raise $35,000 by January 8th 2010, with 100% of all donations going towards their programs and new initiatives for artists this year. Now is the time to support Rhizome by making a contribution to help them achieve this essential annual goal.
Lalibre.be - Art/chitecture entre utopie et réalité
A Bordeaux, dans le cadre de la biennale Evento, les Entrepôts Lainés proposent une véritable contre-culture architecturale.
Sanaa Architect Named Director of Venice Architecture Biennial - ARTINFO.com
Japanese architect Kazuyo Sejima has been named director of the 2010 Venice Architecture Biennale. She is the first woman to hold the position
Apostrophist corrects punctuation on street signs - Telegraph
Stefan Gatward, a 62-year-old accountant, has been called a vandal and graffiti artist after he corrected the punctuation on his street signs.

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

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2009-11-10T00:00:00-08:00

Haus proud: The women of Bauhaus | Art and design | The Guardian
When the Bauhaus art school opened in 1919, more women applied than men - so why have we never heard of them?

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

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2009-11-09T00:00:00-08:00

Pictures of first person to undergo plastic surgery released - Telegraph
The images of a wounded First World War soldier who became the first person to undergo plastic surgery have been released in an attempt to trace his family.

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2009-11-07T00:00:00-08:00

iMAL Organisation
Chapter I invites us to encounter a mysterious object, an unidentified artificial entity as real than fictional. Félix Luque's installation reformulates some modern philosophical questions about mankind and technology through the use of images associated with science fiction culture and myths around artificial intelligence. Opening on Thursday 12, 18:00.

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2009-11-05T00:00:00-08:00

Climate change belief given same legal status as religion - Telegraph
An executive has won the right to sue his employer on the basis that he was unfairly dismissed for his green views after a judge ruled that environmentalism had the same weight in law as religious and philosophical beliefs.

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

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2009-11-04T00:00:00-08:00

Turkmenistan: Stranger in a very strange land - Asia, World - The Independent
Its ruler re-named the days of the week after himself and his mother. Opera, ballet and the circus are banned. To get a driving licence, citizens must sit an exam on the dead leader’s autobiography. Welcome to Turkmenistan.
China regulator rejects World of Warcraft game: official - News, Gadgets & Tech - The Independent
Analysts said it was uncertain if GAPP's rejection would lead to a permanent ban in China as NetEase in April received approval from the culture ministry, which is also tasked with regulating computer games.
Settlement by stealth belies promises of restraint - Middle East, World - The Independent
What Ms Kurd, of the inner-city East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah, was hearing at about 10.30am yesterday was the latest in an accelerating series of highly charged and organised moves by settlers into the city's Arab sector. Armed with a court order saying they own the property, the settlers – about 40, according to Ms Kurd – decided to break in just four days after Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State, dismayed Palestinian and other Arab leaders by praising the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's "unprecedented" promise of "a restraint" in illegal settlement activity.

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

Venice Biennale: Nathalie Djurberg

2009-10-26T10:27:10Z

Nathalie Djurberg makes candy-coloured plasticine puppets who have have orgies, who torture each other and suffer alien, abusive relationships. Djurberg, who won the Silver Lion award for best young artist at the Biennale, was the super star of Venice. I went to see her video installation 3 times and the room was always jam-packed with people drooling over her animations and taking photos of her monstruous flowers as if their lives depended on it. Not that i acted any differently continue

Instances of Use of United States Armed Forces Abroad 1798-2006

2009-10-25T13:51:04Z

Laboral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial in Gijón has opened a very very good exhibition a few days ago. 'FEEDFORWARD - The Angel of History' 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. I'll write about it in details in the near future but i'd like to share with you straight away one of the most interesting artworks i've discovered there continue

Galleries we love - heliumcowboy artspace in Hamburg

2009-10-21T20:09:39Z

I doubt there are many galleries like heliumcowboy. First there's that name. Charming and puzzling. Not even an interview with the gallery director has helped me uncover its origin. Then of course there's the artists the space represents. Since its opening in 2003, heliumcowboy has been showcasing artists 'who are capable of pushing boundaries, are a little underground and whose aesthetic is the forecast of art' continue

Venice Biennale: Pascale Marthine Tayou

2009-10-20T05:03:43Z

One of the most striking artworks at the Arsenale for me was Pascale Marthine Tayou's installation 'Human Being' which fills in a gigantic room with a bric-a-brac of objects, furniture made of recycled material, colourful figures, videos and urban noises that re-creates the activity of that small village that we call our world continue