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2009-07-05T00:00:00-07:00

Common Flowers, treating the genetic manipulation as common - Neural.it :: media culture, hacktivism
The controversial gesture, in the very spirit of the best "bio art" movement, addresses the abyss of bio manipulation and bioethical aspects. Both of them are just exposed and hacked, proving once more that (as Yukiko Shikata notes), natural codes have a lot in common with software, and so personally re-writing and releasing information becomes a powerful and challenging statement.
Improvised prison escape tools | Beyond The Beyond
Inmates have got lots of time on their hands. What better way to make use of this resource than doing handicrafts? Creativity pays, especially when it facilitates escape. These examples bear witness to man’s love of freedom.
Daryl Peveto « The New Breed of Documentary Photographers
. In the United States, large communities exist which have turned their backs on the idea of settling down, opting for a nomadic life. One such community is Slab City, located on the Salton Sea in southern California.
For Once, the Yes Men Say No | CommonDreams.org
The Yes Men, co-directors of the new award-winning documentary film The Yes Men Fix the World, have decided to withdraw their film from the Jerusalem International Film Festival, in support of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign:
La occidentalización y el aislamiento, claves de la mala salud de los aborígenes | elmundo.es salud
Cuatrocientos millones de indígenas sufren unas pésimas condiciones de salud. Y no viven en África. Afincados en Australia, Canadá o EEUU, padecen estas y otras enfermedades. Así lo indica un estudio publicado en 'The Lancet'.
America to remove HIV visa ban after Briton's protest | World news | The Observer
He sent a powerful statement to be read out in his place. The message accused the US of having an HIV policy rooted in fear and said it had no right to call itself a world leader in the fight against the disease.
Six months after Israel's bloody war with Hamas, Peter Beaumont goes back to Gaza | World news | The Observer
In the immediate aftermath of Israel's bloody three-week war with Hamas in January, Peter Beaumont travelled to Gaza and met the Palestinians devasted by the death of their families and the destruction of their neighbourhoods. Six months later he returns to find they are still waiting - to rebuild both their homes and their lives

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2009-07-04T00:00:00-07:00

Parrworld: The Collection of Martin Parr / e-flux
yeah yeah yeah! Martin Parr in Paris
Foodprint / e-flux
The Foodprint exhibition shows crucial moments relating to food, food production and the city through the work of artists and designers. Starting in the late 1960s artists have used food as a theme for tackling wider social topics. Gordon Matta Clark organized a restaurant as a meeting place. In Manhattan, Agnes Denes sowed a field of corn as a political statement: real estate versus food. More recently one comes across projects by Atelier Van Lieshout, centered around self-sufficiency, or Raul Ortega Ayala and Yang Zhichao, which focus on food in relation to ethical value systems.
Activismo de corbata · ELPAÍS.com
Su anuncio del fin de la guerra de Irak en un falso The New York Times tuvo un impacto planetario.Ahora, los agitadores Yes Men “arreglan el mundo” burlándose de petroleras y grandes corporaciones.
L'exposition Martin Parr au Jeu de Paume - L'exposition Martin Parr au Jeu de Paume - 20minutes.fr
STRP Festival, 2 - 13 April 2009, Klokgebouw Eindhoven
STRP is pleased to announce that the fourth edition of the STRP festival will take place in April 2010 at the Klokgebouw in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. STRP is searching for exceptional work for presentation at the STRP festival, an international festival of art and technology. Creators of interactive art, robotics, visual projects, light art, and great experiences are invited to submit their work for possible inclusion in the festival.

Links for 2009-07-02 [del.icio.us]

2009-07-03T00:00:00-07:00

Amnesty accuses Israel of Gaza war crimes - Middle East, World - The Independent
Amnesty called on Israel to publicly pledge not to use artillery, white phosphorus and other imprecise weapons in densely populated areas. And it urged Gaza's militant Hamas rulers to stop rocket fire against Israeli civilians — attacks it also described as war crimes. Amnesty — which first accused Israel of war crimes shortly after the fighting ended on Jan. 18 — said "disturbing questions" remain about why high-precision weapons like tank shells and air-delivered bombs and missiles "killed so many children and other civilians."
Criminally tasty: Britain's first prison restaurant - Features, Food & Drink - The Independent
Once you've handed over your mobile phone and any sharp objects and been buzzed through the solid steel prison doors, a prison guard escorts you past 30ft-high, razor wire-topped walls, through barred doors, security gates and past CCTV cameras to an anonymous brown door. Stepping through it is like stepping through the wardrobe into Narnia. You could be in any of the aforementioned West End venues. I had to walk back out again just to check I was still in a prison.
The guilty secrets of palm oil: Are you unwittingly contributing to the devastation of the rain forests? - Environment - The Independent
Does your shopping basket contain KitKat, Hovis, Persil or Flora? If so, you may be contributing to the devastation of the wildlife-rich forests of Indonesia and Malaysia, where orangutans and other species face extinction as their habitat disappears.
Intro - Fatenah
animation movie: Inspired from a true story. “Fatenah”, a Palestinian woman who lives in Gaza Strip. Her simple wishes were her consolation in the absurd living situation around her. But when she discovers a lump near her breast, she will start a journey to save her dreams.
Dailymotion - Interview de Douglas Repetto, intervenant à Lift - une vidéo Hi-Tech et Science
yeah! douglas
Il pacchetto sicurezza diventa legge Sì alle ronde, la clandestinità è reato - Politica - Repubblica.it
unregulated immigrants are now officially criminals and mobs of 'concerned citizens' are allowed to patrol and ensure Italians are not bothered by us, nasty immigrants
micromega - micromega-online » Against the Reintroduction of Race Laws in Europe
The Berlusconi Government, using security as a pretext, has imposed on our Parliament – over which it has total control – the adoption of laws discriminating against immigrants, laws the likes of which we had not seen in this country since the passing of the Fascist Race Laws.

Self-Portrait Machine

2009-07-02T08:38:54Z

Jen Hui Liao's Self-Portrait Machine is a device that takes a picture of the sitter and draws it but with the model's help. The wrists of the individual are tied to the machine and it is his or her hands that are guided to draw the lines that will eventually form the portrait continue

Toys

2009-07-01T07:34:54Z

A fictitious company called ENT International has filed for bankruptcy protection under Chapter 11 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. Some of the items listed in the catalogue of the bankruptcy clearance auction are perfectly mundane, others are fictitious. Put together they offer a detailed insight into the inner workings of a large corporation closely inspired by the Enron scandal continue

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2009-07-02T00:00:00-07:00

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AV Festival | AV Festival 10 Announcement and Call for Artists
AV Festival, in partnership with Inspire Northumberland, seek to appoint an artist in residence at NaREC, the centre of excellence for new and renewable energy technologies in North East England, based in Blyth, Northumberland.

The ExtraRoom, a space to achieve psychological alterations

2009-06-30T06:44:00Z

Directly influenced by the 50s and '60s experiments, ExtraRoom puts the sensory deprivation practice in a near futuristic scenario, when mind reading technologies are in common use and thoughts are not private anymore continue

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2009-07-01T00:00:00-07:00

Le Palais Stoclet, patrimoine mondial de l'humanité - lesoir.be
was about time!
COLORS OF MONEY | Fabrica
Through photography, creative writing, works of art and interactive installations conceived by Fabrica artists, Colors of Money provides an unorthodox insight into a world seizing from a growing financial crises. The exhibition simultaneously underlines the innovative response of social groups to the cultural dominance of finance, thus making a subject often considered as incomprehensible more accessible to young people, finance professionals and the general public.
Mondoweiss: 'I think this is the most emotional event I've ever done' (Naomi Klein in Ramallah)
Yesterday Naomi Klein gave a great talk at the Friends School in Ramallah. It was a short addendum to her January piece in The Nation supporting the BDS (boycott, divestment, and sanctions) movement against Israel. I recorded it in video, but it came out too shaky, so here's the audio in mp3, 35 min long.
Israel opens mosaic museum in the West Bank
Palestinians are calling the museum unlawful. Based on prohibitions in international law, UN resolutions, the Oslo Accords and the Road Map, an Israeli museum or any Israeli building in the West Bank is illegal, Marwan Toubassi, the Palestinian deputy minister of tourism and antiquities, told The Art Newspaper.
Video: Stuart Jeffries interviews French artist Orlan | Art and design | guardian.co.uk
Orlan is mostly known for her work with plastic surgery in the 1990s. But Stuart Jeffries finds that she has a body of work that started long before - and one that is still evolving
Human rights activists 'arrested' off Gaza coast - Telegraph
Her fellow passenger Ms McKinney, a former US presidential candidate, said: "This is an outrageous violation of international law against us. Our boat was not in Israeli waters, and we were on a human rights mission to the Gaza Strip. "We're asking the international community to demand our release so we can resume our journey."
The Roma: Why we shouldn't fear Gypsies - Times Online
As Gypsies flee racists in Northern Ireland, a Briton who has lived among them in Romania and has a Roma son, calls for a solution to the economic plight

Daimlerstrasse 38 or How to get a fox to shoot portrait of itself

2009-06-28T19:12:27Z

Danish artist and environmentalist Tue Greenfort's photo series, Daimlerstrasse 38 lured foxes living in the industrial area in eastern Frankfurt with frankfurter sausages towards a hidden camera continue

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2009-06-29T00:00:00-07:00

BBC - Earth News - Legless frogs mystery solved
Scientists think they have resolved one of the most controversial environmental issues of the past decade: the curious case of the missing frogs' legs.
Silvio Berlusconi: how does he do it? - Telegraph
There can't be many politicians who could survive the sort of scandals he's been through: accusations of perjury, perverting the course of justice, proximity to the Mafia, accusations of membership of a sinister masonic lodge, of tax evasion and of corrupting public officials. And now, on top of all that, it has been discovered that he's been enjoying Dionysian parties with dozens of young girls at both of his Sardinian and Roman villas.

Green Revolution

2009-06-23T09:22:01Z

The artists brought together for this show reveal an imagery that has been inspired by the current mutations in our environment. They deal with diverse matters such as Chernobyl, global warming and the rise in oil rates. At times close to science-fiction, these artists imagine new stories which pay witness to the curiosity and fears derived from this changing reality continue

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2009-06-24T00:00:00-07:00

Retrato de la otra cara de África · ELPAÍS.com
Hace apenas una década, la fama del fotógrafo Malick Sidibé apenas rebosaba los límites de Bamako, la capital de Malí, donde en 1962 abrió su estudio. Hoy, a sus 72 o 73 años -nació en 1936 o en 1937, no hay datos precisos- sus imágenes viajan por todo el mundo, hace reportajes de moda para el New York Times Magazine y hace dos años recibió el León de Oro en la Bienal de Venecia.
WSJ: Nokia, Siemens Help Iran Spy on Internet Users | Threat Level | Wired.com
According to a somewhat confusing Wall Street Journal story, Iran has adopted NSA-like techniques and installed equipment on its national telecommunication network last year that allows it to spy on the online activities and correspondence — including the content of e-mail and VoIP phone calls — of its internet users.
Subjective Atlas of Palestine
Archive - David Roberts Art Foundation
The exhibition engages the concept and dynamics of the service and hospitality industries in today's political and social climate and brings together a wide range of artwork from emerging international artists.
Wyer Gallery
In The Limitations of Logic, his second solo exhibition at Wyer Gallery, Alistair McClymont presents the second in his series of tornado installations. A new horizontal tornado occupies the whole front section of the gallery where a system of scaffolding, industrial scale fans and an ultrasonic humidifier project a twisting ten-foot funnel against the gallery window. The new installation features alongside drawings made by the tornado itself: works in ink on paper formed by the tornado’s movement across the sheet.
The Furniture of Chandigarh - Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret at P3
Currents of Time: New Work by Zineb Sedira at iniva - Institute of International Visual Arts
Floating Coffins was filmed on the little known but beautiful coastline of Mauritania, a bird watcher's paradise. It is also where the world's shipping is beached and broken up, drawing parallels with another of the region's characteristics - the habour city of Nouadhibou, which has become a point of departure for African migrants trying to reach Europe.
AP-CAP 2009: 5th Asia-Pacific Computing & Philosophy Conference - call for papers
Asia-Pacific Computing and Philosophy 2009 will be held on October 1st-2nd, 2009 in Tokyo, Japan. The conference will be hosted at the University of Tokyo's Sanjo Conference Hall. Keynotes speeches will be given by Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro (Osaka University), Professor Shinsuke Shimojo (Caltech), and Professor Luciano Floridi (Oxford University / University of Hertfordshire). This year, it will be held in conjunction with the Devices that Alter Perception workshop, which will form a special track.
Werk Nu at z33
War Book reveals how Britain planned to cope with nuclear attack | UK news | guardian.co.uk
Historian Peter Hennessy persuaded officials to release document kept ready for use from 1960s to 1990s
Detroit UnReal Estate Agency
Detroit Unreal Estate Agency will produce, collect and inventory information on the ‘unreal estate’ of Detroit: that is, on the remarkable, distinct, characteristic or subjectively significant sites of urban culture. The project is aimed at new types of urban practices (architecturally, artistically, institutionally, everyday life, etc) that came into existence, creating a new value system in Detroit.

Sound, DIY culture and mechanics at SonarMàtica

2009-06-22T06:59:25Z

Given my notoriously campy taste in music, you will be relieved to know that i'm going to carefully avoid reviewing the music side of Barcelona's International Festival of Advanced Music and Multimedia Art. What's left then? Fashion, a bit of advertising and the SonarMàtica exhibition continue

Why do people desire walls?

2009-06-17T10:05:51Z

The audio file of a lecture by Prof. Wendy Brown who explains how the building of walls around the world today is so starkly at odds with images of a world that is ever more connected & unbordered. Bonus! Videos of Shooting Back, the project of an Isreali NGO that gives Palestinian families across the West Bank video cameras to document how they are treated by Israeli soldiers and settlers continue

Encastrable, guerrilla art residencies inside DIY megastores

2009-06-17T07:23:09Z

At no cost at all, the young artists have at their disposal a huge array of material that they can grab, move, superimpose, and organize onto temporary installations and sculptures continue

Harun Farocki at LOOP video art festival

2009-06-16T07:30:26Z

The German independent filmmaker has been investigating the relationship between technology and information for decades. His talk in Barcelona explored the way blurry, raw images from surveillance and sophisticated computer-generated images are now competing with "the real thing" continue

Notes on the LOOP video art fair

2009-06-15T15:41:06Z

LOOP art fair understands the importance of the comfort factor for video art lovers. The fair took place inside the snug rooms of a 4 stars hotel right in the center of Barcelona during 3 afternoons. Videos were displayed on big screens inside bedrooms and some galleries added a smaller screen in the bathroom to show another piece. So here we were all cosying into armchairs, spreading over beds, taking notes in the dark and chatting in the corridors of the hotel continue

Fashion-able. Hacktivism and engaged fashion design

2009-06-12T06:08:06Z

Just found out that the utterly brilliant and fascinating thesis that Otto von Busch presented last year at the University of Gothenburg is available as an online PDF. So leave Dan Brown on the shelves and take this one on the beach this Summer, ok? continue

Yang Fudong and Erwin Olaf at the Photo Museum in Antwerp

2009-06-09T18:20:05Z

One of the reasons i visited Antwerp is that i had never seen the Museum of Photography. This is going to be one of my regular stops. The exhibitions i checked out last week are now closed but the upcoming ones look great continue

Image of the day

2009-06-09T11:01:00Z

For no particular reason continue

Jimmy Kets at the Photo Museum in Antwerp

2009-06-06T11:26:34Z

Meet Jimmy Kets, one of the most brilliant photographers i've seen this year. He shot photo series around the world but the ones i found most remarkable were taken in Belgium continue

Annika Larsson at LOOP

2009-06-04T18:55:44Z

When i met the talented and sexy video artist in Barcelona we discussed forms of control, men desiring to perform the tasks of robots and why video artists shoudln't be afraid to share their work on you tube continue