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2012-05-31T00:00:00-07:00

Indiana prosecuting woman for suicide attempt that killed her foetus
Bei Bei Shuai took rat poison when her boyfriend left her, leading to the death of their unborn child. Now she's facing life in prison

Make your own lie-detector or see art under a forensic perspective at the Wide Open School

2012-05-30T17:25:28Z

If you peruse the Wide Open School class catalogue, you will encounter a remarkable diversity of topics and approaches to learning. It includes material that is under the radar of mainstream culture - things that are overlooked or neglected for one reason or another. It also features classes that involve looking at familiar subjects in a new light continue

An Architectural Time Machine

2012-05-29T16:20:32Z

An architectural Time Machine by architect Heechan Park explores how to create an architectural time-based event. As the machines blow vapour rings that double as ephemeral scent zones, the public not only experience a visual performance of smoke vortices travelling through space, but they also perceive scents that are temporally spatialised and visualised continue

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2012-05-30T00:00:00-07:00

Evaporated spaces - Architecture - Domus
But the Louis M. apartment is not a surrealist work: it shows that Rahm is good at articulating the interferences between architecture, sciences and neurosciences, beyond dialogue between these different factors. He thus also affords a glimpse of a possible, wider and less identified influence of the imaginaries developed in labs and of their ultimate impact on our daily lives.

The Cold Coast Archive: Future Artifacts from the Svalbard Global Seed Vault

2012-05-28T16:16:26Z

The Cold Coast Archive project investigates and explores human beings' efforts to preserve civilization and defy the inevitability of its demise. We look at the vault as a whole: its practical, political, historical and symbolic structure, its arctic location, as well as its infrastructure and cultural nuances, with all the research concentrated at this site, as a backdrop to explore the human relationship to time between now and eternity continue

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2012-05-29T00:00:00-07:00

Bio Data Visualisation Workshop - Mapping Amsterdam's cultural life with slime-mold
The objective of this experimental workshop is to re-explore and re-map Amsterdam. We will engage with the slime-mold and make use of its awesome cognitive skills, discovering new patterns in our little city

#A.I.L - artists in laboratories, episode 2

2012-05-28T05:38:12Z

The guest of today's edition of #A.I.L. (Artists in Laboratories) is Richard Pell, the founder and director of The Center for Postnatural History in Pittsburgh, the first museum that seeks to research, document and exhibit man-made biological systems. I interviewed him on the blog last year as he had just opened the museum and the radio show looks at how the center's doing right now, its challenges, its projects, the spider silk-producing goats and the english bull terrier continue

Living as Form - Socially Engaged Art from 1991-2011

2012-05-25T09:58:42Z

Over the past twenty years, an abundance of art forms have emerged that use aesthetics to affect social dynamics. These works are often produced by collectives or come out of a community context; they emphasize participation, dialogue, and action, and appear in situations ranging from theater to activism to urban planning to visual art to health care. Engaged with the texture of living, these art works often blur the line between art and life. This book offers the first global portrait of a complex and exciting mode of cultural production--one that has virtually redefined contemporary art practice continue

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2012-05-28T00:00:00-07:00

# MILITARIZED ARCHITECTURES /// The American Geography of Incarceration | The Funambulist
Prison Map is a project developed by Josh Begley, a graduate student studying Interactive Telecommunications at New York University. Thanks a small script and geo-coordinates, he obtained a google earth snapshot of each of the 4,916 incarceration facilities in the United States. Let’s recall here that a bit less than 2.5 millions people are living in prison in this country.

Subversion in the Arab Art world

2012-05-22T06:53:27Z

There's an exhibition featuring sci-fi, history, video games, homosexuality, soap operas, censorship and a powerful sense of humour at Cornerhouse in Manchester right now. The show is called Subversion and it questions and knocks around whatever assumption you might have about an homogenous 'Arab world', whatever image politicians and the media might have given you about its culture and identity continue

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2012-05-23T00:00:00-07:00

'Gay' penguin couple given egg of their own
Every spring for six years Gentoo penguins Inca and Rayas have lovingly built a nest together, only to find that no eggs arrive to fill it. It doesn't seem to have dawned on the couple that both of them are male.

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2012-05-22T00:00:00-07:00

The Dwarf Zoo is a growing collection of insularly dwarfed animals
Often when a species gets stuck on an island their size changes. Sometimes they grow larger like the giant turtles on the Galapagos. In Dwarf Zoo however we are interested in insular dwarfs; island animals that have evolved to a strikingly diminuitive size. Perhaps these evolutionary precursors have something to teach us.

#A.I.L - artists in laboratories

2012-05-21T06:26:53Z

The first episode of the radio show about art & science i'm recording for Resonance FM is broadcast today Monday 21 May at 16.30 (London time.) There will be a repeat on Thursday at 22.30. You can catch it online if you don't live in London. This week i'm talking with the lovely and lively Anna Dumitriu, visual artist and respected founder and director of The Institute of Unnecessary Research continue

An Ant Ballet at FutureEverything

2012-05-17T21:05:12Z

Ollie Palmer's Ant Ballet is a three-year research project into control systems, paranoia and dancing insects, and has culminated in the world's first ballet to exclusively feature ants. The projected insects is part of the FutureEverybody Art Exhibition at the 1830 Warehouse in Manchester continue

Sony World Photography Awards 2012

2012-05-13T07:59:26Z

object to paying £7.50 to see and exhibition which title starts with the name of a brand. I feel cheated when the show closes with a shop selling goods manufactured by the above-mentioned brand and i don't look kindly to being forbidden to take pictures (which i do purely for documenting reason) because that would mean that i won't shell more ££ to buy the booklet of the exhibition. That said, the photos selected and exhibited are so remarkable that i still feel like recommending that you go and see the World Photography Awards if you're in London continue

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2012-05-16T00:00:00-07:00

Portrait of the artist: Bill Viola, video artist | Culture | The Guardian
'I fell into a lake aged six and saw the most beautiful world. My work is about getting back there'

My Name Is Janez Janša

2012-05-09T18:16:15Z

The film that inspires you to google your name again.... My name is Janez Janša is a documentary film about names and name changes, focusing on one particular and rather unique name change that took place 5 years ago, when three artists officially changed their names into the name of the Prime Minister of Slovenia, Janez Janša continue

American Dreamers

2012-05-08T15:44:36Z

Does the American dream still exist? What is its future in an era in which the promise of happiness and economic prosperity seems to clash with an increasingly complex and difficult scenario? continue

The Chronocyclegraph

2012-05-06T16:43:13Z

The museum of photography in Antwerp has a number of fascinating show right now. One of them is an installation by Zoe Beloff that takes as its point of departure America's longest running comic strip to explore the influence of cinema on the movement of the body and the mind. Beloff's exhibition contains a number of historical documents. Some of them show intriguing photos of sportsmen and factory workers in movement. They are called chronocyclegraphs. I had never heard of the chronocyclegraph before... continue

The Immortal, life-support machines keeping each other alive

2012-05-04T05:48:45Z

A number of life-support machines are connected to each other, circulating liquids and air in attempt to mimic a biological structure. The Immortal investigates human dependence on electronics, the desire to make machines replicate organisms and our perception of anatomy as reflected by biomedical engineering continue

Compulsion

2012-05-02T08:48:54Z

In Prager's part film noir, part fashion shoot work, heroines wear impeccable make-up, pose as if they were in a Hitchcock movie, breathe through an atmosphere worthy of David Lynch, and are submitted to ordeals inspired by the images of crime photographers Weegee and Enrique Metinides. The stories might take place in Hollywood-like settings but they promise to never end on a happy note continue

Book review: Utopia & Contemporary Art

2012-04-29T11:02:51Z

Utopia has become a controversial concept, spanning the field between the belief in an ideal society and the dystopian nightmare. Within the last decade, the contemporary art scene has witnessed a return of utopia and utopian thinking. Whether detectable as an impulse, critically reassessed as a concept, or cautiously or daringly articulated in a specific vision--utopia continues to matter continue