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Praeter naturam - beyond nature
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
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Magazine review: Future Exhibitions
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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Links for 2010-08-30 [del.icio.us]
- 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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Links for 2010-08-29 [del.icio.us]
- 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
re the benefits of art-science collaboration to science and engineering
you will find a number of supporting documents :
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Nille Svensson
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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Links for 2010-08-28 [del.icio.us]
- 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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Magazine review: Future Exhibitions
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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Links for 2010-08-27 [del.icio.us]
- 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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Links for 2010-08-26 [del.icio.us]
- 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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Links for 2010-08-25 [del.icio.us]
- 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".
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Book review: The Map as Art, Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography
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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Nille Svensson
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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Links for 2010-08-24 [del.icio.us]
- 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.
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Gilpin Family Whisky
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
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Book review: The Map as Art, Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography
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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Gilpin Family Whisky
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
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Links for 2010-08-22 [del.icio.us]
- Young, urban professional seeks home – vacant premises will do - Home News, UK - The Independent
The number of people living in squats in England and Wales has risen by 25 per cent in the last seven years, according to new figures. But contrary to popular belief, greater numbers of squatters are now professional, middle class and upwardly mobile. - US soldiers in Afghanistan in 'leisure' pants
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Links for 2010-08-21 [del.icio.us]
- Decoder - Military Landscape
We document the military presence in both routine and innovative ways. We're an open pedagogical project aiming to know how the military-industrial complex affects society, and we're a loose network of people that share news, ideas and information
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Links for 2010-08-20 [del.icio.us]
- Postopolis: Urban Portraiture: Places: Design Observer
Cassim Shepard:
How do you portray all the amazing stuff going on in a city like Mexico City? And why would you even try? Some thoughts on Postópolis!DF and Mexico ‘68 - Where do ships and planes go to die? | Graveyards as micronations « dpr-barcelona
This is just one among hundreds of histories that talk about ships or planes graveyards. And is interesting to think how these huge graveyards transform the local communities where they are placed. - Land Art Generator Initiative
WeatherField is a shape-shifting energy generation park along a strip of sandy beach in Abu Dhabi between Yas and Saadiyat Islands. The park is an open public space and is capable of harvesting the abundant renewable energy resource of wind within the Middle East context. The public park offers a variety of ways to engage with climate and renewable energy, as an economic sponsor, as a visual or physical experience, and as information. - Photography Exhibition | The Modern Lesbian | Manchester Pride | CreativeTourist.com
Kevin Bourke on a photography exhibition at Manchester Pride that celebrates the activism and achievements of gay and bisexual women in Manchester - Junkitecture and the Jellyfish theatre | Art and design | The Guardian
It is Britain's first fully functioning recycled theatre – made of old nails, pallets and discarded doors. As the Jellyfish opens, Jonathan Glancey examines the rise of 'junkitecture'
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Postopolis, marijuana, Olympic games and going to prison for art's sake
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
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