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Documenta 12 - Kassel 2007

Ilari Valbonesi @ August 31, 2007 # No Comment Yet

Documenta 12 - Draft Review,
Recensione Italiana, 2007
The big exhibition has no form. Una grande mostra non ha forma. Così Roger Buergel e Ruth Noak aprono il catalogo della dodicesima edizione di Documenta a Kassel in Germania. Una mostra dislocata in diversi punti della città per una topografia - questa volta organizzata - di un fenomeno […]

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Romanian Palme d’Or triumph “4 luni, 3 saptamini si 2 zile”

Ilari Valbonesi @ August 27, 2007 # No Comment Yet

4 luni, 3 saptamini si 2 zile - 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days, directed by Cristian Mungiu, Romanian Palme d’Or winner at the Cannes Film Festival, is the first film in the series Tales from the Golden Age - a subjective history of communism in Romania told through its urban insights. The […]

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Rethinking Dissent – Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art

Ilari Valbonesi @ August 26, 2007 # No Comment Yet

Maria Heimer Åkerlund, Exercis, 2005, two channel video 7min.
Courtesy of the artist
Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art
AUGUST 25 - NOVEMBER 25 2007
RETHINKING DISSENT. Om politikens begränsningar och motståndets möjligheter
The title of the 4th edition of Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art will be RETHINKING DISSENT and it will have the Swedish under title Om politikens […]

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Dada Punk: Just a quick note to point out that Dadaism was the first (punk) interaction

Ilari Valbonesi @ August 26, 2007 # No Comment Yet

Just a quick note to point out that Dadaism was the first inter (punk) action:
Entr’acte
1924, 24 minutes

Directed by Rene Clair; written by Francis Picabia; music by Erik Satie .
Originally commisioned as the interval for the dadaist ballet Relâche - an intermedial production created on 1924 in Paris by four leaders of the Dada art […]

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I Want to Generate a Dynamic Setting.

guest @ August 21, 2007 # No Comment Yet

Interview with Rosina Gómez-Baeza by Domenico Quaranta
It was difficult to be more promising. The LABoral Art and Industrial Creation Centre, opened in March 2007 in Gijon (Asturias), with its rich and gorgeous opening program seems to announce a serious engagement at the intersection of art, design and new technologies. In this short interview, Rosina Gómez-Baeza […]

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Great Internet Sleepover

Luca @ August 20, 2007 # No Comment Yet

Pro net surfers and net surfing clubs camp out at Eyebeam to talk shop, play games, pitch tents, and make a hypertext mess big enough for mom to clean up in the morning. Party favors include homepages, net battles, GIF animation, dirt-style HTML and other web ephemera.
The public is welcome to attend from 8–10PM to […]

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Lonely Hearts Club Band

Ilari Valbonesi @ August 19, 2007 # No Comment Yet

1 Sri Yukteswar Giri (guru)
2 Aleister Crowley (dabbler in sex, drugs and magic)
3 Mae West (actress)
4 Lenny Bruce (comic)
5 Karlheinz Stockhausen (composer)
6 W. C. (William Claude) Fields (comic)
7 Carl Gustav Jung (psychologist)
8 Edgar Allen Poe (writer)
9 Fred Astaire (actor)
10 Richard Merkin (artist)
11 The Varga Girl (by artist Alberto Vargas)
12 Leo Gorcey (actor) *
13 Huntz Hall […]

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Is there anyone in Second Life?

Luca @ August 15, 2007 # No Comment Yet

An article, wroted few weeks ago on Wired, reports some critic about Second Life.
There are a lot of money invested there and since now not so much return.
Some datas:
- 50 major companies have ventured into Second Life, spending millions in the process
- an event costs $10,000
- elaborate build, hold frequent events to keep people coming […]

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