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Ilari Valbonesi @ February 24, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Nuts picked from Amazon rainforests helped fuel the world’s first commercial airline flight powered by renewable energy.
A Virgin Atlantic jumbo jet flew today from London to Amsterdam with one of its fuel tanks filled with a bio-jet blend including babassu oil and coconut oil.
“Today marks a vital breakthrough for the whole airline industry,” Virgin founder […]
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Luca @ February 24, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The Influencers explores controversial forms of art and communication guerrilla, presenting independent projects that play with global popular culture, infiltrate the mass media, and transform fashions, consumption and technological fetishism.
The key to The Influencers is found in its guests and stories: impostors, pseudo-totalitarian musicians, conceptual hackers, deviant geographers, anarchitects and actors from invisible theatre. In […]
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Luca @ February 23, 2008 # No Comment Yet
SmartCityEU is an art project which explores and develops new artistic interventions within urban spaces in European cities during a 2 year period in 2008 and 2009.
At the forefront of new practices, SmartCityEU operates an art rereading of urban space and offers a vision of a balanced and sustainable European city reoriented towards citizens.
SmartCityEU […]
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Luca @ February 21, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Belgrade 2.21.2008
9 a.m Morning, a big silence in the streets: even some schools will be closed because of the planned rally in the afternoon, 5 p.m.
1 p.m
Buses from all over Serbia are coming into Belgrade city. The buses and trains are free, state-organized for people to come and perform the big show with the […]
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Luca @ February 21, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Borders, Nations, Translations
The Political Limits of Cultural Trans-Nationalism
Conference, 14 - 15 March 2008
Kunsthalle Exnergasse / WUK, Währinger Straße 59, 1090 Vienna
Home is where I understand and where I am understood, wrote Karl Jaspers once. If this home today is our globalized world, then its mother tongue cannot be but a translation, both linguistically and culturally. […]
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Luca @ February 19, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Bruce Sterling and Jasmina Tesanovic reviews the OLPC at LIFT Conference. The One Laptop per Child association (OLPC) is a ICT4D non-profit organization, created by faculty members of the MIT Media Lab, set up to oversee The Children’s Machine project and the construction of the XO-1 “$100 laptop”. Both the project and the organization were […]
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Ilari Valbonesi @ February 19, 2008 # No Comment Yet
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Ilari Valbonesi @ February 15, 2008 # No Comment Yet
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