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“Hunting Trophies” is a project, realized by France Cadet, showing a collection of eleven hunting trophies hung on the wall. These trophies are similar to those that hunters could exhibit proudly in their living room but here they are chests of robots.
Each robot has its own internal program which reacts with its outside environment thanks [...]

Early this morning the new star of the Hague tribunal arrived in Hague: here in Belgrade , the lack of bad news is good news for us. They call this summer the new beginning for Serbia. The Radical Party has reached a dead end, and there are big questions for the Republika [...]

Psyberia è un festival di 5 giorni che si terrà dal 1 al 5 agosto 2008 in provincia di Asti in una collina di 160mila metri quadri immersa nel verde.
Possibilità di campeggio, ingresso consumazioni e mangiare in OFFERTA LIBERA
musica dalle 22 alle 10 da venerdì 1 a lunedì 4 agosto
Il Festival è dedicato alla musica [...]

Despite wise warnings from the American embassy to avoid all large, possibly violent Serbian demonstrations, I was there today in Belgrade’s Republic Square.
My American friend and I were sipping two beers to pay for our cafe table. I also noticed some lone men alertly drinking coffee there: they were undercover [...]

An official quote from AFP:
BEIJING (XFN-ASIA) - China claimed success in its pre-Olympic battle against Beijing’s pollution, as strong winds helped
clear the thick smog that has hung over the Chinese capital this month.
Pollution levels have fallen by at least 20 pct since the first of a raft of short-term measures began at the beginning of [...]

DJ Spooky on Digital Culture from Brian Lehrer Live on Vimeo.

Tactical Biopolitics
Art, Activism, and Technoscience
Edited by Beatriz da Costa and Kavita Philip
“Scientists and engineers, if they care for a better world, must more fully understand the consequences of their actions. Artists must learn more about science and take up the challenge of illuminating our technological world to those who are shaping it. Both communities, in [...]

Sunday 3rd August, Publish And Be Damned Fair, London, E2
THE ASSAULT ON CULTURE: A Mute Magazine talk on privatisation and critical artistic practice
Does private-public funding and management of culture mark the death of institutional and critical autonomy? And is direct censorship an anomaly, the most visible form of a wider constriction of cultural freedom, or [...]