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For the BFI visual artist Pierre Bismuth and film director Michel Gondry have created a new version of The All-Seeing Eye, an installation which explores the themes at the core of the feature movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, directed by Gondry and based on an original idea by Bismuth; it won the 2005 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, making Bismuth the only contemporary artist to have ever received an Oscar.

The All-seeing Eye shows subtraction as the metaphor for a world without communication and relationships: a room is stripped bare, the non immediately apparent visual erasure taking place creates a moment of displacement in the spectator comparable to the feeling experienced when a memory is lost, despite its strength and against one‘s will, simply by means of time passing.

The subtractive process of scenery changes, seemingly high-tech, was instead manipulated off-screen in real time while filming, an example of Bismuth and Gondry’s shared fondness for special effects created by low-tech or non-digital means.

Pierre Bismuth and Michel Gondry

The All-Seeing Eye

(The Hardcore Techno Version)

Fri 12 Sep – Sun 23 Nov

BFI Southbank Gallery, London SE1

http://www.bfi.org.uk/bismuthgondry

Entrance to the BFI Southbank Gallery is FREE

Photo: Dominick Tyler

I bought the ticket to go – as usual – to Frieze Art Fair 2008 .
Frieze Art Fair takes place every October in Regent’s Park, London. It features around 150 of selected contemporary art galleries in the world. The fair also includes specially commissioned artists’ projects. One of the projects from american artist Cory Arcangel striked my attention. She has intervened in the fair’s gallery selection process. Arcangel hid a golden ticket inside one of hundreds of chocolate bars which were sent to all the galleries who were unsuccessful in their application to this year’s fair. The italian Studiò di Giovanna Simonetta was the finder of the golden ticket and will be allocated a stand at the fair.
That’s reminded me also a big lesson from one of my greek philosophical teacher: either you are lucky or not. very simple.
More projects 2008 from Foundation: Pavel Büchler, Ceal Floyer, Tue Greenfort, Sharon Hayes, Jeppe Hein, Norma Jeane, Agnieszka Kurant, Bert Rodriguez, Allen Ruppersberg, Andreas Slominski.

see you soon.

If you want to se my review of Frieze from last year
please just click here

thank you for your kind attention.

Beijing – Five pro-Tibet activists unfurled a banner spelling out “Free Tibet” in English and Chinese in bright blue LED “throwie” lights in Beijing’s Olympic Park tonight. The five were detained by security personnel after displaying the banner for about 20 seconds at 11:48 pm August 19th. Their whereabouts are currently unknown.

via: http://freetibet2008.org/

http://www.myspace.com/monkeyjourneytothewest

Created as a promo for BBC Sport’s Olympics coverage, “Monkey” is the new creation of Damon Albarn (lead singer of the band Blur) and Jamie Hewlett, the pair behind the virtual art-pop supergroup Gorillaz.

The animated video is based on the classical Chinese novel Journey to the West as well as the alt-rock opera Monkey: Journey to the West, which premiered at Manchester International Festival in 2007 and it follows Monkey, Pigsy, and Sandy as they travel to Beijing.

The Monkey album will be released 18.08.2008 (USA 23.09.2008).

2008 August 2

The Xiph.Org Foundation and the Mozilla Foundation share the common goal of keeping the Web free and open for everyone, so it did not come as a surprise when Mozilla’s Chris Blizzard announced that the upcoming Firefox 3.1 will support both Ogg Theora and Vorbis, alongside the HTML 5’s

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This announcement paves the way for web developers to break away from proprietary media technologies. For the average user it means posting, hosting and playing video/audio data will become as easy an activity as it currently is for images. For private companies adopting these open standards it means getting rid off the middle man and his licensing fees.

With the

Grammy-winning Brazilian musician Gilberto Gil stepped down as culture minister on Wednesday: “I am leaving the government to dedicate more time to my artistic endeavors and to my family, which is growing with the addition of a new grandchild,” told a news conference.

Since his appointment as culture minister in 2003, when President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva started his first term in office, Gil has divided his time between the political and musical spheres.

Gilberto Gil and longtime friend Caetano Veloso are credited with inventing the Tropicalism movement, a blend of rock and bossa nova music against the nation’s 1964-1985 military dictatorship. Both Gil and Veloso were jailed in 1968 and lived in exile in London from 1969 to 1972.