Rule issued for Beijing Olympic spectators
Luca @ July 14, 2008 # No Comment Yet
In compliance with IOC requirements and common practice at previous Olympic Games, BOCOG has issued a rule that spectators must observe during the upcoming Olympic and Paralympic Games.
The rule is similar to that of the Sydney and Athens Olympic Games, placing caution on articles accompanying spectators and spectator behavior at the Olympic venues, said Zhang […]
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International Guerrilla Video Festival
Luca @ July 11, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The International Guerrilla Video Festival (IGVFest) is a mobile festival integrating video art with the urban and social environment.
It’ll be all over Milan from 12 till 14 of july.
The festival removes the technologically complex medium of video out of the institutional situation re-positioning it as open and reflexive in the public domain. The artworks have […]
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Eliminate Ads - Add Art
Luca @ July 7, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Introduction to Add-Art from Steve Lambert on Vimeo.
Steve Lambert, a programmer/conceptual artist, has crated an application that replaces the display ads with curator-picked artwork from contemporary artists.
Add-Art is a Firefox extension which replaces advertising images on web pages with art images from a curated database.
It is a free and open source project, currently being […]
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Movie-Plot Threat Contest
Luca @ June 12, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Bruce Schneier started his annual Movie-Plot Threat Contest to create fear. The deadline was may 1st.
Here you can read the winners of editions 2006 and and go to read the text of the winner of 2007.
2006 winner: Tom Grant
Mission: Terrorize Americans. Neutralize American economy, make America feel completely vulnerable, and all Americans unsafe.
Scene 1: A […]
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After The Net
Luca @ May 10, 2008 # No Comment Yet
‘After The Net’
Observatori: 9th Festival Internacional de Investigación Artística de
Valencia
6 – 29 June 2008, Valencia, Spain.
Deadline for submission >> 18 May 2008
Announcement of selected works >> 20 May 2008
Submission of works >> http://open.kurator.org/
openKURATOR is seeking existing online projects that address the theme of the exhibition ‘After The Net’, dealing with issues of un/openness, in/security, un/stability […]
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Space Junk
Luca @ April 25, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The ESA Space Debris Accumulation represents the junk putted in the space from 1957 through 2000. According to ESA’s resident space debris expert, Walter Flury, the 10,000 pieces of space litter catalogued at the end of 2003 break into the following categories:
* 41% — miscellaneous fragments
* 22% […]
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Obama, Osama — humm, are they brothers?????
Luca @ April 24, 2008 # No Comment Yet
A pastor from North Carolina posted a ilarious phrase in front of the Jonesville Church of God. Pastor Roger Byrd said he just wanted to make people think…
He wrote: “Obama, Osama — humm, are they brothers” in front of the Jonesville Church of God.
The problem is that as i’m posting it the rumours of the […]
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The Influencers
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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