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This video, made with agit-pop.com with music by DJ Spooky, helped launch the campaign against the so-called Clash of Civilizations–starting with a call for real Middle East peace talks now. Take action now at www.avaaz.org, the web platform for the suppport of the protest.

Where it once was dark, there was light. And that was considered progress. Since the discovery of fire, we have embraced the presence of light during the night. But when Rome held its first Notte Bianca in 2003, few could have imagined that, five editions later a collective electric incandescent party is in, at least for one night a year.

As “White” sunlight is not really white infact– and Roman white night it is a mixture of many different colors that appears white to our brains after being processed by our eyes. Let eyes and ears mix the colors: Many gadgets make lights, not art.

Circo Massimo

“Maximum silence” was an installation of lights and colours between history and the future created by Giancarlo Neri and produced with the support from ENEL. 10.000 luminous globes, were placed directly on the ground, slowly changing colours and fading in the setting of the Circus Maximus.

Ara pacis

Staged at Ara Pacis Museum, by Patrick Kinmonth and Antonio Monfreda, This big retrospective Valentino a Roma: 45 Years of Style showcases Valentino’s superb creations from the past 45 years.

Fashion envisioned as a roman Goddess.

MACRO joined the Notte with the project entitled History’s visionary aspects of Israeli Michael Rovner: A video screening of human figures on the walls of the Ara Pacis Museum as a Historical dialogue.

Palazzo delle esposizioni

The Palazzo delle Esposizioni has celebrated its reopening with a multimedia event. Within its monumental spaces many interactive experiences, music and performances created by the best representatives of the new generation of Italian and international artists such as Metamkine, Philipp Geist, Claudio Sinatti, N!03, and PIPS:lab and a preview of the next edition of LPM . .

At Via del Corso, Casa di Goethe

Goethe’s Data for a Theory of Color provides a general exposition of how colour is perceived in a variety of circumstances.Since then, science has come to understand the distinction between the optical spectrum.

Pincio

Villa Borghese

Outside the Bilotti Orangery The High Cardinal, a work in bronze by Giacomo Manzù. Inside : first solo show of Bernard Roig Light never lies. A reflection on the condition of modern man and its isolation.

Via Veneto

Bioparco

No lights at the Zoo. (Most of) The animals were sleeping.

Blank: Black and White Night

“In his conversations with Osvaldo Ferrari, Jorge Luis Borgès speaks of a chiaroscuro in etymology: if the words black and blanco are so closely linked, it is because originally black did not mean the colour black, but rather the absence of colour. So, in the English language what happened was that the absence of colour led the word black towards the meaning of shadows, of blackness. While in the Romance languages the same word has always been projected towards the light, towards, lightness, generating the words in Italian, in French and in Portuguese”.

Prorogated until the 16th of september Notte nera the exhibition of french artist Thierry Mouillé at Villa Medici. A spatialisation of Foucault Power/Knowledge/Discourse. Visibility is a trap.

Wiki City POST

Rome’s Notte Bianca is all about the city, the people and the events. How are the people moving within their city in response to this exceptional pulse of activities and events happening? Below a project that has been projected live on screen during the night of September 8th in Rome.
The public screening of WikiCity Rome cycled through four different screen modalities. The post-Notte Bianca online version lets you recall the dynamic of that night in fast forward mode which you can pause at any point.

Cloning is the process of creating a “copy” of an “original” that is genetically identical to another living organism by some kind of design. The term clone is derived from κλων, the Greek word for “twig”.

Cloning an organism broadly means to create a new organism with the “same” genetic information as a cell from an existing one. The modern cloning techniques involving nuclear transfers have been successfully performed on several species.

The first animal clone was a frog cloned by Thomas J. King and Robert W. Briggs in 1952. For a complete list see: List of animals that have been cloned.
However, the success rate has been very low: Dolly the first mammal to have been successfully cloned from an adult cell, was born after more then 200 failed attempts.

Dolly the sheep was originally code-named 6LL3 . She was cloned at the Roslin Institute in Scotland and lived there until her death in 2003 when she was 6. The technique that was made famous by her birth is somatic cell nuclear transfer, in which a non-reproductive cell containing a nucleus is placed in a de-nucleated ovum where it develops into a fetus. Even if she was successfully cloned she had arthritis and sign of premature aging. Or a matter of enviromental factor?

Human cloning is the creation of a genetically identical copy of an existing, or previously existing human or growing cloned tissue from that individual. The term is generally used to refer to artificial human cloning because human clones can occurs in the form of twins during the natural process of reproduction.

Scientists want to create hybrid embryos by merging human cells with animal eggs in a bid to extract stem cells. Sharing the cells . British Regulators have agreed in principle to allow human-animal embryos to be created and used for research. The resulting “cytoplastic hybrid” embryo, or “cybrid” would be 99.9 percent human and 0.1 percent animal.

There are only around a dozen lines of cells cultivated from human embryos available to researchers in the world and the creation of a UK Bank for the cells will make access in Europe much easier. In Australia embryos are allowed to be created for research, but human-animal hybrids banned as in US where are allowed only research involving pre-existing embryos – left over from fertility treatment. Italy and Germany only allow the use of pre-existing embryos. Other countries including Austria, Norway and Tunisia do not allow embryo research at all.

Cremaster 5, From “The Cremaster Cycle” by artist Matthew Barney featuring Ursula Andress
Music by Jonathan Bepler.

However, if this new ontology of reprotechnology, merging and factor environment developed to meet the emerging belief and therefore therapeutic needs, we should also continuing to promoting a true dialogue among civilizations, laws and religions as a political instrument to deal with birth control.

In 2003 the Celera Consortium, a governement financed isntitution, announced it had completed the human genome, but itcomprised just half the DNA contained in a normal cell, and the DNA used in the project came from a group of people from different racial and ethnic backgrounds.

But today a paper presented by the research team of Dr. Venter, is announcing that it has decoded a new version of the human genome, that some experts believe may be better than the consortium’s.
This genome is better because it consists of the DNA in both sets of chromosomes, one from each parent, and the genome the team has decoded belongs to just one person: Dr. Venter.

The most important thing is that this new Genome makes clear that the variation in the genetic programming carried by an individual is much greater than expected: in at least 44 percent of Dr. Venter’s genes, the copies inherited from his mother differ from those inherited from his father.

via NYTimes

via Repubblica.it

In Sarajevo two armed men entered a bank, and as they’re disguised as Muslim women in burqas they stole $40,000, as declaed by Bosnian police said on Tuesday.
It was a Union bank branch in the capital and they entered wearing head-to-toe black dresses and veils typical of women adhering to the orthodox Islamic code, but hidden there’re guns…
“Everything happened in a moment. Two persons in black niqabs (burqas) came into the bank. I thought they were ladies,” the Sarajevo daily Oslobodjenje quoted bank customer Mehmedalija Komarac as saying.

Source Reuters

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A temple (from the Latin word templum) is a structure reserved for religious or spiritual activities, such as prayer and sacrifice, or analogous rites. A ‘’templum’’ constituted a sacred precinct as defined by a priest. It has the same root as the word “ template,’’ a plan in preparation of the building that was marked out on the ground by the augur, but also to a sacred structure since it was believed that the gods resided in houses.[1]
Templum is also the title of Jimmie Durham Installation at Fondazione Volume! in Rome, until the 12th july 2007.

Few raw elements constitute an imagery diagram and – at the same time – mark the enviroment for a contemporary sacrifice. An ancient practise to make sacred our living time. You start from the first reading room where you could seat in silence or read a newspaper. A long wood table with some daily rests and a suitcase in between the gallery’ spaces leads you to a signed tree marked “templum”. Other signes indicates the presence of the living bodies which are coming together in a right now sacrifice. Mirth, Laurus nobilis leaves, marble and merry bones. Sacred rubbish.

Sacrificio is identical with the English offering (Latin offerre) and the German Opfer; the latter is derived, not from offerre, but from operari (Old High German opfâron; Middle High German opperu, opparôn), and thus means to offer sacrifice“.
Durham offers leaves, antlers and several total bins filled with things or simply water where to contemplate inside us. A mirror of present time. And suddendly everything becomes petrol.

The world is polluted with Total time . Last room is the innerer and hidden space. A wood table at the center of the white room and a wood house construction on top. A (double) closed space with no windows. The inhabitat is hidden inside the visual space. The inhabitant is infact yourself. And the templum is the oblation of your sight. (IV 2007)

Jimmie Durham, a Wolf Clan Cherokee, was born in Arkansas. He received a B.F.A. from the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Geneva, Switzerland in 1973. He was the founder member and executive director of the International Indian Treaty Council.