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been to a presentation of danish artist katya sander.she is in bucharest doing a project about news anchors.the project is going to be showed at ICCA in may.
her project ''Monument for image production and image consumption'' that uses the newspaper as medium reminded me of another artist that i like that also works with newspapers.








different artists, different discourses, same medium.

"the mexican artist erick beltran (1974) has a notable fascination with language – with the graphic applications of language, and also with the economic and political motives that drive the producers and distributors of printed matter."

create some damage

collaborative damage that starts online and ends on the wall.

and related to creative damage here's an article about cultural jamming:

101 Tricks to Play with the Mainstream:
Culture Jamming as Subversive Recreation
By Tom Liacas

''Are you:
Creative?
Got time on your hands?
Disenchanted with consumer culture?
Looking for a fun way to bite the hand that feeds you?
Try culture jamming, a favoured new pastime of budding revolutionaries everywhere! Stop bitching about your culture and make it your playground, make its icons your palette. Turn all your nasty frustration into public art! You’ll be glad you did!''

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e-paper braille from Tokyo University
''The prototype, displays 24 letters qhich can be refreshed with new text in approximately one second making reading easy for visual handicapped persons. A plastic sheet or card displays Braille lettering by creating arrays of bumps on its rubber-like surface.''




















and micromedia paper from lunar design
















more future communication devices here.

games

creator of sims Will Wright explains how games are unleashing the human imagination and japanese use of games.
makes me think at ender's game.

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studying the advantages gained by barefooted african athletes here it is:
free

like it***emosive and wearable interfaces

emosive (formerly e:sense) is a new service for mobile devices which allows capturing, storing and sharing of fleeting emotional experiences.










like this one even more for it reminds me of an octopus.
''Hug Shirt is a shirt that allows people to exchange the physical sensation of a hug over distance. Embedded in the shirt there are sensors that feel the strength of the touch, the skin warmth and the heartbeat rate of the sender and actuators that recreate the sensation of touch, warmth and emotion of the hug to the shirt of the distant loved one.''










and KineticDress
''Depending on the amount and speed of the wearer's movement the electroluminescent embroidery changes pattern, displaying the wearer's mood to the audience and creating a magic halo around her.''











via wemakemoneynotart and nastypixel

the language connection

''This is an excerpt from an installment of The Yomiuri Shimbun's Educational Renaissance series. This part of the series, continued from last week, focuses on helping children develop communication skills.
OSAKA--Juku cram schools are basically for helping students catch up with school studies or pass entrance examinations. However, one juku chain has gone further by introducing a course to help its students improve their thinking skills through dialogue-based classes.
The course aims at helping children develop "full-scale" thinking skills that enable them to come up with flexible ideas.''
more here

square & cycler

artists+architects

in Paris artists build architecture:
''A thematic exhibition,''Archipeinture'' intends to explore the different ways in which urban architecture and contemporary art tend to influence one another, including: the use of painting as an architectural form in public or private spaces; the effect of recent developments on the representation of the modern metropolis; the links between architecture and other mental or psychological spaces…''

and on the other part some architects build for art.

Koolhas Casa da Musica in Porto
''The ideal acoustic form for a concert hall is a shoebox. And we have seen a lot of architects trying to make shoeboxes interesting, or to design interesting shoeboxes. We got rid of the shoe box.''

Herzog & de Meuron Tate London
''Designed by Pritzker Prize Laureates Herzog & de Meuron, the Tate Modern is one of the world's most celebrated examples of adaptive reuse.''

Herzog & de Meuron de Young Museum San Francisco
Frank Lloyd Wright Guggenheim Museum in New York
Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao

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art on the edge in san jose.
the festival is called zeroOne.
like these projects.

vanishing point
"history is made less by those who make it then by those who tell it"

acclairism
"acclair is a security and neuromarketing service that points to a new form of discrimination: "

desire management
"desire Management is a collection of five short films about the use of objects as vehicles for dissident behaviour. In the film, the domestic space is defined as the last private frontier, a place where bespoke appliances provide unorthodox experiences for alienated people"

finnish project loca
"A person walking through the city centre hears a beep on their phone and glances at the screen. Instead of an SMS alert they read a message:
''We are currently experiencing difficulties monitoring your position: please wave your network device in the air."

prophecy
Zhong Chen (Prophecy) is one component of the site specific Tobacco Project.

omagiu

website launched.
first made in romania, contemporary, remix, urban, culture, magazine, OMAGIU website announces big mega launch party beginning of may.
First issue FAKE second TOURRISM third one is FASHION aka THE BIZAROFONIC SCHISTOID FASHION MEME .

H5N1?

april-march C&J billboard and here you have an incomplete archive of their billboards untill now
















received by mail from irina

lofts

Warhol's Factory is going to convert it into a 22-story luxury loft condo with 50 units.

and Herzog and de Meuron's Housing:
"The other notable design element here is the cast aluminum gate at street level with its graffiti-inspired form. The gate, measuring 22 feet high by 140 feet long, twists and turns like the line drawn by a thick magic-marker tagging a subway door circa 1978."












via 3mint

great minds think the same

found out about rem's logo for the 2006 austrian presidency of the council of the EU.
reminded me of cristi puiu's cowstitution.









via anarchitecture

blondes rule the world

museum of nature

http://ilkka.halso.net/

love art sex mental illness

recently read national geographic's love issue where at some point they say that when in love we behave like mental disturbed individuals.
found this article about the relation between mental illness art and sex.
and here it is this article about love and the brain activity.
makes me think of carsten holler:
"Carsten Holler holds a doctorate in biology, and he uses his training as a scientist in his work as an artist, concentrating particularly on the nature of human relationships. Viewer participation is the key to all of Holler's sculptures, but it is less an end in itself than a vehicle to informally test the artist's theories concerning human perception and physiological reactions. Equal parts scientific experiment and sensual encounter, Holler's works are most frequently devoted to his singular obsession-chemically analyzing the nature of human emotions. Solandra Greenhouse, a work created for this exhibition, is a garden filled the with the Solandra maxima vine, a plant that exudes pheromones capable of inducing amorous feelings. Coupled with strobe lighting intended to create a slight disorientation in the visitor, the experience of the Solandra Greenhouse is meant to recapitulate the physical effects of falling in love."

sinagogue***gas chamber aka hello my name is santiago sierra

"An artist invited Germans to come and be symbolically gased with car exhaust fumes in a former synagogue. Jewish leaders and media commentators say he is belittling the Holocaust and insulting its victims. But hundreds of people have lined up for the experience."









text and pics via spiegel

heaven is boring

roblogfest

friday night.tralala.blogawards.no red carpet.pics here.
and here.
really liked aglomerari spontane's action
{ they won the best niche blog by cheating the contest and made this public in order to show that the contest could be tricked }
and for those who thought that their action was stupid, there's a story for you:

WELCOME TO FREE MANIFESTA
"Free Manifesta was a project for Manifesta 4, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art held in Frankfurt am Main, Germany from May 25 to August 24, 2002. A place in Manifesta 4 was purchased for $15,099 in an ebay auction by New York artist Sal Randolph, and any artist who wished was invited to exhibit their work as part of Free Manifesta. Over 225 artists & groups participated in free public art projects of all kinds which took place around Frankfurt am Main as well as through the broadcast airwaves, telephone and mail systems and on the internet. Though FREE MANIFESTA officially ended with the close of Manifesta 4 on August 25, 2002, this site remains as a catalog of the show and as an access point for artists websites and contact information. "

best rejected

advertising

because details matter

and because today it's the 8th of march, my bag and my aiko and killer bunny screensaver would like to wish good wishes for all.










and 2 tracks to make picture clear
beautifull otherness and magic love

because details matter

felipov is in one of ciubi's strips.well it's an avantpremiere so since today i'm overspoiled.here it is.

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flower district RIP and other city mutations

blondes have more fun.

read this article about blondes. apparently we are on extinction.
should i ask if is it natural selection or just say fuck darwin let's dance?

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metro fashion

grafic published helsinki
felipov publishes tokyo

square cat.

empty revolution

saw this new manifesto from pulafashion.
of course there are key issues that the manifesto brings up but i'd rather not comment on it.
there are some questions though and when it comes to beauty issues there are always going to be.are you saying that matei is ugly? is ugly naspa? is he a hero because he is ugly? is he a hero because he is disabled? are we all ugly? do we need another hero? what is the cause, the point again for this revolution of yours?
some advice though: if you're going to make an infallible and strong manifesto against empty advertising and empty brands get a proper art director.





















and some comments via feeder

tags brands

been tagged by stef,
4 favorite ads i like 4 ads I don't like
don't have favorite ads.
4 favorite brands (that I use)









4 favorite brands (that I wish for)
i wish you all more ninja tune.
4 agencies (of any type) where I'd like to work
could i pass? of course i can.
4 favorite marketing books
don't have favorite marketing books.
4 communication & marketing websites that I visit frequently.
alternativemarketing.
archinect.
wemakemoneynotart.
wooster.
and many more.

resistance

pills reactions resistance and other stories












via wemakemoneynotart

found

urban frame

read this article about dubai, population only 1 milion.
"Fantasy embraces all forms of dreaming. In architecture, it implies a composed, projected environment that is surprising to the eye—a deliberate exercise that tests reality and triggers possibilities for the future. In a sense, all architecture is fantasy. Architectural design is always speculative, since it attempts to specify the future."









and connected with this aerial view of mexico city, third largest megacity, 22 milion people.