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      16 Nov 2007

      Flashy starchitects

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      txt ex: Skyscrapers won't turn Croydon into Barcelona
      It's one of the biggest questions of the age: does spending a lot on flashy buildings by international "starchitects" actually deliver regeneration? It delivers something: nice, RIBA award-winning buildings. Maybe a couple of weeks of athletics. Occasionally, a stupendous folly. And a lot of deja vu. [...]
      [...] how much money do you really need to spend on architecture to regenerate an area's fortunes? Isn't it time we started seeing regeneration as a bottom-up, people-focused process and not a top-down way of spending millions on funky buildings?
      img ex: flickr - pmorgan set "favs"
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      14 Nov 2007

      Too Much Information? Ignore It

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      txt from: The New York Times - By ALEX WILLIAMS
      “Our lives are just getting busier, the world is starting to throw more stuff at us,” he said. “Five years ago it was still pretty rare to have relatives sending you IMs. No one had Flickr feeds or Twitter. YouTube, Facebook and MySpace didn’t exist.”
      img from: flickr - Ray Fenwick: Defense Mechanism
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      14 Nov 2007

      I want them to buy my art, do I?

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      txt from: Austrian Cultural Forum London - Visual Arts Platform - Nikola Hansalik: I want them to buy my art, do I …
      "Seven telephones line the wall of an empty room, lit only by red neon lights. When lifted, the same voice speaks from each receiver and describes the future of Austrian artist Nikola Hansalik. In 2006 Hansalik travelled to New York, where the myth of success lines every street. Exploring the motivating forces behind the ever expanding art market, and questioning the mechanisms which attribute capital value to masterpieces, Hansalik set out to challenge her own future success as an artist. Over the course of a week, she asked a series of Manhattan fortune tellers to predict her future. The seven forecasts she collected, now heard through the seven receivers on the wall in her voice, seem at times uncannily identical, and at others, expectedly different. In asking for multiple predictions and presenting these in the same neon light so synonymous with New York, Hansalik removes the aura and veracity of a single prognosis, and reduces the intimate act of fortune telling into a banal cliche. ‘I want them to buy my art, do I…’ becomes an ironic self portrait, presenting personal details of an unconfirmed future."
      img from: www.artrabbit.com
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      12 Nov 2007

      The Remix age 2

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      8 Nov 2007

      The medium is the message from our sponsor

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      Facebook announced its new social advertising plans. text from: Rough type -The social graft
      Infect me. I'm yours. Facebook, which distinguished itself by being the anti-MySpace, is now determined to out-MySpace MySpace. It's a nifty system: First you get your users to entrust their personal data to you, and then you not only sell that data to advertisers but you get the users to be the vector for the ads. And what do the users get in return? An animated Sprite Sips character to interact with.
      image from: Linzie Hunter on Flickr
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      7 Nov 2007

      Remix age

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      Twenty minutes to understand problems and opportunities of the digital new age. from: TED Talks - Larry Lessig: How creativity is being strangled by the law
      Larry Lessig gets TEDsters to their feet, whooping and whistling, following this elegant presentation of “three stories and an argument.” The Net’s most adored lawyer brings together John Philip Sousa, celestial copyrights, and the “ASCAP cartel” to build a case for creative freedom. He pins down the key shortcomings of our dusty, pre-digital intellectual property laws, and reveals how bad laws beget bad code. Then, in an homage to cutting-edge artistry, he throws in some of the most hilarious remixes you’ve ever seen.
      [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yp7Gfvbn_Xo]
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      2 Nov 2007

      Illustrate me the art of wisdom, please

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      via: www.personism.com And if you love illustration: Linzie Hunter's Flickr sets Linzie Hunter: Don’t Put Off Your Happy Life
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      31 Oct 2007

      You all take part, they profit.

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      from: www.futuresonic.com
      Digital culture burns bright with a vision of being not in isolation but in groups, placing the relations between people first. Beyond the hype lies ever greater isolation and conformity. The Futuresonic 2008 theme is The Social - Social Networking Unplugged. Join us as we go in search of the social. Web 2.0... I take part you take part he takes part we take part you all take part they profit. (Slogan from Paris '68, remixed)
      Futuresonic 2008 - "Social Networking Unplugged" Urban Festival of Art, Music & Ideas 1-4 May 2008, Manchester, UK
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      30 Oct 2007

      The World Wide Warhol Economy

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      from: Princeton University Press: intro to The Warhol Economy: How Fashion, Art, and Music Drive New York City - by Elizabeth Currid
      In The Warhol Economy, Elizabeth Currid argues that creative industries like fashion, art, and music drive the economy of New York as much as--if not more than--finance, real estate, and law. And these creative industries are fueled by the social life that whirls around the clubs, galleries, music venues, and fashion shows where creative people meet, network, exchange ideas, pass judgments, and set the trends that shape popular culture.
      from: Hu Jintao's keynote speech
      "Culture has become a more and more important source of national cohesion and creativity and a factor of growing significance in the competition in overall national strength," "...to vigorously develop the cultural industry, launch major projects to lead the industry as a whole, speed up the development of cultural industry bases and clusters of cultural industries with regional features, nurture key enterprises and strategic investors, create a thriving cultural market and enhance the industry's international competitiveness"
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      26 Oct 2007

      ArtFutura 2008

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      ArtFutura 2007 - The Next Web - 25-28 October
      Barcelona Alicante Cádiz Granada Madrid Murcia Palma de Mallorca San Sebastián Valladolid Vigo Vitoria Zaragoza The eighteenth edition of the festival of Digital Culture and Creativity that has become a point of reference in Spain will take place in more than eleven cities from the 25 to the 28 October with an extensive program that will explore the most important projects and ideas that have arisen on the international panorama of new media, interactive design, videogames and digital animation over the last 12 months.
      The 2.0 revolutions that have taken place over the last two years have completely changed the face of the Web. They have transformed it into a space of social participation and collective cooperation that the first theorists of cyber culture of the early 90s would never have imagined. However, along with the boom of participative social networks on the web, some of the original utopias that understood Internet as an opportunity to build a parallel and autonomous world with its own rules have also regained strength. Among those who are starting to form the rules of a Web 3.0 and those who continue to defend a net understood as a large forum for the social debate of our time, we are starting to see the beginnings of a next web.
      Me gusta la Espana! foto: Artfutura
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