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      24 Aug 2007

      Everything is art. Two tickets please.

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      The question is old. Just a matter of tags, names, places? Conventions? Value$? What if in an amusement park you call it installation instead of attraction? Is it what?.. Have a run, just for fun (/art?).
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      10 Aug 2007

      Aniwaniwa? Wakahuia! Venice, as usual.

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      Venice is an unbelievable mix of tourism, poverty, stink, magic, art, light (and Marghera is always over there). Today I was walking through Dorsoduro, where there was few people, even less tourists. I ended at Punta della Salute, where there were the Salt depots and now is the New Zealand video installation named Aniwaniwa, a Biennale of Art collateral event (Magazzini del Sale - Dorsoduro 259 - Venezia - Orario: 10-18 - Ingress libero). Dark. Five suspended carved vessels ‘wakahuia’, each 2.5 metres wide. Mattresses laid out on the floor. Refreshing and relaxing atmosphere(compared to outside great heat). Ah, but to sleep, to dream... no: better. To watch. To feel. To think: "ANIWANIWA explores the idea of submersion as a metaphor for cultural loss and tells the story of Horahora, a village on the Waikato River where Brett Graham's father was born, which was flooded to create a new dam at Lake Karapiro. While it tells a very specific and local story, its references are international both in terms of environmental issues, with rising sea levels and global warming, and concerns about cultural loss in an era of globalization. It is its ability to suggest these broader references and to operate at both the global and local level that gives the work its power." - Bartley and Company Art - Exhibitions 2006: Aniwaniwa "Exploring the idea of submersion as a metaphor for cultural loss, it examines themes highly pertinent to both the slowly sinking Italian city of Venice and atolls in the Pacific endangered by global warming and environmental change." - NZ exhibition opens at Venice Biennale on 8 June Shaka, Venice! ANIWANIWA in Venice
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      8 Aug 2007

      Techne: Art is power

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      "Technology has been a purpose in itself for too long. Technology should serve mankind, and not the other way around." "Did you know that our word for technology comes from Old Greek and originally meant “art”? No? It gets even better: Western civilization is founded on the achievements of a couple of guys 400 before Christ. 50,000 people (population of Athens at the time) defined what we consider as “obvious” or “logic”. These beautiful words are from: New Athens or What Internet workers can learn from the old Greeks.
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      3 Aug 2007

      Think with the Numbers - Feel with the Visitors. Art in the present tense

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      The 52nd Biennale di Venezia International Art Exhibition "Think with the Senses - Feel with the Mind" - Art in the present tense, directed by Robert Storr, is open in the Giardini and Arsenale main exhibition venues. Since the opening on June 10, the 52nd International Art Exhibition has been the most visited of all currently open art exhibitions in Italy (11,170 visitors last week) 17,93% more than 2005 edition. (Abstract from the Biennale site introduction: not the title, if you mind..)
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      16 Jul 2007

      Internet, but after

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      It was 1994, and it was the beginning of internet as we know, for now . It was an advert. It was a hope. It is still a hope. “Just as water, gas, and electricity are brought into our houses from far off to satisfy our needs in response to a minimal effort, so we shall be supplied with visual or auditory images, which will appear and disappear at a simple movement of the hand, hardly more than a sign.” Paul Valéry, Pièces sur L’Art, 1931 Le Conquete de l’ubiquite [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1l6aBgX5UY]
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      15 Jun 2007

      Avatar of Me

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      Researches about happiness tell us that Westerns are unhappy because money, competition and technology are increasing, but relations are becoming poorer. What about to conect our Avatars? Something is wrong, John.. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xj8ZadKgdC0]
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      10 May 2007

      than are dreamt of in your Internet, Horatio.

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      And therefore as a stranger give it welcome. There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. But come; Here, as before, never, so help you mercy, How strange or odd soe'er I bear myself, As I perchance hereafter shall think meet To put an antic disposition on, That you, at such times seeing me, never shall, With arms encumber'd thus, or this headshake, Or by pronouncing of some doubtful phrase, As 'Well, well, we know,' or 'We could, an if we would,' Or 'If we list to speak,' or 'There be, an if they might,' Or such ambiguous giving out, to note That you know aught of me: this not to do, So grace and mercy at your most need help you, Swear. W. Shakespeare, Hamlet - Act I Scene V
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      2 May 2007

      Any time, any place (goodbye Mr. Privacy)

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      "Goodbye Privacy" is the theme of this year’s Ars Electronica, the festival extraordinaire of art, technology and society in Linz, Austria. September 5–11, 2007, the focus will be on these late-breaking phenomena of a new culture of everyday life being played out between angst-inducing scenarios of seamless surveillance and the zest we bring to staging our public personas via digital media. Ars Electronica Festival 2007 "At any time, at any place, we’re capable of switching into telematic action mode, of reaching anyone and being accessible by all. With the aid of our avatars, blogs and tags, we assume digital form and adopt more or less imaginative second identities. Emerging at a rapid clip are completely new types of the public sphere featuring new rules of play and (sometimes even) new hierarchies. But it’s not merely technology, information and communication that have become omnipresent. To a much greater extent, it’s we ourselves: traceable at all times and anywhere via our cellphone’s digital signature that makes it possible to pinpoint our location to within a few meters; classifiable via the detailed and comprehensive personality profiles that we unwittingly leave behind as the traces of all our outings in digital domains. What’s occurring in the wake of these developments is a far-reaching repositioning and reevaluation of the political, cultural and economic meaning of the public and private spheres."
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      22 Apr 2007

      Right here, right now

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      It has been a matter of thinking for me in these days the difference between reality where the principles are right here, right now, right me, and you. And the internet: doesn't matter where, doesn't matter when, I don't care who really are you . [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP59tQf_njc]
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      21 Apr 2007

      Happy Earth Days

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      "May there only be peaceful and cheerful Earth Days to come for our beautiful Spaceship Earth as it continues to spin and circle in frigid space with its warm and fragile cargo of animate life." - United Nations Secretary-General U Thant March 21, 1971 (Wikipedia - Earth Day)
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