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      9 May 2008

      Berlin ist arm aber sexy

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      via: stylesreportberlin.com txt: Urban contemporary - INTOXICATED DEMONS GALLERY
      Is “urban contemporary art” just another modern term for selling products to the suburban youth? Does it explain the different way of living in the city instead of growing up in the country? Nevertheless, we’re not an encyclopedia spending time on scientific explanations. We would like to show you art in a different way. Urban Contemporary is a term for art that is also recognized as “Street Art” or “Urban Art”, Graffiti and Skateboard culture as its roots. After years in the “underground” this art movement has found his way into the art scene through the addition of more commercial elements like fine illustration, comic and graphic design. Some of the artists are already well known, like for example Shepard Fairey, Barry McGee, Doze Green, Banksy and others. Let’s come to a point and say: Urban art is a creative melting pot of several different techniques whether they are so called “classic painting” (oil or acrylic) or made with spraycans, markers, stencils, stickers, analog or digital. It reflects our suburban living and the way we think about it. In the end, it’s important so say: There is not really a frontier between so called “fine art” and so called “urban art”. The space between both is liquid. It depends on you - it’s mostly the way you look at it and the way YOU feel it!
      video: Berlin's Street Art 2008 - thankyouradio on youtube.com [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs9MFG1OqH0]
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      5 May 2008

      Body and soul: the women art

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      links: Vanessa Beecroft Marina Abramovic Maureen Fleming video: Vanessa Beecroft - "VB55" (1 Of 2) - see also "VB55" (2 Of 2) [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wut1PDf74Dc] video: Marina Abramovic [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pno1gCrbeVk] video: Maureen Fleming - Mother and Child excerpt [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1umh8mBLCA]
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      25 Apr 2008

      Where is art?

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      txt: Art 38 Basel - Public Art Projects - on www.kopenhagen.dk
      On Messeplatz in front of the Art Basel fair, visitor’s can witness nine public art projects. The nine works are each very different and show a wide range of artistic techniques, interests and fabrics. From Wim Delvoye’s amazing and monumental reconstruction of a big trailer with a truck, to Tadashi Kawamata’s Tree Hut – a wood hut runned up in one of the existing flagpoles, to Paul McCarthy’s perverse Santa with Butt Plug, Mike Nelson’s exotic old bus, Elmgreen & Dragset’s flashy, melting postcard-selling kiosk, and the delicate 11-meter-high Baton by Not Vital, to the poetic and beautiful round, polished steel mirror of the sky by Anish Kapoor, the LSD-influenced work of Thomas Zipp, and finally the 1:1 funny house build by Vedavamazzei. Enjoy the pictures....
      img: crack - moufle on flickr.com
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      20 Apr 2008

      Open your network mind

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      txt: TED - Yochai Benkler: Legal expert
      Yochai Benkler has been called "the leading intellectual of the information age." He proposes that volunteer-based projects such as Wikipedia and Linux are the next stage of human organization and economic production. Why you should listen to him: Larry Lessig calls law professor Yochai Benkler "the leading intellectual of the information age." He studies the commons -- including such shareable spaces as the radio spectrum, as well as our shared bodies of knowledge and how we access and change them. His most recent writings (such as his 2006 book The Wealth of Networks) discuss the effects of net-based information production on our lives and minds and laws. He has gained admirers far beyond the academy, so much so that when he released his book online with a Creative Commons license, it was mixed and remixed online by fans. (Texts can be found at benkler.org; and check out this web-based seminar on The Wealth of Networks.) He was awarded EFF's Pioneer Award in 2007. He's the Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard, and faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society (home to many of TED's favorite people).
      video: Yochai Benkler: Open-source economics
      Law professor Yochai Benkler explains how collaborative projects like Wikipedia and Linux represent the next stage of human organization. By disrupting traditional economic production, copyright law and established competition, they're paving the way for a new set of economic laws, where empowered individuals are put on a level playing field with industry giants.
      img: Yochai Benkler - Joi on flickr.com
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      19 Apr 2008

      Continuos partial attention (AKA art fair)

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      link: VernissageTV takes you to opening receptions of exhibitions and events and provides insight into the social side of the world of contemporary art, design, and architecture and interviews its protagonists. VernissageTV: The window to the art world. txt: Continuous Partial Attention - Linda Stone
      Continuous partial attention describes how many of us use our attention today. It is different from multi-tasking. The two are differentiated by the impulse that motivates them. When we multi-task, we are motivated by a desire to be more productive and more efficient. We're often doing things that are automatic, that require very little cognitive processing. We give the same priority to much of what we do when we multi-task - we file and copy papers, talk on the phone, eat lunch -- we get as many things done at one time as we possibly can in order to make more time for ourselves and in order to be more efficient and more productive. To pay continuous partial attention is to pay partial attention - CONTINUOUSLY. It is motivated by a desire to be a LIVE node on the network. Another way of saying this is that we want to connect and be connected. We want to effectively scan for opportunity and optimize for the best opportunities, activities, and contacts, in any given moment. To be busy, to be connected, is to be alive, to be recognized, and to matter. We pay continuous partial attention in an effort NOT TO MISS ANYTHING. It is an always-on, anywhere, anytime, any place behavior that involves an artificial sense of constant crisis. We are always in high alert when we pay continuous partial attention. This artificial sense of constant crisis is more typical of continuous partial attention than it is of multi-tasking.
      video: Art Cologne 08 part 2 - VernissageTV on blip.tv [blip.tv ?posts_id=843143&dest=-1]
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      18 Apr 2008

      Miuccia Prada, The Lady

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      txt: Il museo veste Prada - Espresso on line oddtag: Read all the article! [it]
      Ms. Prada, have you bet on the future of Milan? I'll be honest: it was my husband who insisted about. I have thought a lot to New York and London, and Venice, because of synergies with the Biennale. In the end we decided this way. We discussed a lot with Koolhaas. In fifteen years, we've made an important network of international relations, and we need a place where physically exhibit the works: both of the Prada Foundation and Prada. Even though I do not like at all to define myself as a collector. Why? For me art is a process of knowledge. Studying, learning, working with the artists. Their works have been designed especially for the Foundation. From the first experience, Sixties-Seventies sculpture, Michael Heizer, Mark Di Suvero, Walter De Maria, along with Germano Celant, our artistic director, we have greatly opened ourselves to other languages, video, photography, architecture. For me art is a tool for learning about the world. Real knowledge, politics. -------------------- Signora Prada, avete scommesso anche voi sul futuro di Milano. Sarò sincera: è mio marito che ha insistito. Io ho pensato a lungo a New York e a Londra, e anche a Venezia per via delle sinergie con la Biennale. Alla fine abbiamo deciso così. Ne abbiamo discusso molto con Koolhaas. In quindici anni abbiamo tessuto una rete di relazioni internazionali importanti, e ci serve un luogo fisico dove esporre le opere: sia della Fondazione sia le nostre. Anche se non amo affatto definirmi una collezionista. Perché? Per me l'arte è un processo di conoscenza. Studiare, imparare, lavorare con gli artisti. Le loro opere sono state pensate apposta per la Fondazione. Dalle prime esperienze, la scultura anni Sessanta-Settanta, Michael Heizer, Mark Di Suvero, Walter De Maria, insieme a Germano Celant, il nostro direttore artistico, ci siamo enormemente allargati ad altri linguaggi, video, fotografia, architettura. Per me l'arte è uno strumento di conoscenza del mondo. Conoscenza reale, politica.
      img: Prada in Omote Sando - Gavin Stok on flickr.com
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      16 Apr 2008

      Venice from East to West

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      txt: Venice is a dream still, although a bit noisy and full - The Telegraph - Calcutta - India
      Today, with little of the past elegance of Venetian inhabitants and visitors on show and the famous bars and teashops in the Piazza selling overpriced cocktails to profligate tourists, Beaton would not have been impressed by the lycra generation doing Venice even had he appreciated the importance of tourism to keep the city alive and afloat. It is only the hidden shops and restaurants and the markets known to habitués that retain a particular atmosphere of the place, although the tradition of craftsmanship of the city continues in sympathetic and skilled restorations of great works of art; the preservation of ancient skills such as the handloom silk weaving of the Bevilaqua family and the skills of the Murano glass blowers; and a continuance of the love for beauty that carries the visitor from the 12th century, through the High Renaissance, and, to my mind, the overblown frills of mannerism and the baroque, on to the glorious 20th century riches in the Guggenheim Museum. The present-day opening of the Palazzo Grassi and the ongoing development of the Punta della Dogana as exhibition sites for the contemporary collection of the French billionaire, Francois Pinault, can be celebrated as part of the generational artistic life of the city.
      video: Jeff Koons @ Venezia 2/4 - blog.palazzograssi.it Incontri di Palazzo Grassi aspettando Punta della Dogana [dailymotion id=x45099]
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      8 Apr 2008

      Daniel Birnbaum xè el Diretòr

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      txt: Biennale Art 53rd International Art Exhibition (2009) The Board nominates Daniel Birnbaum as Director The Board of Directors of the Fondazione La Biennale di Venezia, chaired by Paolo Baratta, held a meeting on 7th April 2008 in which it nominated Daniel Birnbaum as Director of the Visual Arts Sector, with specific responsibility as curator of the 53rd International Art Exhibition, to be held in 2009.
      My recent exhibitions have all been close collaborations with artists, often individually, sometimes in larger contexts. The Venice Biennale is a new kind of challenge, but the principle remains the same: the artist's vision is at the center. How does one steer clear of the hierarchies dictated by commercial interests and fashion? As the director of an art academy, my interest has long been directed towards another kind of influence and another kind of significance. There are artists who inspire entire generations and these key artists are not always the most visibile in the world of museums and fairs. I would like to explore strings of inspiration that involve several generations and to display the roots as well as the branches that grow into a future not yet defined. The geography of the art world has been expanding rapidly with new centers emerging: China, India, the Middle East... It will be my ambition to create a show that, although articulated into individual zones of intensity, remains one exhibition.
      video: Pirate Rabbit Attacks Biennale in Venice - coniglioviola on youtube.com [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mAzxMDS4oc]
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      3 Apr 2008

      Arts, Culture and Public

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      txt: Arts, Culture and the Public Sphere
      How do cultures relate to the public sphere? To which extent is the shape of the public discourse affected by cultural codes? What are the cultural dimensions of public knowledge? Why and how does culture matter? In contemporary societies the public sphere is constantly shaped and reshaped by media discourses. The public discourses can no more be analyzed at the national levels only because globalization processes are at work. We are witnessing the emergence of multiple global public spheres, which are intersecting to each other, articulating both local and global issues. In this context the role of culture is highly increased. The visibility of cultural codes becomes global. They are used to express power, to mediate conflicts, to negotiate claims of citizenship, to construct minority identities, gender and ethnicity issues, and to inscribe the public knowledge of the past in the national and international arena. The aesthetic dimensions are becoming key issue to articulate power relations. Culture matters and it does it in many new ways.
      Arts, Culture and the Public Sphere Expressive and Instrumental Values In Economic and Sociological Perspectives Venice (Italy) November 4 - 8 2008 A joint Conference organized by: FDA – Faculty of Design and Art – IUAV University, Venice DADI - Department of Art and Industrial Design – IUAV University, Venice EPOCA - Centre of Economics and Advanced Cultural Policy Research – IUAV University, Venice Sociology of Culture RN of the ESA - European Sociological Association Sociology of the Arts RN of the ESA - European Sociological Association video: Part 2 of the video on Chelsea space, London. Detailed info at VernissageTV [blip.tv ?posts_id=248547&dest=-1]
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      2 Apr 2008

      Turbine Street Art Hall

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      txt: Street artists to adorn Tate facade Mark Brown, arts correspondent Wednesday April 2, 2008 The Guardian
      Tate Modern is to get a summer facelift, with a group of the world's most acclaimed street artists being asked to produce work for the building's Thames-side facade, it was announced yesterday. It will be the first commission to use the facade and each artist will have an area of about 15x12 metres for the exhibition, entitled Street Art at Tate Modern. Cedar Lewisohn, the exhibition's curator, said he hoped the work, to be displayed between May and August, would open eyes to the variety of street art. "There is exciting stuff happening around the world and there is more to street art than just the household name or two we know in this country."
      video: Global Cities - Exhibition Design by Pentagram on blip.tv [blip.tv ?posts_id=400661&dest=-1]
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