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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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      30 Apr 2008

      About happiness, do you have any advice?

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      txt: The Smiling Professor - New York Times By CLAUDIA DREIFUS - Published: April 22, 2008 At Harvard, the social psychologist Daniel Gilbert is known as Professor Happiness.
      Q. AS THE AUTHOR OF A BEST SELLER ABOUT HAPPINESS, DO YOU HAVE ANY ADVICE ON HOW PEOPLE CAN ACHIEVE IT? A. I’m not Dr. Phil. We know that the best predictor of human happiness is human relationships and the amount of time that people spend with family and friends. We know that it’s significantly more important than money and somewhat more important than health. That’s what the data shows. The interesting thing is that people will sacrifice social relationships to get other things that won’t make them as happy — money. That’s what I mean when I say people should do “wise shopping” for happiness. Another thing we know from studies is that people tend to take more pleasure in experiences than in things. So if you have “x” amount of dollars to spend on a vacation or a good meal or movies, it will get you more happiness than a durable good or an object. One reason for this is that experiences tend to be shared with other people and objects usually aren’t.
      video: Hahaha - BlackOleg on youtube.com [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5P6UU6m3cqk]
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      26 Apr 2008

      Berlin? Nein: Rovereto ist FuturoPresente

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      txt: FUTURO PRESENTE - Art and new technologies
      Art and creativity in relationship to the new technologies is the theme of the IV edition of Futuro Presente, the festival that transforms Rovereto and Trentino into a privileged stage from which to view the people and realities of special significance for contemporary culture. The last three years have brought us into closer contact with the works of great artist like Merce Cunningham, Philip Glass and Bernardo Bertolucci , all masters at merging within their own very personal area of research, the languages of music, dance, theatre, the visual arts, cinema, architecture and design. This 2008 edition of the Festival will look instead at the links between art and new technologies and will host exceptional artists like William Forsythe, Ryoji Ikeda, Klaus Obermaier and Joshua Davis as well as making incursions into the newest creative forms and the most innovative tendencies in music, cinema and even virtual worlds and interactivity. [...] To complete the Festival there will be meetings and talks with Derrick de Kerckhove, Peppino Ortoleva, Domenica Quaranta, Maria Grazia Mattei, Lelio Camilleri, Bruno Fornara, Matteo Bittanti, Studio Azzurro, Giuseppe Baresi, N!03, Stalker Video, Umberto Fiori, Tommaso Leddi and the projection of particularly significant films.
      link: www.myspace.com/futuropresentefestival video: Gideon Talks: Joshua Davis - on blip.tv [blip.tv ?posts_id=860486&dest=-1]
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      18 Apr 2008

      Express yourself (and ask for rights)

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      txt: Walter Benjamin (1936) - The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction Source: UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television; - Transcribed: by Andy Blunden 1998; proofed and corrected Feb. 2005.
      The growing proletarianization of modern man and the increasing formation of masses are two aspects of the same process. Fascism attempts to organize the newly created proletarian masses without affecting the property structure which the masses strive to eliminate. Fascism sees its salvation in giving these masses not their right, but instead a chance to express themselves. The masses have a right to change property relations; Fascism seeks to give them an expression while preserving property. The logical result of Fascism is the introduction of aesthetics into political life. [...] “Fiat ars – pereat mundus”, says Fascism, and, as Marinetti admits, expects war to supply the artistic gratification of a sense perception that has been changed by technology. This is evidently the consummation of “l’art pour l’art.” Mankind, which in Homer’s time was an object of contemplation for the Olympian gods, now is one for itself. Its self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order. This is the situation of politics which Fascism is rendering aesthetic. Communism responds by politicizing art.
      video: 1 of 10 - ABC Democratic Debate from Philadelphia [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eb6P4JJbe9k]
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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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      4 Apr 2008

      Survive With/Without Selling

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      txt: "Wooster's How To..,." #12 - Blek Le Rat's How to Survive in the Graffiti World Without Selling Your Soul
      First of all: Before starting a career as a graffiti artist you have to make sure to have another income than your art to live for over a long period of time and maybe even for the rest of your life.... This is the best way to keep your work free from any parasites or bad influences from people who dont care about you as an artist but only about their own benefits of YOUR work. [...] Fifthly: The ligths of the city quickly go out!!! and how to switch them on? It is in the cold of the darkness when you are alone and looking for someone and the way out back to the lights of success that your conscience is being cleaned because free of the blinding pollution of success. Your pain will turn into a new creativity. And you should never forget the old law of nature that after a down always comes an up...
      links: Blek le rat site - bleklerat.free.fr video: Blek Le Rat - Original Stencil Pioneer - kingadz on youtube.com Blek le Rat is the inventor of modern stencil art. He began his quest on the streets of Paris In 1981 and many artists (most famously by Banksy) have been influenced by his unique style ever since. Street art has evolved and the year is now 2006. Blek and filmmaker King Adz depart on a road trip through France to witness Blek's influence on street art and the modern media. The two men are friends off-screen, and Adz just lets the camera roll... [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2D1kFS9TY4]
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      28 Mar 2008

      In search of new audiences

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      txt: Biennale Art 52nd International Art Exhibition
      The 52nd Exhibition also features another new initiative emblematic of the spirit with which the Biennale relates to the international art world. During the course of 2006, the Organisational Division of the Biennale di Venezia initiated a forward-looking dialogue with Art 38 Basel, documenta 12, skulptur projekte münster 07 – which, as a result of a coincidence in scheduling which happens only once every ten years, hold their inaugurations in chronological succession in June 2007 – to create a partnership that finally makes it possible to compare their respective organisational methods and to undertake joint promotional actions in areas of the world (for example the Middle East, Asia, Africa, Latin America) in search of new audiences.
      video: POLACUBE - From: veneziadavivere on youtube.com [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vhlEDgLaJk]
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      21 Mar 2008

      To the looking eye art lurks everywhere

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      via: artkrush.com txt: To the trained eye, museum pieces lurk everywhere - International Herald Tribune
      Marc Schiller, co-founder of the Wooster Collective Web site, which exhibits photos of the best street art in the world, knows most people look straight past street art until they start looking for it. "Once you give them a doorway," he said, "they literally go crazy in that they start to see New York has a whole other level of creativity that they had no idea existed." FOR THE MASSES WEB SITES Wooster Collective: www.woostercollective.com Streetsy: www.streetsy.com Flickr: flickr.com - street art groups
      img: Valencia street art - MASSIVE DEFEAT on flickr.com
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      18 Mar 2008

      The Move of the Creative Class

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      txt: Who's your city? by Richard Florida
      How the Creative Economy is Making the Place Where You Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life. It’s a mantra of the age of globalization that where you live doesn’t matter: you can telecommute to your high-tech Silicon Valley job, a ski-slope in Idaho, a beach in Hawaii or a loft in Chicago; you can innovate from Shanghai or Bangalore. According to Richard Florida, this is wrong. Place is not only important, it’s more important than ever. Globalization is not flattening the world; on the contrary, the world is spiky. Place is becoming more relevant to the global economy and our individual lives. The choice of where to live, therefore, is not an arbitrary one. It is arguably the most important decision we make, as important as choosing a spouse or a career. In fact, place exerts powerful influence over the jobs and careers we have access to, the people meet and our “mating markets” and our ability to lead happy and fulfilled lives.
      img: Rhizomatic heteromogeneous idiom - jef safi on flickr.com
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      17 Mar 2008

      The economy of kindness

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      txt: kindness - wikipedia
      Kindness is considered to be one of the Knightly Virtues, and is a recognized value in many cultures and religions (see ethics in religion). It is considered to be one of the seven virtues, specifically the one of the Seven Contrary Virtues (direct opposites of the seven deadly sins) that is the direct opposite to envy[1]. The Talmud claims that "deeds of kindness are equal in weight to all the commandments." Paul of Tarsus defines love as being `patient and kind...` (I Corinthians). In Buddhism, one of the Ten Perfections (Paramitas) is Mettā, which is usually translated into English as "loving-kindness". Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama wrote "my religion is kindness" and authored a book entitled Kindness, Clarity, and Insight.[2] Confucius urges his followers to "recompense kindness with kindness." According to book two of Aristotle's Rhetoric it is one of the emotions (see list of emotions), which is defined as being "helpfulness towards some one in need, not in return for anything, nor for the advantage of the helper himself, but for that of the person helped"[3]. One of the four caryatids on the Wallace fountains in Paris represents kindness. In a study of 37 cultures around the world, 16000 subjects were asked about their most desired traits in a mate. For both sexes, the first preference was kindness (the second was intelligence).[4] Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche had this to say about kindness: Economy of kindness. Kindness and love, the most curative herbs and agents in human intercourse, are such precious finds that one would hope these balsamlike remedies would be used as economically as possible; but this is impossible. Only the boldest Utopians would dream of the economy of kindness.
      img: Quite a precise message - ian boyd on flickr.com
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