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      3 Oct 2008

      Geert Lovink: Zero Comments

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      [txt] Zero Comments: Blogging and Critical Internet Culture - amazon.com
      In Zero Comments, internationally renowned media theorist and net critic Geert Lovink upgrades worn out concepts about the Internet and interrogates the latest hype surrounding blogs and social network sites. In this third volume of his studies into critical Internet culture, following the influential Dark Fiber: Tracking Critical Internet Culture and My First Recession: Critical Internet Culture in Transition , Lovink develops a 'general theory of blogging.' Unlike most critiques of blogging, Lovink is not focusing here on the dynamics between bloggers and the mainstream news media, but rather unpacking the ways that blogs exhibit a 'nihilist impulse' to empty out established meaning structures. Blogs, Lovink argues, are bringing about the decay of traditional broadcast media, and they are driven by an in-crowd dynamic in which social ranking is a primary concern. The lowest rung of the new Internet hierarchy are those blogs and sites that receive no user feedback or 'zero comments'. Lovink explores other important changes to Internet culture, as well, including the silent globalization of the Net in which the West is no longer the main influence behind new media culture, as countries like India, China and Brazil expand their influence. Zero Comments also looks forward to speculate on the Net impact of organized networks, free cooperation and distributed aesthetics.
      [video] Driving - Martin Wilson on vimeo.com [vimeo=http://www.vimeo.com/736158]
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      3 Oct 2008

      How do you create a Venice Biennial pavilion?

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      [via] harrietbadger.blogspot.com [txt] How do you create a Biennial pavilion? A view point from Austria - www.contemporaryartsreview.com
      It is extremely strange to be on the Biennial premises while the air is still cold and wintery. Even if you have visited the Biennial a dozen times as an art critic, it is always in June or August. Letting an exhibition act upon you in an unheated pavilion when the temperature is only ten degrees proves to be a special experience no matter how wonderful the Venetian light is. However incidentally, you instantly become aware of this fascinating Venetian light not to mention the Austrian Pavilion erected in 1934 according to the plans of Josef Hoffmann, one of the most beautiful buildings designed by the architect and on the Biennial premises.
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      29 Sep 2008

      The funfair of contemporary starchitecture

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      [txt] Venice 2008 - www.frieze.com
      "International exhibitions are based on an outdated principle which obliges every country to feature its showcase accomplishments," argues Pia;tek - "we have created a perverse antithesis of national promotional activities abroad." And in their dark dystopian scenarios, in which the forces of cultural change inevitably supercede the sluggish mechanisms of architectural production, there is a challenge to Betsky and his cronies; that architects need look not beyond building, but beyond their own navels.
      [video] Venice Biennale 2008 - Aaron Betsky [youtube=http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=IrlPCRK57Hs]
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      29 Sep 2008

      The cluetrain wants to move

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      [txt] The cluetrain Manifesto - 95 Theses
      1. Markets are conversations. 2. Markets consist of human beings, not demographic sectors. 3. Conversations among human beings sound human. They are conducted in a human voice. 4. Whether delivering information, opinions, perspectives, dissenting arguments or humorous asides, the human voice is typically open, natural, uncontrived. 5. People recognize each other as such from the sound of this voice. 6. The Internet is enabling conversations among human beings that were simply not possible in the era of mass media. 7. Hyperlinks subvert hierarchy.
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      27 Sep 2008

      The art bandwagon

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      [txt] Venice Biennale 2008 - Architecture - www.wallpaper.com
      What with the much-discussed convergence of art, design and architecture, it came as no surprise that many an architect at this year’s Biennale was hopping on the art bandwagon. [...] ‘Architects know much more about how to work with space than artists,’ claimed Doriana Fuksas, who with her husband Massimiliano created an installation consisting of green boxes in which films on domestic life played while von Hapsburg claimed exactly the opposite.
      [video] Wagonmaster western cowboy movie exciting ending - John Ford [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiLhDzFTxUY]
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      25 Sep 2008

      Learning to be Creative

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      [txt] Speakers Sir Ken Robinson: Creativity expert
      Why don't we get the best out of people? Sir Ken Robinson argues that it's because we've been educated to become good workers, rather than creative thinkers. Students with restless minds and bodies - far from being cultivated for their energy and curiosity - are ignored or even stigmatized, with terrible consequences. "We are educating people out of their creativity," Robinson says. It's a message with deep resonance. Robinson's TED Talk has been distributed widely around the Web since its release in June 2006. The most popular words framing blog posts on his talk? "Everyone should watch this."
      [via] Is education killing creativity? - PresentationZen.com [video] Do schools today kill creativity? (Ken Robinson, TEDTalks) [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG9CE55wbtY]
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      24 Sep 2008

      sound + image = SOMETHING ELSE

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      [txt] Vj Interview: SATI (France)
      The idea is to create a rich audiovisual performance and to tie as many threads as possible between the sound and vision. Some might be directly linking a sound to an image and others will be on a more metaphoric level. This enables us to play with this very interesting moment in the brain were SOUND + IMAGE = SOMETHING ELSE. Our brain makes a new thing out of the combination of sound and image. And this feeling is especially strong in a performance event. And not so much on a DVD or cinema.
      [via] Computer love [video] SATI audiovisual band (promo video) - Jesse Lucas on vimeo.com [vimeo=http://vimeo.com/1750540]
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      24 Sep 2008

      Nothing to lose and a vision to gain

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      [txt] Tons of verbiage, activity and consumption - www.guardian.co.uk Mark Rothko's views on what was happening to art in 1969 are worth examining. What would he make of the art world today?
      When I was a younger man, art was a lonely thing; no galleries, no collectors, no critics, no money. Yet it was a golden time, for then we had nothing to lose and a vision to gain. Today it is not quite the same. It is a time of tons of verbiage, activity, and consumption. Which condition is better for the world at large I will not venture to discuss. But I do know that many who are driven to this life are desperately searching for those pockets of silence where they can root and grow. We must all hope that they find them.
      [img] Oops, Building REsources - heather on flickr.com
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      23 Sep 2008

      Welcome to Venice Italy and Venice California

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      [video] Venice, Italy - August 3 2006 VeniceArtists on youtube: Mostly static camera shots of Venice Italy. Peaceful, lovely, only ambient sounds. [youtube=http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=vTw8RNnM14k&NR=1]
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      23 Sep 2008

      Palladio: too provincial, too innovative

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      [txt] Andrea Palladio Architect Super Partes - www.palladio2008.info
      This having been said, we also must acknowledge that Palladio's life was not a bed of roses. In Vicenza, for instance, he worked on commission for public works that changed the aspect of the town (just think of the Basilica on the Piazza dei Signori,) but in return he sadly had the pleasure of seeing only few of his palazzi being fully built, as these works were too ambitious for the urban families. In Venice also a different odd phenomenon happened: Palladio's palazzi were not considered apt for the capital, maybe because they were too innovative, or more likely because they were labelled as provincial; so that's why only few Palladian churches are reflected in the Venetian lagoon.
      [links] - Palladio 500 years, the great exhibition: from 20 September 2008 to 06 January 2009 - www.palladio2008.info
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