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      11 May 2008

      The Venice Factory

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      Gondolas full of tourists. In the background the renovation works' scaffolding of the Punta della Dogana de Mar (also known as Punta della Salute). Project: architect Tadao Ando, $$ François Pinault Foundation, Palazzo Grassi. img: The Venice Factory - oddtag on flickr.com
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      30 Mar 2008

      That sinking/not sinking feeling

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      txt: Is Venice Sinking?
      The net effect was like letting the air out of your tires, or perhaps more aptly, draining your waterbed. It wasn’t until the late 60’s that hydrologists put one and one together, slapped their foreheads, and sounded the alarm. The Italian government acted swiftly and banned groundwater pumping in the area forever. That did the trick and plugged the leak. Not only did the dramatic subsidence stop, but the area actually saw an upward “bounce” of a couple centimeters. Now the level of sinking is back to its normal “background”, non-crisis levels. But the damage has been done. As we’ll discuss in upcoming posts, losing those 10 precious centimeters was a huge strategic blow to Venice’s battle against the sea.
      link: www.veniceisnotsinking.it [it] video: Venice Under Siege - Italy journeymanpictures on youtube.com [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrOoW38JWsw]
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      28 Mar 2008

      Fondamenta Nuove

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      Looking at the sea While my ferry's approaching: I won't look back. ---- Guardando il mare arriva il mio traghetto: non mi volto più. img: seagull parade - oddtag on flickr.com
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      14 Mar 2008

      The long Pigtails (a Venice story)

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      txt: Who was Emily Harvey? - Emily Harvey Foundation
      In 1992 she married, Angelo Colombo, her Venetian friend, Her marriage to Angelo brought her to Venice for increasing lengths of time. Under Angelo's tutelage she began to learn Venetian Italian and to understand Venice, and the customs of its people. Out of this grew a commitment to Venice that never faded. Venice is a maze of canals, narrow streets and bridges, connecting a vast network of open campos large and small. Most visitors confine themselves to the big shopping streets, the huge piazza at San Marco, the Ponte Rialto and the Grand Canal. But Emily soon knew every little byway and every tiny campiello, and could navigate her way to any point in the city along dark narrow alleys known only to Venetians. She had a kayak, and learned the canals like a Venetian waterman, who called her "Treccia", pigtails, for the way she wore her hair.
      The Emily Harvey Foundation offers residencies in Venice, Italy, for artists, writers, poets, filmmakers, photographers, videographers, choreographers, dancers, musicians, curators, arts administrators, architects, and other creative thinkers in mid to late career who are engaged in the project of change, and who work the leading edges of their disciplines. They may come from anywhere in the world. img: venezia è un pesce - Fr3ccia on flickr.com
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      12 Mar 2008

      Tomorrow. Now. In Venice

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      txt: Tomorrow now. Work without center. Conferences on the nature of art work in the digital age
      The title of the event introduces the issue concerning works of art that, in the digital age, transform the idea behind exhibition space, the concept of the aesthetic fruition of the observer, and the role of the artist and of the disciplines related to art production. New works of contemporary art are born from collaborative and interactive processes. They are constructed through the immateriality of code and inhabit unusual spaces such as the internet and information streams. They intersect, and are fed by, the increasingly rapid changes in scientific and technological research and require new means of presentation and archiving.
      img: Calm before the Storm - AndreA on flickr.com
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