As the countdown to the Central Park NY Gates project eh counts down, five films about Christo & Jean-Claude as background.
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I’ve seen the future of new media art and it’s broadbandart.ie , well ehh maybe. Broadband art is a pilot scene where two artists were commissioned under the percent for art scheme as part of the broadband infrastructure rollout. It’s uncertain as to whether it will be continued but I certainly hope so as I’ve long thought that percent for art commissions could be the holy grail of a ‘market for digital art’.
For his third solo show at RARE, Chris Larson has created a life-size replica of the General Lee (of Dukes of Hazzard television fame) crashing into a representation of the Unabomber’s wooden shack. The confluence of these cultural icons serves as a metaphor for the duality inherent in taking into one’s own hands the righteousness of the law.
Religious nuts in the US are objecting to Spongebob’s appearence in a new video of we are family because he promotes a gay lifestyle, I say don’t stop there what if all the kids want to live under the sea, it’s the thin edge of the wedge!
The British Abu Ghraib trail after photos of torture were discovered at the photolab. Of course even if they are convicted chances are they’ll be looked after by the military establishment. Remember Lee Clegg? Convicted of murder, released after under two years, reinstated, promoted and eventually had his conviction controversially quashed. He now trains Iraq-bound soldiers.
Shocking photos of US soldiers shooting a family in Iraq, by all accounts an everyday ocurrance only reported this time because a photographer was present.
Today, after its seven-year journey through the Solar System on board the Cassini spacecraft, ESA
The full list of the other speakers at Caixa Forum not yet updated on the official site
Carmen Platero: Cinema and videogames.
Valentina Nisi: ‘Weirdview’.
Daniel Garrido: Interactive Fiction.
Olli Leino: Post-narrative Possibilities in Computer Games
Geoffrey Thomas: Storybeat.
Dominic Arsenault: ‘Dynamic range’
David Crawford: SMS
Lourdes Cilleruelo: Visual art, internet and new narratives.
Marina Zerbarini: ‘Eveline’
Conor McGarrigle: ‘Cyclops’ and ‘Proteus’.
Miguel Sicart: The ethics of design in ergodic art.
Calin Man: ‘Golden Virus’
There’s an interesting online conversation between the curators about the origin of the symposium and the term “metanarratives” on the symposium blog.
It’s just been announced that the Media Lab Europe is to close. Not surprising news but disappointing, especially for all those who will lose their jobs.
From the People’s Republic of Cork the t-shirt that says it all
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WalkSpace for the iPhone is an alternative walking app to let you navigate the city in a new and unexpected way.
