Occupying SpaceLife’s a bitch! I’m totally out of control; hopping from my place near the Sea to the cityloft, getting no grip on either spots. It seems like i’m a victim of time; loosing to much by traveling, be it in reallife or mentally. Why is there no rest to be found? Why can’t i just enjoy these marvelous places? Am i getting slow?
Wow!
May 27th, 2010 § 0
Arts Birthday – Do we have something more to make a party from?
April 6th, 2010 § 0
“Art’s Birthday” is an annual event first proposed in 1963 by French artist Robert Filliou.
He suggested that 1,000,000 years ago, there was no art. But one day, on the 17th of January to be precise, Art was born. According to Filliou, it happened when someone dropped a dry sponge into a bucket of water. Modest beginnings, but look at us now.
Filliou proposed a public holiday to celebrate the presence of art in our lives. In recent years, the idea has been taken up by a loose network of artists and friends around the world. Each year the Eternal Network evolves to include new partners – working with the ideas of exchange and telecommunications-art.
Artists have celebrated Art’s Birthday with lavish parties and gatherings, correspondence and mailart, and through Telematic networks using SloScan TV, Videophones, music composed for telephone lines, modem-to-modem MIDI connections, early bulletin board and chat systems, and (starting in the mid 1990’s) the Internet.
People are always busy on thinking things…
March 22nd, 2010 § 0
- http://www.whynot.net/ How to Use Everyday Ingenuity to Solve Problems Big and Small
- http://www.halfbakery.com Halfbakery.com – a lively discussion of partly-baked ideas
- shouldexist.org
- Global Ideas Bank
- Springwise.com – Springwise is an inspiring free newsletter that tracks emerging why-not ideas from all around the world
- Premises, Premises
Poetry paths in Portugal
February 27th, 2010 § 0
The poem on the path is written by the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa and runs along the River Tejo. Do not have time soon to cycle in Lisbon? Check out the video:
O Tejo from Abilio Vieira on Vimeo.
A film telling the story of Steve Kurtz.
February 16th, 2010 § 0
Steve Kurtz is a founding member of the award-winning art and theater collective, Critical Art Ensemble (CAE). . He is known for his work in BioArt, and Electronic Civil Disobedience, and because of his arrest by the FBI in May 2004. Steve Kurtz faced charge for 20 years of inprisionment.
In May 2004 the Kurtzes were preparing to present Free Range Grain, a project examining GM agriculture, at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA), when Hope Kurtz died of heart failure. Emergency personnel who responded to Kurtz’s 911 call deemed the couple’s art suspicious, and called the FBI. The art materials consisted of several petri dishes containing three harmless bacteria cultures, and a mobile lab to test food labeled “organic” for the presence of genetically modified ingredients. As Kurtz explained, these materials had been safely displayed in museums and galleries throughout Europe and North America with absolutely no risk to the public.
Finally vindicated after four years of struggle, Kurtz, asked for a statement, responded stoically: “I don’t have a statement, but I do have questions. As an innocent man, where do I go to get back the four years the Department of Justice stole from me? As a taxpayer, where do I go to get back the millions of dollars the FBI and Justice Department wasted persecuting me? And as a citizen, what must I do to have a Justice Department free of partisan corruption so profound it has turned on those it is sworn to protect?
The story of Kurtz is told in the film Strange Culture by filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson. The film was simultaneously screened and webcast to the Second Life game on January 22, 2007. It focuses on Kurtz’ art, character, and interaction with law enforcement
Lait battu
February 16th, 2010 § 0
Opening SI/CO on 27/03/10 at 19h00 Nadège Piton, accompanied by a Baraclough soundtrack, had to find her way through Wallgallery’s vernissage crowd towards the facade. She was dressed in ‘foulards’ by Sico Carlier in a fashion by Geerten Ten Bosch that unabled her to see. When she reached the windows she started covering them in buttermilk, crisscrossing the room. The more the view faded the more she undressed and after a good part of an hour Nadège was naked as she covered the last windows. When the view finally was gone the performance ended.
The World’s Deepest Bin
February 2nd, 2010 § 0
This site is dedicated to the thought that something as simple as fun is the easiest way to change people’s behaviour for the better. Be it for yourself, for the environment, or for something entirely different, the only thing that matters is that it’s change for the better.
To throw rubbish in the bin instead of onto the floor shouldn’t really be so hard. Many people still fail to do so. Can we get more people to throw rubbish into the bin, rather than onto the ground, by making it fun to do? See the results here.
Projects
Transformat, an e-trash tour
By traveling a designed tour the participants are empowered to think out of the box and find innovative solutions.