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The Dwarf Zoo is a growing collection of insularly dwarfed animals
Often when a species gets stuck on an island their size changes. Sometimes they grow larger like the giant turtles on the Galapagos. In Dwarf Zoo however we are interested in insular dwarfs; island animals that have evolved to a strikingly diminuitive size. Perhaps these evolutionary precursors have something to teach us. Read more...
we make money not art, Yesterday, 3:10am
Links for 2012-04-25 [del.icio.us]
The 'world's most pampered – and bored – prisoner' - Telegraph
The 30-year-old man has his meals brought to him from a local restaurant because it is not economical to lay on a canteen service for him alone.
He enjoys the exclusive use of a gym, library and television room and occupies one of six cells which make up San Marino's only jail, which is tucked into a wing of a former Capuchin monastery. Read more...
we make money not art, May 21, 3:10pm
ZOO, or the letter Z, just after Zionism
'ZOO, or the letter Z, just after Zionism' starts at page number 437 of 'The Atlas of the Conflict' and continues into a fascinating exploration of ideas, snapshots and associations, that could be raised once seeing a white donkey tied with a rope, covered with beige tape and being transformed into a zebra by a beautiful Palestinian boy continue Read more...
we make money not art, May 21, 3:10pm
#A.I.L - artists in laboratories
The first episode of the radio show about art & science i'm recording for Resonance FM is broadcast today Monday 21 May at 16.30 (London time.) There will be a repeat on Thursday at 22.30. You can catch it online if you don't live in London.
This week i'm talking with the lovely and lively Anna Dumitriu, visual artist and respected founder and director of The Institute of Unnecessary Research continue Read more...
we make money not art, May 21, 3:10am
Links for 2012-04-24 [del.icio.us]
Asteroid mining
A new company called Planetary Resources, with investors and advisers including the Google bosses Larry Page and Eric Schmidt and the Avatar director James Cameron, aims to mine valuable metals from the asteroids that routinely zoom past the Earth. Along with gold, platinum and other metals, the company hopes to find water, which could provide the raw material for rocket fuel, raising the possibility of fuel stations for passing deep-space rockets Read more...
we make money not art, May 20, 3:10pm
Sometimes i actually see fun exhibitions
Two photo series that made me smile at the Biennale of Photography in Liege... Jean-Claude Delalande creates bitter family albums in which the protagonists never look at each other, perform the most mundane tasks, go on holiday with the same torpor that'd show on a supermarket trip, and lead a joyless family life. Meanwhile, Miyoko Ihara follows the relationship between her 85 year old grandmother and her cat, Fukumaru continue Read more...
we make money not art, May 19, 3:10am
An Ant Ballet at FutureEverything
Ollie Palmer's Ant Ballet is a three-year research project into control systems, paranoia and dancing insects, and has culminated in the world's first ballet to exclusively feature ants. The projected insects is part of the FutureEverybody Art Exhibition at the 1830 Warehouse in Manchester continue Read more...
we make money not art, May 18, 3:10pm
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Portrait of the artist: Bill Viola, video artist | Culture | The Guardian
'I fell into a lake aged six and saw the most beautiful world. My work is about getting back there' Read more...
we make money not art, May 16, 3:10am
Welcome to the Republic of Abkhazia
You might never have heard of Abkhazia and that's probably because only a handful of countries regard it as an independent state.
Abkhazia broke away from Georgia after a short, violent civil war in '92-'93 and only Russia, Venezuela, Nicaragua and the atoll of Nauru recognised it as independent state in 2008.
The artists spent four years witnessing and documenting the country's attempts to repopulate with new immigrants a country that is ravaged by the war, almost empty and in great economic distress continue
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we make money not art, May 16, 3:10am
If this blog became a radio programme
On Friday at 4pm, set your radio to 104.4fm if you live in London and your browser to http://resonancefm.com/ if you don't. That's when the pilot for programme i've recently recorded for Resonance104.4fm, London's edgy, radical, art radio is going to be aired. The focus of the programme is art & science/technology.
Critical designers Revital Cohen and Tuur Van Balen were kind and kamikaze enough to join me in the studio for the first episode. We've discussed topics as diverse as the beauty of life support machines, pigeons that poop soap, using design to infiltrate synthetic biology, collaborating with scientists and communicating the complexities of a projects that explores... Read more...
we make money not art, May 14, 3:11pm
Les vidéos du 5 à 7 de l'ADBS consacré à la curation
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Outils Froids, May 14, 4:03am
Links for 2012-05-13 [del.icio.us]
London 2012: army to use 'sonic weapon' on Thames during Olympics
American-built 'long-range acoustic device', used by US military in Iraq, can produce deafening 150db levels at one metre Read more...
we make money not art, May 14, 3:10am
Sony World Photography Awards 2012
object to paying £7.50 to see and exhibition which title starts with the name of a brand. I feel cheated when the show closes with a shop selling goods manufactured by the above-mentioned brand and i don't look kindly to being forbidden to take pictures (which i do purely for documenting reason) because that would mean that i won't shell more ££ to buy the booklet of the exhibition. That said, the photos selected and exhibited are so remarkable that i still feel like recommending that you go and see the World Photography Awards if you're in London continue
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we make money not art, May 13, 3:10pm
Brains: The Mind as Matter
Brains: The Mind as Matter has a seemingly very specific, very narrow focus: the brain and not even the mind, just the physical organ. Yet, the exhibition branches out into issues of ethics, history, and reminds us that while some of the moments in the history of neuroscience are glorious, others are downright disgraceful continue Read more...
we make money not art, May 12, 3:11pm
Wooster in Sheboygan
If you are in Sheboygan join us for a presentation and salon at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center on Saturday May 19th from 1:00 to 4:00 PM. We will be presenting an overview of what is so inspriring about street art and discussing how the city could embrace street art in a major project to be realized in 2013. Read more...
Wooster Collective, May 11, 5:48pm
Wooster in Sheboygan
If you are in Sheboygan join us for a presentation and salon at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center on Saturday May 19th from 1:00 to 4:00 PM. We will be presenting an overview of what is so inspriring about street art and discussing how the city could embrace street art in a major project to be realized in 2013. Read more...
Wooster Collective, May 11, 5:48pm
My Name Is Janez Janša
The film that inspires you to google your name again....
My name is Janez Janša is a documentary film about names and name changes, focusing on one particular and rather unique name change that took place 5 years ago, when three artists officially changed their names into the name of the Prime Minister of Slovenia, Janez Janša continue Read more...
we make money not art, May 10, 3:10pm
IF YOU LIVE IN L.A.
...and you're NOT going to one of these, you need to ask yourself: what's wrong with me? Read more...
soul sides, May 10, 3:10pm
New Work From Specter
From Specter: I recently finished a wall in baltimore for Open Walls Baltimore it's a faux billboard that tells a story of a changing neighborhood through the adds. Read more...
Wooster Collective, May 10, 11:46am
New Work From Specter
From Specter: I recently finished a wall in baltimore for Open Walls Baltimore it's a faux billboard that tells a story of a changing neighborhood through the adds. Read more...
Wooster Collective, May 10, 11:46am
One Not To Miss: Prune’s Holy River
We're big fan's of Prune's work and this is one of her first be expositions in New York City. At Invisible Dog, opening night includes not-to-miss performances. Read more...
Wooster Collective, May 10, 11:40am
One Not To Miss: Prune’s Holy River
We're big fan's of Prune's work and this is one of her first be expositions in New York City. At Invisible Dog, opening night includes not-to-miss performances. Read more...
Wooster Collective, May 10, 11:40am
Links for 2012-04-13 [del.icio.us]
Israel expected to block 'flytilla' of international Palestinian sympathisers | World news | guardian.co.uk
The mayor of Bethlehem, Victor Batarseh, told a press conference: "These people are coming to talk about peace, they are not coming to wage war against Israel. They are coming to visit the Palestinian people who are under occupation and to talk to them and to help them because these people are isolated."
Turner said she would seek legal advice on Jet2.com's move. "I think the airline should honour its commitment. We had checked in, and we have our boarding passes.
"Every country has the right to control its own borders. But to stop us leaving British shores just shows the extent of Israel's power and influence." Read more...
we make money not art, May 10, 3:10am
Mind Over Matter
The collaboration between artist Ania Dabrowska and social scientist Dr Bronwyn Parry gives a visibility to the medical research on dementia. The photos demystifies what happens behind the doors of brain bank laboratories, and in so doing actively seeks to rehabilitate, even celebrate, the practice of bodily donation in the public imagination continue Read more...
we make money not art, May 10, 3:10am
Bella Gaia: Beautiful Earth an Experience by Kenji Williams
Many of you know that we are supporter of EYEBEAM Art + Technology, a not-for-profit organization that combines technology and the arts to do amazing things which are mainly open source. Wonderful members of the street art community have been part of EYEBEAM such as Graffiti Research Lab and Steve Lambert. Read more...
Wooster Collective, May 8, 4:13pm
Bella Gaia: Beautiful Earth an Experience by Kenji Williams
Many of you know that we are supporter of EYEBEAM Art + Technology, a not-for-profit organization that combines technology and the arts to do amazing things which are mainly open source. Wonderful members of the street art community have been part of EYEBEAM such as Graffiti Research Lab and Steve Lambert. Read more...
Wooster Collective, May 8, 4:13pm
American Dreamers
Does the American dream still exist? What is its future in an era in which the promise of happiness and economic prosperity seems to clash with an increasingly complex and difficult scenario? continue Read more...
we make money not art, May 8, 3:10pm
The Chronocyclegraph
The museum of photography in Antwerp has a number of fascinating show right now. One of them is an installation by Zoe Beloff that takes as its point of departure America's longest running comic strip to explore the influence of cinema on the movement of the body and the mind.
Beloff's exhibition contains a number of historical documents. Some of them show intriguing photos of sportsmen and factory workers in movement. They are called chronocyclegraphs. I had never heard of the chronocyclegraph before... continue Read more...
we make money not art, May 6, 3:11pm