Thursday, January 26, 2012

A Different Record



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A record player that plays slices of wood. Year ring data is translated into music, 2011 ... Modified turntable, computer, vvvv, camera, acrylic glass, veneer, approx. 90x50x50 cm ... A tree’s year rings are analysed for their strength, thickness and rate of growth. This data serves as basis for a generative process that outputs piano music. It is mapped to a scale which is again defined by the overall appearance of the wood (ranging from dark to light and from strong texture to light texture). The foundation for the music is certainly found in the defined ruleset of programming and hardware setup, but the data acquired from every tree interprets this ruleset very differently. Thanks to Land Salzburg, Schmiede, Pro-ject Audio, Karla Spiluttini, Ivo Francx, vvvv, Rohol ...  Bartholomäus Traubeck, born in Munich, Germany in 1987. Currently living and studying in Rotterdam, Netherlands and Linz, Austria.

Sunday, January 22, 2012

CURATORIALtheses Galore

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 do it: the exhibition between actualization and virtualization, repetition and difference. do it began in 1993 with a discussion among Christian Boltanski, Bertrand Lavier, and Hans Ulrich Obrist in the Cafe Select, Paris. So, far from being 'new' is quite 'old' but in quite a few ways the do it concept is still very close to the cutting edge by comparison with many current exhibition manifestations in museums. These initiating cultural speculators had been interested in various forms of instructional procedures since the early 1970s, and that evening they spoke of the instructions contained within their own work. Since the 1970s Lavier has made many works that contain written instructions in order to observe the effects of translation on an artwork as it moves in and out of various permutations of language. Boltanski, like Lavier, is also interested in the notion of interpretation as an artistic principle... Click here to read more

SHIFTING PARADIGMS @MMoA



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"This month, the Museum launched its first iPad app interactive e-publication for the exhibition Poetry in Clay: Korean Buncheong Ceramics from Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art. The Met Buncheong app complements the exhibition catalogue and includes highlights from each chapter in the book, a video introduction from Soyoung Lee, co-curator of the exhibition and co-author of the catalogue, 360-degree object views, multiple image views, panoramas of the gallery, and links to publications and related sections of the Museum's website. The interactive e-publication serves as a wonderful introduction to the exhibition and an enticing preview of the exhibition catalogue.
The Met Buncheong iPad app is available for free in the iTunes store"

Saturday, January 21, 2012

Fieldwork in the Museum

The Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt is the first ethnographic institution in the German-speaking world to develop a new research lab on the borderline between advanced art practice and anthropology. In the Weltkulturen priceless objects, films, and photography from the Frankfurt collection are newly interpreted and prepare the ground for future exhibitions.

OBJECT ATLAS – Fieldwork in the Museum 25 January–16 September 2012 


Weltkulturen Museum Schaumainkai 29 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
www.weltkulturenmuseum.de

"In all cultures there has been a constant exchange of materials, goods, ideas and people that consciously or unconsciously shapes, turns and shifts our perception. There's always something somewhere from another culture. In this exhibition, artists make the objects move from one thought to another, from one space to another, creating a layering. They situate these objects once again, producing a new mapping for the 21st century. The word "Atlas" gives a geographic body to all these artefacts without reducing them to a single world map." (Otobong Nkanga) ... Click here to read more 

Thursday, January 19, 2012

THE INTERNET: What's at Risk?


The US Congress is about to pass an internet censorship bill written by the copyright and corporate music and film lobbies, claiming that this bill is written in your name to "protect creativity." The law would allow the government or corporations to censor entire sites—they just have to convince a judge that the site is "dedicated to copyright infringement." In fact, PROTECT-IP Act (PIPA) in the Senate and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) are backed and largely written by the Hollywood film industry, namely the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), which is trying to sell goods and ideas that are already free. 

Similar to its most well-known President, Jack Valenti, who represented Hollywood interests in Washington, and vice-versa, the current chairman and CEO of the MPAA is Chris Dodd, a prominent member of the Democratic Party and US Senator from Connecticut for 30 years ... Click here for the full text

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Just Imagine


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An Ephemeral Museum




Prada is pleased to present "24 h Museum", an ephemeral museum conceived by Francesco Vezzoli in collaboration with AMO, the kaleidoscopic off-shoot of the OMA/Rem Koolhaas architecture studio. "24 h Museum" will open on January 24, 2012—for 24 hours only—at the historical Palais d'Iéna in Paris, designed by Auguste Perret between 1936 and 1946, currently the house of the French Conseil Économique, Social et Environnemental.


Free admittance
Wednesday 25 January 2012
7–11am open to the public
2–5pm open to the public

Friday, January 13, 2012

Reimagining Museums

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The Happy Museum: A tale of how it could turn out all right Sam Thompson and Jody Aked, with Bridget McKenzie, Chris Wood, Maurice Davies and Tony Butler The aim of this short paper is to begin a conversation about how the UK museum sector can respond to the challenges presented by the need for creating a more sustainable future. Our proposition is that museums are well placed to play an active part, but that grasping the opportunity will require reimagining some key aspects of their role, both in terms of the kinds of experience they provide to their visitors and the way they relate to their collections, to their communities and to the pressing issues of the day. A PDF copy of the paper is available for download by clicking this link - The Happy Museum paper

e-flux #31 Online NOW!


As we continue to reflect upon the chain of political upheavals of 2011, it may be interesting to consider a particular shift in the status of information technology, now that it has been deployed as such a powerful force in facilitating the rise of a new popular voice.

  •  Keller Easterling
    An Internet of Things
    A non-modern question—the artifacts of which have always been with us, the boundaries of which include but exceed all of the above experiments, and the answer to which we already know—is how space, without digital or media enhancement, is itself information.
  • Gean Moreno
    Notes on the Inorganic, Part I: Accelerations
    By constantly invading and liquidating resource-rich contexts, capitalism encourages images that project what will inevitably be left in its wake: a dead world. And just as one can imagine (or see) patches of devastated and desolate land, a kind of localized post-extraction desertification, one can just as easily imagine this becoming a planetary condition: the globe as a rotating, dead lithosphere, coated in a fine dust of decomposing once-organic particles.
  • Gregory Sholette
    After OWS: Social Practice Art, Abstraction, and the Limits of the Social
    Once again, to go beyond shallow assumptions of social media's invasion of traditional art practices, let me put the question differently: Where does abstraction and the non-representational intersect with the social? Or, put the other way around: What is the limit of the social within the social itself?
  • Sven Lütticken
    General Performance
    The term “performance” is slippery even within relatively well-defined contexts. In today’s economy, it not only refers to the productivity of one’s labor but also to one’s actual, quasi-theatrical self-presentation, one’s self-performance in an economy where work has become more dependent on immaterial factors.
  • Grant Kester
    The Sound of Breaking Glass, Part II: Agonism and the Taming of Dissent
    This shift from art to culture is often figured as a loss or abandonment, as art surrenders its privileged immanence to the brutal instrumentality of vanguard politics. “Unlike the political vanguard,” Romero Brest writes in 1967, the artistic avant-garde “does not have an aim to achieve.”
  • Monday, January 9, 2012

    WHAT'S NEW IS/WAS OLD: SSSSTEAMpunk

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    SSSSTEAMpunk  Artwork's Amanda Smith asks "Have you ever come across very elegant people dressed in wild neo-Victorian gear -- complete with top hats and brass goggles, bustles and leather bustiers?" If you reckon so, then they're/you're probably a member of the  STEAMpunk community – knowingly or maybe not. Are you into DIY or Thomas Pynchon or Jules Verne or HG Wells? If so well you are probably at least a  STEAMpunk empathizer. 

    It seems that STEAMpunk is a subgenre of science fiction with a kind of 'Victorian tinge' involving industrial investigations such as steam powered engines with a growing number of adherents maybe.

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    For a random STEAMpunk 'surf' click on these links [1][2][3][4] 

    CLICK HERE for some undiagnosed Filipino STEAMpunk

    Saturday, January 7, 2012

    THE NEW 'PRINT': A New Paradigm

    Send to Print / Print to Send offers an impression of uses of 3D Printing* in the design industry today. This timely exhibition shows work by designers and organisations who are developing the capabilities of this technology. In addition it will include examples of the increasingly important role 3D Printing plays in the design process, particularly during the complex prototyping stages ... CLICK HERE TO READ MORE




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    Friday, January 6, 2012

    PROGRAMMING & TICKING ALL THE BOXES


    The 9th Gwangju Biennale - 'ROUNDTABLE' September 7–November 11, 2012     www.gb.or.kr 
    The Gwangju Biennale Foundation is pleased to announce 'ROUNDTABLE' as the theme of the 9th Gwangju Biennale. The team of six co-artistic directors appointed to organize the upcoming biennale have chosen 'ROUNDTABLE' as a theme to explore the possibility of democratic and non-hierarchical exchange concerning global cultural production, through various forms of collective endeavour, research into historic entanglements among societies, and the exploration of diverse contexts of belonging ... CLICK HERE TO  READ MORE